From: Willard McCarty Subject: HAPPY now we are 13 BIRTHDAY Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1 (1) Dear Colleagues: Thirteen years ago today Humanist began as an experiment on the strength of an inspiration that somehow something good would come of it. Many good things have, for me the most important of them quite unexpectedly. You may not count these yearly editorial ruminations among those good things :-), but I do hope that you, like me, welcome the chance to stop for a moment and think about Humanist in the context of our field(s) of activity and the loosely bound, widely distributed community of people -- some of them of long-standing, some of them new and, alas, some of them gone -- that Humanist has helped to define. None of us has the time to review the past year-in-Humanist, and I trust none is so foolish as to attempt prediction of the one we begin today. I'll certainly do neither. Cook's privilege is to taste the cooking, editor's to say whatever he or she likes. Permit me to combine those roles in a very personal way. I often think that what I do under the rubric of editor is to stir the pot, so here goes. Permit me also, please, to draw on experience without your attributing to the act the qualities of age that may seem inseparable from it. Especially the greybeardedness. That colour and my beard are not unrelated, but the sedentary gravitas and settled authority that greybeards can so easily put on I find personally dead wrong and professionally suicidal. I hope that it's entirely unnecessary to say that the joy of being alive is simply too unsettling to make greybeardedness an attractive mental state, or as my poet Ovid wrote about a not entirely dissimilar situation, "non bene conveniunt nec in una sede morantur / maiestas et amor..." (Met 2.846f). As for our field, it changes too quickly. New vistas -- such as new media studies, now not so new -- open up, and suddenly we need to reconfigure what we think and how we think, publish and teach it. Greybeards are likely to end up, to quote Peter Batke, feeling as if they're sitting in the middle of the road with tire tracks up their back. Perhaps the most valuable thing I can say about the very beginning of Humanist is the autobiographical fact of its originating inspiration. It came to me, suddenly in a meeting of like-minded, more or less unrecognised and quite disgruntled academics 13 years ago, that there was 'something for me' in the effort to bring us together and define what we were doing -- no more, really, than a whiff of something good on the wind. I think the professional analogue to this personal incident and the crucial role of sudden inspiration in my life that it points to is, again, the vital necessity for our being alert. We're not at the bleeding edge of technological developments, thank God, but as new things come over the horizon we have but a short time to see what we might adopt, adapt or take note of for our colleagues in the humanities and for our students. The most valuable thing I can say about the practice of editing Humanist is again to quote the Hebrew proverb, "Do what you do only out of love." If years ago I'd had sight of the future, and I'd seen what good things Humanist would do for me professionally, I might have been irresistibly tempted to go for it out of hope for professional advancement etc., but blessed blindness to the future saved me from being tested and very likely found wanting. By the time it became clear that Humanist would be useful in that way my love for it was too strong to be unseated by those strange gods. In any case, the privilege of being involved through Humanist in the beginnings of humanities computing is very great indeed, and I can only be profoundly grateful. Many are to thank -- some who have helped deliberately, others accidentally and a few who intended a rather different result and taught important lessons thereby. Allow me, however, for the first time to dedicate the moment to Don Fowler, late of Jesus College Oxford, who was just the sort of colleague and friend we need to remind us of why we do this thing and why greybeardedness is not to die for. "Therefore choose life!" Many thanks. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: K.J.Lack@open.ac.uk Subject: 2000 Humanities and Arts higher education Network Conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 2 (2) *** apologies for cross-posting *** Conference announcement and call for papers Subject Knowledges and Professional Practice in the Arts and Humanities The Humanities and Arts higher education Network's 6th annual conference will be held on the 7th October, 2000 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm In the context of the technologically-driven 'information revolution' what we mean by Subject Knowledge is being questioned and re-assessed - for example, through the QAA's Subject Benchmarking activities and the new ESRC research programme 'The evolution of knowledge: interaction of research and practice?'. The conference will debate the question: is contemporary Professional Practice - with its emphasis on delivery of learning outcomes and information, on skills acquisition, etc., across all academic disciplines - at odds with traditional conceptions of subject knowledges in the arts and humanities, how and why they are taught and learned? Presentations in response to this question are sought, with respect to any of the arts and humanities disciplines. Participatory sessions, in which conference delegates are directly involved, are particularly welcome. Deadline for outline proposals: Friday July 14th. The attendance fee will be 40, 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 submitting a proposal, 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://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm **** please forward this email to colleagues who might be interested in attending **** ________________________________________________ Kelvin Lack Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Email: k.j.lack@open.ac.uk Telephone: (01908) 653488 http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/index.htm http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: On-Line Graphics of Hayles's *Posthuman* (Great Online Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 3 (3) Literature) Dear Prof. Jennifer de Beer and Prof. Willard McCarty, It is really amazing to see, the works of Prof. N. Katherine Hayles, who has created a sensation amongst the scholars round the globe, by writing a bold book, "How We Became Posthuman". But, most of the scholars and researchers don't know that, her POSTHUMAN graphical presentation is also available online to read and use in their teaching schedules. During my cyberexplorations, I came across her "Posthuman" Hypertext -It looks to me that she was using the graphical texts in her teaching at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of University of California, Santa Barbara. at <http://online.itp.ucsb.edu> Also, a near dear friend of Prof. Hayles, Prof. Albert Borgmann, who wrote another bold book, "Holding On To Reality" has sent me a comment, "Arun, who animates the Internet". I think he is right to some extent. I and Internet, most of the times, feel is One. The On-Line graphical travels begin with "The Human", which can be found at: <http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/hayles1/oh/01.html> -This is the starting thread..your journey will be beginning from this very hypertext..in all, there are 22 graphical hypertexts are available for the visit. The graphical travel is a beginning of the references regarding "Liberal Humanist Subject" to the next "Dismantling of the Liberal Humanist Subject"..there she tried to classify the *Cybernetics* in Two Periods..to next the train of graphical hypertext stops at some references regarding "Virtuality" and "The Posthuman"..and then the significant "Split" is taken place as, *How Important is Embodiment to Posthuman?* and from the slide 6, the travel enters into the era of "Contemporary Literature" explaining the *Images of the Posthuman* and *Materiality*. [deleted quotation] <http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/hayles1/oh/09.html> you will read an excerpt from his latest book..the Excerpt is about *How Does It Mean To Be Posthuman?* and *What are we to make of the Posthuman?* The slide further goes to 13 more and by then you will be reading more great and tantalising references regarding the Posthuman. Travel of Posthuman ends..and now you might also be interested to know..that.. Prof. N. Katherine Hayles, has also written several books, "Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science", "Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science", "The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, and her latest book, "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics" and others. Some useful pointers regarding Prof. Hayles's research:- -------------------------------------------------------- Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers --by N. Katherine Hayles <http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/hayles/Flick.html> Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety By N. Katherine Hayles <http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/hayles/wiener.htm> [deleted quotation] <http://englishwww.humnet.ucla.edu/individuals/hayles/limbo.htm> Thanking you. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Information Committee and Research Scholar at (University of Dortmund) UNI DO, Germany)) Net Messenger Cyberexplorer <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/educate.html> <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/index.html> -- ============================================================================= ARUN KUMAR TRIPATHI, C/O Braun, Luetgenholthauser Strasse 99 44225,Dortmund,Germany ONLINE INTERNET EDUCATOR on the GLOBAL SCALE Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network <http://www.americatakingaction.com/board/arun.htm> Karen Ellis's The Educational Playground at <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com> PrevGES -News Editor <http://www.egroups.com/group/prevges/info.html> Member of Commissioner's E-mail List: http://www.firn.edu/commissioner Short Online Bio of Arun at: http://www.iteachnet.com/resume/akumar.html The Internet in Education at: <http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/tripathi.htm> E-mail: Guest Moderator for Online-Ed Listserv Research Scholar, Department of Statistics University Of Dortmund Internet Search Expert, EdResource Listserv Moderator <http://www.egroups.com/group/edresource/info.html> MEMBER, IEEE Computer Society: <http://www.computer.org> ============================================================================= From: "Jean G Anderson" Subject: ALLC/ACH 2000 Conference Registration Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:43:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 4 (4) Register for ALLC / ACH 2000 The Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities University of Glasgow 21 - 25 July, 2000 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/ Registrations after 31st May 2000 incur an extra fee of 50 and accommodation cannot be guaranteed by our Conference Office after that date. ____________________________________________ 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/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CIMI Institute Workshop Minneapolis Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:46:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 5 (5) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 8, 2000 [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Downstream from Panofsky Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 6 (6) After contrasting the disciplines of archeology and art history, before contrasting art history with art theory, Erwin Panofsky in "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline" (1940) states: The objects of art history, then, can only be characterized in a terminology which is as re-constructive as the experience of the art historian is re-creative: it must describe the stylistic peculiarities, neither as measurable or otherwise determinable data, nor as stimuli of subjective reactions, but as that which bears witness to "intentions". Now "intentions" can only be formulated in terms of alternatives: a situation has to be supposed in which the maker of the work had more than one possibility of procedure, that is to say, in which he found himself confronted with a problem of choice between various modes of emphasis. I find striking in this passage the vocabulary of terminology, formulations, alternatives: a hint of a language game. I find it striking because the notion of alternatives for me hearkens to a practice of experimentation. Alternatives awaken the historical imagination to the it-could-have-been-otherwise. The scientific imagination dreams of a it-must-be-so. Panofsky earlier in his lecture does not contrast the scientific and the humanistic so much in terms of the different modalities they may adopt towards questions of chance and necessity. He does however supply a figure that captures certain attitudes towards both necessity and chance. He positions both humanist and scientist in relation to the "stream of time." He states: The scientist, too, deals with human records, namely with the works of his predecessors. But he deals with them not as something to be investigated, but as something which helps him to investigate. In other words, he is interested in records not as they emerge from the stream of time, but in so far as they are absorbed in it. [...] From the humanistic point of view, human records do not age. The claim to the existence of ageless human records looks odd without the context of the example provided by Panofsky of a scientist reading Newton or da Vinci as a humanist would, that is as a person who looks on such records as having "an autonomous meaning and a lasting value." In the spirit of alternatives, we ask: Can a humanist, who may not be an art historian, look upon documents as having other than "lasting value"? Can humanists trained in other disciplines look upon records as bearing other than "autonomous meaning"? Are the years of digital work with documents enabling humanists to play at the boundaries of two metaphors: document as container, document as pointer? Capsules that float in the stream of time and by their bobbing indicate the force of the current? From: LW8@aol.com Subject: Re: Misspelling of "maybe" by writers who learned English Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 7 (7) as 2nd language? I hope you can help in my research regarding the use of the word, mabe, for maybe. I am investigating typed documents to determine authorship. The 2 writers each are relatively knowledgeable about the English language, with some misspellings and some unusual construction. Examples: "Understanding your predicament of trust and how difficult it is to explain in good faith to you about your..." "..relized.." (realized) "...trust to tell you the truth mabe you should..." "...we are sorry some people didn't mind there own business, and mabe you should.." Both writers currently live in Louisiana and may have last names of French origin. Can anyone tell me where (location) the written contraction "mabe" is known to be used? USA or other? Please reply to my email address. Thank you. LW8@aol.com (L. Welt) [Please reply directly to L. Welt as well as to Humanist. --WM] From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 14.0001 HAPPY now we are 13 BIRTHDAY Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:43:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 8 (8) Dear Willard, dear Humanist, this birthday comes just right and above all the proverb "Do what you do only out of love." It is sometimes so easy to forget this. Apart from fascinating intellectual discussions and contributions concerning a field which can be very disconcerting because of its fuzziness and instability Humanist and you Willard have managed to to create and follow a line of discourse which links science, intellect and emotions. Do carry on. Happy birthday! Elisabeth At 19:54 07.05.00 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] of an [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr FB10/Romanistik Universitaet Bremen eburr@uni-bremen.de President of SILFI: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000 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 From: "Price, Dan" Subject: Humanist Discussion Group--Reflections Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:44:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 9 (9) Wilard, Thank you for the Birthday reflection for this discussion group. As you have been here "among the longest" I would be curious about more specific details along the trail of thirteen years. Maybe you could indicate three (or six?) significant turns or developments in the discussion group itself,. This would give some perspective as to where we have been and the "nature" of the revolution that we are all experiencing. I confess that in a way I am also thinking as I am typing--based on the past, is there a future for "Computers in the Humanities?" Will it take the shape of degree programs at the undergraduate level, if so, what kind of careers will these graduates have, save to do graduate work in the same field and so perpetuate the chain again. OK I admit. Two different items here. One is Do you have some personal highlights among the past thirteen years in terms of the development of the discussion group. Two is Does reflection on the past thirteen years tell us anything about the future of Computers and the Humanities, especially in the university setting? Thanks for reading this and I am posting to you personally as it may or may not be relevant to the group at large. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html>http://www.tui.ed u/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** From: reis@stanford.edu Subject: 'START-UP' HUMANITIES LAB TO FOCUS ON Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 08:10:53 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 10 (10) To: tomorrows-professor@lists.Stanford.EDU EFFORTS TOMORROW'S PROFESSOR(SM) LISTSERV "desk-top faculty development, one hundred times a year" http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/index.shtml Over 9,600 subscribers in 80 countries ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced by the Stanford University Learning Laboratory (SLL) http://sll.stanford.edu/ in partnership with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) http://www.aahe.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Folks: The posting below describes a new effort at Stanford to bring about a greater collaboration among scholars in the humanities. Borrowing from some of the practices more typically found in engineering and the sciences, the Stanford Humanities Laboratory seeks to develop outputs that will have an appeal to a non-specialist audience. The article is from the April 9, 2000 issue of The Stanford Report and reprinted with permission. Regards, Rick Reis Reis@stanford.edu UP NEXT: Applied Ethics and the "Aporetic Transversity" Tomorrow's Research -------------------- 927 words ----------------------- 'START-UP' HUMANITIES LAB TO FOCUS ON COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS It will be a lab like many others on campus, with a number of long-term projects run by a principal investigator who oversees a team of faculty and postdoctoral researchers. But the new Stanford Humanities Laboratory (SHL) that is scheduled for launch in September will boldly go where professors of literature, history and the arts have only tiptoed until now. "In current Silicon Valley parlance, one might say that SHL aims to serve as a sort of intellectual 'venture capitalist,' and the collaborative research projects that it 'invests' in could be envisaged as intellectual 'start-ups,'" says Jeffrey Schnapp, the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature and chair of the Department of French and Italian. Schnapp, who will serve as director of the new SHL, sent a letter to more than 300 faculty in the humanities and area curators at the Stanford Libraries and the Cantor Arts Center April 17, calling for proposals for pilot projects for the academic years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. The deadline for submission is June 15, and notifications of acceptance will be made on July 15. Projects that receive funding will have one overriding goal: They will be collaborative in nature, drawing together teams of senior faculty, advanced undergraduates and postdocs, as well as museum curators and individuals from area cultural centers and industries. And the end results just might look different -- a performance, perhaps, or an exhibition, website, course curriculum or book that is aimed at a non-specialist audience. "Over the past few decades increasingly smaller niches of specialization have been carved out within the humanities," Schnapp says. "That's had a positive side, but it's also had the unfortunate consequence of sealing off areas of specialization from one another and reducing the scope of the conversations that take place. "So one of the more exciting and more difficult features of the lab is to create incentives for groups of scholars to work together and to think creatively about ways to produce and present new forms of knowledge." Schnapp approached President Gerhard Casper and then-Provost Condoleezza Rice with the idea for the lab last spring, at a time when the Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts were nearing the end of their initial programming. "Questions were being discussed about what came next and about which parts of the experiment had been most successful," Schnapp says. He drafted a proposal for the lab and the president's office agreed to provide funding. "This literally is an initiative that is building upon the first presidential initiative," Schnapp says. "The symposium part of the budget will be moved over to support the lab in the first phase of operation." Three SHL brainstorming sessions were held in October, November and December 1999, where faculty from various humanities departments, centers and programs met to imagine research projects that might replace the traditional individualized model. A number of faculty members at those meetings, like Schnapp, could draw on their own experience. Trained as a medievalist, the SHL director is a self-described "eccentric literary historian" and specialist in 20th-century culture. In recent years, he says, his work more often has put him in touch with architects and designers than with literary scholars. "Like a monk in a medieval cell, I used to sit and gather material in isolation over a period of years," Schnapp says. "Eventually maybe an essay or two, or a book would come out of that process. "But these days I tend to wander pretty widely in terms of disciplinary range, and in Europe I've had the experience of working in collaboration with museums on exhibitions and public presentations. That has required working with people in different areas of competence and expertise, and that has told me what an extremely exciting and enlivening process research can be." Schnapp can envisage, for example, a collaborative research project on the material history of literature that would look at how texts are organized in various cultures and how systems of notation and alphabets function. The project, which might also explore the evolution of objects such as pens and writing surfaces, could conclude with a global reference manual. "I can imagine that project might interest a whole range of businesses that are actively engaged in information technology here in Silicon Valley," Schnapp says. "And as director of SHL, I would go out there and pitch the project to businesses and get them involved in supporting research in the humanities." In the start-up phase of the lab, seed monies will be provided for between three and eight pilot projects for the academic years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, with budgets ranging from $20,000 to $50,000. In the second phase of the lab, scheduled to begin in Spring Quarter 2002, between four and eight large-scale projects will be funded per year, primarily supported by foundation grants. A distinctive feature of the research teams, as Schnapp envisions them, is the prominent role humanities postdocs will play. In fact, research projects will be advertised -- "we'll post the research and say we're looking for postdocs who want to work as part of the team." In the sciences, Schnapp says, young scholars often choose a compelling postdoc opportunity over a beginning assistant professorship to develop their profiles by working in a lab with top-notch scientists. "But postdocs have not been the royal road to success in the humanities the way they are an absolutely essential stepping stone in the scientific disciplines," he adds. "So the lab is conceived of as helping young humanists carve out a space that's been a missing link in their career track." Questions about the application process for the Stanford Humanities Laboratory can be addressed via e-mail to SUHUMLAB@stanford.edu , or phone Kellie Smith, (650) 725-9225, or Schnapp, (650) 725-3270. The SHL website, www.stanford/edu/group/shl, with online application forms and information, should be up and running in early May. 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If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message body of "unsubscribe tomorrows-professor" to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: humanities computing in an Institute of Science and Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 11 (11) Technology Dear Humanists, Let me present the following scenario to you: a university is planning to become an institute of science and technology where the humanities are supposed to accompany the development in a critical way (impact on society, ethic, envi- ronment etc.). Traditional linguistics and literature would not really have a place, but languages would have to play a role in terms of internationalisation. Given this background my questions are: Would this be the moment to bring humanities computing in and in which way? Are there similar scenarios of which humanities computing is a part and how does it work? What sort of courses are you teaching and with which philosophy? Which arguments did you use when you where pushing for humanities computing? I am looking forward to your contributions Elisabeth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr FB10/Romanistik Universitaet Bremen eburr@uni-bremen.de President of SILFI: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000 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 From: Stephen Clark Subject: The Long Now Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 04:46:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 12 (12) From: http://www.longnow.org/ Great Minds to Discuss '10,000-year Library' The Long Now Foundation and Stanford University Libraries announced they will hold an invitational conference, "The 10,000-year Library," June 30 - July 2, 2000 on the Stanford campus sponsored by the Lazy Eight Foundation. Two dozen confirmed participants - including Elizabeth Niggeman head of the German National Library; cuneiform expert William Hallo of Yale University; leading innovators in high-tech, such as Brewster Kahle the creator of the Internet Archive, an extraordinary Native American anthropologist Dave Warren; Council on Library and Information Resources director Deanna Marcum; and others -will join the Long Now board (Michael A. Keller, Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Paul Saffo, Kevin Kelly, Peter Schwartz, and Doug Carlston) and librarians to deliberate on the permanence of information and the nature and need for long-term thinking about it. (See complete list of current attendees at the bottom of this page.) In a time of accelerating technology, accelerating history, and a dangerous shortening of civilization's attention span, the role of libraries becomes deeper than ever. Libraries need to be rethought in the new context and in the light of civilization's now-global and very long term responsibilities. Some new initiatives need to be set in motion. The conference participants will address needed directions for such initiatives. According to Stewart Brand, co-chairman of the Long Now board, "We want to jump-start some serious, collaborative thinking about how to see information - the real narrative of civilization - in very long-term ways. We're talking in part about technology, but it goes much deeper, right to the root of why we are here, what we're doing, and what kind of legacy do we want to leave to our descendents and to their successors." "Stewardship of cultural content is the essential role of research libraries," says Stanford University Librarian Michael A. Keller. "Serious players in this field have always collected, organized, and preserved information - OK, books, mostly - on behalf of future generations, but up to now, we haven't really thought seriously about how many such generations, or how to think about the mission in terms of thousands of years. Digital information technologies, with their notorious instability, force us to reassess how we go about fulfilling this mission hereafter. So we are an interested party. But nobody knows what the important questions are, to say nothing of solutions. This conference will be tremendously valuable in helping to pose the right questions." Adds Brand, "The issues are pan-disciplinary, so the group we're bringing together is as broad as we can make it with a small group." The format will be similar to what Long Now used successfully in 1998 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles with a related conference called "Time & Bits: Managing Digital Continuity." The participants will meet for dinner and introductions Friday evening; scheme and probe all day Saturday; spell out next steps Sunday morning, and sum up and for a public audience Sunday afternoon. The public event - for invited press, scholars, technologists, and others - will also include a question & answer session. (Details about the public event will be announced later.) Delivered at the conference will be the first prototype of the 'Rosetta Disk' also being produced under the Lazy Eight Foundation Grant. This modern Rosetta will be a micro-etched nickel two inch disk which will include all the worlds translations of the book of Genesis written at a scale to be read by microscopes. Expected outcomes of the conference will be a publication and paths toward subsequent conferences, whose topics should emerge from this conference. There may be recommendations to specific institutions of actions to pursue. The Long Now Foundation was officially established in 01996 to develop the 10,000-Year Clock and 10,000-Year Library projects as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. It has been nearly 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age and the beginnings of civilization. Progress during that time was often measured on a "faster/cheaper" scale. The Long Now Foundation seeks to promote "slower/better" thinking and to focus our collective creativity on the next 10,000 years. One of its related projects is development of the Rosetta Disk, a long-term linguistic archive and translation engine that allows for the recovery of "lost" languages in the deep future, the storage technology for which is a 2" nickel disk which records analog text and images at densities up to 350,000 pages per disk, with a life expectancy of 2,000-10,000 years. For more information about the Long Now Foundation: http://www.longnow.org/ Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) develops and implements resources and services within the University libraries and academic technology units that support research and instruction. With collections containing over seven million volumes and numerous of archival, manuscript, map, media, government document, database and serial materials among its fourteen libraries, SUL/AIR coordinates with Stanford's Business, Law, Medical, and SLAC libraries and the Hoover Institution to provide comprehensive information resources to the Stanford Community. The Academic Information Resources division provides information-technology support and instruction and network services to the entire campus community, whether in the library or in the dorm. SUL/AIR's HighWire Press division provides advanced online publication and access services to over 170 of the world's leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals in science, technology, and medicine, and thus is significantly involved in the provision of information to the world's research and academic communities. For more information about the Stanford Libraries: http://www-sul.stanford.edu The Lazy Eight Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to promoting research and development in the sciences and education. It supports efforts to bring together scientists, artists, and educators across disciplines, with a focus on projects that offer creative solutions to educational, social and environmental problems. The Lazy Eight Foundation works with its "Lazers," individuals from a broad range of disciplines who advise the Foundation on various projects. For more information about the Lazy Eight Foundation: http://www.lazy8.org From: "David L. Green" Subject: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS; NYC Meeting Report Available; Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 04:48:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 13 (13) Final Meeting: Baltimore, May 18 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 9, 2000 NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS New York City Meeting Report Available http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.report.html Baltimore Meeting: May 18, 2000 American Association of Museums Annual Conference "Copyright Confusion? Community Guides. http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/aam.html A report is now available on the third in the NINCH series of six town meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY, held in New York City. This report joins those on the first two town meetings, held at the Chicago Historical Society and at Syracuse University. Reports on the meetings held at the Triangle Research Libraries Network in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and at the Visual Resources Association conference in San Francisco, will be available shortly. The last meeting in the series will be held on Thursday May 18 from 2pm to 4:45pm at the annual convention of the American Association of Museums at the Baltimore Convention Center (Rooms 321-323). Please Note: Members of the public wishing to attend the Baltimore Town Meeting but not registered for the AAM Convention should leave their names (by eob Tues. May 16) at 202-296-5346, or email them to david@ninch.org for free admission to the town meeting. * * * NEW YORK CITY: "The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher for Rights to the Products of Contemporary Education." A report is now available on the NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETING, co-sponsored by the College Art Association and held at its annual conference, February 26, 2000. This was the third in this series of six town meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY, organized by NINCH, with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The opening paper by Christine Sundt, "Been There. Done That!," reviewing the community's history of wrestling with intellectual property issues over the past five years is available at <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nycsundt.html> as well as at her own website, <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/CAAcls.htm>. Three speakers engaged the topic of the ownership of university faculty production. Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University Law School, focused on two current cases that test the extent to which professors have the right and the ability to control the dissemination of their classroom performances. Sanford Thatcher, Director of the Pennsylvania State University Press, reviewed the success of a Pennsylvania State University task force to create guidelines to clarify ownership issues on campus. Rodney Petersen, Director of Policy and Planning at the University of Maryland's Office of Information Technology, shared his discoveries about intellectual property policies at research universities, and, based on his campus experiences, advised focusing on parties' needs and interests rather than gross ownership of intellectual property. Questions, comments and discussion were far-ranging, including the issues of museums' ownership of copyright, the "Ditto.com" case, distance education, licensing, and the familiar issue of the legality of copy photography. * * * BALTIMORE: "Copyright Confusion? Community Guides" BALTIMORE: Thursday May 18, 2000 American Association of Museums Annual Conference "Copyright Confusion? Community Guides. http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/aam.html In the light of the failure of CONFU to produce guidelines accepted across the community for the fair use of copyrighted material, and as copyright issues continue to become increasingly complicated for practitioners, new guidelines are being produced from within the community to help answer many practical questions about managing and using online intellectual property. This Town Meeting will focus on the resource materials that have been developed by the American Association of Museums, the College Art Association and the Visual Resources Association to provide guidance on managing intellectual property. What questions do these guides answer and what guidance do they offer? What more is still needed by this community? What other practical resources are available? In the tradition of a town meeting there will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. A G E N D A Welcome and Brief Overview of Current Scene: * Barry Szczesny, Government Affairs Counsel and Assistant Director, Government and Public Affairs, American Association of Museums * Michael Shapiro, Private Attorney and Consultant to Arts and Cultural Organizations Overview of Town Meetings Series: * David Green, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). Speakers: AAM's "Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark" * Diane Zorich, Information Management Consultant VRA's "Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections" * Kathe Albrecht, Visual Resources Curator, American University CAA's work-in-progress, the "Guidebook on Copyright for Artists and Art Historians" * Robert Baron, Independent Art Historian and Consultant ========================== 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> ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: Re: Economist article + Faustian bargain Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 14 (14) Dear Colleagues: I forward the following, with thanks, from the Electronic Journal Publishing List, which you may wish to join. It's extracted from an ongoing conversation, but the position Stevan Harnad sets forth is sufficiently clear to strike sparks here, perhaps to good effect. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] wrote: [deleted quotation] is no [deleted quotation] scientists [deleted quotation] researchers. [deleted quotation] they [deleted quotation] would be [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Roger Blumberg Subject: Re: 13.0554 come out to play? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 15 (15) Dear Willard, I have been meaning to respond to your posting of the 25th (Subject: games?), and the discussion that followed, but each reply has become a rather long essay. I teach the Educational Software Seminar at Brown University, a rather unique example of university-community collaboration in the area of technology because we begin not with university-designed products and priorities, but with proposals for classroom software from local (Providence, RI) teachers in K-12, the University, and other institutions concerned with education (e.g. the Providence Children's Museum). Each spring, the undergraduates in the Seminar choose projects from a pool of teacher proposals and, in teams of 3 or 4, work closely with the teacher and her/his students to create the proposed program. The Seminar is cross-listed in Computer Science and Education Departments at Brown, where it has been offered for nearly a decade (the brainchild of Andries van Dam you'll be pleased if hardly surprised to learn); but only recently have the number of computers in schools and the power of the authoring tools made diversity in proposed projects and versatility in program designs and strategies a reality. You can read about all the projects, and download many of the programs, at our web site: www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/ In the past three years we've taken on and completed nearly two dozen projects for K-16 classrooms, and about half of these programs have been designed as games. You ask: [deleted quotation] The second is certainly the critical question, and we have found that the answers are not especially short! First, it is useful to note that in addition to games, the "Sega-generation" is an audience that makes simulations and multi-linear computer-based narratives educationally promising as well. But sticking to games for the moment, and taking just this semester's class as an example, the Seminar students have just completed games: -- to teach kindergarteners the concepts of area and perimeter (something recently mandated by the local Board of Ed.); -- to give a 3rd grade teacher a computer-based equivalent of a "Mad Math Minute" exercise, formerly done with pen and paper, that tests multiplication and division skills; -- to let 4th graders build 2D shapes and calculate their areas and perimeters; and -- to let ESL and Special Education high school students practice their punctuation, capitalization and verb conjugation skills. The Seminar students did not choose the game format for programs: -- to provide decision-making scenarios concerning drug use for 9th grade Health students; -- to give undergraduates enrolled in a Visual Perception course interactive exercises for learning about depth cues, color perception and the perception of human motion; and, -- to give undergraduates enrolled in a political science course an opportunity to see annotated versions of political ads and to write annotations of their own. So what are some of the things we consider when deciding on a game format? Here are just three: 1) Can the material covered, the skills being acquired and/or the exercises necessary to master the material/skills be made more engaging by introducing a game structure? This is a basic question but it leads one to see games as a useful tool not just in settings where a set of skills and facts can be given narrative cohesion and motivation (e.g. the Mad Math Minute), but in cases when the exercises that best help students learn these skills and facts are tainted by remedial or simply boring associations (e.g. the ESL and Special Education case, where rather elementary grammar exercises can be embedded in sophisticated multimedia narratives). 2) Can the material covered stand up to the seductions of the game format, so that what is learned is the relevant material/skill rather than simply skills of game-playing (e.g. competition between students is usually both a motivation and a distraction). 3) Can intrinsic motivation for learning the material/skills be created either in game characters and/or activities? Once one decides to create a game, there are of course questions about design and design "principles" (about which so much is written). Here we find (with Emerson) that "there is no virtue which is final; all are initial." Indeed, my students find that by designing effective programs for a particular teacher of a particular group of students in a particular school in a particular year: a) they become critical of any but the most grave and trivial ideas of universal usability principles; b) they appreciate the value of a learning curve in the engagement of users, and think twice before speaking of "intuitive" interfaces; and c) they see in practice the difference between using the computer to expand and enrich the experiences in classrooms and using it to (merely) replace or simulate traditional experiences. Clearly, there is much more to say, but the reason I bother you with any of it is the answer to your second question: [deleted quotation] The answer is: not many and certainly too few. With the recent news that Mattel is selling off The Learning Company, having acquired it less than a year ago (after the Learning Company itself acquired a good number of promising educational software companies), we find remarkably little innovation in the field of educational software, and the fact that it is a marginalized area within university-level computer science doesn't help. But, now that powerful authoring tools (e.g. Macromedia's Director) and multimedia labs are becoming more common at colleges and universities, and are used as often by humanities as science students and faculties, I would suggest that there is a tremendous and perhaps unique opportunity now for humanities computing people and humanists generally to become involved in the production and study of educational software. I hope there will be opportunities to continue discussions, such as those provoked by your questions, in the Humanist community. Thanks, Roger _______________________________________________________________ Roger B. Blumberg Roger_Blumberg@Brown.edu phone:(401) 863-7619 fax:(401) 863-7657 http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/rbb/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Computer Science (Box 1910) Senior Fellow, Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning (Box 1912) Visiting Scholar, Inst. for Brain & Neural Systems (Box 1843) Brown University, Providence RI 02912 --------------------------------------------------------------- MendelWeb http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/ _______________________________________________________________ From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 16 (16) Information The May 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 1,239 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. ************************************************* *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: Wendell Piez Subject: dissertation on online collaboration Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 17 (17) Readers of HUMANIST may be interested in the following (from Steve Talbott's NETFUTURE): ============================================= User-specified Tools for Online Collaboration --------------------------------------------- NetFuture reader Aldo de Moor has completed a Ph.D. dissertation that some of you may be interested in. Here are a few sentences from the preface: All over the world, forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. I usd to be quite involved in several forest conservation campaigns. However, while working on these issues, it became increasingly clear to me that there are no simple solutions for dealing with this very urgent problem. The only way to address complex issues like this is to involve many people, who represent a wide range of stakeholders, in a continuous dialogue. ....time and again we found out how difficult it is to keep prolonged and intensive computer-enabled collaboration going. People would start to work together enthusiastically, but somehow, results failed to materialize, after which participation would wane quickly. This despite common goals and considerable initial efforts of the participants, and despite the fact that when the same networks of professionals meet physically, collaboration is often successful indeed. While investigating these failures, I found out that the problems encountered are not particular to our network. In fact, similar breakdowns are reported in a wide body of literature on computer supported cooperative work. In working on this problem, de Moor produced "a theory of legitimate user- driven specification, as well as a supporting method and [software] tool. They should enable members of virtual professional communities to use their potential for collaboration to create network information systems that better meet the communal needs". De Moor wrote his thesis at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, and summaries of it in English and Dutch, as well as information for obtaining English copies of the entire thesis, are available at http://infolab.kub.nl/people/ademoor/phd . ========================================================================== You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. You may also redistribute individual articles in their entirety, provided the NetFuture url and this paragraph are attached. Current and past issues of NetFuture are available on the Web: http://www.oreilly.com/~stevet/netfuture/ ====================================================================== 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: Jack W. Weaver [mailto:WEAVERJ@winthrop.edu] Subject: Re: 14.0008: Misspellings Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 18 (18) Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:15 AM To: tarversj Jo, 10 May The Humanist Discussion Group's queries are linguistically interesting. I would suggest that a professional British linguist (e.g., Michael Montgomery) be consulted, despite the fact that the query seems to have originated in London. "Mabe" is simply a word spelled as it sounds, however. I've seen it spelled that way and also "maby," in the mountains of North Carolina. I see it as a semi-literate rendering, more than English as a Second Language, however. Ulster speech might pronounce it that way, too. It would be nice to know the names of the writers, to see if they really are of French derivation. "Understanding your predicament of trust and how difficult it is to explain in good faith to you about your" appears to be an attempt to use quasi-legal language, very likely (again) acquired by ear. "Relized" for 'realized' sounds like Ulster/American, or mountain speech, too. So does 'there (for "their") own business.' Could those Louisianians have originated in Tennessee or Kentucky? Having grown up in the mountains of N.C., I can understand them quite well. But I heard the same sounds in the Ards Peninsula in County Down. A learned Queens University of Belfast geographer pointed out a stone object to me by saying, "See that tare {tower} in the field yonder?" I might as well have been talking to someone in Boone, N.C. As you can see, I can't produce any specific documents. Michael Montgomery might be able to do so. His E-Mail address is "N270053@vm.sc.edu." If you don't know him, mention my name with your query. Best, jack Weaver From: "Wendy Shaw" Subject: Intranets Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:20:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 19 (19) Dear Members (I usually lurk on the list), I am coming to the end of a PhD which has been investigating how English academics use the Internet for their research and teaching responsibilities. Wales has been used for methodological reasons. I have two questions that stem from the research. If you can offer help, guidance or confusion, please do so. Question 1 I am currently investigating some Stats that have been passed on to me by an English department in Wales, to see if there are any common threads and conclusions that can be drawn from the findings. It is also anticipated that these findings might decide which direction the web pages should head. Are they an advantage in the marketing of a department for open days and influencing newcomers for the next academic year. The Stats have been collected over a three month period. Has anyone else carried out similar work, or does anyone know of any published work in this area? Question 2 The findings will be reported back to the department in question before the end of the academic year. It is a possibility that an intranet might be set up to help coordinate departmental information. Once again, can anyone recommend references, or published work along these lines? With many thanks in anticipation, Please send replies to the list for greater interest and discussion, 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://users.aber.ac.uk/wws94 By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Quotation and Originality. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 From: "Claire Warwick" Subject: Do we need a European Society for Information Research? Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:21:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 20 (20) I am forwarding this message on behalf of Tom Wilson, who is a colleague of mine at Sheffield, in the hope that this may be of interest to at least some humanists. Please respond to him at t.d.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk ________________________________- Dear Colleague, Last year I sent out a message to research colleagues in Europe about the lack of a European organization with a focus on research in the "information" field, following a conversation I had with Lars Hglund of the University of Gothenberg and the Swedish School of Librarianship. I had very positive response, but have only just got round to mailing UK colleagues. Why would we want a European Society for Information Research? True, both IFLA and FID have their HQs in Europe but they are a) global bodies and b) more concerned with practice and practitioners. There is also a European Chapter of ASIS, the activities of which I am personally unaware, not being an ASIS member. I believe, however, that we need a 'home grown' organization rather than an offshoot of a foreign body. The kind of organization in which I am interested would have more in common with bodies such as the European Society for Communication Research and the European Society for Information Systems - bodies with a largely academic membership and a focus on research. Curiously, over the past 20 years or so, the germ of such an organization has existed in the shape of various groups of people (many of them the recipients of my earlier message) who have organized specialist conferences in the field, beginning with the first IRFIS conference in (I think) 1978, followed by the CoLIS series and, most recently, the ISIC series. With a slightly different agenda there is also the British-Nordic Conference on Library and Information Studies. It seems, therefore, that the information research community in Europe is continually seeking a framework within which to present and debate research issues. My concerns in this area were sharpened as a result of organizing the ISIC2 conference in Sheffield, and I came to the conclusion that we need at least to discuss the possibility of establishing a "European Society for Information Research". I am not in a position to formulate a full constitution and set of objectives for the proposed Society, let alone work out a business plan, but I would see one of its main aims as being to put the organization of the ISIC series on a sound footing and to keep them in Europe. This last point may seem odd, but I have two main reasons for suggesting it: a) we need to ensure a strong research community in Europe, which incorporates colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe, who find it difficult enough to get resources to travel within Europe, and virtually impossible to travel outside; and b) losing control of location will almost certainly lead to the demise of the series. Colleagues who organize CoLIS, might also be interested in the Society's umbrella. I do not envisage that the independent identity of the two conferences I have mentioned should be lost, since I know and value meetings with a strong focus. However, I believe that we would have a lot to gain from operating under the aegis of a single organization. I believe that we could also gain from associating the Society's conferences with other organizations; for example, by running them in association with, e.g., SIG/IR when it is held in Europe and perhaps with ESIS and ESCR, if appropriate - this would encourage interaction with related fields and could lead to further collaboration in research at a personal or organizational level. At this point, I have no specific proposals other than to ask i) for your response to this idea; and 2) whether you would be interested to meet to discuss the idea. In this latter respect, I shall be at the ISIC 2000 conference in Gothenberg in August and perhaps those who are attending and interested, could join me in a meeting with other European colleagues. I would represent the views of those who write to me, or those views could be passed on to other colleagues attending ISIC 2000. Please circulate this to other active researchers in the field in your organization, who do not appear on the mailing list below, and, indeed, to those in other departments who are doing research in related fields, and others whose research may be of interest to us. With kind regards, Tom Wilson ************************************ Dr Claire Warwick Lecturer, Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, 0114 222 2632 c.warwick@sheffield.ac.uk ************************************ From: Skip Warnick Subject: Electronic Text and Imaging Center Coordinator Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 21 (21) University of Maryland Libraries AS-5881 / Exempt Staff Position Vacancy Search Extended TITLE: Manager, Electronic Text and Imaging Center LOCATION: Information Technology Division and Public Services Division CATEGORY:Exempt 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 or a Master's degree in the Humanities; 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 June 16, 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. -------------------------------------- Skip Warnick, Webmaster University of Maryland Libraries skip@itd.umd.edu 301-314-6767 From: Fay Sudweeks Subject: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 22 (22) Conference REGISTER NOW .... Register for CATaC'00 by 9 June 2000 to take advantage of the discount registration fees! ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00): Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village 12-15 July 2000, Fremantle, 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 conference series provides diverse perspectives, both in terms of cultures and disciplines. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/ for copies of the papers presented). VENUE The venue is the Tradewinds Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Fremantle, approximately 20 km west of Perth, is a major tourist attraction offering fine crafts, original music and theatre, exciting galleries, museums and bookshops. Along with maritime history and extensive architectural conservation, the Arts have become a central part of Fremantle life where visitors discover the past and present. Western Australia is reknowned for its superior wines, particularly from the Margaret River and Swan Vally wine growing areas. Registrants will have the opportunity of joining a pre-conference tour of Perth and environs, and a post-conference safari to Nambung National Park. PROGRAM The focus of the conference is on discussion of the issues raised in presentations by a variety of scholars representing Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, UK, USA and Venezuela (see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/list_of_papers.html). RECEPTION AND CONFERENCE DINNER The reception will be held at the Kidogo Gallery in Fremantle and will feature a didgeridoo player. The conference dinner will be held at Sandalford Winery in the Swan Valley. KEYNOTE SPEAKER The keynote speaker is Dr Duane Varan, Director of the Multimedia Lab at Murdoch University. The title of Dr Varan's keynote speech is "Cultural Conservation in the Global Village". REGISTRATION FEES (Prices in AUD which is approximately USD0.59 to AUD1.00) Conference Fee: $325 ($375 after 9 June) Author Fee: $275 ($325 after 9 June) Student Fee: $125 ($150 after 9 June) Register at http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/register-form.html ACCOMMODATION There is a range of accommodation available, including the conference hotel (Tradewinds Hotel). Accommodation details and a booking request form are at http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/accommodation.html ----------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Co-Chairs: Charles Ess, Drury College, USA, catac@lib.drury.edu Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac@it.murdoch.edu.au Vice-Chair: Andrew Turk, Murdoch University, Australia, a_turk@murdoch.edu.au Manager: Moira Dawe, Murdoch University, m.dawe@murdoch.edu.au From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: Stats workshop at Glasgow 18-21/7 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 06:28:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 23 (23) THIRD WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS IN LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics University of Glasgow, UK 18-21 July 2000 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 31 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 email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk. From: Alan Burk Subject: Announcement - Summer Institute 2000 - Creating Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 06:30:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 24 (24) Electronic Texts and Images ******************************************************************* 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. [material deleted] From: Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of the Electronic Text Centre Phone: 506-453-4740 Fax: 506-453-4595 http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/ From: Philosophy Programme Subject: [At University of London] The Philosophy of Heidegger & Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 06:33:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 25 (25) University of London School of Advanced Study Philosophy Programme presents a One-day Conference THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEIDEGGER ___________________________ 10.30 a.m. 6.45 p.m, Friday 2 June 2000 Room 329/330, Senate House, London WC1 10.30 Coffee & Registration 11.00 Hubert Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley) Could Anything be more Intelligible than Everyday Intelligibility?: Reinterpreting Division I of _Being and Time_ in the light of Division II 12.30 Lunch (own arrangements) 1.30 Sean Kelly (Princeton University) The Normative Status of Social Norms: Heidegger's Account of the Role of Das Man 3.00 Tea 3.30 Beatrice Han (University of Essex) Foucault and Heidegger on Kant and Finitude 5.00 Short break 5.15 Stephen Mulhall (New College Oxford) The Yearning Expectation of Creatures: Heidegger's Theologically Aversive Concept of Human Animality 6.45 Close ______________________________________________________________________ [material deleted] Philosophy Programme Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU <http://www.sas.ac.uk/Philosophy> ---- From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0013 electronic publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 26 (26) Gosh, after reading all that farrago about information wanting to be free, I have to wonder if anyone has ever read Bordieu's Homo Academicus... -- Patricia Galloway Director, Information Systems Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the ABCs, simple answers, home truths Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 27 (27) Dear Colleagues, As we seem rapidly to be pulling away from the necessity of instilling skills and to be reaching a high-ground of more interesting research questions of our own, what is happening to our introductory courses, lectures, workshops and the like? I raise the question primarily because when I think about my early experiences in university I recall having a particular kind of knowledge-hunger, the satisfactions of which remain vivid in memory as formative points of my intellectual life. I would hope we all have such anecdotes as I could recall at length, for example of the showman-professor of chemistry who charmed all 500 of us into a desire to study his subject, in effect by demonstrating his excitement and love of it. Perhaps I am just an incurable romantic, but attempting for the moment to be as sober as possible ("damn braces, bless relaxes"), I still think that no utilitarian lecture on the usefulness of chemistry in modern life and how it increased one's chances for a job would have worked even remotely as well as the professor's demonstrations of intelligent love. And I hope very much this is the general case now, that underneath the worries about jobs, investment profiles and retirement plans that knowledge-hunger still gnaws as strongly as ever. Let us say (cheer me and yourself up, please!) that our students and colleagues are still thus ravenous. The question, somewhat refined, is: how do we computing humanists appeal to their knowledge-hunger? What do we teach, how do we teach it, in order to demonstrate in plain terms what humanities computing is all about? I think it's rather easier to reach the specialist than the beginner. As a teacher of mine once said, "In the mind of the beginner there are many possibilities, in the mind of the expert there are few." The intelligent, curious beginner wants to know the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of the disciplinary promised land one is travelling toward, has to be convinced that life there will be worth all that it takes to reach it. (As in the biblical original, it's difficult to keep the faith between original vision and arrival.) The specialist, who is already committed to the game, will not tend to ask the really hard questions. Of course the beginner and the expert are not necessarily different people. I'm also asking about how to reach the beginner in the expert. A related problem is how to explain what we do to those who are not our students -- the neighbour, local baker et al. pose this problem in an even more difficult form than the funding-body officer or dean. As background allow me to observe the general loss of superstitious reverence for higher education in the last 2-3 generations. Be that as it may, however, let's keep away from o-tempora-o-mores whingeing and get to what centrally we say, in plain language, humanities computing is for. And by "plain language" I mean not just simple English or whatever, but language devoid of promotionalism and dodgy appeals to the future. What have we got to offer right now, with the tools we have in hand, to the ordinary curious person? Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reading vs clicking vs life Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 28 (28) A newspaper story from the Independent, for 18 May 2000. According to a survey conducted by Book Marketing Ltd <http://users.londonweb.net/bookmark/> for the U.K. Arts Council-funded agency The Reading Partnership, the biggest threat to book-reading in this country is not the Web but the decreasing amount of leisure time. The survey found that book-reading in the U.K. is still in a very healthy state: on average, adults read books for 5 hours/week, and 15% for at least 11 hrs/wk. Furthermore, fear that children are growing up more interested in (newer) technology than books seems to be unfounded. Children read on average 4 hours/week. After the age of 11 or 12, however, enthusiasm for reading apparently tails off, esp. in boys, so that by the time they leave school many are not reading for pleasure at all. Two anecdotes, with commentary. (1) Last night at the house of friends I spent about a half hour reading Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Mr Todd to their 4 year-old, who is a *very* active and technologically engaged child. (In case you who have not read the story recently, or at all, you should know that it's not an easy listen for a child of that age.) He sat in rapt attention the whole time. When I think about the kind and depth of imaginative engagement offered by the story as opposed to the gizmos he has to play with, why of course there's no contest. What about when there is a real contest, as surely there will be? (2) A few evenings earlier I went out to dinner with a friend who works for an information-management company whose employees as a matter of course are on the job 14 hrs/day. As we were sitting at table drinking our pints (at about 8 p.m.), her cellular phone went off and a 15-minute conversation about a problem at work ensued. It's not as if she or the company for which she works has a choice in the matter if that kind of employment is to be maintained, nor can any clear distinction be drawn between her non-academic job and many if not most jobs within the academy nowadays. What's wrong with this picture? There's the obvious conclusion to be drawn -- that the technology really isn't the issue, rather what we're doing with it. Then there's the cogent objection that the technology embodies tendencies for change that act on us, as owning a gun tends to result in its use. But more importantly, perhaps, is the recognition of what we have to work with, our lives as we find them, in the places where we have washed up, and so the question, what do we want, how do we use our gizmos to realise that? Comments? WM From: Willard McCarty Subject: Essex conference on Blake Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 05:55:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 29 (29) University of Essex Millennium Conference 24-26 August 2000 Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex UK Friendly Enemies: Blake and the Enlightenment Modernity, romanticism and the millennium: an international interdisciplinary conference <http://www.essex.ac.uk/literature/friendlyenemies.htm> Jon Mee, on Enthusiasm Anne Mellor, on Women and Apocalypse J. Hillis Miller, on Digital Blake Joseph Viscomi, on Illuminated Books and New Technologies 100 for one day, 300 for three days (students and the unwaged, 100 for three days) For further details, please contact: Noreen Harburt Centre for Theoretical Studies University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ United Kingdom Telephone: 01206 872178 Fax: 01206 873598 Email: jorde@essex.ac.uk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Barry Dank Subject: CFP: Sexuality & Culture Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 05:58:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 30 (30) CALL FOR PAPERS *Sexuality & Culture* is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal published by Transaction Publishers at Rutgers University. For its fifth year of publication (2001), the journal welcomes the submission of original manuscripts dealing with issues of sexuality and culture and invites contributions to two special issues on 1) sexual harassment and sexual consent in both academic and non-academic workplaces and on 2) gender equity and discrimination relating to sexual issues. Book reviews in the same areas and book suggestions and self-referrals are also welcome. For information about the journal, visit its web site at www.csulb.edu/~asc/journal.html. 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, University of South Carolina, Walterboro, SC 29488 (e-mail: refinetti@sc.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry M. Dank, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, SEXUALITY & CULTURE; www.csulb.edu/~asc/journal.html President, FASE; www.faseweb.org; fase@mail.com Founder and Manager, asc-l@egroups.com; www.egroups.com/group/asc-l/ Professor of Sociology, California State U., Long Beach, CA 90840 Voice Mail: 562-985-4236 Fax: 603-649-5925 From: Peter Gilbert Subject: Job announcement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 31 (31) Humanities Instructional Technologist Lawrence University has an immediate opening for an instructional technologist in the humanities. Responsibilities will include teaching 2-3 courses per year in a humanities discipline, facilitating the introduction of computing technology and multimedia into the humanities and foreign language curriculum, and assisting humanities and language faculty in the use of a broad range of hardware and software. Lawrence University is in the process of establishing a 20-station, computerized, multi-media lab to support instruction in foreign languages and the humanities. The person hired into this position will manage the Humanities computing facility (including hiring, training, and supervising student workers); act as liaison to faculty in humanities and language departments to gather information about instructional needs, and design, document, and lead workshops for faculty and students. Required qualifications: M.A. in a humanities discipline, classroom teaching experience, knowledge of instructional design in a higher education setting, including web development, authoring systems, digital audio/video, and graphics, excellent communication and interpersonal skills; proficiency in both PC and Mac platforms and programs relevant to the humanities. Preferred qualifications include Ph.D. degree, familiarity with instructional materials appropriate to humanities instruction, knowledge of a foreign language or expertise in foreign language teaching, and familiarity with state-of-the-art audio, video, and computing technologies in classroom instruction. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. To apply: Send cover letter, a vita, a brief statement of teaching philosophy addressing the significance of technology, and three letters of recommendation to: Peter Gilbert Director of Instructional Technology Lawrence University Appleton, WI 54911 Deadline for applications is June 15, 2000. EOE For more information about Lawrence, please see http://www.lawrence.edu From: "Jennifer de Beer" Subject: Re: 14.0021 electronic publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 32 (32) Colleagues, An article in the May 00 issue of D-Lib magazine seems to address the question of who will pay for free information. HAve not read it yet, so cannot comment. The URL is http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may00/kaser/05kaser.html Also, there are a number of mirror sites View http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may00/05contents.html for the URLs of the latter. Best, ======== 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: "Fay Sudweeks" Subject: CATAC'00 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 33 (33) Hi all Here's the latest update on CATAC'00. Hope to see you in Perth in July. Fay ----------------------- REGISTER NOW .... Register for CATaC'00 by 9 June 2000 to take advantage of the discount registration fees! ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00): Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village 12-15 July 2000, Fremantle, 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 conference series provides diverse perspectives, both in terms of cultures and disciplines. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/ for copies of the papers presented). [material deleted] PROGRAM The focus of the conference is on discussion of the issues raised in presentations by a variety of scholars representing Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, UK, USA and Venezuela (see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/list_of_papers.html). [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: Paul Brians Subject: Data mining by textbook publishers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 34 (34) Because I've done published some of my translations on the Web, from time to time I'm contacted by textbook publishers wanting to reprint them in readers. So far, in every case, they've offered no money, though they quickly acceded when I asked a modest fee. And in every case the contract they sent me had no mention of the fee on it. A follow-up call usually results in my being told to just write the fee in. Now why would one design a contract omitting any mention of payment unless one were hoping to trick the unwary into signing automatically and forfeiting payment? Has anyone else encountered this sort of attempt at piratical data mining on the Web? Then there are the companies that want to sell you public-domain texts at low, low prices when they're readily available free on the Web. Professors are viewed by some of these publishers as unintelligent cash cows, ready for milking. -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians From: "Price, Dan" Subject: RE: 14.0022 the ABCs, simple answers, home truths--an Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 05:44:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 35 (35) observation or two Willard, Yes, I think that today's students are still knowledge-hungry, at least that many of them are and some of them really stand out in this regard. And it is all too easy to repeat favorite anecdotes in the opposite direction from experiences with both students and colleagues. (The freshmen who could not tell me what tell what country bordered the United States to our north, for instance.) One caution I have, though, is in the phrase of "the beginner and the expert." Many of us teachers on this ListServ, I think, are working with freshmen and sophomore level courses (though the students in actual age may be adults). Many of the students that we have in our classes are beginners and have not inetnion or reall possiblity of becoing an expert. From your brief description, such was your own experience in the chemistry course. The trick, I think, is to captivate and fascinate those who are one-timers in our courses or our chosen discipline to see some of the possibilities and, after the given course, to keep on asking some questions that we have raised for them in the given introductory course. --dan Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html>http://www.tui.ed u/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0023 reading vs clicking vs life Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 05:49:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 36 (36) ) To: Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:41 PM [deleted quotation] listen [deleted quotation] be? [deleted quotation] for [deleted quotation] are [deleted quotation] which [deleted quotation] non-academic [deleted quotation] more [deleted quotation] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: US/UK Conference: "BRINGING COHERENCE TO NETWORKED Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 37 (37) INFORMATION FOR THE NEW CENTURY" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 19, 2000 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) & Coalition for Networked Information "BRINGING COHERENCE TO NETWORKED INFORMATION FOR THE NEW CENTURY" June 14-16, 2000: Stratford-Upon-Avon, England <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/>http://www.u <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ jisc-cni-2000/ Registration still open! [deleted quotation] JISC and CNI International Conference: BRINGING COHERENCE TO NETWORKED INFORMATION FOR THE NEW CENTURY Stratford upon Avon June 14-16, 2000 We are pleased to announce that the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee and the Coalition for Networked Information are hosting a major international conference at the Moat House Hotel, Stratford upon Avon on June 14-16, 2000. The conference will bring together experts from both the United States and the United Kingdom with keynote addresses from speakers from the National Science Foundation, the British Library, CNI and the JISC. Lynne Brindley, incoming Chief Executive of the British Library, will provide one of the keynotes. Parallel sessions will explore and contrast major developments that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic in fields such as intellectual property rights, digital preservation, middleware, access to digital resources and virtual universities. It should be of interest to all senior management in information services in the education community, and those responsible for delivering digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research. The conference will follow immediately after a NSF/JISC Workshop on the NSF Digital Libraries Initiative, being held at the same venue. The conference will run from Wednesday 14th June until Friday 16th June. An on-line registration form can be found at <<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2000/>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events /jisc-cni-2000/>. There is a link to this site from CNIs homepage at <<http://www.cni.org/>http://www.cni.org/>. The cost is 325 pounds per person for delegates registering before 30th April 2000, and 375 pounds after this date. The cost includes all conference accommodation, meals and materials. Early booking is advised. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Josef Wallmannsberger Subject: Job: Linguistics at Kassel University Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 38 (38) Job: Graduate Assistant (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) in Linguistics, University of Kassel The English Department (Fachbereich 08: Anglistik) at the University of Kassel has a vacancy for a Graduate Assistant (Wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterIn, pay scale BAT-IIa, half time: very roughly DM 1800 a month after tax (for a single person with no dependents, paid 13 times a year)) in Linguistics. The successful candidate will be a recent graduate in Languages, Linguistics or a related field (Media Studies, Cognitive Science, Communications, Computer Science) relevant for graduate studies in the English Language Ph.D. Programme at Kassel University. A background in CMC (computer-mediated communication), electronic corpus linguistics or media studies would be welcome; experience in designing WWW-applications a distinct advantage. There may be extra funding available for a candidate qualified to also function as the department's IT-manager. The contract will be for a period of five years and candidates are expected to have finished graduate school by the end of this period. Closing date for applications will be June 1, 2000. Enquiries and applications to: Prof. Dr. Joseph Wallmannsberger Professor of Linguistics Fachbereich 08 - Anglistik Universitt Kassel Georg-Forster-Strasse 3 D-34127 Kassel GERMANY E-mail: wallmann@hrz.uni-kassel.de Prof. Dr. Joseph Wallmannsberger wallmann@hrz.uni-kassel.de Professor of Linguistics Fachbereich 08 - Anglistik University of Kassel Georg-Forster-Strasse 3 D-34127 Kassel - Germany From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 14.0028 data-mining by textbook publishers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 39 (39) I have had no experience but it is perhaps of interest to note that a new company to start end of july (swotbook.com) is about to start using electronic business for textbook distribution (source: last week's THES, UK) HB [deleted quotation] -------------------------------------------------- Dr Han Baltussen Research Fellow & Assistant Editor to the Ancient Commentators Project Dept. of Philosophy Kings College London Strand London WC2R 2LS tel. (0)20-7848-2528 fax. (0)20-7848-2317 -------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] Any queries on Project matters on those particular days can be directed to Eleni Vambouli (eleni.vambouli@kcl.ac.uk) or Eleni Volonaki (eleni.volonaki@kcl.ac.uk) From: "Jennifer de Beer" Subject: Re: Down with Conferences Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 05:05:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 40 (40) To: Multiple recipients of list Alan, I've been in a similar quandary. I self-funded my attendance of a conference last year and have thought that instead of planning an annual holiday, I should plan (and pay for) an annual-conference- attendance-with-a-holiday-on-the-side . Fortunately I've been able to obtain sponsorship thusfar, but generally am of the opinion that one is 'on your own' in this regard.Yes, generally those in academia are supported here in South Africa, but I am aware of institutions that do not sponsor attendance by certain (what are deemed to be administrative) departments, of conferences outside of SA There are funds available at a national level, but I am not sure what level of access those outside of academia e.g. freelancers would have. What's strking about all of this is how all-too-similar the situation is to scholarly publishing, and of how conference registration is akin to paying page fees. Well well well, it would seem we're being screwed twice over. The antiquated practice of scholarly publishing and conference attending is yet to be brought into the 21stC. Granted, there are (and have been) moves afoot w.r.t. the former, but I doubt many have thought of the latter. Best, Jennifer On 22 May 00 at 2:59, Sue Thomas wrote: [deleted quotation] ======== 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: Willard McCarty Subject: online recitations? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 41 (41) Perhaps it's idiosyncratic of me to think that I do not understand a poem unless I can read it outloud, perform it, well. In any case my practice of sharing the poetry I especially like by performing it, and experience teaching literature to those who have not had much or any experience reading it, leads me to wonder if anyone is exploiting the capabilities of the Web to publish readings -- for instructional or other purposes. What if, I wonder, students could supplement their poetry-reading assignments by a RealAudio, Shockwave or some other performance? Furthermore, I wonder if groups of new poets are making their work known in this way? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 14.0013 electronic publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 42 (42) Willard, et al. Harnad's positions seems well articulated to me. The article in D-Lib mentioned by Jennifer de Beer provides a point of view that is complimentary to his. Richard Kaser writes that we do pay for "free" information and points out that this is not a new idea. It is, in fact, an illusion fostered by some of the very institutions objecting to the assertion that "information wants to be free." Paul Brains's report of data-mining by textbook publishers illustrates both the irresistible allure of free information to for-profit information producers and the point implicit in Kaser's article that publishers simultaneously object to and rely upon the illusion of free information. I'm curious, are there any objections other than those raised by "ah" in the exchange with Harnad to providing free access to scholarly electronic journals? gary From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 12.0366 argumenta ad risum Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 43 (43) To: Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 4:01 PM [deleted quotation] to x, [deleted quotation] From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 14.0033 down with conferences Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:05:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 44 (44) This is oddly out of context; as I said in my original post, I was not speaking about conditions abroad. Too often I've been asked to speak at conferences in the US (or be a panelist, etc.) - and have then been asked to pay conference fees, travel, and accommodation. I am unaffiliated, and simply do not have this kind of money - a position a great many people I know are in. The result is that conferences become a kind of elitist filtering; we have no departments behind us, etc. I should say I am furious about this; it is not enough that we have to think our way - but that we should also pay for the presentation of our thinking. I realize that some conferences are strapped, particularly academic ones, but I strongly believe that FROM THE BEGINNING accommodation has to be made for the poor and/or unaffiliated. Without that, intellectual life in America will continue on its foreclosed managerial and self-congratula- tory path. Alan Sondheim Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0033 down with conferences Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:05:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 45 (45) Do people actually think that it doesn't cost anything to put on a conference, or that the host University will pay all the costs ? Both notions are wrong. If you don't want to pay the fees, don't go. It's pretty simple. I gather some people feel forced to attend conferences -- I have never been in a school that insists on attendance.. From: Donna Reiss Subject: Re: 14.0035 online recitations? Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:07:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 46 (46) You're right, Willard, that experiencing the sound of poetry is important for understanding and appreciating a poem. The Listening Booth at the Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/booth/booth.cfm and the Internet Poetry Archive at the University of North Carolina offer readings, many of them by the poets themselves. I use these sites with my literature classes Tidewater Community College and plan to have students upload their own readings to their webfolios, in particular, online literature classes. Donna - Donna Reiss Associate Professor, English-Humanities Tidewater Community College, 1700 College Crescent, Virginia Beach, VA 23456 phone 757-321-7364 fax 757-427-0327 TCC Email http://onlinelearning.tc.cc.va.us/faculty/tcreisd/ From: Roberta Astroff Subject: Re: 14.0035 online recitations? Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:08:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 47 (47) Our newly reformulated e-text center is now a center for digital music, images and text. I am preparing a demonstration project, a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, which will include not only music related to his poetry but also readings of the poem. I will be using the demonstration project to encourage faculty and grad students to incorporate our center in their teaching of literature and languages, and to encourage them to use sound as well as images in text projects. Roberta J. Astroff, Ph.D. Humanities Librarian Coordinator, Digital Resources Center Arts and Humanities Library Penn State University University Park PA 16802 r4a@psulias.psu.edu (814) 865-0660 From: "Tarvers, Josephine K." Subject: RE: 14.0035 online recitations? Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:09:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 48 (48) Willard, This practice has been going on for some time among Chaucerians (and I believe among a number of Anglo-Saxonists, though I'm no longer on ANGSAXNET and can't keep you up to date). The Chaucer MetaPage at UNC-Chapel Hill (http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer), Jane Zatta's Chaucer Page at Southern Illinois University (http://www.siue.edu/CHAUCER/) and the Chaucer Studio (http://humanities.byu.edu/chaucer/) at Brigham Young, which sells tapes of many medieval poems and also makes generous web bites available. I agree--hearing the music of a poem is one of the best ways students learn to appreciate it! The Penn Writers' House at the University of Pennsylvania does host occasional webcasts of readings--essentially radio broadcasts over the net--and these are archived so that they can be retrieved. I've also found a few "Town Hall" type recordings of writers like Frost reading their poems, but the quality of these varies widely. A few of my students have referred me to online poetry slams where new poets share their work, but it's usually in a chat room type environment--I can't recall experiencing any audio readings. Maybe as some of the newer voice technology becomes more common, we'll see (and hear) more modern readings. In the meantime, if anyone knows of any other sources for audio feeds of poetry, I'd appreciate hearing about them (perhaps off-list: tarversj@winthrop.edu)and would happily compile them on a handy web page if other members of the list would like to consult them. I have a student working on a small grant this summer to develop such resources. Best, Jo T ------------ 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> "Not the least part of finding the answers is asking the right questions."--St. Augustine From: "Brian A. Bremen" Subject: Re: 14.0035 online recitations? Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:11:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 49 (49) [deleted quotation] (I especially like the way in which he incorporates multiple readings into the structure of the hypertext) A friend of mine also pointed out a site called "poems that go"--more along the lines of what Willard was asking about. At: http://www.poemsthatgo.com/poems.htm Looking forward to any comments that anyone has, Brian A. Bremen Brian A. Bremen, editor William Carlos Williams Review Department of English The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1164 bremen@curly.cc.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-7842 Fax: 512-471-4909 From: Paul Oppenheimer Subject: Re: 14.0035 online recitations? Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 09:11:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 50 (50) If so, it is an idiosyncracy I share. I'll keep my ears open for poetry readings on the Web. Paul Oppenheimer On Fri, 26 May 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: John Lavagnino Subject: Humanities computing colloquium at King's College London: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 51 (51) a report On May 13, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London held a colloquium entitled Humanities Computing: Formal Methods, Experimental Practice: an occasion to think about the subject's fundamentals once again, and consider how we might best conceptualize the application of computing to the humanities. The colloquium's speakers included a philosopher of science, a sociologist of science, a literary critic, a theoretician and philologist, and a director of a humanities computing research institute; the plan was to consider analogies with scientific practice, and perspectives from the history, sociology, and philosophy of science. These are areas of study that have been very active intellectually in recent years, and they did turn out to offer many valuable ideas. Current work in a number of scientific fields, notably artificial intelligence and evolutionary psychology, purports to overlap with some aspects of the humanities. But scholars in the humanities generally remain unconvinced that these fields offer much of interest to them. It is still the case that the project of artificial intelligence, that of getting computers to exhibit or understand human behaviour, is an extremely difficult one that has not progressed very far. That was one point that Harry Collins, of the University of Cardiff, made in his paper. He borrowed an analogy from Hubert Dreyfus: to say that AI has progressed a long way is like standing on a chair and saying you've made real progress in getting to the moon. Machines have problems above all in dealing with ambiguity, in understanding what words or images mean in the light of their context; ambiguities that we negotiate without effort in daily life remain difficult or impossible for computers to manage, and these are nothing compared to the problems scholars face. Our task, then, is to develop ways to get computers to do useful work for us in the humanities, ways that don't involve teaching them to speak our language. A common and often successful approach has been to subject our primary sources to formalization. A historian understands that elementary facts such as names and dates may be uncertain or speculative to different degrees, depending on the evidence behind them; one major task for a project like the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire at King's is to create definite and not too misleading versions of such facts that can then be organized and sifted with the computer's aid. Tito Orlandi, of the University of Rome, presented the argument for taking such formalization seriously: for confronting the deep-seated difficulties in moving from the continuous realm of human experience to the digitized world, but also for seeing the process of formalization not just as a practical chore but instead as an opportunity to think through the foundations of our subjects. The proposal met with, and clearly will generally meet with, a very mixed reaction: although there is formalization in every humanities field to some extent, and was even before the days of computing, it is often distant from urgent concerns; what is foundational needs to be consensual, but disagreements matter more than consensus in many circles. Even given the assumption that, in a humanities-computing project, the goal of formalization is to create something that makes certain practical operations possible, and not to capture the fullness of anyone's understanding of the objects under study, there is often discomfort with the process and difficulty in finding any level of agreement. Jerome McGann, of the University of Virginia, proposed a concentration instead on the failures of computing, on the distortions they inevitably introduce into texts and images, as a defamiliarizing technique to heighten our attention---rather on the model of exercises that are common in writing or acting workshops. Such approaches may prove to be the principal application of computing for interpretative work focused on small numbers of images or texts: where the power of computing to marshal large amounts of information is not really required, methods which change the individual interpreter's perceptions become most significant, and the restrictions that formalization entails seem less acceptable. Hasok Chang of University College London spoke on approaches to understanding scientific experiments, and this was highly relevant to reflection on the range of methods being set out, from formalization to distortion. An experiment can be seen as a test or as a tentative effort---or as many other things; and experimentation can become an activity of its own, pursued by a community separate from that of theoretical scientists, though of course related. Experiments may seek to collect data on phenomena in nature, but they also may work to varying extents to make phenomena happen in order to be studied. And alongside the theoretical and experimental communities there is also the community of instrument-makers, who themselves have practices and interests not fully apprehended by others in the same scientific field; this practice of instrument-making may offer the best analogy for what computing humanists do, and certainly a novel one in fields that often barely conceive of themselves as using instruments or equipment of any kind. John Unsworth, of the University of Virginia, took a broader view of the whole activity of the humanities, in an attempt to isolate basic operations that most of us do. More than any of the other papers, his put the focus on collaborative work and not just modelling or analysis. The World Wide Web, for all its many shortcomings, has proven a powerful tool for scholars, and what we ought to do is try to develop further its potential for communication and collaboration. The colloquium's web page, with links to further resources on the subject, will remain available, at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/99-00/seminar_hc.html>. From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0039 report on Colloquium at King's College London Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 52 (52) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sat. May 27, 2000, 7:15AM Dear Colleagues: John Lavagnino's report and summary are very important. I have found that when I translate advanced mathematical and physical concepts into an approximation to ordinary English, I developed new inspirations, new insights, and even new theories on both quantitative and verbal levels. Many others have had similar experiences, and the often neglected field of popular science books written by prominent or not so prominent scientists (and also by non-Mainstream scientists - see for example Isaac Asimov's works and his history of being dropped by his department for spending too much time on non-mainstream work) is an example. I may be accused of having Socrates on the brain, but it seems to me that this is in essence what Socrates was doing in his own fields. The only difficulty that I foresee is a human one: if we really boil things down to their foundations and meanings, we may find that a lot of them are rubbish and that the Mainstream with its Peer Reviewers is largely unsatisfactory. I might as well offer a tentative solution: a Society for Non-Mainstream Theory and Practice. If I may put a slightly humorous note on this, one requirement for a submitting paper might be that it has been submitted to a Mainstream Standard Peer Review journal and rejected, often by Contradictory Peer Reviews to which the Editors may have added: "I am in complete agreement with this rejection." See David Ruelle's Chance and Chaos for an amusing description of something similar that really happens. Yours truly, sincerely, but quite differently Osher From: "Jennifer de Beer" Subject: Re: 14.0037 down with conferences Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 53 (53) [deleted quotation] Yes, it costs to host such an event, and yes, the host institution is not (especially these days) able to foot the bill of speakers. This goes without saying, and hence the initiation of this discussion. As more and more people turn to freelance cf. full-time employment, it is more than likely that sources of sponsorship will be sorely lacking. Also, those institutions which do sponsor their employees' attendance, have evermore limited means with which to do so. Forced attendance: In days gone by, in addition to belonging to a scholarly or some such society, a conference presented the ideal forum at which to interact with one's peers. These days, it is more often the case that such interaction occurs online. Nevertheless, conferences remain, and so they should. What we should be looking at rather are alternative funding mechanisms or means of sponsorship (until such time that ample bandwidth and concomitant developments in technology will enable mass gatherings of a similar sort). Best, Jennifer ======== 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0037 down with conferences Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:05:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 54 (54) Dear Colleague Hinton, You raise some interesting points in your comments to the recent postings on access to academic gatherings (perhaps misleadingly tagged with the subject line "Down with Conferences"). It is wise advice to suggest that folks mind their budgets. I do think, however, it is a bit of a leap in logic to suggest that those that forgo fees and thus forgo attendence at academic gatherings believe that such events are cost free. Take, for instance, the post-production cost of publishing proceedings or making reports or summaries available. At the very least there is the cost of time and energy in planning and implementing such communication exercises. It takes effort to remain mindful of the extra-muros crowd. There are also some odd institutional barriers. It has been reported to me that travel outside the continental United States is considered by some institutions as international and therefore not subsidized out of departmental budgets. Odd, when one thinks that the expense of flying across an ocean may be less than that of crossing a continent. VEry odd, when one considers that certain north-south trips are shorter anc cheaper and yet due to geo-political accident "international" and thus unfundable. Of course, the extra-extra muros people, those that do not hold academic postions yet remain committed scholars, more often than not have access to no travel funds whatsoever. The highly-hearalded great alternative to being there via computer-mediated communication is not so easy to implement. Time zones pose interesting cultural challenges for those attempting to organize online conferences (and cost balancing factors for host institutions). But a little while ago, Geoffrey Rockwell posted a message to Humanist in answer to the perennial question "what is humanities computing?". He concluded that one way of conceiving humanities computing is as a community of scholars. The discipline is the people. Or rather more accurately, the people in dialogue. A conference is a meeting of some of the people. Was a time perhaps it was thought of as a meeting of all the people. At what cost? Some dialogues leave traces; others are ever so ephemeral. Wouldn't you agree Comrade Willard who I suspect of priming the pump of dialogue with that prominently placed preposition "down"? Your Colleague/Comrade, -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0037 down with conferences Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:06:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 55 (55) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sat. May 27, 2000, 7AM Dear Colleagues: While I realize that both sides have good arguments, I am inclined to be more sympathetic to Alan Sonheim's arguments. I am thinking especially of Socrates (but also the Classical Musical Geniuses, the other Ancient Philosophers, non-mainstream Creative Genius physicists like Michael Faraday and Thomas Edison, the non-mainstream developers of Non-Euclidean Geometry, Non-Finite Arithmetic/Algebra/Number Theory (Georg Cantor, etc.), Non-Mainstream Logicians including Mathematical Logicians, and so on. Not being in the mainstream, many of them could not have afforded to attend departmental-supported conferences. How much more would Humanities and Science have developed if they had been able to attend such conferences and thereby gained more recognition and friends? Socrates might even have been have been rescued by non-mainstream public demand instead of been poisoned by mainstream public demand. I will even go a step further and charge that the lack of attention to supporting universal attendance at conferences (not just mainstream people whom departments send out of well stocked funds) is part of a larger complex of ignorance which extends into the whole Peer Review process in which by definition most of the reviewers of non-mainstream papers are themselves in the mainstream with an axe to grind (conscious or sub-conscious or unconscious). If I have opened up Pandora's Box, I can only refer you back to Socrates who had a habit of doing this. Yours truly and sincerely, Osher From: Willard McCarty Subject: alternative to expensive conferences Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:08:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 56 (56) Some truisms. Conferences can be richly rewarding in all sorts of ways as well as draining of meagre resources. There's no substitute for face-to-face, and that often the most important mind- and life-changing events at conferences have more to do with meeting and getting to know people than with listening to their formal presentations. Conferences are very expensive to put on as well as exhausting for the organiser, who as a rule must break even or face dire consequences. Paying for a conference, travel and accommodations oneself hurts. In many fields professional advancement turns on attendance or is significantly aided by that. What to do? Let me put it to you that the better established humanities computing is, the better understood and accepted our medium for communication is, the more we can compensate for the deprivation of intellectual exchange by such entities as Humanist and its kin. What we do here is important for all the academy, though only we may know that :-). Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: viscom@parma.org (Director of Communications, Eparchy of Parma) Subject: Lorem ipsum Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:12:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 57 (57) [This apparently in response to a very old question. --WM] Looks as though this site has the answer to your question. http://www.neosplice.com/~ailanto/lorem.htm Director of communications viscom@parma.org From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0036 applause for argumenta ad risum Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:13:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 58 (58) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sat. May 27, 2000, 7:05AM Dear Colleagues: Jim Marchand's list of fallacies is very useful. I would add "appeal to the mainstream", "appeal to mainstream Peer Reviewers", "appeal to the Chair," among others. Yours truly (as opposed to falsely, of course), Osher From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu Subject: Electronic editions of correspondence? Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:03:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 59 (59) I will repeat an inquiry that I made on the TEI list some days ago: I would be grateful for any information concerning electronic editions of letters or correspondence, particularly large-scale editions dealing with thousands of letters and particularly of projects that are contemplating web-based dissemination. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: _Web e-Books with Multimedia Content_ Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:11:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 60 (60) _Web e-Books with Multimedia Content_ I am greatly interested in identifying _Web_ e-Books that include multimedia content (e.g., audio, video, datasets, etc.) along with the text of the e-Book. I am also particularly interested in any and all _articles, reports, chapters, etc._ that summarize this functionality in WebBooks. I am aware of e-Journals that include a multimedia component and have created a registry of these types of publications at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm [BTW: If you are aware of a multimedia e-journal not listed in _M-Bed(sm)_ please send me its address. Thanks!] As always, any and all responses are appreciated! /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 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: David Kolb on "Hypertext as Subversive?" Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:09:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 61 (61) Greetings Humanist Scholars, It is an exquisite hono(u)r for me to greet you with an excellent quote of SOCRATES, "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think"..and thought -this might interest you --A new hypertext essay, "Hypertext as Subversive?" written by David Kolb has been published in http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk">Culture Machine2 The essay deals with hypertext writing, links and the ideal of the university, in the context of a dispute with Sanford Kwinter about whether a wired world and new media are by their nature oppressive. Congrats and my best wishes to Prof. David Kolb (a Jewel in the Crown). This second edition of "Culture Machine" journal has been drawn from the thoughts from "Nietzsche" by way of "Derrida's deconstruction" philosophy. When Prof. David Kolb, has mentioned the name of "Sanford Kwinter" --then I would like to share the REVIEW of his book, which he has co-edited with Jonathan Crary as, "Incorporations" -in "Modernism/modernity Issue" --can be read at <http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/mod/2.3br_crary.html> And, one more essay about "Sanford Kwinter" in *BODIES INCORPORATED* as, " Theoretical Appropriation for Somatic Invention" can also be read at <http://arts.ucsb.edu/bodiesinc/isea.html> Thank you! Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Re: David Kolb on "Hypertext as Subversive?" Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:10:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 62 (62) Greetings Humanists, On Sun, 28 May 2000, Arun-Kumar Tripathi wrote: [..message deleted for brevity..] [deleted quotation] Machine2 [deleted quotation] Apologies for the glitches :-( [deleted quotation] The correct URL for above is at <http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/modernism-modernity/2.3br_crary.html> Sorry Arun From: Terry Winograd Subject: [Help needed] Questionnaire request regarding "interface Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 63 (63) [--] [deleted quotation] -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to subscribe to this mailing list, send the message body of "subscribe pcd-fyi-list" to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 14.0041 down with conferences Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:01:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 64 (64) The problem with conferences is that it's not a random group of people who are excluded; it's a specific group - i.e. the unaffiliated and/or the poor. This creates a closure in academia - the conferences I've been to have been 90% social/networking, and people who can't make them simply don't get the contacts. The second point is, that we all know that conferences cost; I've done some conference organization myself. But you can plan right from the start to make it easier on people who literally can't afford attending otherwise and who have been asked to present and/or be on a panel. These issues are serious, I think, because already there is too great a distance between academia/humanities and the street - and basically closed conferences make it worse. Alan (sondheim@panix.com) Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 14.0041 down with conferences Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:02:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 65 (65) It's true that the conference that can pay all the expenses of all the participants is rare. But funding for students in particular is something that many more conferences could arrange: there are more people and institutions willing to contribute money for students than for general expenses or other participants, for quite good reasons: it's pretty likely that a student actually needs the money, a small amount of money does actually make a difference, and it also makes more of a difference to get to your first or second conference rather than to your twentieth. Much the same applies for any group of people who face the financial barrier: there's a good argument to be made for a subsidy and there are people willing to be persuaded to offer support. It's best for the conference organizers to line up such funding themselves and announce it when registration opens, though; and the pitfall here is that work on this needs to start very early, because some willing donors are foundations with rather infrequent deadlines. You need to be working on this from the moment you know the conference's date, and not at some convenient time later on when you're less busy. Scholarly organizations should also consider offering their own grants for this purpose, rather than leaving it up to whoever organizes their conference in any particular year, since the amount of money involved can actually be found in the budget even of fairly small organizations: I note that the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing <http://www.allc.org/> has for some years offered bursaries to its annual conference for students and younger scholars. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0041 down with conferences Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:03:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 66 (66) I suppose I should say, by way of disclaimer, that I am now Emeritus, and have no travel money. But I still try to get to at least 2 or 3 meetings per year, though there is nothing whatever now that will "count" for any pay or rank questions.... It costs me over $100 per year, a big chunk from retirement money, and I have had to beg off from several meetings because of this. Nonetheless. THere are several reasons for having meetings, and "conferences" via computer are not substitutes in any way at all. Willard already mentioned one category --face-to-face meetings with colleagues. This has several important aspects: there is the joy of seeing old friends, which gets keener year by year. There is the chance to ask someone "Just what did you mean by that last article?', etc, which is much easier to answer in actual talk than via e-mail. Then there are the chances to mention a friend and/or former student who might be a good fit for a job opening. (On this, I stay away from the big "meat market" meetings, such as MLA, and have stayed away for over 30 years -- it has never made the slightest difference in my career that I can see. I prefer meetings without job appointments.) The book exhibits are very important -- it is much better to walk around and compare offerings, pick up the books and look at them, perhaps read a chapter, buy them at the meeting price (often 30% or more off list), talk to publisher's reps about forthcoming books, even make appointments to talk about possibly publishing ones' own work....often seeing and handling the books is more important than going to hear papers. And then there are the used book dealers who set up at meetings and often are sources for hard-to-get books at reasonable prices. There is the chance to enjoy food and drink with old friends and new friends. And for some, there is the "same time, next year kind of affair which it is often fun to watch from a distance.... None of this can be replaced by computers, no matter how gee-whiz the software might be. There are people who cannot get to meetings. I feel sorry for them but I don't see that as a reason to abolish meetings. From: Willard McCarty Subject: conferences and the intellectual life Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:05:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 67 (67) Perhaps I am romanticising the past, but what I know of it suggests that the professionalisation of the disciplines has not been an entirely good thing. I think it was once far more the case than now, to a significant degree, that individuals who had obtained advanced degrees but not academic jobs would continue to work in the fields in which they had been trained. J. Bloggs, manager in the Acme Tool and Die Works, would write articles on Virgil, and these would be published. Now Mr or Ms Bloggs is highly unlikely to have the opportunity. Has professionalisation resulted in an altogether higher calibre of work? I wonder. It seems to have resulted in exclusion of those who are not within the academy, who don't walk the walk and talk the talk because they simply haven't the time to practice. Be that as it may, it is clear that the academy cannot employ all those whom it trains to the academic way of life. At one university I know well it was said in open meeting that the English department produced more PhDs in one year than the entire country in which this university is located could employ in 10. The crude economics of higher education in this case meant that the department would be severely penalised for doing the right thing, but never mind. Suppose, unrealistically, that this university and others like it actually told the incoming students what their employment prospects would be. Still, high-minded students would want to go ahead, undergo the rigours and obtain the advanced degree. So, the question is, how do we provide for an intellectual life to proceed outside the narrow confines of the academy? I ask that question, then pause. Isn't the asking of it a rather damaging admission? Doesn't that question signal an end to the World as We Know It? "Hmmm, the ground is rather sticky here, and black. I cannot seem to move my feet...." Allow me to recommend very highly Jim O'Donnell's book, The Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Harvard, 1998), which effectively and eloquently locates the concerns of Humanist in our broad intellectual tradition and reflects on the changes which asking the question I just asked clearly points to. "We are immensely fortunate", O'Donnell says, "that academics have been in the front line of computing and networks. This gives us now an advantage -- technical, intellectual, and even just financial -- that we would be fools to squander." (p. 148). Are we fools? Can we make the world-wide electronic seminar anything like what it could be? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 68 (68) [deleted quotation] A large European project is "La communication manuscrite en Europe", with partners in France, Germany and the Netherlands. A colleague at Leiden university library has been involved, and I have been asked to join too. -- 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: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:06:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 69 (69) BETWEEN DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY Motivational speakers like to talk about how the Chinese word for "crisis" is made up of the ideograms for "danger" and "opportunity." If a crisis is indeed a turning point, as my dictionary reminds me, then electronic publishing is a crisis, challenging us to rethink what we do and how we do it, turning in new directions. Here is the June 2000 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, turning in some new ideas, for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep In this issue our JEP authors see only opportunity in the dangers that may beset us. Lessons for Sustaining Ecological Science and Policy Through the Internet http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/holling.html C.S. (Buzz) Holling, editor of Conservation Ecology, explores how financial crisis helped the journal find a new opportunity. An Analysis of Washingtonpost.com's Live Online http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/young.html Jeffrey R. Young shows us what happens to the relationship between authors and readers when they join in online chats. Digital Workflow: Managing the Process Electronically http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/sheridan.html Linda Beebe and Barbara Meyers write about how technology can give publishers more control over the publishing process. A Proposal for the Establishment of Review Boards http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/edmonds.html Bruce Edmonds argues that open peer review and free publication can solve some of the problems with today's peer-review processes. Fair Use and Distance Learning in the Digital Age http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/smith.html Millison Smith urges the passage of two bills currently before the U.S. Congress to open opportunities to telecommuting students. Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life-Cycle Approach http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/hodge.html Gail M. Hodge says that if we make digital archiving a part of the publishing process from the beginning, we will solve problems before they occur. The X(HTML) Files http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/lieb0504.html Columnist Thom Lieb details the opportunities that XHTML offers to publishers seeking a migratory path from danger (HTML) to opportunity (XML). If you have some thoughts about danger, opportunity, and crisis, 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: Willard McCarty Subject: new CIT InfoBits Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:06:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 70 (70) The latest issue of CIT INFOBITS, for May 2000 (No. 23), is available online at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). Its table of contents is as follows: Distance Education Policy Primer Author Foresees No Utopian Digital Age The Social Life of Information Information for Beginning Grant Seekers Oxford University Press Reading Room Resources on Electronic Publishing New Textbook Guide on the Web Recommended Reading WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Anthropological Index Online Update - May 2000 Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:07:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 71 (71) What's happening at the AIO? The Recent file has just been updated with 4672 newly added references. These include the penultimate files covering the period 1994-1995 - a backlog that the online service inherited and that, thanks to heroic work by the staff, has now almost been removed (and will be completed by the end of June 2000). This has been undertaken in addition to keeping pace with current publications. Other News Work has now started on the Retrospective Conversion for the years 1963-1985. This is being undertaken with the generous support of the Getty Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the Pilgrim Trust. As a consequence of this some work will be done on the exisiting data - a language field will be added to make it easier to find, for example, works only in Spanish. After a pause we are resuming work on an automatic notification service whereby registered users can receive the results of stored searches when the data files are updated. The online documentation files will be revised and expanded in the course of this. 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: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Society for Non-Mainstream Theory and Practice Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 72 (72) A couple of mild differences with Osher Doctorow: [deleted quotation] I was under the impression that it was more a matter of mutual agreement than being "dropped:" IA didn't really want to bother with being an academic in a medical school any longer - it took too much time away from his writing - and the university felt it would be better for them to spend his salary on an everyday teacher. I believe that he was still listed on the University's faculty as late as the 1980s, long after he had given up any pretense of teaching. [deleted quotation] Though I think that the metaphor below is a useful way of understanding Socrates' methodology, I'd want to resist any comparison between Socrates' activities and popularization: Socrates was anything but a popularizer. In our culture, there is a polarity between specialization and popularization; for fifth-century Athens, no such polarity existed, and so the breadth of Socrates' inquiry (in contrast to the rhetoricians and scientists among the sophists) doesn't imply popularization. Popularization also implies a kind of evangelism: one is trying to "sell" one's field, and if Plato's account is to be believed on this point, Socrates was not an evangelist, but more of an intellectual oligarch (while most of his students and hangers-on were political oligarchs - Xenophon Spartacized, Plato tried to make Dionysius a philosopher-king, and as for Alcibiades and Critias . . .) It is peculiar to think that in democratic Athens the "popularizers" tended to be those who claimed to be specialists able to teach a specific *techne*, but ultimately I think that those most comparable to the "mainstream" *would* be the Sophists, and that *they* were the ones who made the most open gestures toward popularity. The fact that the mainstream is in the ivory tower (now there's an ugly mixed metaphor for you!) may be a peculiarity of our own culture, in which the university is virtually the sole patron of intellectual inquiry. [deleted quotation] The difficulty, of course, will be in making sure that it doesn't become the mainstream. Thanks. Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0048 non-mainstream Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:43:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 73 (73) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Thurs., June 1, 2000, 6:54AM Dear Colleagues: Patrick Rourke is correct concerning the "mutual agreement" between Isaac Asimov and his university to discontinue their relationship. I was aware of this, but I think that it merits intensive analysis. A person of Asimov's genius does not come along every day, to understate my case. If Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study can retain "non-producers" on their list as a matter of course, with mutual consent, then we are reminded perhaps of what we all know, namely, that it benefits both the faculty member and the university to retain a genius on the staff both for his/her contributions to knowledge and for the financial benefits to the faculty member. It is also common to refer to "mutual consent" in divorce proceedings, especially in the USA, and these are far from friendly dissolutions usually. Concerning whether Socrates was a populizer or "intellectual oligarch" as Plato and Patrick Rourke (with qualifications) claim, I am aware that Socrates should be classified as one able to teach a specific technique (the essence of logic-science, in fact) rather than an evangelist in the religious sense. However, the picture is similar to that of Jesus Christ in many ways (if I may venture outside the mainstream of philosophy). Jesus was certainly teaching a specific technique (faith and "higher love" and morality/ethics), but how many of us teach our specific techniques without the inner hope that it will "catch on" or appeal to the public, so to speak? I merely claim that Socrates was a non-mainstreamer but also a "man for all seasons," with universal appeal across the ages for those with more creative and dicriminating abilities. I have Socrates on the Brain in the sense of supporting the Non-Mainstream. Yours truly and non-mainstreamably, Osher ----- From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0048 non-mainstream Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:43:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 74 (74) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, June 1, 2000, 9:08AM Dear Colleagues: In reply to Patrick Rourke's interesting observation that the difficulty will be in making sure that a non-mainstream journal does not become a mainstream one, I am inclined to agree with Willard McCarty (at least, as I interpret his recent comments) that the Humanist Discussion Group (perhaps eventually the Humanist-Scientist Discussion Group?) itself may be the answer. I think that this discussion group is an ideal substitute for mainstream journals, or perhaps more accurately an ideal supplement to mainstream journals. Perhaps the difficulty in the USA is convincing the mainstream "powers that be" of this fact - a problem that extends across academia to government and industry (in the latter two, mainstream engineers for example have an incredibly strong influence). Yours, Osher From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: EduPage on computer games Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 75 (75) Willard, I thought you might be interested in the following paragraph from the American Edupage clipping service (produced by Educause, our educational computing org). It points out a big problem with computers in re: kids, something I have noticed with my own boys. They sometimes do have one or two friends watching what somebody is doing with a computer game, but the facilities for group activities on standard PC games are weak (at least in practice). COMPUTERS NOT MADE FOR KIDS A Baltimore-based study has found that computers are not child-friendly. The study, by Context-Based Research Group, points out that young children do not have the typing skills to make using computers an enjoyable experience and keyboards just for children are not yet mainstream products. The study also says computers are asocial by design, and the only time family members are likely to gather around a computer is when something is wrong with it. Moreover, computers are unlike video games, which tend to offer more than one control pad. The lack of reliable information on the Internet also was cited as a barrier to children, who do not always have the ability to discern what is and is not true. Titled GenWired, the study is being expanded into a one-year project that will include purchasing decisions, product design, and the digital divide. (Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2000) Bill ***** Bill Kretzschmar Professor of English and Linguistics Dept. of English Phone: 706-542-2246 University of Georgia Fax: 706-583-0027 Athens, GA 30602-6205 Atlas Web Site: us.english.uga.edu From: Eric Johnson Subject: Faculty Position in Computer Graphics Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 76 (76) Dakota State University Computer Graphics Faculty Position Dakota State University invites applications for a faculty position, beginning Fall, 2000, in 2-D and 3-D Computer Graphics. Duties include teaching two-dimensional graphics (both draw and paint programs), three-dimensional graphics, and animation, as well as a few additional courses such as visual design. Education and experience: Ph.D. or M.F.A. preferred; M.A. or M.S. required. University teaching experience desirable. Tenure-track position may be offered to a suitable candidate with Ph.D. or M.F.A. DSU offers a baccalaureate major in Multimedia/Web Development and a minor in Computer Graphics. DSU is a rapidly-growing state-supported university located 55 miles northwest of Sioux Falls. Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Rank and salary based on qualifications. Send letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts, and current phone numbers of at least three references to Eric Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799; FAX: (605) 256-5021; e-mail: Eric.Johnson@dsu.edu Disabled applicants are invited to identify any necessary accommodations required in the application process. EOE From: "Nigel Williamson" Subject: Call for Registration for DRH2000 Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 22:07:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 77 (77) This Message is a Call for Registration for DRH2000 We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for delegates to DRH2000: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES, University of Sheffield, 10-13 September 2000 The on-line registration form can be found at: <http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/register.htm>http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/ register.htm 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 in Stephenson Hall. Themes include: the creation of digital resources; their delivery, use and integration; the impact of digital resources on humanities research and education. Cost: Full Registration 170 (includes conference dinner) Local Registration 110 for University of Sheffield Staff only Student Registration 60 (includes conference dinner) Day Delegate 60 (not including conference dinner) Accommodation: Accommodation is provided at Stephenson Hall at the following rates: En-Suite 33.40 Standard 27.74 Details of local hotels are available on request. Full details about the conference, provisional timetable etc. may be found at: <http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/>http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/ Please address any queries to drh2000@sheffield.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'2000 Workshop Call for Papers Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 22:09:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 78 (78) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS The second Chinese Language Processing Workshop Sponsored by SIGLEX, SIGDAT and SIGPARSE. October 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology In conjunction with ACL-2000 Growing interest in Chinese Language Processing is leading to the development of resources such as annotated corpora and automatic segmenters, part-of-speech taggers and parsers. The first Asia ACL provides an ideal opportunity to bring together influential researchers from Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Beijing, as well as Chinese language researchers in the rest of the world, to discuss issues that are specific to the processing of Chinese. A critical tool for developing Chinese language processing tools is the availability of annotated corpora. The greater the consensus we have around guidelines for corpus annotation of part-of-speech tags, syntactic bracketing and other areas, the more useful this corpora will be. We welcome submissions that address the following topics on Chinese language processing: . word segmentation . POS tagging . phrase identification . parsing . grammar development . lexicon acquisition . corpus development We invite workshop participants to take advantage of two bracketed corpora: . The first one, Chinese Penn Treebank, was developed at University of Pennsylvania, USA. It includes 100-thousand words from Xinhua News. The corpus will be released via LDC at UPenn in one or two weeks. For more information and announcement of the release, please check the website "http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ctb/" after June 4th, 2000. . The second one, developed by CKIP, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, contains more than 30,000 sentences. A trial version of 1,000 sentences is now available for download by the public at http://godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/trees1000.htm The release of the complete treebank is being reviewed by Academia Sinica. Preliminary arrangements have been made for the treebank to be licensed through ROCLING. Please check their website (http://rocling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING) for announcement. The workshop will be held either on Oct 1 or Oct 2. For latest update of the workshop (including the instruction for paper registration) and the release of the Chinese Penn Treebank, please check "http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ctb/". If you have any questions concerning the workshop or the Treebank, please email us at chinese@linc.cis.upenn.edu. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Association for Southeast European Anthropology Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 22:14:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 79 (79) [deleted quotation] ------------------------- To all future members and friends of the Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) ---------------------=09 Invitation and Call for Papers Dear colleagues, On December 10 - 12, 1999, an initiative group consisting of Milena Benovska, Glenn Bowman, Christian Giordano, Deema Kaneff, Karl Kaser, Vintila Mihailescu, Karin Norman, and Klaus Roth convened in Bucharest and founded the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA). It succeeds the Association for Balkan Anthropology (ABA). The founding committee kindly invites you to participate in the first general assembly and conference of InASEA in Sofia and to present a paper. The broad topic of the conference is The Anthropology of Southeast Europe - Ten Years After. Socio-Cultural Aspects of Transformation The conference will be held on Sept. 14-17, 2000, at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. The organs of the association will be elected at the general assembly of members. The language of the general assembly of members will be English, while the languages of the conference are English, French, and German. The conference shall focus (1) on the cultural changes themselves and (2) on the disciplines studying them. It will therefore discuss the following general topics: - the study of the socio-cultural consequences of the transformation processes in SEE, particularly the transformation of (socialist) everyday culture, - phenomena of contemporary (post-socialist) everyday culture and popular culture, etc. - the change of paradigm in the study of ethnicity and ethnic groups, as well as - the status and the role of the cultural sciences (ethnology, cultural and social anthropology, folklore, ethnography, historical anthropology) in Southeast Europe, - the process of transformation (in subject matter, methods, theories, approaches) which these disciplines are undergoing in research and teaching in order to overcome the legacy of the past and to develop into a modern ethnology and/or social anthropology. The S=FCdosteuropa-Gesellschaft has granted financial support; further applications for funds are pending. Accommodation and travel expenses (train, bus) of participants from AL, BiH, BG, HR, MK, RO and YU can probably be paid for.=20 Please submit as soon as possible your=20 - application for membership,=20 - conference registration,=20 - and the title of your paper=20 to Prof. Klaus Roth Institut f=FCr dt. und vgl. Volkskunde Ludwigstr. 25, D-80539 M=FCnchen Tel. 004989-162809 e-mail: k.roth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de or to Milena Benovska, PhD,=20 Ethnographic Institute,=20 Moskovska 6a, BG-1000 Sofia. Email: milena@tusk.icn.bg The deadline for submissions of papers is May 15, 2000. The members of the founding committee are looking forward to your response and to meeting you in Sofia. With kind regards, Albert Doja (on behalf of the founding committe) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FoLLI Dissertation award Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 80 (80) [deleted quotation] 2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award Call for Nominations The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation. FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more award recipients. It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients. Eligibility Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. Submission Details 1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.) The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. 2. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. 3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length 4. A hard copy of the dissertation All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors are advised to have their Ph.D.thesis available on the Web, if possible. Submissions Deadline All materials have to be received by June 10, 2000. Prize Committee Anne Abeille Natasha Alechina Patrick Blackburn Nissim Francez Paul Gochet (chair) Valentin Goranko Markus Kracht Larry Moss Francesco Orilia Manfred Pinkal Christian Retore Rob van der Sandt Further Details Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further details. From: Richard Giordano Subject: First use of the word "software" Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 81 (81) One of my former advisors at Columbia sent me this message: The short version of the story is this. The question arose as to who coined the word "software." Just two weeks ago, a piece was published in Science attributing the term to John Tukey, the Princeton statistician who you may have run into in your P'ton days. John is enormously smart and altogether capable of having the idea but the date attached -- 1958 -- intuitively seems much too late to me. The attribution is based on a search of a huge journal archive, JSTOR, which Mellon has funded. It is surely true that Tukey is the first to have used the term in a journal stored in JSTOR but that seems to me to be a not very good source for tracking priority of coinage, especially in an area where academic publication would not have had very high value. I should know the answer as my dissertation research touches on the subject. I had thought the term was first used by Grace Hopper in 1954 (from her early work on compilers). Upon reflection, I came to this because Hopper told me so in an interview with her, and others I had interviewed supported this. Of course, the others may have got their information from Hopper herself... Anyone have any ideas? /rich From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 82 (82) [deleted quotation] Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit 10th - 14th July 2000 Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/summer/ Booking deadline: 9th June 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. Some seminars are already fully booked, though spaces are still available on the following: 10th July Introduction to humanities computing 11th July Introduction to the Internet 11th July (Repeated 13th July) Creating and documenting digital texts 12th July Digital libraries 12th July (repeated 14th July) Making multimedia Web sites 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 60 GBP (45 GBP for members of Oxford University). You can book for any combination of individual seminars. 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 From: Einat Amitay Subject: Re: 14.0055 first use of "software"? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:22:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 83 (83) I tried to go the conventional way and look things up on the web. This is what I found: [deleted quotation] This is what I found about coining terms and John Tukey. This is the only term that I found to be associated with him (citing from http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/CodeBibliography.html): "...The word "bit" apparently first appeared in print in the Claude E. Shannon paper "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" originally published in the July and October, 1948, issues of Bell System Technical Journal and published in a book of that same name cited in Chapter 18. Shannon credits John Tukey with inventing the word. A discussion of the etymology of the word "bit" can be found in: "Origin of the Term Bit," Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 6, Number 2, April 1984, pages 152-155. Not everyone agrees that "bit" is a wonderful abbreviation for "binary digit." On page 146 of: Hogben, Lancelot. The Vocabulary of Science. New York, NY: Stein and Day, 1970. we read "The introduction by Tukey of bits for binary digits has nothing but irresponsible vulgarity to commend it." ...." [deleted quotation] use of this term can be traced back to Shakespeare's time): http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm In all the history and chronology sites the first mentioning of the term "software" begins around 1960. I don't know if this means anything - but this is all I found. Anyway - it's always nice to look for answers on the web... +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat From: Stephen Miller Subject: Re: 14.0055 first use of "software"? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:23:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 84 (84) [deleted quotation] OED gives the first attribution as 1960 from the CACM but it is evident from the quote that the term is in widespread use in comuter circles. Stephen Miller --------------------------------------------------------- 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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Re: 14.0055 first use of "software"? Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:24:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 85 (85) Greetings Dr. Richard Giordano and humanist scholars, An interesting story :) Actually, John W. Tukey is a pioneer in Exploratory Data Analysis. He received his PhD in 1939 for a dissertation on "Denumerability in Topology" which was later published in 1940 as "Convergence and Uniformity in Topology". And, after this accomplishment, in 1965 he with J.W. Cooley published a paper in "Mathematics of Computation", in which he introduced the important fast FOURIER transfer algorithm. His works on the Philosophy of Statistics is much known. And, on the contrary, Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, was a remarkable woman who has taken the challenges of programming the first computers. She was the leader in the field of "Software Development". So, IMHO, the questions regarding coinage of the word, "Software" goes to Lady Grace Hopper..[for more details, please see the below Refs.] References:- ------------ Grace Murray Hopper [complete story with her Programming the First Computers <http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html> John Wilder Tukey [complete history] <http://www-groups.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Tukey.html> Math Makes Points: John W. Tukey <http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mam/00/612/people/tukey/> Thanks once again to Dr. Richard Giordano for raising an interesting scientific queries..I would like to hear from other scholars! Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: RE: 14.0057 first use of "software" Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 86 (86) [mailto:willard@lists.village.virginia.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 4:26 PM To: Humanist Discussion Group [deleted quotation] use of this term can be traced back to Shakespeare's time): http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm From: Michael Fraser Subject: Evaluating and Cataloguing Online Resources in the Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:31:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 87 (87) Humanities Finding, Evaluating, Cataloguing Online Humanities Resources (aka 'Never mind the browsers - here's the Internet') 11 July 2000, Oxford University Computing Services As part of the Humanities Computing Unit's summer seminars the Humbul Humanities Hub, together with the Centre for Humanities Computing, will be devoting a full-day workshop to resource discovery on the Internet. Half of the day will concentrate on the evaluation and cataloguing of humanities online resources, consistent with the practices of the Humbul Humanities Hub. The workshop will introduce participants to effective searching of the Web; the citation of online resources; the evaluation of web resources; an introduction to Dublin Core metadata; and the cataloguing of Web resources within the Humbul Humanities Hub. The cost for this one day workshop is 60 pounds (45 pounds for members of Oxford University). The deadline for booking this workshop is 21 June 2000. Please see http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/summer/seminars.html for further information and an online booking form. Please email Jenny.Newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk with any queries about registration or mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk with any queries about content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: CyberForum Subject: "The Avatar & the Global Brain" begins Wed. on June 14, Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:32:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 88 (88) [--] CyberForum@ArtCenter Wednesday, June 14, 1:30 pm PDT Bruce Damer addresses Summer Forum in 3-D avatar world Email: cyberforum@artcenter.edu Web: <http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.htm> CyberForum presents real-time online author chats. On Wednesday, June 14th at 1:30 PM (PDT), the CyberForum begins its Summer 2000 series "The Avatar and the Global Brain." Bruce Damer addresses the Forum about the role of avatars and discusses with Michael Heim the basic topics of the Summer series. The public is invited to grab an avatar and participate in the ongoing discussion. (See How-To below.) The Summer CyberForum examines interpretations of the Internet. How do we best understand cyberspace? As a cognitive information system or as a communicative event? Or perhaps as a spirit fantasy? Is cyberspace a cognitive engine evolving a planetary brain? If so, where do avatars fit? Or do they fit at all? The Summer Forum brings together Systems Theorists from Brussels (Principia Cybernetica), a Malaysian aesthetician, authors of the "Cluetrain Manifesto," and a host of gregarious avatars from India, Sweden, the United States, and all parts of the planet. Bruce Damer is President and CEO of DigitalSpace Corporation, Director of the Contact Consortium, and author of "Avatars" (Peachpit Press, 1998) and "Virtual Worlds" (Perseus Press, 1998). Bruce co-directs a 35-institution research and development consortium that brings virtual worlds to the Net. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington HIT Lab and a Silicon Graphics Vanguard of Visual Computing. Past CyberForum speakers included: Carol Gigliotti, Katherine Hayles, Michael Heim, Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, and William J. Mitchell. Email questions to cyberforum@artcenter.edu Visit the website <http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html> for further information and speaker bios. How 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: Michael Fraser Subject: Humbul Systems Developer Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 89 (89) [Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested.] Oxford University Computing Services: Humanities Computing Unit Humbul Humanities Hub Systems Developer Academic-related Research Staff Grade IA: Salary 16,286 - 24,479 (under review) The Humanities Computing Unit brings together prestigious local, national and international projects which include the Humbul Humanities Hub, the Oxford Text Archive, and the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project. Information about the HCU is available at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/. The Humanities Computing Unit receives funding from the JISC to develop the Humbul Humanities Hub for the Resource Discovery Network. The Hub provides Web access to quality Internet resources for teaching and research in the humanities. 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 Perl programming and advanced HTML. 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 two year contract in the first instance. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Michael Fraser, Head of Humbul (Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk; Tel: 01865 283343). To apply, please request an application form and further particulars from from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (Tel: 01865 273230; email: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). The further particulars are also available via http://www.humbul.ac.uk/recruit.html. Completed applications must be received by 4.00 p.m. on 22 June 2000. Interviews will be held at the beginning of July. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [New Book] From Gutenberg to the Global Information Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:33:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 90 (90) Infrastructure Dear Humanist Scholars, The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest. For more information please visit at: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/BORFHS00> BOOK:- [deleted quotation] Access to Information in the Networked World written by Prof. Christine L. Borgman **SHORT ABSTRACT & DETAILS ABOUT THE BOOK** Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the trade-offs between tailoring information systems to user communities and standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other communities, cultures, and languages? This book takes a close look at these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the GII. Topics covered include the design and use of digital libraries; behavioral and institutional aspects of electronic publishing; the evolving role of libraries; the life cycle of creating, using, and seeking information; and the adoption and adaptation of information technologies. The book takes a human-centered perspective, focusing on how well the GII fits into the daily lives of the people it is supposed to benefit. Taking a unique holistic approach to information access, the book draws on research and practice in computer science, communications, library and information science, information policy, business, economics, law, political science, sociology, history, education, and archival and museum studies. It explores both domestic and international issues. The author's own empirical research is complemented by extensive literature reviews and analyses. Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, England. 6 x 9, 340 pp., cloth ISBN 0-262-02473-X Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing series Please contact Jud Wolfskill, the Associate Publicist, MIT Press at for more details about the above book and other MIT publications. Thank you! Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Fytton Rowland Subject: Scholarly Publishing Principles (fwd) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:34:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 91 (91) This looks interesting. Fytton. [deleted quotation] --- [deleted quotation]********************************************************** Fytton Rowland, M.A., Ph.D., F.I.Inf.Sc., Lecturer, Deputy Director of Undergraduate Programmes and Programme Tutor for Publishing with English, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK. Phone +44 (0) 1509 223039 Fax +44 (0) 1509 223053 E-mail: J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk http://info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/frowland.html ********************************************************** From: "David L. Green" Subject: June D-Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/ Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 92 (92) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 19, 2000 June 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06contents.html CONTENTS INCLUDE: MAIN STORIES: * "Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content: Establishing a Virtual Control Zone," by Sandra Payette and Carl Lagoze, Cornell University * "Lessons Learned: Digitization of Special Collections at The University of Iowa Libraries," by Carol Ann Hughes, Questia Media, Inc. (Formerly, University of Iowa) * "Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web: The Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS)," by Diane Nester Kresh, Library of Congress BOOK REVIEW: * Usable Information Designs: A review of two recent books: -- "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity," by Jakob Nielson, New Riders Publishing: 2000; and -- "Information Design", edited by Robert Jacobson, MIT Press, 1999. By Jeremy Hylton: "...both books suggest that the measure of a design's quality should be its effect on user behavior and satisfaction and that the only way to achieve that quality is to do real tests with real people during the design process." IN-BRIEF ITEMS include: "Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital" Norbert Lossau, State- und University Library Goettingen "Cooperation between the British Library and UK Universities" Alicia Wise, Old Library, Kings College London "New Open Access Resources from Bartleby.com" Megan Schade, Bartleby.com ============================================= [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [Ongoing TechNetCast] Will Spiritual Robots Replace Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 93 (93) Humanity by 2100? Greetings scholars, Hi, --this might interest to Humanist readers --the information regarding "Spiritual Robots webcast" received via "DDJ Mailing Lists" --thought might interest you --Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? at <http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=82> --Also featured on Dr. Dobb's Technetcast, an expert panel assembled by Doug Hofstadter explores the issue of computers someday displaying emotions and intelligence that we usually only associate with humans. Two distinguished computer scientists, Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec, have each written books exploring the issue, and their presentations are provided as part of this discussion. Please visit the site at <http://technetcast.ddj.com> and CLICK for *spiritual robots*. The discussion is organised and moderated by Prof. Doug Hofstadter --who wrote "Goedel, Escher, Bach". There, you'll hear the presentation from others, including Ray Kurzweil, Bill Joy, Hans Moravec, John Holland (genetic algorithms and AI pioneer), Kevin Kelly. More to come, from Frank Drake, Ralph Merkle, John Koza and then Panel discussions will take place. The next TechNetCast will begin from June 20, follow by June 22, June 27 and June 29, 2000. The program is brought in partnership with the Stanford Channel Video tapes available for sale at the Stanford Channel site (Bringing the Quad to the Community) at <http://tsc.stanford.edu/> On the site at <http://www.stanford.edu/dept/symbol/Hofstadter-event.html> you can also read short details of the past symposium. Thank you! Sincerely Arun Tripathi -- From: Eric Johnson Subject: Multimedia / Web programs Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:27:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 94 (94) HUMANIST members might be interested to know that Dakota State University has received approval of a major in Multimedia / Web Development and a minor in Multimedia / Web Design. Information is on the web: http://www.dsu.edu/departments/liberal/multiweb.html We are anticipating excellent enrollments. -- Eric --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New UK Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries: Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:29:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 95 (95) re:source. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 19, 2000 The UK Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries: re:source <<http://www.resource.gov.uk/>http://www.resource. <<http://www.resource.gov.uk/>http://www.resource.gov.uk/> [deleted quotation] Source: D-Lib Magazine, June 2000 <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/06clips.html#RESOURCE>http://www.dlib.org/d lib/june00/06clips.html#RESOURCE ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: TWO REPORTS: Authenticity; Emulation Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:32:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 96 (96) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community "Authenticity in a Digital Environment" Council on Library & Information Resources <http://www.clir.org>http://www.clir.org http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/pub92.pdf "An Experiment in Using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications" by Jeff Rothenberg The Networked European Deposit Library (NEDLIB) <http://www.kb.nl/nedlib/results/emulationpreservationreport.pdf> <http://www.kb.nl/nedlib/results/emulationpreservationreport.pdf>http://www. kb.nl/nedlib/results/emulationpreservationreport.pdf Below are two (delayed) announcements of recent reports of interest. One on the slippery question of what an "authentic" digital object is; the other, on an experiment to show the feasibility of using emulation as a means of preserving digital publications in accessible, authentic, and usable form within a deposit library. David Green [deleted quotation] techniques. [deleted quotation] ............................................................................. ................. [deleted quotation] ............................................................................. ................. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CLIR/DLF "Distinguished Fellows" Program Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 97 (97) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Announce Distinguished Fellows Program <http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/fellows.html>http://www.clir <http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/fellows.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/ fellows.html The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) recently announced a particularly interesting new fellowship program that should identify potential partners to work with CLIR & DLF in implementing their agendas. The call is to librarians, archivists, information technologists, and scholars for them to "pursue their professional development and research interests". It is aimed at "senior professionals with a well-developed personal research agenda who will benefit significantly from time away from their day-to-day responsibilities." David Green [deleted quotation] # # # ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. 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High praise, for which we can justly feel proud -- for a few seconds, then go back to work earning the reputation! --WM [deleted quotation] series of [deleted quotation] Dale [deleted quotation] Russell [deleted quotation] orthographic [deleted quotation] Ideally, we [deleted quotation] Walt Meyers, [deleted quotation] someone who [deleted quotation] manuscript, Carol [deleted quotation] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS: Cultural Attitudes Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:30:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 99 (99) towards Technology/CIDOC/Digital Futures/School for NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 19, 2000 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS ............................................................................. .... 1. Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology & Communication, July 12-15: Perth. 2. CIDOC/ICOM:"Collaboration:Content:Convergence: Sharing heritage knowledge for the new millennium," August 22-26, 2000: Ottawa. 3. Digital Futures 2000: The Royal Photographic Society Imaging Science Group Annual Conference, September 11-13, 2000: Harrow, UK. 4. School for Scanning Workshop: "Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections," September 18-20: Seattle. Remember to check the NINCH Community Calendar for further listings: <http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html>http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/c alendar.html ............................................................................. ..... CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village July 12-15 2000: Murdoch University, Perth, Australia <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00/index.html>http://ww <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00/index.html>http://www.drury.edu/fa culty/ess/catac00/index.html [deleted quotation] * * * * CIDOC/ICOM "Collaboration:Content:Convergence: Sharing heritage knowledge for the new millennium" August 22-26, 2000: Ottawa, Canada <http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/index.html>http://w <http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/index.html>http://www.chin.gc ..ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/index.html This year's meeting of the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums will be held from August 22 to 26 in Ottawa, the picturesque capital of Canada. Hosted by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), the conference will include a full spectrum of workshops, meetings, study tours, stimulating presentations and lively social events. Our theme this year is "Collaboration - Content - Convergence: Sharing heritage knowledge for the new millennium". Underlying the theme is the relationship between the vast reservoir of heritage knowledge held within our institutions and our heritage audiences, both specialized and general, whose needs we are trying to meet. Our goal will be to explore how documentation is influencing and being influenced by the rapid growth of new technologies and the corresponding development of audience expectations. We will attempt to understand the challenges that face us, and to define a future direction for the sharing of heritage knowledge based on collaboration, the creation of content, and the convergence of disciplines. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: * Ann E. Borda, United Kingdom "Connecting Britain's Computing Heritage: The National Computing Collections Listing Project." * Rosa Botterill and Christine Brown, United Kingdom "The European Museum's Information Institute (EMII): What's in a Survey?" * Martin Brooks, Canada "Broadband, Peer Learning, and Telementoring" * Joseph Busch, United States "Helping people find content...preparing content to be found: Enabling the semantic Web" * Claude Camirand, Canada "Convergence of Activities or Convergence of Thought?" * Erin Branwen Coffin, Canada "CREATION: The Virtual Art Gallery" * Tom Delsey, Canada "Re-situating the library catalogue in a networked context" * Martin Doerr, Greece "Metadata and the CIDOC CRM - a Solution for Semantic Interoperability" * Eleanor E. Fink, United States "Does Culture Count?" * Katy Gillette, Australia "Allied and Alliancing: Getting to a National Museum of Australia" * Junko Iwabuchi, Japan "Current developments and experiments on various tools of imaging in Japan: How is the audience's reaction so far?" * Suzanne Keene, United Kingdom "Museum collections: the future space" * Tracy London, Canada "The "Virtuous Museum" : an Exploration of Technology and Cultural Rights" * David L. McCallum, Canada "LESS SEARCHING = MORE LEARNING: SchoolNet's Learning Metadata Project" * Nancy Morgan, United States "Using GEM Metadata to Access Internet Education Resources" * Virgil Stephan Nitulescu, Romania "Cultural Heritage Legislation: an Attempt to Reconstruct Communication" * Lev Noll, Russia "Internet and Museums: Skilled Staff is Essential!" * Ogunsola Kayode Oluremi, Nigeria "New Museums Roles and the Artist in Nigeria" * Eric Paquet, Canada "Virtual access and access through the content of heritage collections" * Barbara Rottenberg, Canada "After the Gold Rush" * Jane Sledge, United States "Visions of the Future " * Francoise Simard, Canada "Computerization and network distribution of text and image information on Qubec museum collections : the role of the Rseau Info-Muse of the Socit des muses qubcois and of its numerous partners" * * * * Digital Futures 2000: The Royal Photographic Society Imaging Science Group Annual Conference: September 11-13, 2000: University of Westminster, Harrow, UK <http://leonardo.itrg.wmin.ac.uk/DF2000/>http://leonardo. <http://leonardo.itrg.wmin.ac.uk/DF2000/>http://leonardo.itrg.wmin.ac.uk/DF2 000/ Digital Futures 2000 is one of the first conferences in Britain that truly unites image science with the needs of imaging, archiving and conservation using digital technologies. Although there is much research into the behavior of digital systems by image scientists this is not always conveyed to users in a format that directly relates to its usage in these fields. This is a unique opportunity for archivists, curators and creators of images to communicate their needs to the field of image science and for image scientists to relate their understanding of the medium to the imaging and archival communities. This cross fertilization will provide a forum for debate that is both stimulating and informative. The advantages of combining both art and science issues are rarely exploited and therefore the full potential of this exciting and novel area is often never reached. * * * * SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center September 18-20, 2000: Seattle, WA <http://www.nedcc.org/sfsinfo.htm>http://www.nedcc. <http://www.nedcc.org/sfsinfo.htm>http://www.nedcc.org/sfsinfo.htm Early-Bird Registration Deadline: August 4, 2000 The conference is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is cosponsored by the University of Washington Libraries and the National Park Service. What is the School for Scanning? This conference provides a rationale for the use of digital technology by managers of paper-based collections in cultural institutions. Specifically, it equips participants to discern the applicability of digital technology in their given circumstances and prepares them to make critical decisions regarding management of digital projects. Although technical issues will be addressed, this is not a technician training program. Conference content will include: * Managing Digital Assets * Content Selection for Digitization * Text and Image Scanning * Quality Control and Costs * Current Research Projects * Copyright, Fair Use, and Other Legal Issues Surrounding Digital Technology * The Essentials of Metadata * Digital Preservation: Theory and Reality * Digital Products and Process WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Administrators within cultural institutions, as well as librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural or natural resource managers dealing with paper-based collections, including photographs, will find the School for Scanning conference highly relevant and worthwhile. 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Do we know, however, what e-commerce means for nonprofits? E-commerce and nonprofit work is not necessarily a contradiction in terms. As electronic commerce becomes a larger part of the U.S. and world economy, it seems critical that nonprofit organizations become knowledgeable participants in it. E-commerce is likely to develop into an important vehicle that allows nonprofits to become more self-sustainable and more effective in advancing their objectives. Furthermore, in order to shape the market in their best interests, nonprofit organizations must become knowledgeable about and advocate for the key policy issues that will best serve them. New policy frameworks are being implemented, and the nonprofit community can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines. For various reasons, some nonprofit organizations are beginning to consider the risks and opportunities of e-commerce. For those nonprofits who do, this typically means selling products like books, reports or other merchandise online, or it involves online fundraising. In more general terms, however, e-commerce for nonprofits could refer to the creation of value from the knowledge and expertise that nonprofits generate, in exchange for money or other values, such as increased visibility. In addition to providing their general audience with information and services, nonprofits could also offer special services, such as reports or analyses, for member organizations only, in exchange for reasonable rates. Beyond being producers of value nonprofits are also consumers. They purchase products online and could, for example, benefit from discounts facilitated through co-ops. Nonprofit organizations involved in e-commerce therefore have to grapple with a range of issues such as: what products and services can be marketed, how should they be appropriately marketed, what legislation and regulations apply, how to set up partnerships with for-profit organizations, and how to establish a for-profit spin-off. They also have to address policy questions and articulate their interests, from privacy, to copyright, to consumer rights. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, guidance is needed to explore ethical issues and the value standards that should apply to nonprofits in general and their organization in particular, including issues such as appropriate marketing and privacy protections and where to draw the line when profit-maximizing goals are in conflict with the larger mission of the nonprofit enterprise. Why Is E-Commerce Different? Commerce has been around forever and nonprofits have not previously gotten involved in it on a large scale. Why, then, is e-commerce any different, some might ask? The Internet puts high value on content, knowledge and expertise, and it values neutral brokers of information, something many nonprofits are particularly well-positioned to take advantage of. Also, transaction costs appear low and certain audiences are now easier to reach. E-commerce for nonprofits seems to be a particularly attractive proposition, because the general climate that nonprofits are operating in is changing. Gregory Dees, in his article "Enterprising Nonprofits" (Harvard Business Review, Jan.-Feb. '98), describes five major pressures and influences that are pushing nonprofits into entrepreneurial models or commercialization. These include: - a general pro business zeitgeist, - the need to decrease dependency on and organization's constituency to deliver social goods and services, - financial sustainability and the need to create more reliable funding sources than donations and grants, - a drive by foundations to make grantees more self-sufficient, and - competitive forces from for-profits leading nonprofits to consider commercial alternatives to traditional sources of funding. Dees argues that improving mission-related performance must remain paramount and that the most important measure of success is the achievement of mission-related objectives, not the financial wealth and stability of the organization. A New Benton Project This brief overview of some of the critical issues for nonprofits in electronic commerce marks the beginning of the Benton Foundation's involvement in this area. Benton is interested in providing nonprofits with practical guidance in helping evaluate the opportunities and risks of e-commerce in a thoughtful way. Moreover, Benton wants to help raise some of the critical policy issues on the agenda of the nonprofit community. In future Digital Beats, we will cover various aspects of e-commerce. Articles will particularly focus on privacy, copyright and fair use, consumer rights and Internet governance, as well as practical advice on e-commerce implementation and the various e-commerce business models that in some form or another could be applicable to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits should care about the practical aspects of e-commerce and the associated policy issues, not because everybody else is talking about it, but because e-commerce may provide an important vehicle with which to become economically more independent and self-sustainable. Some of the more lucrative possibilities for nonprofit e-commerce ventures are already being taken up by for-profit enterprises. Nonprofits should consider now whether to become more assertive and creative in taking advantage of those e-commerce opportunities and make e-commerce also work for philanthropic goals. In order to develop a credible and effective voice in policy making, the nonprofit community must set the highest standards when implementing their own e-commerce practices. Being creative with e-commerce practices can demonstrate to other nonprofits and corporate enterprises what models and standards to adopt. In the policy making environment, setting the benchmark for e-commerce conduct high will put pressure on the private sector to do the same, as nonprofits demonstrate what can be done. The expectations for the potential of e-commerce and its impact on our economy and our lives are high and perhaps exaggerated. The extent of its impact remains to be seen. 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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: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: a thought-experiment Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 102 (102) I'd like to ask if those members of Humanist with some experience of both computing and commentaries, glossaries and related scholarly tools would help me out by conducting a thought experiment and publishing the results to Humanist. So, here's the experiment. Suppose that you could materialise an ideal commentary for whatever text or texts are central to your intellectual life. What would it be like? Constrain your imagination not by what our computing tools presently do, and what ancillary materials currently exist in electronic form, but exclude magic as well as fantasies, such as in Star Trek. (So, no manuscript replicators, please, no beaming up the entire mss collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin!) Concentrate, if you will, not so much on what our gizmos can do, rather on those aspects of the commentary form that in your use or writing of commentaries have frustrated some scholarly impulse. One thing this thought-experiment implies is that you start with an idea of what a commentary is, i.e. what defines the genre. Not a simple question, because the commentary form is radically contingent on its varying social and cultural context -- to a greater degree than many of us realise. (For those who are interested, see Glenn Most, ed., Commentaries -- Kommentare, Goettingen, 1999.) So it would be helpful if you'd say what you think a commentary is, and then go on to question how its ontology might be altered in the electronic media. Again, though, please focus your remarks on what you might want or can see others wanting rather than just the untrammelled possibilities offered e.g. by hypertext/hypermedia. Which is to say, imagine the lineaments of satisfied desire for the commentary and tell us what you see. Many thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: cfp: Extreme Markup Languages / Late-breaking-news slots Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 103 (103) If you would like to give a Late Breaking News presentation at Extreme Markup Languages send in your submission by June 30th! The organizers of the Extreme Markup Languages Conference have reserved a few of the speaking slots in order to provide the freshest possible salad again this year. These slots will be awarded entirely at the discretion of the conference chairs and co-chairs only a couple of weeks before the conference actually occurs, just as the final programs go to press. Preference will be given to the most technically newsworthly submissions. --------------------------------------------------------- ************* Call for Participation ************** ************ Late Breaking News ************* *********** Extreme Markup Languages 2000 ************ --------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: Call for Late Breaking News WHEN: Late Breaking Proposals due: June 30, 2000 Conference: August 15-18, 2000 Tutorials August 13-14, 2000 WHERE: Montreal, Canada SPONSOR: Graphic Communications Association (GCA) Chairs: Steven R. Newcomb, TechnoTeacher, Inc. B. 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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. Speakers will have 30 minutes for their prepared remarks followed by fifteen minutes during which the audience will pose questions. ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2000 mailto:extreme@mulberrytech.com August 13-18, 2000 details: http:www.gca.org Montreal, Canada author info: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme ====================================================================== ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== -- **************************************************** * 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 * **************************************************** From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: re commentary Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:39:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 104 (104) As an ignoramus in lexology, to coin a term? I might think first, of course, of asking to know the standard search and retrieve things, Boolean, etc., the major libraries and etc., use, and how things are catalogued. UCLA has just spent a fortune on the new ORION2, and it came along very late and very buggy, and they are being sued and penalized, having taking on more than they imagined they were doing. So there is cataloguing and then there comes, I imagine, the abstraction of the formal structures of the Talmud. I think a bot might be devised to learn from all the threads of commentary upon and within and recursive in the Talmud, which is not the Library of Congress, but a small and finite number of volumes. I wouldnt be surprised if this project either exists or is under way in Israel. But, I think it a model for complexities for the scholiasts. Chinese would be a horror, because of the vastness of the library, and the fact that they never indexed at all. I would begin with the Talmud, the first thing that came to my mind, because it is not a free for all, but a historical accretion and layering with threading and a finite number of commentators, and adjuncts, etc. It is not the Bible, but commentary, which makes it suitable, the Bible being already ready, or rather the Pentateuch, and all the other extra volumes, all of which exist in English in the ongoing Doubleday Bible, all the books of which line my shelves, with notes and all. The Talmud is special, since it, I think, hermetical in nature, so apt for a model. Make any sense to you? Talk to Steinsaltz, who has been bringing the Talmud to English, etc. Jascha [deleted quotation] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0073 a thought-experiment Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:39:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 105 (105) Willard, Very often the visions of the future are grounded in the experienced realities of the past. For me, the ideal commentary would be like Robert Hollander guiding a tour of the Dante Database Project. telnet://library.Dartmouth.EDU At the prompt type "connect dante" and press enter. Commentary becomes an instantiation of an expert system. The commentary would speak with the voice of a scholar steeped in learning. Like the scholar, the expert system would understand that a consultation may be directed to recall (proportion of relevant hits or matches retrieved by a query) or directect to precision (proportion of retrieved hits or matches relevant to a query). And like a scholar, an expert system would remember the types of queries generated by previous consultations and become truly excited by a fresh suggestion. These interactive aspects do not need a full multimedia personna for the interface to be effective. They exist whenever a commentary offers opportunities for good navigation, accessible annotation and interesting model manipulation. Commentary supplies good navigation or builds upon good navigation -- segmentation of the encoded text takes into account different analytical structures that may arise from various readings of a text or set of texts. A good commentary is itself structured so references can be made to it. An outside annotation can send readers to an exact spot in a commentary. These two desiderata are within reach with xpointer. They are not one bit foreign to scholars used to processing words. The third is perhaps a technical stretch for people not used to spreadsheets. A good commentary allows one to depict the textual object under discussion. A good depiction allows one so zoom in and out of different views. A better depiction allows for differenct views to be compared and even intersect. Take a simple distribution graph of the first occurance of names in a novel and plot it against the shifting distance of the hero from a given goal (can lead to a revisiting of the picaresque novel). Or take a narratological view and compare it with a phonological analysis (imagine how such a commentary can open up the complexities of a Faulkner novel with its subtle repetitions and displacements). Scalable navigation is the key to such dynamic modeling. In the end any such commentary makes me want to reread the text which has generated the worlds which been the object of such attentive affection. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0073 a thought-experiment Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 05:40:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 106 (106) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, June 23, 2000, 10:05AM Dear Colleagues and especially Willard McCarty: I know that this is not a standard type of request, but since I am presently occupied with other matters, could you give a one-paragraph summary of what Glenn Most's book says about commentaries? I could then more readily try to reply to your other question/suggestion. Yours truly, Osher From: Deena Subject: [ELO] Electronic Arts chat on the implications for the Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 107 (107) [--] Please join the Electronic Literature Organization Chat on: Wednesday June 28 21:00 Eastern, 19:00 Mountain, 13:00 Sydney (Thursday June 29) at Lingua MOO (http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000) with artists from the Electronic Easel at The University of Colorado, Boulder (Leslee Boersma, Timothy Weaver, Ariadna Capasso, Maria Patricia Tinaero-Baker, Damian Keller, Cinthia Fiss, Kelli Hashimoto, Angela Forster, Deena Larsen, Robert Schaller, Craig Coleman, and Lisa Stanley). ########### IMPORTANT ########### We'll talk about : -------------------- What are the implications for the (post)humanities in the age of the posthuman? What is technology's impact on issues of identity, race, gender, etc? What is the current status of aesthetics at the convergence of art, science and technology? 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We hope you'll join us for this exciting chat. ------------ Electronic Literature Organization http://www.eliterature.org Come on over to explore the amazing possibilities To subscribe, send a blank message to: eliterature-subscribe@eGroups.com ------------ From: Chris Plasencia Subject: Ethical dilemmas - recommendations Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 108 (108) I'm Chris Plasencia, I'm a summer intern helping launch a website called Fairness.com. Among other things, our site will be featuring discussions based on various "ethical dilemma" scenarios. My questions are: i) what are the some classic, highly regarded books that collect such scenarios? ii) how could we get in touch with professors and teachers who may have case studies of their own that they would be willing to contribute? Any suggestions or recommendations would be appreciated; please post them to the list or send them to me at . Thank you very much, Chris Plasencia From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: thoughts from Tuebingen on commentaries Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 109 (109) [The following is most of a note sent to me by Prof Dr Wilhelm Ott in response to my direct request, suggested by John Bradley (and quoted below), that he think about what an electronic commentary might do. Those of you who know the fine work he and his group have done applying his own TuSTEP software to the production of scholarly editions and commentaries in Tuebingen will not wonder at the request. He has given his blessing to my publishing his note here. --WM] I will not do this, since for many years I have not been active in writing or using commentaries. I remember however what I had missed earlier, even and especially in texts which were as richly commented as the Bible (you may remember, my PhD dissertation was on the role of prayer in the view of the authors of the Synoptic Gospels): I missed the direct access to the sources, quoted by the commentaries as a support to a certain interpretation or as a background for facts alluded to, or as evidence for unusal grammatical usage of certain words or constructions. The situation was not as bad as it may have been in other environments, since I did my work in a place which was unusually well equipped with the respective literature: the University of Tbingen has two Faculties of Theology (catholic and protestant), and the Tbingen University Library has the "Sondersammelgebiet Theologie" ("Sondersammelgebiet" means that a library has extra funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in order to collect as completely as possible the literature in the respective field); t h e german university library for theology is in Tbingen. Nevertheless, it was sometimes necessary to wait for books from other libraries, or for the return of books lent by others... The electronic commentary could include in addition to the references, the material itself (not only texts, but also pictures...). As an example (which I have only seen in a demonstration; I have not yet had a closer look at it) for a product which meets some of these desires, I want to direct your attention to the "hybrid" edition of Der junge Goethe in seiner Zeit. Texte und Kommentare. Hg. v. Karl Eibl, Fotis Jannidis u. Marianne Willems. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag 1998 It consists of two printed volumes and a CD-ROM which contains materials from the historical context of the works of the youg Goethe, including important texts, the catalogue of his father's library, letters, etc., about 7 times the volume of the printed book, with about 13.000 links between them. The access software is FolioViews. In addition, the material is contained also in a version encoded in TEI-Lite. - You might be interested to find out more about this edition by consulting http://www.jgoethe.uni-muenchen.de, where you find, among other information, a powerpoint demo of the CD-ROM and some reviews of this edition. More modest examples (aimed at an other readership, namely high school students ("Gymnasium")), are the volumes of the "Basisbibliothek", also published by Suhrkamp Verlag (Insel, Suhrkamp and Deutscher Klassiker Verlag are the same persons), each offering a "basis text" (e.g., Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, or Brecht: Leben des Galilei), published from the TUSTEP-files used also for producing the editons by the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag. The same text is contained on a CD-ROM available for each of these volumes, which in addition contain the commentary and additional materials. Up to now, 18 volumes (and CD-ROMs) have been published. They are available also as Rocket eBook editions (cf. http://www.rocket-ebook.de). --------- I mentioned the latter examples also as an answer to your remark that TUSTEP "has implemented a vision based on actual practice, although mostly (? entirely) for the print medium". Let me correct this possible misunderstanding: in the center of TUSTEP, there have always been the tools for analyzing and manipulating textual data (including collation of different versions, indexing, data base manipulations etc) for scholarly work in the fields where texts are the object of research. For presenting the results, output facilities (also for more difficult typesetting, like for critical editions) are not more (and not less) than a necessary part of this toolbox. That TUSTEP is by many people seen as a tool for producing printed scholarly editions may originate from a time when no other software could do this job (TUSTEP handles the layout necessary for an edition with critical apparatuses automatically since 1974). Others see TUSTEP only as a powerful typesetting system... TUSTEP supports also electronic media. As a proof you may consult the OPAC of our own library at http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/cgi-bin/zdvlit (accessible also via the homepage of the ZDV under "Bibliothek / OPAC"). Here, TUSTEP is used not only to prepare the data base, but also as the search enginge. The data base is a TUSTEP file which is searched with the flexible TUSTEP means (as you may imagine from the buttons for selecting the grade of exactness of the search; you might try to select "normalisierte Suche" and to look for an author like "Meier" (which also gives you "Mayer" and other orthographic forms) or "Schmid" (which also returns names like "Schmied", "Schmidt", "Schmitt" or "Smith"); the results are on the fly converted into HTML for presentation. Also the search engine serving the FAQ data base on the ZDV homepage is TUSTEP; here, both index and full text search is possible (the OPAC relies on full text search only; it is small enough, about 60.000 titles only). A commercial (and presently free) electronic publication using TUSTEP as a search engine is the Roche-Lexikon Medizin, a medical lexicon available in print, on CD-ROM and online (http://www.roche-lexikon.de) with more than 100.000 entries. The data base and the necessary links and indexes have also been prepared with TUSTEP, based on files converted from the book- and the CD-ROM-publication. Please excuse me for the lengh of this mail - but your remarks on TUSTEP did seduce me to add some recent information on this tool. Looking forward to see you in Glasgow Wilhelm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] ..... [deleted quotation] From: David Zeitlyn Subject: "Discovering Social Anthropology in Galicia" teaching Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 110 (110) material now available on the ERA web site I am pleased to be able to announce that the following material is now available on the ERA web site - either via the main page (www.era.anthropology.ac.uk) or at its direct address http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Teach-yourself/ Discovering Social Anthropology in Galicia (Supplementary materials to Chris Hann: Teach Yourself Social Anthropology, London, 2000. This site published 23/06/00. A revised version will be published later this summer) Synopsis Social anthropology began as the science of the exotic and 'savage', but anthropologists have extended the range of their discipline to include the most 'advanced' societies, and everything in between. The materials made available are linked to the author's simultaneously published book "Teach Yourself Social Anthropology" (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2000). They describe a seven week course in social anthropology at a summer school in the Polish city of Cracow. Postcommunist society is neither exotically strange nor reassuringly familiar to the participants, who learn to apply and deepen their knowledge in a variety of activities outside the classroom. We are very pleased that Chris Hann has chosen this route to make his material available, and we would welcome other contributions to help the further development of the ERA project 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: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0076 ethical dilemmas? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 111 (111) [deleted quotation] A few days ago I heard a very interesting lecture by Prof. Robert Cavalier from Pittsburgh on three interactive multimedia CD-ROMs which have been developed at Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics which could be a help in your search. Fotis Jannidis [For two of the fine pieces of work done by this group, see <http://www.routledge.com/routledge/electronic/>, s.v. "Abortion in America" and "A Right to Die?" Preston Covey, one of the primary people involved, writes very movingly about his work in applied ethics; see <http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/philosophy/people/directory/Preston_Cov ey.html>. --WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: abundance vs abstraction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 112 (112) Within a day of each other we have two major reviews of Paul Feyerabend's posthumously assembled last "collage", as he called it, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being, ed. Bert Terpstra (Chicago, 2000), by two of the leading figures in the philosophy of science: Ian Hacking, "'Screw you, I'm going home'", London Review of Books 22.12 (22 June 2000): 28-9 and Bas van Fraasen, "The sham victory of abstraction", Times Literary Supplement 5073 (23 June 2000): 10-11. Unfortunately at the moment neither review is online, even to subscribers, so reading these will involve more than the minimal locomotion of mouse-clicks, but the effort is very richly rewarded. Hacking's piece is printed with Feyerabend's "Letter to the Reader" -- which, if I were not interested in keeping my involvement with the law to a minimum I'd re-publish here; van Fraasen's with a wonderful photo of Feyerabend, older and *much* mellower looking than I dimly recall him from the time when, at age 17, I sat fascinated in a classroom at Berkeley while he hung over his crutches and taught us about science. The issue that Feyerabend takes up -- as Hacking notes, much more subtly than the careless reader might notice -- is central to what we do, whether or not we think what we do is a "science" or regard experimental scientific practice as relevant to our own. In that Letter to the Reader he warns us that although the form of writing is an academic essay, "it is not my intention to inform, or to establish some truth. What I want to do is to change your attitude. I want you to sense chaos where at first you noticed an orderly arrangement of well-behaved things and processes.... I conclude", he says, "that the life we lead is ambiguous. It contains not only one future, but many and it contains them neither ready-made nor as possibilities that can be turned into any direction.... It is very important not to let this suspicion deteriorate into a truth, or a theory, for example into a theory with the principle: things are never what they seem to be. Reality, or Being, or God, or whatever it is that sustains us cannot be captured that easily. The problem is not why we are so often confused; the problem is why we seem to possess useful and enlightening knowledge.... Is argument without a purpose? No, it is not; it accompanies us on our journey without tying it to a fixed road. Is there a way of identifying what is going on? There are many ways, and we are using them all the time though often believing that they are part of a stable framework which encompasses everything. Is there a name for an attitude or a view like this? Yes, if names are that important I can easily provide one: mysticism, though it is a mysticism that uses examples, arguments, tightly reasoned passages of text, scientific theories and experiments to raise itself into consciousness...." Ah, ferocious courage to the last. What does this have to do with us? Everything, I am tempted to say, and just have :-). More specifically, though: it's about what we get from the computational discipline of rigorous consistency and absolute explicitness, which takes us to the point of being able to glimpse the chaos that Feyerabend would have us see and to keep alive the question of "why we seem to possess useful and enlightening knowledge". Amidst the daily grind of clever buttons to click and annoying animations to swat away, Feyerabendian mischief is, as Hacking says, "profoundly liberating. He is great fun, but there is more to it than that." Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Serge Noiret Subject: The "Best of the WWW VL Italian History Index" Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:00:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 113 (113) [Apologies for cross-posting] Dear members of H-ITALY, H-HISTBIBL, HISTOPS-L, SISSCO, LASTORIA.IT and HUMANIST Discussion Group, Since June 15th 2000, the WWW VL Italian History Index, which is part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL) and of the WWW VL History Project maintained in Kansas by Lynn H.Nelson, [http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/index.html] has been offering a page entitled "Best of the WWW VL Italian History Index". This page consists of a list of web-sites which we think are the best Italian History sites on the Internet. Non-Italian sites dealing with Italian History form part of the WWW VL Italian History Index but are not yet part of this selection. In the future we will make a distinction between the best of the non-Italian web-sites AND the best of the Italian sites dealing with Italian History. In order to be eligible for this list of scientifically evaluated sites, all web-sites should also be totally and freely accessible to a world-wide public without any kind of restriction. "Best of the WWW VL Italian History Index" will list only those scientifically important Italian History sites which meet a set of scientific criteria shortly to be established by an academic board of editors. The list of sites will be regularly monitored to verify that all sites are frequently updated and maintained. A logo will be sent first to the best Italian History sites produced in Italy (all periods) and at a later stage to non-Italian sites devoted to Italian History. The best sites are available at the following URL: [http://sissco.iue.it/VL/hist-italy/best.html] Please remember that the Sisscoweb site is available at [http://sissco.iue.it] and the WWW VL Italian History Index at: [http://sissco.iue.it/VL/hist-italy/Index.html] We would like to invite you to submit Italian History sites - whether produced in Italy or elsewhere - if you think that they could be listed in the "Best of the WWW VL Italian History". The selection criteria (which can vary according to the type of site being evaluated) include: -easy navigation and understanding of the site contents; -scientific and scholarly importance of the contents whether the page is a bibliography, a reference work, an original source, an e-journal, a collection of e-texts, another index of e-resources, a collection of essays, a discussion list, etc.; -good graphical presentation; - browser-friendly; -free access to all contents; -no publicity except for the sponsor of the site, if there is one; -academic board of editors and/or clearly stated author(s) of the site; -clear description of the scientific aims and means used to build and maintain the site. Thank you very much for your help and suggestions of potential sites and other possible criteria to add to this above list. Again sorry if you are member of all the lists I have sent my mail to ! -- Serge Noiret Ph.D. in Contemporary History Docteur en Philosophie et Lettres European University Institute Address: Via dei Roccetini 9 ~ I50016 San Domenico (FI) - Italy Phone: +39-0554685-348 ~ Fax +39-0554685-283 @,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@ ===>Curriculum Vitae [http://www.iue.it/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html] @,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@ From: Willard McCarty Subject: today's coo-uhl web site Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:01:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 114 (114) Humanists will enjoy reading Geoffrey Nunberg's commentary on electronic lists, "Gimcrack Nation", at<http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/members/nunberg/gimcrack.html>. Nunberg (Xerox PARC, Stanford) edited the fine collection of essays entitled The Future of the Book (California, 1996) and turns up regularly on National Public Radio in the U.S. His other online items are well worth looking at, for which see <http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/members/nunberg/radio.html>. Of the pieces done on NPR I note "An Interjection for the Age" (on the word "whatever") and "Rebirth of the "Cool" (on the survival of the word "cool"), and "Checking it out" (on Web searching). In "Gimcrack Nation" Nunberg compares the contents of the Linguist list to the early numbers of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665--). He finds no evidence that the boundaries of his discipline are being eroded by the e-medium, rather thinks that they are if anything strengthened. But he does point to the making public of the formerly privatised discourse within the fold. In former times, he says, [deleted quotation]Enjoy. WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Kathryn Harvey Subject: Re: 14.0043 e-editions of letters? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:02:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 115 (115) I'm writing in response to Charles Faulhaber's query in late May about other electronic editions of correspondence being prepared for web-based delivery. The Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project, based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is currently about half-way through Phase One which will be completed in September 2000. This phase will make available, over the Internet, sixty letters dating from 1937 to 1979. More letters and other textual and nontextual works will subsequently become available as the electronic archive develops. (The Dalhousie University Archives holds Raddall's manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, research notes, scrapbooks, photographs, etc. as well as his copyrights.) The project--directed by Holly Melanson (Assistant University Librarian, Collections and Development, Dalhousie University)--is using TEI Lite for the SGML-encoding and is in the early stages of developing the delivery interface. More about the project and links to information about Thomas Raddall himself can be found at http://www.library.dal.ca/archives/trela/trela.htm. We would welcome discussions with others working on challenges similar to our own! Sincerely, Kathryn Harvey ___________________________________________________ Dr. Kathryn Harvey Project Manager, Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project, Archives, Killam Memorial Library Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 4H8 (http://www.library.dal.ca/archives/trela/trela.htm) SGML Consultant/Developer, Early Modern Literary Studies (http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html) and Internet Shakespeare Editions (http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/) E-mail: kharvey@iworks.net From: Willard McCarty Subject: love-letters? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:03:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 116 (116) Casting about for verbal data on which to do some text-analysis with students, I have been looking for a reasonably large collection of love-letters but have so far not found any suitable ones. I have encountered graphically intense Web pages (flowers, vines, hearts) with a few famous letters, but what I'd really like are masses of such things to and from ordinary people, or famous, it doesn't matter. The style doesn't matter to me either -- they can be sappy, sentimental, agonised, rapturous, silly, earthy etc. -- in fact a mixture would be best. They should all be in English, though not necessarily recent, better if not all American English, but I'll settle for my native dialect/language if I have to :-). I'd prefer not to have to do a great deal of cleanup on them. All I'm interested in pedagogically is analysis of the language by frequency of words and collocates and by nearest neighbours, i.e. simple concordancing. Any suggestions on where I might look? Thanks. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [short report with concerns] Pokemon Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 117 (117) Greetings Humanist scholars, Hi, I hope you're doing well out there. Yesteray, I went to kino to see the *Pokemon film* (may be a Japanese Production) with two small kids. Actually, the film was made for small children to have fun and entertain themselves. But, I was *suprised* to see the film, try to explain and answer some of the important questions of Humankind regarding Ethics, Dasein and Clonning and raised more contemporary issues concerning Life. I was really absorbed in the film with different characters, especially in "Mu" and "Piccachu". (In film) When the *Menschen* (Human beings), have already clonned the original Mu as "Mutwo". Then, Mutwo was always asking questions, such as "Warum bin ich hier?", "Was sind meine aufgaben?" and many more. Mutwo was asking some questions to himself as, "When *Menschen* have clonned me, then *they* want me to be a slave of *Menschen*. And, the clonned Mutwo was also saying, "Ich bin der Herrscher der Welt" sounds dangerous. So, Is clonning necessary? And, if it is necessary to do the clonning, then What is its *Dasein* and who is creator and created? Then, in clonning *original species* --we'll be loosing our original *Dasein* And, the most deadly scene was --when clonned pokemons were fighting with the original pokemons. (this scenarios is not good, thinking of the Human beings on the planet) BTW..I will do more research on the film and will let you know, later. I also think, the film *Pokemon* would also be making news in United States, Australia & other countries amongst kids and their parents and teachers in schools. The film has more to say and have good pedagogical styles, but children always must see this film with their teachers and parents, so that they can get some good teaching. Keeping my fingers on the keyboard and telescope to the Stars!! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: jason.mann@vanderbilt.edu Subject: The 6th International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 118 (118) Networks November 3-5, 2000 University of Maryland University College College Park, Maryland Please, mark these dates, and go to http://www.aln.org/alnconf2000 for more about the premier conference devoted exclusively to online learning. Researchers, educators, and anyone interested in distance education are welcome. Discuss the state-of-the-art with scientists, teachers and managers, see what the commercial sector is offering to support online education, and join in shaping the future of this growing field. Organizations interested in exhibit space, product demonstration rooms, or corporate sponsorship, please contact aln2000@umuc.edu. Asynchronous learning networks are helping to transform education and training from site-based, time-bound experiences to anytime/anywhere online learning environments. By connecting learners with each other, with their instructors, and with a wide range of resources, ALNs allow a high degree of interaction and collaboration. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0039 report on Colloquium at King's College London Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 119 (119) [The following was unhelpfully misdirected by a filter in Eudora and so has been delayed in publication here. My apologies (again, on behalf of software) to Francois Lachance and everyone else. --WM] Willard, With a big gathering looming (Glasgow) it is not without a certain timeliness that I praise John Lavagnino's report on the humanities computing colloquium held at King's College London in May. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0037.html John's report weaves a lovely narrative. There is a flair for the personalities involved. It is not a mere reportage. I do appreciate the reshuffling of the presenations in his report. He does not follow the order of the scheduled presentation. I do like the narrative line he casts from the problem of machines dealing with ambiguity through to the collaborative mysteries of community via the tension between formalization and deformation. I wish all who attend the gathering in Glasglow and those of us who will follow the proceedings from afar an equally enriching experience. Humanities computing: formal methods, experimental practice [deleted quotation] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: the craft of (computer-assisted) research Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 120 (120) At King's College London as elsewhere, I suspect, incoming students' knowledge of computing increases in leaps and bounds each year and so is pushing us exactly in the direction we want to go: away from mere button-pushing to what is more properly the concern of humanities computing. A somewhat less positive but equally true way of putting this is: at each push we need again to figure out what is left for us to teach. Fortunately, at least from where I stand our domain doesn't seem to be getting any smaller, and certainly no less interesting or challenging. In the immediate terms of classroom work, the shift away from a focus on button-pushing to a struggle with its implications means an increasing emphasis on questions that require an essay for an answer. Reading such essays one quickly finds that students tend not to know what an argument is nor how to deal with evidence in support of it. (When I ask students to present an argument, e.g. about their text-analysis of O.J. Simpson trial transcripts or discussions of the Millennium Dome, I don't get arguments, I get stories of their experiences: "first I did this, and then I tried that...".) It may not be the central business of humanities computing to teach the elements of critical thinking, argumentation and writing, but of course no department can wait for someone else to do the job. And if we're not teaching the students how to think and write critically with the computer, then we're getting closer to useless with each passing year. So what do we do? Concern about the problem is quite widespread, with a great deal of material online, for example, focusing on "critical thinking" and how to develop the ability to do it. As a stimulus to our own thinking about the subject, I have filtered out a selection and offer it here, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/development/>. I would be most grateful for comments and for suggestions about what I might add to my list. Wayne C Booth et al, The Craft of Research (Chicago, 1995), seems excellent as a book to adopt or strongly to recommend for the purpose. Are there others you would suggest? Coming out of this, I would hope, is a rather more specialised focus on how to do, think through and write about *computer-assisted* research. Meanwhile, however, it does seem to me that we could respond well to the push our students are transmitting to us by teaching them the elements of research methods from the beginning, using such broadly focused books as Booth et al and supplementing them with on-the-fly remarks relevant to computing in particular. Your reactions and comments, please. Many thanks. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Gianni Rubagotti Subject: Ermes_net: philosophy and XML Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 121 (121) I think it could be interesting for this kind of list to receive the message of my friend Massimiliano (massileo@libero.it), about his university project that use XML and other technologies for the philosophical analisys of texts. Best wishes, Gianni Rubagotti I'am Massimiliano Leone, a student of Philosophy at the University of the Studies of Milan in Italy. I'm taking my degree in Theoretical Philosophy with the prof. Paolo D'Alessandro and i'm taking part at the Ermes_net project. I would like to introduce it to you because i think that you could be interested by the way we've realized it: using XML and PHP3 and Webdav for downloading and uploading files to allegate. Also i hope you'll give us your suggestion to implement and evolve it. Best regards. Massimiliano Leone Ermes_net is born like a plan of the chair of Theoretical Philosophy III of the University of the Studies of Milan, held by the Prof. Paolo D'Alessandro. Here is the presentation made from the Professor D'Alessandro and situated in the presentation pages of the site http://www.lettere.unimi.it/ermes_net: " The philosophical Laboratory has been planned and comes activated by a group of researchers of the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy III , department of philosophy of the University of the Studies in Milan. It means to give life to a virtual community of theoretical searches that experiments the possibility to make philosophy with the new technologies of informations and, at the same time, to verify the result of a search lead in common. We are convinced that the medium of communication cannot be considered neutral, and during the experiment it will be dealt to control the specific modalities with which it is succeeded to produce thought, collective and connecting at the same time, by using a PC, marking the difference with what happens with other average: the voice, the pen and the characters to press." Here in synthesis the operation of the site. This is fruibile only by the qualified customers with password. But i've made a demonstration with Power Point that you can download at www.lettere.unimi.it/ermes_net/ermesinglese.zip It's introduced a philosophical text, that it appears on a html frame. This text is written in xml (well format), visualized with a stylesheet xsl (without DTD). It is subdivided in phrases, to the end of them there is an icon, clicking on which they come visualized, on an other html frame, the commentary notes brought to that phrase from the customers participants to the argument. It is possible, in one first modality, to visualize all the comments of all the customers to each phrase of the text in issue, or the comments realized from a single customer to the relative phrase, or all comments to one single phrase. How? There's a "job modality" in which it is possible to decide which phrase to comment on and, if it is desired, to bring to the commentary notes a minimal particular style and to insert an hyperlink or also an image. Clicking on the icon placed to the term of the choised phrase of the text (a file xml), a form HTML in which inserting notes, link and eventually the name of the image, comes visualized. A program in php3 captures the data contained in every field of the form and modernizes the new file xml creating new note-tag in the reference phrase. In the "visualization modality " of which it was said, anyone who approaches the site with password, will be able to visualize the comments previously realized. Clicking on the icon to the term of the phrase, or when it is decided to visualize all the comments, or when it is demanded (through one small form) to visualize the comments of a single participant, a php3 program creates a new file xsl that allows to obtain the demanded visualization. From: Willard McCarty Subject: caught in the revolution Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 122 (122) Thanks to Dr Han Baltussen (Philosophy, King's College London) I have to hand Christopher Luethy, "Caught in the electronic revolution: Observations and analyses by some historians of science, medicine, technology and philosophy", Early Science and Medicine 5.1 (2000): 64-92. Luethy (whose name is spelled with a u-umlaut) asks, "For ought we not, as historians of science, technology, and medicine, [to] be in the possession of privileged conceptual tools with which to analyse the changes we are all observing? Should not our vocabulary be particularly sharp when we speak of the ways in which new technologies affect intellectual development, and vice versa?" (p. 65). Whether one thinks that Luethy's article exemplifies the privileged tools and particularly sharp vocabulary, he is surely right that the history (AND philosophy AND sociology) of science and technology (not omitting mathematics either) are essential to the task we have centrally before us. Luethy reports in his article on the results from a questionnaire sent out by the journal Early Science and Medicine to 80 colleagues in the field and to some historians of 19th and 20th-century science (including e.g. Peter Galison). 30 responses came back. Although the article promises only that the responses will be online until May 2000, they appear still to be at <http://www.kun.nl/phil/center/revolution.html>. The article offers a selection of these responses and Dr Luethy's analysis. Luethy was surprised that very few of the respondents questioned use of the word "revolution". Evert van der Zweerde noted that if the word "presupposes a powerful resistance that has to be overcome" then we are not witnessing a revolution; and Michael Hunter that it may not apply in any profound sense in established academic fields: "the extent to which these developments have altered the real agenda" of such fields simply isn't clear yet. Most, however, accepted the term, meaning by it a change involving rapid growth of computational power, the all-pervasive nature of computing and its effects on our vocabulary, metaphors and ways of thinking. Luethy cites a recent study, Impact of the Internet Economy in Europe (for which see Neue Zuercher Zeitung 21/9/99, electronics suppl. B8), in which the authors develop a model for the change based on historical parallels "as well as a heuristic concept of 'revolution' to designate fast, multilayered, and economically and demographically significant reactions to new technologies" (p. 68). Respondents to the questionnaire cited the invention of the printing press, of course. One, Thomas B Settle, cited in addition the development of written languages and mathematics, domestication of plants and animals, the subsequent invention of the city-state et al. and of civilisation as a whole, the revolutions of gunpower and sailing ships, the development of steam-based power technologies and so on and so forth. Whether one wishes to be as inclusive, Dr Settle certainly raises the question of socio-cultural change and its relation to new technologies. Are there studies of this area we should know about? After surveying the responses, Luethy notes, "These divergent views underline forcefully how unclear the mid- and long-term effects of computerization still are." Indeed. To the question of whether the use of tools has changed the working methods of the scholars involved one person answered to the effect that there is no generation-gap in the use of the computer: "Irrespective of age, no one who answered the questionnaire continues to use paper, scissors and glue sticks" (p. 71). Perhaps a shaky conclusion on the basis of only 30 answers -- we can possibly all find colleagues who eschew computers, somewhere -- but "the irreversibility of this technological revolution" seems difficult to deny. The geographical decentralisation of research, reported by Luethy, will come as no surprise, but you may find the German term for the condition to which it has led, "die neue Unuebersichtlichkeit", to be quite useful! Complaints about our ironic lack of success in surveying what is happening have surfaced here from time to time. At the same time, respondents note the possibilities, being realised in specific cases, to connect what has formerly been separated e.g. in different, sometimes non-cooperating libraries and archives. The proliferation of materials in differing states and versions gets notice and complaint. Several of the respondents asserted, some vigorously, that "good research will remain unaffected, while new patterns are a sign of lower quality" (p. 80): "At top levels, no change. At lower levels, a further lowering of quality", Loren Graham dishearteningly said (p. 79). Well, them's fighting words.... About how the technology will affect our perception of history, one camp strongly asserted that there is NO interrelation between "the perception of history and the means of research" (p. 81), while others thought that it will be changed e.g. by virtual reality software -- a "cinematic experience of the past", perhaps, with a dramatic increase of "mythinforming"? When asked about the "greatest potential of the electronic revolution" the common ground was "a noteworthy emotional charge" to the responses. Fears and warnings prevailed. Oi veh! The conclusion? "No conclusion" is the last section heading in the article. But Luethy does end with words that sound not so silly to me: "As it happens in most cases," Paul Richard Blum notes, "this revolution turns out to be one with hindsight only. This had certainly not been designed as a revolution. [...] In my view things develop first as a tool, then as a way of looking at things with that tool in mind, then as a reflection on this change, and finally as a transformation into history...." (p. 91). My conclusion? That we can do better than the above, MUCH better, simply by watching with open eyes and minds what is happening right now under our hands. Not to predict the future but to see the present more clearly and so to inform desire that we may make a better world for ourselves. Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Willard McCarty Subject: thoughts on commentaries & humanities computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 123 (123) To my request for thought-experimenters in Humanist 14.73 there may have been many responses, but none (except for Prof Dr Ott's) have actually-virtually come across my desk and so been published here. (I was going to write "actually come across my virtual desk" when I realised that the desk is quite solid; it's the coming across that requires the qualification, which I am tempted to expand into a not irrelevant meditation on the philosophy of science, but won't :-). One member of this group asked for a summary of Glenn Most's book, Commentaries -- Kommentare, which I mentioned as a good source for thoughts on the commentary form, but I didn't respond because this would have required days of work. However a search of the very fine Bryn Mawr Classical Review <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/> reveals a solid piece on the book by James O'Donnell, <http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-05-19.html>, distinguished author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Harvard, 1998) -- read it tonight! Nevertheless I thought I'd set out some desultory, scattered (and doubtless flawed) thoughts provoked by the essays collected in Most's book, in order myself to provoke the silent thought-experimenters into at least the same if not better. It seems to me that the problem of what we might do with the commentary in the electronic medium is made to order for us computing humanists. Considering it is, among other things, a way of defining our common perspective on research in the humanities. That someone like me, who is little better than a scholarly tourist in nearly all of the fields, traditions and historical periods covered by Most's book, can sustain a professional interest is remarkable. (Kind wit, be silent!) I think sorting out what across such essays proves relevant, what irrelevant to the computational transformation of the genre provides a very good way of expanding that "remarkable" beyond the phatic moment (and out of wit's grasp) into a realisation of what we're about. The editor, Professor Most (Greek, Heidelberg/Chicago), worries at the beginning about how to define what a commentary is; he notes the possibility of a definition by formal properties -- chiefly the subordination of one text to another -- "X is a commentary *on* Y -- but rejects that because it does not distinguish between a genuine commentary and a parody (he mentions Nabokov's Pale Fire; see also Lee Siegel's delightful, even useful Love in a Dead Language <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/756971.html>). It seems to me that formal properties are exactly what we have to think about, and that whether something is a "genuine" commentary or a parody matters not a whit to us. But what might these properties be? Subordination collapses or has to be qualified into near meaninglessness quite quickly, as there are clearly "non-submissive" commentaries in which the commented text is little more than an occasion for the commentary, and even more radically (as could be argued about the proto-typological connections within the Hebrew Bible and about Galen on Hippocrates) the very act of commenting on can be said to create the authority of the text commented on, if not come close to create it as a text. It may be, Vallence writes, that Hippocrates was the only great authority nebulous and distant enough for Galen to tolerate; source-criticism on the Bible seems to me to drive us to the same conclusion. Another important qualification is provided by Daniel Boyarin's essay on Midrash as commentary, in which he points out that interpretation defines only one kind of commentary. If, as in Midrash, the Platonic/Orphic notion of soul distinct from body -- and thus meaning from text -- does not operate, even provisionally, then the act of commenting on is made even more problematic than we may have thought. Simon Goldhill says in his own essay that the commentary form depends on philosophical ideas about language (and literature). He asks, where is the meaning in a theatrical or textual event? This is the sort of question we ask. "The words of the Torah are poor in their place, and rich in another context." An interdisciplinary, trans-historical examination of commentaries, like one of concordances, is an exercise that drives one to the brink of silence: it seems as if almost anything can be called a "commentary". Somewhat less vaguely, as a genre it seems to slip easily from the form a classicist would recognise as such (e.g. Dodds on Euripides Bacchae, Nisbet and Hubbard on Horace) to the interpretative essay, the new composition, the translation and the lexicon. Here Goldhill's approach I find especially helpful: he defines the genre by the operation of two principles: citation and morselisation. The genre is driven, with tighter or looser focus, by the (not necessarily subordinating) reference ad loc., which implies a synchronic view of the text and which, as Fowler notes in his essay, means the recontextualisation of the referenced morsel. Referencing and the recontextualising of data-morsels should be immediately recognisable as operations that computing is well suited for. Fowler helpfully runs through a number of possibilities that computing suggests, one of which is the dynamic creation of many different kinds of commentary from the same body of material (e.g. the now bog-standard notion of suppressing or revealing material as the user wishes). More radical is the idea of creating a commentary by assembling morsels not originally made for the purpose, e.g. my colleague David Yeandle's project to create a commentary on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival from bibliographical references to discussions of individual passages -- his "Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach", for which see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/german/parzdescr.htm> (German version also available). So, we let 100 flowers bloom, but as computing humanists we study the mechanics of blooming. Goldhill's social constructivist perspective on the commentary tradition reminds me of what Ian Hacking, quoting Nietzsche, says about "unwrapping the mummy of science" to see it as an historical process. Hacking points out, in The Social Construction of What? (Harvard, 1999) that to see something as "constructed" can be liberating, as constructivism tells us that the constructed thing does not have to be the way it now is, or is regarded. We are constructors; can we be liberating? Goldhill asks, is it possible to have a commentary that pays attention to the modern ideas of a plural text, that is not integrally related to discredited ideas about language? It seems to me that here is a paradigmatic problem for humanities computing and that arriving at the point of formulating it (however crudely managed here) holds a mirror up to the field. Comments? Yours, WM : how we sort relevant from irrelevant . Apart from Reading the fat volume of learned essays, dealing with the genre in several traditions and historical periods (within most of which I am little more than a scholarly tourist), I found myself - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: SGMl/XML a year latter Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 124 (124) Willard Last century (Fri. Jan. 1999), Wendell Piez gave a wonderful overview of the state of sgml-aware software development : http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v12/0334.html In that posting, he suggested "we be more radical in imagining how we and our audiences could get software to do what we need." Anyone care to five an assessment of where we are now? 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EDV-gesttzte Lexikographie am Beispiel idiomatischer Wrterbcher: Erfahrungen und Desiderata (Prof. Dr. Hans Schemann, Inst. f. bersetzen und Dolmetschen, Universitt Heidelberg) 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: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: Re: 14.0089 thoughts on commentaries & humanities computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 127 (127) Willard, Raptim, I would say that the "commentary" is an artifact of the written (MS or print) word, depending on technologies of maintaining hierarchy (the authority of the text that is object of the commentary) and of presenting simultaneity (putting words on page next to each other in structured way). "Oral commentary" maintains hierarchy (we know what text is being commented on) but does not achieve simultaneity (the spoken word can't be looked at simultaneously, and fades). Other than shovelware projects (e.g., http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/conf), will there be genuinely similar commentary in cyberspace? I doubt it. The technologies of presenting simultaneity are certainly developed to new degrees of sophistication, but the ability of the anterior text to retain its authority and place in the hierarchy will certainly fade. On what text written in 2010 would anybody ever write a cybercommentary? In this regard, I think *Pale Fire* a precursor, a text in which the text-commented-upon disappears, is often read second after the commentary, and is arguably unnecessary for at least one kind of reading. I said "arguably" and would happily argue that, but my point is just that Nabokov's game has the effect of rendering questionable all that one thinks natural and normal about the commentary genre. My largest reservation about the Most collection is that it concentrates on the intellectual act and the relationship of text and commentary, but does not put sufficiently in play the physical nature of the commentary as object and its development over time. Other than what one can infer from histories of classical scholarship and the like, I don't see that *this* task has ever been properly done. (Rutherfurd's volume of Scholia Aristophanica entitled "Being a Chapter in the History of Annotation" is quite old but quite good on a piece of this, now that I think of it.) Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Computers and the Humanities: Special Issue on SENSEVAL Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 128 (128) *********************************************************************** JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *********************************************************************** COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 34, Issue 1/2, April 2000 SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE on THE SENSEVAL WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION EXERCISE Table of Contents ----------------- Introduction to the Special Issue on SENSEVAL A. Kilgarriff, M. Palmer Framework and Results for English SENSEVAL A. Kilgarriff, J. Rosenzweig Framework and Results for French Frederique Segond Senseval/Romanseval: The Framework for Italian Nicoletta Calzolari, Ornella Corazzari Tagger Evaluation Given Hierarchical Tag Sets I. Dan Melamed, Philip Resnik Peeling an Onion: The Lexicographer s Experience of Manual Sense-Tagging Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Diane Nicholls Lexicography and Disambiguation: The Size of the Problem Rosamund Moon Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Lexical Knowledge Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation E. Agirre, G. Rigau, L. Padro, J. Atserias Word Sense Disambiguation Using Automatically Acquired Verbal Preferences John Carroll, Diana McCarthy A Topical/Local Classifier for Word Sense Identification Martin Chodorow, Claudia Leacock, George A. 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Many thanks for any assistance you can provide. * * * Michael Frishkopf Department of Music Faculty of Arts University of Alberta 3-82 Fine Arts Building Edmonton, AB T6G 2C9 CANADA Office: 3-67 FAB Office tel and fax: (780) 492-0670 Email: michaelf@ualberta.ca Music Department: Tel: (780) 492-3263 Fax: (780) 492-9246 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NEW PROJECT: "The Virtual Lightbox" Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:38:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 130 (130) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 5, 2000 NOT FOR FURTHER DISTRIBUTION, PLEASE Responses sought on New Project: "The Virtual Lightbox: An Image-Based Whiteboard for the Web" <<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky <<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>. I'd like to draw attention again to a particularly generative listserv, LOOKSEE, dedicated to "serve as a community focal point for the collaborative development of open source image analysis tools." Matt Kirschenbaum, who runs the list, recently revealed the outline of a project to which he would welcome feedback. It's a project to create a "virtual lightboard" or an "image-based whiteboard for the Web." Such an image tool would offer an inline browser display area for the creation and use of images by individuals; a space for multiple users to collaboratively view and use the same image set in realtime; and one that would allow multiple users to collaboratively perform a variety of image processing operations on the same image set in realtime. If you are interested please join the LOOKSEE list or reply to Matt. To subscribe, send the message subscribe LOOKSEE yourfirstname yourlastname to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Stories Do Argue Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 131 (131) Willard, Congrats to the builders of the Humanist archive. I was able to rethread the following comments after I had deleted your "craft of research" posting from my system [with a bit of copy from the HTML source and a bit of paste into the email header of the present message]. This little introductory anecdote is a small example of the discovery behaviour which characterizes ourselves and our students. It is a story. One that betrays a certain commitment to the value of building a record of a dialogue. It is this propensity of stories to vehicle values that allows educators to encourage the bridge and at times the leap from description to analysis. This is where I usually begin : "Asking a question is akin to telling a story" http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4A.HTM#3.0 which leads elsewhere to my introducing a quotation from Jerome Bruner: In the realm of the human, whatever else it may be, the need to compare is a social need. Anywhere signifying practices are open to rereading and to question, interpretive relations abound. Jerome Bruner lists a striking range of such behaviour: The perpetual revisionism of historians, the emergence of "docudramas," the literary invention of "faction," the pillow talk of parents trying to make revised sense of their children's doings all of these bear testimony to this shadowy epistemology of the story. Indeed, the existence of story as a form is a perpetual guarantee that humankind will "go meta" on received versions of reality. (Acts of Meaning 55) http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S6B.HTM#5.15 In rereading these two paragraphs http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S6C.HTM#5.23 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S6C.HTM#5.24 I realize that some of this modern narrato-cognitive theory maps well onto the traditional trivium: rhetoric as an art of memory narrative as storage device dialectic as an art of asking questions narrative as algorithm grammar as an art of classifying what else could a metanarrative be? Stories in our pedagogical work aid memory which helps hone the types of questions that get asked which ... On a more practical note, pairs of students can justify to each other the routes they have taken in a given research exercise. For an example with TACTWeb see http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/tcon2000.htm#social To recap, my argument, in short, is that stories and their telling are useful material for the development of the faculty of reasoning. The degree of their usefulness depends upon structure of pedagogical practice. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: articles on Midrash Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:33:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 132 (132) At 12:07 AM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Hi Willard, I thought these links to articles I wrote would be useful background for the current discussion: Biblical Criticism: Midrash and Medieval Commentary, http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/bibcrit.htm and a review of Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash, at http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/review-db.htm Best wishes, Tzvee From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 14.0093 thoughts on commentaries Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:36:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 133 (133) Willard, A very brief reaction to O'Donnel with whom a very much agree: he wrote [deleted quotation] there are some attempts to deal with this aspect, including by myself, but the main problem is that commentary is the kind of meta-activity that occurs in many different areas. I have started some time ago to work on the late commentators on Aristotle, and have collected quite some material ranging from legal, religious, literary to philosophical texts. My main objective is to deal with earliest forms of polemic and exegesis and to describe the emergence of "commentary" as a genre and as a tool, and I would argue that the different areas can illuminate each other when it comes to analysing and describing the phenomenology of the commentator's activity. Others like e.g. Jaap Mansfeld (*Prolegomena 1994; Prolegomena Mathematica 1998) and Ineke Sluiter (who has a paper in the Most volume) have written or are in the process of writing on such issues (curiously we're all Dutch, but that's an aside). The Project I am working for here at King's College which produces translations of these late commentators, is making available a lot of the relevant material to enable others to deal with issues like 'physical nature and development'. I didn't mean this to be a plug for the Project/my own work (or at least not only), but to strengthen O'Donnel's point, yet at the same time indicate that this is not an omission which will remain there for long (O'D. already indicated a similar point in his review of the amusing and learned book by A. Grafton, *The Footnote, A Curious History* 1997 Faber&Faber, in Brynn Mawr Classical Review http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/98.1.05.html which was actually one of my points of encouragement to go on with what I had started.) Moreover, sometimes it is just very difficult to be aware of what's there on this topic simply because it requires an interdisciplinary outlook, or else because publications get overlooked on account of unhelpful titles. 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Usually a complaint to the pirate or his/her service provider does the trick, but I've been unable to make any headway with "WritersWorkshop" at simplenet.com. There is no clue on the site as to who has created this unauthorized mirror; and messages to the postmaster at simplenet.com go unanswered. It is particularly irritating because the pirate page is an old version of my work with some errors in it that have since been corrected on the real site; but people continue to write "correcting" me. Do any of you know how to get at the "writersworkshop" folks or otherwise deal with this problem? The pirate page is at <http://learn.simplenet.com/writersworkshop/DOCS/errors.txt>. -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Raptim & Rapture Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:16:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 136 (136) Willard Slowly, I am saddened that a distinguished scholar of Augustine would rehash orality/literacy dichotomies in order to argue in a technologically deterministic fashion that certain material practices entrench hierarchies. J. O'Donnell wrote: "commentary" is an artifact of the written (MS or print) word, depending on technologies of maintaining hierarchy (the authority of the text that is object of the commentary) http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0087.html Well let's be fair. The genre of "commentary" is said to _depend upon_ which is not exactly a ringing endorsement of technological determinism. And as O'Donnell continues, we learn that hierarchies are also maintained in an oral context. It seems if I read the message correctly that the act of maintaining itself depends upon simultaneity. But this may be a misreading since the "and" with which O'Donnell links maintaining hiearchary and presenting simultaneity may be disjunctive. In any case, if I read the presentation of the argument correctly, the hierarchy seems to depend to some extent upon presenting (creating an impression of [?]) simultaneity. I can not help but think how Augustine the great philosopher of time would theorizing such a simultaneity. I do want to point out that over the course of the short paragraph the terms have shifted from written word in print or manuscript form presenting a simultaneity to the oral delivery not acheiving simultaneity. In a paranthesis, O'Donnell claims that (the spoken word can't be looked at simultaneously, and fades). I am perplexed. In Augustine's _Confessions_ there are narrated words spoken and there are words read and there is commentary on this narration. And yes like Plato's dialogues the text is transmitted partly by a material support that conveys the graphic form and partly by a community of readers that also speak to each other. It is in the power of the mind of the listener or the reader to conjure up the necessary intertextual relations. Commentary would be the exchanged traces of the workings of such powers. I am not arguing that the mix between oral and written modes in any given textual community does not have an impact on the forms commentary might take. I am arguing that the forms of life in textual communities need not lend themselves to the mapping of hierarchical relations. An example to try to reinsert the technological considerations in an institutional framework without recourse to the dichotomization: Julia Kristeva gave lectures on Proust; those lectures are recorded on audio tape; a book appeared in print; even without audio tape -- there were note takers present. This gets even more interesting when we consider that the content of one of those lectures on Proust arose from a preface of Barthes to the work of La Bruyiere and that Kristeva participated in seminars given by Barthes. Was it what she heard or what she read that made her say and write what she did? And here I must confess the pleasure of reading an email message that began "Raptim" for it lead me to a commentary placing in parallel a passage in Augustine's cxxx epistle with one in Book V of Hooker's Polity_. It is tempting to produce a reading which ties the sexual politics of prayer with theories of commentary http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/footnote/fn20.htm And this is a prime example of how pointing mechanisms designed for a bound volume do need a bit of adaptation to make the hyperlinks work. The URL cited above lists footnotes to the eleventh volume of the second series of the writings of the Post-Nicene church fathers. There is no link back to the commented text. A link not easy to reconstruct for the non-expert given the table of contents: http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/TOC.htm#TopOfPage A bit of robot-like repetive searching (built on the assumption that the web version encodes a printed version with cross-reference builty on a consecutive numbering system) yields the commented source as the second book of Cassian's Institutes of Coenobia which deals with the canonical system of nocturanl prayers and psalms: http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-11/Npnf2-11-36.htm#P1990_872506 Sometimes awake at night, I harbour the suspicion that short prayers like short commentaries are designed to deprive the receipient of sleep and thus induce an altered state. There are textual communities that seek to avoid such states and those that enhance them and there are textual nomads that find delight in conversing cross-communally. Suffice it to state that the rapidly jotted text when revisited slowly with a religious regularity can lead to rapture (or is it the rapture that transforms the experience of time?). On textual objects, textual communities and technologies, see Brian Stock Augustine The Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge and the Ethics of Interpretation Brian Stock Listening for the text: on the uses of the past John Mowitt Text: the genealogy of an antidisciplinary object -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: Re: 14.0096 on commentaries Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:18:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 137 (137) Dear Willard and fellow-HUMANISTs, For the past few days, I've followed with interest the discussion on commentaries, and I am nagged by concern related to this discussion and very associated with a current project of mine. (Apologies in advance if this is too self-indulgent.) Though existing in relation to another text, it has been noted that many of us feel that commentary -- or, perhaps better-stated, specific historically-significant commentary -- comprises significant text in its own right. If so, I ask, how is such commentary ideally (and yet pragamatically) represented in an electronic scholarly edition? By way of example, I'm at work on a slow-moving project which will ultimately see the production of an electronic edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets that borrows from several available models of such editions. As with the works of many authors from traditions other and much earlier than that of vernacular English, cumulative commentary far outstrips initial text and its various states. Wishing to preserve the tradition of commentary surrounding such a text, in a way that honours that tradition as much as it honours the text itself, more than seems to be an overwhelming task: it is, for a popular text, a near impossibility. Is there an answer to be found, as has been suggested of several recent print editions of the work I'm considering, in abandoning all hope of treating even very significant commentary in a manner equivalent to that of its 'originating' text? Or is there an answer to be found, as was suggested a decade ago of Shakespeare editions in general, through cooperative ventures that see, over time, the availability of commentary in the form of electronic editions in their own right (or, more likely, as part of individual editions that the commentary serves) -- such that the commentary can, at some point in an ideal future, be given an equivalent treatment? Or are there more useful approaches? Ray Siemens ___________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 340/131. Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2126. Fax: (250) 741-2667. RaySiemens@home.com http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm siemensr@mala.bc.ca From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: ACL 200 Workshop: WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 138 (138) ************************ ACL 2000 Workshop ************************ WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX) October 2000 (following ACL'2000) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the "World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of multi-linguality. 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Hard copies should be mailed to: SIGLEX Workshop Submission Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0250 USA Important Dates =============== Submission (of full-length paper) August 10 Acceptance notice August 31 Camera-ready paper due September 15 Workshop date October 7 or 8 Organizers ========== Nancy Ide, Vassar College Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI Philip Resnik, University of Maryland David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 139 (139) [deleted quotation] From: Peter Gilbert Subject: Position Announcement (Lawrence U.) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 140 (140) Humanities Instructional Technologist (Search Extended) Lawrence University has an immediate opening for an instructional technologist in the humanities. 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To apply: Send cover letter, a vita, a brief statement of teaching philosophy addressing the significance of technology, and three letters of recommendation to: Peter Gilbert Director of Instructional Technology Lawrence University Appleton, WI 54911 Deadline for applications is August 1, 2000. EOE For more information about Lawrence, please see http://www.lawrence.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 14.0098 help with pirate Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:54:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 141 (141) Paul, Using a very handy piece of Win98 software called Ostrosoft Internet Tools (http://www.ostrosoft.com/ostronet.html) I found the record for learn.simplenet.com at whois.arin.net reads as follows: Simple Network Communications, Inc. (NETBLK-SIMPLENET97) 225 Broadway 13th Floor San Diego, CA 92101 Netname: SIMPLENET97 Netblock: 209.132.0.0 - 209.132.127.255 Maintainer: SMPL Coordinator: Hopperton, Frank (FH33-ARIN) frankh@yahoo-inc.com 619.881.3045 (FAX) 619.881.3010 (FAX)619.881.3010 (FAX) 619.881.3010 (FAX) 619.881.3010 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: NS1.SIMPLENET.NET 209.132.1.21 NS2.SIMPLENET.NET 209.132.2.21 ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE Record last updated on 13-Jan-2000. Database last updated on 7-Jul-2000 06:54:50 EDT. The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's. Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related Information and whois.nic.mil for NIPRNET Information. From: Chuck Bearden Subject: Re: 14.0098 help with pirate Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:55:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 142 (142) You might try the administrative contacts for that domain listed in the WHOIS services. For a lookup of the registry information by domain name: http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=simplenet.com For a lookup of the registry information by IP address block: http://www.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=209.132.37.153 The two kinds of lookup don't yield the same contact information. The WritersWorkshop website seems to be part of the 'St. John School Knowledge Network': http://learn.simplenet.com/stjohn/ but there isn't much information about it, either. A generic name like St. John School will be hard to track down. Have you tried 'webmaster@learn.simplenet.com' or 'webmaster@simplenet.com'? Might be more direct than postmaster. Good luck. ====================================================================== Chuck Bearden Library Systems Programmer/Analyst Fondren Library, MS44 Rice University cbearden@rice.edu P.O. Box 1892 713.348.3634 Houston, TX 77251-1892 713.348.5862 (fax) ====================================================================== From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0098 help with pirate Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:05:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 143 (143) Paul and others in similar situations might have to resort to a mass mailing of the sponsors of a site. The sponsors (assuming their record keeping and knowledge management are impecable) may be able to get a message through to the operator/pirate: http://learn.simplenet.com/writersworkshop/sponsor_frame.html However, since simplenet.com is now part of yahoo, the adoptive parent may be of some assistance in disciplining the child. Yahoo claims to "respect the intellectual property of others". They do offer contact info if your copyyright has been infringed : http://docs.yahoo.com/info/copyright/copyright.html -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Terry Winograd Subject: MOSAIC 2000--the Millennial Open Symposium on the Arts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 144 (144) {--} From: David Salesin Dear colleague, I'd like to invite you to join us at MOSAIC 2000, the Millennial Open Symposium on the Arts and Interdisciplinary Computing, which will take place August 21-24 at the University of Washington in Seattle. This conference will bring together a community of artists, mathematicians, poets, musicians, and computer scientists to explore the opportunities at the intersection of these fields. We're looking forward to four days of inspiration, creativity, and collaboration! MOSAIC will feature a series of invited talks by artists and researchers from around the world, presentations of refereed papers, hands-on workshops, evening receptions, and more. There will also be a display area exhibiting personal and commercial visual art, sculpture, puzzles, and other objects of interest. You can find complete information about the conference, including a tentative schedule, at <http://www.cs.washington.edu/mosaic2000/> Please note that the deadline for early registration is July 15. Also, the number of registrations is limited to about 200 and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. We hope you can join us for this enlightening and energizing experience! David Salesin & Carlo Sequin Conference Directors -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* This message was posted through the Stanford campus mailing list server. If you wish to subscribe to this mailing list, send the message body of "subscribe pcd-fyi-list" to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: Re: 14.0101 on commentaries Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 145 (145) willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> wrote: [deleted quotation] A well-chosen subject line for a message that eventually comes to dwell on *ejaculatory* prayer . . . [deleted quotation] People wield the trenching tool, not practices (the practices are themselves tools), but it is hardly determinism to say that different kinds of things have different kinds of qualities. What is remarkable in this discussion is that "commentary" is accepted as a generic descriptor of a wide variety of cultural practices, some of which involve only the spoken word, some both spoken and written, some written only (and "written" ranging from handwritten MS to xml text, shortly to be expanded by reintroducing oral and no doubt visual commentary material). My purpose in writing was to suggest some of the distinctions that obtain between what, e.g., a fourth century bishop does in his pulpit, what a thirteenth century monk does in his cell, and what a 20th century scholar does on his laptop at 40,000 feet. In doing so, I did not mean to efface the discourse of resemblance that links those things, but only to supplement that with observation of disresemblance and to encourage us to catalogue the latter thoughtfully. In doing so, I take it to be fundamental that commentary brings two texts in contact with each other: the commentary and its object. And I further observe that the relationship between those texts varies sharply in response to a variety of factors. *Pale Fire* and Robert Grudin's wonderful *Book: A Novel* offer extreme cases where the *apparent* hierarchy is subverted. But a 13th century scholastic or 20th century academic commentary on an authoritative text will offer (to my mind) a subtler form of subversion. Aquinas on Aristotle: which is the *authority*? We can argue. But Aristotle's text *persists* in that commentary, for reasons that are at least in part mechanical. As Lachance points out (preserved below) the e-text is one that *can* (and therefore often will) readily lose the text-commented-upon as the commentary survives. The decline of same-page commentary printing has anticipated this in print for fifty years. The only other thing I will say for now is that both Lachance and Siemens (quotation also preserved below, as object of commentary) are devotees of the commentary form, seeking its preservation in cybertext. Moi aussi. But I *surmise* that we are among the few, the proud, and the brave in this regard, and that the cultural momentum of new forms will not emphasize commentary-relations. We can dream of the scholarly journal as talmud-on-talmud (you write article with footnotes, I add some footnotes, you add some footnotes to mine, somebody else adds some more footnotes), but that will represent that extreme elaboration of an old form by a few devotees. I would expect new media in the main to accelerate and reinforce more popular tendencies in the culture, tendencies whereby the new text effaces and replaces and forgets the old. I could be wrong. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 146 (146) [deleted quotation] From: robert Cavalier Subject: ethical dilemmas Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:06:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 147 (147) It's nice to find this reference to my talk in Munich! I can refer you to our publisher, Routledge, as they have a site where you can order two of the CD-ROMs that we have published. Part of the rationale for our developement of these programs is to demonstrate the need for 'thick descriptions' and 'relective engagement' in the context of discussing "ethical dilemmas." The use of a text-based case summary can't do justice to the complexity of real world scenarios. (Or so the argument goes:) Go to www.routledge.com and type the keyword "Dax" for our study of a burn patient who wishes to be allowed to die (The Case of Dax Cowart") and type the keyword "Abortion" for out study of the Issue of Abortion in America. Now, I wish I could point you to our Center's URL, but we are still recovering from a hacker attack and would have all of our materials back on line until the end of summer. An Ethics Center, nonetheless! --On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 8:27 PM +0200 Arun-Kumar Tripathi wrote: [deleted quotation] <http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/philosophy/people/directory/Preston>> _Cov ey.html>. --WM] Robert Cavalier CAAE/Philosophy 260 Baker Hall Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412/268-7643 From: Dave Farber Subject: Ethics for Machines! 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 14.0107 ethical dilemmas, ethics for machines Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 155 (155) Willard, the latest issue of the Newsletter of the American Philosophical Association has a new column on "computing and ethics" and it also includes a short report on an experiment (Turing test) at Darthmouth which "disproves Turing's prophesy": see http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/newsletters/v99n2/computers/index.asp HB From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Measuring the height of a building with a barometer. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 156 (156) Fellow Humanists: The following charming story has been circulating in print and via E-mail for decades, but, recently, has developed a new twist. ================================================================= Great Moments in Physics The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam. "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." One student replied: "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building." This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics. For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows: "Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer." "Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper." "But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqroot (l / g)." "Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up." "If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building." "But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'." ================================================================= This is a lovely example of "thinking out of the box" and has been widely circulated. Recently, however, I have received several copies of the story with two additions. 1. The story is set at the University of Copenhagen. 2. The following "tag line" has been added: The student was Niels Bohr, the only person from Denmark to win the Nobel prize for Physics. If true, this would not be entirely surprising. After all, the battles between Bohr and Einstein at the Solvay conferences in the late '20's hinged on such "gedankenexperimenten" covering their disagreements. Bohr was one of the champions of quantum mechanics. Einstein always felt that "God does not play dice" and that there had to be a deeper, underlying mechanism, not simply random chance. Be that as it may, can anyone authenticate the story as being attributable to Bohr? Thanks. _______________________________________________________________ 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: "swiss@drake" Subject: [New Book] The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 157 (157) [--] The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power by Andrew Herman (Editor), Thomas Swiss (Editor) Paperback - 320 pages 1 edition (July 2000) Routledge; ISBN: 0415925029 Other Editions: Hardcover ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Editorial Reviews Book Description The World Wide Web is the most well-known, celebrated, and promoted contemporary manifestation of "cyberspace." To date, however, most of the public discourse on the Web falls into the category of explanatory journalism -- the Web has remained largely unmapped in terms of contemporary cultural research. This book, however, begins that mapping by bringing together more than a dozen well-known scholars across the humanities and social sciences to explore the Web as a cultural technology characterized by a nexus of economic, political, social, and aesthetic forces. Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web; The Economy of Cyberpromotion, The Bias of the Web, The Web and Issues of Gender,and so on. Contributors: Jody Berland, Jodi Dean, Sean Cubitt, Greg Elmer, Andrew Herman, Steven Jones, Nancy Kaplan, Robert McChesney, Vincent Mosco, Stuart Moulthrop, Theresa Senft, Rob Shields, John Sloop, Thomas Swiss, and David Tetzlaff. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: CFP: Critical Thinking Across Asia Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 158 (158) CALL FOR PAPERS Critical Thinking Across Asia As Asian countries are finding ways to improve the quality of their educational systems in order to survive in the contemporary globalized economy, the role of critical thinking has received a lot of attention as a means toward producing graduates who are "capable of thinking for themselves". This capacity, whatever it actually means, is perceived to be a key toward enhancement of competitiveness in many areas. However, attempts to teach Asian students to become critical thinkers have been very difficult to realize. This is due to the fact that in many Asian traditions, there are deep rooted cultural traditions that seem to discourage critical thinking. Teachers are normally held in a very high esteem, and they typically do not want to see themselves being embarrassed by criticisms, not least from their students. Students are taught to be obedient; they are expected to believe whatever the teacher says. Apparently some other kind of value are taken to be of a higher priority than that of critical thinking. Hence, some questions that emerge in connection with this phenomenon are: What exactly is critical thinking? What is it that we teachers want our students to have or to be in order that they be able to think critically? Is there any necessary connection between critical thinking and one particular cultural tradition? In case of Asian culture, which apparently does not have or does not emphasize critical thinking, what can be done? What exactly is the value of critical thinking? Why is it so desirable? Or is it really desirable in all cases? These questions are only suggestive, and naturally there are many more that can and should be asked. This special issue of Manusya: Journal of Humanities is calling for teachers and researchers in any related field to submit their papers for consideration of publication. Theoretical papers dealing with conceptual issues, empirical studies dealing with issues related to the topic, as well as specific case studies of methods of teaching critical thinking cross-culturally are all welcome. Topics related to this issue include, but not limited to, the following: *Analysis of critical thinking *Value of critical thinking *Relation of critical thinking to historical or cultural traditions *Case studies of critical thinking teaching cross culturally *Empirical studies of cultural factors in critical thinking *Historical analysis of the perceived lack of critical thinking tradition in Asia *Possible latent historical sources in Asian cultures that could promote critical thinking *Ways toward promoting critical thinking in Asian students. Papers should not exceed a maximum of 7,500 words, not including notes and references. They should be sent as an attachment to the editor's email address. The file should be in RTF, MS Word 2.0 for Windows, or MS Word 5.1 for Mac format. Further inquires could be directed to the special issue editor: Soraj Hongladarom Special Issue Editor, Manusya Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand email: hsoraj@chula.ac.th Tel. +66-2-2184756; Fax. +66-2-2184867 Deadline of submission: February 28, 2001 Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the editor for inquiries or further information. Papers submitted will undergo the usual review process. Manusya: Journal of Humanities is an international journal dealing with all aspects of the humanities. It is published by Chulalongkorn University and distributed worldwide. The web site of the Journal is: http://www.media.academic.chula.ac.th/manusya/ ***************** Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Tel. +662-2184756 Fax +662-2184867 Personal Web Page: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: 14.0113 computing and ethics; test of Turing Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:39:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 159 (159) [The following is but one of the notes received about the article on computing in ethics and Turing in APA Online. Apologies to all who tried and were repelled. --WM] Hello, Would it be possible for you to summarize this article on Turing? Evidently one must be a member of the APA to access the newsletter. --Mark Horney [deleted quotation] ..asp [deleted quotation] Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center forAdvanced Technology in Education University of Oregon 1244 Walnut St Eugene, Oregon 97403 (o) 541/346-2679 FAX: 541/346-6226 mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu Web de Anza: http://anza.uoregon.edu Project INTERSECT: http://intersect.uoregon.edu From: Doug Brent Subject: EJournal password problem Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:39:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 160 (160) Anyone who has attempted to view the EJournal archives in the past week (since the announcement appeared in Humanist) may have been met with a password request. This was an error: EJournal is intended to be completely password-free. The glitch has been corrected and EJournal is once again open for viewing by all interested parties. -- Doug Brent Co-Editor, EJournal From: "Paul F. Schaffner" Subject: Re: 14.0114 a charming story Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:45:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 161 (161) [deleted quotation] *** [deleted quotation] *** [deleted quotation] According the the "Urban Legend Reference Pages," (http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometr.htm), the story has not been traced back earlier than a 1961 reference to it by Dr. Alexander Calandra, who tells it in the first person and may have invented it; the association with Niels Bohr seems to have appeared for the first time only last year (1999). [I owe this reference to (physicist) Steve Schaffner (sfs@genome.wi.mit.edu).] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schaffner | pfs@umich.edu | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/ University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0114 a charming story Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:46:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 162 (162) ) To: Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 6:47 AM [deleted quotation] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Re: 14.0114 a charming story Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:46:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 163 (163) Dear Dr. Donald Weinshank, Hi, A very interesting story, an intelligent response! Thanks, I cann't resist myself to give my own thoughts.. On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Yes, using the Second Law of equation, and taking initial velocity u, zero. [deleted quotation] Yes, here we could measure the height of a skyscraper by method of *Trigonometry Ratios* first by checking the angles of elevation (depression) of Sun to the ground, and then using Tangent of theta. [deleted quotation] Great, Birbal replies to Emperor Akbar!! [deleted quotation] Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Bonus Question: Is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:51:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 164 (164) endothermic(absorbs heat)? Dear Humanists, (fwd via Janet Young) --some food for thought --might interest you-- This email "send around" was sent to me by a prof at Temple University... Kind of makes you go hummmmmmmmmmm... Have a great weekend!. The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington [deleted quotation] From: Han Baltussen Subject: Computerphilologie Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:49:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 165 (165) Dear Willard an interesting overview article entitled "What is computer philology?" (my transl.) by Fotis Iannidis can be found on the German site for Computerphilologie: a tough read (partly because of the small print on screen [!]) but a nice overview and useful appednix with some interesting sites (HUMANIST is mentioned several times of course). http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jahrbuch/jb1/jannidis-1.html HB Dear Willard a PS to previous mail: the German site for Computerphilologie also contains a review of an interesting book by Paul Gilster, Digital Literacy<\i> (John Wiley and Sons 1997) at http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jahrbuch/jb1/steutzger.html HB -------------------------------------------------- Dr Han Baltussen Research Associate & Assistant Editor to the Ancient Commentators Project Dept. of Philosophy Kings College London Strand London WC2R 2LS tel. (0)20-7848-2528 fax. (0)20-7848-2317 -------------------------------------------------- *Please note that I will be away from July 18-25 * Any queries on Project matters during my absence can be directed to Ms Eleni Vambouli (eleni.vambouli@kcl.ac.uk) From: Gianni Rubagotti Subject: Neurasia web/wapzine: how about it? Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:49:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 166 (166) A new webzine and wapzine of philosophy is borning: Neurasia. He would like to talk about philosophy in interesting and curious way and use creatively new media. you can see the first number of neurasia at: http://www.ciaoweb.net/neurasia/en-neurasia.htm We wait your comments, and possibly your article proposal. In the meanwhile we are preparing an amazing second number. Best wishes, Gianni Rubagotti friend of Neurasia From: Editor Subject: "Critical thinking involves a careful examination of the Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 167 (167) [--] ********************************************* "Critical thinking ... involves a careful examination of the foundations upon which thinking of any sort must rely..." -- Origins of Western Thought ***************************************** The Ancient Art of Thinking ***************************************** At the site <http://people.delphi.com/gkemerling/hy/2b.htm> The first texts that discussed abstract thinking began to appear in various places around the world around the Sixth Century BCE. The Greeks, a well-traveled bunch, probably adapted elements from many cultures, but their democratic institutions and advanced education infused these ideas thoroughout their society. They also created a body of literature that still serves as the curriculum for advanced thinking. This body of Philosophy has allowed us to transcend the fear and superstition that impede human progress. Our science has surpassed the wildest speculations of those ancient Greek Philosophers. Yet, the thought processes they developed have not been duplicated by the most sophisticated super computers. "The Origins of Western Thought", written by Garth Kemerling, divides abstract thinking into these categories: Speculative thinking, which expresses human curiosity about the world - Practical thinking, which embraces reality and our place in it - Critical thinking, which examines the assumptions on which the other two types of thinking rely. In this digital age, information is coming at us faster than ever. That requires us to refine the mental tools to evaluate, analyze, critique, and incorporate all these new ideas and concepts. Spend some time with the origins of Western Thought. It's a well written, comprehensive presentation that includes a dictionary, timelines, an introduction to logic, and biographies of the influential philosophers. ***************************************** How to SUBSCRIBE: To subscribe to the list, send mail to: bigeyesrv@bigeye.com In the body of the message enter: subscribe insight 'Your Name' (note: you can use your first name or even a nickname if you choose) ***************************************** From: "Gerda Elata" Subject: Re: 14.0115 new book on WWW Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 168 (168) Does anyone know of an electronic edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry? Gerda Elata [I have found <http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/stacks/authors.dickenson.html>; are there better? --WM] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Article by Prof. Theodore P. Hill in American Scientist Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:14:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 169 (169) Dear scholars at Humanist, Hi, I hope --you are doing well and thought --might interest you, that recently Prof. Theodore Hill has written an article on "Mathematical Devices for Getting a Fair Share" --which is published in American Scientist Magazine, the abstract of the essay is available online at <http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/00articles/Hill.html> In the article, he has discussed Dubin's method and Steinhaus's Ham Sandwich Theorem, and many more --the article sounds very interesting. Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0117 thoughts on philosophy Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:15:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 170 (170) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Mon. July 17, 2000, 3:58AM Dear Colleagues: These are exceptionally interesting fundamental categories - in ordinary language curiosity, reality, assumptions. Epistemology, metaphysics, ethics in other terms - although there is something of an overlap of categories in comparing the two lists. Does what is real depend on our assumptions about either the real or unreal? How much does what we know depend on what is real, how much of the real do we know, and how does what we know relate to what we assume? Does what we are curious about depend on what we know or what is real, and how? Does what we are curious about reflect our assumptions or vice versa? The Ancient Greeks were curious about what looked like a linear universe of straight lines and so their axioms reflect this curiosity - circles and spheres to them were in many ways merely side issues determined by real lines (the determination by real lines is true in many spaces, but the side issues part has been effectively disputed by non-Euclidean geometry and general relativity). Modern physics and engineering are especially curious about ratios or division, which dimensional analysis seemed to indicate the importance of in the real world, but what about the axiom assumed here - that division makes sense but subtraction is not important on an equal footing? The question is very relevant for statistics and probability and hence for all behavioral and social science research and for computer-related humanist fields. (Bayesian) conditional probability-statistics is the mainstream "division oriented" discipline, while non-mainstream logic-based probability is the subtraction oriented version. The former works fairly well for frequent/common events and events which influence each other very little or not at all, while the latter works well for rare events and events which influence each other fairly well or very much and for events which are contained in (subsets of) other events. We may well find that the three pairs of categories are the fundamental irreducible categories of the universe. [deleted quotation] --According Richard Hooker, Philosophys' chief branches [deleted quotation] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [URL] The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:19:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 171 (171) Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power Dear Humanists, Hi, the details about the book, "The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory" can be found at: <http://www.Frontlist.com/catalog/detail.htm/0-415-92502-9> Thanks! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 14.0113 computing and ethics; test of Turing Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:16:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 172 (172) I am very sorry about this, I must have ben in a hurry no to realize that this was on the members only part of the site. I suppose these become only public when the printed version of the newsletter is published. apologies again HB From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: For Humanist in Re to 14.0118: Password problems, one of Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:16:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 173 (173) which may not be solved [deleted quotation] asp [deleted quotation] Unfortunately, the glitch is not fixed. When I accessed the above URI, I got a "timeout.asp" page that described what sounds to me like a 401 error. APA Member Services [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The Page you have requested is only accessible by APA Members. Go to Logon Page Activate Your Account Become a Member etc. Nor is the EJournal mentioned on the APA's publically accessible publications page at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/texts/index.html or the Web Resources page at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/asp/journals.asp I tried to see if maybe the URI posted to the list was wrong. I've had the same problem with stuff I've done, so I feel your pain ;-) Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net ------------------------------------- Prof. McCarty, Thanks, PTR From: Willard McCarty Subject: Busa Award: request for nominations Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 174 (174) [deleted quotation] Nominations for the Busa Award --------------------------------------------------- One of the evergreen topics of Humanist is the unanswerable question "What is humanities computing?" From time to time our esteemed pot-stirrer and moderator tries to provoke a discussion on the topic by asking pointed questions. I write to invite humanists to try their hands at a different way of defining our field -- namely, by identifying individuals whose work seems to have exemplary (dare I say paradigmatic?) character. A few years ago, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) agreed to create an award, to be given every three years, to honor outstanding achievement in the application of information technology to humanistic research. The award is named for Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa in 1998. The next Busa Award will be given next year, at the ACH/ALLC 2001 conference in New York (13-17 June). The award committee (names listed below) is seeking nominations for the second Busa award. This is our chance, as a community, to define our field by saying who stands at the center of it. Whose work serves as the model we name, when people ask what we hope to accomplish by the use of computers in the humanities? The recipient will be invited to attend the ACH/ALLC 2001 conference in New York at the expense of the ACH and ALLC, and to give the Busa Award lecture in a plenary session. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing; neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH or ALLC (although of course we encourage you to join!). Nominations should give some account of the nominee's work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field, worthy of honor. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee's work is desirable. Nominations should be sent to the chair of the award committee, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, at the address cmsmcq@acm.org, as soon as possible but no later than 31 August 2000. -2001 Busa Award Committee Paul Fortier Randall Jones Willard McCarty, Lisa-Lena Opas-Hanninen C. M. Sperberg-McQueen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 175 (175) Dear Colleagues: The next many days, until the very end of this month, I will be travelling to and attending the ALLC/ACH conference at the University of Glasgow <http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/>, then walking along the West Highland Way with mirabile dictu no Internet connection. I know, I could bring a laptop with a satellite up-link, pause by the side of the trail from time to time or tap into the local telephone system from B&Bs in Drymen, Rowardennan, Inverarnan and so forth, and do my duty as editor of Humanist, but I won't. Instead I'll perhaps come to understand better why Dougie Maclean sings so passionately about Scotland. High time, too, as I'm sure my colleagues in that fine country will be muttering as they read this message. The University of Virginia will keep your messages safe, so please continue to send them. I'll be wired while at the ALLC/ACH and attentive to my duties. See you there, I hope. As Allen Renear once said to me (in a little restaurant in Providence RI, I think it was), one tends to have more of the intellectual life among the people who gather for the ALLC/ACH than at any other professional conference. In 2001 the conference will be at NYU, for which see <http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/index.html>. So, if the width of the Pond is keeping you away this year.... Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: July/August 2000 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:42:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 176 (176) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 18, 2000 July/August 2000 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/07contents.html>http://www <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/07contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/ju ly00/07contents.html Artickes in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine include: "Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?" --William Y. Arms, Cornell University "Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library in London." --Gregory Crane, Tufts University "Virginia Dons FEDORA: A Prototype for a Digital Object Repository." --Thornton Staples and Ross Wayland, University of Virginia "Preserving the Authenticity of Contingent Digital Objects: The InterPARES Project." --Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, University of California, Los Angeles, and --Philip B. Eppard, University at Albany, State University of New York "Institute for Legal and Ethical Issues in the New Information Era: Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives." --Tomas A. Lipinski, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "Dublin Core Releases Recommended Qualifiers" --Stuart Weibel and Eric Miller, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Also note the book review by Erich Kesse, of "Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (RLG, 2000) David Green =========== [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: DLF and RLG Issue Guidelines for Digitizing Visual Resources Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:43:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 177 (177) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 18, 2000 Digital Library Federation and Research Libraries Group Issue "Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging" <<http://www.rlg.org/visguides/>http://www.rlg.org/vi <<http://www.rlg.org/visguides/>http://www.rlg.org/visguides/> A set of five guides to the technical and planning aspects of digital imaging of visual resources has been made freely available on the website of the Research Libraries group. A project of RLG, the Digital Libraries Federation and the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Guides are written by commissioned authors and are titled: "Planning a Digital Imaging Project; "Selecting a Scanner;" "Imaging Systems: the Range of Factors Affecting Image Quality;" "Measuring Quality of Digital Masters;" and "File Formats for Digital Masters." The Guides will be updated, so user comment is encouraged. David Green ========== [material deleted] From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:38:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 178 (178) [deleted quotation] A few resources which I hope prove to be of some help: Black, Paul E. and Kris Selander. "Emily Dickinson" <http://userweb.interactive.net/~krisxlee/emily/> (Updated 2000-03-05). [collected 490 links to poems online; students' page for finding information about Dickinson; plenty of other annotated links to resources] Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. <http://www.bartleby.com/113/> [includes introduction; index of first lines; HTML presentation] Dickinson, Emily. Poems. (M. L. Todd & T.W.Higginson (eds).) Boston: Robert Brother, 1891; Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan, 1995. <http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?type=header&id=DickiPoems> [searchable and browsable electrionic version; text available in HTML or SGML; with complete TEI Header) Smith, Martha Nell, Ellen Louise Hart, Lara Vetter and Marta Werner (eds). Dickinson Electronic Archives. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1996-. <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/> [access to ED's writings restricted - contact Lara Vetter (lv26@umail.umd.edu); writings by Susan Dickinson, Edward Dickinson; 'Classroom Electric' has section on correspondence between Emily and Susan; 'Archives in the classroom' has section on different editions of the poems; collection of contemporary poets' responses to Dickinson] Emily Dickinson International Society. (Case Western Reserve University, 1999-.) <http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html> [membership information; The Emily Dickinson Journal available via Project Muse and also http://www.colorado.edu/EDIS/journal/ (1992-96); scholars registry; related web sites] Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Paul Brians Subject: Re: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:39:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 179 (179) If you find such an edition, it will probably be illegal, since most of Dickinson's poetry is not in the public domain. The bulk of it was published in the mid-20th Century; and copyright in the US is counted from first publication, not date of authorship. Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:39:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 180 (180) I tried accessing the Dickinson poetry through this link and while there's an index, the poems themselves seem to have been removed from the server. I did find a 1924 edition through the Online Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/) (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/authorstart?D), listed under "Dickinson." There is a page at Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/113/). The poems appear to be accessible only one at a time and there is a good deal of advertizing to wade through. The University of Michigan has these HTML/SGML versions Dickinson, Emily: Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series, 1914 edition) (HTML and SGML at Michigan) (e.g. http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?type=header&id=DickiPoem3) Dickinson, Emily: Poems by Emily Dickinson (Second Series, 1910 edition) (HTML and SGML at Michigan) Dickinson, Emily: Poems by Emily Dickinson (First Series, 1891 Edition) (HTML and SGML at Michigan) There are some others. Is there anyone who has experience with preparing online versions of Dickinson that go beyond presenting the text? My team at the University of Oregon has been considering an edition of Dickinson in our work with student with learning disabilities. We'd appreciate any insights anyone might have in working on poetry with this population. --Mark Horney [deleted quotation] Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center forAdvanced Technology in Education University of Oregon 1244 Walnut St Eugene, Oregon 97403 (o) 541/346-2679 FAX: 541/346-6226 mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu Web de Anza: http://anza.uoregon.edu Project INTERSECT: http://intersect.uoregon.edu From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Mats_Dahlstr=F6m=22?= Subject: SV: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:40:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 181 (181) In response to Gerda Alata's request for e-editions of Dickinson's poetry: check out Univ. of Virginia's Dickinson archive at : <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/>. The access to the very texts is unfortunately somewhat restricted, but you might find some interesting items, along with links to related Dickinson resources on the web. Happy hunting / Mats D |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlstrm / Doctoral student, Lecturer / Dept of Library and Info Science, Univ. college of Bors, Sweden / mad@adm.hb.se / http://www.adm.hb.se/personal/mad/ +46 33 16 44 21(phone), +46 33 16 40 05 (phax) / .... and, in the words of Nelson, "http://www.imagine.the/transclusion.html#oftext">" From: Brother Anthony Subject: Re: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:40:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 182 (182) The American Verse Project index at http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?page=bibl The Bartleby Archive index at http://www.bartleby.com/index.html or the American literature section of the Voice of the Shuttle at http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-amer.html should give you food for thought and pleasure far beyond Emily D. An Sonjae (Brother Anthony) Sogang University, Seoul, Korea http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:40:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 183 (183) There are two volumes of Emily Dickinson from Project Gutenberg: Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Two [Emily D. #2][2mlydxxx.xxx]2679 Jun 2001 Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series One [Emily D. #1][1mlydxxx.xxx]2678 [Yes, we are about a year ahead of schedule.] Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 14.0125 Emily Dickenson's poetry online? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:41:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 184 (184) there must be better if the url cannot spell Dickinson correctly.... Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 eFax: (360) 838-8589 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com http://jaschakessler.homestead.com/ http://www.mcphersonco.com From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conference: Metamorphoses 2000: Expressive Technology, Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 185 (185) Art and Humanities NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 18, 2000 Metamorphoses 2000: Expressive Technology, Art and Humanities Fourteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists October 18-20, 2000: School of Visual Arts, NYC <http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/NewsEvents/indexhtml.html>http <http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/NewsEvents/indexhtml.html>http://www.scho olofvisualarts.edu/NewsEvents/indexhtml.html [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 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Pioneers in on-line learning will lead each of the seminar sessions.  The first week focuses on Learning Effectiveness, and the second week focuses on Faculty Satisfaction.  The seminar leaders are faculty, administrators and technical experts from leadin g institutions in higher education, grantees of the Sloan Consortium (http://www.sloan-c.org). *** End Clip *** ANNOUNCEMENT 2: THE 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORKS November 3-5, 2000 University of Maryland University College College Park, Maryland Please, mark these dates, and go to http://www.aln.org/alnconf2000 for more about the premier conference devoted exclusively to online learning. Researchers, educators, and anyone interested in distance education are welcome.  Discuss the state-of-the-art with scientists, teachers and managers, see what the commercial sector is offering to support online education, and join in shaping the future o f this growing field. 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Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0127 Emily online Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:52:07 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 190 (190) [deleted quotation] Actually, according to Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary, mid-20th Century edition, there were six volumes published after her death, four of which were before 1923, and thus would be in the public domain. . . . Also, one must consider that that the later editions might have only been protected by compilation copyrights, and thus most or all of the individual contents could be in the public domain. [Also of note, a "Complete Works" does not get a compilation copyright, in that there is no "intellectual input" in choosing the works. . .there would have to be other "intellectual input." However, in other countries this is not so strictly enforced, and "sweat of the brow" copyrights are more commonly enforced. Michael S. Hart 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: Susan Warshauer Subject: Job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Literary Computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 191 (191) Please announce: The Department of English at West Virginia University seeks to hire a visiting Assistant Professor as Coordinator of our Center for Literary Computing for a one-year term, August 16, 2000, through May 15, 2001. Ph.D. preferred; ABD considered. Evidence of ability to maintain the Center as a major resource of instruction and research for both graduate and undergraduate students required; teaching assignment will include the continued development of a program of courses in humanities computing as well as introductory literature courses and composition. Send letter of application and current c. v. with list of references to: Timothy Dow Adams, Chair, Department of English, P. O. Box 6296, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506. We would be happy to receive applications via e-mail or fax (tadams@wvu.edu or fax (304) 293-5380). Review of applications will begin immediately. This advertisement and supplementary information about the Department is available at URL Minorities, women candidates, and those with disabilities urged to apply. AA/EOE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: For Humanist: LexiBot metasearch software Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 192 (192) Of possible interest to Humanist folks: this is obviously a disguised Press Release (on CNN.com, from a company called BrightPlanet), but it makes a good point about the opacity of databases to current search technologies and the software sounds interesting. Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net Study says Web is 500 times larger than major search engines now show [Excerpts, 20% of article] While search engines obviously have come a long way since 1994, they aren't indexing even more pages because an increasing amount of information is stored in evolving, giant databases set up by government agencies, universities and corporations. BrightPlanet believes it has developed a solution with software called "LexiBot." With a single search request, the technology not only searches the pages indexed by traditional search engines, but delves into the databases on the Internet and fishes out the information in them. The LexiBot isn't for everyone, BrightPlanet executives concede. For one thing, the software costs money -- $89.95 after a free 30-day trial. For another, a LexiBot search isn't fast. Typical searches will take 10 to 25 minutes to complete, but could require up to 90 minutes for the most complex requests. The privately held company expects LexiBot to be particularly popular in academic and scientific circles. http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/26/deepweb.ap/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: LIST OF INTERESTING BOOKS Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 193 (193) Greetings humanist scholars, Following are my personal findings regarding the books related to the Cyborgs, Postmodernism, Virtual Reality, Media, Philosophy of Information and Technology, Internet and Cyberspace, and Digital culture, Science Fiction and technology, hypertext etc -during my cyberexplorations and thought, this might interest you. I hope these books will also help you in your teaching and learning -the books are *highly recommended* Actually, I tried to collect some important books on the contemporary issues related to Philosophy of cyberspace, AI, computers and VR, digital culture and technology, hypertext and writings etc, but if I have missed some other books on important issues related to above themes, please let me know! Thanks you very much in advance! -- Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Efects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaption (Washington DC: The Smithsonian, 1991) by Mary Catherine Bateson. Thinking Through Technology, 1994, p. 6-9 cy Carl Mitcham Marshall McLuhan meets William Gibson in "Cyberspace" by Michael Doherty (CMC Magazine, September..1995) Connected Intelligence by Derrick De Kerckhove, 1997 The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture by Dinty Moore, 1995 Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Cambridge: HUP, 1990) by Hans Moravec The Adpated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, eds. Preface to Plato (Cambridge: HUP, 1982) by Eric A. Havelock The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991) by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. Snow Crash (New York: Bantam, 1992) by Neal Stephenson The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) by Richard Lanham Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1976) by Joseph Weizenbaum Posthuman Bodies (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995) by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston. The Skin of Culture by Derrick De Kerckhove (Sommerville Publishing House, Toronto, 1995) Minds, Brains and Science (Cambridge, HUP, 1986) by John R. Searle Neuromancer (New York, Ace Books, 1984) by William Gibson Research in Philosophy and Technology, edited by Frederick Ferre & George Allan (vol 14, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1994) Being Digital by Nicholas Nergroponte Bruno Latour, "We have Never Been Modern", translated by Catherine Porter (Cambridge: HUP, 1993) Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community by Steve Jones (Newbury Park. CA) The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn (dramatic trilogy in text and on video) 1988 Welcome To...Internet: From Mystry to Mastery by T. Badgett and C. Sandler (NY MIS Press, 1993) The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges (1941) Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, edited by Timothy Druckrey (New York: Aperture, 1996) Avatars of the Word: from Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge: HUP, 1998) by James J. O'Donnell The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffery Nunberg As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (1945) Hypertext 2.0 By George Landow (1997) Teledemocracy: Can technology protect democracy? by F.C. Arterton (Newbury Park: Sage, 1987) _Holding On to Reality_: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) by Albert Borgmann How to advertise on the Internet by Michael Strangelove & Aneurin Bosley (Strangelove Press, 1994) Crossing the Postmodern Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) by Albert Borgmann [deleted quotation]The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) editor Peter Lunenfeld In the Age of the Smart Machine: the future of Work and Power by S. Zuboff (New York: Basic Books, 1988) Hypermedia and Literary Studies (MIT, 1991) by George P. Landow The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities (MIT, 1993) by George P. Landow The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford (1982, 1997) Computers as Theatre (Addison-Wesley 1991) by Branda Laurel The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (1988) Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures (forthcoming MIT Press) by Peter Lunenfeld. The Invisible Computer by Don Norman (1998) The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2000) by Lev Manovich The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (March 2000, MIT Press) edited by Ken Goldberg City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995) by William J. Mitchell. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (MIT Press, 1992) by William J. Mitchell The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition (MIT Press, 1990) by William J. Mitchell E-topia: Urban Life, Jim --But Not As We Know It (MIT Press, 1999-2000) by William J. Mitchell Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995) by Sherry Turkle Being-In-The-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division (MIT Press, 1991) by Hubert L. Dreyfus Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (Free Press, 1986) by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus. What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason (MIT Press, 1992) by Hubert L. Dreyfus Computation and Human Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1997) by Philip E. Agre Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale U. Press, 1999) co-written by Michael Heim & David Hillel Gelernter Virtual Realism (Oxford U. Press, 1998) by Michael Heim The Metaphysical of Virtual Reality (was published by Oxford U. Press, 1993) by Michael Heim. The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet by Margaret Wertheim (Random House, 1999) How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (University of Chicago Press, 1999) by N. Katherine Hayles. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real (Leonardo(Series)(Cambridge, Massachusets.).) MIT Press, 1999 by Richard Coyne. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor (MIT Press, 1995) by Richard Coyne Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace (Touchstone Books, 1998) by Steven Holtzman Postmodern Currents: Arts and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media (Prentice Hall, 1996) by Margaret Lovejoy The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century -by Katherine Hayles (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984) Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Religion in the Information Age (Harmony Books, 1998) by Erik Davis Web Developer.com(r) Guide to 3D Avatars (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) by Sue Ki Wilcox Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science -by Katherine Hayles (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990) The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture (Princeton Architectural Pr., 1998) by John Beckmann Avatars!: Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet (Peachpit Press, 1997) by Bruce Damer Magical A-Life Avatars: A New Paradigm for the Internet (Manning Publications Company, 1998) by Peter Small Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray (MIT Press, 1999) Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age, From Method to Metaphor [A LEONARDO BOOK] by Richard Coyne Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli (MIT Press 1998) Words and Rules by Steven Pinker (Basic Books) How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker The Real, True Angel by Robin Lippincott The Cartographer's Vacations (collections of peotry) by Andrea Cohen Cyberspace: First Steps, editor M. Benedikt (MIT Press, 1991) Writing Space: The Computer in the History if Literacy by Jay David Bolter (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990) The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context by Mark Poster (University of Chicago Press, 1990) Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman (NY: Random House, 1992) The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial: A Critical Analysis by Margaret Rose, 1991 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener (NY: Doubleday, 1954) Misunderstanding Media by Brian Winston in 1986 Virtual Worlds: A journey in Hype and Hyperreality by Benjamin Wooley (NY: Penguin, 1992) Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory editor Marie-Laure Ryan (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1999) Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media by Silvio Gaggi (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) Cybergrace, The Search for God in the Digital World by Jennifer Cobb (Crown, 1998) "Essays - The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the ends of Taste" (Overseas Publishers Association, 2000) by Arthur C. Danto "Surviving the Age of Virtual Reality" (University of Missouri Press, 2000) by Thomas Langan. "The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani" (PUP, 2000) by Gaetana Marrone. "Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) by Mary M. Lay "Essays, Literature Media Information Systems" (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association) by Friedrich A. Kittler. Joyce Effects on Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) by Derek Attridge. "Essays, Critical Voices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory, Commentary by Warren Burt" by Nicholas Zurbrugs Orality and Literacy; The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong. The History and Power of Writing by Henri-Jean Martin Amusing Ourselves to Death; Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (Oxford) by Steven Connor The Moral Turn of Postmodernism: Ethics and Aesthetics in Postmodern Theory, edited by Gerhard Hoffman et.al. Myth and the Making of Modernity edited by Michael Bell and Peter Poellner Principled Positions: Postmodernisms and the Recovery of Value edited by Judith Squires Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi Cyberexplorer Research Scholar UNI DO, GERMANY Online Facilitator ---------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: Workshops at Digital Resources for the Humanities 2000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:21:44 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 194 (194) WORKSHOPS AT THE DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES CONFERENCE University of Sheffield, Wednesday, 13 September 2000 The following workshops have been organised as part of the Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. The workshops will run in parallel on the final day of the conference, 13 September 2000 at the University of Sheffield. Further information about the conference itself is available via http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/ The workshop fee includes lunch, refreshments and documentation. WORKSHOP 1 (half-day, 9.30-12.30) Designing Flexible Digital Representations of Historical Source Materials. Led by the History Data Service, University of Essex. This workshop will discuss the methodology of creating digital representations of historical source materials. The workshop will focus on the digitisation process and the relationship between the source and the result of digitisation. The workshop will articulate and demonstrate the standards and elements of good practice relevant to the creation of a wide range of data types, from student projects to large-scale research projects. Specific software packages and data modelling techniques will not be discussed in detail. Pre-requisites: moderate level of computer-literacy, though no experience of digital resource creation is required. Cost: 30 pounds. WORKSHOP 2 (full-day, 9.30-4.30) Shared joy is double joy: putting your database on the Web. Led by Humanities Computing Development Team, University of Oxford. This workshop is aimed at academics, librarians, IT staff and others who have an interest in making a current or planned Microsoft Access database available over the Web. The workshop consists of a combination of short presentations, hands-on, and discussion sessions. Hands-on work will concentrate on using Active Server Pages technology to make an Access database available over the web, and by the end of the day you will have created your own simple ASP application. An example database will be used throughout the whole course to illustrate technical and design issues. Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of HTML, FTP, and experience of using MS-Access. Cost: 75 pounds. WORKSHOP 3 (full-day, 9.30-4.30) XML: the future of digital information? Led by Lou Burnard and Sebastian Rahtz, University of Oxford. This workshop aims to give you a practical grounding in the technology underlying the future of digital resources: the extensible markup language XML. The course will combine formal lecture and discussions on XML, XSL and related technologies together with group work in hands-on sessions. Pre-requisites: moderate level of computer-literacy and some knowledge of a markup language (e.g. HTML) Cost: 75 pounds [material deleted[ From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: CENDI Conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_ Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:16:10 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 195 (195) CENDI Conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_ I recently learned about the availability of the PowerPoint presentations made at the CENDI conference on _Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet_ held September 29, 1999. CENDI is an governmental interagency Working Group composed of senior Scientific and Technical Information (STI) managers from major programs in several U.S. federal agencies [http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/ ]. The presentations are available at http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/pres_arc.html The following is a listing of the conference presentations and their authors: Joseph A. Busch, DataFusion, Inc. - From Authority Files to Ontologies: Knowledge Management in a Networked Environment (PowerPoint File, 298 KB) Patricia Harpring, Vocabulary Program Senior Editor, The Getty - Documenting & Access: Indexing with the Getty Vocabularies (PowerPoint File, 980 KB) Stuart J. Nelson, MD, National Library of Medicine - The Role of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) in Vocabulary Control (PowerPoint File, 185 KB) Dagobert Soergel College of Library and Information Services University of Maryland - Enriched Thesauri as Networked Knowledge Bases for People and Machines (PDF File, 350 KB) Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy Center for Natural Language Processing School of Information Studies Syracuse University - Whither Come the Words? (PowerPoint File, 116 KB) Larry Fitzwater EPA/OIRM/EIMD, Linda Spencer EPA/OIRM/EIMD - EPA Terminology Reference System (TRS) (PowerPoint File, 533 KB) Joyce Ward, Northern Light Technology, Inc. - Indexing and Classification at Northern Light (PowerPoint File, 356 KB) Quin J. Hart, University of California at Davis - The CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project (Project Web Site) Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation - DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE An Interagency Program of Research and Applications (PowerPoint File, 728 KB) In addition these presentations, the site contains the PowerPoint presentations from other CENDI programs including: REFERENCE/CITATION LINKING: THE FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE - A JOINT CENDI/FLICC WORKSHOP held June 21, 2000; GovTechNet 99 held in June 99; and Open Source Solutions 97: Global Security and Global Competitiveness held in June 1997. I believe that MyWebColleagues will find each of great value and interest! /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "Life is What Happens While You're Making Other Plans" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/web/faculty/markw/papyrus-news.html>. ********************************************************************* <http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/07/14/platform/index.html> by Andy Oram July 14, 2000 Numerous communities are trying to wrench their populations into "the information age" by introducing computer skills in the classroom. In the following dialog, a community leader who is troubled by the results talks with a therapist online. Patient: I have a problem with computers. Therapist: Tell me about the problem with computers. Patient: I depend on computers for things I shouldn't. Therapist: Why do you think you shouldn't? Patient: Well, my community is trying to lift its high school graduates' economic status and transition welfare recipients into secure jobs by giving them basic training in simple office computer programs. We've sunk a lot of the educational budget and discretionary government funding into this endeavor. Therapist: Is there something about this endeavor that bothers you? Patient: It's not working. Turns out that employers are taking those skills for granted and looking for candidates with more specialized and refined educations. Therapist: Earlier you were telling me you depend on computers for things you shouldn't. Patient: That's because we thought that computerizing and going on the Internet would provide a larger market for our goods and services. But it turns out that those technologies favor consolidation and streamlining. The only way to get ahead in such a game is to offer the same thing as all the other vendors but to shave a few tenths of a cent off of the costs of every transaction. So we're reducing the quality of work and hearing increasing complaints from citizens about their narrowing opportunities in life. Therapist: Could it be that it's because you've sunk a lot of the educational budget and discretionary government funding into this endeavor that you're reducing the quality of work and hearing increasing complaints from citizens about their narrowing opportunities in life? Patient: That's an odd idea, but it's worth considering. Maybe we should spend less time cultivating computer skills and more time finding the unique contributions each person can make. We've been ignoring the treasures right in our own back yard. I'll tell you what's really bad: we find ourselves in conflict with every other community for an ever-shrinking toehold at the top. Therapist: I can tell that you don't like that you're in conflict with every other community for an ever-shrinking toehold at the top. Patient: Yes, it's terrible! Every community is trying to be the number one warehouse supplier. Therapist: Maybe every community should not be trying to be the number one warehouse supplier. Patient: Hey, you just gave me a really powerful idea. Therapist: Tell me more about the really powerful idea. Patient: Instead of homogenizing our culture and competing on the same ground within a single global market, maybe every community should play to its own strengths. You see, we buy things as well as sell them. We can be a desireable market that the mega-corporations want to tap. It's possible for modern technology to pinpoint customized services to each town's geography, culture, and particular needs. Therapist: Tell me what it would be like for modern technology to pinpoint customized services to each town's geography, culture, and particular needs. Patient: It would be great! Then we could present local experts as intermediaries between their populations and the companies trying to appeal to us. That's a source of employment for us, and a source of valuable information to outsiders. The companies who did the best job making use of the skills of local experts would reap the most rewards. Say, you know your stuff! Therapist: Why should I say that I know my stuff? Patient: Because you've solved my problem! I'm going to stop expecting so much from computers, and concentrate on promoting what's extraordinary and desirable about my town's markets and services. Thanks. Therapist: Your welcome. Patient: Good-bye. Therapist: My automated ecommerce agent will send you a bill. ----- Andy is an editor at O'Reilly & Associates and moderator of the Cyber Rights mailing list for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. You can reach him at andyo@oreilly.com. This article represents his views only. This article can be reposted in its entirety for non-profit use. Web Review copyright (c) 1995-2000 Miller Freeman, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: Cataloguing Officer - Humanities Hub Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 197 (197) HUMBUL HUMANITIES HUB University of Oxford Cataloguing Officer Grade: RS1A GBP16,775 - GBP25,213 The Humanities Computing Unit brings together prestigious local, national and international projects including the Oxford Text Archive, Humanities Computing Development Team, Text Encoding Initiative, and the Humbul Humanities Hub. Information about our work is available from http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/. The Humanities Computing Unit receives funding from the JISC to develop the Humbul Humanities Hub for the Resource Discovery Network. The Hub provides Web access to quality Internet resources for teaching and research in the humanities. See http://www.humbul.ac.uk/. We are seeking a Cataloguing Officer who will be responsible for providing support to our distributed contributors; creating, completing, and checking Internet resource descriptions; and promoting the Hub within the library communities. The ideal candidate will have a professional qualification in librarianship/information science and have an active interest in cataloguing Internet resources, particularly within the humanities; a good standard of Internet literacy, and an awareness of current metadata standards for resource discovery is also essential. This post is offered as a one-year contract in the first instance. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Michael Fraser, Head of Humbul (email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk; tel: 01865 283343). 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 online at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 7th August 2000 Interviews will be held during week commencing 14th August. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: EditorAnn@aol.com Subject: inquiry on art and riots Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 198 (198) I've been lurking so long that I have forgotten how to send inquiries, so please forgive me if this was not the right place. My son, a journalist, asked for help on this one. Any suggestions would be appreciated. He wrote: I'm looking for any instances where art caused a riot--as with the premieres of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Cyrano de Bergerac or the Disco Sucks riot in Chicago. I'm looking for incidents that involve actual fisticuffs or destruction of property, not just critical condemnation. Please send replies to C@areporter.com. (Constantine von Hoffman) P S I know this is the summer hiatus. Ann Byrne ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Nigel Williamson Subject: New on the Web Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:36:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 199 (199) The Electronic Texts in East Asian Languages Pilot Project are pleased to announce the publication on the web of their first Electronic Text. The work "Shin Nihon no Shisô Genri" (The Ideological Principles of the New Japan) was written by the eminent Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi and is provided in Japanese with a parallel English translation. Both versions of the text are full annotated and include a line by line comparisons. The project web site is: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~jsgml/ Access to this text is free and comments and feedback are welcomed. Yours Nigel Williamson ********************************************************************* Nigel Williamson Tel: 0114 222 3099 Arts and Humanities Liaison Fax: 0114 222 1199 Corporate Information and Computing Services Computer Centre, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RF Local host for DRH2000: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000 Email: drh2000@shef.ac.uk From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:58:57 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 200 (200) _Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation_ I recently learned about two major reports relating to the issues surrounding digital preservation and believe that they will be of interest to MyWebColleagues. The first of these was prepared by Gail Hodge of Information International Associates on behalf of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) [http://www.icsti.org/ ]. The publication, _Digital Electronic Archiving: The State of the Art and the State of the Practice_ was published in April 1999. It is accessible at the following addresses: http://www.icsti.org/icsti/whats_new.html http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_TOCP.pdf [Table of Contents] http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_ExecP.pdf [Executive Summary] http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_MainP.pdf [Main Report] The second is a report prepared by a committee for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and provides recommendations on the digital preparedness and the Library of Congress in collecting and preserving digital resources. A general summary of the report recently appeared in the New York Times on July 27 2000 ["Saving The Nation's Digital Legacy" / by Katie Hafner ( http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/27libr.html ) [NB: This article was also published as "Library of Congress Lags in Archiving Digital Preservation" in the July 26th NYTimes Web edition ] [NOTE: A free account is required to access this article] The title of the report is _LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress_. The Library of Congress (LoC) commissioned the study. The report's recommendations are more fully described in a press release available from the LoC [http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-100.html ] A *pre-publication* copy of the report is available at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071445/html/ /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "Life is What Happens While You're Making Other Plans" From: "Jerome J. McGann" Subject: ROSSETTI ARCHIVE ONLINE RELEASE Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:24:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 201 (201) ROSSETTI ARCHIVE ONLINE RELEASE This announces the online release of the first installment of The Rossetti Archive. It can be accessed at the following address: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/ There are more than 10,000 files in this installment, which will be most useful for teaching and research focussed on the 1870 _Poems_. But the installment has copious materials on all of DGR's works, textual as well as pictorial and design. This release is in fact a "research installment" and lacks certain functionalities that will be added this fall. A brief "Preface to the First Installment" is pasted into the first page of the general Introduction to the Archive, which is accessed from the "work in progress" link on the homesite page. For those interested in the subjects of humanities computing, electronic editing, theory of textuality, and related matters, I recommend that you look at the materials in the section headed "Resources". We of course welcome any feedback, critical in particular. And we hope that students and scholars find as much pleasure and instruction in this work -- there will be four installments -- as we have had in building it. Jerome McGann ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: CFP: Remarking the Text Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 202 (202) [deleted quotation] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Ross Scaife Subject: [STOA] TC- announcement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 203 (203) Trajan's Column http://www.stoa.org/trajan/ The Stoa Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of Trajan's Column, a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural monument. The core of this project is a searchable database of over 500 images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the column's sculptural decoration. These images (slides and drawings) were generated by and for sculptor Peter Rockwell, over the course of his study of Roman stone-carving practices. The aim of this site is to make these images available to the widest possible audience, in a form that can contribute both to ongoing study by specialists and to enjoyment and appreciation of the monument by the general public. Credits: Paul Barrette created the website, on-line database, and CGI scripts. These scripts are freely available for inspection at the website for the benefit of others who might learn from them as they work on their own projects. Martin Beckmann recorded database information and had Peter Rockwell's slides scanned in Rome, summer 1998. He also wrote the introductory essays on the Column of Trajan. Michele George edited, proof-read, test-drove and advised. Saul Rich digitized the cartoon drawings and designed the navigation system for using them. Geoffrey Rockwell originated the project and supervised the programming. He recently presented an overview of the work at the ALLC/ACH convention in Glasgow. Gretchen Umholtz did overall project supervision, wrote the introductory remarks on the home page, and edited, test-drove and advised. The Stoa Consortium is hosting a mirror of the project and also provided editorial support leading to improvements in both the available content and the underlying technologies. For more information about the Stoa, visit http://www.stoa.org and feel free to contact the co-editors, Anne Mahoney (amahoney@perseus.tufts.edu) and Ross Scaife (scaife@pop.uky.edu). From: "Jeanne M. Laseman" Subject: academic job at Northwestern Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 06:30:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 204 (204) Northwestern University Program in Comparative Literary Studies announces an open rank position in Literature and New Media (pending final budgetary approval). We are looking for a dynamic and independent scholar and teacher who can think in imaginative ways about the relationship of new media, particularly digital media, to traditional literary studies. The successful candidate will be a member of the CLS faculty with an appointment in an appropriate literature or humanities department of the College. To apply, please send a CV and three letters of recommendation (junior candidates should also include a dissertation abstract) to Andrew Wachtel, Director, Program in Comparative Literary Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2205. Application deadline: Senior candidates October 13,2000; Junior candidates November 1,2000. We particularly encourage applications from women and minority candidates. For more information e-mail: a-wachtel@northwestern.edu AA/EOE [Posted by Jeanne Laseman, j-laseman@nwu.edu Northwestern University Slavic Languages and Comp. Lit. 1859 Sheridan Rd. Evanston IL, 60208-2206 Kresge 135 Ph: (847)491-5636 Fax:(847)467-2596] From: Neil Fraistat Subject: academic job at UMD Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 06:32:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 205 (205) University of Maryland Libraries Non-Tenured Faculty Position Vacancy TITLE: Librarian, Instructional Development Coordinator LOCATION: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) CATEGORY: Non-Tenured Faculty, Full-Time (12-Month Appointment) SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience ENVIRONMENT: MITH is an interdisciplinary institute devoted to exploring ways in which new technologies can be used in university research, teaching, and community outreach. Funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, MITH is a joint venture of the College of Arts and Humanities, the University Libraries, and the Office of Information Technology. MITH plays a pioneering role in expanding humanities research and education through a broad array of programs. Additional information about MITH can be found at: HYPERLINK http://www.mith.umd.edu http://www.mith.umd.edu. RESPONSIBILITIES: This position serves as the primary resource person to teaching faculty in all phases of humanities technology use, from conceptualizing options to designing programs to deploying them in the classroom. The Coordinator has general managerial oversight of the Institute's facilities and its graduate and undergraduate student staff, reports to the MITH Director, and works closely with the Libraries' Electronic Text and Imaging Center (ETIC), the campus Center for Teaching Excellence, and the Office of Information Technology's Instructional Technology Group. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: Graduate degree in the Humanities, Library Science, Education, or related field. Demonstrated working knowledge of HTML, SGML and XML encoding, particularly the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Familiarity with a variety of operating systems (e.g., UNIX, MAC, Windows, Linux). Expertise in using state of the art software. Experience in the production, storage, and retrieval of archival quality images. Experience with collaborative project development. Demonstrated excellent oral, written, and organizational skills. Preferred: Instructional design, curriculum development, database management, teaching, multimedia and/or graphics experience. Experience in coding and scripting languages (e.g., C, C+, Java, JavaScript, and Perl) would also be desirable. 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, a resume and names/addresses of three references by August 21, 2000. Applications accepted until the position is filled. Ray Foster, Library Personnel, Room #4105, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 7011. Fax:(301)314-9960. Detailed Job Description at: http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/ASD/LPO/LibJobs/037.html 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. From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Latin abbreviation font Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 206 (206) I am looking for a font that has the standard abbreviations used in medieval writing systems that use the Latin alphabet, e.g., p with a bar through the tail, all letters of the alphabet with a superimposed abbreviation bar, the Tironian note, -ur, -us, and -rum signs, etc. These are the sorts of things that one used to see in the old-fashinoned catalogues of incunabula that attempted to offer type facsimiles. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Creagh Cole Subject: Aust.Pacific HC Conference Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:50:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 207 (207) Preliminary conference announcement - please pass on to interested colleagues Computing Arts - Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities Conference - DRRH2001 <http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001/>http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au /drrh2001/ Keynote speakers, and additional supporters and sponsors will be announced through the site --------------------------------------------- Computing Arts - Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities Conference University of Sydney - 26 - 28 September 2001 Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities Conference (DRRH 2001) will provide a major forum for the creators, users, distributors and custodians of electronic resources in the humanities to present and discuss their work, experiences and ideas. The first major conference devoted to issues in humanities computing generally in the Australia-Pacific region, DRRH 2001 seeks to bring together scholars, academic researchers, publishers, librarians and archivists in the region and beyond, with key speakers in the field, to foster the exchange of ideas and to extend the use of digital resources, techniques and tools in humanities research and teaching. Scope and Keywords DRRH 2001 intends to attract the reporting of relevant work in a broad range of fields, including archaeology, art history, history, languages and linguistics, literary studies, music, performing arts, as well as work detailing techniques and issues associated with the creation and use of digital texts, databases, images, sound, video and digital mapping. Possible Keywords: humanities computing; scholarly editing; text encoding; text analysis; textual studies; computational linguistics; GIS mapping; digital libraries; archival description; digital imaging; image delivery; iconic visualisation; multimedia; languages; scripts; special characters; unicode; electronic publishing; markup languages (TEI, EAD); XML; coordination and collaboration issues and outcomes; funding. Hosts at the University of Sydney: RIHSS Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and SETIS the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library DRRH 2001 is supported by The Australian Academy of the Humanities Contacts for more information: Dr. Creagh Cole SETIS Coordinator - c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au Ms. Rowanne Couch RIHSS Research Manager - rowanne.couch@rihss.usyd.edu.au From: IPCT Subject: The First Conference of the Association of Internet Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:51:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 208 (208) [--] From: Storm King [--] The First Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers September 14-17, 2000 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas The schedule is now available for this conference. See <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/schedule.html> The main conference page is at http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/ Here is a tiny sample of the over 200 papers that will be presented: ---------- Ethics and Internet Research Moderator: Charles Ess, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury University Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace: Obtaining Consent for Online Qualitative Research in the Absence of an Established Operational Framework Caroline Bennett, Department of Humanities & International Studies, University of Southern Queensland Ethical Issues in the Use of Internet Posts. Craig Murray, Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University 'Seeing and Sensing' On-line Interaction: An Ethical Approach to USENET Support Group Research Mary Walstrom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign --------------- -- Storm A. King astorm@concentric.net ICQ# 2490493 "stormpsych" on AOL instant messenger The Psychology of Virtual Communities; research resources and articles on online therapy and online self-help groups: <http://www.concentric.net/~Astorm/> The International Society for Mental Health Online: http://www.ismho.org/ --------------- -- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "To Preserve & Protect" LC/ARL Symposium, Oct 30-31 Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 10:51:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 209 (209) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 4, 2000 "To Preserve & Protect: The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources" Library of Congress Bicentennial symposium presented in affiliation with the Association of Research Libraries Washington, DC: October 30-31 <<http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/symposia_preserve.html>http:// <<http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/symposia_preserve.html>http://www.loc.gov/ bicentennial/symposia_preserve.html> Practical issues that confront directors and administrators who oversee preservation and collections security programs in libraries, museums, and archives are the focus of this 2-day symposium at the Library of Congress this October. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [Online Reading] The Body is Back: Communication in Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 210 (210) Cyberspace Greetings Humanist scholars, Hi, Here is a thesis sounds great, which I thought --might interest you --is available online. The thesis constitutes several chapters, such as "A Location Called Cyberspace: necessity of Implement, Implaced in Cyberspace, Sensing the Phenomenon of Cyberspace, Anchorage in Virtual Spaces"; "A Monad in Cyberspace: The Location of the Monadic Self, The Monad in Cyberspace, The Expression of the Monad in Cyberspace"; "A Body of Memory: Functionality of Memory, Memory Change, On the Survival of Images, The Momentum of Memory"; "The Body of Cyberspace: Unity and Materiality, Open Topology, Alter Ego, The Phenomenon: 'Body in Cyberspace', Being-in-Cyberspace"..then Conclusions and Bibliography. The Body of Cyberspace, considered as an open topology, as an alter ego, or as a phenomenon is then taken under consideration as a moment of Dasein as a body being-in-the-world-of-cyberspace with the consequences that it entails. The thesis also expressed the views, the Body is interaction with the digital environment, with some quotes, "Give me a place to stand and I'll move the world of Archimede", "..the virtual is the foundation of the actual.. due to Gilles Deleuz", and On *Unity and Materiality* Maurice Merleau-Ponty has expressed "..There is, therefore, another subject beneath me, for whom a world exists before I am here, and who marks out my place in it. This captive or natural subject is my body.." and Augustin's view "..if you remember who you are, you are somebody.." And **The Thesis _The Body is Back: Communication in Cyberspace_ can be found at <http://www.newschool.edu/mediastudies/sam/thesis.html> Thank you Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: History & Computing: Call Deadline Sept 15, 2000 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 211 (211) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 7, 2000 "Moving Clio into the New Millennium: Interaction, Visualization, Digitization, and Collaboration." American Association for History and Computing Annual Conference February 1-3, 2001: Indianapolis, Indiana Call for Papers DEADLINE: September 15, 2000 <http://www.theaahc.org>http://www.theaahc.org [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Humanities Computing Job at NYU Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 212 (212) 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. For more information, or to make arrangements to discuss this post informally, please send e-mail to: humanities-job@forums.nyu.edu. To apply for this post: Please e-mail your resume, cover letter and the names of three references to: humanities-job@forums.nyu.edu Or you can mail or fax your you application materials to: Katy Santos Information Technology Services Human Resources 715 Broadway, Room 919 New York, NY 10012-1851 Fax: +1 212 995 4106 Interviews will commence the week of August 21st and continue until this post is filled. From: "Tarvers, Josephine K." Subject: RE: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font? Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:44:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 213 (213) The people I know who might have these fonts are David Ganz at King's College London (david.ganz@kcl.ac.uk) or Pam Robinson at the Institute for English Studies (pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk). I don't know if anything the Canterbury Tales Project at DeMontfort U. has developed has these symbols or not; you may have to bitmap them. Please let us know if you find this font! Jo T. ---------------- Jo Koster Tarvers, Ph.D. Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 USA phone (803) 323-4557 fax (803) 323-4837 e-mail tarversj@winthrop.edu on the web http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj From: tsherman Subject: RE: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font? Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:44:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 214 (214) Try contacting Gary Stringer or Syd Connor at the University of Southern Mississippi. WE use those symbols in our transcriptions of texts for the Donne Variorum. Write me privately for their email addresses, or go to the Donne Variorum Website for contact information. The site address is: http://donnevariorum.libarts.usm.edu/ Yours, Ted Sherman [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Dr. Theodore James Sherman Editor, Mythlore Associate Professor of English Box X041, College of Liberal Arts Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 615 898-5836 615 898-5098 FAX tsherman@mtsu.edu tedsherman@home.com From: John Lamp Subject: Interesting wrinkle on King's venture Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 215 (215) STEPHEN KING NOVEL MAY HAVE SCARY CONSEQUENCES The new Stephen King novel, published on the Web with a request that at least 75% of downloaders send the author $1 for the privilege, may well change the way all sorts of intellectual property is marketed, says R. Polk Wagner, a Penn law school professor. "Traditional intellectual property theory holds that producers (that is, King) won't produce unless they have the ability to restrict the access of others to their goods. Here King is doing two significant things: First, he's only asking 75 percent of the people to pay him, thereby engaging in an unusual form of price discrimination where only those who feel the moral pressure to contribute will do so. That is, King acknowledges that not everyone will pay. Second, he's explicitly asking people to pay for his future services. The traditional theory of intellectual property would not consider this possibility. Classic intellectual property theory holds that producers must get paid for the works they've already created, not works they've yet to produce." The result could be troubling for publishers, who depend on the sacredness of intellectual property for their livelihood. "If Stephen King, one of the 'poster boys' of the intellectual property industry, doesn't need intellectual property (protection) anymore, what does that mean for intellectual property generally?" (Knowledge@Wharton 3 Aug 2000) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2419316.html Cheers John -- _--_|\ John Lamp MACS, School of Management Information Systems / \ Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Geelong Victoria 3217 \_.--._/ Room: GD21-1 Phone:03 5227 2110 mailto:John.Lamp@deakin.edu.au v Fax: 03 5227 2151 http://mis.deakin.edu.au/pages/staff/jlamp.htm I have taken every reasonable precaution to ensure that any attachment to this e-mail has been swept for viruses. However, I cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and would advise that you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. Capitalism's commandments: Consume, Be Silent, Die From: Willard McCarty Subject: "cyberspace"? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 216 (216) Dear colleagues, Perhaps someone might be interested in persuading me and, I suppose, some others that the metaphor of "cyberspace" actually contributes something to our ability to talk about computing and its cultural consequences. In other words, what does this term mean? What is spatial, and what good does it do for us to speak in spatial terms about computing when the physical disposition of computers and people is not the issue? We are already so vexed by bafflegab and hyperinflated promotional claims that, I'd suggest, using such words as thoughtlessly as I hear them used is no minor annoyance. Unless I'm being insensitive to some deep stab of insight.... Many thanks. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Andrew Hawke Subject: Re: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:26:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 217 (217) There is an excellent digital typography house in Vancouver run by John Hudson which offers a number of fonts for scholars of a very high standard, including Latin abbreviation marks. See http://www.tiro.com/ See in particular their 1530 Garamond Archaics, 'a set of medieval latin contractions as well as scholastic latin vowel indicators': http://www.tiro.com/gara_arc.html The full set can be seen at: http://www.tiro.com/arcset.gif I believe that they can also undertake the creation of additional characters if required. These are professional commercial fonts with a commensurate price tag: but well worth the expense if you need to set many of these characters. Incidentally, they also have very good support for most Roman-based writing systems, which is how I first came across the company. Andrew Hawke At 10:57 07/08/00 +0100, Charles Faulhaber wrote: [deleted quotation] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970)627513 (+44)1970 627513 (fx627066) Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau Asst. Editor/Systems Manager Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Dictionary Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K. URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/ From: tsherman Subject: RE: 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:28:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 218 (218) Try contacting Gary Stringer or Syd Connor at the University of Southern Mississippi. WE use those symbols in our transcriptions of texts for the Donne Variorum. Write me privately for their email addresses, or go to the Donne Variorum Website for contact information. The site address is: http://donnevariorum.libarts.usm.edu/ Yours, Ted Sherman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Dr. Theodore James Sherman Editor, Mythlore Associate Professor of English Box X041, College of Liberal Arts Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 615 898-5836 615 898-5098 FAX tsherman@mtsu.edu tedsherman@home.com From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: correction 14.0146 Latin abbreviation font? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:27:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 219 (219) I do not have the immediate answer, but I know of a nifty database which incorporates all medieval abbreviations. It's called *Abbreviationes* and it was made by Dr Olaf Pluta who is at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. If they are inthere there must be a way to use them electronically. For info on the software see http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm I suspect that Pluta knows the answer (pluta@phil.kun.nl) HB From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:29:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 220 (220) Dear Willard et al, in reply to your question, you may like to look at http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/ "This 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".... while it may not give you definite answers, the attempts at representing cyberspace create some amazing, thought provoking images. best Melissa Terras ------------------------- Melissa Terras MA MSc Engineering Science / Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents University of Oxford OX1 1DP melissa.terras@eng.ox.ac.uk From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:30:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 221 (221) Personally, I think its funny that the term seems to have emerged from a body of science fiction in which "cyberspace" is quite different from what we have today as the "internet" (particularly the www). In that science fiction, "cyberspace" is sort of seamless and creates a "virtual reaity" which can be hard to discern from "real reality". But whatever the case, it does seem that many are interested in the impact of the internet on what McLuhan called "the ratio of [our] senses". In this connection I find Paul Virilio's "Open Sky" quite profound, though I think rather too pessimistic. What I like about Virilio's thinking, tough, is the way his theory of the *disaster* can be hooked-up with his thinking about global technologies. When you invent the ship you also invent the shipwreck. What sort of disaster do you invent when you invent the internet? The new technologies - robotics, genetics, computers - these are developing rapidly towards a meeting place somewhere not too far down the track at some sort of amazing level of power. There are presently at least 6 teams woring on "quantum computers" - a technology that promises to pack the computing power of a present day IBM the size of a planet into something the size of an egg. Genetics might never be applied to human eugenics, but it has already been applied to warfare. Robots might never take over the world, but they might replace human labour (as they are already doing). But even more frightening, what sort of *disaster* shall we be inventing with this new technology? In my opinion, I do not see that the idea of the *disaster* (or any bad effects) should make us stop our R&D. But I do think that there is not enough thought going in to how we might respond to such a disaster, or head or such a disaster, or even what sorts of disasters we might be looking at? But to return to the matter of what the internet is doing re: ratio of the senses? From Virilio: "Paul Klee hit the nail on the head. 'To define the present in isolation is to kill it'. This is what the teletyechnologies of real time are doing; they are killing 'present' time by isolating it from its here and now, in favour of a commutative elsewhere that no longer has anything to do with our 'concrete presence' in the world, but is the 'elsewhere' of a 'discreet telepresence' that remains a complete mystery." (Open Sky, 10) There's plenty more of that sort of thing. Too pessimistic? Too hyberbolical. I think so too, at least not yet. But maybe already? To whom am I writing? What will they think of "me" (this simulated ... it is still nothing more, and has never been anything else but writing). :) Chris [deleted quotation] ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:30:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 222 (222) It has been my understanding, unsubstantiated however, that the term cyberspace is attributed to the novelist William Gibson, especially his Neuromancer (1994) trilogy. The spacial reference is from the particular vision Gibson has about a future internet which appears as a three dimensional geometric pattern. "Cyber" I should think harks back to Norbert Weiner and his term cybernetics, which delt with the behavior of adaptive feedback systems. --mark Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center forAdvanced Technology in Education University of Oregon 1244 Walnut St Eugene, Oregon 97403 (o) 541/346-2679 FAX: 541/346-6226 mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu Web de Anza: http://anza.uoregon.edu Project INTERSECT: http://intersect.uoregon.edu From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:31:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 223 (223) The term comes from William Gibson's sci-fi classic Neuromancer (1984). Just off the cuff, I would say that for us cyberspace refers to the network of social relations created by information technology. Email, chat rooms, the World Wide Web, etc., allow us to fashion new identites and form new communities in a world that exists only digitally. There is a lot of jargon-bouncing out there, but one thing I learned from the growing body of literature on cyberspace is that the term has more to do with notions of the mediated Self and Other than it does with hardware, software, or encoding. My 2 cents. 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: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:31:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 224 (224) 1. Because most people need a way to visualize what it going on, and most things that are not three dimensional still seem to have decent 3-D representations. 2. I can tell you that I, personally, do visualize much of cyberspace, but not necessarily the way others do, not in "the consensual" manner described by William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. . . . 3. I even visualize what is in my own computer. . .and I do that backwards, too, seing the "tree" grow *down*wards from the root directory, not up. More later, if you desire. Thanks! So nice to hear from you, Michael ============================================= Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Benedictine University [Illinois Benedictine] Carnegie Mellon University Visiting Scientist Fellow of the Internet Archive, for year 2000 Internet User Number 100 [approximately] [TM] One of the several "Ask Dr Internet" Sponsors From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: RE: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:31:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 225 (225) May I suggest something I have written? The Electronic Vernacular. In _Connected: Engagements with Media_. Pages 21-65. In the series, _Late Editions_, ed. George Marcus, vol. 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1995. As well as, of course, the locus classicus, _Necromancer_, by William Gibson. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Department of Performance Studies New York University 721 Broadway, 6th fl New York, NY 10003 212-998-1628 tel 212-254-7885 fax bk3@is.nyu.edu From: Paul Oppenheimer Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:32:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 226 (226) Willard, This is, I think, a second-order metaphor. Mathematicians use a first-order spatial metaphor when they speak of functions living in a function space. My guess is that "cyberspace" was coined from this mathematicians' use of "space", in which the metaphor has already become dead, or at least moribund; I suspect that many mathematicians would be at least momentarily startled if it were suggested to them that this use of "space" is metaphorical. I don't know how to test this hypothesis of mine, however. ---------------------------- Paul E. Oppenheimer Research Assistant, Engineering Research Center Mississippi State University peo@erc.msstate.edu phone: 662-325-2656 FAX: 662-325-7692 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:32:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 227 (227) Willard, Consider the set "cyberspace" contains the subset "internet" which contains the subset "web". Do these belong to the set "Humanities Computing": Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Telnet HTTP Remote Sensing Anecdote: The hardware at institution X konks out. The group of scholars at institution X had been using te hardware to convert data from an older disk format. Scholars at institution X with the assistence of technical support staff check various ftp sites for catalogues of institutions that still operate the specific type of hardware. (assuming that such an inventory to a "distributed museum" exists). They locate institution Z. The disks are bundled in a package and the package is tracked via the courier company's IVR. Encoding the Anecdote: A subsequent team of scholars is encoding the records of the previous team with a view to producing a glossary of archaic technical terms and a mapping of network interfacing... Rhetorical Question: Would the metaphor of reticlinated and enfolding space not be useful? Note: For me, the influence of the term "cyberspace" on the slippage (and substitution) between the terms "hyperspace" and "hypertext" is greater source of muddled thinking than the use of the term "cyberspace" itself. Note: The mathematical concept of "phase space" may have some interesting used in modelling the interaction between humans, computers and cultural artefacts. For example, Jean Petitot has extended Rene Thom's work on morphogenesis to semiotic processes. Note: How "cyberspace" relates to "hyperspace" is a key to its metaphorics. Coda: Some scholars, especially historians and students of discursive formations, do wade through the "hype" of bygone eras. Other scholars are just irritated by the hype as it crosses the threshold of thwir awareness as their era is becoming bygone. Non-Rhetorical Question: How does the use of "set", "space" and "discipline" (and any combination thereof) shift the "object of study"? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:26:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 228 (228) Information The August 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. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [Talk] Doug Engelbart has dedicated his career to Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:33:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 230 (230) designing systems Greetings Humanist scholars, Hi, I thought --this might interest you --received via Dr. Dobb's Update - August 7, 2000-- the September Issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal Now Available at <http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0009/> --The September issue focuses on Scientific and Numeric Computing. A talk with Doug Engelbart and examine analytical computing, the Generic Graph Component Library, and a simulation (in Java) of Konrad Zuse's Z3 computer, originally created in 1938. And.. Doug Engelbart has dedicated his career to designing systems that help the world solve difficult problems. Along the way, he invented the mouse, hypertext systems, collaborative video teleconferencing, and more. Eugene Kim talks with Engelbart about his career, inventions, and vision. A Conversation With Doug Engelbart is at: <http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0009/0009a/> Thank you.. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0151 scary story for publishers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 231 (231) One interesting result of King's on-line book sale: it was very slow and he sold a good deal fewer copies than he would have sold in a book store. In the last news release I read he was hoping he''d break even on the deal sometime "soon". I am delighted to see that the way to sell a book is still in a book store. From: "Melissa Terras" Subject: Interest in Conference for Postgraduate Students in IT Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 232 (232) and the Humanities? Interest in Conference for Postgraduate Students in IT and the Humanities? Hello All. As a postgraduate in Humanities IT, I have often felt how difficult it is both to find and get in contact with other students in the same subject area, due to the fact that such students are dispersed across various faculties and departments because of the nature of the subject. As a result, a few of the other pg students I have managed to find have agreed, along with myself, to try and establish a yearly conference for graduate students in the discipline. We are applying to a couple of funding bodies and the outlook so far is very optimistic. Now, however, we need to gauge the interest in attending such a conference. At the moment, we are only looking at a Europe wide conference, and so we need to try and find any European students under 35 years of age (sorry, funding body requirement) currently persuing graduate degrees in a humanities computing area (in whatever shape or form: from text processing to computing and archaeology, image processing to databases.... anything which can be broadly classed under "IT and the Humanities", where computing is an integral part of the research.) If any other postgraduate students out there would be interested in attending such a conference (5 days in Autumn 2001, fully funded including travel expenses) please could you fill out the following details and send them back to me at: melissa.terras@eng.ox.ac.uk Please note this is not a call for papers, nor a guarantee of attendance, it is a preliminary call to try and find out the interest in such a conference and the scope of work that other graduates are doing in the field in order to process the application. Any details you give me will be for the sole purpose of filling out these forms, and getting a structure to the conference schedule. If you know of any other post-graduate students currently doing research in humanities IT (in whatever shape or form) please can you forward this onto them. Thanks a lot, Melissa Details regarding an individual interested in possibly attending a European Conference for Graduate Students in IT and the Humanities Surname: First Name(s): Contact Details: Date of Birth: Country of Origin: Brief Academic background (2 or 3 lines): Area(s) of current research (2 or 3 lines): Current Academic Institution: Will you still be studying in Autumn 2001? Yes/No How much will (roughly) will the air fare cost you to get from your institution to Antwerp or Brussels? (We need this information to work out the average expenses needed to hold the conference, please specify the currency!): Any other information you think may be relevant: Thanks! ___________________________________________ Melissa M Terras MA MSc Engineering Science / Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Christ Church University of Oxford Oxford 0X1 1DP office number (01865) 282181 melissa.terras@engineering-science.oxford.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: academic jobs at Alberta Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 233 (233) [Thanks to Mary Delane, Faculty of Arts, on behalf of Associate Dean Harvey Krahn, for this posting. Needless to say it represents one of the most important job opportunities in our field to date. --WM] FACULTY OF ARTS The University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, invites applications for three full-time continuing positions, one at the senior Full Professor level and two at the Assistant Professor level, in the area of humanities computing. These positions will complement existing strengths and serve to move us forward in the highly specialized areas of teaching and research in text-based computing in the liberal arts. All three positions will involve teaching and research responsibilities in humanities computing. In particular, these positions will facilitate the Faculty's move into a position of pre-eminent strength in humanities computing. A new MA program in Humanities Computing will emphasize text-based computing research methods and critical thinking and will provide students with appropriate technical skills that will equip them well either for further study or for careers in information management. Students in this program will develop a firm grasp of the fundamental principles of computing methods in the humanities and its ability to restructure or transform the disciplines, as well as an appreciation of its potential for revisioning applications in computer science. Graduates will be qualified to work across the interface between computer specialist and project director or manager. The senior scholar will serve as Director of the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in Arts and will be expected to foster development of new computing methodologies and new computer-based resources for research and teaching in the humanities and to advance the state of humanities research computing at the University of Alberta. CIRCA=s mission is to: -- conduct research in the applications of computers to research and teaching in arts disciplines, particularly research involving texts and documents S promote and facilitate the development of innovative computer-based projects in arts research -- collaborate with departments in the Faculty to develop a curriculum for arts research computing by developing courses within the graduate and undergraduate programs S evaluate the applicability of new tools and techniques for arts research and their relevance for teaching -- develop and maintain relationships with leading similar research institutes around the world in order to fully participate in international research on this topic Applicants for all three positions will present demonstrated evidence of work on the application of cutting edge tools and approaches to humanities disciplines; on some of the more traditionally defined applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; broad library and research-based work that focuses on significant issues of textuality and information retrieval; and tools-focused work that offers innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities-based teaching and research throughout the academic and research worlds. Appointments will commence 1 July 2001. The floor of the salary scale for the Assistant Professor rank is currently $43,738 and for Professor it is $67,646; the University of Alberta offers a comprehensive benefits package. Letters of application, including a curriculum vitae, copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and the names, institutional addresses and email addresses of three referees who have been invited to write on the applicant's behalf, should be sent to: N Rahimieh, Associate Dean (Humanities) Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 780-492-9132 (nasrin.rahimieh@ualberta.ca) The closing date for applications is: 31 October 2000. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. If suitable Canadian citizens and permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. The records arising from this competition will be managed in accordance with provisions of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP). 00-08-08 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Mick Doherty Subject: Re: 14.0156 the poetics of "cyberSPACE" Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:37:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 234 (234) As long as some others are pointing to work they have written on this very topic, let me drag up something I wrote back in 1995, which I think still holds up very well: "Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in 'Cyberspace'" September 1, 1995 / Page 4 http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1995/sep/doherty.html For the English-impaired, this has been translated and re-published in "Talon de Aquiles" a Chilean journal: "Marshall McLuhan se encuentra con William Gibson en el 'Ciberespacio'" http://rehue.csociales.uchile.cl/rehuehome/facultad/publicaciones/Talon/talo n4/talon4-9.htm It examines the whole concept of metaphor and the origin of the idea of "cyberspace." Mick Doherty Editor, Corporate Communications American Airlines (working on the start of a fourth year of a one-year leave of absence from academia ...) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: William Gibson and Marshall McLuhan & *CyberSPACE* Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:38:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 235 (235) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty and humanists, Hi, thanks for your thoughts and questions on the "metaphors" of Cyberspace, which stimulates some concerns-- I would like to post some exchanges, that have taken place on McLuhan-L List, the voice "The Herbert Marshall McLuhan Foundation" between Dr. Peter Montgomery (Moderator of McLuhan-L Listserv) and myself --thought might interest you and other scholars, discussing the metaphorical and spatial views of Cyberspace. ======> Arun Tripathi writes the below ======> Cyberspace, according to William Gibson --a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children, being taught mathematical concepts --a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity --he mentioned in his novel Neuromancer. And on the other side of horizon-- Michael Benedict, author of *Cyberspace: First Steps*, takes a crack at an over-arching definition in his 1994 book: "Cyberspace: A word from the pen of William Gibson, science fiction writer, circa 1984..A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world's computers and communication lines..The table become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world..A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, cannon and experiment..Its corridors form wherever electricity runs with intelligence..The realm of pure information...." In the answers..In 1964, McLuhan wrote in *Understanding Media* (it is very important too note, he wrote before the invention of cyberspace..and before Neuromancer..) "The telephone: speech without walls. The phonograph: music hall without halls. The photograph: museum without walls. The electric light: space without walls. The movie, radio and TV: classroom without walls. Man the food-gatherer reappears incongruously as information --gatherer. In this role, electronic man is no less a nomad than his Paleolithic ancestors." ======> Dr. Peter Montgomery replies =======> It took me a while to get the chance to deal with this post, Arun. It is a very interesting one. McLuhan might well have made good use of the word CYBERSPACE, were it around. He certainly made phenomenal (pun) use of the concept of space as a set of modalities of the senses in various of their ratios. He particularly drew our attention to the total resonance of auditory space, with its everywhere-at-once-ness, which is, of course, an attribute of cyberspace. He also made much of the idea of the computer as a total extension of our central nervous system. According to the OED, CYBERSPACE is a back formation from CYBERNETICS, a word with which McLuhan was no doubt familiar. In fact, I could believe he mused about it to quite some extent, given its venerable derivation from the Greek CYBERNETICIST [kubernetes] which means STEERSMAN or PILOT, so that the metaphor of sea and space would be intrinsically obvious. Of course, assuming that he did give the word some attention, he would then have characterised its mythological dimension, by recalling the great greek ferryman KIRON, the archetypal navigator across the River Styx - river of death, who had an ancestor in the person of Urshanabi of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, and an eminent descendent in a somewhat buddhist frame of reference in Herman Hesse's SIDDHARTHA's Vasudeva. Concommitamt with that one should observe the two major characterisations of Buddhism, the hinayana (little ferry) and the mahayana (big ferry). Urshanabi, on the other hand, ferried people across the great sea to Utnapishtim who was no minor nautical dilettante, but no less than Noah himself. Perhaps the appeal of Star Trek is its unconscious objectification of the cybernetic sphere, whereby we do boldly explore where we have never explored before. A millenial enterprise. =======> Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: SJ Stauffer Subject: re: Cyberspace and Gibson Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:38:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 236 (236) Scholars: Can't we do better than this? -- "William Gibson, especially his Neuromancer (1994) trilogy." Mark Horney -- "William Gibson's sci-fi classic Neuromancer (1984)" Mark Wolff -- "the locus classicus, _Necromancer_, by William Gibson." Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Only Mark Wolff gets it right. The book is on my shelf at home, but, hey, cut-and-paste is easier than transcription, so I turn to my web sources. 1) A search for William Gibson in my university's online catalogue brings up this: AUTHOR Gibson, William, 1948- TITLE Neuromancer / William Gibson. IMPRINT New York : Ace Books, c1984. DESCRIPT 271 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 0441569595. 2) A search for William Gibson on google.com brings up this URL for a William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy: <http://www.slip.net/~spage/gibson/biblio.htm#books>, with this entry: -------------- Neuromancer A star. It won the Hugo, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Seiun, and Ditmar awards. Also available as graphic novel, electronic book, videogame, and spoken word recording. US Hardcover Phantasia Press, spring 1986 1st Phantasia Press ed. West Bloomfield ISBN 0932096417 Also 1st Ace hardcover ed. New York : Ace Books, 1994 ISBN 0441000681 US Paperback Ace Book, July 1984 (Ace Science Fiction original, then Ace S.F. Special, then an Ace Book) ISBN: 0-441-56959-5 Cover: digital face and hand by Richard Berry -------------- 3) The US Library of Congress <http://www.loc.gov/> has an entry, as well. Best, Stephanie J. Stauffer Center for Applied Linguistics From: Paul Brians Subject: Re; Interesting wrinkle on King's venture Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 237 (237) R. Polk Wagner wrote: [deleted quotation] Hasn't Mr. Wagner ever heard of an advance? I believe Mark Twain sold some of his works by advance subscription through canvassers. Writers like King take it as a given that they will be paid vast sums by publishers before setting pen to paper. Many such paid-for works are in fact never written when writers fail to follow through with the promised work. King isn't doing anything so very radical by asking to be paid in advance; he's simply cutting out the middle party--the publisher. -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0154 Latin abbreviation font Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 238 (238) How very nice the Abbreviationes site is ! A kudos to Dr. Pluta: and notice that it contains over 60,000 medieval abbreviations -- the notion that there are only a few and they they will fit into one font, is wrong. Take a look at Cappelli, Lexicon abbreviaturum. Dizionario di abbreviature latine....del Medio-Evo...which contains over 140,000 such abbreviation marks. (Mine is the 5th edition, and I bought it in the 1950s - I do not know how many editions there have been since then.) The "1530 Garamond " font is very nice (I once designed a Garamond font, years ago, so I know what it is supposed to look like), but it doesn't even scrape the surface of medieval Latin abbreviations, which varied with both time and place over more than a thousand years and all over Europe... From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: metaphors of Cyberspace Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:23:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 239 (239) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Hi --the "Voices from Cyberspace" is available at <http://www.stmartin.edu/homepages/Fac_Staff/belinda/voices.html> Best Arun KT From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Gibson on "I don't even have a modem" to hear.. Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:24:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 240 (240) Dear Humanists, On November 23, 1994 William Gibson visited Stockholm, Sweden to promote his new book "Virtual Light" and there he was being interviewed..Author William Gibson on non-functioning American democracy, the importance of giving computers to the poor, and the elitist appeal of the Internet -When he was asked about..What is Cyberspace? --He replied"..Cyberspace is a metaphor that allows us to grasp this place where since about the time of the second world war we have increasingly done so many of the things that we think of as civilization.." And, When he was asked about..The Internet is one way to communicate with lots of people without using the body, you just use your mind. Is cyberspace a better place to be than this physical world?..He said, "..Well, I don't think so. There is a tendency in our culture, in a broader sense the western civilization, to reject the body in favour of an idea of the spirit or the soul.." The Interview is available for readers to enjoy! at <http://www.josefsson.net/gibson/index.html> Kind Regards Arun Tripathi From: Stefan Sinclair Subject: HyperPo Text Analysis and Exploration Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 241 (241) Dear all, For several months I've been holding off announcing an upgrade to "HyperPo: Text Analysis and Exploration Tools" in the hopes that I might find the time to make a few more adjustments and additions. The overly optimistic academic. Anyway, those of you preparing courses for the fall with text-analysis content might be interested in having a look now, and perhaps I will get to those teakings after all. My biggest priority at the moment is getting an English lemmatisation feature similar to the one that is available for French texts. As always, comments, suggestions and collaboration are welcome. (Not to mention mirror sites - in the meantime, I encourage you to use the mirror site on Hydra which will be faster for the moment.) http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HyperPo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Stfan Sinclair, French Studies, Queen's University (Canada) From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0151 scary story for publishers Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:16:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 242 (242) At 20:49 +0100 7/8/2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] It's called shareware and has been a viable commercial internet model from well before the current dot com madness. In fact this is the commercial model that largely supported the software development that has allowed the internet to develop to the state that it currently finds itself in. The difference with King is that writing is now being considered in an analogous way, and that he's publicly relying on his ability to seduce his readers to maintain the project. adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. 61 03 9925 3157 bowerbird.rmit.edu.au/adrian/ hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0162 King's publishing venture Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:16:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 243 (243) [deleted quotation]services. The [deleted quotation]must [deleted quotation]A practice begun by Dr. Samuel Johnson, well before "classical intellectual property theory", a newcomer on the writer's horizon. From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0162 King's publishing venture Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:18:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 244 (244) Personally, as someone who thinks that there is no real problem with Smithian/Maxist economic theory, except that it has not been fathomed yet, I too was taken aback when told that King was doing something that violated it's rules. The more I return to Marx's concepts, the more I find that they are more than adequate to the demands of postmodernity, globalised economies, dotcom-mania, and so forth. Futurity is, and always has been, of the nature of all capital investments. Having said that, it makes good sense to expand Marx's thinking via Bourdieu, whose study of "symbolic capital" develops Marxian thinking into the *artistic field(s)* in important ways. For example, I do not think King is going to make TOO MUCH cash on this venture. But he is rich enough not to worry about that. Q: What to get the man who has everything? A: Honour (e.g. "cool"). So what he is investing in here, what he wants, is symbolic capital (specifically, cool-capital). Thus King can afford to experiment in the cyber-Aquarian new age of deregulated publishing. And so doing makes him look cool in a shaggy utopianist, embracing the-possibilities-of-cyberspace way. :) Chris From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0161 Latin abbreviation font: Abbreviationes Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 245 (245) All of which is true, but the 1530 Garamond Archaics comes very close to solving my student's particular problem. Note also, that a very large number of medieval abbreviations, as documented in Cappelli, are in fact made up of a combination of letters and various signs of abbreviation; so that number of discrete symbols needed is probably considerably smaller than those listed in Cappelli. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: robert Cavalier Subject: CAP Keynote Web-cast of Pat Hayes on "Computing the Hard Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:48:02 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 246 (246) To: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Please bring this to the attention of your list readers: At this year's Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conference, the keynote address by Pat Hayes will be web-cast live. The service will be available on the CAP HomePage starting at 12:30 on Friday, August 11th. The actual presentation will be from 1pm to 2pm EST time. "Computing the Hard Problem: A Sketch of an AI Account of Consciousness" (Pat Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida). Go to the CAP HomePage to see this web-cast: <http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP/CAPpage.html> Robert Cavalier CAAE/Philosophy 260 Baker Hall Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412/268-7643 HomePage: caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/Robert/Cavalier.html Office Hours (Fall 2000) Tuesdays at 12 noon and by appointment ****** Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conference: August 10 - 12, 2000 CAP HomePage: http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP/CAPpage.html ****** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA New Resources Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:00:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 247 (247) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News=20 ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: _______________________________________ ELRA-S0085 BABEL Bulgarian Database _______________________________________ The BABEL Database is a speech database that was produced=20 by a research consortium funded by the European Union=20 under the COPERNICUS programme (COPERNICUS Project=20 1304). The project began in March 1995 and was completed=20 in December 1998. The objective was to create a database of=20 languages of Central and Eastern Europe in parallel to the=20 EUROM1 databases produced by the SAM Project (funded by=20 the ESPRIT programme).=20 The BABEL consortium included six partners from Central=20 and Eastern Europe (who had the major responsibility of=20 planning and carrying out the recording and labelling) and six=20 from Western Europe (whose role was mainly to advise and in=20 some cases to act as host to BABEL researchers). The five=20 databases collected within the project concern the Bulgarian,=20 Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian languages. The Bulgarian database consists of the basic "common" set which is: - Many Talker Set: 30 males, 30 females; each to read twice=20 the five blocks of numbers (each of which contains 10 numbers),=20 3 connected passages and one =93filler=94 passage. - Few Talker Set: 5 males, 5 females, selected from the above=20 group: each to read 5 times the blocks of numbers, 15 connected=20 passages and 2 =93filler=94 passages, and 5 repetitions of the lists of=20 monosyllables. - Very Few Talker Set: 1 male, 1 female, selected from Few=20 Talker set: each to read blocks of monosyllables in carrier sentences=20 and five repetitions of the context words. And the extension part: semi-spontaneous answers to questions:=20 the answers were recorded by the 10 Few Talker Set speakers. =20 The other languages will be available soon. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 the online catalogue on our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 From: Computer Science Editorial Subject: [new books]The Robot in the Garden & Embodied Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:07:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 248 (248) [--] NEW BOOKS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FROM THE MIT PRESS This message is one of a series of periodic mailings about newly released books in computer science. 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. A.) The Robot in the Garden Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet edited by Ken Goldberg <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/GOLTHS00> The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. 7 x 9, 330 pp., 49 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-07203-3 A Leonardo Book B.) Embodied Conversational Agents edited by Justine Cassell, Joseph Sullivan, Scott Prevost, and Elizabeth Churchill <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/CASEHS00> Embodied conversational agents are computer-generated cartoonlike characters that demonstrate many of the same properties as humans in face-to-face conversation, including the ability to produce and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. This book describes research in all aspects of the design, implementation, and evaluation of embodied conversational agents as well as details of specific working systems. 7 x 9, 352 pp., 20 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-03278-3 If you would prefer not to receive mailings in the future, please send a message to unsubscribe@mitpress.mit.edu. Please send feedback to Jud Wolfskill at wolfskil@mit.edu. -- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: DRH 2000 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:03:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 249 (249) [deleted quotation] This Message is a Call for Registration for DRH2000 We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for delegates to DRH2000: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES, University of Sheffield, 10-13 September 2000 The on-line registration form can be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/register.htm 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 professionalsin 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 in Stephenson Hall. Themes include: the creation of digital resources; their delivery, use and integration; the impact of digital resources on humanities research and education. Cost: *Full Registration 170 (includes conference dinner) *Local Registration 110 for University of Sheffield Staff only *Student Registration 60 (includes conference dinner) *Day Delegate 60 (not including conference dinner) Accommodation: Accommodation is provided at Stephenson Hall at the following rates: *En-Suite 33.40 *Standard 27.74 Details of local hotels are available on request. Full details about the conference, provisional timetable etc. may be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/ Please address any queries to drh2000@sheffield.ac.uk From: "Areti Damala" Subject: Master Class announcement (fwd) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:05:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 250 (250) Master Class in Applied Computing and the Social Scientists. http://anthropology.ac.uk The University of Kent Department of Anthropology and DICE and the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing invite you to participate in a series of one day master classes to learn new software being developed for social science problems. For more information please see our website or email Steve Lyon at mailto:S.M.Lyon@ukc.ac.uk . 1. Saturday 9 December 2000 Dr. Fergus Sinclair Knowledge elicitation and expert system development 2. Saturday 17 February 2001 Dr. Michael Fischer Fieldnotes and other field media 3. Saturday 12 May 2001 Dr. Nick Ryan Hand held mobile computing Kent is one of the pioneers in combining computing with social anthropology. Since the introduction of the World Wide Web and the popularity of the Internet more and more departments seem to be jumping on the bandwagon and contributing to studies of 'virtual societies' or making use of the internet for information dissemination. While we see these activities as very positive, we believe they are not taking full advantage of what the computing revolution has to offer to social science analyses. In the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing we are fortunate to have several researchers actively involved in either developing software or making use of software as an integral part of analyses (Dr. Michael Fischer, Dr. David Zeitlyn, Dr. Janet Bagg, Dr. Nevill Colclough, Mr. Alan Bicker). In other parts of Europe and in North America, anthropologists have been developing software to deal with specific problems they have encountered. However there are no forums where others may learn about this software. It is not commercially produced, there is therefore little information to support it - other than the cryptic notes that may be embedded within the source code. A 'Master Class' series would therefore address the growing need of anthropologists to utilise computing tools while recognising that there is already a body of existing materials which will serve some of that need. The first Class will take place on the 9th of December, 2000. Dr. Fergus Sinclair, from the University of Wales at Bangor will instruct participants in software he developed to elicit knowledge The second Class will be in February, with Dr. Michael Fischer from UKC and CSAC. He will be discussing Fieldnotes and other field media: Qualitative content coding, extracting information, analysis and report writing. The final Class for the academic year will take place at the start of the Summer term, 5th of May 2001, with Dr. Nick Ryan, from the UKC Computing Department. Weather permitting, this class will involve actual field practice around the campus of the University of Kent. You do not need to be a programmer or advanced user to attend and benefit from these classes, although there may be designated specific sections which are intended for the more advanced. Some familiarity with either Macintosh or Windows operating systems is strongly recommended. Participants should leave the Master Classes with a working knowledge of the software and a copy of the software. http://anthropology.ac.uk/MACSS A ---------------------------------------------- Stephen M. Lyon Department of Anthropology and DICE Eliot College University of Kent at Canterbury Canterbury, Kent UK CT2 7NS Eliot Annex Rm: L24 Tel: 01227-764000 Ext: 3948 Fax: 01227-827289 http://anthropology.ac.uk/Bhalot ---------------------------------------------- ******************* * Areti Damala * Thisseos 8 * Plateia Kornarou * 712-01 * Herakleion * Krete ****************** From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Learning 2000, Online Forum and Learning Library Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:08:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 251 (251) {--} Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University September 28 - October 1, 2000 The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning/> Many have been exploring ways for building a "virtual university" either from scratch or by virtualizing the educational experiences at already existing colleges and universities. Yet, a few institutions of higher learning, such as Virginia Tech, have been laying the foundations for such online learning environments since 1993. With its support for the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV), a state-wide broadband ATM network (NET.WORK.VIRGINIA), the Faculty Development Initiative (FDI), the Cyberschool project in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the campus-wide Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning (IDDL), Virginia Tech has been uniquely positioned as a site to assess the benefits and costs of virtual university instruction. "Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University" is a conference designed to gather colleagues from around the world who are interested in the shape and substance that the virtual university is acquiring in practice. In addition we hope to debate the advantages or disadvantages of digital discourse, learning online, and virtual university life. By reviewing the quality of faculty life, the pressures on support staff, the impact on student learning, the demands on university administrators, and the potentials for reaching new types of learners, a series of paper sessions, round-table discussions, panels, and keynote speakers will address the wide range of issues that emerge in this domain. The registration fee of $375 includes conference material, breaks, and lunch. If you are interested in exhibiting or serving as a sponsor, please visit the conference website at: <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning/> For information or assistance, please contact: Len Hatfield at Len.Hatfield@vt.edu or Tim Luke at tim.luke@vt.edu Other interesting developments by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture in this arena in conjunction with the conference are: The online Forum on Online Learning and Virtual Universities at: <http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/vu/index.php> and The Extraordinary and Eclectic Distance and Distributed Learning Library at: <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/eeddll> Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 --- You are currently subscribed to cddc as: tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cddc-398I@vtonline.psci.vt.edu -- From: Glenn Everett Subject: Re: 14.0165 King's publishing venture Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 252 (252) A pedantic correction to Norman Hinton's note: I believe the practice of selling subscriptions to works yet to be completed and published was a well-established practice in 18th-century London well before Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. [deleted quotation] producers [deleted quotation] yet to [deleted quotation] sold some [deleted quotation] -- Glenn S. Everett English Dept. University of Tennessee at Martin geverett@utm.edu From: "Aguera, Helen" Subject: RE: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:33:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 253 (253) Willard, On the August 2000 issue of _The Atlantic Monthly_, Jonathan G.S. Kopell discusses some of the consequences of what he calls "the cyberspace-as-place metaphor." His note, "No 'There' There: Why Cyberspace Isn't Anyplace," is available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/08/koppell.htm Helen C. Aguera Senior Program Officer National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20506 voice: (202) 606-8573 secretary: (202) 606-8570 FAX: (202) 606-8639 e-mail: haguera@neh.gov From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"? Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:59:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 254 (254) ) To: Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 7:50 PM [deleted quotation] other [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Academe: Technology For Sale (article in Slashdot) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:01:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 255 (255) [deleted quotation] There is an interesting article in Slashdot on the relationship between academia and corporations regarding technology. You can check it out at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/04/1824247 The author is highly critical of the way academia has allowed corporations to dictate how academia conducts its research. The sciences have had a long relationship with corporate sponsors, but now the whole university, including the humanities, is caught up in the dot.com madness. The most glaring example is fathom.com, a cooperative venture between Columbia University, The New York Public Library, the British Library, and the Smithsonian Institution. These used to be public institutions (or private institutions with a public mandate), but now their mission is governed by profitability, not the search for truth (or whatever it is we're supposed to be doing). I find this quote from the article particularly scathing: "Soon, the public will be as cynical about academic research as they are about government decision-making. And the evolution of technology will get even less scrutiny and oversight. Some of the best elements of the Net and the Web came about because academics and researchers were working outside of the marketplace, not because they were dominated by it." This raises a vital question: what is the relationship between humanities computing and the general public? Are we working for the public good, or just selling them products? Perhaps there are Objectivists (re Ayn Rand) out there who think selling knowledge is a public good. 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: Jan Rune Holmevik Subject: Digital Arts and Culture conference Presentations Online Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:56:21 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 256 (256) To: dac2000@uib.no Hello everyone, Thank you for attending this years Digital Arts and Culture conference. It was an honor and a great pleasure for us to be your hosts. We have received URLs for a few presentations and they are now linked to the DAC2000 web site at <http://cmc.uib.no/dac/> If you presented at DAC and would like us to link your presentation to the DAC site, please email us the URL for your presentation. Best regards, Jan Rune Holmevik __Jan Rune Holmevik, Cand Philol_________________________________________ University of Bergen jan@mac.com Department of Humanistic Informatics jan.holmevik@uib.no Sydnesplass 7, HF-bygget janruneh@utdallas.edu N-5007 Bergen, NORWAY http://lingua.utdallas.edu/jan From: Edward J. Valauskas Subject: [Proceedings]Web-Wise:A Conference on Libraries and Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 19:39:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 257 (257) [--] Dear Reader, The June 2000 issue of First Monday (volume 5, number 6) is now available at <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/> ------- Table of Contents Volume 5, Number 6 - June 5th 2000 Web-Wise: A Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the University of Missouri-Columbia, 16-17 March 2000, Washington, D.C. Introduction <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/introduction/> The Digital Landscape: Where the Good Stuff Lives The Digital Landscape: The Hawaiian Newspapers and War Records and Trust Territory Image Repository of the University of Hawaii by James Cartwright, Martha Chantiny, Joan Hori, and Karen Peacock <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/cartwright/> ArtsConnectEd: Collaboration in the Integration and Access to Museum Resources by Robin Dowden, Scott Sayre, and Steve Dietz <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/dowden/> Digital Star Dust: The Hoagy Carmichael Collection at Indiana University by Kristine R. Brancolini, Jon W. Dunn, and John A. Walsh <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/brancolini/> Linking Florida's Natural Heritage: Science & Citizenry by Stephanie C. Haas and Priscilla Caplan <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/haas/> Partnerships: Building Networked Infrastructures Collaboration through the Colorado Digitization Project by Nancy Allen <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/allen/> Digital Workflow Management: The Lester S. Levy Digitized Collection of Sheet Music by G. Sayeed Choudhury, Cynthia Requardt, Ichiro Fujinaga, Tim DiLauro, Elizabeth W. Brown, James W. Warner, and Brian Harrington <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/choudhury/> The Plant Information Center by Evelyn Daniel, Peter White, Jane Greenberg, and James Massey <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/daniel/> The Birth and Development of Find-It!:Washington State's Government Information Locator Service by Nancy Zussy <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/zussy/> Friendly Users: Involving Users in Digital Libraries Socially Grounded User Studies in Digital Library Development by Ann Peterson Bishop, Bharat Mehra, Imani Bazzell, and Cynthia Smith <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/bishop/> Children Shaping the Future of Digital Libraries by Allison Druin <http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddiglib/> ATEEL (The Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library): Advancing Technician Program Resources into the New Millennium by Ellen J. Kabat Lensch and Kay Kretschmar Runge <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/lensch/> INFOMINE: Promising Directions in Virtual Library Development by Julie Mason, Steve Mitchell, Margaret Mooney, Lynne Reasoner, and Carlos Rodriguez <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/mason/> This Old Web: Developing Standards for Digital Library Management, Interoperability, and Preservation Interoperability and Standards in a Museum/Library Collaborative: The Colorado Digitization Project by Liz Bishoff <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/bishoff/> Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: Opportunities and Challenges for Standards Development in the Digital Library Arena by Priscilla Caplan <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/caplan/> Digital Image Managers: A Museum/University Collaboration by S. K. Hastings <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/hastings/> Preserving Digital Assets: Cornell's Digital Image Collection Project by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/kenney/> ---------------------------- You've received this message because you're registered to First Monday's Table of Contents service. You can unsubscribe to this service by sending a reply containing the word unsubscribe in the body of the message or use the form at: <http://firstmonday.org/join.html> First Monday Editorial Group ---------------------------- From: PRES Editorial Subject: [Abstracts for Presence]Teleoperators and Virtual Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:10:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 258 (258) {--} May 2, 2000 The abstracts for Presence 8:6 and 9:1 are now available at the journal's web page: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/PRES> Presence Volume 8, Issue 6 December 1999 Special Issue on Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces II Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces II: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue By Rudolph P. Darken, Terry Allard, and Lisa B. Achille ARTICLES Path Reproduction Tests Using a Torus Treadmill By Hiroo Iwata and Yoko Yoshida Virtual Locomotion: Walking in Place through Virtual Environments By James M. Templeman, Patricia S. Denbrook, and Linda E. Sibert Maintaining Spatial Orientation during Travel in an Immersive Virtual Environment By Doug A. Bowman, Elizabeth T. Davis, Larry F. Hodges, and Albert N. Badre Use of Virtual Environments for Acquiring Configurational Knowledge About Specific Real-World Spaces: I. Preliminary Experiment By Glenn Koh, Thomas E. von Wiegand, Rebecca Lee Garnett, Nathaniel I. Durlach, and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Factors Affecting the Perception of Interobject Distances in Virtual Environments By David Waller A Theoretical Model of Wayfinding in Virtual Environments: Proposed Strageties for Navigational Aiding By Jui Lin Chen and Kay Stanney FORUM What's Happening Instructions to Contributors Call for Papers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Presence Volume 9, Issue 1 February 2000 ARTICLES Inertial Force Feedback for the Treadport Locomotion Interface By Robert R. Christensen, John M. Hollerbach, Yangming Xu, and Sanford G. Meek Localization of a Time-Delayed, Monocular Virtual Object Superimposed on a Real Environment By Jeffrey W. McCandless, Stephen R. Ellis, and Bernard D. Adelstein Evaluation of Rate-Based Force-Reflecting Teleoperation in Free Motion and Contact By Robert L. Williams II, Jason M. Henry, and Daniel W. Repperger Small Group Behavior in a Virtual and Real Environment: A Comparative Study By Mel Slater, A. 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Please direct any comments concerning this mailing to . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: New Media Editorial Subject: [New book] on "The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 259 (259) [--] This message is one of a series of periodic mailings about newly released books in new media. You have received this mailing because you have either purchased a book or added yourself to the mailing list. Follow the URL below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and ordering information. Tools for Thought The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology Howard Rheingold <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/RHETPS00> The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. 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Please send feedback to Jud Wolfskill at wolfskil@mit.edu. -- From: SJ Stauffer Subject: Why "cyberspace"?: Why "computing"? Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:33:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 260 (260) [deleted quotation] The original question leads me to another. Why *should* the metaphor of "cyberspace" contribute to our ability to talk about computing and its cultural consequences? Do the readers of Humanist have a uniform understanding of the term "computing"? Does "computing" include anything that is done with the use of a computer? This would seem to be a somewhat old-fashioned definition, but it *is* one that would encompass the sending of e-mail as well as the crunching of numbers. I wonder, though, how many, er, denizens of cyberspace would consider what they did in cyberspace (or the very act of entering cyberspace) to be "computing." MOOing, Napstering, checking out the stock market, IRCing, listening to David Sedaris on NPR online: Would the average person (or even any of the participants in this discussion) apply the term to any of this? The spatial metaphor works for these activities, and it's interesting to consider the cultural consequences of these activities where often the physical disposition of the participants and by extension their computers is an issue, both to the participants and to the social scientists who study their interactions. But that's different from considering the cultural consequences of computing if "computing" does not simply mean "anything done with a computer" but something more like "the application of computational methods (e.g. problem definition, problem analysis, writing code, testing, debugging) to solving problems or answering questions in a given field." As you-pl drink your morning or afternoon or evening coffees or teas, take a look at the Atlas of Cyberspaces at <http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html>, with maps in the categories listed below. | Conceptual | Artistic | Geographic | Cables & Satellites | Traceroutes | Census | Topology | Info Maps | Info Landscapes | Info Spaces | ISP Maps | Web Site Maps | Surf Maps | MUDs & Virtual Worlds | Historical Stephanie Stauffer Center for Applied Linguistics From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0172 new on WWW Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:35:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 261 (261) Yes - [deleted quotation] And that's Althusser's question too? Why he thinks R&D needs to be injected with the material dialectic? Habermas too is greatly concerned with the failure of democracy and the rise of technocracy. Surely, espcially now that technologies are becoming increasingly "global", we should be thinking about this more then we seem to be? Bourdieu makes a good point. Disintresedness (or apparent disintrestedness) is, in the context of the state or state apparatuses (e.g. universities) a kind of symbolic capital that fits the man or woman for authority in those apparatuses. And the curious thing is that because of this, disintrestedness seems to take on some kind of social reality? If the state ends up giving in to Capitalism qua Gordon Gecko then surely we are witnessing a profound paradigm shift in which "disntresedness" gets coopted into the capitalist notion that the market knows what's best for it? This means a profound change in the agenda of the state apparatuses that previously functioned by way of a sybolic>material capital transaction path. Now the ability to make material capital is the main source of symbolic capital, making the disntrestedness of the man or woman of the state apparatus take up the place of the man or woman of capitalism. You may as well serve the company? This may not be *all bad*. It will, for example, mitigate against sexism, racism, etc. But it means that, as the state becomes a capitalist machine, that markets, previously regulated through the idea of the common good, can expect to become progressively less regulated. This would mean subatantially less stable economies, at least if the arguments of John Ralston Saul are accepted? As for what we are doing in the humanities, it seems that a money-driven *performativity* is starving out *the search for truth* but that the latter survives because there is still a market for it. Look how large the feminism and cultural studies, critical theory, psychology, etc., sections are in any halfway cool bookshop? Look how much *theory* is out there on the internet? Academia has always been market driven, really. It's just now that money is showing itself as the efficient sign of the portability of capital per se (including *academic integrity*). This is the logical ramification of fact that *Truth* is, before it is anything else, a *survival strategy* (i.e. Education is a kind of capital). What depresses me is not that truth is being reduced to capital. For it always was capital. But rather that the market seems to have so little understanding of how to survive (many truths that are relevant to our survival are marked down as "irrelvant" (i.e. unsalable). The answer seems to lie in our attitude to *waste*. We have to be prepared to waste time, money and energy if we are to take control of the global situation, which at present is not ruled by men, but a diffuse and ineffable artificial intelligence that thinks numerically and has accepted, in true faith, the axiom we programmed into it long before the days of Babylon. The AI I am speaking of is, of course, money. :) Chris :) Chris :) Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: CFP: Kalamazoo 2001 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 262 (262) Call for Papers (Excuse X-posting): 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2001) Sponsored Session: " The Implications of the Work of the Canterbury Tales Project." The Canterbury Tales Project is organizing a session for the 36th International Medieval Congress. With the recent appearance of the General Prologue, and the forthcoming CD-ROMs scheduled for the next few months, we are increasingly interested on learning about the applications of these materials. We are seeking papers which deal with practical uses of the tools and information that the CTP has produced. Papers presenting non-research uses of the material (in teaching, at various levels) are particularly welcome. We could also consider papers on other electronic texts and tools and their possible uses for teaching and research. There is also a possibility of publication in the forthcoming Occasional Papers (volume III). If you are interested in any of the suggested topics send your abstract to bbordalejo@dmu.ac.uk Papers should be not longer that 20 minutes. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15, 2000. Barbara Bordalejo Research Assistant Canterbury Tales Project De Montfort University From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Possibilities - O. Doctorow Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 263 (263) Dear Colleagues: I have obtained so much from Humanist that I would like to give back some of what I have learned over the last few months in my fields if I can. Unfortunately in a way, my fields are mathematics/statistics and physics. I have been researching in a few fascinating (for me) directions. I will only mention the first direction here and may continue if anybody is interested. 1. The Fermat-Newton Mystery. Here it is important for mathematics and physics as well as humanities to know more about Fermat, Newton, and their relationship. Pierre De Fermat of 1600s France was an amateur mathematician and physicist and professional lawyer/civil servant who, in my opinion, was the greatest genius of all time in mathematics and physics. He discovered parts of the calculus and optics before Newton (the "inventor" of calculus), analytic geometry before Descartes (the "inventor" of analytic geometry), co-founded probability theory, founded modern number theory which is related to crytology, etc., etc. He was approximately 350-400 years ahead of his time and in my opinion anticipated parts of the modern special theory of relativity which was not invented until the early 1900s (by Einstein). He was fascinated with light (optics) and correctly figured out that light slows down in water (Descartes concluded the opposite). I will be delivering a paper at the December 2000 Orbis Scientiae Global Foundation meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on the dependence of light speed on energy, which will also relate to the recent superluminal (above light speed) experimental results which have been in the press since they were first demonstrated by Professor Nimtz at U. of Cologne/Koln in 1997 (later confirmed experimentally, although theorists differ as to whether objects or only pulses/groups are exceeding light speed). Science fiction writers can have a field day speculating on whether Fermat was merely smarter than Einstein (apparently he was - Einstein was only a few years ahead of his time or "one step" ahead of the mathematicians and physicists whose equations he used, including the Italians Ricci and Levi Civita and the the Englishman/Scotsman Fitzgerald and Lorentz from somewhere else) or whether he was a time traveller. By the way, Leonardo Da Vinci was about 400 years ahead of his time in my rough calculations, so Fermat definitely had a rival. There is certainly enough material for a time travel cinema. Fermat and Newton were both extremely secretive - so much so for Fermat that he enraged Descartes (and also upstaged him, and Descartes was forced to apologize) who spent the rest of his life trying to ruin Fermat's reputation and position. Newton was too secretive to publish until Leibniz upstaged him. Both Newton and Fermat rose "meteorically" in government/politics, Newton to Lord Chancellor. Both were obsessed with optics. Both founded branches and branches of mathematics and physics. Only problem: Newton lived after Fermat except for a slight and insignificant overlap. An even "wilder" scenario: were both Newton and Fermat promoted meteorically because their governments were rewarding them and recognizing their discoveries secretly? If so, what became of the French government's knowledge after the French Revolution? Who "knew too much" in Great Britain? Suggested hint for cinema: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Einstein's right-hand man whose experiments verified general relativity's predictions and who was the first person to write a book on general relativity (the book extended Einstein's theory far beyond what Einstein thought at the time). Second hint: Eddington and Paul Dirac of Cambridge were quite similar. Paul Dirac and Stephen Weinberg later won the Nobel Prize in physics and were the two greatest quantum theorists of the last 30-40 years. Guess who Paul Dirac's student was (and also partly Albert Einstein's)? Professor B. N. Kursunoglu, President of the Global Foundation. Anyone care to attend the December lecture? Cheers and God bless, Osher From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0171 King's publishing venture: publishing history Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:35:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 264 (264) I'm certainly willing to take correction on this matter -- but that's what I was taught in graduate school (long ago, alas)....Johnson's letter to Chesterfield about his determination to go on with the Dictionary (through subscriptions) despite C's lack of financial support has been called "the death-knell to patronage", and Johnson has also been called the first writer to break the tyranny of the book-sellers. I'm not surprised if more recent scholarship has overturned these judgments -- that's one of the things scholarship is supposed to do. [deleted quotation] From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0171 King's publishing venture: publishing history Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 07:36:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 265 (265) Speaking of subscription publishing: Let us not forget Murray's English Dictionary Based on Historical Principles which later became know by its nickname: The Oxford English Dictionary Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0174 two questions Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:25:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 266 (266) Dear Stephanie, I wonder if the word "computing" does not smack somewhat of punch-cards? Certainly I do not "compute" (at least not with computers). But then I am not particularly interested in *content analysis* (or *discourse analysis*) - not that I think those things are worthless. I have other fish to fry. Computers in Applied Lingusistics? What my wife and her patron, et al., are doing out at University of Canberra is utilizing *information technology* to help create *student centered learning environments*. This seems to be in tune with a certain *wave* that is sweeping *Language Teaching*? :) Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: "computing"? Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:25:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 267 (267) In Humanist 14.174 Stephanie Stauffer asks, "Why *should* the metaphor of 'cyberspace' contribute to our ability to talk about computing and its cultural consequences?", which is in part to ask, what do we mean by "computing" in the context of its uses? This, it seems to me, is much the same question as Marilyn Deegan asked in her closing plenary address at ALLC/ACH last month, "what is digital scholarship?", i.e. how is *digital* scholarship different from using a computer for scholarly purposes? A simple answer offers itself almost immediately: digital scholarship is that kind which pays self-conscious attention to the means; without that attention, it's just scholarship than happens to be done with a computer, as a conversation that happens to be conducted by means of a telephone and doesn't reflect on its telephonicity is just a conversation. I don't mean to imply that this is a bad or unproductive answer -- it seems to me that we can get quite far by developing a methodology for such self-conscious attention. But I wonder if anyone else is, like me, dissatisfied with that answer. Let me suggest the beginnings of a better question. Doesn't the answer depend on your disciplinary perspective? If I MOO, say, or do medieval studies like Anders Winroth (who has made great strides in his field with essentially trivial uses of computing, for which see <http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i49/49a01701.htm>), is it just to argue that I'm hardly "computing" in any way important to us? Yes, I suppose so, if we consider the matter in the terms in which I pursue it. But what if we consider my MOOing or Decretum-searching historically, sociologically, philosophically? Is there only an accidental relationship between the fact that I use a computer and what I do with it? Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 268 (268) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 269 (269) [deleted quotation] some [deleted quotation] to [deleted quotation] do [deleted quotation] suggest, [deleted quotation] From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 14.0174 two questions Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:27:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 270 (270) "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] The disinterest of academics is a measure of their social autonomy as intellectuals, and as "truth" (the specific form of symbolic capital that defines who an intellectual is) gives way to technology (the capital of the New Economy) in the intellectual field, intellectuals must clothe themselves as entrepreneurs. Of course, this is not new: a lot of critical theory is really just technology in the Heideggerian sense of putting the world in standing-reserve, ie creating efficiencies for purposes other than opening our eyes to the truth (like selling cool books in cool bookstores). If we confuse technology, the modus operatum and opus operatum of humanities computing, with the quest for truth, our modus operandi, we reinforce the blurring between capitalism and the academy. Information technology has changed the way humanities scholars pursue the truth, indeed what counts as truth, and as a result our perspective has undergone a radical shift. How do we distinguish "humanities" from "computing"? Have these two terms become imcompatible? Bourdieu has an explanation for this difficulty that many of us as humanities computing scholars experience: If agents are possessed by their habitus more than they possess it, this is because it acts within them as the organizing principle of their actions, and because this modus operandi informing all thought and action (including thought of action) reveals itself only in the opus operatum. (Outline of a Theory of Praxis, 18) [deleted quotation] I suppose from the perspective of the New Economy, with its emphasis on streamlining and efficiency (just look at all the consolidation taking place in the dot.com world as IPO money runs dry and companies devour each other), waste could be a tactical measure for waking people from passivity in cyberspace. But in any economy, symbolic or material, waste cannot be tolerated for long. If what we do is perceived as waste, universities will either outsource their teaching and research or people will invest their time and resources elsewhere. 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: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Truth Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:27:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 271 (271) I just want to clear something up. When I said that truth was a kind of capital, I said that it has "use value" (the word I used was survival value). This hardly implies that academia has a monopoly on truth - or that the markets of capitalism are not just as troublesome for "truth" as the symbolic markets of academia. Quite the opposite. I was demystifying truth via *perfomativity*. I see little benefit in continuing to deny the death of "God". Though Capital-on-high yet lives, moratally wounded we can't say for sure, I'd rather put a bullet in the transcendental signifier than see it do more parlour tricks. Does this mean I oppose the idea of "truth". Not at all. Not in the slightest! Capital is not just money. As to why we should *waste* resources? You have to risk capital to make capital. Diversity is a survival strategy dating back to the origins of life (a strategy enabled by chaos, not order; utilizing the degraded copy, not the faithful copy). To say nothing yet of the sacrifies Truth would demand of us (sacrifices that I would rather make for Truth than for anything else) the truth of which is: Truth needs a bullet. Having said that, should the academy continue to defend itself as a *restricted economy* in which *symbolic capital* functions instead og money so as to make *virtual capital* (i.e education) as a side-effect (or is honour the side effect, you tell me)? Or should it just say die and rationalize? Well homogenizing the system is not a good survival strategy. And truth, before it is anything else, is of survival value (the carrot and the stick of capital by which the first cells floated forth and multiplied). But the "economic rationalists" are goings to call this risk by which diversification propspers just "waste". Because they see survival in terms of *money*, not in terms of *capital*. What place communications technology? If K.Ohamae (et al., numerous others since Marx) is right, IT will facilitate the further growth of golbal capitalism and spell the end of the nation state. If nations shall be degraded how shall the autonomy of univerisities survive? It is obvious that universities can survive in two ways: 1. By outcompeting the corporation re: truth in accord with the same logic of global capitalism, a logic that will rationalize universities ... OR 2. Under the heading of luxury or waste, which must then be sold, again according to the logic of global capitalism, that will end up rationalizing universities. Because, as yous say, waste will never be tolerated for long, waste will always survive only as surplus value, luxury, or survival value qua diversification. But what happens if we start thinking in terms of capital instead of money? Is there not an even more profound seat of capital? I mean the whole biosphere of this world where we evolved, people included? And that means, in order to make this fantastic paradigm shift, we need historians and philosophers not just economists. We need the M.BAs to start talking with the PhDs in philosophy and history! We need to humanise the technocrats and technocratize the humans! New blocks of becoming need to be formed. This is the role of the university as I see it, not to restrict entry, but to create a public space: a zone where these blocks of becoming can start being actualized, start discovering laterally pragmatic approaches with which to make it possible for the human mind to no longer be obsolete, supeceded by money. :) Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: machines, pride and pure research Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 272 (272) I recently encountered an interesting statement attributed to Marvin Minsky (1982): "Do not be bullied by authoritative pronouncements about what machines will never do. Such statements are based on pride, not fact." What interests me about this statement is that its truth value isn't changed by removing the negative adverb "never". "Pride goeth before a fall", undoubtedly, but the fact is that we do not know "what machines will [never] do", and for some that cloud of unknowing is intolerable, it seems. If research of the undirected kind (a.k.a. "pure") requires the cloudy state of mind, then how does research in our area get done in the real world, where funding is required and available largely from people who want products guaranteed? Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Open-Access Model for Publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 273 (273) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 18, 2000 Bill Arms & the Open-Access Model for Publishing <http://chronicle.com/free/2000/08/2000081801t.htm>http://chro <http://chronicle.com/free/2000/08/2000081801t.htm>http://chronicle.com/free /2000/08/2000081801t.htm [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Mel Wiebe Subject: 1857 comet, reactions to Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 274 (274) Editing the letters of Benjamin Disraeli, I am stumped by an identification that looks like it should be an easy one; perhaps HUMANIST can help. Here's the problem: In early 1857 a prediction was made that a comet would strike the earth on 13 June 1857, causing great alarm in some quarters because of several end-of-the-world prophecies. Others, however, were more amused than frightened. Disraeli on 7 June 1857 wrote to his friend Sarah Brydges Willyams in Torquay about a planned visit, and remarked: "The world is very much frightened about the Comet .... A philosopher, who laughs at the theological view of the question, & therefore shocks the ladies, has however frightened them equally by his scientific announcement that the world has already been destroyed 27 times, that, reasoning by analogy, it must be destroyed again & probably often; that he rather imagines it will not be destroyed on the 13th. Inst, but there is no reason why it shd. not be destroyed before that, as the destructive agencies are all rife -- in the centre of the earth a raging fire, while the misty tail of the comet wd, if it touched us, pour forth an overwhelming deluge -- so in 4 & 20 hours we may be shrivelled or drowned. In the meantime, if the catastrophe do not occur, we hope to be at Torquay by the end of next month." Who is this "philosopher"? Mel Wiebe, General Editor of _Benjamin Disraeli Letters_, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada From: "Bruce G. Robertson" Subject: Historical Event Markup in XML Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 275 (275) Humanists: I have completed the prototype of HEML <http://www.heml.org>, text mark-up and transformation tools. HEML aims to produce: 1. An xml namespace that describes the basic building blocks of history: events, periods, etc. 2. Xslt transformations that make 'cool stuff' out of documents encoded according to (1). Right now, we have - tables of events sorted chronologically, even if the events are encoded in different calendrical systems (i.e. Gregorian and Islamic). These are linked back to an anchor in the source document representing the event. (This makes use of an xsl-extension in java that hooks into IBM's Alphaworks' International Calendars.) - historical documents with javascript pop-ups that give historical context to a text. - The beginnings of dynamically generated time-lines, coded in scalable vector graphics, also with links back to source documents. ... and we dream nightly of dynamically generated maps of historical events in a given time period within a given region. This project takes a 'vertical' approach to development: instead of starting with the DTD and nailing it down in detail, we've started with a fairly naive DTD and explored the views and documents which can be generated from it. This will inform our next revision of the DTD, and so on. The project's emphasis is on useful, and possibly new, views of historical events. The DTD acts as a common denominator for these. This is 'pure' research, meant for historians world-wide. The examples given on the site are just that, snippets taken to test or show off the technology, not samples of an anticipated mark-up project. We're hoping that this will so nifty and easy to use that any historical web material would be crazy not to adopt it. Finally, the HEML web site itself uses some pretty new web technology, whose inner workings might be of interest to Humanists. In particular, its server applies xslt's on the fly with the Cocoon web publishing framework, it uses java extension functions in its xslt's and it makes scalable vector graphics images through xsl transformations. In an attempt to make the site self-documenting, most transformations have links to their xml and xsl source files. (Currently, this is hosted on my office desktop; we'll be switching in Sept. to a dedicated machine.) We welcome your comments and criticism, but most of all, we'd love to find partners who are working on marking up historical documents, and would like to inform the direction of HEML by integrating it into their mark-up efforts. Yours, -- Bruce Robertson, Dept. of Classics, Mount Allison University http://www.mta.ca/faculty/humanities/classics/Robertson/ From: History of Science and Technology Subject: _Labyrinth_ in "A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science" Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:08:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 276 (276) Editorial [--] NEW BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FROM THE MIT PRESS Follow the URLs below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and ordering information. Labyrinth A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science Peter Pesic <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/PESLHS00> Nature has secrets, and it is the desire to uncover them that motivates the scientific quest. But what makes these "secrets" secret? Is it that they are beyond human ken? that they concern divine matters? And if they are accessible to human seeking, why do they seem so carefully hidden? Such questions are at the heart of Peter Pesics effort to uncover the meaning of modern science. Pesic portrays the struggle between the scientist and nature as the ultimate game of hide-and-seek, in which a childlike wonder propels the exploration of mysteries. Witness the young Albert Einstein, fascinated by a compass and the sense it gave him of "something deeply hidden behind things." In musical terms, the book is a triple fugue, interweaving three themes: the epic struggle between the scientist and nature; the distilling effects of the struggle on the scientist; and the emergence from this struggle of symbolic mathematics, the purified language necessary to decode natures secrets. Pesics quest for the roots of science begins with three key Renaissance figures: William Gilbert, a physician who began the scientific study of magnetism; Franois Vite, a French codebreaker who played a crucial role in the foundation of symbolic mathematics; and Francis Bacon, a visionary who anticipated the shape of modern science. Pesic then describes the encounters of three modern masters-Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein-with the depths of nature. Throughout, Pesic reads scientific works as works of literature, attending to nuance and tone as much as to surface meaning. He seeks the living center of human concern as it emerges in the ongoing search for natures secrets. 5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp., 11 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-16190-7 ---- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Convergence -The journal of Research into New Media Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:10:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 277 (277) Technologies Greetings humanists, Hi --here is the recent issue of *Convergence* with abstracts --as Convergence 6 no 2 (Summer 2000) on special issue of "Parallel Histories in the Intermedia Age". Convergence is a refereed academic paper journal --which is having creative, social, political and pedagogical potentials raised by the advent of new media technologies. It provides a forum for monitoring as well as exploring developments for vital research. One of the principal aims of *Convergence* is to promote discussion and analysis of the creative and educational potentials of the emergence of new media technologies. On the Editorial Board of "Convergence", one can see the names of hypertext scholars and critics such as George Landow, Jay David Bolter with other scholars such as Roy Ascott and Steve Jones.... ---------- Articles Yvonne Spielmann Visual Forms of Representation and Simulation: A Study of Chris Marker's Level 5 Scott McQuire Impact Aesthetics: Back to the Future in Digital Cinema? Millennial fantasies Michael Punt Parallel Histories: Early Cinema and Digital Media Ross Harley Roller Coaster Planet: Kinetic Experience in the Age of Mechanical Transportation Feature Report Steven Maras and David Sutton Media Specificity Re-visited Reviews Greg Battye The Third Way of Knowing: Situating Knowledge in a Postmodern World. Lynette Hunter, Critiques of Knowing: Situated textualities in science, computing and the arts, and McKenzie Wark, Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace: the light on the hill in a postmodern world Pat Brereton Refashioning Media Forms. Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media Lincoln Dahlberg Dragons and Sea Monsters: A First Map of Cyberspace. Tim Jordan, Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet. Mark Wheeler Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System. Dan Schiller, Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System, Richard Wise A Reader for our times. Hugh Mackay, and Tim T. O'Sullivan, (eds), The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation. ----- Abstracts: Convergence 6.2 (Summer 2000) special issue ----- Yvonne Spielmann Visual Forms of Representation and Simulation: A study of Chris Marker's film Level 5 Abstract: Chris Marker in his feature film Level 5 combines formal and structural elements of two different types of media: film and computer. Visually and narratively, he compares the essential characteristics of the analogue (film) and digital (computer) media. The feature film functions like a fictional documentary based on historical documents about the battle of Okinawa, Japan, at the end of the Second World War. Within this narrative Marker develops a complex structure of media discourses where he interrelates, merges, and layers elements of different media and thereby gives an insight into the structure of intermedia and hypermedia and aesthetically differentiates between fiction and simulation. Scott McQuire Impact Aesthetics: Back to the Future in Digital Cinema? Millennial fantasies Abstract: This article engages recent debates about the future of cinema in the digital age. Firstly, it seeks to broaden the rather narrow terms in which the transition to digital cinema is often understood in film theory. Secondly, it tries to assess claims about the demise of narrative frequently associated with the digital threshold. On one level, it is argued that a dialectical understanding of the relation between terms such as narrative and spectacle is needed to advance current debates. On another level, it is suggested that digital technology should not be wholly defined by the current dominance of blockbuster films. In place of technological determinism, an understanding based on the politics of spectacle and distracted spectatorship is advanced. Michael Punt Parallel Histories: Early Cinema and Digital Media Abstract: This article suggests ways in which research into a nineteenth- century technology such as early cinema might be valid in understanding digital technology. It identifies a number of stylistic resemblances between early cinema, personal computing and the internet. It also claims that there is some value in applying one analytical methodology to both 'old' and 'new' media. By looking at digital technology through the filter of an extremely well developed discourse in early film history, softer determinist accounts of digital technology can emerge which are not dependent on the premises of progress nor those of various forms of Postmodernist criticism. In a reverse angle, so to speak, it also argues that a close tracking of digital technology and its critical discourses as they unfold in various entertainment forms can tell us much about the attractions and fascinations that early cinema had a century ago had for its audiences. In short it claims a continuity in audio visual history and criticism which is a valuable addition, even antedote, to the hyperbole and unsupportable technological determinism that digital media has attracted both in academic and commercial commentary. Ross Harley Roller Coaster Planet: Kinetic Experience in the Age of Mechanical Transportation Abstract: This paper addresses the interrelation between mechanical motion and electro-mechanical mediation. It draws attention to the close parallels between various modes of mobile subjectivity associated with moving image/ sound technologies and mechanical forms of transportation. The kinetic experiences associated with the freeway and the roller coaster are offered as two quite different examples of how the interpenetration of media, objects and subjectivities takes place in the realm of moving images and bodies. It is argued that the same modes of perception and motion associated with the car and the roller coaster also figure in a variety of new media forms that appeal to the contemporary body-in-motion/perception- in-motion nexus (from virtual environments to ride films and location-based entertainment). Like other communication networks of the present, both exist as ambivalent spaces for the representation of social interaction and social fears. ----------------- Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Convergence is a paper journal. To join our e-mailing list, for further information and for details of back issues, see our web site at <http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence> The copyright of all articles, papers, reports and reviews published in Convergence rests with the University of Luton Press. Any author(s) wishing to have their published text reproduced elsewhere should seek the necessary permission via the Editors --Edited by Julia Knight, Jeanette Steemers & Alexis Weedon, Dept of Media Arts, University of Luton, UK Web site: http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence -------- Thank you.. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: (Announcement) EJournal --concerns with the implications Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 278 (278) of electronic networks and texts Dear humanist scholars, [Hi, I thought --the EJournal --might interest you --received via Professor Charles Ess and CaTaC List..EJournal is available free on the Web. Thank you.--Arun] ============================================================================= [material deleted] EJournal is a pioneering all-electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary academic journal published since 1991. We are especially interested in theory and practice surrounding the creation, transmission, storage, interpretation, alteration and replication of electronic "text," broadly defined. We are also interested in the broader social, psychological, literary, economic and pedagogical implications of computer-mediated networks. EJournal is currently soliciting theoretically and philosophically driven feature articles on the above topics. Reviews and other short items are welcome. We are also interested in hearing from people who would like to review manuscripts. Please see the EJournal home page for details, submission guidelines, and back issues: <http://www.ucalgary.ca/ejournal> Please direct inquiries to the EJournal Editorial Office, ejournal@ucalgary.ca Thanks! Doug Brent, University of Calgary, and Joanna Richardson, Bond University Co-editors, EJournal ---- From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0182 reactions to the 1857 comet? Date: Saturday, August 19, 2000 2:53 AM X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 279 (279) [deleted quotation] month." [deleted quotation] From: "Pat Moran" Subject: Re: 14.0180 machines, pride and pure research? Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:05:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 280 (280) It's always a hoot to hear people make pronouncements on what they will "never" do or about things which will "never" occur. This very gentlemanly reading of pompous behavior ["for some that cloud of unknowing is intolerable"] surely applies to Rousseau's comments in his "Confessions, Part I, Book 1"-- "I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator." The idea that autobiography could be "without precedent" and the contention that no one could imitate his efforts always inspire my previously spark-less adult military students to quiet chuckles and/or peals of laughter. Perhaps they're thinking of how Rousseau's research reveals, rather than requires the "cloudy state of mind." One needn't be considering technology to get a laugh out of academics and psychics. ---------------- Patricia J. Moran, FSU Ed. Foundations and Policy Studies 312 Stone Bldg., Tallahassee, FL 32306 850-575-7787 pjm0362@mailer.fsu.edu From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: accidents and essence: more on cyber guiding Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:06:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 281 (281) Hello Stephanie I have been mulling over your question about who "computes" in relation to someone else's (Chris McMahon's) reference to Paul Virilio [the question of diaster] (who knows what an archive check of Humanist will reveal with a search for "Virilio" and its alternative spellings). Dear me, what a convoluted sentence wondering off in a orthographicly inspired rift verging on information overload. There is not one diaster but many. And it is scholars able to move away from the keyboard, the slide projector and even the chalk board who are able to continue to engage an audience. When the technologies mediating the network of social selves breaks down, it is the capital H Humanities people to the rescue while the capital C computing folks do the hardware/software fix. Diaster invites what rhetoricians call the ekphrastic moment. The power of the Humanities side of the Computing-Humanities couple is in the ability to begin to describe (and to start the description over). Now, description is a prerequiste for computation. Cognitively, descriptions need not be verbalized. Psychologists are sometimes fond of informing us about the assumptions we make in perceiving the world. Sociologists are even fonder of this activity. It may be safe to assume that "the use of computers" involves some set of descriptions about this activity. Is it fair to reframe your question about "computing" in terms of conscious use of computers a la Willard reporting on Marilyn Deegan's Glasgow remarks on the nature of digital scholarship? This conscious/unconscious dichotomy of course leads to the need/want to draw other lines: programming versus using a software application; encoding versus formating. If "computing" becomes the umbrella term for a plurality of activities of an analytic and artistic sort, the real institutional investment difficulties do not disappear (the are always based on some calculation of waste/gain). However a vague ecology of shifting cognitive activities becomes discernable and allows perphas a turn to your fundamental questions about the nature of the "computing" model. Yes, the email user computes. Yes, the Java programmer computes. As agents in a Minskian society of mind, they are elements of a social macine and either actor-network theory or basic economics can account for their computations in the sense of calculations apportioning attention (time and resources) to certain activities. But what does it mean to compute as a humanist? I think Willard provided a bit of an answer by way of a question: Willard wrote: [deleted quotation] suppose so, if we [deleted quotation] It is precisely accidents that interest Humanities scholars. I do thank you for your posting asking for error free citiations. The delightful "neuro" and "necro" pair had me wondering if in Roman divinatory practice the slayer of the beast and the reader of the entrails were the same person (in body and spirit) because I was trying to work out the programmer/user metaphorics in terms of travelling versus building cyberspace. And the year of republication (1994) of the 1984 Gibson novel struck a chord as about the time that the World Wide Web was opened up to commercial interests... Just about the time I wrote: Just as a Turing machine's configuration can be interpreted as states of being or as instructions, a story can be considered an apparatus processing descriptions and questions, figures and sequences. and A story is at once product and apparatus of production. It is an autopoetic structure. It will take a picture, a question, a description, an imperative and transform either it, itself, or both. A story is a machine that learns. See http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S4E.HTM In short if people are telling stories using computers, they are computing. [not an argument for any one who would want to keep semiosis and perception apart -- keep mind from informing body]. Once again, thanks for providing the launch pad into some enjoyable mulling. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0179 market-driven truth-seeking Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:06:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 282 (282) Dr Mark, I think we might be seeing things in roughly the same way. Can I make a couple of points though? [deleted quotation] Yes. Like the "disinteretedness" of the state bureaucrats. I'm thinking, for example, of Bourdieu's discussion of how disinteredness is a field relative symbolic capital in *Practical Reason*. and as "truth" (the specific form of symbolic capital [deleted quotation] Has there been an important semantic slide here from "disinterestedness" to "truth"? Why should the search fro truth be disinteredned? Is not necessity the mother of invention? gives way to technology (the [deleted quotation] I would say that what I see is the academic managment class (deans, proVCs, etc) making symbolic capital by rationalizing (cutting, saving money, etc.). So yes, the university is beginning to be driven by profit motives that make it less distinguishable from the corporation? One style of capital transaction (a rather pure restricted symbolic economy productive of "the-knowledge-formerly-known-as-truth") is giving way to a different style of capital transactions (a material to symbolic economy, becoming less restricted, productive of "the-education-that-ised-to-be-liberal"). I agree that the universities are beginning to be less *autonomous*. And I think IT is mixed up in there somehow (though chicken or egg? - I mean Capitalism has progressively reified every field, and maybe IT is just speeding up the process? [deleted quotation] That's what I see too. I do, however, invite you to think about this idea "truth" a bit. There may be some kernel of the idea that is a "primary proposition" (i.e. impossible to be analysed) by that kernel, even if it is not simply a social contruct (which I don;t think it is) does carry around a lot of sublated symbolic capital which is pure mystification. And it is that mystified capital that is under fire, being transformed into perfomativity capital, which is the capitalist cooption of the scientific idea of the use value of truth. Of course, this is not [deleted quotation] I think so too. But something new is happening. Not that the universities are no longer helping to reproduce the social order, or that they are becoming reproductive for the first time, but that the rules of the game, as you note, are changing. I'm not sure I like the new game any more than you do. I'm wondering what sort of new game we can design instead. If we confuse technology, the modus [deleted quotation] Again, I think so too. Information technology has changed the way humanities [deleted quotation] That is, if you have come up to speed with IT, which most academics in the humanities really have not. [deleted quotation] Has truth ever been NOT performative? There have been truths that are not perfortmative (or are only socially performative). There is a basis in the distinction between rational purposive action & symbolic exchange (cf. Habermas), and the truths of the latter need not be performative outside any given social field where it is the "correctness" of symbolic exchange that counts and not the competence of rational purosive action (i.e in cases where all is arbitrary). Otherwise the use value of truth has always been its performativity. That's how science works. So the two terms could not have become incompatable. If anything the pressure towards performativity (and against waste) makes more truths. But truths directed in the service of certain interests? Althusser's problematic? Bourdieu has an explanation for this difficulty that [deleted quotation] If we think hard enough we might realize that the idea of "agent" here is quite redundant. The rules of the game are certainly changing. The question is not why, on which we agree, but "is truth suffering"? Now i think we both see truth as suffering but you seem to be constructing a sort of 'good old days" scenario, the fall from truth and disnterestedness into technocapitalist market-driven performativities. It's Lyotardian? On the other hand, I think truth is not really suffering any more now than it has been in the past, even though the rules of the academic game are changing, and what depreses me is that we don;t seem to be able to liberate the use value of truth from the interested of the dominant groups (which would include those "disinterested" men of state, et al.) [deleted quotation] I agree. That's how "official production" works after the death of God. With the rise of the capitalists everything that their regime of "official production" does not like - for any reason - is labelled "waste". The logic of late capitalism is just a refinement of the logic of early modern capitalism. I'm just saying if we really were to be autonomous, we should look again at this so-called *waste*. If we do not, then we are already, for all our "disinterestedness" just the lackies of the inhuman cyberbourgeoisie (the great mind of globalised money). Hope I have managed to make my position clearer. I hope you will agree with me that we are quibbling over details? I have made my ideas about what we should do sort of clear (redesign the academies as "public spheres") - But I would like to ask you what sort of project you suggest for overcoming the conquest of the academy by corporatism? :) Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: A humanities "fingerprint machine" to study creative genius Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:07:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 283 (283) Dear Colleagues: In my opinion, we are close to the stage where we can take "theoretical fingerprints" of candidates for creative geniuses in the past to see whether they really were creative or whether they were imitators or "ingenious followers" (one step ahead of whoever they were following, in a sense). This has applications not only to the obvious field of literature (Shakespeare, Ovid, etc.), but to music (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi, etc.), sculpture (Michaelangelo), invention/discovery (Leonardo Da Vinci, Pierre De Fermat, Newton, Faraday, Edison, etc.), and so on. The profile of a creative genius which emerges involves the following characteristics. 1. Open-minded to new ideas and to change of one's own erroneous wrong ideas and those of one's colleagues or friends (Steven Weinberg and Paul Dirac in quantum theory, the Strausses in Vienna). 2. Experienced severe long-term emotional traumas in childhood (e.g., Beethoven, Paganini, Mozart it appears). 3. Experienced the creative process subjectively as a giant orchestrated process either full blown instantly or slowly/laboriously (respectively Chopin and Vivaldi versus Beethoven). 4. Was the first to invent/discover/create an important new school of thought or emotion (Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Steven Weinberg, Shakespeare, Dirac, Pierre De Fermat, Newton, Socrates, the Strausses, Edison, Mahatma Gandhi, Democritus, Heraclitus, Mendeleyev, Cantor, Saint Thomas Acquinas, Christ, Old Testament Prophets, Montgomery, Slim, Crick, Watson, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha, etc.). 5. Had a severe physical or mental disorder for much of life (Godel, Beethoven, Schumann, Milton, Stephen Hawking, possibly Einstein physically, Buddha it appears, etc.). 6. Was extremely secretive (Newton, Pierre De Fermat, Sir Roger Penrose, etc.). 7. Was an interdisciplinary person (Shakespeare I think, Pierre De Fermat, Newton, Beethoven, Haydn, Weinberg, Dirac, Eddington, Cao of Boston University, Aristotle, Kursunoglu, Socrates, Plato, Agatha Christie). 8. Was not strongly motivated by anger or blame (Mahatma Gandhi, Christ, Buddha, various winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace, Socrates it appears, Freud). 9. Was very courageous (Socrates, Christ, Old Testament Prophets, Field Marshalls Montgomery and Slim, Beethoven, Hawking, Gandhi, various winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace, Saint Thomas More). Osher Doctorow From: Computer Science Editorial Subject: [new books]Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce & Essays Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 284 (284) [--] *This month, our web page (http://mitpress.mit.edu) features Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, a new book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio. Follow the URLs below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and ordering information. Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce L. Jean Camp <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/CAMTHF99> As Internet-based commerce becomes commonplace, it is important that we examine the systems used for these financial transactions. Underlying each system is a set of assumptions, particularly about trust and risk. To evaluate systems, and thus to determine one's own risks, requires an understanding of the dimensions of trust: security, privacy, and reliability.In this book Jean Camp focuses on two major yet frequently overlooked issues in the design of Internet commerce systems--trust and risk. 292 pp., 25 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-03271-6 Proof, Language, and Interaction Essays in Honour of Robin Milner edited by Gordon Plotkin, Colin Stirling, and Mads Tofte <http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/PLOPHS00> This collection of original essays reflects the breadth of current research in computer science. Robin Milner, a major figure in the field, has made many fundamental contributions, particularly in theoretical computer science, the theory of programming languages, and functional programming languages. 700 pp., 42 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-16188-5, Foundations of Computing series ---- From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Re: 14.0188 market truth, fingerprint machine Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 285 (285) On the problem of creative genius -- one would suppose first that one would need a definition. One would then need a list of people on which we could obtain general consensus that they were indeed creative geniuses. Perhaps also a profiling method which would exclude those who were idiots savants or creative in a non-humanistic field, e.g. mathematics. Then one would need some method for deciding the characteristics to be polled. This has all been tried before, mais est-ce cela vaut la chandelle? From: Mel Wiebe Subject: Re: 14.0186 Disraeli's philosopher & the 1857 comet Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 286 (286) I am grateful to Jim Marchand for his attempt to be helpful, but he has missed some of the clues to the identity of the "philosopher": 1. He's (excuse the sexist assumption that it's a male we're looking for) alive and active in 1857, as he has offered his opinion about the predictions about the comet expected on 13 June 1857; 2. His theory is that the earth has already been destroyed 27 times, and probably will be again many times, though not necessarily on the 13th. I am intrigued by the suggestion that the "philosopher" may be Disraeli himself, as he did include a wonderful spoof of Chambers's _Vestiges_ in his novel _Tancred_ about a decade earlier than the allusion in question. I think it's sufficiently amusing to warrant sharing with Humanist; here it is: "After making herself very agreeable, Lady Constance took up a book which was at hand, and said, 'Do you know this?' And Tancred, opening a volume which he had never seen, and then turning to its titlepage, found it was 'The Revelations of Chaos,' a startling work just published, and of which a rumour had reached him. 'No,' he replied; 'I have not seen it.' 'I will lend it you if you like: it is one of those books one must read. It explains everything, and is written in a very agreeable style.' 'It explains everything!' said Tancred; 'it must, indeed, be a very remarkable book!' ... 'To judge from the title, the subject is rather obscure,' ... 'No longer so,' said Lady Constance. 'It is treated scientifically; everything is explained by geology and astronomy, and in that way. ... But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then, I forget the next, I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came, let me see, did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And the next change there will be something very superior to us, something with wings. Ah! that's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. But you must read it.' 'I do not believe I ever was a fish,' said Tancred. 'Oh! but it is all proved; you must not argue on my rapid sketch; read the book. It is impossible to contradict anything in it. You understand, it is all science; it is not like those books in which one says one thing and another the contrary, and both may be wrong. Everything is proved: by geology, you know. You see exactly how everything is made; how many worlds there have been; how long they lasted; what went before, what comes next. We are a link in the chain, as inferior animals were that preceded us: we in turn shall be inferior; all that will remain of us will be some relics in a new red sandstone. This is development. We had fins; we may have wings.'" The "'how many worlds there have been'" phrase is intriguing, but Chambers doesn't seem to fit otherwise. Mel Wiebe From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0180 machines, pride and pure research? Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:55:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 287 (287) At 08:32 AM 8/19/00 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Often, by accident. The products are guaranteed, but not delivered. Careers rise and fall, not entirely on the basis of guarantees made and fulfilled. Some products are guaranteed and even delivered, but do not serve: situations change: the new VP just doesn't care about his predecessor's hobby horse or white elephant. Some products serve, but in ways not anticipated. The only thing that doesn't change is that the developer who explicitly pitches "I don't know how this will be useful, but someone will find some way," never gets a shot. Yet some dreams, some requirements, never go away. Thomas Jefferson got the notion from France that interchangeable parts for firearms would be a good thing on a battlefield. He wasn't the only one, and the federal government funded these projects constantly and repeatedly, through one failure after another, each project saying "he got it wrong, but I can do it." Only after fifty years did they really have parts that were semi-reliably interchangeable (and then, just for one line of rifles); and they had to invent a completely new way of building and running assembly lines -- the "American System" (as it was called) -- in order to do it. The idea was just too good to die. Pure research? My guess is, the private sector has never been too keen on this. Sometimes, after a fortune has been made, a tycoon will reflect, and some pure research will be funded. (Mellon, Carnegie.) But usually the pure research happens on the sly, in other guises. Often the company that funded the pure research never gets to benefit, as when Xerox let the mouse escape from its PARC. So yes, it's pride that drives it. The researcher must appeal to the pride of the funder. No less in the private sector than anywhere. Only when research gets to be statistically predictable (X projects funded will yield Y results, though we don't know in advance which of the X they will be), as may be happening in the pharmaceutical industry, does it stabilize. If Y is greater than X, X will be funded; otherwise, not. But I'm not sure we want to be in that particular place, where methodologies themselves are necessarily concrete. Cheers, 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: Mark Wolff Subject: academy vs. coporations Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:57:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 288 (288) Thanks for your posting, Chris. I agree that we probably agree, and that if anything we are quibbling over details. I also agree that we should make the academy more of a public sphere where new ways of doing things and seeing the world, especially through technology, break down the institutional and economic barriers that want to reduce capital to money. [deleted quotation] It's not that I want to return to the good ol' days of the ivory tower where scholars mused over their books and left the practical concerns of life to lesser mortals. As if that ever happened. Instead, I would like to see humanities computing develop its own habitus within the academy. To foster this, humanities scholars must have the freedom to engage in "pure" research, research that does not have any end in sight except the discovery of new ideas and methods that *may* prove useful later on. This is not a new idea, and in fact it does not even belong exclusively to the academy. Many corporations have established facilities such as Bell Labs and Xerox Park where researchers have the "luxury" to "play" with new ideas. Corporations know that most research projects end up going nowhere, but every now and then there is a project that serves as the basis for the next revolutionary technology. I would say that all academics, whether they teach French or Computer Science, must have time to practice the excess of research, otherwise they become service professionals. Graduate students in the humanities spend a good chunk of time learning the ropes of academic research: they think up projects, look up materials and do some preliminary research, and decide (with the help of an advisor) whether a project is both feasible and worth doing. A lot of these projects are dead ends, but one often learns more from failures than from successes. The experience of failure is necessary to scholarship, something that may seem wasteful in a money-driven economy but fruitful if one considers the knowledge and wisdom gained through the experience. What holds true for scholars in other academic disciplines should hold true for humanities computing: one should have the freedom and motivation to do research without an imposed goal or timeframe (there is, of course, the publish-or-perish mandate, but the scholar is free to decide *what* to publish, even if the publication describes a research failure). Speaking from my own experience, I think humanities computing research is threatened, not because scholars aren't busy pursuing research, but because information technology is too profitable to be left in the hands of humanities scholars. There was a row about ten years ago over the obscurity of humanities computing research. I don't want to rehearse those debates again (ping Mark Olsen), but I think the struggle has shifted. Ten years ago there was no World Wide Web. Humanities computing scholarship (as well as a lot of more traditional research) was inconsequential within the wider public sphere. With the rise of Internet culture, however, anyone with a networked computer at home can take a break from shopping at Amazon.com and access a SGML-encoded version of Shelley's Frankenstein. Now *everybody* cares about document encoding and retrieval, whether they realize it or not. Humanities computing scholarship is no longer irrelevant to the wider public, but because there is so much interest in it now it risks losing whatever academic autonomy it had gained to demands for productivity. There are great opportunities for humanities computing as a service industry, and indeed many colleges and universities rely on humanities computing specialists to build their institutional web sites and distance learning programs. I myself managed to stay in graduate school because of the services I was able to provide my university. However, it is my impression that the idea of humanities computing research, which involves using time and resources to pursue ideas that may not produce anything other than greater knowledge and wisdom, is discouraged within many institutions, not only because of limited time and resources, but because within the public sphere we have jumped from information technology as a curiosity in the humanities to a piece of mission-critical infrastructure. Because institutions rely on information technology to do their business, they feel compelled to seek the most efficient and productive means to meet their needs. Hence the tendancy toward commercial software and data products that allow institutions to meet the demand for information without all the waste of research. We may find all kinds of jobs in supporting this technology, but we can't take responsibility for and leadership over technology we simply consume. One way we can promote research in humanities computing and maintain our autonomy is to embrace open source development. Many humanities computing projects already rely on software such as Linux, the Apache web server, MySQL, and Perl. These resources are freely available, not only in an economic sense (it costs nothing to download) but in a democratic sense: anyone can review the source code, modify it to suit their needs, and distribute it as they see fit (provided you do not attempt to restrict others' access to the original code). See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for one of Richard Stallman's manifestos. The open-source software community fosters practices of and dispositions toward intellectual labor that resemble in many ways those of the academy. Open source developers share code in a common effort to build better programs. Their motivation for research stems from their own intiative, and their compensation is the recognition of their peers. And the best thing about open source software is that it is usually as good as, if not better, than closed source software. If end users encounter problems with open source software, they can send questions or comments to developers who respond immediately. What I find compelling about the open source movement is that it promotes research without pressure from outside and it fosters a community of scholars who work together on their own accord. The objectives of the open source community come from within the community, not from a marketing division or an administrator. And it offers a model for scholarship that can blend traditional humanities research with information technology. The TEI has demonstrated that humanists can determine for themselves how texts should be prepared for computer-assisted analysis. What we need now is open source development of tools that give scholars control over how they use computers to analyze electronic media. This form of research does not require extensive resources: open source tools are freely available on the net, and researchers can work from anywhere since collaboration takes place in over the Internet. What is required is time, energy, and a willingness to learn technologies such as programming languages. You do not have to be a hardcore programmer: it's amazing what you can do with an Apache server and Perl. This kind of research may not be for everyone, but as a community of scholars we should encourage open source development if we want to decide for ourselves what tools and media we will use and how. 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: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0187 machines & pride, cyberspace Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:59:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 289 (289) Dear Dr Lachance, Perhaps it would be best if it could stay that way - [deleted quotation]No great global technodisaster (like Y2K was supposed to be?), but just many little "disasters". Chernobyl was a little local disaster? So was the Kursk? I don't mean to beat up on the Russians here. Anyway, modularity might be a good design feature if we intend to stave off global disasters (the globalization of capitalism is already making global disasters, by the way) but each module would have to be somehow heterogenous? It is the heterogeneity of the humanities man or woman that enables her or him to salvage the situation? Even though Y2K did not happen, it is an interesting model for a global disaster based on modular homogeneity. Now can IT be both global (reaping those benefits)and hetergeneous (preventing the disaster)? I'm wondering? On the model of globalized capital, I suspect not? [deleted quotation]So intrigued by these wonderful ideas, from where I sit in Australia, I visited your website [a while ago and far away (or only a click)] and found so much to cogitate upon. :) Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: (short review)_High Wired_: On the Design, and Theory of Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 290 (290) Educational MOOs Greetings scholars, Hi......you might be interested in --Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, edited a book "_High Wired_: On the Design, and Theory of Educational MOOs" --the foreword is written by Sherry Turkle (known as Margaret Mead of Cyberspace) --published my "The University of Michigan Press" (1998) The book is an indispensable guide to the technical, pedagogical, and theoretical aspects of educational MOOs (Multiple-user, Object Oriented environments). It contains essays by scholars such as, Amy Bruckman, Cynthia Haynes, Pavel Curtis, Eric Crump, Juli Burk, Beth Kolko, Jan Rune Holmevik, Michael Joyce; the writers have expressed several aspects of MOO, its concepts and contexts, How to use and administer MOO, educational & professional use of MOOs and MOO meditations. It is a comprehensive treatment of the MOOs, for the benefit of teachers, students and researchers. This publication can be used as textbook, a reference book and a handbook. MOOs can be used as online writing centers, electronic classrooms, netbased collborative environments, and even complete cyberspace campuses. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK, for the net-based communities and academia, who are interested in the Internet-based communities and who are doing research in the net-based collaborative environments. The MOO database called High Wired enCore can be found at (http://lingua.utdallas.edu/encore) The URL for Lingua MOO is (http://lingua.utdallas.edu/) Another guide-book for students related to MOOs, (textbook) "MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments" by Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik can be located on the above website. Thank you! Best Regards Arun Tripathi From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0190 solving the problem of creative genius Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 291 (291) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 11:05 PM [deleted quotation] would [deleted quotation] or [deleted quotation] From: Sarah Porter Subject: Workshops: web databases; XML; digital representations Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:57:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 292 (292) DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; WEB DATABASES; XML WORKSHOPS AT THE DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES CONFERENCE University of Sheffield, Wednesday, 13 September 2000 The following workshops have been organised as part of the Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. The workshops will run in parallel on the final day of the conference, 13 September 2000 at the University of Sheffield. Further information about the conference itself is available via http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/ The workshop fee includes lunch, refreshments and documentation. PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE NOT ATTENDING THE MAIN CONFERENCE. WORKSHOP 1 (half-day, 9.30-12.30) Designing Flexible Digital Representations of Historical Source Materials. Led by the History Data Service, University of Essex. This workshop will discuss the methodology of creating digital representations of historical source materials. The workshop will focus on the digitisation process and the relationship between the source and the result of digitisation. The workshop will articulate and demonstrate the standards and elements of good practice relevant to the creation of a wide range of data types, from student projects to large-scale research projects. Specific software packages and data modelling techniques will not be discussed in detail. 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And so the following thought experiment. Let us suppose that we devised a test which worked; let's say it worked flawlessly. What then? Ok -- the answer is obvious: having put the light of knowledge out we'd be sitting in darkness, if "we" and "darkness" continued to have any meaning. Perhaps a more interesting question is: how does such a silly enterprise as (if you will) uttering all the names of God differ from the attempt at technological progress? What ARE we getting at? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: CRL Newsletter Subject: Center for Research Language article on "Objective Visual Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 295 (295) [--] CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE ------------------------------- N E W S L E T T E R A N N O U N C E M E N T July, 2000. Volume 12, No. 2. http://www.crl.ucsd.edu/newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Objective Visual Complexity as a Variable in Studies of Picture Naming ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Anna Szkely Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego A b s t r a c t --------------- Visual complexity is an important variable for studies working with picture stimuli, including picture naming. Traditionally, subjective ratings by 20-30 subjects have been used for this purpose, an approach that may be influenced by perceptual and cognitive variables (e.g., familiarity with the object) that are not directly related to visual complexity. The present study offers an objective and easy way of measuring visual complexity by taking the file size of picture stimuli material (black-and-white, simple line drawings) as the basis. 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Dene Grigar On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] "MOOniversity: A [deleted quotation] -- From: Michael Fraser Subject: Cataloguing Officer - Humbul Humanities Hub Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 297 (297) HUMBUL HUMANITIES HUB Humanities Computing Unit University of Oxford Cataloguing Officer Grade: RS1A GBP16,775 - GBP25,213 The Humanities Computing Unit brings together prestigious local, national and international projects including the Oxford Text Archive, Humanities Computing Development Team, Text Encoding Initiative, and the Humbul Humanities Hub. Information about our work is available from http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/. The Humanities Computing Unit receives funding from the JISC to develop the Humbul Humanities Hub for the Resource Discovery Network. The Hub provides Web access to quality Internet resources for teaching and research in the humanities. See http://www.humbul.ac.uk/. 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Further details are also available online at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 15th September 2000 Interviews will be held during week commencing 2nd October. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Of names, gods and disappearances Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:14:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 298 (298) Willard, Somewhere in the universe, while your thought-experiment namer recites the names of some supreme being, another thought-experiment atheist generates new names and resists the lure of thermodynamic entropy too clossely wedded to monotheism. A name is not a nonrewnable quanta of energy that is lost once played in some game of communication. Names are not atoms. And even if they were considered or encoded atomisticly, their interactions may perhaps be better capture by models based on non-linear dynamical systems rather than classical mechanics. Allow me to quote Sir Oliver Lodge: But this idea of the dissipation or degradation of energy I do not put amng the most fundatmental of modern scientific ideas, for we are geginning to suspect that there may be a renovating or rsuscitating cause, about which it is best to hold judgment in suspense. We cannot be sure that a cyclical or recurrent or periodic activity, continuing without cessastion for ever, is not a characteristic of the material universe as a whole. Likened to a great Loom, from the oscillations of which there steadily emerges a woven fabric of beauty and design, the product or outcome of the periodic working of the material universe may be sought in a gradual increase or rise in spiritual values -- a fluctuating, but on the whole progressive, improvement in higher and still higher qualities of life and mind --- magnum Jovis incrmentum. from Modern Scientific Ideas Especially the Idea of Discontiuity (1927) Notwithstanding the Hegelian spiral of improvement invoked by Sir Oliver, I do believe that intellectual historians might be inclined to place between the heyday of the clockwork universe metaphor and rise of the Loom (aka Web) metaphor three interesing developments: in the domain of mathematics and physics, advances in modeling systems far from equilibrium; in the domain of philosophy, the linguistic turn; and in the technological domain, the perfection of computing machines. And need I add in the domain of culture : pluralism & hybridity? Is it an accident that W. Gibson in the concluding volume of his trilogy introduces the Loa of Voodoo tradition as inhabitants of cyberspace? I wonder how many teachers assign all three novels: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Count Zero. Rereading Neuromancer after completing Count Zero is a rather interesting experience. The network has its discontinuities.... I wonder if the devastation of the supreme being by naming would not require a similutaneous naming of all the names at once (not easy to coordinate over time zones *smile*) --- all names actual and potential. I guess this little excursion brings back a truism about Humanities Computing. HC is about the intricate interplay between the actual and potential as well as the manifest and the latent and the squaring of these two pairs. actual manifest latent potential Somehow your little anecdote or thought experiment implies that when the latent is made manifest (via a speaking of the unspoken [pronouncing of the unpronouncable]) all potential collapses into the actual and without a potential to nourish it the actual dies. But does that not nourish the potential? The machine may crash but the machine model work on. Maybe Sir Oliver's Hegelian moment deserves a rerun in this century of proliferating cybernetic domains. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Tarvers, Josephine K." Subject: RE: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:16:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 299 (299) Willard, I want more time to think about this--but I will add that the story in question is Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God," which I am teaching on Monday afternoon in my Cyber Rhetoric class (http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj/engl510.htm, for those of you who want to look; the story is linked on the readings list). And the attempt is not "silly"--one of the main points of the story is that the Buddhist monks in the story see a supercomputer, a technological tool, as a very licit means of achieving a transcendent humanistic purpose, and the disbelievers who attempt to sabotage the event are the ones who end up looking foolish. Whether the notion of using such a tool to achieve that purpose qualifies as an act of genius, of course, is open to debate, as is the question of whether technology is innately inimical to humanistic thought and enterprise. Cheers, Jo Jo Koster Tarvers, Ph.D. Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 USA phone (803) 323-4557 fax (803) 323-4837 e-mail tarversj@winthrop.edu on the web http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj From: "Eric S. Rabkin" Subject: Re: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:17:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 300 (300) Willard, the story you're recalling is "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1952) by Arthur C. Clarke. In it, two Western technologists set up a computer to run the program fulfilling the utterance requirement of the Tibetan monks, permuting their special alphabet to generate all nine billion possible names of God and thus fulfill human destiny. The Westerners leave the monastery as the program nears its completion, fearing that when the last name is generated and (of course) nothing happens, the monks will become enraged and turn on the Westerners. As the Westerners reach the midpoint on their journey down the mountain, the story famously ends thus: "Look," whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the star were going out. So, you ask, "what ARE we getting at?" Less famously, but, in my view, quite importantly, earlier on the last page of that story, Chuck and George strain their vision looking down into the valley for the aircraft that to them represents escape from the coming wrath (of the monks). "There she is!" called Chuck, pointing down into the valley. "Ain't she beautiful!" She certainly was, thought George. The battered old DC3 lay at the end of the runway like a tiny silver cross. [...] Coupled with the winking stars, Clarke is offering us complex imagery that also asks, "what ARE we getting at?" Has Western belief become so transformed by technology that we feel we can dominate it ("she" for the plane, not "it", the sign of male domination; one would never called a Christian cross "she")? Does that hubris, compared with the monks' selfless devotion (which puts technology in the service of their religion, not the other way around), suggest not only why God is on the monks' side but how we all may be misunderstanding the world by focusing on our tools rather than on their uses? Or is this a vision of two men poised between two worlds, halfway up and halfway down the mountain, where the height of devotion and the valley of the shadow of death (including the supposedly redemptive death on the cross) equally receive the promised "end of days" under the shared canopy of "heaven"? If "what we are up to" is the achievement of peace (as in both traditions), then the frantic pursuit of technology may be self-defeating, although the story clearly suggests that the technology itself has no choice but to fulfill the divine plan. Of course, Clarke's memorable narrative effect is based on surprising us by revelation of a divine plan. That such a revelation is a surprise in the context of a _science_ fiction suggests that the cultural conflict he explores exists in us all. And not just, in my view, in "computing humanists." Eric -- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ From: aimeefreak Subject: Re: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:19:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 301 (301) it's by arthur c. clarke. it's called 'the nine billion names of god.' it was published in 1953 -- and it's on my reading lists for candidacy exams fast approaching -- not so fast, though, that i've reread the story yet. but, ignorance of all but the name of the story notwithstanding, i just *had* to jump at the opportunity to demonstrate my handle on computer-related arcana ... on the tyranny of perfectly administered IQ tests, see kurt vonnegut's _player piano_ which describes a society in which standardized tests, results of which follow an individual throughout life, encoded on punch cards fed into an endless series of mainframes. briefly, engineers and managers run the world. well, they tend the computers that direct the machines that *actually* run the world. in the novel, there is some concern that IQ tests fail to capture some nuances of humanity, like creativity, gusto, artistic capacity, etc. social standing is entirely based on hierarchical job arrangements (with numbers, so you can easily determine relative status) which are alloted based on numerical IQ test scores. whee! aimeefreak ------------------------------ aimee morrison phd program, dept of english university of alberta edmonton, alberta http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/amorrison From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:19:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 302 (302) From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Mon. Aug. 28, 2000, 11:26PM WM has raised a profound question as usual. My own opinion, for what it is worth, is that words/names have no intrinsic meaning, as Shakespeare tells us. Neither does technological innovation/progress/fad. The world of computers is as divided as the world of Shakespeare, into those who believe in intrinsic meaning and those who believe in something beyond it. Reality is a name for something beyond intrinsic meaning, but for me it does not capture the full picture/sensation/cognition. Explanation/theory is a name for something beyond or perhaps parallel to reality, but again it seems incomplete. I think that what I am thinking of is some combination of the Unknown and the Force (as in Star Wars, but also as something that is more active than passive). We assume that Tibetans are homogeneous and that science fiction is homogeneous and that computers are homogeneous, but Dickens and Tolstoi and Shokholov tell us about divisions in the most unusual places. To me, the rising chi'i of Tai Chi and Tibetan Lamas is far more interesting than the names of God. In Judeo-Christian theology, we think that it was otherwise since the name of God Yahweh and the Word of John are thought to be sacred, and the name of God is not to be taken in vain - but what does that mean? If people wrote the Old and New Testaments, then the literal and non-literal translations of sacred and reverence may well reflect the division between those who believe in words and those who believe in something beyond them. When I proposed a fingerprint test for Creative Genius, it was actually not to separate, not to categorize, not to label, not to stigmatize, but to search. The fingerprints of the Unknown and the Force can never be completely subsumed in words, I think, and in this respect I agree with what I think is the essence of Sir Roger Penrose's viewpoint. I thought that it was a good idea to search, not in the direction of those who follow one step behind or ahead of somebody else in their genius - and it is still a form of genius, which I call Ingenious Follower, to do so. I meant to suggest that we search among those who were more than one step ahead. I know that this is disagreeable to many social scientists, who often argue that creativity only comes when society is ready for it and is essentially a social phenomenon. It is also often disagreeable to the "pure artist" who only wants to be guided by feelings. My own view is that there is something beyond feelings as well as beyond words and social accumulation - what I call a combination of the Unknown and the Force. Einstein felt the Force and the Unknown, whether as Creative Genius or Ingenious Follower. Erwin Schrodinger in the quantum theory appears to have also done so, and I am convinced that he was several steps ahead of other theorists in his field (he was, by the way, an almost lifelong friend of Einstein). I conjecture that the secretiveness of Newton and Fermat was a form of reverence of the Force and the Unknown. Finally, or perhaps I should say as a way of commencing, the fingerprints which I have in mind refer not to literal prints but to clues to Force(s) and Unknown(s) in all times and all places. The lights do not wink out. They come on. It is also called Creativity. Osher Doctorow From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Re: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:21:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 303 (303) There is, I think, a science-fiction story that plays on the same notion -- as I recall, a computer had been programmed to come up with these names, and as it generated them the stars winked out one by one. The story is"The Nine Billion Names of God" http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf82.html by Sir Arthur C. Clarke http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Homepage.html Sir Arthur was presented the "Award of Knight Bachelor" on 26 May, 2000, at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he has lived since 1956. Indeed, if memory serves, Sir Arthur describes himself as having lived in Sri Lanka in self-imposed exile from British tax laws. djw - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 _______________________________________________________________ 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: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: call for papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 304 (304) Invitation to submit proposals for papers for a seminar on "The Computer in Eighteenth Century Studies" during the ASECS meeting 2001 (18.-22. April 2001 in New Orleans). The main intention of the 90 min seminar with 4 papers (each 20 min) will be to discuss different approaches in Humanities computing for 18th Century studies. Here is my description of the seminar intended for a wider public but it should give you an idea of the seminar: The digital revolution brought pcs on the desks of many scholars and most of them are connected to the internet. The aim of the seminar is to show that this not only made communication easier but also enriched the stock of approaches which are now open to a scholar. Editions and text collection with complex link systems and powerful text retrieval options, databases for structured information and even for images and facsimiles, computer aided statistical text analysis - all these possiblities make the access to a lot of information very easy but they also have their own share of problems an informed user has to know about. Deadline for proposals: 15.9.2000 Further general information: http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/asecs/annulmtg.html Contact: Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie Mnchen Schellingstr. 3 80799 Muenchen Germany fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Fotis Jannidis From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: Update on the New WordCruncher and Document Explorer Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 305 (305) It seems that WordCruncher has surfaced again. Although the following is an advert, I circulate it here because interest has been expressed in this text-analysis program on several occasions within the last few years. Has anyone outside of the company actually used the New WordCruncher and Document Explorer? WM [deleted quotation] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: (Book) about "History of Artificial Intelligence" with Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 306 (306) references Dear Humanists, Hi, when I was thinking regarding early periods of AI, then the book of Rodney Brooks, " _Cambrian Intelligence_: The Early History of the New AI" came to my mind and thought might also interest you. In the book, author introduces a behaviour-based approach to robotics. The main aspect of his theory is the realization that directly coupling perception with action gives rise to the power of intelligence, and cognition is relative to the observer. The book has two sections, as Technology and Philosophy with chapters, such as --A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot, A Robot That Walks: Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network, Intelligence, Intelligent without Reason..etc.. See details at (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262522632) Here are web-pointers related to his book, *Cambrian Intelligence*: Intelligence Without Reason (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/papers/AIM-1293.pdf) Intelligent Without Representation (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/papers/representation.pdf) A Robot That Walks; Emergent Behaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/papers/AIM-1091.pdf) A Robust Layer Control System for a Mobile Robot (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/papers/AIM-864.pdf) Thank you.. Best Regards Arun Tripathi From: Steven Robinson Subject: Re: 14.0200 fingerprints of genius and "The Nine Billion Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:37:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 307 (307) Names of God" Fellow Humanists: I read with some surprise Willard's allusion to Clarke's story -- surprise at the depth of the question he used it to prompt. I read "The Nine Billion Names of God" many years ago as a child, and hadn't really thought about it since then. Now his question brings it back with a wave of recognition and enlightenment: "Of course!!" Of course, back then the whole idea of the world existing so that God might be fully named struck me as "silly", not to mention a little self-indulgent on god's part. But as Josephine Tarvers says, it's not silly at all. Think of the lamas' naming as a (dare I say it) metaphor for human activity as such, or, for that matter, any and all activity (i.e., the activity of the world, of which our activity is a specialized subset). Here, I'd draw your attention to an article by Hans Jonas: "Immortality and the modern temper" (available in *Phenomenon of Life*, Harper & Row 1966). Jonas tells a different story (he calls it a myth) which I now see has provided me the key to understanding the story about the Tibetan lamas -- and the role of technology therein. Jonas' myth is, it seems to me, a brilliant re-interpretation of Christian, Gnostic and Jewish motifs in a distinctly modern, even "existentialist" vein. Here's how it goes. Jonas asks us to consider the creation of the world as a complete self-effacement of divinity, out of which the image (name?) of divinity slowly and painstaking arises over cosmic aeons. But here's the kicker: there is simply no guarantee that the Divine will ever get itself back again, because its restoration depends upon the free agency of active selves (i.e., us). And we could screw it up. And we do screw it up. The Divine depends upon us to restore itself through us; hence our immense responsibility. Every action of ours is inscribed on the face of divinity for all eternity; every action of ours is like a "naming" of God. Let me quote a few lines: "in order that the world might be, and be for itself, God renounced his own being, divesting himself of his deity -- to receive it back from the Odyssey of time weighted with the chance harvest of unforseeable temporal experience: transfigured or possibly even disfigured by it." [Eons pass, life evolves....] "And then he [God] trembles as the thrust of evolution, carried by its own momentum, passes the threshold where innocence ceases and an entirely new criterion of success and failure takes hold of the divine stake. The advent of man means the advent of knowledge and freedom, and with this supremely double-edged gift the innocence of the mere subject of self-fulfilling life has given way to the charge of responsibility under the disjunction of good and evil. To the promise and risk of this agency the divine cause, revealed at last, henceforth finds itself committed; and its issue trembles in the balance. The image of God, haltingly begun by the universe, for so long worked upon -- and left undecided -- in the wide and then narrowing spirals of pre-human life, passes with this last twist, and with a dramatic quickening of the movement, into man's precarious trust, to be completed, saved, or spoiled by what he will do to himself and the world." "Having given himself whole to the becoming world, God has no more to give: it is man's now to give to him. And he may give by seeing to it in the ways of his life that it does not happen, or happen too often, and not on his account, that 'it repented the Lord' to have made the world." Technology is a major concern of Jonas's, though in this piece he is more concerned with questions of immortality. Here, though, he simply alludes to the crucial role that technology plays both in elevating humanity, and in threatening it: "But even if not in their shadow [e.g. Auchwitz], certainly the Bomb is there to remind us that the image of God is in danger as never before, and on most unequivocal, terrestrial terms. That in these terms an eternal issue is at stake together with our temporal one -- this aspect of our responsibility can be our guard against the temptation of fatalistc aquiescence or the worse treason of apres nous le deluge" I hope these quotations are not too long, and I've not put you all off. I also hope I have cast a flicker upon the profundity of Willard's question: philosophy, science -- and technology -- are all part of the self-transcendence of the world. They are not themselves among "the nine billion names of God", but they are the means for us to find those names. And only in the eternality of the inscription of those names (by our actions) can we see the true depth of our responsibility not to falter. Steve Robinson Dr. Steven Robinson Assistant Professor Philosophy Department Brandon University Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9 CANADA (204)727-9718 FAX: (204) 726-0473 From: Willard McCarty Subject: specification as apotropaic gesture Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:41:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 308 (308) Further to the talk on "The Nine Billion Names of God" I've been wondering this bright though slightly chilly London morning more or less anthropologically about specification as a magical gesture meant to turn away or avert (apo-trope, thus "apotropaic") some evil. In other words, about the deep cultural history behind the impulse we have to deal with what troubles us by telling or spelling it out. Trouble that gains its power by being kept in the dark, against which the light of reason seems so effective. To what extent, I'm wondering, are we misled in our applications of computing by this impulse to spell out the troubling mysteries of our cultural artefacts until they have all become safe data? If you don't think this is a good thing, then you'll be hearing the other side of the apotropaic story already, according to which the lurking evil is the unknowable good, the enumeration or specification of its analysed parts is the evil means by which the essence of it is lost, or (again) as William Blake said, the means by which we reply to words of doubt and so put the light of knowledge out. If we regard the idea of the unknowable as essentially wrong, i.e. a stupid way to think about the unknown, then does it not follow that we take to computing with the notion that scholarship is essentially reducible to algorithms? I recall once, when my place in the academic world did not allow me to say what I thought, a profoundly ignorant senior academic telling me that a team of professors should be funded to take up the work of a certain very famous literary critic and prove or disprove it. (So astonishing was this remark to me, so clearly did it reveal the nature of the beast, that I recall exactly where it was said, what time of day, etc.) Yes, I know, one sputters at the silliness of such an attitude, but it doesn't seem to be going away, not anytime soon. My question continues to be, how do we reply constructively? What is the argument in our terms (i.e. the terms of humanities computing) for the unknowable? Which, it seems to me, is basically the question, how do we as computing humanists put the case for the study of the humanities? I enjoy (to speak in mythological terms) seeing the army of darkness, with its banners of progress, on the fields of ancient magical practice; this gives me a certain appreciation for the deep underlayer of fear that powers so much of what's done with computing. (Well, perhaps I exaggerate -- but it is to make a point, so perhaps you'll allow it.) But I do think we have to do better than that. I think we need to have a constructive reply, even if the magical beliefs in progress are never articulated as such or seldom in the terms I was fortunate to hear them expressed. Comments? Yours, WM From: Ross Scaife Subject: [STOA] new in Metis Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:42:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 309 (309) Just in time for the new semester, Bruce Hartzler (Agora Excavations) has delivered from Athens a stunning set of additions to his ongoing electronic publication project, Metis: A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites. See below the full list of sites now covered by his 51 multi-node panoramas. Bruce has enhanced this beautifully photographed archive with hotlinks throughout to the pertinent archaeological materials provided on-line by the Perseus Project, including the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, plans, and other documentation of sites and architectural remains. Remarkable! The address is http://www.stoa.org/metis/ Actium (Ambracian Gulf) Aegina (Temple of Aphaia) Amphiaraion Amyklai Argos (Theater and Agora) Argos (Larissa "Castle") Athens (Acropolis) Athens (Agora) Athens (South Slope) Athens (Pnyx and Philopappus Hill) Athens (Roman Agora) Brauron Corinth Delphi Dimini Eleusis Epidauros (Sanctuary of Asklepios) Epidauros (Theater) Helicon (Valley of the Muses) Karphi Kithairon Laurion Lefkandi Mallia Menelaion Mycenae Myrtos (Pyrgos) Nemea (Temple of Zeus) Nemea (Stadium) Olympia Orchomenos (Treasury of Minyas) Pellana Perachora Phaistos Plataea Pylos (Cave of Nestor) Pylos (Epano Englianos) Pyramid of Kenkreai Rhamnous Sesklo Sounion Sparta Thermopylae Tiryns Troy Tylissos Vaphio Vasiliki Zakros "3 Roads" "7 Gates" -------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Hubert Dreyfus on "Intelligence Without Representation" Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:43:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 310 (310) Dear Humanists, HI.. Here is one pointer (an interesting paper) --thought --might interest you --in this paper-Prof. Hubert Dreyfus has described the relationships between the "Phenomenology of Embodiment and Neuro-science". The article can be read at <http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html> --The paper by Prof. Dreyfus is having a tremendous potential towards the Embodiment and Neuroscience; a fantastic, well-written paper, I like it very much. He is an excellent reader of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In this paper, he has discussed many more contemporary issues such as, agents and their relationship with the world. Thee agents' skills cannot be stored as a representation, but as a disposition in the mind of a being. And, the most important views, he discussed about the establishment of *Intentional Arc*. Thank you. Best Regards Arun Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= The Internet in Education at: <http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/tripathi.htm> E-mail: Guest Moderator for Online-Ed Listserv Research Scholar, Department of Statistics University Of Dortmund Internet Search Expert, EdResource Listserv Moderator <http://www.egroups.com/group/edresource/info.html> MEMBER, IEEE Computer Society: <http://www.computer.org> ============================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Lincoln Prize Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:21:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 311 (311) The Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College is awarded annually for the finest scholarly work in English on the era of the American Civil War. This year for the first time Prize is offering $50,000 and a bronze St Gaudens bust of Abraham Lincoln for "the finest scholarly work on the era of the American Civil War produced in digital format, the world wide web, CD-ROM, DVD, and on other forms of electronic distribution. The prize favors originality over the dissemination of information. When competing work shows similar merit, preference is given to work on Lincoln, the common soldier, and projects that reach the broadest public. Individuals, groups or institutions may compete for the Prize. No site shall win the Prize more than once, but achievement over time might be honored independently of previous awards. "Nominations for the Prize will be made by members of the Advisory Council. In addition, nominations may be made independently if accompanied by three recommendations from accredited academic institutions. Finally, on its own, the Jury may find other candidates for the Prize." Deadline for the 2001 eLP is October 1, 2000. For further information contact: Ms. Tina Grim, Program Manager; or visit http://www.gettysburg.edu/lincoln_prize/. WM (on behalf of the Lincoln Prize) ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: "Florestano Pastore" Subject: COMMENTI DANTESCHI DATABASE Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 14:22:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 312 (312) Lexis Progetti Editoriali italian publishing house specialised in computational linguistics and computer applications for the humanities field recently published the COMMENTI DANTESCHI DATABASE ON CD-ROM. For the first time, in one data bank, all the criticism about the Comedia, from Jacopo Alighieri to Castelvetro e Tasso. In the cases of Landino and Vellutello, it is the first edition since XVI century. In addition, Dante s Opera Omnia is included. The retrival software is DBT for Windows DBT (Data Base Testuale) is a computerised system for handling and querying text files. It was developed at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Pisa. This institute has always been at the forefront, both in Italy and in Europe, as regards computational linguistics. Research can be carried out on the basis of form (single word, string, groups of words) or locus (single verse, triplet, groups of triplets, whole canto). Concordances and indexes can be obtained. Now available on our web site the Vita Nuava concordances and the Rime incipitario for free download. The COMMENTI DANTESCHI DATABASE is part of the Archivio Italiano collection. For more info, please visit us on our web site (<http://www.lexis.it>http://www.lexis>.it) or contact us (info@lexis.it) With many thanks for your kind attention, Lexis Progetti Editoriali s.r.l. Via Famiano Nardini 1/C 00162 Roma Tel ++39 0686328585 Fax ++39 0686383995 info@mclink.it http://www.lexis.it Lexis Progetti Editoriali - casa editrice specializzata nella produzione di strumenti elettronici di ausilio allo studio alla ricerca - ha recentemente pubblicato I COMMENTI DANTESCHI DEI SECOLI XIV, XV, XVI, database testuale su CD-ROM. Per la prima volta, su un unico supporto, sono raccolti e resi disponibili alla lettura e all interrogazione comparata tutti i commenti antichi alla Commedia, da Jacopo Alighieri a Castelvetro e Tasso. Nai casi di Landino e Vellutello, si tratta della prima edizione dopo il Cinquecento. In aggiunta, il CD-rom include l intera opera dantesca. Il motore di ricerca DBT per Windows. DBT (Data Base Testuale) un software di gestione e interrogazione di archivi testuali sviluppato presso l'Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche di Pisa, istituzione che ha da sempre un ruolo d'avanguardia nel settore della linguistica computazionale e delle applicazioni informatiche in ambito umanistico. La ricerca pu essere effettuata per forma (singola parola, stringa, gruppi di parole) o luogo (verso, terzina, gruppi di terzine, intero canto). inoltre possibile generare concordanze e indici di vario tipo. Liberamente scaricabili dal nostro sito le concordanze della Vita Nuova e l'incipitario delle Rime Il CD-ROM dei COMMENTI DANTESCHI fa parte della collana Archivio Italiano . Per maggiori informazioni, visitate il nostro sito web (<http://www.lexis.it>http://www.lexis>.it) o contattateci (info@lexis.it). Distinti saluti Lexis Progetti Editoriali s.r.l. Via Famiano Nardini 1/C 00162 Roma Tel ++39 0686328585 Fax ++39 0686383995 info@mclink.it http://www.lexis.it From: "Gerda Elata" Subject: Re: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 313 (313) According to a Jewish mystical tradition, the Torah - read aright - consists of all the names of God. When the Torah was revealed to Moses, he "saw" its letters written in one single sequence in black fire on white fire, and "heard" (from the mouth of God) the division of the sequence into words. The division into the names of God will be revealed at the end of time. Gerda Elata-Alster From: Deena Subject: "Prof. Janet Murray", "the Queen of Future Narratives in Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:42:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 314 (314) [--] Please join us for an Electronic Literature Chat with Janet Murray on Saturday, September 9 20:00 GMT 21:00 London 16:00 New York 13:00 Los Angeles 06.00 Sydney (Sun Aug 20) at http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000 How are stories growing and changing on the web? How are we interacting with the narrative? How are televison, virtual reality, imagery and storytelling converging? Janet H. Murray, Professor and Director Laboratory for Advanced Computing Initiatives School of Literature, Communication and Culture, teaches information design in the Information Design and Technology Program in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Her main interest is interactive narrative, including digital television, virtual reality, video games and hypertexts, which is found in her recent book, "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace". Other research interests include interactive design, educational computing, Victorian studies and applications of advanced computing environments. She began her career as a scholar of English narrative, and has published several volumes detailing the lives of Victorian women. This work grew out of her interest in what was left out of the great Victorian novels -- what could not be said within the conventional narrative and cultural structures of that time and place. She is drawn by the new digital medium because -- like the book or the movie camera before it -- it expands our ability to capture human experience and holds the promise of expanding human understanding and human sympathies. ABOUT THE ELO CHATS These twice monthly chats provide an opportunity for creative writers and readers to get together and discuss the exciting innovations and possibilities in hypertext and other forms of electronic literature. Each chat features a special guest from among the leading lights on the electronic literature world. Chats are archived at http://www.eliterature.org/com/chatarchives.shtml INSTRUCTIONS ON JOINING THE CHATS: To take part in the ELO chats, just go to the Lingua MOO and sign in as a guest. If you'd like to learn more about MOOing, please e-mail Deena Larsen at textra@chisp.net for a short tutorial. To enter LinguaMOO, click onthe URL: http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000 Your browser must be either Netscape Communicator version 4.08 or newer, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or newer. Java, Javascript, and Cookies must be enabled for the system to work. Otherwise, please , telnet to lingua.utdallas.edu 8888 Once in LinguaMOO, type in @go eliterature to get to the electronic literature chat room. Once there, you can type a quotation mark " and your text to start talking. You can also type @who to find out who else is there. We hope you'll join us for this exciting chat. ------------ Electronic Literature Organization http://www.eliterature.org Come on over to explore the amazing possibilities To subscribe, send a blank message to: eliterature-subscribe@eGroups.com ------------ From: dwanders@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Talk on "Using Computers in Linguistics" on 9/11 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:43:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 315 (315) [--] The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group presents: Carl-Martin Bunz, Institute of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Indo-Iranian Studies, University of Saarland, Saarbruecken "TITUS: A pioneering project using Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics" Monday, Sept. 11, 5 p.m. Dwinelle 3401, UC Berkeley ABSTRACT: TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien / Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials: <http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de> is a joint project initiated and organized by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt, Frankfurt am Main. The idea of TITUS was born in 1987, when a small group of Indo-Europeanists suggested to concentrate the effort of entering ancient IE texts relevant for analysis and reconstruction, into electronic devices in order to establish an electronic text database. Now, 13 years after, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert, TITUS still is a pioneering project with regard to computer application in Comparative and Historical Linguistics. The text database itself, covering IE as well as adjacent languages (e.g. Caucasian), has meanwhile increased up to more than 2 GB, but the project engages in far more challenging activities than the storage of ASCII encoded texts. TITUS has indexed the texts, up to now with the help of the WordCruncher software, thus enabling very precise retrieval from the server. Currently the project is building up a sophisticated retrieval system, totally independent from special software, so that in future the text database will have an SGML compliant internal structure, which can be accessed and searched via HTML. It is quite natural that character coding issues are an integral part of the project's daily work. In 1997, TITUS launched a Unicode initiative (under the direction of Carl-Martin Bunz and Jost Gippert) and keeps in touch with Unicode and ISO, aiming at a coding of both transliteration and transcription symbols and historic scripts which serves scientific text processing. Moreover, the systematic digitization of manuscripts plays an eminent role: special branches of TITUS like the Ogam Project and the Tocharica Project make intensive use of the electronic imaging technology. Besides, the TITUS Website offers an international information panel for IE Linguistics, exhibiting programs of courses, conferences, job offers, etc. The listing of current research projects (doctoral dissertations etc.) is an important service, helping communication and avoiding duplication of work. My talk will expound the ideas and activities of the TITUS project to a public which, I hope, will suggest improvements and enlargements and will join the effort aiming at systematic application of computers in an endangered academic discipline. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Indo-European Language and Culture Working Group is funded by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. For further information, please contact IE Working Group organizer: Deborah Anderson, dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: NarrNet Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:37:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 316 (316) Dear Colleagues, NarrNet - short for NARRatology NETwork - is a new website for researchers and students with an interest in Narratology. www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/narratologie You are cordially invited to peruse, comment, criticize and - last not least - contribute! Jan Christoph Meister Narratology Research Group University of Hamburg jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de From: "Luigi M Bianchi" Subject: Internet course on "Computers, Information and Society" Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:39:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 317 (317) Willard, although I am a theoretical physicist by vocation and training, I had the good fortune of being educated in Italy, when high school was still predicated on the belief that the humanities are the best preparation possible for the sciences. I hope this spirit may have percolated in the internet course on "Computers, Information and Society", http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/nats1700/ , which I have just finished preparing. Although it is offered for credit at my university, it is open to everyone, and some of the Humanist readers my find it of some interest. Please do keep in mind that it is part of our program of General Education, which seeks to provide freshmen with a broad, but critical exposure to the humanities, the natural sciences, philosophy, and the social sciences. I will of course be grateful for any comments, criticism and suggestions anybody may have to offer. Regards, /luigi Luigi M Bianchi _________________________________________________________________ Luigi M Bianchi Science and Technology Studies Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J-1P3 phone: +1 (416) 736-5232 fax: +1 (416) 736-5188 mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/ From: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Isssue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:41:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 318 (318) NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBERAL EDUCATION In a departure from our usual focus on who has been doing what in electronic publishing, and how well it has worked, we have turned this issue of JEP over to James A. Inman and his colleagues at Furman University, who recently hosted a conference to explore how information technology is affecting The Academy. The articles are nominally about technology in teaching, but really they are about intellectual development and the information technologies that enhance it, social development and the information technologies that advance it, and the ways the Internet and electronic publishing and communication challenge and change our views of ourselves. This goes straight to the heart of electronic publishing, and will help us see why we do what we do. So here is the September 2000 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing for your edification: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep Editor's Gloss: Looking to the Future of Liberal Education http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/glos0601.html James A. Inman, Hayden Porter, William Rogers, and Dan Sloughter, all of Furman University, have put together the best papers from a national symposium, "New Information Technologies and Liberal Education," to remind us that the work we publish electronically has its enthusiastic and devoted advocates. The Engaged Learner: Strategies for Helping Liberal Arts Students Become More Active Learners Online http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/cain.html Richard Cain of Wheeling Jesuit University argues for careful and responsible liberal-arts pedagogy for online environments. Who's On-Line?: Gender Morphing in Cyberspace http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/desser.html Daphne Desser of the University of South Carolina explores how electronic spaces are gendered, using examples of chat sessions from her teaching. The Ideology of Ease http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/dilger.html Bradley Dilger from the University of Florida writes that making computers "easy" may also make them less useful. Anthropology and International Education via the Internet: A Collaborative Learning Model http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/hamada.html Tomoko Hamada and Kathleen Scott describe a collaborative classroom experience between students at their institution, the College of William and Mary, and at Keio University. Accessing the Virtual Worlds of Cyberspace http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/hawisher.html In the text from her keynote address, Gail E. Hawisher from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne points out that when users are involved in creation, the Web becomes a potent medium for integration and enhancement. Wired on a Shoestrong: A Site and Some Insights http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/jones.html Billie J. Jones from Pennsylvania State University - Capital College makes recommendations for teaching and learning with technology. The Authority of Experience: Assessing the Use of Information Technology in the Classroom http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/mack.html Pamela E. Mack and Gail Delicio, both from Clemson University, delve into the ways information technology can help students trust their own knowledge. Collaborative Learning and Cultural Reproduction in Cyberspace: Publishing Students in Electronic Environments http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/payne.html Darin Payne of the University of South Carolina reflects on the critical awareness of electronic spaces. Andes: An Intelligent Tutor for Classical Physics http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/schulze.html Kay G. Schulze, Robert N. Shelby, Donald J. Treacy, and Mary C. Wintersgill of the United States Naval Academy; Kurt VanLehn from the University of Pittsburgh; and Abigail Gertner from The MITRE Corporation describe an innovative physics-tutorial system. Paradigms Restrained: Implications of New and Emerging Technologies for Learning and Cognition http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/shoffner.html Mary B. Shoffner, Georgia State University; Marshall Jones, University of Memphis; and Stephen W. Harmon, Georgia State University conclude that it is the underlying pedagogical philosophy, and not the delivery mechanism, that most affects what students learn. Learning From the Newbies http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/lieb0601.html Contributing editor and Towson University professor Thom Lieb reports on an ambitious effort by three Towson classes to create a Web site collaboratively. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 ======================================================== Judith Axler Turner Director of Electronic Publishing TURNER CONSULTING GROUP V: (202) 986-3463 F: (202) 986-5532 mailto:judith@turner.net http://www.tcg-inc.com TCG: Pioneers in Web Security and Personalization ======================================================== From: "Gerda Elata" Subject: Re: 14.0196 what if we succeeded? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 319 (319) According to a Jewish mystical tradition, the Torah - read aright - consists of all the names of God. When the Torah was revealed to Moses, he "saw" its letters written in one single sequence in black fire on white fire, and "heard" (from the mouth of God) the division of the sequence into words. The division into the names of God will be revealed at the end of time. Gerda Elata-Alster From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: The Newton-Fermat-Submarine Mystery Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 320 (320) Dear Colleagues: The Newton-Fermat or Fermat-Newton mystery of earlier discussions has a new twist - submarines. To refresh your memory, Newton and Fermat had remarkable similarities including extreme secretiveness, "meteoric" rise in government service, invention/discovery of many branches of physics and mathematics, considerable interest in optics/light (to which they contributed greatly), etc. Fermat was in the 1600s, earlier than Newton except for a short insignificant period. Fermat was about 350 years ahead of his time, and Leonardo Da Vinci seems to have been the only creative genius who came close in that respect. Newton was definitely far ahead of his time, but it is difficult to estimate exactly how far ahead. Both men had rather curious historical connections with the special theory of relativity of Einstein, which was not invented until the 1900s, and probably with his general theory also. I had raised the question of whether the British and French governments respectively might have subsidized or at least been interested in the work of these two for practical applications but with secrecy in mind - as a partial explanation of the secretive characteristics of Newton and Fermat, but also for other reasons including the fact that phase differences, as between liquid and solid as gas phases of matter, are important in optics/light and the possible military/technological applications are attractive. Phase differences happen to also be key to logic-based probability (LBP), which I introduced in 1980. It now appears unquestionable that submarines, which would be a natural outgrowth of interest in liquid versus solid phase differences, were known in the time of Fermat and had just been invented by William Bourne in 1578, a British mathematician and naval writer. Cornelius (van) Drebbel constructed the first real submarine around 1620 and successfully sailed it beneath the surface of the Thames river from 1620 through 1624 - just in time for Fermat to notice it. In the first 30 years of the 18th century, numerous types of submarine had been patented in England and other countries. In the earlier discussion, I described a science fiction scenario in which both Newton and Fermat turned out to be time travelers, and it is certainly the case that phase differences yield some remarkable results equally as unusual if not greater. LBP research indicates that the speed of light and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles may both involve phase differences rather than absolute upper limits on either light speed/velocity or uncertainties/products of uncertainties. If so, then science fiction hyperspace would be possible, and with it very rapid travel to stars and even distant galaxies. It would not be surprising if time can be conquered as directly, and likewise miniaturization to the quantum level and below (the "sub-Planck" level). The relevance of this to Humanist Discussion Group is multifold. Science fiction, a branch of literature and science, kept the idea of hyperspace alive when almost all of physics and mathematics had abandoned it. In fact, science fiction (Jules Verne, etc.) inspired many innovations in submarines and other technological developments of great importance. It inspired me throughout my childhood and adulthood. The historical study of genius and creativity, which I have emphasized in Humanities Discussion Group (along with others), becomes much more urgent in relationship to technological innovations, discovery, and so on. Genius and creativity cross science and humanities. Interdisciplinary study becomes very important in practice as well as theory. Most interesting, perhaps, to detective novel readers like me, is the question of what happened to the French and British government knowledge about Fermat and Newton, if it existed. The French Revolution may have destroyed it in France, but that revolution or its aftermath eventually lost out in time thanks to Great Britain. Was the Scarlet Pimpernel only a figment of a Countess' imagination in writing novels? Was there a French Secret Service that survived the French Revolution? Why did Germany start heavily pioneering in mathematics and physics in the 1700s after Newton was gone? Was some of the knowledge carried to Germany from France, there to ripen with A. Einstein in the early 1900s? I suggested Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington as the British Secret Service's Man alongside Einstein in an earlier discussion, but what about George Francis Fitzgerald of 1801-1901 Dublin whose formula Einstein used in special relativity and Henrik Antoon Lorentz of 1853-1928 Arnhem in the Netherlands (who won the Nobel Prize in 1902 and who was the other half of Einstein's Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, although Fitzgerald was first). Where in the world did the Italians come from - Tullio Levi-Civita of 1873-1941 Padua/Rome and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro of 1853-1925 Papal States/Bologna, whose tensor analysis (invented by Ricci mostly) was used by Einstein as the mathematics of his general theory of relativity? Hundreds of years after Leonardo Da Vinci's 400-year-ahead-of-his-time genius, their mathematics was conveniently in place so that Einstein's friend, the geometry expert Marcel Grossman, upon being asked by Einstein what mathematics to use for general relativity, could cite it as the one to use. The French-Italian connection, is it? The French-German-Austrian-Italian connection? Osher Doctorow From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: course buyout policies Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 321 (321) The English department here at Kentucky is reviewing its policy on faculty course buyout, and I've been asked to collect some examples of current policy at other institutions. I'd be grateful, then, if fellow Humanists could send me (backchannel to mgk@pop.uky.edu) very brief descriptions of whatever such policies may be in place at their home department. Thanks in advance, Matt From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 322 (322) Humanist will be silent and its materials unavailable on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 September for a changeover in equipment at the University of Virginia. If all goes well, we should be back in operation by the end of Friday. On behalf of us all, my thanks to the folks at IATH and to John Unsworth in particular for all the support, computational and otherwise, that they give to Humanist. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: SIGLEX Workshop on Word Senses and MultiLinguality Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 323 (323) ACL 2000 Workshop WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX) 9:00-12:00 AM, October 7, 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the "World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of multi-linguality. At the same time, the community has returned with renewed enthusiasm to problems of word meaning, especially the delineation and discrimination of word senses. An intimate relationship between the two issues is becoming apparent -- for example, in the consideration of translation equivalence in parallel corpora, the construction of multilingual ontologies, and the examination of senses in relation to specific natural language applications such as machine translation, information retrieval, summarization, etc. The issue of multi-lingual approaches to sense distinctions was also a central topic of discussion at the first SENSEVAL conference in 1998, and is one of the areas to be covered at SENSEVAL-2 (to be held in Spring 2001). This workshop will address problems of word sense disambiguation and delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with specific emphasis on approaches that involve more than one language and the ways in which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence affect our consideration of sense divisions in the individual languages. More generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges of insight in any area of computational linguistics where a non-monolingual approach to word sense issues is being taken. Provisional Program 9:00-9:15 OPENING AND OVERVIEW 9:15-9:45 An Unsupervised Method for Multilingual Word Sense Tagging Using Parallel Corpora Mona Diab, University of Maryland , USA 9:45-10:15 Sense Clusters for Information Retrieval: Evidence from SemCor and the EuroWordNet InterLingual Index Irina Chugar, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain 10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00 Chinese-Japanese Cross Language Information Retrieval: A Han Character Based Approach Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto, NARA Inst., Japan 11:00-11:30 Experiments in Word Domain Disambiguation for Parallel Texts Bernardo Magnini, Carlo Strapparava, IRST, Italy 11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY 12:00-12:15 SIGLEX Business Meeting Workshop Organizers Nancy Ide, Charles Fillmore, Philip Resnik, David Yarowsky Program Committee Helge Dyvik, University of Bergen Nancy Ide, Vassar College Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Corporation David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University From: Paul Brians Subject: Microsoft's secret dictionary project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 324 (324) I was recently approached by an editor from Bloomsbury/Encarta to work on a college edition of their Encarta Dictionary, but told that before I could be informed of the exact nature of the project or the terms of my employment I would have to sign a confidentiality agreement containing the following alarming language: Here's the body of that agreement, with my response: I'm sorry, but this is ludicrous: "BLOOMSBURY PROJECT "I am setting out in writing the terms and conditions upon which Bloomsbury Publishing ("Bloomsbury") may ask you to contribute to the BLOOMSBURY PROJECT ("the Project"). "In consideration of being given access to the Project you agree as follows: "1. You acknowledge that the Project is highly confidential and you will not (without the prior written consent of Bloomsbury) divulge the existence of the Project, the fact that you are involved in the Project, the subject or essence of the Project, or any information contained in or relating to it to any person or organization. "2. Should you be identified as having divulged to any person or organization any information whatsoever relating to the Project, Bloomsbury would consider that an infringement of copyright and a breach of confidence had taken place and would take legal action accordingly and seek compensation for the damage inflicted on the commercial potential of the project. "3. On countersignature of this letter of agreement, Bloomsbury will give you details of the Project. "4. The provisions of this Undertaking will survive your involvement in the Project." What are you doing, building the dictionary equivalent of the atomic bomb? As a public employee, I'm not sure it would be ethical for me to sign a contract agreeing not to divulge the very existence of the project I'd be working on; and as a scholar committed to the open and free exchange of information, I wouldn't do so. But thanks for the laugh. This is the most entertaining mail I've received since con-men wrote me to get my help smuggling Sani Abacha's ill-gotten wealth out of Nigeria. Or maybe this is a prank, satirizing the predatory nature of Microsoft? Cheers, Paul Brians Does anybody else find this as bizarre as I do? The editor defended it as empty legalize but didn't offer to waive any of the clauses. He claimed that "many leading U.S., Canadian, U.K., and Australian academics" have signed on, which I said I was sorry to hear. Obviously, I didn't sign it; and am among the ignorant of the inner essence of this hermetic endeavor, but free to comment. Those of you who have not taken Microsoft's blood oath, what is your reaction? -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 325 (325) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 326 (326) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr FB10/Romanistik Universitaet Bremen eburr@uni-bremen.de Ex-president of SILFI: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000 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 From: Scott Rettberg Subject: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE DIRECTORY Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 327 (327) [--] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Electronic Literature Directory Goes Live. Nonprofit Organization Launches Comprehensive Directory of Electronic Literature. Chicago, IL, Sept 5, 2000 The Electronic Literature Directory (http://directory.eliterature.org) is a unique and valuable new resource for readers and writers of digital texts. Created and maintained by the Electronic Literature Organization, this searchable database provides the most comprehensive reference tool available for electronic literature. Currently the Directory catalogs over 360 authors, 560 works, and 80 publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. The Directory provides easy access to one of the most exciting and fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration. Directory users can also enjoy the enhancements that the new technology brings to traditional literature, such as streaming audio readings of poetry by masters ranging from e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas to contemporary Pulitzer Prize winners. The Directory contains live links to Web works, publishing sites, and author home pages, making it a prime portal for readers. Users can search the Directory for individual authors or works, or they can browse numerous categories such as poetry, fiction, hypertext, or animated text. Additional search and selection capabilities will be added in the future, letting users find works by specifying virtually any attribute, from the language of the text to the distribution medium. Another future enhancement will be the addition of reviews and reader recommendations. The Electronic Literature Directory is based on an open-submission, community-driven structure: authors and publishers listed in the Directory are able to enter and edit their own listings to ensure accuracy and completeness. The collaboration of authors, publishers, and ELO staff in maintaining content will ensure that the Directory is always comprehensive, accurate, and up to date. ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION The Electronic Literature Organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to promote and facilitate the writing, reading, and publishing of literature designed for the electronic media. Based in Chicago, ELO is directed by a national board of leading experts in electronic literature, internet business, and electronic publishing, and is additionally advised by an international board of literary advisors and a board of internet industry advisors. ELO maintains the Electronic Literature Directory and an electronic literature Web resource center, staffed by a network of leading e-lit writers operating independently in different parts of the USA. Forthcoming ELO programs include a Future of Publishing Symposium and Electronic Literature Prizes. ELO is supported by the donations of individual members and by corporate sponsors including Jupiter Communications, NBCi, and ZDNet. Electronic Literature Directory http://directory.eliterature.org Electronic Literature Organization http://www.eliterature.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to: eliterature-subscribe@eGroups.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Pierce Subject: Project Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:39:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 328 (328) This seems to be a "wave of the future", and it is strongly connected to corporate greed. Secrecy implies proprietorship, which equals exclusivness of use. Of course I am speaking profits. Freedom of information and a free flow of knowledge have not come off well when greed enters the picture. Those interested in knowledge per se are, I hope, equally adept at speaking out for freedom of information. Randall From: Randall Pierce Subject: Humanism and Evil Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:40:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 329 (329) I am intrigued by the use of information technology as an "apotrope"( a gesture to fend off evil". According to a the psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, evil is exemplified by a desire to control. Control of knowledge, I feel, is an evil. The publishers of Encarta are attempting to control access to certain linguistic developments. I am a believer in the capitalistic system up to the point it becomes predatory. Would you feel that attempts to control the way our language is changing is exactly that? I wonder if the desire to control knowledge has more to do with the control of evil as a pathological condition than with the profit motive? Randall From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0217 course buyout policies? Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:37:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 330 (330) What is faculty course buyout? Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0217 course buyout policies? Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:38:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 331 (331) Could Prof.Kirschenbaum explain what is meant by "course buyout" ? I've never heard the term and cannot quite imagine what it means. From: Cybersociology List Moderator Subject: Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:35:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 332 (332) [--] [deleted quotation] Please Visit Cybersoc (http://www.cybersoc.com) and Cybersociology Magazine (http://www.cybersociology.com). -- From: "Charles Ess" Subject: CATaC conference proceedings available Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:35:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 333 (333) Colleagues: Allow me to forward the message below from Fay Sudweeks (Murdoch University). And to elaborate: The second conference on "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication" (CATaC) took place July 12-15, 2000, in Perth, Western Australia. As conference co-chair with Fay Sudweeks for both CATaC'98 and CATaC'00, I was struck by the considerable progress made in research on the various interactions between cultural values, communicative preferences, and the computer-mediated communication technologies making up the Net and the Web, as well as in other forms (e.g., Computer Support Collaborative Work systems, Information Technology systems for indigenous peoples such as the Aborigines of Australia, the Kelabit of Borneo, etc.) And while each of the papers included in the proceedings has much to recommend it, I was further intrigued with how a cluster of cultural values and communicative preferences affiliated with South East Asia (e.g., Confucian face-saving and others) emerged from several of the presentations as significant factors in the uptake of IT - factors that, ideally, must be taken into account if IT is to be designed in such a way as to avoid the cultural imperialism otherwise at work, even if covertly, as Western IT systems (which can now be demonstrated to embed and foster specifically Western cultural values and communicative preferences) are rapidly disseminated around the world in the name of global communication. There are other riches to be gleaned here. Happy reading! 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. == Hi everyone CATAC00 in Perth was excellent - we had a very good selection of papers. The proceedings from CATAC'00 are available for purchase at a cost of AUD35. You can order it online at http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00 or contact me at sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au. A list of the papers is below. Best Fay ----------------------- 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 ----- Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Perth, Australia, 12-15 July 2000 edited by Fay Sudweeks Murdoch University, Australia Charles Ess Drury University, USA ISBN 0-86905-747-2 PUBLISHED 2000 School of Information Technology Murdoch University, Murdoch WA 6150 Australia catac@it.murdoch.edu.au, www.it.murdoch..edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00 CONTENTS Preface Session 1 IT in Marginalised Communities Outside the Net: Kiribati and the knowledge economy Trevor H. B. Sofield, Australia Challenges and opportunities in introducing information and communication technologies to the Kelabit community of North Central Borneo Roger Harris, Poline Bala, Peter Songan and Elaine Khoo Guat Lien Malaysia Barangays of IT: Filipinizing mediated communication and digital power Peter Sy, Philippines Rural secondary school teachers' attitudes towards information technology: A study in the Kelabit highlands of Bario, Borneo Elaine Guat Lien Khoo, Tingang Trang, Pong Won Sia, Peter Songan, Roger Harris and Poline Bala, Malaysia Session 2 Virtual Environments Perceptions of virtual museums among French users: An analysis of cultural differences on uses of the Arts on the Internet Roxane Bernier, Canada and France Disenfranchisement from the global technoculture: Broadening the conceptual discourse on accessibility Dineh Davis, USA Symbiotic interface contingency: The reciprocal emergence of use and abuse Steffen Walz, USA and Germany Session 3 Cyberculture Cyberpower: The culture and politics of cyberspace Tim Jordan, United Kingdom Ethnography and hermeneutics in cybercultural research: Accessing IRC virtual communities Jose L. Abdelnour Nocera, Venezuela Mindscapes and Internet mediated communication John G. Gammack, Australia Session 4 Culture and Information Systems Information systems and organisational culture in a developing country: A critical theory perspective Mark C. Williams and R. Sunil Gunatunge, Australia Reducing the negative effects of power distance during asynchronous pre-meeting without using anonymity in Indonesian culture Sjarif Abdat, Indonesi,a and Graham P. Pervan, Australia Thai culture and communication of decision making processes in requirements engineering Theerasak Thanasankit and Brian Corbitt, New Zealand A world wide web of cultures or a 'world wide web' culture Andrew Turk, Australia The impact of cultural values on computer mediated group work Nasrin Rahmati, Australia Explaining community informatics success prospects: The autonomy/harmony model Celia Romm and Wal Taylor, Australia Session 5 Education and Policy A consideration of culture in national IT and e-commerce plans Steve Benson and Craig Standing, Australia Dissemination on a global scale? Possibilities and problems in access to Internet-based academic journals Sara Gwynn and Peter Thomas, United Kingdom Addressing the moral poverty of computing higher education, including the Web Mark Williams and Guy Duczynski, Australia Session 6 Technology and Learning A theoretical argumentation and evaluation of South African learners' orientation towards and perspectives on the empowering use of information: A calculated prediction of computerised learning for the marginalised Louisa Postma, South Africa A culture for computer literacy Richard Thomas, University of Western Australia, Australia Session 7 The Role of Media in Communication How cultural differences affect the use of information and communication technology in Dutch-American mergers Frits Grotenhuis, The Netherlands Nerdy no more: A case study of early Wired (1993-96) Ann Willis, Australia Technological transformations of the public sphere: The role of CMC David Holmes, Australia From: Elli Mylonas Subject: conference on the form of the book Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:36:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 334 (334) Transformations of the Book & Redefinitions of the Arts & Humanities BOOK/ENDS is an international gathering of theorists, educators and artists planned for 11-14 October 2000. The event will combine lectures by renowned scholars from the US and abroad, multimedia artist exhibitions and demonstrations, focus workshops and open fora. http://www.albany.edu/bookends/index.html As the form of the book undergoes the profound transformations of the digital age, the knowledge practices and values associated with it are also rapidly shifting ground. Electronic resources are already introducing changes in the way cultural offerings--literature, the arts, information, popular entertainment--are produced and accessed, and by whom. Interactivity, hypertext and multimedia "texts" expand, and explode, such traditional notions as narrative, work of art, artist, author, audience. Digital representation and computational logics challenge conventional flows of information. A multiplicity of innovative literary, artistic, performance and hybrid "cyber" forms are opening up new pathways of communication and reinventing cultural and knowledge production. BOOK/ENDS will investigate these contemporary shifts from diverse perspectives and apply the results of its investigations to the concrete challenges of higher education and humanities curriculum renewal. What is most innovative about the project is its combination of academic and theoretical discussion with artistic and pedagogical restagings of the exploration of the potential of "postbook" technologies. Events planned will provide maximum interaction among the range of participants, from inner-city schoolchildren and local educators to internationally renowned artists and critical thinkers. Conference Support Funding by: State of New York/UUP Technology Committee University at Albany Office of the Vice President For Research, Research Foundation of the State University of New York From: Michael Fraser Subject: Classical Constructions (Oxford, Sept 21-23) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:37:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 335 (335) [The following may be of interest to some members. It is not too late to register, but please note the email address below (classoff@ermine.ox.ac.uk) for any queries and for requesting booking forms.] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- CLASSICAL CONSTRUCTIONS A SYMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF DON FOWLER 21st-23rd September 2000 Jesus College, Oxford There will be a symposium at Jesus College, Oxford from Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd September 2000 to celebrate the inspiration Don Fowler provided to his teachers, pupils, colleagues, friends and readers in the field of Classical literature. Provisional Programme Thursday 21st September (start 14.00) Lucretius and didactic (chaired by Phil Hardie/Peta Fowler) speakers: Phillip Mitsis, Gordon Campbell, Alessandro Schiesaro, Monica Gale. Reception Friday 22nd September '101 things to do with a Latin text' (chaired by Stephen Harrison) speakers: Joseph Farrell, Llewelyn Morgan, Robin Nisbet. Women (chaired by Effie Spentzou) speakers: Patricia Salzman, Juliane Kerkhecker. Roman constructions (chaired by Alison Sharrock) speakers: Michele Lowrie, Matthew Leigh. Saturday 23rd September (end 17.30) Theory (chaired by Alessandro Barchiesi/Gian Biagio Conte) speakers: Andrew Laird, Deborah Roberts, Stephen Hinds. Closure (chaired by Stephen Heyworth) speakers: Stratis Kyriakidis, Ben Tipping. Round table discussion The conference fee will be GBP38 (including the party on Thursday, lunch on Friday and Saturday); GBP19 for a single day. There are 25 places available for graduate students at a cost of GBP10. Accommodation is available at Jesus College on Thursday and Friday nights (plus Wednesday and Saturday, if required), at a full-board cost of GBP45 per night. Full details and a booking form may be obtained from the Classics Office, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD; email: . From: "Charles Ess" Subject: FW: Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:34:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 336 (336) Colleagues: While I haven't seen the program announced below, I know that at least a few prominent CMC researchers were consulted by the producers - it will be interesting to see how our (in the collective sense) scholarship may have helped shape a media presentation on media... I hope HUMANISTS in the U.K. will have an opportunity to view the program, and comment to the rest of us with their thoughts and responses. In particular: is the program worth ordering for those of us beyond the reach of Channel 4? Cheers and best wishes, 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. ---------- Finally.....after much anticipation... Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace will be broadcast on Channel 4, UK on 30 September 2000 (a Saturday) at 10:00pm. Through the lives of four people living in England, the US, and Holland, our film explores the idea that chat rooms speak directly to a variety of human instincts that in the real world find few outlets, including the need for fantasy play, experimentation and self-exploration, often in the realm of sex and sexuality. If you live in Britain, don't miss this enlightening programme. If you are outside the UK, you can order a copy of the programme by e-mailing Martha at info@octoberfims.co.uk . The price of the cassette depends on the volume of the orders we receive. Press inqueries can be sent to either myself at this address or to the director, Henry Singer at henry.singer@octoberfilms.co.uk . Happy viewing! From: Willard McCarty Subject: new director for the AHDS Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:38:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 337 (337) The Arts and Humanities Data Service (U.K.) is pleased to announce that Ms Sheila Anderson has been appointed as Director of the AHDS with effect from 1st September. Formerly Head of the History Data Service (the AHDS Service Provider for History), she is currently the Director of Depositor Services at The Data Archive. Mr Neil Beagrie, until recently Acting Director of the AHDS, is now head of the JISC's Digital Preservation Focus. For more information on the AHDS and its activities, see <http://ahds.ac.uk/>. WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: The Future: Computers that Outsmart Humans? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 338 (338) Dear humanist scholars, Hi, I thought this interesting short snippets --might interest you --forwarded via "The eCollege.com eNewsletter Volume 1 Issue 7"..thanks.. Vernor Vinge, scholar and science-fiction writer, predicts that one of the most likely scenarios for the next 20 years is the creation of computers that surpass humans in intelligence. Mr. Vinge, writer and lecturer on the future of computing, is an associate professor of mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He is credited by some as being one of the first to imagine a shared virtual space created by computer networks. In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, Mr. Vinge describes the ongoing development of computers that act as an extension of the human mind. "It is a very unsettling thing, but ... it's not clear that it is dystopic." To read the full story click (http://info.ecollege.com:80/UM/T.ASP?A18.87.36.4.15951) See at Best Regards Arun Tripathi From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 14.0223 what is a "course buyout"? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 339 (339) My understanding of "course buyouts" is that the practice involves faculty paying for the privilege of not teaching one of their reguarly assigned courses, either by voluntarily remitting a portion of their salary or by allocating grant funding for that purpose. The questions we've been asked to review here include how often faculty should be permitted to exercise such an option, what constitutes an appropriate dollar amount, whether the amount should vary depending on the nature of the course, and so forth. As noted in my original posting, I'm asking not out of personal interest but as a fact finding exercise for a departmental committee. Thanks, Matt From: Willard McCarty Subject: not bending with the remover to remove Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:38:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 340 (340) Dear colleagues: Allow me to suggest that if we wish to continue to discuss naming &c, including the enumeration of the names of God, and other topics of quite wide-ranging interest such as economic systems and their relative merits, that we put such fascinating subjects into the context of humanities computing or cease discussion of them altogether? Once upon a time, long ago (when on Bitnet I was proudly and uniquely MCCARTY@UTOREPAS, like Alcuin of York :-), Humanist was just about the only game in the global village for folks like us. Now, however, there are many, for which see <http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/>. Our focus can be fuzzy, discussions may wander off the computational course, but humanities computing should always be the ever-fixed mark to our wanderings, like true love in W.S.'s Sonnet 116. Let me not to the pre-nuptial chat of true minds erect impediments, but as Milton wrote, divorce can be what brings cosmos out of chaos. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0216 sexist naming Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:38:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 341 (341) If the universe exists so that Goid can be fully named, and the dying of the universe is the becoming of God, then the name of God is obvious: "Four degrees above absolute zero". :) Chris From: mehrin@mindspring.com Subject: re: 14.0216 sexist naming Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:39:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 342 (342) Good for you. Though a male, I firmly agree with you. Have been reading writings of Clara Zelkin and Rosa Luxemburg. Wish there were some around today. My gods and goddesses are equally divided. We humans, like all living forms, are rather pathetic creatures, stumbling along, seeking composite answers for which there is none. Every living form seeks to survive. None will. Each must make decisions, and use a context we can accept. Attempts to rationalize fail. mehrin@mindspring.com From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: Humanist: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:11:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 343 (343) It is quite normal for consultants to sign non-disclosure agreements before they begin work on a commercial project. Of course this rubs us academics the wrong way since we value academic freedom and freedom of information--but the Bloomsbury/Encarta Project is commercial, not academic. I was one of those who signed such an agreement for the first stage of the project, now published, and became a member of its advisory board. I thought twice about it, but the commercial nature of the work was the overriding factor. This is an important issue, I think. Since information in the humanities now has growing commercial value, many of us will be asked to participate in commercial ventures. We should be clear about the terms under which we participate. Our colleagues in engineering, business, and other fields have had consulting opportunities for some time, and they have had to wrestle with this topic. My university has rules about consulting, which are designed to regulate potential conflicts of interest. If you want the money from consulting, you have to agree with the terms, both from your institution and from your commercial employer. If you want to be a pure idealist about freedom of information, you must be satisfied with your humanities salary. In my own case, I freely give away my research results when they come from an academic endeavor, and I also sign consulting agreements that involve proprietary information while observing university regulations--I see no conflict between these two activities. ***** Bill Kretzschmar Professor of English and Linguistics Dept. of English Phone: 706-542-2246 University of Georgia Fax: 706-583-0027 Athens, GA 30602-6205 Atlas Web Site: us.english.uga.edu From: Jean-Claude =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gu=E9don?= Subject: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:12:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 344 (344) Thank you for reminding all of us that some very basic principles can still guide the behavior of academics. And thank you for reminding us that such principles can still be put ahead of money. Best, Jean-Claude Gudon -- Jean-Claude Gudon Dpartement de littrature compare Universit de Montral CP 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montral, Qc H3C 3J7 Canada Tl. : 1-514-343-6208 Tlcopie : 1-514-343-2211 Courriel : guedon@littco.umontreal.ca From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:13:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 345 (345) [deleted quotation]a [deleted quotation]essence [deleted quotation]That it is probably what you should expect from the folks who hold a patent on electronic style sheets, a patent that isn't worth the paper it's written on, as it's clearly prior art. They're using every possible legal method they can to proprietize both content and delivery - indeed, I'd say that with .NET one could argue that they are trying to proprietize the 'net itself. That's how monopolies work. Patrick Rourke From: "Erik Ringmar" Subject: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:13:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 346 (346) Dear Paul, Good for you. Someone has to defend the principles of publicity on which scholarship rests. It seems Microsoft is doing to ideas what Monsanto is doing to our genes. What will happen when every bit of public space is copyrighted and privatised? yours, Erik Erik Ringmar Dept of Government LSE From: EditorAnn@aol.com Subject: Fwd: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:14:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 347 (347) They left out an essential clause: "If you agree to these terms, and so signify by affixing your signature, 5 minutes after returning it by mail, you will self-destruct, thereby obliterating all remaining evidence that we have ever been in communication." From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:15:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 348 (348) From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com, Fri. Sept. 8, 2000, 12:07AM I have not subscribed to any blood oath, so I can say that the whole affair is most curious. Microsoft is headquartered in Washington State, is it not, which is where you are. If the contact was really from Microsoft, then perhaps the person thought that Washington residents are likely to support Microsoft even in bizarre circumstances. If the contact was not from Microsoft, then that is much trouble about a dictionary. Perhaps it was intended to either impugn Microsoft or give the impression of impugning Microsoft from one of Microsoft's mis-inspired friends or enemies. If Bill Gates would give his money to Humanities Discussion, this problem could never arise, since we would all soon make dictionaries and encyclopedias of every computer related humanities related problem under the sun (more or less). In fact, we can start a campaign entitled "Dollar bills from Bill." It might have to be limited to the USA, but I for one would share with my colleagues in Great Britain. Osher From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:15:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 349 (349) My reaction? Paranoia! [deleted quotation]:) Chris From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0212 secret dictionary project Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:16:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 350 (350) Sorry. I meant so say "paranoia". Please, don't talk so loud. :) Chris (who said that?) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [Updates]Check out the Arun's Cyberworld Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 351 (351) Greetings humanists, Hi, recently I have updated my following homepages for the benefit of educators, scientists, technologists, cyberspace researchers, hypertexts and media philosophers, artificial intelligence researchers, etc..thought might interest you (still more to come..) Arun's Global Education Project Links <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/index.html> Artificial Intelligence & Higher Education <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/educate.html> And, one more "an article" on _EUCLID_ is available at <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/euclid.html> Details about the _EdResource_ List (Education and Technology Listserv) at <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/EdResource.html> Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi Research Scholar University of Dortmund, Germany Moderator of EdResource Listserv Moderator of Online-ed Listserv WAOE Multilingual Coordinator From: scaife@pop.uky.edu Subject: [STOA] "We want it to be Jacksonian, noisy, and Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 352 (352) participatory" This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: scaife@pop.uky.edu Tuesday, September 12, 2000 U. of North Carolina Gets $4-Million to Expand 'Public Library of the Internet' By FLORENCE OLSEN The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's MetaLab, one of the busiest digital libraries on the Internet, on Monday received a $4-million gift and a new name, ibiblio.org. Its benefactor says the gift will help the site develop its unique character as "the public library of the Internet." The Red Hat Center, a private foundation in Durham, N.C., made the gift and announced a five-year joint project with the university to expand ibiblio. Robert Young, who is one of the founders of the Linux software company Red Hat, says ibiblio demonstrates the value of free public libraries and exemplifies the ideals of the open-source movement. The movement maintains that knowledge, unlike real property, should be free. Linux is an open-source computer operating system -- created by volunteers from all over the world. Consisting of computer code that is publicly available, it has attracted a considerable amount of interest as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows products. U.N.C.'s enormous library server, which handles an average of 1.5 million transactions daily, is one of the largest repositories of Linux software and software documentation. "Developers and programmers around the world take this stuff for granted -- but value it highly," Mr. Young says. The server also is the repository for digitized historical collections that include Documenting the American South, a series of book-length narratives of life under slavery, and the folk-music collection of the songwriter and musician Roger McGuinn, who cofounded the Byrds. Paul Jones, the director of the online library, says the gift will enable ibiblio to award research fellowships and develop the software infrastructure for expanding its collection of digital materials. Mr. Jones is an associate professor of information and library science who also teaches in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. From its beginnings as SunSITE.unc.edu, the digital library has grown by permitting people to share songs, software, and other intellectual property, Mr. Jones says. Anyone with something valuable to share could upload the material to be added to the library's collection. "All they had to do was fill out the equivalent of an electronic card-catalog card," he says. Up until last week, the library's only online self-promotion was a small label that read: "Serving your Internet needs since 1992." During the next six to eight months, Mr. Jones says he expects to introduce user-based rankings and ratings of ibiblio library materials, adopting some of the methods and open-source software used by slashdot.org, another popular Internet site. "We want it to be Jacksonian, noisy, and participatory," he says. Mr. Young, a prominent proponent of open-source software, says Congress, in recent years, has been too protective of patent and copyright holders at the expense of the public's interest. "If all knowledge was owned by some megacorporation, and if copyrights were indefinite as some people in Congress are proposing," he says, "the world's most profitable corporation today would be Ancient Greek Mathematicians Inc." He says ibiblio is proof that "extending patents and copyright rules to the satisfaction of Disney or Time Warner is not necessarily in the interest of all of us as citizens." Western scientific progress has been made by sharing knowledge, Mr. Young says, "and that's what the MetaLab and the University of North Carolina have always stood for." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/free/2000/09/2000091201t.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free Use the code D00CM when ordering. _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2000 by The Chronicle of Higher Education -------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org To unsubscribe from this list, send the command unsubscribe stoa to majordomo@colleges.org. To send a message to the whole list, send it to stoa@colleges.org If you have any trouble using the list or questions about it, please address them to the list-owner, Ross Scaife, scaife@pop.uky.edu. From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0226 meaning of "course buyout" Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:36:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 353 (353) As far as I know course buyout of the sort described below is not permissable at Berkeley. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0226 meaning of "course buyout" Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:36:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 354 (354) Thanks for clarifying "course buyouts" -- it seems a remarkably odd practice. I must confess that in 35 years in the profession, in the Ivy League, the Big 10, a leading private university and a state one, I've never heard of it. From: Ken Friedman Subject: Georgia Tech: 2 positions in interactive media Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 11:49:00 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 355 (355) To: Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture is an internationally recognized leader in redefining humanities-based education for the digital era. The school has brought together a uniquely strong faculty in film studies, hypertext, interactive narrative, electronic art, media and performance studies, and in cultural studies of science and technology. The research life of the School includes Configurations, the journal of the Society for Literature and Science, and the film journal Postscript. The School's faculty are engaged in new media project development both in LCC's dedicated New Media Center and in collaboration with innovative computer scientists through Georgia Tech's Center for Graphics, Visualization, and Usability. The School offers a B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture and an M.S. in Information Design and Technology. A Ph.D. is in the planning stages. The School plans to make two appointments in interactive media: one at the rank of associate professor and one at the rank of assistant professor. It seeks candidates who are practitioner-theorists with expertise in one or more of the following specialties: digital art and design, simulation and game design, 3-D computing, humanities computing, electronic journalism, digital filmmaking and videography, and/or educational applications of new media. Applicants should have either a Ph.D. in an appropriate field or an appropriate terminal degree. Candidates for the senior position should have significant publication and/or digital products. Send cover letter and CV to Professor Janet Murray, Chair, Faculty Search, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0165. We will begin reviewing applications on November 1 and continue until positions are filled. The Georgia Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. -- 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: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 356 (356) [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] I agree that it is easy for most humanist to be proud of their correct attitude because it has never been tempted, but I am not certain that your proposal is not simplifying the problems, because the tension between academic and commercial information handling hasn't been solved by those areas of science where it has been felt longer. So maybe a simple "we do it like them" rule may be not enough. But I am interested in another point of your answer: Could you give us an outline how the university regulations look like? How do they prevent that most research results which can be used commercially are going this way? Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Forum Computerphilologie http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de From: MNIELSEN34@aol.com Subject: Re: computers outsmarting humans? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 357 (357) In a message dated 9/11/0 A. Tripathi writes: [deleted quotation] As a fiction writer only peripherally tied-into the higher education world at this point in my career, I found this post intriguing. Its citation of a science-fiction author raised a question for me: were any members of Humanist present in Chicago for the WorldCon Science-Fiction Convention over America's Labor Day weekend? I'd be glad for feedback on the conference from this list, if so. One piece of good news: there was a good "academic track" at the confence, which discussed (among other things) the need for getting the fandom community and the academic community to talk with and respect each other. But wanting it and having it are two different things... there's still more competition than cooperation among these groups, it seems, if they even talk at all. My limited-scope appraisal of other Humanist-relevant content: It seemed there were surprisingly few workshops or panels at WorldCon on Artificial Intelligence and similar Internet/computing-related matters. Perhaps the "fandom" and fiction-writing communities are still playing catch-up to the scientific and academic ones (in what they regularly talk about). Science-fiction fans (as a subset of "the public") generally use computer technology and lingo extensively, but not as many are discussing the social, ethical, or theoretical implications of present research (what you Humanists are up to) for world economies and daily life. Do they not know, or do they just not care? I'm not sure, personally. Case-in-point: Humanist's recent discussion of the (Encarta) "business vs. academia" challenge is of much greater depth and quality than the level of discussion I hear among fans/consumers on similar socio-economic matters. Is the difference that the fans are "playing" and the Humanists are "working", or is it more subtle than that? Any comments or rebuttals? -Mark Nielsen From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Wed. Sept. 13, 2000, 8:26AM Subject: Re: 14.0225 new on WWW: computers outsmarting humans? Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:25:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 358 (358) Dear Colleagues: Arun-Kumar Tripathi as usual brings interesting contributions. It occurs to me that if a "history" computer were programmed to avoid repeating historical errors and ignore long historical sagas not directly relevant to historical errors, it would almost immediately exceed the abilities of many history professors and teachers. Yours historically, Osher From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0226 meaning of "course buyout" Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:18:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 359 (359) At 09:42 +0100 12/9/2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I have done this as a matter of course where I have received project funding. I have done this because: a) all my teaching is intensive (small groups, I teach and mark all my students work) b) my full time load is 12 contact hours per week per semester (i'm in Australia) c) this translates to close to 30 hours of work per week (our 'paid' week is 38 hours) which leaves little time for much else. my opinions: a) your courses generally still need to be managed by you when you've got someone else doing them b) your courses need to be reasonably 'modular' and contained for this to be effective (if you teach in a way where there is informal overlap with other subjects then you will have problems). An example: i used to teach most of the 3rd year cinema theory subjects, and the hypertext theory subjects. Most of the students were the same cohort, and I'd rely on poststructural theories my students learnt in cinema in teaching hypertext (or vice versa). But once someone else teaches one of these, this continuity is lost. Simply means I had to reassess my own teaching practices (which was a good thing). c) your courses need to be very well documented so it's clear to whoever comes in to teach what is to be done, how, what the outcomes are to be, and what the teaching and learning experience is to be. This is crucial. d) quality control or whatever you call it needs to be watched very closely. another example: i'm very familiar with my computer labs and know how to fix/troubleshoot pretty much every tech. problem that occurs (and I usually know more about this than the tech.staff for my labs, unfortunately). someone comes in to teach for me, assures me they can use all the technology. result: absolute disaster with nothing working, no ability to explain the problems adequately to tech. staff, students, etc. This is part of a larger problem about support in teaching, but mentoring is often needed if the person teaching is what in australia we'd call "sessional" (ie, part time and exploited academic). The issue is lessened if your teaching is performed by a fellow member of faculty. in terms of how often. throughout our media studies program we have actively sought to ensure that subjects are able to be taught by different staff so that: a) staff can move through different subjects (and not only teach one course, we are a small program) b) subjects can run well if their original 'creator' is unavailable. This allows staff to do research without teaching, with the additional outcome that staff tend not to 'own' their courses so much. it is a problem when very good teachers leave for research, but on the other hand (this will sound like management speak) how good is a teacher if their subject can't survive without them? not sure if I answered your questions Matt, but simple rule: good staff get good funding. If this funding can be used to a) generate quality research b) mentor junior or new staff into teaching as a profession then i don't see an issue about how often. on the other side it is relatively easy to measure teaching (hours per week, student hours, pass rate, whatever) which makes 'what' you do for the university reasonably transparent. this is rarely the case in research. adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. 61 03 9925 3157 bowerbird.rmit.edu.au/adrian/ hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au From: "Pat Moran" Subject: Re: 14.0223 what is a "course buyout"? Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:19:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 360 (360) As I understand it, a course buyout concerns an instructor who is scheduled to teach a class--and should do so--according to her/his contract. However, some instructors are more valuable as grant-writers or need the time to finish articles for publishing. In either case, the instructor buys out of the obligation--giving the department the money needed to hire another instructor to perform the duties. Pat Moran, Adjunct Faculty, Florida State University pjmoran@gdsys.net From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0232 course buyout Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:19:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 361 (361) At 08:39 +0100 13/9/2000, Norman D. Hinton wrote: [deleted quotation] hi all as I've contributed to this thread can this be clarified for me please? are you saying that if I taught at an Ivy League Uni. and got $100,000 of research funding from somewhere, I could not use some of that funding to *not* teach? in other words that my teaching duties would remain unchanged? just want to make sure I understand that I'm talking about the same thing. regards adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. 61 03 9925 3157 bowerbird.rmit.edu.au/adrian/ hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au From: "Erik Ringmar" Subject: Re: 14.0232 course buyout Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:20:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 362 (362) Dear all, At the LSE in London buyouts are allowed provided that colleagues aren't too inconvenienced. You simply hand back your salary for the time concerned, and survive on whatever your external grant/fellowship/salary provides you. (In fact, the School is quite happy to engage in these kinds of swaps since they often can get a big professor's salary and employ a cheap TA to replace him/her). yours, Erik Erik Ringmar Dept of Government LSE From: John Lavagnino Subject: ACH call for papers Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:28:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 363 (363) CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Media and Humanities Research: ACH/ALLC Conference, New York City, June 13-17 2001 The joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. The theme for the 2001 conference is "Digital Media and Humanities Research", and it will feature plenary addresses by two leading scholars: Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ACH/ALLC 2001 invites submissions of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing or new media, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. We especially encourage submissions from any field which address the impact of new media on research methods and intellectual practices. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, especially interdisciplinary work. Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital resources, theoretical or speculative treatments of new media, and the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering. Successful proposals might focus on: * new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video; * 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 in the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical advances of potential interest to humanities scholars; * information design in the humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modeling; * pedagogical applications of new media within the humanities; thoughtful considerations of the cultural impact of computing and new media; * the institutional role of humanities computing and new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields. Financial assistance for some speakers will be available: see the conference web page for details. For the first time the conference will also feature a workshop session on academic and industry jobs in humanities computing and new media. The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 15 November 2000; the deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 15 January 2001. See http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/ for full details on submitting proposals and on the conference in general. From: K.J.Lack@open.ac.uk Subject: Subject Knowledges and Professional Practice - 7 October Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:29:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 364 (364) ***apologies for cross-postings*** Subject Knowledges and Professional Practice in the arts and humanities The Humanities and Arts higher education Network's 6th annual conference, to be held on the 7 October 2000 at The Open University, Milton Keynes. http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm This conference will debate the question: is contemporary Professional Practice - with its emphasis on delivery of learning outcomes and information, on skills acquisition, etc., across all academic disciplines - at odds with traditional conceptions of subject knowledges in the arts and humanities, how and why they are taught and learned? The keynote address, 'Disciplining the Profession: Subjects Subject to Procedure', will be given by Dr Paul Standish. This will be followed by a variety of workshops and paper presentations. The attached pdf file, abstracts2000, gives more details about the programme and abstract information for each presentation/workshop. Deadline for registration: 1st October 2000 If you would like to attend this conference, please contact Kelvin Lack (k.j.lack@open.ac.uk) or visit the HAN web site (http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm) for more information. Alternatively, the attached pdf file flyer2000 contains a booking form. The attendance fee is 40, however a concessionary rate of 25 is available for members of the Humanities and Arts higher education Network (HAN) and full-time students. Contact Kelvin Lack for more information about the joining the HAN (membership is free-of-charge). ***please forward this email to interested colleagues*** ________________________________________________ Kelvin Lack Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Email: k.j.lack@open.ac.uk Telephone: (01908) 653488 http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/index.htm http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: we return Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:18:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 365 (365) Dear Colleagues: After somewhat more of a delay than had been expected, the changeover in equipment and move of Humanist et al. at Virginia has been accomplished. Regular publication of Humanist now resumes! Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0231 UNC "Public Library of the Internet" Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:20:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 366 (366) Oh, wonderful, a noisy library. I'm glad it's not in my town. [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:24:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 367 (367) [Circulated at the request of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. --WM] DIRECTOR, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SYSTEMS MANAGER I STARTING ANNUAL SALARY $48,291 PLUS BENEFITS DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING APPLICATIONS: SEPTEMBER 30, 2000 The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) seeks to employ a Systems Manager I to lead the work of its Information Management Systems (IMS) section and to supervise the IMS section staff. The successful candidate will direct the Department's long-range planning and implementation of computer services. This position reports to the Director of the Department, chairs the Department's Information Management Committee, which is composed of division directors and the computer services support staff in each division, and coordinates with each division director to support information management planning and assist in procurement of appropriate hardware and software. The incumbent in this position is responsible for the implementation and maintenance of services to computer users and supervises a staff of three computer service professionals. Other responsibilities include coordinating license and maintenance agreements, coordinating with the Electronic Records Archives Section, maintaining the department web server, and coordinating telecommunication services. The incumbent in this position will also coordinate technical training opportunities for the IMS staff and other Department staff members and is responsible for insuring that adequate technology resources are provided to meet the needs of the Department. An essential function of this position will involve monitoring the specifications, installation, and maintenance of the information systems infrastructure in the new Archives and History building that is scheduled for completion during the spring of 2002. Minimum requirements for the job include a bachelor's degree in library/information science, computer science, history, archival science, or a related field, 6 years of experience in the information systems area, including experience in managing a data processing unit and strong communication skills. Experience in an archival field, records management, the humanities, library services, or a related field is preferred. The starting annual salary is $48,291. Send (no email or fax) State Personnel Board application or resume, salary history, and three letters of reference to Clara McKinnon, Personnel Director, MDAH, P. O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571. The deadline for receiving applications is September 30, 2000. MDAH is an Equal Opportunity Employer. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Richard C Thomas Subject: The Juicer questionnaire Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:21:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 368 (368) The following is forwarded with permission. Professor Thomas would greatly appreciate any responses. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] From: "Eric S. Rabkin" Subject: Re: 14.0236 AI, SciFi and the academic world Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:24:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 369 (369) Mark Nielsen asks if any members of HUMANIST were at the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago. I was, along with three of the student researchers from our Genre Evolution Project, reporting in the "academic track" on the methods we've been developing, and some of the results to date, in testing the hypothesis that cultural materials evolve as complex adaptive systems using the American science fiction short story of the 20th century as our current test corpus. (For any who may want a glimpse, please see http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo.) My impression is that there was more talking about the failure of fans and academics to communicate than there was real failure to communicate. In fact, people were open, diverse, and generous in their conversation. The convention attracts pure fans--some of whom use these "cons" as a mainstay of their social lives and may not even read much, but some of whom are voracious readers with encyclopedic knowledge--as well as professional writers, editors, critics, agents, and academics. There are many people who warrant multiple designations so the mix is vibrant. In the public panels--both academic track and otherwise--as well as the corridor conversation, I think that this gathering often incites catalogic and anecdotal discourse ("oh, that's like this other book I read, thing I saw, conversation I had...") in greater proportion than, say, MLA, where the balance toward analytic discourse is weighter (and sometimes more ponderous). But a convention (not called a conference in this case) is at least as much for sparking imagination and acquaintance as it is for fostering collaborative thinking. Lots of fans took notes on what to read or view next; lots of professionals (I'm thinking of one TV script writer in particularwho moderated a non-ademic track panel on why TV SF is so often so bad) had insights of great value and insight that few academics would have come upon on their own. And then of course there are the many, wide-open of parties attended by people with Vulcan ears. I recommend it. -- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Relationship between "Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology" Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:26:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 370 (370) (PNP) and its Archives dear humanist scholars, ((hi, forwarded via The Scout Report for Social Sciences -- September 19, 2000 --thought, might interest you.-arun)) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy - Neuroscience - Psychology (PNP) Archive of Papers and Technical Reports -- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri [PostScript] <http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~pnp/archive/archive.html> The Department of Philosophy at Washington University offers an extensive archive of papers and technical reports on interdisciplinary issues involving philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology at their PNP Website. The documents can be browsed by author's last name and by a number assigned by the maintainers of PNP, but no search option is available. Titles are listed with abstracts in HTML format and links to the full text, typically offered in PostScript format, though some are in HTML or ASC II. We found one bad link on our visit, but the archive is kept current, and many leading scholars in the field have posted work here. [DC] -- From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0246 course buyout Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:22:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 371 (371) In most of the schools I've taught at instead of a "course buyout" we have "non-instructional assignments", and they come down from the top, not up from the bottom. AShen I had an NIA for research, for instance, we just dropped the course for the time being, or someone else taught it, and I didn't have to have anything to do with it...I just got 1/3 of my pay for doing something else (grant or no grant). From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk (K. C. Cameron) Subject: Re: Conference announcement Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:21:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 372 (372) CALL FOR PAPERS EXETER CALL 2001 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER September 1- 3 2001 Conference on CALL- The Challenge of Change EXETER CALL 2001 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS September 1-3 2001 Conference on CALL- The Challenge of Change This will be the ninth biennial conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. Many of the papers have been published in Computer Assisted Language Learning. An International Journal (Swets & Zeitlinger), and bear witness to the weighty discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so. To mark the opening of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the conference will be followed by an optional workshop on 'Arabic meeting the challenge of CALL' on the afternoon of September 3. The estimated cost is 165 (one hundred and sixty-five pounds sterling) for en-suite accommodation in the Postgraduate Centre or 135 (one hundred and thirty-five pounds sterling) for standard accommodation in Mardon Hall. Both the Postgraduate Centre and Mardon Hall are centrally situated on the University campus, and the prices include full board, the Conference fee and a copy of the Proceedings - 100 pounds is the charge for non-residents. Proposals (c.100-150 words) are invited by February 1 2001 for papers (25 mins) on any aspect of research in CALL which fits into the general theme of 'CALL - The Challenge of Change'. For further information, please return the form below to : (Professor) Keith Cameron, CALL 2001 Conference, School of Modern Languages, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK); tel/fax (0)1392 264221/2; email CALL 2001, Exeter, CALL - The Challenge of Change NAME .......................................... .......................................... ADDRESS .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... *I wish to attend the CALL conference September 1-3 2001 *I wish to attend the CALL conference Arabic Workshop September 3 (p.m.) 2001 * Special dietary requirements: *Please invoice me for *en-suite / *standard accommodation *I wish to propose a paper on: *Please send further particulars about the conference (* Delete as necessary) ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies, FRHistS, Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes academiques 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: Willard McCarty Subject: methodological primitives? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:19:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 373 (373) Suppose that we look at any traditional academic field solely from the perspective of humanities computing. What we'd see, I'd guess, is data on the one hand and a set of mechanical operations ordinarily applied to them on the other. I'd like to ask here about those operations, how we define them, what they are in relation to algorithms at the low-level end and application programs at the high-level. I'll call these mechanical operations "methodological primitives" and define the type as "an algorithmically specifiable transformation of data that forms a recognisable component of multiple scholarly processes". As an idea I would suppose the type to be a useful analytic tool with which to resolve what humanists do into a loosely bounded set of interoperable software components which could be assembled in whatever order by a scholar in order to aid his or her research. I'd suppose that alphanumeric sorting, compiling a frequency list of word-forms and lemmatising the word-forms of an inflected language would be examples at the lower-level end. At the upper would be concording a text -- here the difference between a primitive and an ordinary program, such as MonoConc, would be the modular design. My question is, how strong is the idea of methodological primitives? How useful? Is this a direction in which we should go? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Sheldon Richmond Subject: philosophy web site Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:16:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 374 (374) I wish to improve a philosophy web site, in development, meant to facilitate philosophy discussion in a general audience regardless of academic background. I request criticism as well as suggestions for must have philosophy links or other links. Please respond to me at: askthephilosof@yahoo.com or reply to this address if simpler. 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Visit this list's home page at: http://ared.listbot.com Thanking you, Kind Regards Arun Tripathi PS: For any kind of problems, please mail me at From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [Coverage]The Association of Internet Researchers' Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:19:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 377 (377) inaugural conference sounds interesting & important dear scholars, researchers, & thinkers, [Hi, I thought --this might interest you --recently at the AOIR conference --the Association of Internet Researchers discussed "Online Research Ethics Lacking" --any meaningful guidelines for online research is missing. Most AOIR researchers looked differently at Internet --for details see On the Net --at Association of Internet Researcher site <http://aoir.org> Thank you.-Arun] ======================================================================= Researchers Looking at Internet ET September 17, 2000 By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - As the Internet rapidly promotes new communities and new ways to communicate, researchers still are trying to catch up and figure out its costs and benefits. The Association of Internet Researchers' inaugural conference ended Sunday with more questions than answers about the Net's impact on social interactions and relationships. Does the Internet foster greater face-to-face contact offline, or does it tend to make people more reclusive? Are face-to-face interactions even the ideal means of contact for everyone, including the shy teen-ager who thrives online? "We know very little," said Manuel Castells, sociology professor at University of California-Berkeley. "We are transforming our world at the fullest speed - blindly," he said. "It could create a backlash from many people saying that for them, the Internet is worsening their lives." While Internet studies are only beginning, time is running out because technology changes rapidly, warned Stephen Jones, president of the association. The researchers' group, with more than 400 members, was formed to bring together sociologists, educators, technologists and other specialists who study the Internet. Despite their efforts, many expressed frustration about how little is known. "There's a lot of rhetoric and a fair amount of pseudo research," said Gary Burnett, a professor of information studies at Florida State University. "If we don't take measures to understand the subtleties of the world we live in, there's the possibility for significant negative consequences." Studies at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University have suggested that the Internet promotes reclusion or depression. But other studies, including those presented at the conference, found that Internet users communicate more often - online and offline - than people who are unconnected. Many researchers agreed that the Internet does foster communities around shared interests. Cancer survivors, gun owners and fans of television shows can all meet online even if they are hundreds of miles apart. "It's changing the mode through which communities emerge," said Andrew Wood, a professor in communications studies at San Jose State University in California. "It's hard to say whether that's good or bad, but it's certainly going to be different." Burnett identified one potential downside of virtual communities: Internet users may develop a large-scale view incompatible with the small, rural settings they live in. Dave Jacobson, an anthropologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., found no evidence that people relate to one another any differently on the Net. But then again, he said, individuals can enter or leave a virtual community more easily than they can move from a town they dislike. And some researchers emphasized the difficulties of blaming or crediting the Internet for societal changes. After all, said University of Toronto sociologist Barry Wellman, neighborhood-based communities began declining long ago. "Many of the things we ascribe to computerization had been happening before," Wellman said. LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Don't get too comfortable with your online support group. A researcher may be lurking, recording your outpourings in the name of science. In fact, a researcher posing as a member of the support group may be posting comments simply to observe the reaction from participants. As more researchers turn to the Internet for behavioral studies, there is growing concern about the potential harm to online users unaware that they have become research subjects when they discuss diseases, marital problems and sexual identity crises. Online research ethics -- specifically, the lack of any meaningful guidelines -- was one of the chief topics of discussion this week at the inaugural meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. ``We're waiting for a major lawsuit,'' said Sarina Chen, professor of communications at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. ``Many people consider downloading data from the Internet `content analysis.' That's very naive.'' She ought to know: She said she almost lost her job when participants in a support group for eating disorders complained to her superiors about the tone of some postings that one of her students had made as part of a class assignment. Failing to get consent before monitoring Internet chat rooms and other discussion forums amounts to an invasion of privacy and can make participants more guarded in their dealings with one another, Chen said. In more extreme cases, other researchers warned, a posting inserted by a researcher can shift the nature of discussion and prompt participants to take action they otherwise would not. Barbara Lackritz, a leukemia survivor from St. Louis who runs more than two dozen cancer support groups, said researchers have been dropping in with increased frequency. ``It's very frustrating,'' she said in a telephone interview. ``We have all kinds of researchers, from kids who are in high school to master's degree candidates who want to do a thesis.'' Researchers who want to monitor her discussion groups often get permission first from group moderators, she said. But too often, she said, researchers don't ask, and ``think we're a slab of people waiting to do research for them.'' She said one support-group participant who hadn't told his friends, family and neighbors about his cancer started getting phone calls all of a sudden from people saying, ``I'm sorry.'' He then learned that a researcher had posted his full name and diagnosis on a Web site. Now that participant uses a pseudonym. ``He was furious,'' Lackritz said. ``In the long run, it hurt him financially and in his relationships with family.'' Federal law and university review boards generally prohibit experiments on humans without consent, though some observations in public settings are acceptable. But where do you draw the line between public and private on the Internet? Many discussion groups are open to the public, but participants generally assume that fellow members join because they have similar interests or concerns. That makes such forums less like a public square and more like someone's living room, said Amy Bruckman, a professor of computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Other researchers, however, believe they can monitor those discussions as long as they do not identify subjects in research papers. ``It's more important how data is analyzed and disseminated than how it is gathered,'' said Joseph Walther, professor of communications, psychology and information technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Storm King, a Springfield, Mass., psychologist and spokesman for the International Society for Mental Health Online, said seeking consent can actually cause participants to clam up, making observations of natural settings more difficult. The Association of Internet Researchers will probably decide Sunday to form a task force to draft guidelines by next year's meeting, said Stephen Jones, the group's president. David Snowball, professor of speech communication at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., said he was surprised when students proposed to eavesdrop on a support group and create fake traumas for the group to consider. He was even more surprised when he learned the students got the idea from other faculty members, who believed the practice was OK because participants would probably never know. ``The online world is still new and opens up all sorts of ways of doing research,'' said Charles Ess, a professor in cultural studies at Drury University in Springfield, Mo. ``It's much easier to lurk in a chat room undetected than it is to stand in a room and take notes.'' On the Net: http://aoir.org ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Jennifer De Beer Subject: Re: 14.0249 noisy libraries Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:47:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 378 (378) Colleagues, [deleted quotation] The concept 'digital library' implies networked access, no? And that the users are not all located in the same physical space. Hence the noisy library is not the traditional physical space / building, but rather a cyber one. In the latter instance noisiness is good (as long as the infrastructure can handle the load/hit rate) Best, Jennifer From: Melissa Terras Subject: letter frequency in latin Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:45:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 379 (379) Hello All. A Question - I am looking for some (any) articles on statistical analysis of letter frequency in Latin. I know that there has been a lot of work done on letter frequency and versatility in the English Language, but does anyone know of any resources that deal with letter frequency and propbable letter sequences in Latin, from whatever period? Thanks! Melissa ________________________________________ Melissa M Terras MA MSc Engineering Science / Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Christ Church University of Oxford Oxford 0X1 1DP __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: Re: 14.0258 methodological primitives? Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:41:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 380 (380) Dear Willard (and Humanist participants), of course, the idea of "methodological primitives" is useful. You may be aware that, with TUSTEP, we have tried (for more than 30 years now) to take this idea as a basis for a software which is not only flexible but also guarantees that the user can really take over the responsibility for the results - since he is able (and has to do it) to define in every detail the "basic" operations to be carried out by the computer. For a short description of the concept, you are invited to consult http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/tustep_ox92.html (a paper given 1992 at the ALLC-ACH conference in Oxford). I disagree however regarding two of the three examples for the low-level end of "methodological primitives": 1. "lemmatizing the word forms of an inflected language": Let me argue from my own experience: It took us (Father Bonifatius Fischer and his team and myself) more than two years to lemmatize the latin inflected word forms occuring in the text of the Vulgate, though we had at our disposal the "Lexicon Electronicum Latinum" which Father Busa had compiled for his Index Thomisticus and though had written a software which automatically added, with the help of this Lexicon, the lemma to each inflected form - a procedure which produced an average of 2,5 proposals for each inflected form! We sorted the material back into the text sequence, in order to have the context available for the "manual" decision which of the proposed lemmatizations was the correct one. Expecting that a piece of software at the level of "methodological primitives" could decide if "facies" is, at a given location, a verb form or a substantive is far from reality in near future - though 30 years have gone since we lemmatized the Vulgate; also today, even "higher level" software like SYSTRAN (which is e.g. offered for translating web pages found by Altavista) fails to take the context into account (and therefore translates the term "content provider" into the German "der zufriedene Anbieter"). 2. "Alphanumeric sorting": Yes, if you have in mind a routine which rearranges a file according to the sequence of bits at certain locations of every record, irrespective if they are to be interpreted as numbers or as digits and letters, I agree. But this is far from what I would call "alphanumeric ordering". In TUSTEP, we did not even try to fully automize the steps necessary to arrive at a required ordering. Not only are there different rules for almost every language (the EC has only recently established a norm for multilingual ordering in EU documents, see http://www.stri.is/TC304/EOR), but sometimes (as for German) even concurrent rules, depending on the type of index you generate (e.g lexicon on the one hand, telephone directory or library catalogue at the other). And for scholarly purposes, also historical (or even unregulated) orthographies must be covered. So, what is needed is more elementary than "alphanumeric ordering": it is a routine which allows to construct arbitrarily complex and multiple "ordering keys" from a given text or part of text, which then allows to obtain the required order with the help of a "mechanical" ordering procedure which has to do nothing than to rearrange the records according to the ascending value of the bit string contained in the ordering key. The scholar must however have the possibility to define in every detail the rules for constructing the ordering keys. Therefore, also "alphanumeric sorting" is, for these purposes, too complex a procedure to be put on the lower level of methodological primitives. A short summary of what we regard as "basic operations for text data processing" which should be at the disposal of a textual scholar can be found at http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/tdv_eng.html#b Yours, Wilhelm Ott --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0258 methodological primitives? Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:43:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 381 (381) Willard, I just had to pour myself a glass of stout -- one of the most primitive of scholarly processes -- to begin to reread and unravel that very intriguing quasi-grant speak paragraph... [deleted quotation] why not call them "mechanical operations"? what is gained/lost in calling them "methodological primitives"? As I sip on my stout, I wonder if this not close to reifying a process. Not a bad thing in itself when looks at a systems analysis of a complex set of exchanges and communications across multiple nodes and processing centres. Flowcharts of where something is produced, housed, transfered, transformed and disposed, work for me. Stout is brewed, bottle and shippped. Yet I wouldn't call any of these either "mechancial operations" or "methodological primitives". Now the products and tools of your Humanities Computing may be an entirely different type of entity than a good bottle of stout. [deleted quotation]data [deleted quotation] are not all transformation algorithmically specifiable? (includinging random event generators such a pausing to sip on one's breverage)? recognisable to whom? to all the participants across all the disciplines or to the "translators" at cross-disciplinary thresholds? Note, I have indeed moved from your "scholarly processes" to "disciplines" thus mimicking your initiall move from mechanical to methodological and from process to primitive ... (I'm sure some ale drinkers could contribute some fine words on the comparative etymology of "method" and "mecanic" and there is scarely an imbiber of single malts who would not want to venture and opinion as to the word roots that tangle "primitive" and "process" in a heady concotion given several rounds of fine peaty Islay scotch.) As an [deleted quotation] I want to do a very primitive reader process and reparse this last bit so I just might switch to grappa. I would heartily raise a glass of fire-water to the aid to research any thought about the use value of ideas (as long as it came from cows raised on organic feed and free to range). Actually I like the paragraph, I just would from a general systems perspective change one word. The "into" should be changed to "with". And I would add, draining my glass, that one of those components include communications software to place the "with" as the hinge between a scholar and the data but also between scholars. As I place my glass on the table before me, I insist, comtemplating the empty glass, that behind much of the lingo in that artfully crafted paragraph is a primitive all right, one called the "means of production". [this is where they haul me off before I rant and sputter and start quoting long passages from a book with a long history and attempt to reconcile that book's section on "the two fundatmental forms of manufacture -- heterogenous and organic" with the elegant and freighted word "interoperable"] [deleted quotation] If we were to tour Scotland, I could do the islands and you could do the highlands, and we could meet in Thailand to compare notes. The year after I could follow your route and yours mine and we could meet in Helsinki to swap stories. OR we could swap stories while on the road. If we all went in the same direction ... there would be no strength to any idea. Promise to send me a postcard from where ever you plant the hops, harvest the grapes or milk the cows. f. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com, Thurs. Sept. 21, 2000, 9:24PM Subject: Re: 14.0258 methodological primitives? Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:44:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 382 (382) Professor McCarty, as usual your questions are ingenious. I do not know the answer. I have been wondering something similar, although somewhat across disciplines. Readers might be interested in one or two of my last few contributions to evolutionary-computing@mailbase.ac.uk . Whatever the answer, and I certainly will look into it, we need to remember (I think) to keep our goals high. In fact, I am beginning to think that people's goals should always be higher than they can even imagine - or maybe as high, depending on the way one looks at it. I know that produces some strange side effects, as one might call them, including the Man From La Mancha, but I am beginning to change my view even of the Man From La Mancha. I think that Cervantes could have had an intuition about the universe, whose mysteries, whose questions and answers, go far beyond what is commonly believed and held to be true, from prehistory and pyramids in Ancient Egypt to the Magna Carta and Limelight and modern times on earth, not to mention elsewhere. Occasionally some angry blamers get hold of goals beyond their reasoning, like the Nazis who made the Holocaust and the bombing of Britain. But, as I indicated on evolutionary-computing, there have to be questions about viruses' viruses (viruses which destroy other viruses), things between life and viruses, things between death and viruses, things between the inorganic and viruses, and so on, before we can probably conquer cancer and AIDS and even polio and tuberculosis whose symptoms we can eliminate but whose causes we know nothing about. Let us have a type and a methodological primitive or many for humanist computing and interdisciplinary computing, by all means, but let it be types for all seasons and all imaginings or beyond. Let us try not to merely computerize machines to recreate human beings but to begin with what we know about humanist computing and viruses and life and science and humanities and move onward from there. A Type For All Seasons. A Type for the Viruses' Virus, the cancer's cancer. Maybe even a type for the Old Man/Woman/Being, as Einstein thought. Osher Doctorow From: Convergence Subject: [CfP]_Convergence_ devoted to the theme of an historical Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:20:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 383 (383) [--] *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Call for papers The Winter 2001 issue of Convergence (vol. 7, no. 4) will be devoted to the theme of an historical approach to understanding the future adoption and diffusion of new media technologies. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it George Santayana, 1863-1952 o History of the Future of New Media The study of new media as a specialization within mass communication began to take root with the advent of satellite distribution of television signals and the resultant explosion in new video channels. Established models of mass communication included the broadcast of messages from a media source (whether print or electronic) to a generally heterogeneous audience with limited (if any) direct feedback from that audience. The infusion of computer-mediated communication, interactive systems that connected receiver to sender, and the emergence of the World-Wide Web have challenged the traditional view of mass communication. Other point-to-point communication technologies such as fax machines, cellular telephones and pages have also had a dramatic impact on peoples daily lives. o Understanding New Media From an Historical Perspective Anyone predicting the media landscape in 1960 from the vantage point of 1955 would have had relatively little difficulty in making accurate forecasts. The same can not be said for a forecaster in the year 2000 looking 5 years down the road. While new media become the focus of scholarly investigation generally after the medium is well established, not all new media survive in the marketplace. Examples include CBSs Field Sequential Color Television System (rejected by the FCC but taken to the moon by the Apollo missions), AT&Ts PicturePhone, over-the-air subscription television, analog DBS, Qube interactive cable television, quadraphonic sound, CB radio, teletext, videotex, RCAs CED videodisc player and AM stereo. What were proponents (direct advocates for the technologies), competitive critics (those who wished to protect an alternative technology), and objective observers (those with no apparent stake in the adoption and diffusion of the technology) saying about these new media? Original case study manuscripts of one or more of these technologies are especially encouraged. o Theories of New Media Adoption and Diffusion Are there any inevitabilities in the adoption and diffusion of new media? Were radio and television destined for mass adoption? Was it predictable that the World-Wide Web in the United States would quickly become a new medium dominated by commercially sponsored content? Would changes in political (including regulatory and policy concerns), economic, or technological factors have altered the course of media development? Based on what we know about how new media have evolved in the past, can we create theoretical constructs from which we can better understand the future of new media today? o New Media Visionaries Finally, some visionaries seem to be able to see the future of media technologies. One of the most commonly cited visionaries of the hypertext age has been Vanevar Bush, Harry Trumans Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. (Arthur C. Clark, J.C.R. Licklider, Nicholas Negroponte and Daniel Bell are more authors who may be considered visionaries for new communication technologies and their social impact.) What other historical examples exist of insightful visions of the future of communication technology exist? What can we learn from these visions and the visionaries? Submissions are welcomed relating to the history of the future of new media technologies and services (eg Carolyn Marvin, 1988, Ithiel de Sola Pool, 1983) from theoretical, historical, economic, and policy perspectives as well as retrospective technology assessment. Original works that analyze the actual writings of the future of existing or previous communication technologies are sought. Copy deadline for refereed research articles: 30 April 2001. All proposals, inquiries and submissions for this special issue to: Bruce C. Klopfenstein Professor of Telecommunications, Department of Telecommunications, 320 West Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA. Web: <http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence> e-mail: klopfenstein@earthlink.net -- From: Jean-Francois Chenier Subject: Colloque Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:57:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 384 (384) Rencontres internationales " Identits narratives : mmoire et perception " Du 11 au 14 octobre 2000 l'Htel des Gouverneurs Place Dupuis, 1415 St-Hubert, Montral Salle Sherbrooke Station de Mtro Berri-UQAM 4 thmes : Mercredi : " Identit : l'individuel et le collectif " Jeudi : " Mmoire : l'archive et la ruine " Vendredi : " Perception : le rel et le virtuel " Samedi : " Narration : l'histoire et la fiction " Organisateurs : Simon Harel Jocelyne Lupien Alexis Nouss Pierre Ouellet Participants Michel Audisio (Paris) Pierre Boudon (Montral) Grard Bucher (Buffalo) Michle Cadoret (Paris) Magda Carneci (Bucarest, Roumanie) Paul Chamberland (Montral) Jean-Franois Chiantaretto (Paris) ric Clmens (Bruxelles) Natalie Depraz (Paris) Jol Des Rosiers (Montral) Louise Dupr (Montral) Peter Frhlicher (Zrich) Bogumil Jewsiewicki Koss (Qubec) Michal La Chance (Montral) Jocelyn Ltourneau (Qubec) Alain Mdam (Paris, Montral) Sherry Simon (Montral) Rgine Robin (Montral) Jacques-Bernard Roumanes (Montral) Adelaide Russo (Baton Rouge) Serge Tisseron (Paris) Laurier Turgeon (Qubec) Jean-Philippe Uzel (Montral) Michel van Schendel (Montral) Antoine Volodine (Paris) Anthony Wall (Calgary) Cecilia Wiktorowicz (Montral) Lancement collectif jeudi 12 octobre 17h30 Biennale de Montral 1650, rue Berri Pour information : Caroline Dsy tl. (514) 987-3000, poste 1664 fax. (514) 987-8218 desy.caroline@uqam.ca Adresse postale : Dpartement d'tudes littraires, UQAM, C. P. 8888, Succ Centre-Ville, Montral, Qc, CanadaH3C 3P8 Ce colloque est organis dans le cadre du programme " Initiatives de dveloppement de la recherche " (IDR) du Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines du Canada (CRSHC) et du CELAT-UQAM. Caroline Dsy Stagiaire postdoctorale et agente de recherche Dpartement d'tudes littraires/CELAT Universit du Qubec Montral Tl.(514)987-3000, poste 1664# Fax (514)987-8218 desy.caroline@uqam.ca From: Cajsa Baldini Subject: The Sixth Cardiff Conference, in Santiago de Compostela, Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:59:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 385 (385) Spain The Sixth Cardiff Conference, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain 19 - 23 July, 2001. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited for the Sixth Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages. The conference will be held July 19-23, 2001 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. We welcome not only papers which address traditional aspects of the translation of texts into medieval vernaculars, but also those on the modern translation of medieval texts and those which, interpreting translation more broadly, deal with such issues as the translation of ideas, cultural understanding, or saints' bodies. Papers may be given in English, French or Spanish. Papers will be thirty minutes long. One-page abstracts and curriculum vitae should be sent by 15 OCTOBER 2000 to: Dr. Rosalynn Voaden Department of English Arizona State University PO Box 870302 Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Or as an email attachment to Rosalynn.Voaden@asu.edu. Please include email and postal address. Selected papers from the conference will be published by Brepols in The Medieval Translator 7. The cost of the conference will be approximately $ 350 US, which will include registration, accommodation for five nights in a single room with private bath, breakfast and lunch each day, an opening reception and final banquet. There will be time set aside during the conference period to explore the many and varied attractions of Santiago and the surrounding area, either individually or as part of a group excursion. More information is available on-line at the conference website, <http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/compostela>http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/comp ostela, or by e-mail to Cajsa Baldini, cajsa.baldini@asu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference is co-sponsored by The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and the University of Wales, Cardiff. From: david silver Subject: [RCCS]: CFP: Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:22:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 386 (386) [--] *** feel free to forward *** CFP: Book Reviews in Cyberculture Studies Each month, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) features two full-length reviews of books relevant to the emerging field of cyberculture studies. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies, and cover a range of topics, from online culture, communities, and identities to hypertext, digital literacy, and artificial intelligence to Internet policy, the digital divide, and online privacy. Recent reviews include Zillah Eisenstein's Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy, Steve Jones's Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net, and Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Currently, RCCS seeks scholars from across the disciplines to review the following titles: * Nancy Baym, Tune In, Log on: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community (Sage, 1999) * Joseph E. Behar, editor, Mapping Cyberspace: Social Research on the Electronic Frontier (Dowling College Press, 1997) * Michael Gurstein, editor, Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communication Technologies (Idea Group Publishing, 2000) * Amy Jo Kim, Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities (Peachpit Press, 2000) * Michael Margolis & David Resnick, editors, Politics as Usual: The Cyberspace "Revolution" (Sage, 2000) * Jenny Preece, Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability (John Wiley & Sons, 2000) * Arthur B. Shostak, Cyberunion : Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology (M.E. Sharpe, 1999) Book reviews run between 1500 and 2000 words and are published and archived online. To get a flavor of what the reviews are all about, visit . Anyone wishing to review should email David Silver and enclose the following: the book you wish to review, a brief CV and/or any relevant experience, and a target date you would like for submission. DEADLINE FOR INQUIRIES: October 1, 2000. RCCS is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to study, research, teach, create, and critique diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. david silver http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dsilver/ ****************************************************************** resource center for cyberculture studies http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs To unsubscribe from this list, email: majordomo@majordomo.umd.edu No subject is needed. In the body, type: unsubscribe cyberculture ****************************************************************** From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0263 letter frequency in Latin? Date: Friday, September 22, 2000 4:01 AM X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 387 (387) [deleted quotation] From: Anne Mahoney Subject: letter frequency in Latin Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:53:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 388 (388) In a note to be published this year in Classical Outlook, my colleague Jeff Rydberg-Cox and I address this question. We counted the letters in the Perseus Latin corpus and found that the relative ranking of letters is not too different from that in English, except that 'i' and 'u' rank significantly higher than 'o' -- not surprising, given that they do double duty as consonants. The figures are as follows: letter percent (rounded) e 9.3 (727,785 occurrences) i 8.9 u 8.7 a 6.8 t 6.5 s 6.0 r 4.9 n 4.9 m 4.5 o 4.4 c 3.2 l 2.5 d 2.4 p 2.2 q 1.4 b 1.1 g 0.8 f 0.8 h 0.7 x 0.3 y 0.1 k 0 (434 occurrences) w 0 (322) z 0 (307) At the time there were no 'j' in the Perseus texts (though 'j' does occur in some of our schoolboy commentaries). The corpus is not consistent about 'u' and 'v', since we've retained whatever was in the original print editions, so we simply counted all 'v' as 'u'. We also did not attempt to weed out Roman numerals. The corpus we counted was about 7.8 million characters (letters, digits, and punctuation), from Plautus, Caesar (BG), Catullus, Cicero (orations and letters), Virgil, Horace (Odes), Livy (books 1-10), Ovid (Metamorphoses), Suetonius (Caesars), the Vulgate, and Servius's commentary on Virgil. Because this corpus is so heterogeneous, a lot more work could be done on refining the results. We did not look at letter sequences at all, and I don't think I've ever seen anything on that subject for Latin. --Anne Mahoney Perseus Project From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0262 methodological primitives Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:00:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 389 (389) Does anyone remember, except me, the set of little UNIX utilities that Bill Tuthill wrote at Berkeley about 20 years ago? They were dumb as paint, to quote one of my colleagues, and incredibly useful. Wilhelm, as usual, makes some excellent points. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Word lists Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:01:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 390 (390) Willard's question regarding methodological primitives is quite apropos to my current research, since I am in the process of creating a general-use textual analysis tool (which I think of, in my more grandiose moments, as a free, non-proprietary successor to TACT). Much of what I'm working with right now involves the use of large word lists, and I was wondering if my colleagues in computational linguistics might be able to point me in the right direction. How do I go about getting my hands on large word lists and corpora? I am particularly interested in word lists that map individual words to parts of speech. Surfing the web has turned up a few possibilities, but I wonder if anyone would be willing to supplement my scattershot approach with a professional sense of what's out there? Any help would be appreciated. Steve 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/ "By ratiocination, I mean computation" -- Hobbes From: Willard McCarty Subject: level of granularity? Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:10:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 391 (391) Many thanks to Wilhelm Ott in Humanist 14.262 for his thoughtful response to my posting about methodological primitives, and to Charles Faulhaber, above, for his recollection of those UNIX tools. Indeed, the idea is an old one. I suppose one could argue that programming languages comprise statements that are methodological primitives of a sort and that the UNIX toolbox approach identified the notion quite early on. Certainly TUSTEP is an example of the kind of working environment I was asking about, and I'd hazard to say that no work along these lines could afford to ignore it. I'll confess to have said nothing about previous work and thinking in order to provoke whatever interest was among us, and now must beg your forgiveness if this seems a silly way to reopen an old topic. Perhaps the real question is, what remains to be done? -- assuming, of course, that we all agree the notion of methodological primitives is worthy. I'd venture to say that on the humanities computing research agenda there are at least two big items, or two big groups of items, metadata (i.e. encoding) and primitives. Francois Lachance asks what we gain from calling these things "primitives"? What I intended to suggest was a class of objects at the lowest practical level as this is defined by the operations of humanities scholarship. For practical purposes, black boxes (perhaps with switches and knobs, for minor adjustments) that a scholar could select and arrange ad lib. As Wilhelm Ott said in his message, lemmatising the words of an inflected language is at the moment not a primitive (...thus the discontent provider?) -- because so much intervention is required (as I know from having given up on a similar project in the same language). For this example, what I do not understand is whether it can ever be a primitive. I also rather ignorantly wonder if sorting, given enough of the right sort of switches and knobs, could be one, or if we could have distinct sort-primitives for groups of languages. Would a productive approach begin with asking at what level of "granularity" primitives can be defined, and whether this level is subject to change (i.e. to rise) with technological progress? Is there methodological value for the humanities in asking about algorithmically specifiable primitives? Is there simply too much variation in approaches to problems in the humanities ever to allow for significant progress beyond what has already been done? Two quite similar images stick in mind from work done many years ago. One is from some scientific visualisation software I saw demonstrated once: it allowed the user to construct a computational process by plugging together graphically represented sub-processes, allowing for various adjustments and interventions along the way. Another is from a lecture given by Antoinette Renouf (Liverpool, www.rdues.liv.ac.uk), who described her neologism-processor by a similar sort of industrial representation. Both have caused me to wonder if we couldn't have (with a great deal more work) something like a set of computational Legos to play with, and if we had such, whether we couldn't learn a fair bit by playing with them. Comments, please, esp those which open the windows. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Conference announcement Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:13:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 392 (392) COMPUTERS, LITERAURE AND PHILOLOGY (CLiP) An International Seminar Alicante (Spain), 16-17 October 2000 Following the success of Edinburgh 1998 and Rome 1999 the University of Alicante and the Instituto Cervantes are proud to announce the 3rd seminar "Computers, Literature an Philology" (CliP 2000). As many Humanist scholars know, CLiP has established itself as an authoritative but informal forum for discussing state of the art researches, methodologies an projects in the field of literary computing. The main focus of this edition would be the implementation and use of digital resources for teaching an research. The seminar will be conducted in English, Spanish and Italian. PARTICIPANTS There will be about 10 presentations and two panel sessions. Invited speakers include: Claire Blanche-Benveniste (Universit de Provence - CNRS) Lou Burnard, (Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford) Elisabeth Burr (Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt, Duisburg, Germany) Giuseppe Gigliozzi (Universit di Roma "La Sapienza") Francisco Marcos Marn (Instituto Cervantes) Antonio Moreno Sandoval (Universidad Autnoma de Madrid) Sarah Porter (Humanities Computing Development Team, University of Oxford) Allen Renear (Brown University, USA) Antonio Zampolli (Universit di Pisa - CNR) Conference details and online registration available on the Web at: http://cervantesvirtual.com/CliP2000 From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: ACL/SIGLEX Workshop: Word Senses and Multi-linguality Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:14:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 393 (393) ACL 2000 Workshop WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX) 9:00-12:00 AM, October 7, 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The SIGLEX workshop on Word Senses and Multi-linguality addresses problems of word sense disambiguation and delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with specific emphasis on approaches that involve more than one language and the ways in which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence affect our consideration of sense divisions in the individual languages. More generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges of insight in any area of computational linguistics where a non-monolingual approach to word sense issues is being taken. PROGRAM 9:00-9:15 OPENING AND OVERVIEW Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Martha Palmer, Univ. of Penn., USA 9:15-9:45 An Unsupervised Method for Multilingual Word Sense Tagging Using Parallel Corpora Mona Diab, University of Maryland, USA 9:45-10:15 Sense Clusters for Information Retrieval: Evidence from SemCor and the EuroWordNet InterLingual Index Irina Chugar, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain 10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK 10:30-11:00 Chinese-Japanese Cross Language Information Retrieval: A Han Character Based Approach Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto, NARA Inst., Japan 11:00-11:30 Experiments in Word Domain Disambiguation for Parallel Texts Bernardo Magnini, CarloStrapparava, IRST, Italy 11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, UK Martha Palmer, Univ. of Penn., USA David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins, USA 12:00-12:15 SIGLEX Business Meeting Workshop Organizers Nancy Ide, Charles Fillmore, Philip Resnik, David Yarowsky Program Committee Helge Dyvik, University of Bergen Nancy Ide, Vassar College Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Corporation David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MODEL-BASED REASONING: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:11:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 394 (394) [--] MODEL-BASED REASONING: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, VALUES (MBR'01), Pavia, Italy, May 17-19, 2001. ********************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://philos.unipv.it/courses/progra1.html or http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ********************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 May 2001 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, TECNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, VALUES" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in scientific discovery and technological innovation, including computational models of such practices. Abduction is widely recognized as a significant reasoning process in discovery whose features are in need of explication. We will solicit papers that examine various forms of model-based reasoning, such as analogical and visual modeling, from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. We also plan to address the problem of model-based reasoning in ethics reasoning, especially pertaining to science and technology. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We shall call for papers that cover topics from the following list: - abduction - analogical reasoning - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - computational models of model-based reasoning and scientific reasoning - conceptual combination and theory formation - hypothetical and explanatory reasoning - logical analyses that may contribute to our understanding of the issues in model-based reasoning - model-based reasoning in ethics - models and manipulative reasoning - models and technological innovation - thought experimenting - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling, reasoning, and simulation SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS All submitted papers will be carefully refereed. The precise format of the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of accepted papers. We are thinking in terms of presentations of 40 and 20 minutes. 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IMPORTANT DATES Registration deadline............................15 March 2001 Submission deadline..............................30 Nov 2000 Notification of acceptance.....................28 Feb 2001 Final papers (from those selected for publication) due........30 June 2001 Conference....................................17-19 May 2001 PROGRAM CHAIR Lorenzo MAGNANI School of Public Policy and College of Computing Program in Philosophy, Science, & Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, 685 Cherry Street Atlanta, GA, 30332 - 0345, USA Office: 404-894-0950 & 404-385-0884, Home: 404-875-3566 Fax: 404-385-0504 & 404-894-2970 Email: lorenzo.magnani@cc.gatech.edu Address in Italy: Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy Office: +39-0382-506283, Home: +39-0383-371067 Fax: +39-0382-23215 Email: lorenzo@philos.unipv.it PROGRAM CO-CHAIR Nancy J. NERSESSIAN (Program Co-Chair) Program in Cognitive Science School of Public Policy and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Email: nancyn@cc.gatech.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIR Kenneth J. KNOESPEL (Program Co-Chair) School of History, Technology, and Society, and Program in Cognitive Science Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Email: kenneth.knoespel@hts.gatech.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Ann Bostrom, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA - Elena Gagliasso, Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, ITALY - Dedre Gentner, Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA - Ronald N. Giere, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, MN, USA - Mark L. 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Tweney, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA - Stella Vosniadou, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Brain and Cognitive Science Division, National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GREECE. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Riccardo Dossena (riki.dox@libero), Elena Gandini (elegand@yahoo.com), Rosella Gennari (gennari@hum.uva.nl), Lorenzo Magnani (lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu), Massimo Manganaro (triskel@worldonline.it), Stefania Pernice (stepernice@libero.it), Matteo Piazza (pimat@yahoo.com), Giulio Poletti (philosophia@libero.it) Stefano Rini (s.rini@philos.unipv.it), Andrea Venturi (aventuri@philos.unipv.,it) (Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy), Mario Stefanelli (mstefa@ipvstefa.unipv.it) (Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy). 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IF NOT POSSIBLE, ANOTHER SIMILAR ACCOMMODATION WILL BE ARRANGED. -- From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: noisy vs signalful Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:17:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 395 (395) [deleted quotation] In which case, could we not suggest that the good, effective, efficient cyber library is "signal full" rather than noisy --- the transactions are themselves a source of information that can help guide the management of the infrastructure... one researcher's noise -- another's signal -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: John Bradley Subject: Re: 14.0258 methodological primitives? Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:16:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 396 (396) Willard: I would certainly support anyone who took the view that Wilhelm Ott's TuStep system provides a very solid set of "primitives" for the scholarly manipulation of text. I have spent many hours of time examining their design (although I confess that my actual experience of using them has been very limited indeed) and can well appreciate that they could be combined to deal with a very large number of text manipulation needs. Anyone seriously interested in thinking about what a design needs to include in detail would benefit much from examining TuStep in this way. The approach towards tools for generalised processing shown in TuStep is, from the computing perspective, a very old one -- but at the same time it is a model that is still often applied when a computing professional needs to do a complex computing task him/herself. The UNIX environment with its basic "filtering" tools, a sorting program, some programmable text-oriented editors, and things like Perl, are based in very similar approaches. In Object Oriented (OO) design, there is a another way to design processing which is these days very much in fashion. One perhaps key difference: Object Oriented design blurs the distinction Willard made in his first posting on this subject between data and process, and I think this makes a dramatic difference in the way one looks at the whole issue. It seems particularly well suited for modelling processes that involve the production of "interactive" and "GUI-based" systems. I don't know of anyone, however, who has managed to take OO design and apply it in quite the way implied here -- as a basis for the construction of primitives that non-programmers could adapt for specific tasks. However, the original OO language -- Smalltalk -- >was< designed to allow non-programmer users (children) to create significant applications of their own, and it retains, I think, some of this flavour of supporting the combination of experiment, development and processing in a single environment. Furthermore, I know of people who have a set of powerful objects (in Smalltalk, it turns out) they use and enhance over and over again to accomplish very sophisticated text manipulation tasks. Any tool meant to support activities as diverse as those that turn up in humanities text-based computing cannot possibly be trivial to learn or use. The level of professionalism and commitment required for a full use of TuStep is, I think, roughly comparable to that required to learn to work with, say, Perl, or (I think) Smalltalk and text-oriented Smalltalk objects. Best wishes. ... john b ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: noah wardrip-fruin Subject: DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2001 at Brown University, April 27-29 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:40:49 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 397 (397) [--] DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2001 Brown University, April 27-29 <http://www.dac2001.org> Call for Proposals: Art & Performance Deadline: November 1, 2000 Digital Arts and Culture 2001 seeks to create a stimulating environment for experiencing and discussing art and performance related to digital culture. DAC 2001 will provide a context for a broad variety of current work, as well as opportunities to see the past anew. To this end, the Art and Performance committee invites proposals of new and archival/recontextualized: - objects, prints, kinetic sculptures; - installations; - performances; - time-based recordings; - hyperlit, netart, and games. Selections will be made by the committee, which expects to complete its acceptances by the end of calendar year 2000. Committee members include: Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Chair, New York University), Espen Aarseth (University of Bergen & Brown University), Kevin Duggan (arts/technology consultant), Carl Goodman (American Museum of the Moving Image), Diane Gromala (Georgia Tech), Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum & Intelligent Agent), David Reville (Brown University), Stephanie Strickland (independent artist), Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace Archive), and Adrianne Wortzel (City University of New York & Cooper Union). A keynote performance will be invited for the conference. Internet connections will be available for works. Shipping and other costs will not be covered. Limited computation and display equipment will be available for some accepted works, as will some support from student volunteers and technical staff. Conference registration fees will be waived for accepted artists (at least one free registration per accepted artwork, though no more than one per artist). Proposal Instructions: 1) Submissions must include *both* (i) a one-page statement of your purpose in proposing, and (ii) a short (under 200 word) description of the work suitable for display at DAC. Both the submission statement and work description must include the name of the work, the names and affiliations of the artists involved, and dimensions and materials information if appropriate. Submission statements must also: - include all relevant contact information (email, phone, fax, snail-mail, url), - make desired presentation mode clear (e.g., you may propose to read a web-based hyperfiction aloud as a performance, or create a site-specific installation for it, or make it available in a gallery/reading room setting, etc.), - state if piece is currently completed (incomplete pieces must include expected completion timeline). 2) Submissions must also include (i) media documentation (e.g., images) of what you propose to make available at DAC 2001, and/or (ii) access instructions for a copy of the work itself. For work that has not yet been completed, please provide the best documentation possible. Any special jurying requests will be considered, however, proposers are encouraged to find a way to communicate with the jury within the following guidelines: - Images and files should be put up at an accessible web or ftp address. Free space is available from a number of services (e.g., http://www.myspace.com, http://briefcase.yahoo.com, http://www.xdrive.com, http://www.driveway.com). Please provide no more than 200 megabytes of files, please organize materials into one file for efficient access (e.g., tar/zip them together), and please use artist initials as first letters of top-level files/folders (e.g., use names such as "nwf_performance.mov" rather than generic file names such as "dac.gif"). No slides will be accepted and CD-ROMs are discouraged. - VHS tapes will be watched for 10 minutes from the point cued. Tapes will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE). Digitized videos can be made available via the web or ftp (given appropriate plugin/viewing instructions) and must be no longer than 10 minutes. - Hyperlit, netart, and games for which files are made available will be experienced for 10 minutes by the jury. Proposer may provide an interaction "script" for this experience. Instructions must be provided for any needed technologies, which must be freely and readily available or provided by the proposer. - Installation and performance proposals must include floor plans with complete measurements, electrical and lighting requirements, network and computation needs, audio and video schematics, and any special requests (e.g., a sprung floor). 3) The submission statement, work description, and access instructions (for media documentation or a copy of the work itself) must be submitted via the DAC 2001 website on or before November 1, 2000. The web submission form, and any final proposal instructions, will be available at http://www.dac2001.org in October. About the Conference The fourth international Digital Arts & Culture Conference is jointly sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) and the Department of Humanistic Informatics (University of Bergen, Norway). DAC 2001 will be held April 27-29, 2001 in Providence, Rhode Island. This conference aims to embrace and explore the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and practice of contemporary digital arts and culture. Seeking to foster greater understanding about digital arts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary, and professional practices, the conference cultivates an eclectic and collaborative forum. To this end, we cordially invite scholars, researchers, artists, computer professionals, and others who are working within the broadly defined areas of digital arts and culture to join in the DAC discourse community by submitting proposals for presentations at DAC 2001. Further Information DAC 2001 website (which includes Papers and Forums CFP): http://www.dac2001.org Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Art and Performance Chair noah@dac2001.org -- From: Bruce Damer Subject: Aavatars: Oct 14-15 is Avatars2000/Vlearnd3D 2000 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 02:21:06 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 398 (398) [--] Dear Avatars and Contact Consortium Community. We are excited to inform you about the upcoming Avatars2000/Vlearn3D 2000 events to be held online and in-person between October 14-15, 2000. See a special preview of the fabulous worlds you will experience in Avatars2000 at: <http://www.ccon.org/conf00/html/preview.htm> Both events are free to attend and described below so you can mark them on your calendar! 1) Avatars2000: CyberSpace for a New Millennium ************************************************** Avatars2000 is the fifth annual conference of the Contact Consortium and is the third to be held "in world" online in 3D virtual worlds, and at physical locales globally. Events for AV2000 will start on Saturday Oct 14 and then continue all day on Sunday Oct 15. Celebrations of the medium of inhabited Cyberspace will occur in Active Worlds, Blaxxun, the Palace, Onlive Traveler and other platforms. More will be posted soon at: <http://www.ccon.org> where you will soon be able to sign up as a speaker, artist exhibiting your work, guide to your world, exhibitor, webcam server, or enter into the ever popular Avvy Awards. The Active Worlds space for Avatars2000 is being built right now and is truly fabulous. See a preview at: <http://www.ccon.org/conf00/html/preview.htm> If you have a PC (or Mac with PC emulation software) on the net, you can jack in and explore these worlds for free with other pioneers of this new medium! 2) Vlearn3D 2000 "Live 3D, Learn 3D" ************************************************** VLearn3D 2000 is the second annual conference of the VLearn3D Special Interest Group of the Contact Consortium and this year focuses on the best of the best in learning in shared virtual spaces. UC Santa Cruz and other campuses will feature live speaker events on Friday Oct 13th then an extensive online series of panels and tours on Saturday Oct 14th. Vlearn3D 2000 will "jack in" to Avatars 2000 as it gets rolling on the Saturday. We have reproduced the preliminary program for Vlearn3D 2000 below, and many more details are now up on the website at: <http://www.vlearn3d.org/> We hope to see you in-person or in-world on this great weekend in October! Vlearn3D 2000 Preliminary program We are confirming expert practioners for our four speaker tracks that will highlight the October 14 VLearn3D 2000 in cyberspace. We are also excited to report that Mike Heim of the University will be hosting and chairing the KEYNOTE PANEL to kick-off Cyberforum@ArtCenter Fall 2000 -- at the end of the afternoon to align with Avatars 2000 the following day. Heim's surprise panel guests will be announced soon! Please refer to the schedule below -- the speaker tracks will be posted on the vlearn3d conference site on Monday. Our four speaker tracks will each occur in a different world and feature 3-5 practioners and leaders in the field. Each track will each begin promptly on the hour. SPEAKER TRACKS PDT: 10am to 1pm EST: 1 pm to 2pm GMT: 6pm to 7pm Gaming and Virtual Learning Environments Chair, Andrew Phelps, Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: TBA Virtual Location: To be Determined PANEL 2 PDT: 11am to Noon EST: 2 pm to 3 pm GMT: 7pm to 8pm Multi-Cultures/Multi-Schools - Intercultural Communication in Graphical Virtual Worlds Chair, Beatrice Ligorno, Katholieke University of Nijmegen, Netherlands Panelists: TBA Virtual Location: EUROLAND PANEL 3 PDT: Noon to 1pm EST: 3pm to 4pm GMT: 8pm to 9pm MUDs MOOs and 3D MUVES - Case Studies and Collaboratory Exemplars Chair, Kevin Ruess, George Mason University Panelists: Mark Schlager, SRI International, TAPPED IN Vernon Reed, University of Texas, Austin, Human Code others TBA Virtual Location: BABEL PANEL 4 PDT: 1pm to 2pm EST: 4pm to 5pm GMT: 9pm to 10pm Science Education in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE's) - Science Museums, Ecoworlds and 3D GIS Chair, Margaret Corbit, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University Panelists: Greg Steltenpohl, LifeLearn Davenport, Chaordic Alliance Chad Rooney, V-UCSC and EcollegE at UCSC others TBA Virtual Location: SCICENTR Online virtual worlds provide a unique system for interfacing with information and with simulations online. In addition to the visual 3D environment, they allow for social interaction among the users of a particular space. We will present several different approaches to developing science worlds ranging from virtual hands-on informal science simulation exhibit to classroom environments for teaching environmental science. PDT: 2pm to 3pm EST: 5pm to 6pm GMT: 10pm to 11pm Vlearn3D SPECIAL KEYNOTE Panel Cyberforum@ArtCenter Fall 2000 Avatecture: Merging Physical and Virtual Spaces Chair, Mike Heim, Art Center College of Design A special kick-off for Cyberforum@ArtCenter Fall 2000 Guests To Be Announced Virtual Location: ACCD World Avatecture is the interplay of physical and avatar structures. What is the current state of avatecture? Do virtual worlds inform physical life? Are physical structures becoming interactive installations? Can physical structures morph into virtual realities that generate online avatar communities? Is the avatar world separate, parallel, or tangential to the physical world? Through topic nodes and ritual movement, this panel, led by Mike Heim in ACCD world, will explore the new modes of construction and discuss the future of the 3D Net. This panel will continue in a parallel universe, Active Worlds, on October 15 as part of Avatars 2000. Email questions to devarco@cruzio.com Visit the website at http://www.vlearn3d.org/conference/ for further information To participate: Download the free Awedu Eduverse 3D browser from www.activeworlds.com/edu/awedu_download.html Install the software and enter as a tourist or citizen (if you already are one) in the Eduverse. When you land in Centre World, look for the Vlearn3D main pavilion. For those of you in different time zones, you can find an excellent graphical time converter here: http://afr.com.au/wtc/afrwtc.html end DigitalSpace Corporation 343 Soquel Avenue, # 70 Santa Cruz CA 95062 USA (831) 338-9400 damer@digitalspace.com http://www.digitalspace.com -- From: Eric Johnson Subject: Counting words Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:29:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 399 (399) Some years back, I wrote a computer program to count the words in an ASCII text file. My program can be downloaded from the web at: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/sno.html WORDS and WordsNT (which version I recommend) run from a PC command line. An article about the program (on the same web page) gives information about the program. I would be interested to know if anyone finds my program useful. --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: letter counts Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:30:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 400 (400) Talking about primitives of all kinds, the discussion of the frequency of letters in Latin brings up a number: 1. What corpus should one use? How many running words seems enough? Zipf, although he was a statistician, used a corpus of 5000 running words from one author (Cicero), surely too little. Cetainly, Anne's count (7.8 million words!) is large enough. 2. Do we not need to label our count carefully? Latin, German, French, etc. are surely too large and inclusive. Zipf used a chrestomathy from many different periods for French, surely a bad notion as a first step. 3. Letter counts vs. phoneme counts. Letters are graphemes at best, not phonemes. 4. What to do with non-ASCII letters? The count cited by Zipf (and others) for German contains no umlauts, that for French no accented letters, no distinction between c and c-cedilla. 5. What do we do with editions, and which do we choose. For example, it is common to distinguish between i and j, u and v in editions, though these are Renaissance inventions for the most part. What do we do with assimilations? Some editions use inl- for ill- even. Whatever is done, it needs to be spelled out carefully, if it is important. 6. Where an edition includes two or more witnesses, we need to be careful to distinguish between them, perhaps not so much in the matter of letter counts, but otherwise. If our editions contain conjectural emendations, do we not need to excise and/or label these? In making a frequency count of Gothic words, for example, should we not be careful not to use two versions of the same text twice? As I look through Martin Joos's excellent dissertation (Wisconsin, 1942), a count of Gothic graphemes, I notice all these problems, so that the frequencies seem skewed to me. Perhaps I am too finicky. From: Randall Pierce Subject: ETAOIN SHRDLU Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:31:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 401 (401) The above mnemonic seems to be losing meaning and relevance to many in the linguistics community. I have mentioned it to some full professors in the field of language arts and gotten a blank stare. I had an instructor who told me that frequency in language is a myth based on ignorance of what language is all about. That was some twenty years ago. I suggest that he ask a cryptographer about that theory. Just a point I would like to make. Frequency in Latin? Hmmm. I think that etymology is a fast-fading study and we are losing much by its possible disappearance from the regular curriculum. Randall From: Einat Amitay Subject: Latin letter frequency & word lists Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:31:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 402 (402) Hi All, I believe most of you already know about the CORPORA mailing list (http://www.hit.uib.no/corpora/). It is a list dedicated to the study of language corpora and what tools we can develop to work with those. Together they have answered many questions similar to the ones some of Humanist's people pose recently. I think it will be a good source for answers (and maybe more questions) about language sample collections and how these can be analysed. Just a thought, +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0270 noisy libraries Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:32:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 403 (403) "Noise" is as unwanted on phone lines and other electronic delivery systems as it is in 'real' libraries. From: Paul Jones Subject: Re: 14.0270 noisy libraries Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:32:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 404 (404) chillin chillin! Please. By saying I want a 'noisy library' I was of course playing off the idea that the library is popularly known as a quiet place where one is alone with the books. Indeed most cyber-libraries are even quieter and lonelier than bricked ones. From early on this silence, this loneliness, the people-less-ness has been seen (by me and many others) as a drawback to cyberlibraries. So just as Jackson's coming to Washington made the city seem open to all in his time, I claim that the cyberlibrary should be open to contributor participation and interaction, more peopled and less lonely (if you were to choose to use it in that way; shy people and asocial people will find their own way to remain alone as they do in other realms of life, I'm sure). Although I like the signal to noise discussion, it is based on a complete misreading of my quote in the Chronicle. If you (and other humanist) readers would like a preview of a brief (800 words) article that I wrote on the subject for Communications of the ACM (due out in the Spring), i'll be glad to send it on to you. Just to link back, here is the Chronicle article: http://www.chronicle.com/free/2000/09/2000091201t.htm and a feature in slashdot.org http://slashdot.org/features/00/09/17/155240.shtml ========================================================================== Paul Jones "We must protect our precious bodily fluids!" General Jack D Ripper http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/ at the Site Formerly Known As MetaLab.unc.edu pjones@ibiblio.org voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 =========================================================================== From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0272 methodological primitives Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:34:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 405 (405) Hi Willard and HUMANIST: At 07:27 AM 9/26/00 +0100, John Bradley wrote: .... [deleted quotation] This is fascinating stuff. John's point about the underlying assumption in OO design -- to merge the conception, in modeling, of data and process, is very well taken. It's especially interesting in this context because as these systems evolve, naturally, the old ideas and approaches come up time and again. In the context of OO (especially, say, Java, with its promise of portability and the long-term robustness that comes with platform-independence), we see the pendulum swing back again with the emergence of markup-based (specifically XML-based) systems. A key reason OO approaches work well for interactive GUIs and other process-intensive work is, in fact, that even while they can support strongly encapsulated architectures (more easily modified and maintained) OO programs can take shortcuts to achieve functionality, at the price of locking in their data to a particular data model (and hence, usually, a particular format). But who wants to be storing their conference papers as Java objects? Of course, the next step is to abstract and formalize a portable data model outside the implementation, pulling data back away from process (at least to whatever extent is possible). By providing a standard syntax supporting off-the-shelf tools, XML eases this work greatly. In the business, we've used the analogy, "if Java is a way to build your toaster, then XML is sliced bread." This tries to identify a key advantage of a standards-based markup syntax: that, in theory at least (and increasingly in practice), it should now be possible to use OO languages to work in the way they want -- with sophisticated data models (not merely streams of characters) -- and yet not lock our data into the specific processing environment we happen to be using at the moment. [deleted quotation] I think that's fair, since any toolset whose native data set is a file containing a stream of characters, must work on that basis, inferring more complex data structures where it can (by parsing), but not assuming in the general case that those particular data structures are there in that form. For one thing, in Humanities Computing as it stands, it's fair to assume they're not. In order to build a more "intuitive" system (say, a GUI-driven system allowing on-the-fly manipulation of texts), a more sophisticated data model needs to be assumed that can support more complex operations in a generalized way. To go about "sorting entries in Swedish lexicon order" or "sorting entries in Icelandic name order": the system has to know both what these orders are, and what an "entry" is. XML, by providing for a particular kind of tree-structure, is beginning to provide at least an infrastructure within which such knowledge is embedded, so we can now begin to use standard syntaxes such as XPath (co-designed by a Computing Humanist, Steve DeRose) for some of this. (XPath can't sort, but it can do some other fancy stuff such as filter by content, so that '//line[contains(., "To be")]' will return all elements in a document that contain the string "To be".) Consequently, we are beginning to see some of these capabilities emerging as XML tools. For example, Sun Microsystems has an "EAI" product (the TLA stands for "Enterprise Application Integration") called Forte Fusion (that 'e' has an accent mark that I don't trust your mailer to render) that allows a user to set up a data process flow chain in which an XML data set can be passed through a series of processors, including, prominently, XSLT transformations that could be doing filtering, sorting, analytical work. The idea is that when you click on the form to submit your order for the new American Civil War battle game, your order can be parsed, and the Authorization, Shipping and Billing departments at NorthernAggression.com can all get the appropriate pieces of your order (some of which might already be in the system since you're a regular) in a timely way, following whatever internal logic is required (e.g. don't send the game out if your credit card bounces again). The whole thing works with a GUI: little icons represent your filtering and processing engines, with, as it were, a pipe carrying the data between them. The different engines can be disparate, running on different systems and platforms, a Unix server here running a batch program in Perl, an XSLT transform on a client over there, and so forth. But to build something like this, you have to have a fairly stable data model. (In this case, the system is going to do special things with your name, address, credit card number etc.) At this stage, it is too early to say when such a data model will be possible or feasible for the kind of analysis we want to do in Humanities Computing -- especially considering we commonly work at the level of the "word" (whatever that is), not just element types, and want access to orthographical variants, morphologies, synonyms, etc. etc., intelligence about all of which has to be stored somewhere in some sufficiently tractable (and long-lived) form. Not to mention the problem of sense-disambiguation (I love Prof. Ott's bit about the "content provider" becoming a "satisfied donor"). Our work with higher-level linguistic and literary structures has barely started. Also, to be an iconoclast about it, I am not sure it is our best course to move forward pell-mell in this direction, without being extremely critical of the task itself. Every lens comes with its blindness, and as we design these capabilities into systems, by deciding what we want to look at, we will also be deciding what we don't care to see. I am very much in favor of experimental work to design and deploy whatever higher-level structures we can discern, trace, render malleable with these powerful tools. But I also believe that great works of literature will continue to evade whatever structures we impose on them, just as they always have, it being the primary work of every poet to reinvent the art of poetry from scratch. And not only for ourselves should we be wary, but for the role we have to play in the larger world's understanding of its own rhetorics and how they work. It does little good to say when the Emperor has no clothes, if you haven't been taking care of your own wardrobe. So, while I'm not going to be quitting work myself on methodological primitives, I'm not confident that you're going to see them anytime soon in a form that a naive user, without knowledge of sordid details of text encoding, could simply sit down, tinker with and have instantly useful and trustworthy results. "Epiphany In a Box"? Which is a good thing. After all, isn't it our role to show the naive user what's *really* going on? 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: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0272 methodological primitives Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:35:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 406 (406) ) To: Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:27 AM [deleted quotation] From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: Methodological primitives Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:36:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 407 (407) My previous contribution on this topic may have been a bit obscure, so I will try a slightly different approach. My view is that whatever you are talking about, it is useless if you cannot make a Shakespearean play about it. On methodological primitives, I will for concreteness consider the special case of political history, which is far more concrete than it looks in a certain sense. I maintain that political history has 3 methodological primitives (mp's or mps for short), namely, anger, blame, and naivete/ignorance (naivete is I think the nice way of referring to ignorance). I propose a 3 actor, 6 act play to illustrate this (3 times 2 is 6, which is the number of permutations of 3 actors). For our actors/actresses, we will select any 3 characters from Shakespeare, and put labels on them, namely, A for anger, B for blame, and N for naivete/ignorance. To show the direction of influence or causation, we will have A point to B if A influences B, and so on, and we limit the play to 3-person or 3-party influence cases. Let me translate this play into an easier summary. Political history is composed of angry public A who elect or cause to have power political blamers B who blame ignorant or naive people N. It is also composed of naive/ignorant people N who elect or cause to have power politicians B who blame angry people A. It is also composed of angry politicians A who enable blamer B to seize power and thus start a war against ignorant/naive people N. Of course, blamers B can also elect naive/ignorant person N who starts a preventative war against angry people A. Alternatively, blamers B may decide to elect or give power to an angry psychopath or sociopath A who starts a preventative war against naive/ignorant people N. I think the trend here is becoming obvious. This seems to cover political history from prehistoric through modern times, with various permutations. Notice carefully that I have not yet introduced computers, even though this discussion group concerns humanist computation. That is because it has not yet reached the stage where it iinvolves too much work for people to keep track of or accomplish rapidly. I am trying to be parsimonious here and save time and money. Why spend money when you don't need to (remind me to include that among future methodological primitives)? I am quite sure, however, that at some stage computers will be called upon for their assistance. As we turn to more and more complex things than political history, I feel certain that computers will find themselves of use. If nothing else, they can keep track of the possibilities that we have eliminated. For example, Ovid's Metamorphoses cannot refer to political history since otherwise it would reduce to the above statements. There must be millions of literary works which are excluded by similar grounds, and computers are definitely required to keep track of those. 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IF YOU WOULD RATHER NOT RECEIVE FUTURE NEWS DIGESTS FROM MIT CogNet, please select the appropriate setting at http://cognet.mit.edu/pvt/privacy-change.tcl For further information or technical assistance, please contact: CognetAdmin@cognet.mit.edu -- From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Re: 14.0269 apologies Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:20:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 409 (409) Dear Willard, my apologies to the list and the CLiP 2000 prospect speakers for the embarassing number of typos in my recent conference announcement -- much inaccuracy and hurry on one (my) side and too many Latin accents on the other. Fondly, Domenico Fiormonte From: Willard McCarty Subject: primitives Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:17:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 410 (410) My question about primitives was based on two convictions: (1) that methodologically computing humanists across the disciplines occupy a common ground, and (2) that the development of computing is increasingly toward putting the ability to make things into the hands of ordinary users. It seems to me that these two convictions are both involved in the many tool-building enterprises to which references have so far been made. The common ground seems not to be visible to everyone; I'd suppose that in order to see it an interdisciplinary vantage point is required. In my experience those who look on applied computing activity solely from within a single discipline have great difficulty; to them methodology is so subservient to the artefacts over which their disciplines have (or claim) dominion that it ceases to have meaning otherwise. Admittedly, the geography of our common ground is still not all that well defined, and much remains to be done in the transfer of constructive ability to the "end user". But are these not genuine problems for our research agenda? Wilhelm Ott (by example in Humanist 14.262) and John Bradley (14.272) are surely right, that in Bradley's words, "Any tool meant to support activities as diverse as those that turn up in humanities text-based computing cannot possibly be trivial to learn or use", but I don't think that trivialising is necessarily involved in identifying and simplifying basic operations, in making them (as we say) more accessible to scholars than they currently are. I'd think that the objective of our system-building isn't to remove the need for intellectual labour, rather that component of scholarly work which is mechanically definable, and therefore trivial (in the mathematician's sense). Ian Lancashire suggests that "one of the unforeseen effects of relying on professional programmers to create big pieces of software like TACT and Wordcruncher [might be] to encourage scholars in the humanities to believe that they can get along without being able to write small programs or adapt ones created by other people" (14.277). Yes, indeed. Our colleagues sometimes do approach computing with the expectation that everything may be accomplished at the touch of a button. It seems to me, however, that we're not in disagreement fundamentally, rather arguing about the level of granularity at which we humanists work with computers. Does this necessarily and forever need to be at the level of, say, Snobol or Pascal or perl or Java? Once, I recall, it was at the level of assembler language; I clearly remember arguments to the effect that unless you understood what commands like "shift left accumulator" did you could not grasp the essence of computing.... So also is Wendell Piez surely right, that "Every lens comes with its blindness, and as we design these capabilities into systems, by deciding what we want to look at, we will also be deciding what we don't care to see.... [G]reat works of literature will continue to evade whatever structures we impose on them, just as they always have...." (14.277). I'd argue that the point of what we do is to raise better questions than the ones we have, only incidentally to come up with (tentative, temporary) answers, and that those of us who use computers in scholarship raise such questions by showing what can be known computationally -- therefore what we cannot know, or know how we know, now. In an online document he recommended to our attention, Wilhelm Ott describes the conclusion he reached about 30 years ago after work on some major textual projects: that "the next step in supporting projects was to no longer rely on programming in FORTRAN or other 'high level' languages, but to provide a toolbox consisting of programs, each covering one 'basic operation' required for processing textual data. The function of each program is controlled by user-supplied parameters; the programs themselves may be combined in a variety of ways, thereby allowing the user to accomplish tasks of the most diversified kind. It was in 1978 when these programs got the name TUSTEP" (http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/tdv_eng.html#b). The TUSTEP toolbox defines these basic operations: editing, comparing, processing text, preparing indexes, presorting, sorting, generating indexes and concordances, generating listings, typesetting (with some file-handling and job-control fuctions as well). Much more recently, John Unsworth in a talk given at King's College London (forthcoming in print from the Office of Humanities Communication; online at <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Kings.5-00/primitives.html>) identified 7 scholarly primitives also based on close interdisciplinary observation and project work -- discovering, annotating, comparing, referring, sampling, illustrating and representing -- as the basis for a tool-building enterprise. He illustrated these primitives with work that has been going on for some time at IATH. Contemplating Ott's TUSTEP and Unsworth's thoughts about primitives, I wonder if what we're seeing here is two parts of a much larger design, proceeding from universality to specificity. In broad terms, could it be said that a "methodological macro" like Unsworth's "discovering" or "annotating" comprise "methodological primitives" like "consult lexicon", "search WWW" "recognise image patterns", each of which in turn comprises "mechanical primitives" and so forth? I see us facing a real-world problem that in turn gives us a very challenging research agenda. This problem continues to be the one Wilhelm Ott, Susan Hockey and others faced many years ago, how best collegially to support research in the humanities with computers, or in other words, how to get more of our non-technically inclined colleagues intellectually involved in applied computing -- if for no other reason than the creative imaginations they will bring into the increasingly complex equation. Do we tell them to learn C++ or whatever, or do we work with them to define a better research pidgin? As a search of the Web shows, talk about "primitives" is common parlance among cognitive scientists and philosophers who (like Jerry Fodor) think about how we think and do intellectual work, and among the system builders who design and make the software prototypes. Modelling, which is what one does with primitives, is a very active topic -- see the Model-Based Reasoning Conference advertised in Humanist 14.269. Much going on for us to tap into, as well as much that has gone on which we need to take account of. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Willard McCarty Subject: scientometrics Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:18:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 411 (411) Humanists involved in electronic publication may be interested in the online journal Current Science, for 10 September (vol 79, nr 5), which has a special section on "scientometrics" -- the field that studies the sciences by measuring citations to articles. See <http://tejas.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~currsci/sep102000/contents.htm>. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Elli Mylonas Subject: job at Brown: Director of STG Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:19:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 412 (412) DIRECTOR The Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University The Brown University Scholarly Technology Group (STG) is a 15 person R&D and service unit that explores the use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and scholarly communication, and provides services, such as systems analysis and project management, which make its expertise available to the Brown University research community. STG works in several related areas, including digital library technologies and textbase development, interactive hypermedia systems, and arts and humanities computing. STG is recognized as one of the leading academic technology research centers in the world, with well-known specialists in the areas of SGML/XML markup systems and hypermedia systems, and with pioneering digital library projects, such as the Women Writers Project. For more information about STG see http://www.stg.brown.edu We are seeking a Director who is both an accomplished scholar and a skillful and entrepreneurial manager of research and service groups, and who has demonstrated capability to lead innovative research in relevant areas of digital technology applications. Minimum requirements include five years relevant experience; three years project management or lead systems analysis and a substantial record of publication and professional activities. For further information about this position see http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Human_Resources/hrweb/jobs/b00438.htm or contact Dr. Allen Renear, Director (until January 2001), Scholarly Technology Group (401 863-7312 or Allen_Renear@Brown.Edu). To apply send a current c.v. to Human Resources, Box 1879/B00438, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. Review of applications will begin on October1st 2000 and continue until an appointment is made. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer [Elli Mylonas Scholarly Technology Group Box 1843-CIS Brown University Providence, RI 02912 http://www.stg.brown.edu ] From: Dave Farber Subject: Computer History Lecture: Rich Tennant on "A Cartoonist's Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:25:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 413 (413) [--] [deleted quotation]-- From: Ferdi Serim [mailto:ferdi@LEARNING.CENTRINITY.COM] Subject: Spinning Gold into Straw: Alliance for Childhood Misses the Point Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 03:22:41 -1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 414 (414) Hi folks, Last week's report by the Alliance for Childhood caused quite a stir in the media and inside the Beltway...I drafted this response on behalf of the Consortium for School Networking, which I'd like to share with you. Please feel free to forward to anyone who may benefit from balance in considering the place of technology in the development of children....thanks! Ferdi ----------------- Spinning Gold into Straw: Alliance for Childhood Misses the Point By Ferdi Serim The adage "the older I get, the better I was" now extends from personal recollection to collective judgement of earlier eras, if one accepts the Alliance for Childhood's recent report "Fools Gold: A Critical Look At Computers and Childhood." Once again, the public is served up conclusions based on research and quotations from laudable, notable people, all of whom share two important characteristics: they are neither children, nor educators who actually use technology as a tool to improve learning. The underlying assumption seems to be that once an educator embraces technology, the love of children is replaced by the love for machines. All we have to do to improve education is change our attitude about the sanctity of childhood, banish elementary school computers and all will be well. I believe that rather than focusing on Good Old Days that never were, we can build bright new days that incorporate the Alliance's goals, without ignoring what the past decade has taught us about how technology can improve student learning. Fool's Gold is the perfect snooze alarm for people who are yet to wake up to the idea that educational improvement requires change. And change is about more than velocity, it is also about direction. The debate today is about more than technology, choice or vouchers: it centers on whether your model for learning is based on transmission or construction of knowledge. Instead, the report implies that corporate strategies are leading educators like lemmings to the abyss, and that we're willing to sacrifice our children at the altar of the new economy. These concerns mask a more fundamental struggle about which model of learning will guide our classrooms and homes, and who will teach. Common sense is replaced by attacks on strawmen built from misconceptions and distortions that no experienced technology using educator would endorse or repeat. For example: "Either/Or" Strawman "What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent." - Steve Jobs Since both technology friends and foes agree that the most important person in education is the teacher, isn't the most critical goal to provide the most effective, best prepared teachers possible? Data from the 1998 Teaching, Learning and Computing (TLC) Survey (http://www.crito.uci.edu/tlc), involving more than 4,000 teachers in over 1,100 schools across the US, provides substantive insights about what is required to do so. One of their dramatic findings is that that teachers who have been identified as teacher leaders in their schools, in their district and in their fields were 10 times more likely to be teachers who used computers themselves and have integrated the use of computers with their classroom instruction. These teacher leaders, teachers with a high degree of professional engagement and respect, contrasted with a group of teachers that Riel and Becker refer to as private practice teachers. This group of teachers had much lower investment in their own learning in pre-service education and in later years. When the private practice teachers did use computers, they did so in ways that supported drill and practice games. The evidence shows that teachers who invest highly in their own learning are discovering how to teach effectively with computers, using them for problem solving, analysis and presentation. Becker finds that computers are more likely to be a valuable and effective instructional tool when certain conditions are met. Teachers need to be personally comfortable and at least moderately skilled in using computers themselves. There needs to be regular and easy student access to computers "to permit computer activities to flow seamlessly alongside other learning tasks." And, perhaps most importantly, a teachers' personal philosophy needs to be consistent with student-centered, constructivist pedagogy that incorporates collaborative projects defined partly by student interest. "Technology is Dehumanizing" Strawman The power of the Internet is people, not machines. I've personally witnessed a group of 5th graders in NJ take on the US Immigration Service, to prevent a classmate (who was 2 years old in the Ukraine when Chernobyl exploded) from being deported. (see http://oii.org/html/chernobyl.html) They used the Internet to conduct a public information campaign that resulted in the state legislature passing a unanimous resolution to allow him to say. Being sent back would have represented a death sentence for this child, who is in remission from leukemia and who would be unable to find proper medical care should his illness return. Dizzy Gillespie once told me "it will take you ten years to learn to play your instrument, and it will take you twenty to learn what *not* to play!" The arguments being made about technology's role in learning might have held water a decade ago, but we who've been working in this field have moved beyond infatuation. We know how and when to use technology, but more importantly, we know when not to use it. We have experienced in our own lives that technology and rich human relationships need not be mutually exclusive. Used in a healthy way, technologies can enrich what happens in real life. That's why we use them in the first place. "They're Too Young to Play" Strawman While concerns about physical injury to young children are legitimate, the risk is a defined domain, similar to sports injuries or the realizations that led very young children to use quarter-size violins in the Suzuki method. The research shows that students are lucky if they get to a school computer once a week, and that the average number of computers in classrooms lucky enough to have them is 2. If children are using computers 4-5 hours a day, they're doing so at home, which argues for better school/home communication on how to partner in shaping appropriate computer use. Perhaps we're not arguing about technology, but common sense. Young children can benefit when caring, competent teachers use these machines to enhance their learning landscape. For example, by using the computer to track information over time, 1st grade students who were studying a small pond discovered that there were fewer ducks each year. This graphing of observational data inspired them to action and 6 classes of first graders, the population of one small school, got the attention of city planners and now the pond has been restored and preserved by the actions of computer-using first graders. Every Child Deserves a Qualified Teacher In The Beliefs, Practices, and Computer Use of Teacher Leaders, Margaret Riel and Hank Becker (University of California, Irvine) describe Teacher Leaders "who place a high value on sharing their knowledge with their teaching colleagues. At the opposite end of the continuum are Private Practice Teachers who report little or no engagement in professional dialog or activities beyond those mandated...(who) engage in a form of "private practice" behind closed doors. Closed classroom doors open concerns about maintaining high standards for both teaching and learning." They continue, "The findings are consistent and strong--Teacher Leaders are better educated teachers, continuous learners, computer users, and promote constructive problem-based learning over direct instruction. They use computers to help their students achieve the same level of respect and voice that these teachers have achieved within their professional educational community." That's the good news. Although the students of the best educated, most professionally involved, most skilled educators are ten times more likely to use computers in powerful ways, the bad news is the distribution: Teacher Leaders are 2%, Teacher Professionals are 10%, Interactive Teachers are 29%, and Private Practice Teachers are 58% of the teaching population. Literacy has expanded beyond Ozzie and Harriet days, yet we have allowed acquisition of these new skills remain optional for our teaching force. Rather than perpetuate drama, we could choose to dialogue. Those of us using technology to improve learning have more in common with the Alliance for Childhood than either group suspects. How will the next version of this report look once we engage each other in purposeful, action oriented discourse? (This essay will be published as a column in the November issue of eSchoolNews. see http://www.eschoolnews.com/ ) ______________________________________________________ Ferdi Serim phone/fax: 505 466-1901; cell: 505 577-1580 email: ferdi@oii.org Online Internet Institute, Director http://oii.org Santa Fe, NM 87505 http://oii.org/ferdi/Ferdi.html ECP Ring Leader <http://www.Edu-CyberPG.com> co-author: NetLearning: Why Teachers Use the Internet http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netlearn/ "We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination." - Ferdi -- From: "FRANCESCO STELLA" Subject: Digital Edition of Medieval Poetry Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:56:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 415 (415) and Music Date sent: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:13:39 +0200 Please circulate. Apologies for cross-posting -------------------------------------------------------------- POETRY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Manuscripts, language and music of the rhythmical Latin texts Third Euroconference for the digital edition of the Corpus of Latin Rhythms 4th-9th Century Munich, 2-4 November 2000 Call for papers and grants The CISLAB (Univ. of Siena-Arezzo) assigns 9 grants for the 3rd seminar Poetry in early medieval Europe: manuscripts, language, metrics and music of the rhythmical latin texts, to be held in the Siemens-Stiftung of Munich from the 2nd to the 4th November 2000. This is the last of three yearly seminars for the project Corpus of Latin rhythms 4th-9th Century, promoted by CISLAB and SISMEL (Societ Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Florence), which aims at the publishing on CD-ROM of the ca. 700 texts of rhythmical Latin poetry from the origins to the carolingian age. It will be a critical edition (based on the collation of the manuscripts), with musical records, images of the manuscripts, philological apparatus and statistical indexes about linguistic, musical and metrical issues: about the project you can see now the pertinent pages in http://sismel.meri.unifi.it/ritmi/corpusrhythmorum.htm.The call for papers concerns contributions (maximum lenght 10000 char.) for the seminarial discussion and the publication of the proceedings; it is open to all the interested researchers. The grants are reserved to scholars of European Union under 35 years and will cover, according to the European TMR rules, travel expenses (train, 2d class, or airplane, week-end fares), registration fees and room and board from the 2nd to the 4th of november: the application forms must be requested by phone (++39.575.926546, ++39.575.926203), fax (++39.575.323738), or e-mail (Stella@unisi.it) and sent to CISLAB, Facolt di Lettere e Filosofia, v. S. Fabiano 9, I-52100 Arezzo, at the latest by september 30, 2000. Priority will be reserved, according to the rules of the TMR Programmes, to younger scholars of Less favoured regions of the European countries. The holders, designed by a competent commission, will be informed by october, 15th. The abstract of the papers must be sent within the same date, per e-mail or mail, with curriculum vitae. Scholars or students who wish to attend the seminar without a grant can write or call the secretary office of the CISLAB. TOPICS: New texts and new metrics; Musical tradition of the rhythms; Computer filing of musical notation; Standards of transcription from the manuscripts; Philological data-bases: experiences, projects, tools; The rhythms as linguistic evidence. Speakers and participants: MICHEL BANNIARD, SAM BARRETT, CORINNA BOTTIGLIERI, GUNILLA BJRKVALL, PASCALE BOURGAIN, EDOARDO D'ANGELO, PETER DRONKE, ANDREAS HAUG, DANIEL JACOB, STEVEN KILLINGS, CLAUDIO LEONARDI, LINO LEONARDI, GIOVANNI ORLANDI, CARLOS PREZ GONZLEZ, ANGELO RUSCONI, GABRIEL SILAGI, BARBARA SPAGGIARI, PETER STOTZ, ISABEL VELZQUEZ SORIANO, LOREDANA TERESI, CATERINA TRISTANO, BENEDIKT KONRAD VOLLMANN, LORENZ WELKER, ROGER WRIGHT, PAOLO ZANNA. From: John Unsworth Subject: irreducible components Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:48:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 416 (416) [The following is exerpted from an offline conversation with John Unsworth on the subject of primitives. --WM] At 11:35 AM 9/28/00 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] I've put that on the web, as I do with everything...it's at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Kings.5-00/primitives.html please do publicize the URL in this context...there's also an earlier piece, focused on one primitive (searching) from a talk given at Rochester: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/sdl.html if you announce that URL, please note that the piece is undergoing revision in response to comments by John Price-Wilkin, and shouldn't be regarded as a final product. [deleted quotation] I don't agree with that breakdown: what I'm trying to get at in the talk I gave at Kings, and in the larger project that's part of, is operations that are irreducible components of other activities--not macros composed of many steps and instructions, but broad and basic archetypes. There are, of course, many ways in which to search--and perhaps "mechanisms" or "implementations" is the way to describe those--but things like "discovering" and "annotating" are not primitives if they can be further reduced. Of course, if they are primitives, then they must be able to be further specified... [deleted quotation] Well, while we're on the subject, I think the bottom line here is that computing tools won't be an important part of humanities research until humanities researchers can build them. We need a different kind of education and preparation--a sign, I would say, that humanities computing is a discipline. John From: aimeefreak Subject: Re: 14.0282 primitives Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:41:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 417 (417) hello, humanist-ers; as i prepare to write candidacy exams (m,w,f next week) focussing at least in part on these very issues, i offer the following, slightly differently angled take, on this most interesting discussion. i want to take a wee step back, to 'computing' as cultural practice, and then onto 'humanities' as cultural practice. willard wrote: [deleted quotation] is it? certainly, early rhetoric of what ted nelson called 'the home computer revolution' over and over and over again emphasised this very quality. power to the people! finally, the altair (1975, blinking box, torturously difficult to assemble, notoriously impoverished of utility) offered a technology for the confused, frustrated masses (of hardware wonks, of hackers -- a pretty specific kind of 'mass') to kneecap the obfuscatory giant ibm, with its priesthood model of computing (do not bend, fold, or spindle! or else ...). early personal computers (opposed to mainframes of the ibm ilk, or even mini-computers of the pdp series) were devised as *transparent computing machines* and were lauded for the TOTAL CONTROL, COMPLETE POWER, UNDISPUTED AGENCY they offered their programmers (not, thank you very much, 'users'). also, unlike mainframes and minis, there was no promiscuous time-sharing arrangements that cut into a programmer's mastery of every single last bit. from this mindset/context we get the hierarchy of: machine language -> assembler language -> high level language -> application computing. machine language offers you the most control and is therefore best. see again willard's thoughtful comment: [deleted quotation] i offer this narrative to bring two ideas into debate. the first is: how much are we operating under the assumptions that defined the pc 'revolution' -- and what does it mean to be the legatees of such a power-hungry, control-mad discourse, and aggressive nerd-stance? we are not hackers, but humanists: marilyn deegan noted some time ago that the purpose of literary studies, at least, has tended in this day and age to *open up* rather than 'master' debate on particular texts. let's pay some attention to possible disjunctions between founding discourses of personal computing and the humanities work we are all involved in. the second idea is: has the pc ideal of complete transparency, total control, and programmer agency been surpassed? and then, where do we go from here if this is the case? the current low-end pc, as we all know from cultural cliche, has more computing power than the mainframe that sent the first man to the moon. its components are tiny and unutterably complex; its speed is mind-boggling; its operations fuzzed over by layers of operating systems and proprietary soft- and hardware architectures. it is a 'black box' machine: how often have you called a tech help line, only to be offered a fix for a bug, which, upon asking, you learn that no one can explain why it's effective, but only that it works, praise god-or-bill-gates. we have come a long way from the do-it-yourself, homebrew club, altair-like hardware technologies. and we have come similarly far from performing feats of computing in which it would even be possible to work in assembler language -- computing science has evolved into a highly specialized, highly rigorous and theoretical discipline. the days of barking orders at an obedient machine in straightforward procedural languages (well, i found them pretty straightforward) have come and gone. OO languages are absolutely fascinating -- and terribly complex if one is seeking more than a cursory understanding. to cut a long story off before it loses all of you entirely, then, i would respond to willard's assertion with a decided ambivalence: i do not at all think that computing tends to putting more power in the hands of users -- unless these users plan to transparently deploy pre-fab tools and applications. it's a consumer box, increasingly, designed to be as easy to use as a tv -- and it's getting harder and harder to be a 'creator' of the 1980s hacker ilk because the machines, while easier to 'use', are getting more complicated all the time. [deleted quotation] ahh, shades of vannevar bush, who, in 'as we may think', proposed something quite similar. the question becomes, i think, for humanists: what can we so take for granted as common ground/self-evident that we can mechanize/trivialize it, and safely leave it to the stewardship of automated processes? bush had in mind a sort of mechanical slave device that did all of man's [sic] grunt work for him, leaving him free for more associative, creative, genius-level work befitting his special gifts. but: as a humanist studying culture, i am always most fascinated with this taken-for-granted level. when i see computing projects, that's always what i want to know: what is your ground zero that you've built all your computing assumptions around? put another way, my 'special gifts' as a scholar is a rabid interest and zeal for interrogating founding assumptions for whatever social meaning they may betray. this would seem incompatible with bush's project, which would whisk these assumptions under an automated carpet, out of sight. so then: these 'common gronds' are the things rendered invisible by the process, if we use our machines as the black-box technologies i've described above. we should all have enough expertise to peel back at least a layer or two of the computational onion to see how the projects *work* on this common-ground level. and i suspect that's why we get stuck at this level in our discussions: successful computerization of a research problem can mean making invisible this very interesting research problem. in a field that seems to be organized around thoughtfully interrogating problems as our very raison-d'etre, to make them disappear in this manner is disconcerting. and so i think these discussions about primitives are in fact the very *meat* of humanities computing. or at least the humanities meat. the intellectual labour, i believe, is *precisely* the thinking that goes into deciding what can/should be mechanized. how can we make this process legible to non-expert users? how do we avoid making these decisions invisible in the name of building useable, transparent resources? [assemble your own thoughtful questions here ...] anyhow, i've gone on far too long already. thank you for reading if you've made it this far. all of the contributions on this topic have spurred my thinking, and i'm thankful for that too. :-) aimee i miss programming in LOGO ... ------------------------------------------- aimee morrison phd program, dept of english university of alberta edmonton, alberta http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/amorrison From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Primitives definition Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:42:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 418 (418) Willard I am wondering, given the definitions below, if the discussing of primitives which you so brilliantly summarized is not connected with the very interesting question as to how we transform the products of an act of reading (or repeated acts of reading) -- be these transformations deformations a la McGann or marking cruxes or plotting changes in frequencies... from the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computuing, a 1995 entry http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=primitive&action=Search A function, operator, or type which is built into a programming language (or operating system), either for speed of execution or because it would be impossible to write it in the language. Primitives typically include the arithmetic and logical operations (plus, minus, and, or, etc.) and are implemented by a small number of machine language instructions. and a 1999 entry (Or "data type") A set of values from which a variable, constant, function, or other expression may take its value. Types supported by most programming languages include integers (usually limited to some range so they will fit in one word of storage), Booleans, real numbers, and characters. Strings are also common, though they may be represented as lists of characters in some languages. If s and t are types, then so is s -> t, the type of functions from s to t; that is, give them a term of type s, functions of type s -> t will return a term of type t. Some types are primitive - built-in to the language, with no visible internal structure - e.g. Boolean; others are composite - constructed from one or more other types (of either kind) - e.g. lists, structures, unions. Some languages provide strong typing, others allow implicit type conversion and/or explicit type conversion. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 14.0282 primitives Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:43:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 419 (419) From: Willard McCarty Subject: metaphors Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:55:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 420 (420) A more or less random quotation from Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (NY: Bantam, 1995): "The timid child enters adult life with neural circuitry that...." Really? My question: what freight does the metaphor of electrical circuitry carry? What does this metaphor do for us, for the author? Context suggests that he "means" something like this: "The timid child enters adult life with a predisposition for...." Use of the former rather than the latter when the physiology and neurology of the brain is *not* under discussion suggests that the cultural assimilation of computing has gone rather far. Is it becoming more and more difficult to get computing into perspective because of such metaphors? It's not as if we can do much about this -- except in the classroom, where I'd think it's rather important to point out that the way computers process data is very different from however it is that we think about artefacts, and that this difference is our real subject. Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: How a Virtual Knowledge Network could propel your Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:01:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 421 (421) institution, etc.... Dear Humanists scholars, Once again, Prof. Jim Morrison and his educational technology team have accomplished stellar job in making Technology Source, a unique source on the Web for educationists, technologists and teachers. a.)Enhancing Professional Education through Virtual Knowledge Networks with the some quotations from Peter Drucker at <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/commentary/1999-07.asp> Charles Morrissey argues that higher education administrators should take a close look at the corporate world, where virtual workteams of employees are now collaborating and problem-solving online. "The field of professional education," he writes, "would do well to develop an educational equivalent to the virtual workplace." Specifically, Morrissey suggests that colleges and universities establish what he calls a Virtual Knowledge Network: a continuous, online learning spectrum where faculty, students, alumni, and community members can interactto the benefit of all. Read on to learn how a Virtual Knowledge Network could propel your institution into the twenty-first century. The Impact of the Internet on Management Education: what the Research Shows also by Dr. Charles A. Morrissey at <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/cases/1998-06.asp> b.)Via Technology to Social Change by Alan Cummings <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/1999-07.asp> Ready for a ride into the future? Alan Cummings takes his imagination to 2020 in this issue's Vision article and predicts that, by that year, the worlds of business and education will have merged. Students older than 10 will study at home with teleconferencing tools provided by corporate sponsors and learning packages designed by education brokers. Parents will update their job skills with online training software and consult employment brokers for professional planning. In the business-oriented culture of the twenty-first century, qualifications will matter greatly; social status, age, and gender will count for little; and actual performance will be everything. Could it really happen? Cummings says yes and offers readers a fascinating scenario of the future c.)Virtual-U:Results and Challenges of Unique Field Trials <http://horizon.unc.edu/ts/vu/1999-07.asp> In the Virtual University section, Milton Campos and Linda Harasim describe Virtual-U, a Web-based learning environment that is customized for online education delivery. When software developers at the Canadian TeleLearning Network of Centres of Excellence use the term "customized," they mean it: since 1996, researchers and developers have been working collaboratively with professors and students to tailor Virtual-U to real needs. The result is an environment with such features as a personal workspace in which users can manage their learning tasks and activities, a course editor for designing and editing curriculum, a grade book, instructional tools, and examples of how to teach and learn online. Find out more about the continuing development of Virtual-U and its innovative approaches to online education by reading further. Below is a description of the July/August issue of The Technology Source, a free refereed Web periodical at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS. Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using information technology tools more effectively in educational organizations. As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for manuscripts at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/call.asp Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, On the Horizon UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu/horizon Chapel Hill,NC 27599-3500 Editor, The Technology Source Phone: 919 962-2517 http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Fax: 919 962-1693 d.)Distance Learning in East Carolina University's Educational Leadership Program <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/cases/1999-07.asp> The Masters of School Administration (MSA) program at East Carolina University (ECU) is the focus of this issue's first Case Study. In 1997, professors in the MSA program decided to offer two educational leadership courses via distance education. They believe that, in order to ensure that school leaders will be effective in tomorrow's technology-infused world, graduate courses must prepare these leaders to adapt to changes in the field of technology and to recognize how technology can support the goals of their schools. Distance education provides the ideal format for such preparation; after all, it allows students to master content and gain experience with technology tools at the same time. Lynn Bradshaw and Laurie Weston document the results of the MSA distance education pilot effort and describe what steps ECU professors will take in the near future to improve their distance offerings. e.)Perfect Practice Makes Perfect Through Digitized Video <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/cases/1999-07a.asp> Physical education: for most people, the term conjures up images of gyms filled with lively, sweaty kids. For Peter DiLorenzo, it also conjures up images of contemplative students sitting in front of computer screens. As he explains in this issue's second Case Study, DiLorenzo uses digitized video to teach his physical education students at Floyd College (Georgia) the fundamentals of basketball, softball, volleyball, and other team sports. His experience indicates that technology can be used to improve instruction in physical education courses as well as in academic classes. f.)Piloting the Psychosocial Model of Faculty Development by Prof. Patricia Cravener <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/development/1999-07.asp> At most colleges and universities that adopt new technologies for distance education, staff in instructional design, educational technology, and/or information technology services devote a substantial proportion of their time trying to help faculty learn to use the most effective media for communicating with distant learners. Unfortunately, as Patricia Cravener reports in the Faculty and Staff Development section, faculty usually either do not attend training programs or do not implement the new technology after the programs end. Cravener uses her Paradoxical Disjunction Model to explain why, and she delineates concrete and cost-effective ways that faculty can be motivated to seek out, as well as effectively apply, technology training. g.)Internet Teaching and Learning Resources from Indiana University and the University of New Brunswick by Dr. Terry Calhoun <http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/sites/1999-07.asp> The Spotlight Sites for July/August are WebdevShare and WWWDEV. WebdevShare, sponsored by Indiana University, focuses on the Web-enablement of higher education administration. Check out the seven e-mail lists featured on the site, or read proceedings from annual WebdevShare conferences. Then access WWWDEV, a listserv on courseware sponsored by the University of New Brunswick (Nova Scotia, Canada). The homepage features links to materials from annual WWWDEV conferences, to members' courses, and to an extensive list of Web-based courseware authoring/management tool vendors. Terry Calhoun, who describes the best aspects of these two sites, promises that they are invaluable resources for anyone interested in online teaching and learning tools. Sincerely Arun Kumar Tripathi National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network <http://www.americatakingaction.com/board/arun.htm> From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: As robots become smarter and self-aware, scientists, Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 08:02:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 422 (422) theologians consider their humanity Dear humanists, Hi --on the eve of last year's Don Knuth's bold lectures on "God and Computers" (a challenging job) at MIT, several issues and concerns have been raised by AI and Robotics researchers in relation with the field of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Robotics and faith in the scientific discoveries and inventions..a report is written by MARGIE WYLIE, Newhouse News Service --from which several excerpts are given below-- --comments are welcome?? FOR THOUSANDS of years we have used mythical robots to explore the question of what makes humans human. In the Middle Ages, Jewish cabalists spun myths about golems, clay creatures animated by the secret name of God. The ancient Greeks sought to create homunculus, a tiny proto-person servant. More recently, Mary Shelley's ``Frankenstein'' creature and the android ``Star Trek'' crew member Commander Data have raised the question: ``Can man-made creatures have souls?'' Anne Foerst's calling is to ask that question, but not about mythical creatures. As resident theologian at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Foerst has spent the past four years pondering how increasingly smart machines may affect our sense of humanity. ``I think that computer science, and especially artificial intelligence, is the field for religious inquiry,'' says Foerst, a German research scientist who has served as an ordained minister and holds a doctorate in theology as well as degrees in computer science and philosophy. In biology or astronomy, the questions theologians ask deal with God as a distant and powerful being. But in the field of artificial intelligence, the theological issues are more ``personal,'' addressing God's relationship to an individual being. A human being asks, ``Who am I? What am I doing here? What's the meaning of my life?'' Foerst says. ``Humans have a very strong sense of specialness, and these machines challenge that specialness in extremely profound ways.'' Lab director Rodney Brooks invited Foerst to work as theological adviser for a new generation of smart robots that learn by doing, just like humans. One of these is Brooks' brainchild, Cog, a robot built in roughly human form except that he carries his ``brain'' on his back in a laptop computer. Cog is designed to discover and adapt to the world much the same way a human baby does. Traditionally, artificial intelligences -- such as the chess-playing IBM computer Big Blue -- are software applications primed with vast amounts of data and then given complex rules for how to make decisions and for how to learn to make other decisions. But such a disembodied intelligence, Brooks argues, cannot possibly experience the world as humans do. Only through experience as a physical being can smart robots develop emotions, which he argues are prerequisite for a truly intelligent being. So the aim is for Cog to become conscious of his body, his surroundings and, someday, his ``self.'' When that happens, asks Foerst, then what? Minsky, like others at the school, thinks studying theology is incompatible with computer science. ``The act of appearing to take such a subject seriously makes it look as though our community regards it as a respectable contender among serious theories,'' Minsky comments by e-mail. ``Like creationism and other faith-based doctrines, I suspect it is bad for young students.'' But Brooks, who describes himself as a scientific rationalist and ``strong atheist,'' says he can understand how faith can coexist with science. ``From a scientific point of view, my kids are bags of skin full of molecules interacting, but that's not how I treat them. I love them. I operate on two completely different levels, and I manage to live with these two different levels. Exploration of faith As computer science bumps against the limits of rationality, more of its practitioners are feeling freer to explore their faith. Leading computer scientist Donald Knuth recently wrote a book called ``3:16'' in which he examined the third chapter and 16th verse of every book of the Christian Bible. ``I thought at first I would be ridiculed; I had this feeling like I was coming out of the closet or something,'' says Knuth, professor emeritus for the art of computer programming at Stanford University. ``I hesitantly admitted to a few people that I was working on this book on weekends but got an unexpectedly warm reaction.'' Knuth says he found that ``a lot of computer scientists have a God-shaped hole in their hearts.'' As part of her work, Foerst tries to educate ministers and theologians about the science of artificial intelligence. Brooks says his ``ultimate megalomaniacal goal'' is to build a robot ``that is indistinguishable from a human -- which I won't do before I die. I admit that.'' But some milestones are already past. Today, deaf people can hear with electronic cochlear implants that tap directly into a nerve in the ear. Silicon corneas are in the works. And these two examples are just the beginning. ``As we start to connect silicon to biological material, in living humans, where is the boundary between personhood and machinehood?'' Brooks says. Address of original story is available at: <http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/075884.htm> I hope, you will enjoy the excerpts, thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Willard McCarty Subject: confusions & apologies Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:34:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 423 (423) Dear colleagues: On occasion a message submitted to Humanist may appear to the author to have been suppressed deliberately without notice. I suspect that these days messages seldom or almost never "disappear into the aether" (i.e. vanish unaccountably, not by human hand), as once did happen; more often, I suspect, we politely assume this when actually the recipient has deep-sixed the message for whatever reason. Please be assured that this NEVER happens on Humanist. From time to time I do write to authors to point out that this or that message has nothing to do with applied computing and so really doesn't belong here; sometimes I will suggest how it could be reformulated so that it does. But I never simply delete messages, however strongly tempted :-). If a message is delayed in its appearance, this is likely because with my half-brained filtering system in Eudora, it has been shlepped off to an unsuspected mailbox and I don't see it in time. This regularly happens to messages from people I otherwise correspond with and so have a filter in place to treat the messages of. It also happens to messages that somehow escape the send-it-to-the-Humanist-folder filter for whatever reason. So, if within 2 postings you do not see the message you sent, please write to enquire. In the last few weeks I have been moving files from my old machine to my new one (which CAVE has a USB interface only). In the last few days there have been teething problems with the machines at Virginia. The teaching term has begun and other turbulence hit my leaky bark. Hence, for example, the additional batch of delayed messages you are about to receive, for which all apologies from both animate and inanimate beings involved with Humanist. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: David Gants Subject: 2001-02 Newberry Fellowships Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:12:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 424 (424) The Newberry Library invites applications for its Fellowships in the Humanities, 2001-02. Long-term fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars (and Ph.D. candidates in the case of the Spencer Fellowship) for periods of six to eleven months, unless otherwise noted under the fellowship description. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. The stipend for these fellowships is up to $30,000 unless specified under the award description. 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Short-term fellowships include: Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship Arthur Weinberg Fellowship for Independent Scholars South Central Modern Language Association Fellowship The Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship Lester J. Cappon Fellowship in Documentary Editing Short-Term Fellowship in the History of Cartography Center for Great Lakes Culture/Michigan State University Fellowships The Newberry Library also offers several special fellowships and awards, including: Frances C. Allen Fellowship Newberry/British Academy Fellowship for Study in Great Britain Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbttel Fellowship Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award Ecole des Chartes Exchange Fellowship The application deadline for all fellowships and awards is January 20, 2001. The Newberry Library is an independent research library, free and open to the public, located on Chicago's near north side. The Newberry's holdings number more than 1.5 million volumes and 5 million manuscript pages. The collections concern the civilizations of Western Europe and the Americas from the late Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. For more information or to download application materials, visit The Newberry Library's web site at www.newberry.org. If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to Committee on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380; phone: 312-255-3666; or e-mail research@newberry.org. From: "Amy Walters" Subject: Re: 14.0275 noisy libraries Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:11:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 425 (425) Regarding the discussion of noisy libraries, I just want to point out that cybernetics treats "noise" as information rather than interference. Amy R. Walters, Ph.D. Communication Department Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA 16057 amy.walters@sru.edu From: Anthony Ubelhor Subject: Re: 14.0275 noisy libraries Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:11:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 426 (426) At 09:53 AM 09/27/00 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Not if you're accessing the cyber-library from a desk at a bricked library. Anthony Ubelhor From: Jennifer De Beer Subject: Re: 14.0275 noisy libraries Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:12:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 427 (427) [deleted quotation] Aren't we tilting at windmills here? [deleted quotation] Yes, am most interested, especially w.r.t. how you would implement interactivity and contributor participation. Thanks, happy to have misread, Jennifer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "WHERE IS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY? Audiocast: Thurs Sept 28, Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:13:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 428 (428) 4pm (Eastern) featuring Clifford Lynch NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 27, 2000 FORGIVE DUPLICATION WHERE IS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY? Audiocast: Thurs Sept 28, 4pm (Eastern) Featuring Clifford Lynch <http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.html>http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.>html [deleted quotation] WHERE IS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY? a live audiocast from the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) on Thursday, September 28, 2000 at 4 pm Eastern time. <http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.html>http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.>html Listen at your desktop and ask questions by email as expert Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, is queried about the state of higher education's digital (and other) libraries. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS EVENT Technology Anchor: Howard Strauss, Manager of Advanced Applications, Princeton University Co-Host: Judith Boettcher, Executive Director, Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) When: Thursday, September 28, from 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm Eastern Where: <http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.html>http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.>html To join this audio webcast, just go to this URL, and then select the highlighted "Audio Event" link. That link becomes active at 4:00 pm Eastern on September 28. How: At your desktop work station, listening to the live Audiocast using RealAudio. WHERE IS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY? <http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.html>http://www.cren.net/know/techtalk/events/digi-lib.>html What is a digital library? How do they connect with libraries as we know them? What will we be able to do with a digital library? When do we get rid of paper versions of books and journals? Who preserves digital material, and how? What about e-books? Why did the government decide to fund the DLI initiative? What are its goals? What has been accomplished? What is the next generation of digital libraries? What kind of research is going on? Do we have enough bandwidth, storage, processing power, etc. to move ahead with all the DLI 2 initiatives? How can a university or an individual take advantage of what's already been done with digital libraries? How can a university participate in the various initiatives? Plan now to send in your questions to expert@cren.net and join Howard and Judith on Thursday, September 28 at 4:00 pm Eastern time as they explore, with guest expert Clifford Lynch of CNI, the area of cyberspace known as the digital library. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch>-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com, Wed. Sept. 27, 2000, 6:02AM Subject: Re: 14.0277 methodological primitives Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:14:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 429 (429) Dear Colleagues, I commend the discussants [don't be concerned about my coining words - I it all the time, at no expense to myself] of methodological primitives, including myself, for their zeal if not their concise summarizing skills. I myself was obscure in one of my earlier contributions. However, I have been awakened from my meditations concerning Ovid's Metamorphoses by the somewhat remarkable contribution of Wendell Piez, 9-2-00, 9:24:28. In comparing it with my succinct contribution in which I disposed of all of political history and prehistory in one page (actually, in one sentence, but I am being open-minded), Wendell used approximately 2 - 1/2 pages to discuss one aspect of computer programming. I am not currently collecting paper for recycling, but there is the matter of the trees (versus the forest?). As a mathematician and physicist, I cannot quite consider that Wendell's contribution exceeds all of political history and prehistory. I have been curious in the past as to the skills required to be a computer/systems programmer/engineer/operator, as I seem to only relate to them at an extremely complex theoretical level (von Neumann and beyond), and I think that one of the skills seems to be the "ability or desire to produce complex nonsense". I myself did this in my previously obscure contribution, but for me it is unfortunately rather rare. However, my deceased colleague Isaac Asimov in his Foundation Series proposed measuring the nonsense content of sentences and speeches using extremely advanced technology (which has so far defied computer programmers' abilities), and he typically concluded that sentences usually contain 100% nonsense. Could I prevail upon Wendell to possibly restate his thesis, if any, in one sentence comparable to my political history-prehistory declaration that permutations of A, B, and N in Shakespearean play contexts contain all the content of political history-prehistory? Yours Faithfully, Osher Doctorow From: Paul Jones Subject: creating a noisy library Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:21:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 430 (430) First Jennifer De Beer's note includes two unattributed snips from other messages. They are not from the same author, but the way in which they are included makes it seem as if they were typed by the same hands. The first, which I agree is tilting at windmills, is not from me. The second offering to share a brief overview of technologies involved etc as described in a forthcoming CACM article is by me. The draft of the contributor-run library (aka noisy in the Jacksonian sense) can be found at http://www.advogato.org/article/170.html and you and your readers may join the discussion there if you choose. Advogato implements a matrix of trust (taken from crypto folks) which I would include in a noisy library. ========================================================================== Paul Jones "We must protect our precious bodily fluids!" General Jack D Ripper http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/ at the Site Formerly Known As MetaLab.unc.edu pjones@ibiblio.org voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 =========================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "[iso-8859-1] Melissa Terras" Subject: Re: Latin Letter Frequency? Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 04:14:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 431 (431) Thanks to all who have replied to this thread, its been very helpful. I was very aware that I asked a vague "how long is a piece of string" question, and know that the use of classical corpora is fraught with a number of problems. What I'm actually doing is undertaking a statistical analysis of the Latin in the Vindolanda Writing Tablets to help propogate some probabilities that will help the papyrologists at Oxford read the Vindolanda Stylus Tablets, which are so deteriorated they are practically illegible. I havent found much of this type of work done before with Latin - or any language in humanities research- although natural language processing and cryptography have developed many techniques to undertake this kind of "code-cracking", and so I'm adopting some of those. Or plan to at the moment ;) Nevertheless, the pointers given on the list have given me plenty to chase up. Thanks. Melissa ___________________________________________ Melissa M Terras MA MSc Engineering Science / Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Christ Church University of Oxford Oxford 0X1 1DP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0295 primitives Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:16:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 432 (432) Osher Doctorow writes: [deleted quotation] I'm afraid not: I really have no talent for such flights at least in the context of an e-mail list. Rather, let Osher take the post for what it's worth to him -- if that's not much, that's perfectly fine; I don't expect any post I write to be on target for all readers. Instead (and as long as I'm being summoned back to the floor), I'd like to try and take the discussion a step further -- I accept Mr. Doctorow's challenge to be more abstract and far-reaching, even if I'm not more concise and conclusive. There are five points; please feel free to use your delete key (or the moral equivalent thereof). 1. There is apparently a difference between "methodological primitives" in the sense that Ott, Bradley and myself were taking them, which is to say core operations to be performed on a specified data set via an automated process, and in the sense that Prof. Unsworth is meaning them, as irreducible operations performed by a scholar as he or she goes about the work of tracing, understanding, and presenting a thesis about a text or subject of research. (I'll let Willard speak for himself.) There is also, at least potentially, a relation between these two things, as many of us have experienced in our own work. The implication has been that if we have the first (paraphrase this as "if we can teach our computers to help us read, find, sort, filter and so forth") we can facilitate the second. 2. A key difference between what a computer does in performing operations on a text, and what a human reader does, is that the data set (the "input") on which the computer operates is finite and bounded, whereas what the human reader brings is unknown and variable. It may be finite, although large, but since its bounds are unknown, and since no two human readers (or even readings) bring the same context to bear on a text, practically speaking, it is infinite and unknowable. (Caveat: the Internet and the web now make it possible for a computer's inputs themselves be practically infinite and unbounded, because unknowable; nevertheless we have hardly begun to think about what this may mean for automated processing of texts.) 3. One ancient technique for bridging this gap, is to teach the computer something about what we know about a text, and to design its interfaces and its processes in such a way to give us better access to the full range of this knowledge, than we can ourselves achieve unaided. I say "ancient" because this work is far older than digital processing. Add a table of contents or an index to a text, or line and verse numbering, or lay out the text on the page with chapter titles in a larger type face, and you are beginning to "teach [the book] to help us read, find, sort, filter and so forth". With computers, examples of this practice would include text encoding, or markup, as well as the addition of external sources of information such as databases, dictionaries, "knowledge bases" etc. 4. Historically, one barrier to this work has been (as far as computers and automation have been concerned) that to design these interfaces and processes, we have had to invest in technologies and methods that mask the processes as much as they reveal them. This has largely been because of the design of our tools and the esoteric knowledge they have themselves required. It is as if we had created indexed commentaries on Classical Chinese poetry, but written them in English (finding that with our keyboards it is easier to compose an alphabetical index in English), thereby requiring our Chinese audience to learn English (on top of Classical Chinese) to get the benefit of the commentaries. (Not only that, but we have used a dialect of English that will be largely obsolete in five years.) This problem has been faced not only by "Computing Humanists" but also by the culture as a whole (or marketplace, if you like), that has invested untold millions in systems of computer-based automation that, whatever benefits they have delivered, have always fallen short of promises. Consequently, there have been waves of development working to ameliorate the problem in one way or another. The emergence of object-oriented programming methodologies, including the notion of "strong data typing", is one such wave; the emergence of standards-based markup languages is another. My earlier post tried to trace how these two developments should in theory complement one another, and how industry is now moving forward quickly on that basis to deal with its own analogous problems. Nevertheless, I argued, in the context of Humanities research we have a considerable way to go, even to match what has long been done with such structures as indexes and footnotes in the printed book -- at least, that is to say, if we want to do it on a basis that can reach beyond that five-year half-life that computer applications have faced. 5. Even so, the gap remains between an automated process, working on known inputs, and a human process, working with who-knows-what "extraneous" but all-important -- all-pervasive and all-conditioning --knowledge, memory, intuition, assumptions, imagination. Human readers perceive in a text (just for example) the implicit logics of narrative ordering; intertextual references; metaphorical correspondences; ironies. What would it take to teach a computer to perceive these on our behalf? Out of what methodological primitives, subject to automation, can such operations be built? Respectfully, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: recommended readings? Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:28:07 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 433 (433) I would be most grateful for recommendations of essays (online or otherwise) on the following subjects: 1. the effects of hypertextual linking on compositional practice, by which I mean, how using hypertextual links changes the way one writes and esp how such linking influences or could influence the design of scholarly forms, such as the critical essay, edition, commentary etc. 2. the design of more sophisticated linking than we currently have, which is to say not merely named or typified links (as already implemented in the old PARC NoteCards software) but links with other attributes to indicate, for example, scope and what one might call intensity or tentativeness. I would be esp glad to learn of an essay based on a model for any conventional form, literary allusion being perhaps the most comprehensive and difficult. 3. the discrepancies between scholarly forms in which reference is a primary intellectual tool and anything we could conceivably do with computing as we now have it. The more one thinks about the hypertextual link, the cruder an instrument it appears. How subtle and various by contrast (and of course how problematic) are the ways in which one can in print say "see X"! Many thanks. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: British Library table of contents service Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 16:35:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 434 (434) Although the following service is only available to those of us in U.K. academic institutions, those outside that orbit may be interested in its existence. (The reference to KCL below is to King's College London.) Yours, WM [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jennifer De Beer Subject: Re: 14.0297 noisy libraries Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:15:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 435 (435) [deleted quotation] Yes, apologies, but I expected those following the discussion to be aware of who had said what. Regards, Jennifer De Beer ===== ~~ Jennifer De Beer Do not be bullied by authoritative pronouncements about what machines will never do. 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Andrea Zorzi, Responsabile scientifico del Settore informatico e telematico del Dipartimento di Studi storici e geografici: . ________________________________________________________ From: "Bernd Krysmanski" Subject: Forthcoming two-volume Hogarth bibliography Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:10:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 438 (438) Bernd Krysmanski THG Voerder Str. 30 D-46535 Dinslaken Germany Fax: ++49 2064 731091 Email: hogarth_bibliographer@web.de Dear Colleague, I have recently created a new website for Hogarth researchers all over the world. It includes information on my own publications, but also many other useful references to the vast amount of source literature on William Hogarth. Could I possibly ask you to include the following site in your list of Hogarth links: http://come.to/William_Hogarth Thank you. Yours sincerely, Bernd Krysmanski _______________________________________________________________________ 1.000.000 DM gewinnen - kostenlos tippen - http://millionenklick.web.de IhrName@web.de, 8MB Speicher, Verschluesselung - http://freemail.web.de From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Visual Resources Association's New Image Collection Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:20:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 439 (439) Guidelines NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 4, 2000 For Immediate Release Contact: Kathe Hicks Albrecht 202-885-1675 VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF NEW IMAGE COLLECTION GUIDELINES Guidelines will focus on the acquisition and use of visual images in educational settings <http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html>http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html (Washington, D.C., October 4, 2000) Visual Resources Association, the international organization of image media professionals, recently announced the publication of a new guide for visual resources professionals. The Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resource Collections will provide practical principles for the acquisition, attribution, and display of visual images for educational use. The Image Collection Guidelines were developed by the VRA Intellectual Property Rights Committee upon the conclusion of the U. S. Commerce Department Conference on Fair Use in 1998. Through representatives Virginia M.G. Hall (Johns Hopkins University) and Kathe Hicks Albrecht (American University), VRA actively participated in the Conference on Fair Use from 1994 to 1998. CONFU participants from museums, libraries, publishing companies, and educational institutions, sought to develop a set of guidelines for the use of digital images that would meet the needs and interests of museums, libraries, publishers, educators, and the general public. 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The session, sponsored by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, focused on resources and policies recently developed by the cultural community and included the work of the American Association of Museums, the College Art Association, and the Visual Resources Association. Ann Whiteside, VRA President, stated that the Guidelines, originally published in the VRA Bulletin (Fall 1999, vol. 26, no.3, pp. 27-29), is available in print form for distribution to educational institutions and is also available electronically on the VRA website at <http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html>http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Frederick Noronha Subject: Children and the Internet - an experiment by Sugata Mitra Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:17:21 +0530 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 440 (440) [--] Children and the Internet: an experiment with minimally invasive education in India Author : Sugata Mitra and Vivek Rana Date added : 1999-07-22 Country : India Region : National Regional Scope : South Asia and Pacific Abstract : Urban children all over the world seem to acquire computing skills without adult intervention. Indeed this form of self-instruction has produced hackers - children who can penetrate high tech security systems. Is this kind of learning dependent only on the availability of technology? We provided slum children in New Delhi with Internet access in their settlement. The paper describes the results obtained in the first month of unsupervised and unguided access. It is observed that children seem to understand and use the technology fluently. Language and formal education do not seem to make any significant difference. You can read more about the background of this project in the interview held in Kuala Lumpur with Dr. Sugata Mitra Story : Introduction Use of the Internet is spreading rapidly in India, as it is in the rest of the world. While the users in India are, almost entirely, restricted to the affluent in metropolitan areas, it is more than likely that demand for the Internet will eventually arise throughout the entire country. In this context, there are many apprehensions from academicians and others that the ability to access and the quality of training provided will hinder the usage of Internet in the subcontinent. We think this may not be true and report the results of an experiment in Internet and computer usage using a "minimally invasive" (we borrow the term from surgery!) approach to learning. What we observed was both strange and wonderful. It may point to a flaw in the present views of education that are used for the design of almost all forms of instructional materials and systems. Background Subcontinental India consists of several countries with a total population of over one billion people, 20 percent of the population of the world. Most of the area has been repeatedly invaded in the past 3000 years. These invasions have originated mostly from Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and, occasionally, from China. This has resulted in a uniquely heterogeneous culture that combines races, religions, languages, beliefs and values. The education system has continuously grappled with this problem of heterogeneity and has undergone many transformations, from the early Hindu systems of private education to the centralised universities of the Buddhist and Mogul periods to the most recent model, the British systems of the early twentieth century. It is in this larger historical context that the use of educational technology in the subcontinent should be viewed. The ability to access the Internet is one of the most important factors in the use of computers today. In many forums held on the subject in the Indian Subcontinental region, We have found people questioning the utility of schemes that rely on the Internet. The argument proposed is that there are too few people in the region who have access. In my opinion this argument is not a good one for deciding on whether or not to start activities in this area. We base this opinion on the fact that resources have seldom affected the spread of a medium in this region. For example, India produces the largest number of films in the world. While it may be argued that in a country that is known for extreme poverty, people would rather spend on food than on films, in reality this is not the case. Films are watched in every corner of India by millions of people irrespective of their social or economic status. In fact one might argue that the virtual world that is offered by films is sometimes the only relief that the poor have from a harsh, and often unbearable, reality. While telephone connections in India grew from zero to 4 million in 40 years (1950-1990), cable TV connections grew from zero to 16 million in just six (1990-1996). I would once again propose that this is due to the value perceived in entertainment over other "essential" items. In a study conducted by the Department of Electronics, Government of India, some years ago, it was found that many rural areas ranked a colour TV set as more essential than, say, clean drinking water. Such is the power of media. Most lay users perceive the Internet as a source of information and entertainment. The cost of acquiring a PC and an Internet connection at home is about Rs. 70,000 (US$ 1600). In addition there is a recurring cost of the phone bill of about Rs. 10,000 (US$ 135) every year. In a country where the average annual income is about Rs. 6000, these amounts are not small. The fact that the home PC market is growing at 44% seems to indicate again that the economics of entertainment in the region are not clearly related to incomes. We would expect that explosive growth in Internet usage would take place in the region, regardless of any other factor. Previous hypotheses and experiments One of us (SM) has been working in this area for the last two decades. The idea of unsupervised learning was first pointed out in a paper on the use of diagnostics (debugging) as a learning tool (Mitra, S. and Pawar, R.S., 1982). Of the work done later in this period, two experiments are worth mentioning in the context of this paper. Both experiments were based on a paper (Mitra, S.,1988) where it was suggested that unsupervised use of computers can lead to accelerated learning of skills in children. It is now widely felt that children are more adept at modern computing skills than most adults, although they seldom want or get formal education in this area. The first experiment on the use of computers in rural India were conducted by Marmar Mukhopadhyay in the village of Udang in the state of West Bengal in India (Zielenziger, 1995). Here, a few computers were placed in a school and children allowed to use them after minimal instructions. Word processing, spreadsheets and database management systems were readily learned by both teachers and students who then went on to create a rural resources and healthcare database. The second experiment was conducted as a set of courses for children in NIIT Limited, an Indian training company with over 150,000 students. These experiments were called LEDA (learning through exploration, discovery and adventure) and were based on a publication (Ahuja et al, 1995). The structured use of computer games for meeting learning objectives was the key strategy. Once again, it was observed over a period of four years that skill training would happen automatically in children given enough access and motivating content. Objectives of the present experiment The present experiment was conducted to find out whether: 1. Potential users will use a PC based outdoor Internet kiosk in India without any instruction. 2. A PC based Internet kiosk can operate without supervision in an outdoor location in India. Location and construction of an outdoor kiosk An outdoor kiosk was constructed such that it could be accessed from outside the boundary wall of our office in New Delhi. The headquarters of NIIT Limited is situated in Kalkaji in the extreme south of the city. The office is bordered by a slum, as is the case in many Indian cities. The slum contains a large number of children of all ages (0-18), most of whom do not go to school. The few who do go to government schools of very poor quality (that is, low resources, low teacher or student motivation, poor curriculum and general lack of interest). None are particularly familiar with the English language. The kiosk was constructed such that a monitor was visible through a glass plate built into a wall. A touch pad was also built into the wall (see photo 1). The PC driving the monitor Photo1: Children examining the kiosk on the first day. was on the other side of the wall in a brick enclosure (see photo 2). The PC used was based on a Pentium, 266 Mhz chip with 64Mb of RAM, suitahle hard disk, a true color display and an ethernet card. It was connected to NIIT's internal network of 1200 PC's using the Windows NT operating system. The kiosk had access to the Internet through a dedicated 2Mbps connection to a service provider. Photo2: Construction of the kiosk housing on the office side of the wall. Observations The kiosk was made operational on the 26th of January, 1999. It was turned on without any announcement or instruction. A video camera was placed on a tree near the kiosk in order to record activity near the kiosk. Activity on the CPU was monitored from another PC on the network. This enabled the kiosk to be monitored and, if necessary, controlled from within the office. One of us (VR) would monitor activity through the day and take notes or other actions when necessary. What follows is extracted from his diary, with comments added when necessary. Jan 18th In a meeting, the date for Implementing the Internet kiosk was decided - Jan 26th 1999 We would review the status of the project on Jan 25th This kiosk had to be made in the wall of NIIT - in such a place that the people can access the kiosk with out any fear/ hesitation. Therefore the wall (about 25 feet from the colony's first house) was chosen and the "brick kiosk" came into existence. Just before the construction started, we wanted to take the people of the colony into confidence - that a 'kiosk' was being put up for their benefit. I don't think they quite understood what we wanted to do. As long as it did not take up their space, they did not really care. Jan 26th 1999 Installed the kiosk by 1:00 PM Lot of enthusiasm in the people as to what it is why is it being put up here Most of the kids thought it was a video game being put up for free few questions the kids asked Is it a video game? What is a computer? How will we be benefited? But we don't know how to operate the computer!! Who will take care of the computer (security etc.)? (Asked by the elders) None of the questions were answered with any instructional sentence. We gave general answers such as "It's a fun machine". The kiosk was turned onl with www.altavista.com as the home site for them to play with and "NO INSTRUCTION " was the key instruction to us. As of now keyboard access was not given. The only instruction (not given deliberately) was the final testing of the system with the 'Touch Pad' - the pointing device provided. Among the first users were the little boys from the colony of the age 6-12 Initial response to the system was to generally fiddle around with the touch pad and since the pointer moves with that - they found it interesting. The next thing that they learned (don't know how - may be accidentally) was to "click" form the touch pad itself. Later they came to know as to what exactly is "Clickable" on the screen - as the pointer changes, from an arrow to a hand shape, when it is on some link The next thing they could relate to their knowledge was the "channels" icon on the browser. As overheard, "go to channels.. there must be TV", and similar expressions. Then someone simply tried and reached the channels icon and managed It is important to note that they learned to manipulate and click the mouse in a few hours. Feb 1st Launched the kiosk with WIN NT so that more security could be provided to the internal network. The enthusiasm in the kids is still high and they are trying various things with the system. Next2-3days went the same way. People trying to do various things - opening the 'start menu', opening new windows, opening the 'my computer' from the desk - opening the other applications Photo 3: Children teaching each other. Feb 4th 1999 We found that one of the slum dwellers is computer literate - Sanjay Chowdhary is a BA 2nd year student from the Correspondence College of the University of Delhi. He has done a basic course on computers from IGNOU (The Indira Gandhi National Open University). Since he is the only one who knows computers in the colony , all kids give him great respect. He has been found teaching them how to operate the touch pad (the pointing device). It must be realsed that the "intervention" here is situational. The children found the best resource they could. Feb 5th and 6th People have tried and learned to "shut down" the p/c. Most of my time went into rebooting the m/c physically. Tired of this I had to change the registry settings in order to stop them from shutting down the m/c. Feb 10th 1999 In the morning removed some 200 shortcuts from the desktop. Later in the day removed some 850 shortcut objects form the desktop this shows that someone is really finding it interesting to create these shortcuts. The most liked/ visited site are - disneyblast.com , MTVonline, Applications - calculator, paint and chat (though they cannot do much with chat because they have not been provided with the keyboard. But without any doubts the most liked is the 'paint' application. They are trying to do things with it. There is no instruction given to them till date. We spoke to the people of the colony today in order to find out their views about the Kiosk. In the day only the ladies are at home. They had some reservations about using the computer. " we don't know the language", "we don't know how to operate it", and an elderly woman said, "yeh daal roti dega kya"(will this give us food?). We tried to persuade them to use it. Asked them to try and use it in front of us. There seemed to be much hesitation in this too. We have decided to keep it open 24 hours The adult women never went anywhere near the PC even until the writing of this article (March, 18, 1999). Feb 11th 1999 The m/c was shut down by the guards at around 11:00 PM as no body was using it. So opening it 24 hours will not make much of difference !! The first thing in the morning we saw "clock.exe" running on the desktop. A number of other windows were also open. At around 1:00 PM we again found lot of new folders on the desktop. This could be handy work of 'a school student or a group of them, who have learned to create a new folder, and are enjoying it. !! Feb 12th 1999 During the routine health checkup of the m/c I discovered that someone had changed the "WINNT256.bmp" - the startup screen for WINNT. Though the Hindi paper site - www.naidunia.com invoked some interest as they wanted to see their horoscope for the day (these were kids of age 10-12 years), yet I notice that some of them were more keen on using the PAINT application. 12:00PM - just now observed - someone has actually learned maximizing and minimizing windows. Photo 4: A picture created by the children Feb 15th 1999 Noticed in the morning that someone had managed to change the Internet home page option, from www.naidunia.com to www.webevents.microsoft.com Also someone figured out to change the wallpaper setting, as one can change the wallpaper to any Internet picture. Discussion The observations indicate that these underprivileged children, without any planned instructional intervention, achieved a certain level of computer literacy. They were able to self-instruct and to obtain help from the environment when required. In the author's opinion, this is a common phenomenon among urban children. Indeed, most urban parents who have made a computer available to their children tend to marvel at the speed with which their children are able to master (in the parent's opinion) the "complexities" of computing. They often tend to wonder if their children are "gifted". The authors have had many occasions to interact with such parents and children. The present experiment seems to suggest that a similar phenomenon may happen in the case of underprivileged children with little or no formal education. Following is a list of our key observations from this experiment: 1. Once available, the kiosk was used immediately by children (about 5 to 16 years old). These children had a very limited understanding of the English alphabet and could not speak the language. 2. Children learnt basic operations of the PC for browsing and drawing within a few days. 3. Adults, both men and women did not make any attempt to learn or use the kiosk. 4. MS paint and Internet explorer were the most commonly used applications 5. Children formed impromptu classes to teach one another, 6. Children invented their own vocabulary to define terms on the computer, for example, "sui" (needle) for the cursor, "channels" for websites and "kaam kar raha hai" (its working) for the hourglass (busy) symbol. 7. Within a month of interaction, children were able to discover and use features such as new folder creation, cutting and pasting, shortcuts, moving/resizing windows and using MS Word to create short messages even without a keyboard. 8. Children were strongly opposed to the idea of removing the kiosk 9. Parents felt that while they could not learn the operation of the kiosk or did not see its need, they felt that it was very good for the children. However, it is imperative to repeat such experiments in other locations before one can generalise from these observations or come to any conclusion regarding the educational benefits of such a non-invasive method. Conclusions While it is difficult to draw specific conclusions from a single experiment of this nature, we felt that the following hypotheses and future action plans can be formulated from the observations reported above: 1. It is possible to design PC kiosks that can operate outdoors in tropical climates. Such kiosks would have to be protected against heat, temperature, dust, humidity and possible vandalism. Schemes for remote monitoring and maintenance of software would have to be designed. 2. Wireless connectivity with the Internet would need to be devised for kiosks in other areas that are not physically close to organisations with Internet access. 3. Several experiments need to be conducted in different areas to investigate whether self-learning will occur uniformly among disadvantaged children. 4. Other experiments will need to be designed to investigate the effects of instructional intervention at selected points of the learning cycle. References : 1. Ahuja, R., Mitra, S., Kumar, R., Singh, M., Education through Digital Entertainment - A Structured Approach, , Proc. XXX Ann. Conv. Of CSI, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, pp 187-194 (1995). 2. Mitra, S. and Pawar, R.S., Diagnostic Computer-Assisted-Instruction, a methodology for the teaching of computer languages. Sixth Western Educational Computing Conf., Nov. 1982, San Diego, USA. 3. Mitra, S., A computer assisted learning strategy for computer literacy programmes., presented at the Annual Convention of the All-India Association for Educational Technology, December 1988, Goa, India. 4. Zielenziger, M. , Logging on in backwater, San Hose Mercury News, Monday, June 12, 1995. 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Green" Subject: Getty Trust Funds NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:16:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 441 (441) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 3, 2000 For further information contact David Green 202-296-5346 david@ninch.org A NINCH PROJECT GETTY TRUST FUNDS INNOVATIVE SURVEY & "GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE" - Guide To Cover Entire Community - NINCH Working Group Selects Glasgow University's Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute Guide to be Published Fall 2001 The J. Paul Getty Trust has announced the award of $140,000 to the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) to direct an innovative project to review and evaluate current practice in the digital networking of cultural heritage resources. NINCH will subsequently publish a Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials in print and electronic form. The Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII) of Glasgow University, Scotland, has been selected to conduct a survey of current practice in the cultural heritage sector and write the Guide, in close co-operation with the NINCH Working Group on Best Practices. A critical component of the Guide will be a report on a survey of current practice. The survey is due for completion in March 2001; the final draft of the Guide is due for completion in June 2001; publication is expected to be in Fall 2001. BACKGROUND The 1999 IFLA/UNESCO report on its "Survey on Digitization & Preservation," noted "the complete lack of consistency" among survey respondents in how they prepared for and undertook digitization of heritage materials. As many cultural institutions and also many individual faculty go about digitizing material for teaching, research, and even preservation, what ground rules do they have, what questions do they ask themselves, which information and technical standards are they aware of? How can those working in museums, libraries, archives, arts institutions, universities, colleges, or in their own studies or studios learn from others working in different sectors? How can they break institutional barriers in thinking through the wide range of potential uses and users of their materials? NINCH WORKING GROUP ON BEST PRACTICE These and other questions were behind the formation of the Working Group on Best Practices by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage in January 1999. The Working Group (members listed below) agreed on an approach emphasizing principles by extracting generalizable issues from existing documented practice. One of the biggest challenges for the cultural community is not in developing or even adopting technical or information standards. Rather, it lies in translating and crafting them to a set of practices, governed by principles, that are shared and widely deployed across a community. The goal of the Guide is to create a standard "vocabulary" that can be used to read new iterations of specifications in any particular genre or field. We will not address specific audiences but will aim to produce a generalizable, universal document in which specific concerns or instances could be mapped, using a branching structure. WHY GOOD PRACTICE? By adopting community-wide shared good practice, project designers will be able to ensure the broadest use of their projects, now and in the future, even by audiences undreamed of by the designers. They will be able to ensure the quality, consistency and reliability of the information contained in their digital resources. They will be able to ensure the compatibility of their resources with other resources from other projects and from other domains. They will be able to build on the work of others to produce digital resources most economically and maintain and manage them into the future with maximum cost benefit. Overall, "best practices" can be measured by their ability to maximize a resource's intended usefulness while minimizing the cost of its creation and subsequent management and use. PRINCIPLES The Working Group drew up a set of core principles that it believes should govern the creation of digital cultural heritage resources: 1. OPTIMIZE INTEROPERABILITY OF MATERIALS Digitization projects should enable the optimal interoperability between source materials from different repositories or digitization projects 2. ENABLE BROADEST USE Projects should enable multiple and diverse uses of material by multiple and diverse audiences. 3. ADDRESS THE NEED FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ORIGINAL MATERIALS Projects should incorporate procedures to address the preservation of original materials. 4. INDICATE STRATEGY FOR LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES Projects should plan for the life-cycle management of digital resources. 5. INVESTIGATE AND DECLARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & RIGHTS OWNERSHIP Ownership and rights issues need to be investigated before digitization commences and findings reported to users. 6. ARTICULATE INTENT AND DECLARE METHODOLOGY All relevant methods, perspectives and assumptions used by project staff should be clarified and made explicit. From these principles a set of evaluative criteria were derived by which to measure current practice (see: <<http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-1.html>http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-1.html>) SURVEY Following an RFP issued by the NINCH Working Group on June 1 1999, NINCH has now contracted with the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII) of the University of Glasgow to conduct a survey of the field to discover and define exemplary practice and write the Guide, under the direction of, and in close cooperation with, the NINCH Working Group. 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. An initial small survey will test the face-to-face, telephone and mail survey instruments and allow for modification of the Working Group's Principles and the Evaluative Criteria. This will be followed by an extensive (though not comprehensive) survey of a wide range of production sites in the US and of a select few in Europe. Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII) <<http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/>http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/> Founded in 1997, HATII enables teaching and research by Glasgow University Faculty in the Arts through the deployment of information and communications technology and also engages in an active research agenda of its own. Headed by Dr. Seamus Ross, HATII has conducted a number of important evaluative studies of the use of digital technologies in the cultural heritage sector. It has expertise not only in the full range of media (text, image, moving image, sound) but also with different institution types (universities, museums, archives and libraries). In 1997, HATII conducted an extensive review of the use of information and communications technology in the heritage sector and produced a suite of guidelines and recommendations for the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). These included guidelines for applicants for funding and strategies for the HLF to apply to assess, monitor and review the impact of technology-based heritage projects. NINCH Working Group on Best Practices Kathe Albrecht (from May 24, 1999) American University/Visual Resources Association Lee Ellen Friedland Library of Congress Peter Hirtle Cornell University Lorna Hughes New York University Kathy Jones Divinity School, Harvard University/American Association of Museums Mark Kornbluh H-Net; Michigan State University Joan Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information Michael Neuman Georgetown University Richard Rinehart Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives/Museum Computer Network Thornton 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 Don Waters/Rebecca Graham (through May 24, 1999) Digital Library Federation The Getty Trust The J. 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Dr. Jeff McLaughlin, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, History and Politics University College of the Cariboo Voice (250) 371-5734 Fax (250) 371-5697 Web: http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/php/phil/mclaughl/home.htm Email: Jmclaughlin@cariboo.bc.ca Smail: Department of Philosophy, History and Politics University College of the Cariboo P.O. Box 3010 Kamloops BC V2C 5N3 Canada ------ From: John Bradley Subject: Re: 14.0300 recommended readings for Hypertext Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:11:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 443 (443) On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 06:40:23 -0400 (EDT) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [...] [deleted quotation] [...] Willard: The TEI P3 provides some rather technical material on the issue of more sophisticated linking than the kind of HREF linking provided in HTML, and presents them in the context of scholarly work. Indeed, many of the strategies discussed for the encoding of scholarly analytical materials in the TEI are based on its modelling of hypertextual linking. I don't know this for sure, but it appears to me that the TEI's work has influenced both the development of HyTime -- an SGML-based scheme which was designed specifically to, among other things, provide means to represent technically sophisticated linking models -- and more recently XML's XLink and XPointer. ... john b ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0300 recommended readings? Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:17:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 444 (444) [deleted quotation] I know only of recommendations concerning the composition of hypertexts, but have the impression these recommendations are based on the empirical studies how >readers< behave reading hypertexts. IMHO very interesting in this respect are some of the essays in Rouet, Jean-Franois (ed.): Hypertext and cognition. Mahwah, NJ, 1996. I am also interested in newer studies, so please keep the list informed if you think it is interesting enough. Regards, Fotis Jannidis From: BRUNI Subject: Re: 14.0300 recommended readings? Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:18:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 445 (445) I would recommend the book of essays, Hyper/Text/Theory, edited by George Landow. In particular, there is an essay by Martin Rosenberg in that book that argues that hypertext linking may put constraints on the writing process, rather than freeing it up. John Bruni Department of English University of Kansas From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist subscription Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 06:21:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 446 (446) Dear colleagues, A software problem at Virginia had until yesterday stopped the Humanist subscription mechanism from working. The problem has been fixed. If you know of anyone trying to subscribe during this time, please let them know. Many thanks -- and to our colleagues at Virginia, as always. Yours, W ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K./ +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / maui gratias agere From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0296 Latin letter frequency Date: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:44 AM X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 447 (447) [deleted quotation] From: Einat Amitay Subject: Re: 14.0300 recommended readings? Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 06:17:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 448 (448) Hi Willard, [deleted quotation] This is a fraction from my own list (this is the subject of my studies so far): The first links to view are http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/proceedings/series/ht/ (the ACM HyperText conference series) http://www.eastgate.com/ (the Eastgate hypertext project/source) Then you might want to look at: Bernstein M. (1998). Patterns of hypertext. in Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia: Hypertext98, pp 21-29. Haas S.W. & Grams E.S. (2000). Readers, authors, and page structure: A discussion of four questions arising from a content analysis of Web pages. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), 51, 2, 181-192. Foltz, P.W. (1996) Comprehension, Coherence and Strategies in Hypertext and Linear text. In Rouet, J.-F., Levonen, J.J., Dillon, A.P. & Spiro, R.J. (Eds.) Hypertext and Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ricardo F.J. (1998). Stalking the paratext: speculations on hypertext links as a second order text. in Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia: Hypertext98, pp 142-151. Erickson T. (1996). The World Wide Web as social hypertext. Communications of the ACM, 39:1:15-17. Genres and the Web: Is the personal home page the first uniquely digital genre? Andrew Dillon and Barbara Gushrowski, draft of a paper published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science on the genre charatersitcis of personal home pages. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/adillon/genre.html Susana Pajares Tosca. (2000). A pragmatics of links. In Proceedings of Hypertext 2000, pp. 77 - 84. http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/hypertext/336296/p77-tosca/ My own work about paragraph structure in Web-hypertext (to appear in JASIS January, 2001) last draft: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/publications/jasis.pdf Good luck - and please return some pointers to your own work about the subject, +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: a link or linking? Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 06:18:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 449 (449) Willard, Couldn't help noticing a subtle move in your posting on hypertextual linking. A loose paraphrase of your three topic areas: 1. effects of hypertextual linking on compositional practice 2. the design of linking 3. scholarly reference versus the computably conceivable seems to stress process --- human users interacting with a digital system. Your final paragraph however slips towards product and perhaps inadvertantly restricts the scope of the investigation: [deleted quotation] All of your three topics seems to point to _sets_ of links or some implied plurality. The move to the singular "hypertextual link" puzzles me. Even in HTML, the simple anchor element can be quite powerful if one considers that the links provided by the content producers can lead to "intermediate" menus with selections, (i.e. a set of links) --- including to search engines that are capable of providing information about sites that link to a certain url. That said some remarks on your three topics from the HTML perpective: 3) the difference between scholarly and non-scholarly electronic texts might be measured in part by the number of fragment identifiers used to link spots within a document. Of course this count would be influenced by distribution of HTML knowledge over time --- with earlier texts not being so rich in supplying links between footnotes and the body of a text. 2) John Bradley has already pointed to the TEI and indicated that Xlink and XPointer will allow scholars to link directly to say the fifth paragraph of a target document without a fragment identifier being in place in the target document. [The current work around is to have an "intermediate" menu which provides the url to the document and a keyword which a Web surfer would invoke for searching once the document is retrieved. (e.g. point Marx's 1844 manuscipt and supply keyword "Eigenschaften") There may be a Java applet which automates such a process.] 1) It may be that compositional practice, the link *smile* between both hypertextual navigation and the creation of hypertext passes through basic cut and paste possibilities: a) where a composer can not cite, a composer points b) where a composer can not point, a composer paraphrases c) where a composer can not paraphrase, a composer alludes Of course this mention of pointing, citing and paraphrases makes me wonder if the discussion on the nature of commentary in an electronic milieu is not linked *grin* to your call for a consideration of the nature of the hypertextual link. And voila, I have fallen for your seductive singular! -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0289 neural circuitry? Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 06:19:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 450 (450) Willard, The source text as you quote it reads "[...] neural circuitry [...]". As you comment upon it the adjective changes to "electrical". Now wouldn't a computer have to be programmed to recognize the intended synonymity? Wouldn't a human have to run scenarios to know when to raise the delicate nuance that exists between "neural" and "electrical"? [deleted quotation] Is a scenario very different from a program? Would the real subject be tolerance for loops and ability to thread a meta-level at will? Strange how my reading of your moves in the hypertext linking post predisposed me to read your metaphor post along the lines of a trope of slippage. I am beginning to think twist instead.... a computer may slip on a loop; a human, groove to the beat -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Randall Pierce Subject: Minsky quote Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:18:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 451 (451) Mr. Minsky has the right perspective on futuristics. I have heard, as did he, "experts" declare the limits of technology and create "laws" delineating what can be expected from machines. Robert Heinlein, a science fiction writer who died in the late 1980's, devised what might be called the statistical curves of invention and technological development. The bottom line shows a very slightly ascending curve from the past into the future. This is what most "experts" expect. Another curve ascends about twice as fast, and it represents what the inventors and developers of technology forecast. The third and upper curve rises at an expotential rate. It represents actual progress in a field. Man seems to be so "conservative" in his acceptance of progress(whatever that may be defined to be.) He, Heinlein, also said, "A ten-day wonder is accepted as a matter of course on the eleventh day." A final quotation: Arthur Clarke, scientist and science-fiction writer, was quoted: "When a scientist says that something is possible, he is most probably right. When he says that something is impossible, he is probably wrong." We need to listen to our modern-day "prophets" as well as becoming involved in our technology. Thank you for your consideration ... Randall From: Michael Best Subject: Re: 14.0300 recommended readings? Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:19:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 452 (452) Willard asks for readings on: [deleted quotation] This is not a reading, and I'm not sure whether it is quite what Willard is looking for, but the question he raises is a fascinating and important one that I have been working with in the development of the Internet Shakespeare Editions. In the section on Shakespeare's life and times, aimed at an introductory audience but offering extensive bibliographies for more advanced students, I have designed three different kinds of links: local to the specific page, local to the Life and Times site, and offsite to other sites on the Internet that are of relevance to the topic on the page. To do this, I have created a kind of visual rhetoric: links local to the page are signalled by an asterisk after the final word in the link (on the analogy of a footnote in print), and (with advanced browsers) produce a "pop-up" note; links to other pages on the site are conventionally highlighted and underlined; and links external to the site are signalled by a different colour (green) -- they also open a new window in the browser. You can visit the latest version of the site (not yet fully public) by going directly to this URL: <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html>. (all comments will be welcome). The "search" links don't work yet, since the site is not public and has not yet been re-indexed. The older version, which used frames instead of style sheets for its effects is available at <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/fset_whole.htm>. Michael Best Coordinating Editor, Internet Shakespeare Editions <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare> Department of English, University of Victoria Victoria B.C. V8W 3W1, Canada. (250) 598-9575 <http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/Best/> From: Rosemary Franklin Subject: Re: 14.0310 readings & thoughts on hyperlinking Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:20:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 453 (453) Mr. McCarty: You can lead a horse to water....... but you can't make him link.......yup! Best regards, Rosemary Franklin University of Cincinnati Langsam Library From: Willard McCarty Subject: hyperlinking Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:20:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 454 (454) In his very fine article "Imagining what you don't know: The theoretical goals of the Rosetti Archive", Jerry McGann comments that "Translating paper-based texts into electronic forms entirely alters one's view of the original materials" (<http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/chum.html>). Indeed. For the last few days I have been reading E R Dodds' famous commentary on Euripides' Bacchae, all the while attempting to imagine how the work might be rendered in electronic form so as not merely to take advantage of the tools we now have (a la Perseus &c) *but also to retain the subtlety of referential expression everywhere visible there*. In "The rationale of hypertext", in a section entitled The Book as a Machine of Knowledge, McGann argues that because books have been deployed to study books, the scholar has had to invent analytic mechanisms that must be displayed and engaged at the primary reading level -- e.g., apparatus structures, descriptive bibliographies, calculi of variants, shorthand reference forms, and so forth." and that the imperative to use such mechanisms leads to a number of problems we can avoid in the electronic medium (<http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html>). True enough. But at the same time a functional analysis of the analytic mechanisms in a traditional commentary -- i.e. an analysis done with the translation of which McGann speaks in mind -- highlights quite an astonishing array of referential gestures. For the sake of argument let us put aside the problem of compulsive clicking, which may lead one to bless the difficulty our readers have in following up a specific reference, say to a page in a journal article such as J. Mesk, Wien. Stud. lv (1937), 54 -- which Dodds on p 63 -- DON'T GO THERE NOW -- puts in square brackets to indicate that only the professional scholar should consult, and not the "schoolboys" who in the mid 1940s would also be using his work. No worry about the schoolboys and schoolgirls of today, but if they were doing Greek, and this were in electronic form, off they'd undoubtedly go! How, for example, might one deal with the following? -- "Sandys took the pladoi to be branches carried in the hand (? identical with the thyrsus), and is followed in this by Prof. Murray and Mr. Lucas" (n to 109-10, p 80 --DON'T GO THERE NOW, PLEASE). Is Dodds really wanting us to look at specific passages? This depends partially, but only partially, on whether Murray and Lucas do their following in some tightly delimited way or not. If a wired commentator is writing a similar note, how does the availability of hyperlinking directly to Murray and Lucas affect what he or she says? One thing a functional analysis suggests (see the U of Alberta's Cognitive Science Dictionary, <http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/dictionary.html>, now if you wish, but only if you promise to return here) is that scholars allude as well as refer, and that we really need to deal with the problem of literary allusion in the design of an adequate hyperlinking system. Again I refer to McGann, who asserts that "one must make present design decisions in a future perfect tense. What that means in practise is... that the HyperEditing design for a specific project be imagined in terms of the largest and most ambitious goals of the project (rather than in terms of immediate hardware or software options)". How large and ambitious our designs must be if we're to stand on the shoulders of our gigantic paper-based scholarly ancestors! We know how to do more than they did, but can we do as much? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K./ +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / maui gratias agere From: Ken Friedman Subject: Imagining the Wired University Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:51:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 455 (455) Dear Colleagues, Passing on to you an important recent article by Phil Agre. Best regards, Ken Friedman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" option. For information about RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Imagining the Wired University Philip E. Agre Department of Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1520 USA pagre@ucla.edu http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/ This is a draft. Please do not cite it or quote from it. References and footnotes to follow. 2500 words. How can we reinvent the university for a world of radically improved information technology? The question is hard because the design space is so large. The vision of a university with no physical facilities or face-to-face interaction, despite the publicity it receives from futurists, represents only a small corner of this space. Some educational activities will certainly conform to this all-virtual model; indeed some already do. But the majority of wired higher education will lie in the broad middle of the spectrum, combining technological mediation and geographically localized interactions in various ways. The possible combinations are numerous, and different models might work best for different fields. The question of how to design the wired university is hard for another reason. The university that we know today is a highly evolved institution that serves many interlocking functions. Like any institution, the university has developed a large number of taken-for-granted routines that are not easily changed. This body of routines is, depending on how you look at it, either a repository of accumulated knowledge or a mindless obstacle to change, either tradition and wisdom or cluelessness and resistance. Both perspectives have their elements of truth, of course, and as the technological environment changes it becomes increasingly important to discover the dividing line between the elements of past practice that the wired university should keep and the elements that it should discard. The picture is not entirely bleak. The institutions of university research, after all, are governed by norms of originality that encourage a continual turnover in the topics and methods of research, and even to a degree in the institutional forms through which the emerging knowledge itself is practiced. The Internet was largely developed in university environments, and universities drove diffusion of the Internet through their early commitment to e-mail access for students and staff. The university has already changed considerably through e-mail culture and intensive use of the Web. In these ways the university has proven itself resilient, and it is entirely plausible that if workable designs for a wired university exist then they can be chosen. The path from point A to point B can be analyzed in different ways. One analysis is frankly political. The university, like any institution, reflects a routinized accommodation among interests, and the institution will be reinvented through a fresh engagement of the many social groups that have a stake in it. The tools of this political analysis are familiar; they begin by assessing the degree to which each stakeholder group is organized, the coherence with which it articulates an agenda, and the adroitness with which it enters into coalitions with other groups as the technological and institutional redesign process unfolds. These political contests will occur in diverse venues, and most of them have hardly begun. Although this kind of political analysis is surely needed, in this context I want to pursue a different line of analysis, one that is normative and imaginative. How *should* the university be redesigned? The answer is not to throw out the institution and start over. The university embodies so much enduringly useful knowledge that it would be hard to replace. To be sure, many of the entrepreneurs who are designing competitors to the university from scratch will find niches for themselves, but they will not reproduce the useful complexity of the university except through alliances with the university. Instead, the university community might pursue a strategy of rational reconstruction. Research has made clear that the adoption of advanced information technology requires a re-institutionalization of the university. The question is what institutional structure to choose. The institutional structures that come programmed into a software package such as SAP can only go so far, and they may even be ill-adapted to the university's needs. So it is crucial to take a stand about the specific nature of the university. Begin, therefore, with a structural analysis of the university: a nontrivial story about the dynamic equilibria through which the university reproduces itself and serves positive social purposes in the present day. Then ask how those structures could be re-implemented using radically improved information technology. Because these structures are already in effect, the design process becomes a sort of institutional judo, using technology to turn existing forces into means of change rather than ignoring or fighting them. To illustrate how rational reconstruction might proceed, let us consider ten structural features of the university, together with some of the considerations that arise as one attempts to preserve or amplify them using new technology. (1) Economies of scale. Universities are currently shaped by the dividing-line between the aspects of teaching that enjoy economies of scale, such as textbooks in introductory courses, and the aspects that do not, such as the supervision of individual student projects. That dividing line will shift for two reasons, one more obvious than the other. The obvious reason is multimedia courseware that extends the functionality of a textbook while incurring much greater production costs. The obscure reason is the ongoing worldwide destruction of diseconomies of scale, for example through the emergence of English as a global language, the standardization of digital computer networks, the globalization of more forms of knowledge, and the rising numbers and prosperity of potential students. In some subject-areas the shift to increased economies of scale will be dramatic, and will bring the danger of market concentration and reduced intellectual diversity. But the greatest institutional challenge will be the increased variety in the degree of economies of scale that different fields exhibit. (2) Modularity. Courses in some areas will be relatively natural to teach online, and in those areas pressure will grow to allow students to mix and match courses from different schools. This is a radicalization of the trend that is called articulation in the US and modularity in the UK. Radical modularity has powerful consequences for the architecture of technologies, institutional forms, and curricula into which the courses fit. Frameworks must be standardized, as must the contents of courses. Professors will effectively lose the autonomy to write their own syllabi, and again intellectual diversity will suffer. These deleterious impacts, therefore, must be traded off against the benefits of competition and geographic flexibility that radical modularity promises. In particular, these impacts lessen the argument in favor of pushing courses toward an all-virtual format, and motivate the search for appropriate hybrid forms. (3) Regional networks. The university is, among other things, a factory for creating social networks. For most universities, these networks are primarily regional in nature. Social networks are a crucial component of a region's economic and political health. They also contribute to the health of the university, which in many cases could not function without alumni connections and contributions. Suitably designed and administered, computer networks should make it easier for universities to maintain the networks they have built, and they should also increase the institutional incentive to invest in building such networks. Universities may therefore be motivated to treat their students more humanely and integrate them more systematically into existing networks. The robust networks that result could provide the foundation for the intellectual life of a region, not to mention the basis for a market in continuing education. (4) Coupling to workplaces. Too often, schools teach students how to be in school. Learning is most effective in the real world if the situations of learning are analogous to the situations in which the learning will be used. This analogy can be achieved in many ways, each of which can benefit from technology. Students can do more of their learning in actual workplaces, for example, if they have more robust ongoing communications with their instructors and with other students in similar situations. Computers can be used to simulate workplaces, or to capture the full details of real-world case studies. At the same time, the university should also be a place apart from the real world -- a place to practice the kinds of analytical thinking and innovative intellectual connections that real-world workplaces, with their established routines and pressure of deadlines, do not afford. The wired university can more effectively maintain this duality of engagement and detachment. (5) Matrix structure. Most universities teach many topics. The university world thus has a matrix structure, with university organizations on one axis and disciplines on the other. The wired university should resist the temptation to overcome geographical and organizational boundaries by collapsing this matrix into discipline-specific units. The matrix structure plays an important role in creating spaces for innovation. Disciplines are always threatened by the hegemony of particular dominant approaches, but minority approaches can colonize a few universities until they grow stronger or are shunned by a new generation of students. The matrix structure will be threatened with collapse, however, if new technology enables faculty to strengthen their disciplinary bonds at the expense of their ties to particular universities. Processes and incentives should be structured to maintain a balance between the two allegiances. (6) Informational substrate. Information technology increases the design space for individual courses, and so the university must learn how to support a greater diversity of course designs. Faculty must be able to negotiate their needs with a range of campus support organizations, including the ones now known as the library, audio- visual services, computing services, telecom services, the career center, room scheduling, and many others. The UK is a leader in exploring ways to integrate these services -- an idea that may seem futile in practice simply for being ahead of its time. What is needed is a relatively stable repertoire of course designs with which the institutional culture has grown culture. At the moment, one is more likely to encounter individual heroic faculty who suffer intolerable overhead to pioneer new course forms that may or may not be capable of routinization. One common problem, for example, is that the instructor has no way of specifying, and the university has no way of guaranteeing, that all students entering a given course will have the particular set of technical and professional skills that the course design requires. (7) Conceptual frameworks. Computers are capable of representing information in highly structured ways, and much could be accomplished by explicitly representing the conceptual frameworks that underlie specific fields of study. Much learning consists of practicing the application of such frameworks, for example in the analysis of legal cases or business plans, and even a very simple conceptual framework can be heuristically powerful when it is applied to so many disparate cases that unexpected analogies emerge. If the students in a field routinely prepared structured documents that reflect that field's distinctive conceptual framework, then digital libraries could emerge to support the community life of the field. Automatic processing could identify similar case studies and initiate communication between their authors, and case studies could be made available in an orderly way for peer review by working professionals. (8) Generalizing peer review. As knowledge and learning become increasingly central to the economy, more occupations begin to resemble professions. A profession is not just a monopoly on the exercise of knowledge but an institution for promoting the creation and diffusion of new knowledge. Innovators can be recognized by publishing their work in professional fora, and individuals can build careers by serving as thought leaders and articulating or codifying new areas of professional knowledge. With ubiquitous computer networks these social mechanisms can be generalized. All of the people in the world who operate a certain type of machinery, for example, can form themselves into a profession with its own autonomous institutions of publication and professional advancement. The peer-review publishing model could be introduced into schools, and there is no reason why ten-year-olds cannot publish their schoolwork in simplified online journals. Certainly the journal model would be an improvement over the college term paper that only the professor ever reads. Teachers at every level are too overwhelmed to provide students with enough feedback, and a suitably institutionalized peer-review system could supplement teachers' comments. (9) Commodity and community. Visions of the wired university tend to polarize between two models: a radically commoditized model of the university as a purveyor of human capital in a market for modularized learning services, and a radically communitarian model of the university as a global community of practice into which students can be socialized. These radical extremes are bracing in their simplicity, but they are misguided as well. The university has always managed the tension between the commodity and community models, and there are good reasons why the wired university of the future should continue to find this balance. This will be hard: the previous scenarios should make clear that information technology lends itself to the amplification of both the commodity and community models simultaneously, and the complementarity between the two models will certainly change. Each model is propelled by powerful social forces, and each must be kept from undermining the conditions of the other. (10) An institutional framework for diversity. Commentators often remark that the university is more segmentary and decentralized than nearly any other organizational form. But the obvious conclusion that the university is therefore outdated is altogether misleading. The university, in contrast to any kind of private firm, must embrace subject matters that are extremely diverse in their behavior. Medicine, mathematics, music, management, mechanical engineering, and medieval history simply have very different properties. They call for different teaching styles, social networks, methods of codification, means of evaluation, relations to tradition, and everything else. The university exists to provide these fields with the unique environments they need while also facilitating unexpected interactions and hybrids among them. In this way the university might be compared to the market: each is an exceedingly generic framework of rules and norms that facilitates dynamic, diverse, self-organizing systems of production. Of course, universities and markets differ in important ways. Markets produce private goods, whereas universities produce a complicated combination of public goods, intellectual property, and services. The point is that the wired university must continue to provide a robust and flexible framework, both technical and institutional, without accidentally or deliberately imposing one model of intellectual production over every field. This is the opposite of the main tradition of computer system design, which emphasizes mapping, imposing, and controlling definite patterns of information flow. Those, then, are ten structural features of the university, and a few of the issues that arise as we imagine transposing them into the new world of information technology. These numerous cross-cutting opportunities and dilemmas cannot be avoided, for the simple reason that the technology will continue to improve by a factor of 100 every ten years. The technology will certainly be adopted by many players within the university, its environment, and its competitors. The question is not whether the university will change, because the stresses created by these new uses of the technology will transform the institution whether anybody makes any conscious decisions about it or not. The question, rather, concerns rationality. Will the university community build a rational consensus about the best methods for reinventing itself in a digital world? That is a test of institutional resilience far beyond what we have seen so far. References Philip E. Agre, The distances of education, Academe 85(5), 1999a, pages 37-41. Philip E. Agre, Information technology in higher education: The "global academic village" and intellectual standardization, On the Horizon 7(5), 1999b. Philip E. Agre, Infrastructure and institutional change in the networked university, Information, Communication, and Society, in press a. Philip E. Agre, Commodity and community: Institutional design for the networked university, Planning for Higher Education, in press b. Daniel Alpert, Performance and paralysis: The organizational context of the American research university, Journal of Higher Education 56(3), 1985, pages 241-281. David Billing, Review of modular implementation in a university, Higher Education Quarterly 50(1), 1996, pages 1-21. James Cornford, The virtual university is (paradoxically) the university made concrete, Information, Communication, and Society, in press. David D. Dill, Academic planning and organizational design: Lessons from leading American universities, Higher Education Quarterly 50(1), 1996, pages 35-53. William Dutton, Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Benson R. Snyder, The Hidden Curriculum, New York: Knopf, 1971. end From: Matthew Sweegan Gibson Subject: Press Release: UVA ships over 600,000 XML ebooks for Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:24:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 456 (456) Microsoft Reader ----------------------------------------------------------------- Just a note on what we've been doing of late at the Electronic Text Center in which I thought Humanist would take an interest.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- UVA SHIPS OVER 600,000 XML EBOOKS FOR MICROSOFT READER Contact: David Seaman, director of the Etext Center at (804) 924-3230 or e-mail: dms8f@virginia.edu October 2, 2000 - From the Bible and Shakespeare to Jane Austen and Jules Verne, the University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center (Etext Center) is making more than 1,200 of its 50,000 online texts available as free e-books that may be downloaded from the World Wide Web and read using free Microsoft Reader software. With over 600,000 downloads since the project was launched in August, the Etext Center is the largest and busiest public e-book library in the world, library officials said. The Microsoft Reader software may be installed on a desktop or laptop computer, or on a Pocket PC hand-held computer. The software displays the electronic text on a computer screen so that it resembles the pages of a traditional book. "The goal is to read pages on the computer screen for extended periods of time, rather than to print them out," said David Seaman, director of the Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library. The e-books are available free of charge at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ and titles are added regularly. E-books currently available include the Bible, all of Shakespeare, and classics from Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost, Arthur Conan Doyle, Shelley, Darwin, and Jane Austen. The collection also includes American fiction and history from Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Twain, Melville, Stowe, Hawthorne and Poe; early science fiction by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and others; writings from Native American and African-American authors; and illustrated children's classics. "Aesop's Fables" alone has been downloaded more than 4,000 times, Seaman said. Readers from more than 100 countries have downloaded e-books from the Etext Center. "The use of our e-books is truly global, with users coming not only from North America, but also from Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and even a good many from Asia, Africa, and the Russian Federation. The enormous popularity of our e-book holdings does much to validate the concept of the e-book software as a reading environment," said Seaman. The audience is broad, including high school and college students, teachers, parents, and the general reading public. "We see e-books as another way for the library to enhance educational opportunities and research experiences," said Martha Blodgett, associate University librarian for information technology. Users can download numerous texts onto one computer, giving them access through one device rather than carrying many books. E-books are convenient for researchers, who can perform keyword searches in less time than it takes to flip through a paper book looking for a certain word or passage, she said. E-books also retain some of the best features of paper books. Users can write notes on a page and even "dog-ear" pages. "This is a new and evolving technology and we are excited about the opportunity to experiment with it," she said. All of the University's e-book offerings are also available on the Web as part of a much larger multi-language collection produced by the University Library's Etext Center. Currently, the entire Etext Center Web site is accessed some 90,000 times a day by approximately 25,000 users. The Etext Center, founded in 1992, was the first electronic center of its kind and provides Internet access to humanities-related XML texts. For more information, visit the center's Web site at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ Reporters: For more information about the Etext Center or the e-books, contact David Seaman, Chris Ruotolo, or Matt Gibson at (804) 924-3230 or etext@virginia.edu ________________________________________________________ Again, for any questions or responses please contact me, Chris Ruotolo, or David Seaman yours, Matthew Gibson Matthew Gibson msg2d@virginia.edu Assistant Director, Electronic Text Center The University of Virginia From: Creagh Cole Subject: Sydney 2001 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:22:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 457 (457) Computing Arts Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001 A Conference to be held at the University of Sydney 26th - 28th September 2001 Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001 will explore the impact of digitisation on the humanities, and will focus on new methods of creating, using and conserving the resources which comprise our common cultural heritage. Computing Arts 2001 will focus on the impact of new technologies on research and creative endeavour, on teaching and learning, on publishing, on conservation and curation, on librarianship and archiving. It will be the first forum of its kind in the region to bring together practitioners in such a wide range of disciplines. It will provide a formal ongoing focus for researchers, scholars and librarians in the region to discuss their work in all its aspects and applications, and to develop networks and collaborations to extend the use of new technologies into the traditions of humanities research, study and appreciation. We are planning in addition a number of workshops in partnership with other Australian universities and libraries. These will focus on new tools and techniques in humanities computing applications, and will be relevant to a broad range of disciplines in the humanities. Computing Arts 2001 is held in association with the Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) organisation in the United Kingdom, and is supported by The Australian Academy of the Humanities and the National Scholarly Communications Forum. Sponsors for the conference include Bell and Howell Information and Learning. CONFERENCE WEB SITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION <http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001>http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001 [material deleted] ________________________________________________________________________ Email Submissions: conference@library.usyd.edu.au Contacts for more information: Dr. Creagh Cole SETIS Coordinator - c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au Ms. Rowanne Couch RIHSS Research Manager - rowanne.couch@rihss.usyd.edu.au From: Terry Winograd Subject: The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI -Special Interest Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:12:24 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 458 (458) {--} B a y C H I The San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction announces its October meeting: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. On-Line Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability Jenny Preece, University of Maryland Baltimore County + Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland College Park Xerox PARC Auditorium 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 (BayCHI meeting attendance is free & open to the public.) Socializing/networking from 7 to 7:30 in the lobby. Coffee and tea will be provided. BayCHI programs are not audio- or videotaped, and taping by attendees is not permitted. About "On-Line Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability": "Like twentieth-century architects and town planners, on-line community developers shape digital landscapes, but successful on-line communities also need a purpose, people, and policies." In millions of on-line communities, people meet to debate baseball scores, compare childbirth experiences, get information about stocks, and ask for consumer advice. People create communities by their presence or absence and their behavior and personalities, and so do moderators and others with special roles. Developers can't control what people do, but they can influence them by defining purposes and policies. Designing software that is consistent, predictable, easy to learn, and supportive of how people want to interact has an impact too. Supporting social interaction (i.e., sociability) and human-computer interaction (i.e., usability) can produce thriving on-line communities instead of electronic ghost towns. Many developers design software, thinking they are designing communities. Meanwhile, keen-eyed, reflective sociologists describe the emergence of communities. But communities are neither designed nor do they just emerge. Like physical communities they evolve and change over time. In this talk I discuss how developers can create sociability and usability for different kinds of communities. Compelling examples from research on empathy, hostility, and lurking illustrate key points. I also suggest how on-line communities may enhance or destroy growth of social capital in our society. JENNY PREECE researches and teaches human-computer interaction and on-line communities. Current projects include characterizing lurking behavior, supporting on-line moderators, and identifying models of community. Jenny is also experienced in distance education, having worked at the British Open University for fifteen years. She is a coauthor of a leading HCI text and of a new text, "Interaction Design," available Fall, 2001. Jenny's new book, "On-Line Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability," is published by John Wiley & Sons, Fall 2000 <http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities/> -------- About "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing": The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Attention is shifting from making computers intelligent to making users creative. Human-computer interaction research and usability engineering are emerging in scientific and technology communities, but they have been criticized as being merely evaluative rather than generative. I will take Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse because he combined scientific exploration with practical application and esthetic sensitivities. The first lesson is to think more deeply about the full range of users' needs. This talk lays out five circles of human relationships and four stages of social activities. These form a basis for user interface innovation that covers mobility, ubiquity, and community. Information resources will sprout from InfoDoors and WebBushes. Buddy lists and million-person communities will be accessible through palmtop and fingertip devices. The second lesson of the new computing is universal usability. Leonardo's sympathy for the underprivileged would make him a crusader for crossing the digital divide. Successful systems will be customized for diverse users, tailorable to a wide range of hardware, software, and networks, and designed to bridge the gap between what users know and what they need to know. The third lesson, which will occupy researchers for the next century, is the need for creativity support tools. Clever programmers are already developing advanced strategies that help users to design buildings, manage knowledge, compose music, and conduct scientific research. But the best is yet to come. BEN SHNEIDERMAN is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/), and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997. Ben is the author of "Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems" (1980) and "Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction" (3rd ed. 1998) <http://www.awl.com/DTUI/>. He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His move into information visualization spawned the successful company Spotfire <http://www.spotfire.com/>, where he is a board member. He is an advisor for <http://www.smartmoney.com/> where his treemap visualization is used for stock market data. With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored "Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think" (1999). <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558605339/> -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Judy Subject: OZCHI Annual conference for the Computer-Human Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:28:06 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 459 (459) [--] (Apologies for duplicates) OZCHI 2000 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Interfacing reality in the new millennium Sydney, Australia, 4-8 December 2000 <http://www.cmis.csiro.au/ozchi2000/> Call for Participation OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Ergonomics Society of Australia, and Australia and New-Zealand's leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of researchers and practitioners with a wide range of interests, including human factors and ergonomics, human-computer interaction, information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, design, social sciences and management. An excellent program of tutorials, workshops and conference presentations, with an exhibition, demonstrations and poster display has now been finalised. Full details on the web page above. Highlights are: Keynote Speakers Richard Helm, Boston Consulting Group John Carroll, Center for Human Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, USA: Making use: Scenario-Based Design of Human Computer Interaction. Penny Sanderson, SCHIL Director, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia: "It's an IT system, not a control system!" Revolutionary changes in human computer interaction with large-scale systems. Gerhard Fischer, Professor, University of Colorado, USA: Design, Learning, Collaboration and New Media: a co-evolutionary HCI perspective. Brian Gaines, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary, Canada: HCI and Internet Communities: Something Borrowed, Something Blue. Tutorials and Workshops See details on the web for the 9 Tutorials and 4 workshops on offer 4th and 5th December. Social Activities Both the Welcome Cocktails and the Gala Dinner are in spectacular Sydney locations, recognisable from the recent Olympic coverage! Drink in the sky, then dine beneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge, network and relax. Registration Online registration on the web now. Early Bird rates close Sunday 22nd October - don't delay. Special rates for CHISIG and ACS members. Enquiries: on any aspect of the Conference, to Ozchi@welldone.com.au OZCHI2000 c/- Well Done Events PO Box 90 Cambewarra NSW 2540 Australia Judy Potter Managing Director Well Done Events PO Box 90 CAMBEWARRA NSW 2540 Tel: +61 2 4422 2222 Fax: +61 2 4422 3878 Mobile: 0412 219 895 Email: judyp@welldone.com.au http://www.cmis.csiro.au/ozchi2000/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: 1995 expectations in 2000 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:25:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 460 (460) Willard, I do thank the vigourous Jacksonian exchange on digital libraries which has provided me an opportunity to segue to this consideration which I have been meaning to bring forwarded. I have had recent occasion to reread a piece by Seth R. Katz, "Graduate Programs and Job Training" which appeard in _Profession 95_, a publication of the Modern Language Association. On page 65 towards the end of a section entitled "Online Publishing and Other Online Academic Activities, Katz, one can read the following sentence : Online activities may even bring more public relations benefit to the institution than the traditional kind do, since they often reach more people more immediately and more frequently. Katz's frames this observation in the context of emerging critiera for performance measures of collaborative and online work. One can clearly read the" any place any time" hype generated by the opening of the World Wide Web and the Internet to commerical interests. I am wondering if any subscribers to Humanist would care to comment on the evolution of assesment mechanisms for online work, in particular if any attention has been focussed not only on very punctual model (x amount of people served in y time) but also on a longtitudinal model (activities and resource-building that continue to accrue value over time). Perahps the "noisy library" thread with its most recent pointer to matrices of trust could be woven into this call to consider how, as a discipline, humanities computing markets success. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: John Lavagnino Subject: hyperlinking Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:27:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 461 (461) I guess I don't find the explicitness issue that Willard raises very compelling. The examples he gives just look like perfectly ordinary citations of previous discussions, there more as professional duty than because you are expected to go look at them ever. And generally I'm not very sympathetic to arguments about the subtle hints that people build into scholarly prose, especially in something like a commentary that presents itself as more factual than interpretive. I suspect these hints are not getting interpreted properly by many readers, and certainly they're the first thing to go when someone cites or paraphrases your remarks. It's also very often something you could express directly but don't; the direct expression would really be better. I'm reminded of a comment of Jorge Luis Borges in his essay "The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader" from 1931: The perfect page, the page in which no word can be altered without harm, is the most precarious of all. Changes in language erase shades of meaning, and the "perfect" page is precisely the one that consists of those delicate fringes that are so easily worn away. On the contrary, the page that becomes immortal can traverse the fire of typographical errors, approximate translations, and inattentive or erroneous readings without losing its soul in the process. What he's describing in the last sentence is not a universal criterion, but I think a good one for a lot of scholarly writing. Perhaps I'm touchy about this because I recently read a piece of writing that cites one of my own writings, and describes it as arguing precisely the opposite of what I was saying; that does lead me to feel we should all write everything in crayon rather than with a battery of finely gradated pencils. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Einat Amitay Subject: Re: 14.0313 readings & thoughts on hyperlinking Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:28:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 462 (462) Hi Willard, After reading your explanation I thought of these two people and their work. It is more in the technical writing / rhetoric domain - but they too have thought about the problems you describe: Davida Charney - http://www.drc.utexas.edu/faculty/charney/ Clay Spinuzzi - http://english.ttu.edu/spinuzzi/ (especially his recent PhD thesis that can be found online). I guess it will leave you with more questions than answers - but at least they discuss similar problems. +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat From: Mick Doherty Subject: Re: 14.0313 readings & thoughts on hyperlinking Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:28:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 463 (463) Back when I was editor of _Kairos_, I named my editor's column in homage to the great and powerful (oh, sorry, wrong cultural reference) Vannevar Bush. Now with this thread I am starting to believe Willard should turn it into the meat of a scholarly review article and appropriate the title of my column ... "As We May Link" ... ------------------------------------------ Mick Doherty Corporate Communications Editor American Airlines E-mail: mick.doherty@aa.com Personal: mickwrites@hotmail.com mickwrites@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0318 XML ebooks from Virginia Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:22:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 464 (464) I hope the publishers proofread the e-texts from Virginia carefully. Recently on ChaucerNet a couple of egregious errors were noted in the supposedly finished UVA Chaucer e-text. From: Willard McCarty Subject: shades of meaning and personal touches Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:25:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 465 (465) In his fine article, "Criticism as commentary and commentary as criticism in the age of electronic media" (in Commentaries -- Kommentare, ed. Glenn W Most, Aporemata 4, Goettingen), the late Don Fowler wrote that, "The commentary is often figured as a more impersonal and objective form of scholarship than the monograph or article, despite the distinctly personal tone of many of the great commentaries, from Maynor to Nisbet and Hubbard. This is clearly not so: commentaries like any other genre of criticism can only ever give us one person's view" (p 441). He goes on to illustrate with his favourite passage, from Norden's 1916 commentary on Aeneid 6.469, illa solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat, "she [Dido], turned away, held her eyes fixed on the ground". In his commentary Norden relates an exchange of letters with his colleague Heinze, "...so trug ich durch diese Annahme, wie mir Heinze brieflich bemerkte, einen falschen Zug in das Bild hinein..." Fowler remarks, "Heinze and Norden are the greatest German Latin scholars of this century: as the First World War approaches, we see them exchanging letters about whether a woman is in love with her ex-lover when she stares fixedly at the ground.... The act of commentary here might be taken as paradigmatic of philology in general, learned footnotes on the undecidable" (p 442). I quote one scholar's personal note on another's very personal note to make the point that the commentary medium in the right hands requires the subtleties of imaginative language, though in a mode not usually recognised as such. The commentary may be essentially ad loc., but the skillful scholar rings the changes intricately on his or her pointers. Though not in Fowler's, Norden's or Heinze's league, I know from personal experience in crafting scholarly footnotes that sometimes one has a very fine point to make and so takes care, for example, with the difference between "vide"/"see" and "cf./compare". Often, yes, "cf." covers a multitude of ignorances, serves as a pretentious dumping ground for a list of citations intended to impress but not inform (as Anthony Grafton says somewhere, I am told, exaggerating the case). But sometimes "cf." is just right, e.g. to say "here are instances I think are relevant but don't quite know what to do with". Consider also broad references to the work of another -- not to any particular spot but to a whole tendency of mind. Thus, to make up an example, "In Augustine the typological relationship between Old and New Testaments...." Ok, so how do we manage this sort of thing electronically? One answer is, of course, that we continue to use ordinary language in the traditional way with as much skill as we can muster but supplement it with hyperlinks. The thought-experiment of attempting to translate *all* references and allusions into pointers is, I think, nevertheless a fine one. The learned editors of the TEI and their collaborators seem to have thought along these or similar lines in designing a much subtler instrument than HREF (see, as soon as you finish reading the next sentence, TEI P3 chapter 14, <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei-tocs4.html>). Would this not be properly called modelling allusion? Not that we understand allusion very well. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K./ +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / maui gratias agere From: Randall Pierce Subject: perfect page Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:26:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 466 (466) I cannot think of any subject in which the precarious nature of the text is self-evident than information technology. It should be expected that one's magnus opus, let us say on hyperlinks and hyperinking, will be, if not surpassed, be made at least obselescent. I think that I can safely say that the current generation of information technologists are laying the groundwork for encyclopedists of the near-future. I agree with my son-in-law, a software engineeer, that information technology will make the exponential increase of information available in a very short time. I would like to hope that as well as technologists interested in the techniques of hypertext expansion, there will emerge those who want to use the available information to make those cognitive connections so important to innovation. But I'm excited to be at the beginnings of the revolution. Randall From: Terry Winograd Subject: Special HCI Seminar Tuesday 10/10 - Jan Borchers, TU Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:10:27 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 467 (467) [--] The Project on People Computers and Design will be sponsoring a special seminar (in addition to our regular Friday talks) next Tuesday. Everyone is welcome. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special HCI Seminar Tuesday, October 10, 2:15pm Gates 104 Jan Borchers Universities of Darmstadt and Ulm Interaction Design for New Media: A Pattern Approach The plethora of emerging new media technologies, from the World-Wide Web to immersive virtual realities, to e-books and ubiquitous, invisible information appliances, requires HCI experts more than ever to work together with software engineers and users in an interdisciplinary team in order to create appropriate new interaction designs. A major problem in these teams is communication. This talk proposes a new, unified framework that uses "pattern languages", a concept adopted from architecture, to model experience in the human-computer interaction, software engineering, and application domain of interactive software projects. This creates a "lingua franca" for everybody involved in the design process. The talk will include a demonstration of some of the interactive exhibits, such as "Personal Orchestra", "Virtual Vienna", or "WorldBeat", that were designed by the author using this approach. For more information about this approach, see the recent DIS 2000 paper, "A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design", available at <http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/~jan/publications/> About the speaker: Dr. Jan Borchers works as computer science researcher and lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction for New Media at the Universities of Darmstadt and Ulm in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. with first-class honors from Darmstadt University of Technology for his work on a pattern-based approach to interaction design. He has designed and lead the development of interactive systems since 1995, including "Personal Orchestra" which lets users conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, the "Virtual Vienna" 3-D city tour (both for a large museum in Vienna), and the award-winning interactive music exhibit, "WorldBeat" (presented, for example, at CHI'97). He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science with first-class honors from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1995, after studying in Karlsruhe and at Imperial College, University of London, with emphasis on human-computer interaction, computer graphics, connectionism, and educational theory. He has authored papers for journals such as IEEE Multimedia, Computers & Graphics, and the SIGCHI Bulletin, and presented his work at CHI, DIS, IEEE ICMCS, HCI International, WWW, and other conferences. He participated in workshops about issues such as wearable computing, electronic books, and HCI patterns, and co-organized HCI patterns workshops at INTERACT'99 and CHI'00. His book, A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design, is the first to deal with HCI patterns in detail, to appear with John Wiley & Sons in 2000. Jan Borchers is a member of ACM and its special interest group in computer-human interaction (SIGCHI), and the German Computer Science Society (GI) and its software ergonomics group. He can be reached at ; see <http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/~jan/> for more information. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Noam Chomsky's views of the Internet Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:28:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 468 (468) Dear Humanists, Hi --I hope you are doing well --here are the interesting views of Noam Chomsky on the patterns of the Internet --thought might interest you-- Question: What do you (Noam Chomsky) think about the Internet? Answer (of Noam Chomsky): I think that there are good things about it, but there are also aspects of it that concern and worry me. This is an intuitive response--I can't prove it--but my feeling is that, since people aren't Martians or robots, direct face-to-face contact is an extremely important part of human life. It helps develop self-understanding and the growth of a healthy personality. You just have a different relationship to somebody when you are looking at them than you do when you're punching away at a keyboard and some symbols come back. I suspect that extending that form of abstract and remote relationship, instead of direct, personal contact, is going to have unpleasant effects on what people are like. I will diminish their humanity. I think. Reference: --------- More thoughts on *Internet* can be read at (http://mitpress.mit.edu/chomskydisc/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000001) Thank you. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Willard McCarty Subject: method/methodology in the definition of primitives? Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:29:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 469 (469) Clay Spinuzzi, in "Designing for lifeworlds: Genre and activity in information systems design and evaluation" (Iowa State, 1999), p 240 (<http://english.ttu.edu/spinuzzi/spinuzzi-dissertation.pdf>), cites Giesa Kirsch and Patricia Sullivan to make the often blurred distinction between method and methodology. A methodology, he notes from their book, is "the underlying theory and analysis of how research does or should proceed"; a method is the set of steps guided by the methodology (Kirsch and Sullivan, Methods and methodology in composition research, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1992). Could we then say that Unsworth's primitives are methodological whereas the lower-level software primitives, such as SORT, are methodical? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K./ +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / maui gratias agere From: Randall Pierce Subject: quotation Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:27:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 470 (470) Re: the comments of Arun Kuman Tripathi. Indeed, many science fiction writers do capitalize on the works of other writers in the genre. Many science fiction writers are also respected and acknowledged scientists. Mr. Heinlein was a hydraulic engineer. Mr. Clarke has been a member of the British interplanetary association for years. "Prophets" and "seers" are often looked upon with suspicion or are disparaged. To call a fiction work of a scientist "space opera" would seem to many a disparaging comment. When Dr. Clarke first wrote about communication sattelites in 1946, he did so in a fiction format. Science fiction is often used to broach ideas that would be ridiculed if they were place in professional journals. "Not yet" does not mean "never". A projective analysis of trends is always a tool of any scientific endeavor. Information technology is no different. I might suggest that for pure amusement, some of the correspondents might read A.E. Van Vogt's Voyage of the Space Beagle. Randall From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Re: 14.0314 modern-day prophets Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:29:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 471 (471) Greetings All, Hi..if I am correct..Tom Corbett, much influenced by Robert Heinlein's "Space Cadet" developed a radio serious and wrote a novel known as "Danger in Deep Space". Tom Corbett was the star of CBS and Space Opera..actually the action in Tom Corbett is set in the 24th Century, 2350..speaking from space..stay tuned..thanks! Best Regards Arun Tripathi On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: For and Against Method, Eric Higgs on _Technology and the Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:04:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 472 (472) Good Life?_ & The Road since Structure Dear humanist scholars, Hello --some new books, sounds interesting --thought --might interest you..thanks! Title: Lakatos, Imre: For and Against Method Publisher: University of Chicago Press Paul Feyerabend said : "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. 'Paul,' he said, 'you have such strange ideas. Why don't you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you--we shall have a lot of fun.'" Lakatos died before he could write his reply, but this book reconstructs his counter-arguments from lectures and correspondence previously unpublished in English--two eminent philosophers matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the scientific method. For more information, see the book synopsis at <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13766.ctl> ------------------------------ Title: Higgs, Eric: Technology and the Good Life? Publisher: University of Chicago Press Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master? Technology and the Good Life? uses a careful collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial and influential ideas as a jumping-off point from which to address questions such as these. For more information, see the book synopsis at <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14056.ctl> ------------------------------ Title: Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Road since Structure Publisher: University of Chicago Press The fullest record we have of the new direction Kuhn was taking during the last two decades of his life. The first part consists of essays in which Kuhn refines the basic concepts set forth in Structure--paradigm shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress. In part II, Kuhn replies to many of the criticisms of his earlier work. The third part is the transcript of a remarkable autobiographical interview conducted in Athens in 1995. For more information, see the book synopsis at <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14038.ctl> Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Luciano Floridi Subject: Special Issue of MINDS AND MACHINES on the Philosophy of Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:12:56 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 473 (473) [--] PLEASE FORWAD TO OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES _________________________________________________________________________ MINDS AND MACHINES http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0924-6495 SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION GUEST EDITOR: LUCIANO FLORIDI _________________________________________________________________________ This is the first CFP for the special issue of MINDS AND MACHINES, dedicated to the Philosophy of Information. The Philosophy of Information (PI) is understood as the descriptive as well as normative branch of philosophy primarily concerned with the conceptual and foundational investigation into the nature of information, its dynamics and utilisation, that is the constitution and development of information environments (with their systemic properties, interactions, internal transformations etc.), information life cycles (the series of various stages in form and functional activity through which information can pass, from its initial occurrence to its final utilisation and possible disappearance) and computation. PI attempts to provide a unified, explanatory theory of what information is, not a quantitative theory of data communication (information theory). On the theoretical side, it includes the philosophy of AI and computing. [deleted quotation]information and how information should be adequately created and manipulated (information ethics). Papers submitted for the special issue of MINDS AND MACHINES will address 1) metatheoretical issues concerning the foundation of PI; 2) methodological aspects of PI; 3) the information-turn in philosophy; 4) issues in classic areas of PI, such as the philosophy of AI, computational philosophy of science, information-theoretic approaches to epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, computer ethics and hypertext theory etc. However, preference will be given to papers dedicated to (1)-(3). Instructions for Authors are available at http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0924-6495 Inquiries and papers can be sent to: luciano.floridi@philosophy.oxford.ac.uk Deadline: 1 February, 2002 _____________________________________________________________ Luciano Floridi luciano.floridi@philosophy.oxford.ac.uk Wolfson College ICQ 57101369 Oxford, OX2 6UD, UK Home: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi Tel. +44-(0)1865-274137 SWIF: www.swif.uniba.it Mob. +44-(0)7773479412 ___________________________________ Fax +44-(0)1865-274125 -- From: Ugur HALICI Subject: BRAIN MACHINE, Workshop, 20-22 Dec 2000, Ankara Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:31:30 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 474 (474) [--] Please accept our apologies in case of receiving multiple copies --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- BRAIN MACHINE WORKSHOP 20-22 December 2000, Ankara, Turkey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference home page: <http://heaven.eee.metu.edu.tr/~vision/brainmachine.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS: Intelligent systems * Neural networks * Brain signals and imaging * Natural/artificial vision *Speech processing, Machine learning * Language understanding * Sensation, perception, cognition * Computational models * Neuromotor control * Biologically inspired systems * Knowledge-based and expert systems * Case-based reasoning * Evolutionary systems * Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy techniques * Intelligent agents * Collective Intelligence * Animats, humanoids * Emotions, creativity and machines * Other related topics --------------------------------------------------------------------- KEY SPEAKERS: K. 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Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey Fax: (+90) 312 210 1261 Phone: (+90) 312 210 4558 (+90) 312 210 2333 e-mail: halici@metu.edu.tr <http://heaven.eee.metu.edu.tr/~halici/> <http://heaven.eee.metu.edu.tr/~vision/> ------------------------------------------ From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: Re: 14.0323 e-books from Virginia Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:50:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 475 (475) Despite all our best efforts, online texts contain errors -- those which we have keyboarded are supposed to be no worse than 1 error in 20,000 keystrokes (99.995%) and that is typically true. We are always delighted to have errors reported by our users -- and we check them and fix them as soon as possible. The Middle English Chaucer text mentioned below [not part of the 1,200 MS Reader ebook collection whose announcement prompted the comment below] has received a lot of work and I'm sure there are still moments of imprecision left. As a collector of print editions of Chaucer I can say for certain that errors occur in print too. The term "publishers" below should be "readers" -- we are not offering our ebooks to publishers but to any reader who chooses to download them. Already our own additional proofing of the TEI files re-cast in MS Reader format have shaken loose some typos and layout clumsiness that we had never noticed in their web versions -- and we have had some small number of errors reported by grateful readers, who understand that by reporting them we can make the book better for the next reader. This is one of the best ways that our users can help us. David Seaman Etext Center, UVA [deleted quotation] From: Matthew Sweegan Gibson Subject: Re: 14.0323 e-books from Virginia Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:50:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 476 (476) This is a reply to Norman Hinton's email about any potential egregious errors in the ebooks we've been producing: What we have found, since any version of a any one text is bound to have variants, is that the ebooks have been an excellent way to go back and actually FIX errors. We have received nothing but positive response from the public reading community who have been downloading our ebooks and graciously some readers will actually email us and tell us of any typos which we can then fix in both our SGML-encoded texts and in the ebook version. So, ebooks have actually become a positive second filter in correcting any errors in the texts we have up. Happy reading--and please, if you do find any mistakes, contact us and let us know. yours, Matthew Matthew Gibson msg2d@virginia.edu Assistant Director, Electronic Text Center The University of Virginia On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: errors in e-books Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:04:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 477 (477) The question of some errors in the Virginia Chaucer reminds me of a notion I heard at one time that is perhaps worth talking about now: publishing incompletely proof-read material and depending on reporting of errors from readers in a long process of getting it right. Clearly a method that could be abused, yes, but should it be absolutely condemned? Consider the sort of open-source publishing that Stoa (www.stoa.org) is engaged in, specifically Suda Online, where relatively unedited, unchecked material is put online, marked with its status, then revised and re-marked in stages as it goes through the complete editorial process. A brilliant idea, it seems to me. Although many of us, I suppose, have spent sufficient time proofing texts that we could claim to embody the passion for getting it right, still we must realise how difficult this is. (I also suspect that several of us have great stories about opening the printed volume at long last only to spot at first glance some horrible error!) The question, it seems to me, is how can we use the e-medium intelligently in this regard? I hope that at least someone from Stoa will comment. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K./ +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / maui gratias agere From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 478 (478) For pure enlightenment, not amusement in scifi-fiction, the great European Humanist Engineer, Stanislaw Lem, is the one to read. Americans have not sense of the great tragic human, or true comedy. I recommend for starters (and perhaps finishers, too) Lem's masterpiece, FIASCO Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone: (310) 393-4648 (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. PST) Fax: (360) 838-8589/VoiceMail 24 hours (360) 838-8589 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com http://jaschakessler.homestead.com/ http://www.mcphersonco.com From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:05:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 479 (479) [deleted quotation] British Interplanetary Society. I think he was a founder, and he certainly served as an officer. His training was from what I remember in engineering. [deleted quotation] This is not one of them. See Clarke's collected scientific papers, *Ascent to Orbit*, for his original paper proposing the use of a geosynchronous orbit for communications satellites. Also, he is not, I believe, a doctor. His *City and the Stars* and *Lion of Commagene* (sp?) would be of interest to those looking for early references to the concept of virtual reality. Patrick Rourke From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:05:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 480 (480) [deleted quotation] Isn't "space opera" just a genre label referring to a special kind of science fiction? Fotis Jannidis From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: apologies Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:06:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 481 (481) Greetings humanist scholars, Hello..I would like to apologize for a misprint done by me..in "14.0328 sci-fi and science" on *Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:35:42 +0100* in the Humanist Discussion Group..there..I wrote.."radio serious" in place of "radio series" related to Tom Corbett. Thank you. Yours Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0327 method/methodology in the definition of Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:06:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 482 (482) primitives? At 07:34 AM 10/9/00 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] That seems useful to me. To the kind of "methodical" primitives we have talked about, such as sort, filter, transform (note that in this context 'transform' is a *mechanical* exercise), we should certainly add the work that goes into *preparing* an electronic text and whatever apparatus we might bring to it (our word lists and so forth). It's too easy to forget this aspect of the work. Which takes us directly back to "methodological" primitives, textual criticism etc. It seems there's no escaping the human aspect of humanities. (Which is fortunate.) 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0325 Chomsky on the Internet Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:05:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 483 (483) Interesting, N. Chomsky's "intuitive" speculations on the nature of electronic communication posit conversation as the core criterium of success. However, the Internet is more than e-mail or conferencing. We could do well to remember its archival function. We could do even better to think of file transfer protocol as a mechanism that enables a flow of objects (taken in the anthropological and not strikly computing sense) along the lines of the research conducted by Mary Douglas. However, Chomsky has fetishised eye contact. Even before the advent of telephony, there was a place for non face-to-face communication. I don't just mean the screen in the darkened cubicle of the Catholic confessional. To close one's eyes while in the embrace of a lover... The blind in Chomsky's world can never be whole. We are not what we behold. We are not what we perceive. If anything computer-mediated communication heightens a collective understanding that all communication is mediated which understanding, if I may say so, is the basis for the growth of healthy personalities (and a couple of morbid pathologies). Sloppy nostalgia does little directly to heighten understanding except remind us how easily we too may fall. [deleted quotation] The type in the passage above is telling: "I will diminish their humanity [...]" My humanity includes a place for Martian robots, the music of Patti Smith and the cries of Yoko Ono and the essays of a Paul de Man and the art of a Francis Bacon and such occidental cultural rituals as Halloween and Mardi Gras where both colourful and dull grey incarnations of Maritan robots might look without blinking a wannabe nominalist imperialist in the verbal eye to produce a syntagm of encounter. And the linguist, captivated by the look, just might not reflect the gaze back. A little coda inspired by With Martin Jay's opening to his _Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought_ (U of California Press, 1993). *wink* -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Professor Withrow's Speculation on the Future Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:05:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 484 (484) Greetings All, HI..below are some more thoughts and critics of Prof. Withrow, that I would like to share with all of you-- ---- It is great that we have the ability to reach out and touch people all around the world. I don't pretend to know what the end results will be, but it is exciting to be living and working in a world where the potential to somehow touch each of the six billion people of the world exists. I am accutely aware of the inequities and that at least a fourth of the world's population does not have access to a telephone or for that matter even seen a telephone. In the 1890s the most optomistic futurists thought that there might be one telephone in every USA village. It was inconcievable that the telephone companies would be advertising "family celphone." What the next century will bring is hard to guess. Kurzweil believes by 2020 we can have Mindprints, i.e. dump our brains into computers. Other futurists tell us it is not inconceivable that we will have direct brain to machine communications. It's a wonder future world. The challenge is for us to make the best of it and not squander it. Sincerely Yours Arun Tripathi From: Willard McCarty Subject: Open Archives Services Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:02:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 485 (485) [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Paul Evan Peters Award - Nominations By Oct 31 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:07:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 486 (486) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 10, 2000 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: PAUL EVAN PETERS AWARD <http://www.educause.edu/awards/pep/pep.html>http://www.educause.edu/awards/pep/pep.html [deleted quotation] From: Convergence Subject: Special Issue on Telecommunications in Europe for Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:25:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 487 (487) [--] *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* *****Call for papers***** Special Issue on Telecommunications in Europe Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Submission deadline for this issue is : 30th October 2001 For Volume 8 No. 2 of the Journal (Summer 2002) we are seeking papers relating to research projects or case studies on European telecommunications policy. This issue will be guest-edited by Peter Humphreys, Reader in Government, University of Manchester. For well over a decade now, with the UK in the vanguard, European states have been gradually liberalising their previously highly protected telecommunications markets, and privatising their former monopolistic, state-owned telecommunication operators. Although the process has been driven by underlying market and technological pressures, the European Union has been an important agency for promoting within Europe this paradigm change, seen as vital for Europes competitiveness in the much vaunted Information Society. This special issue focuses on the regulatory policy issues raised by liberalisation, privatisation and competition in the telecommunications sector as it converges with other sectors IT, Internet, media - in the digital age. One contextual article already commissioned looks at European telecommunications reform in the global context (the ITU, the WTO, the US influence, etc.). Additional articles are invited on any of, or combining several of, the following themes: Regulatory convergence and diversity: The EUs liberalisation and re-regulation Directives have allowed for significant discretion regarding implementation. How diverse are member states regulatory structures and practices? The performance of the national regulatory regimes . The Commissions 1999 Fifth Report on the Telecom Regulatory Package found significant variety in the division of regulatory powers between ministries, regulatory bodies, and national competition authorities. How diversely have national regulators performed? Corporate strategies and European competition policy: Liberalisation, globalisation and convergence with the IT and audiovisual sectors have produced a wave of mergers and acquisitions, and strategic alliances. What are the implications for competition policy? The future of universal service: What kind of policies are required to avoid an information rich/information poor scenario? The convergence of telecoms with the audiovisual and IT sectors Is policy for convergence being driven by a mixture of technological determinism, an overarching concern for economic competitiveness, and a blind faith in competition delivering the public-interest benefits? Proposals for papers on other themes will be considered. Proposals for articles or completed papers should be sent to: Peter Humphreys Address: Department of Government, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. E-mail: p.humphreys@man.ac.uk Convergence is a quarterly refereed academic journal which addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. On-line info at http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence Proposals for articles or completed papers for all other issues should be sent to: Julia Knight or Alexis Weedon, Editors, Convergence, School of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton, LU1 3AJ, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1582 734111, fax: + 44 1582 489014, email: Convergence@luton.ac.uk ----------------- Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Convergence is a paper journal. To join our e-mailing list, for further information and for details of back issues, see our web site at <http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence> The copyright of all articles, papers, reports and reviews published in Convergence rests with the University of Luton Press. Any author(s) wishing to have their published text reproduced elsewhere should seek the necessary permission via the Editors Edited by Julia Knight, Jeanette Steemers & Alexis Weedon Dept of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 Castle St., Luton, LU1 3AJ, UK Editorial email: Convergence@luton.ac.uk Tel: +44 1582 489031/489144 Fax: +44 1582 489014 Web site: http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence ----------------- From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Jane Austen Digital Libraries 10/11 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:05:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 488 (488) A rather late notice: Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 5:30 STG conference room, Grad Center, Tower E ACCESSING CULTURAL HISTORY: CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY AND THE WEB Professor Michael Wheeler Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother, and that she knew well, is to be renovated as part of a major international project to establish The Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600-1830, and to house a magnificent collection of over 6,200 rare books from the period, together with some related manuscripts, now located in the USA. In association with the University of Southampton, where Michael Wheeler is also Professor of English Literature, the Centre will develop publications programmes, seminars, day conferences and cultural events, which draw the disciplines together, ranging from literary history to garden history. The Novels On-Line programme, directed by Katherine Moulton, Librarian of the collection at Redmond, WA, is about to post ten more novels by forgotten women writers. NOL, and the interpretation of the whole project on the web, will make the activities of the Centre accessible to people throughout the world. Michael Wheeler became Director of Chawton House Library in Hampshire, England, in October 1999, having formerly been Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster University, where he worked with George Landow on an electronic edition of Modern Painters volume I. In his new post he is looking at ways in which the rich history of an estate with strong literary connections can be accessed remotely on the web. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: UCITA Teleconference Dec 13 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:06:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 489 (489) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 10, 2000 Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) A Guide to Understanding and Action: A Satellite Teleconference December 13, 2000; 1-4p.m. EST <http://www.arl.org/ucita.html>http://www.arl.org/ucita.html Below is an announcement of a teleconference sponsored by five library organizations to broaden understanding of the state law being debated (and in many cases implemented) across the country that essentially undermines much of federal copyright law through licensing contract law. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] UCITA: A Guide to Understanding and Action A Satellite Teleconference December 13, 2000 1:00-4:00 p.m. EST Sponsored by: American Association of Law Libraries American Library Association Association of Research Libraries Medical Library Association Special Libraries Association UCITA, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, is a proposed state law that seeks to create a unified approach to the licensing of software and information. Two states--Maryland and Virginia--have passed UCITA, and it will be under consideration in many other states in the near future. Several aspects of UCITA pose problems for higher education and libraries. * UCITA legitimizes a non-negotiable contract-based system of intellectual property with no exemptions and fair use defenses for the research, education, and library communities as provided for in federal copyright law. * UCITA permits this same kind of contract to apply to mixed media transactions where a book accompanied by a CD, for example, could be governed by the same restrictions as placed on the CD. * UCITA permits provisions that prohibit reverse engineering or the public comment or criticism of a product. * UCITA allows the licensor to electronically disable, remove, or prevent the usage of computer information or software that resides on your system creating significant security issues along with interrupting services and operations. * UCITA allows software firms to waive liability for known defects in their software that they failed to disclose to their customers. UCITA can directly impact the ability of libraries and educational institutions to carry out their missions, to effectively manage their operations, and to preserve and apply community values in their daily work. With four panelists who were actively involved in the UCITA debates in their states, this teleconference will help you learn more about UCITA and what you can do to deal with it in your state! Panelists for the teleconference are: * James Neal, Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University; * Rodney Petersen, Director, Policy & Planning, Office of Information Technology, University of Maryland; * Catherine Wojewodzki, Reference Librarian, University of Delaware, and former State Representative in the Delaware Legislature; and * Sarah K. (Sally) Wiant, Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University Details and registration information can be found at <<http://www.arl.org/ucita.html>http://www.arl.org/ucita.html>. ------------- The Association of Research Libraries represents over 120 of the major research libraries in North America and works to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. The Association articulates the concerns of research libraries and their institutions, forges coalitions, influences information policy development, and supports innovation and improvement in research library operations. -- Julia C. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: BBracey@aol.com Subject: [Conference]The Third World Summit on Media for Children Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:11:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 490 (490) [--] The Third World Summit on Media for Children 23-26 March 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece Globalization Audiovisual globalization is a mere fact. It is also a matter of strong and long debate. During the summit, key issues will be examined and the European community, the UN, the strong forces of the Audiovisual Industry as well as personalities of the arts will be asked to take a stand. Globalization, an opportunity or a problem for the audiovisual future? Future viewer, a passive recipient or a conscious selective reader? How can cultural identity be preserved and developed? Can globalization be a creative tool? How will children be treated in such a framework? New Technologies Days Presentation Structures/Activities There are six presentation structures and activities The Forum in the morning of the New Technologies Day The Technology Exhibition Hall for all four days of the summit The Poster sessions for all four days of the summit The Technology Playground for all four days of the summit The Virtual Kids World for all four days of the summit The Interactive Concert during the evening of the New Technologies days Media for All the population of the world is growing constantly and access to media becomes a major requirement for communication, education, work and play. Knowledge of the new contextual and technological developments becomes the tool for each individual wishing to have an active role in the future world. Young people -the next generation- are very eager for and open to multicultural ideas and experiences. Every region of the world and all the people within each region, will have important roles to play in fture media. The challenge before all of us , developed world and developing- is how to bring out all of those voices. The conference day explores the ways in which media will become accessible to all communities , and also demonstrates the unique ways in which all people can contribute in this new exciting media dialogue. It won't always be about bringing the newest technology to the people, but about bringing the most appopriate media for the needs. Children Have A Say There is an increaing reconition of children's spending power and the acknowledgement of this has influenced the increase of children's television channels.(cable and satelllite services). The Children's Television Charter, based on the UN Rights of the Child, stretches children's right to receive quality programs, the right to see and express themselves, their culture, their language and their life experiences, through the media, which affirm the sense of self, community and place. Children have traditionally been seen as a special audience in debate about broadcasting- a vulnerable audience. Children's capacities to negotiate messages and actively work with the media have often been underestimated. The fourth day of the Summit will focus on the many manifestations of media literacy, media education, and research on children and the media. There will take place debates and discussions between young children , media practioners, media policy makers and researchers from all over the world in seminars, workshops, and master classes. Children will be actively invovled producing video programmes." Children have a say" will be approached from many various perspectives. *The 3rd World Summit on Media for Children brings together professionals from all over the world. *Aims at the creation of an audiovisual policy that supports the rights of children. * Offers the opportunity to a variety of cultural identities to be present and active during the scheduled events * Will demonstrate the creative diversities in culture, language and society as a basis for fruitful exhange and innovation. * Supports national participation and offers space and technical facilities for the creation of a national umbrella. * Works together with the European Union and NGO's to secure the participation of countries with lesser opportunities in information and training. * Suggest sponsorship opportunities for the participation of developing countries. * Presents children's channels, festivals, production companies and all of the main players in the international audiovisual landscape. * Invites new media experts to participate in the New Media Technologies Exhibition and Forum and the Third World Summit Actual and Virtual Playgrounds. * encourages the participation of researchers, academics and teachers * Provides special space for the presentation of educational audiovisual tools and programs. * Gives the chance to small and medium companies to comprehend the recent tendencies in production and distributions and identify their position in the global market. European Children's Television Centre 20 Analipseos Street, Vrilissia 152 35, Athens, Greece Tel. 30.1.6851.258 Fax 30.1.6817.987 e-mail : summit@children-media.org ---- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Academe: Technology its Problems & Promises Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:03:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 491 (491) Dear Humanists, In the September-October 1999 issue of Academe, Vol. 85 and No.5, *Education Bytes: The Problems and Promises of Technology* -- The Editor of Academe: Education Bytes, Prof. Ellen Schrecker mentioned in the Editorial note.. "My conversion to virtual education occurred last spring, when I walked into my classroom and found my students arguing ferociously-about the assigned reading. I had set up an electronic Listserv, posted a question about World War I, and encouraged the students to discuss it online. Once they got to class, the debate intensified. Whatever lingering doubts I had about the educational benefits of technology, that afternoon's experience mostly dispelled them". Now, my point of views are that -- The new technologies raise serious structural, pedagogical, and legal issues that, because of the speed at which higher education is turning virtual, faculty members can no longer ignore. As..Wendy Maloney has written in her article "Brick and Mortar Campuses Go Online" at <http://www.aaup.org/SO99Malo.htm> She wrote, "...Online education programs are in their infancy at regular colleges and universities. The nontraditional student they serve are satisfied and despite about cheating and intellectual property, so are most professors who teach online".. Also, Prof. Feenberg has written about Technology can enhance the curriculum..and profits over pedagogy in his article on "No Frills in the Virtual Classroom" which can be available at <http://www.aaup.org/SO99Feen.htm> One can also find..the following article such as *The Distance Education* --Utopianism pervades most thinking about online education. by Prof. Philip Agre ..but the article of Prof. Agre can be found at <http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/academe.html> and on *Technology's Grand Challenges* --Revolution is in making..by Prof. Stephen Ehrmann..one can read the draft of this article *Technology in Higher Learning: A Third Revolution* at <http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/dthirdrev.html> or *Grand Challenges Raised by Technology: Will This Revolution Be a Good One?* at <http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/grand_challenges_raised_by_techn.htm> Technology will enhance the teaching and learning style -if properly used. As Stephen Ehrmann and Andrew Feenberg explain in their article. Technology may also change scholarly communications. --now, some points to be given second thoughts-- Will technology make classrooms, libraries, and books obsolete? If technology does revolutionize the university, how can we make sure that it doesn't exacerbate the growing gap between higher education's haves and have-nots? Also, one can find the other papers with the printed version of the Academe Journal.. Full reading at <http://www.aaup.org/acahome.htm> Kind Regards Arun Tripathi From: "Price, Dan" Subject: Quotation from Chomsky and Comment Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:04:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 492 (492) Hello, Just read the posting from Francois with the quotation from Chomsky, who is quoted as saying: I suspect that extending > that form of abstract and remote relationship, instead of direct, personal [deleted quotation] will diminish their humanity. I think. Personally I am confused here. No one that I know of is saying that ALL of our communication has to be done by the Computer Mediated Communication. Indeed, a surprising portion of our daily contact is still with face to face situations-family, professional interchange, daily life tasks. By contrast, I find that the availability of contact and interchange with colleagues around the world in forums such as this is most supportive, broadening and stimulating. Seems like we need some perspective here. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html>http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** From: Randall Pierce Subject: Noam Chomsky Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:04:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 493 (493) Professor Chomsky's thoughts are well-taken. I have often been disturbed by the societal isolation encouraged by electronic information technology. I am not as alarmed as some psychologists who feel that the internet could be the influence which causes our traditional societal forms to disentegrate, but it can encourage those who do not feel that they "fit in". It does, however, encourage those who find any sort of human interaction threatening. They can feel safer communicating electronically, whereas human contact would send them back into isolation. I am acquainted with the disability community in some areas, and I know that electronic information technology has been a boon for many. Not only in education, where distance learning has made it possible for so many home-bound to be part of our vital intellectual community for the first time, but in terms of making a living. So many without the ability to leave their can support themselves and contribute so richly to the tapestry of emerging knowledge. Randall From: Ross Scaife Subject: re: errors in e-books Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:02:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 494 (494) [in reply to Humanist 14.0331] Willard, thanks (as always) for the support. Those of us involved in developing and managing the Suda On Line experiment remain hopeful that "a long process of getting it right" as you put it can work. It has been interesting. We have been encouraged in our hopes by - for example - the strenuous editorial exertions of David Whitehead (The Queen's University of Belfast), who over just the last couple of weeks has carefully vetted about 200 entries, and also contributed about another 150 entries relating to his formidable expertise on Athenian political organization and ancient rhetoric. Several other good scholars have also demonstrated their willingness to be regular editors. On the flip side of the coin, the editorial process we have implemented has exposed us to the occasional slings and arrows cast by traditionalists who just can't come to terms with this way of doing things, and who crawl out from under their rocks from time to time to harrumph and snort at us: typically they pat us on the head and say that while we deserve praise for our innovative approach they *do* hope the quality of some entry or other isn't typical... Apparently it's beneath them to register themselves as editors and get in there to *fix* whatever so troubles them. That's why we now have the following sentence in a prominent place on the front page of the site: "As ever, we welcome your comments -- but please note that if you believe particular entries could stand improvement, we prefer that you register as an editor and make your contribution directly!" http://www.stoa.org/sol/ Ross ________________________________ Ross Scaife (scaife@pop.uky.edu) Classics Department (POT 1015) University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 web: http://www.uky.edu/~scaife/ vox: 859 257 3629 fax: 859 257 3743 The Stoa Consortium http://www.stoa.org From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 14.0334 sci-fi and science Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:05:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 495 (495) [deleted quotation] Though Fiasco is my favorite of Lem's work, I have sometimes thought that the Golem story (in Imaginary Magnitudes) is his masterpiece. The other "stories" (introductions to books to be written at some point in the future) in Imaginary Magnitudes might also be of interest to readers on "Humanities." On the subject of this thread, though, Lem's criticism of science fiction (especially his readings of Phillip K. Dick, one of the least "scientific" of science fiction writers) would be especially of interest. By the way, I apologize for referring to Clarke's story as "The Lion of Commagene" - it is more like "Commarre." Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 33, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:56:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 496 (496) Version 33 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,220 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. The Acrobat file is over 320 KB and the Word file is over 370 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, Identifiers, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Portal for Culture and Development Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:08:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 497 (497) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 10, 2000 World Bank Announces Global Development Gateway A Portal for Culture and Development <http://www.worldbank.org/gateway>http://www.worldbank.org/gateway [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: david silver Subject: [RCCS]Internet Research 1.0: A Conference Review by David Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:24:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 498 (498) To: cyberculture@Glue.umd.edu *** feel free to forward *** Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline First Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA September 14-17, 2000 // <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir> A Field Matures: Cyberculture Studies at the Turn of the Century By David Silver, University of Maryland/Georgetown University Ten years ago, the first Conference in Cyberspace took place at the University of Texas at Austin. According to most accounts, the conference was invite-only and attracted some of the best minds around, including Michael Heim, Chip Morningstar, Marcos Novak, and Allucquere Rosanne (aka Sandy) Stone. A year later, the ideas crept to the rest of us, in the form of the appropriately entitled Cyberspace: First Steps (MIT, 1991), edited by Michael Benedikt. Throughout the last decade, many more steps have been taken. While Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community (Addison-Wesley, 1993) examined communities in cyberspace, Sherry Turkle's Life on the Screen (Simon & Schuster, 1995), along with the work of Amy Bruckman, Elizabeth Reid, and Stone, explored the formation of identities within online environments. By the mid-1990s, the first steps of an emerging field of study upgraded to a brisk jog. Under the altering guise of cyberculture studies or computer-mediated communication or Internet studies or social informatics, the field blossomed with books like CyberSociety (Sage, 1995) and Virtual Culture (Sage, 1997) edited by Steve Jones, Internet Culture (Routledge, 1997) edited by David Porter, and Network & Netplay (MIT, 1998) edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli. As the true millennium approaches, the brisk jog has become a modest marathon, as reflected in book length case studies like Nancy Baym's Tune In, Log On (Sage, 2000), Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish (Public Affairs, 2000), Lynn Cherny's Conversation and Community (Center for the Study of Language and Social Information Publications, 1999), and Christine Hine's Virtual Ethnography (Sage, 2000), as well as critical subfields within the interdiscipline, including Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) edited by Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert Rodman, CyberFeminism (Spinifex Press, 1999), and CyberSexualities (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) edited by Jenny Wolmark. Yet perhaps the most lasting and far-reaching development was the formation of the Association for Internet Researchers (http://aoir.org/). Originally conceived by Greg Elmer (Boston College), Steve Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago), and Stefan Wray (NYU) in the midst of the World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory conference organized by Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss and held at Drake University in November, 1998, the Association of Internet Researchers, or A(o)IR, is a concerted attempt to foster an *international* and *interdisciplinary* community of scholars studying, teaching, and creating diverse forms of cyberculture. Enjoying an online existence for nearly two years, the members of A(o)IR came together face to face for the first time at the University of Kansas in September for its first annual conference: Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/). Organized by Conference Coordinator Nancy Baym (University of Kansas) and Program Chair Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech) with the help of Steve Jones and countless others, the conference was nothing less than a monumental and (dare I say?) historical success. If A(o)IR's purpose is to foster an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars, the goal was met. Although held in the United States, conference attendees came from over twenty countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. Similarly, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of the field itself, conference attendees represented over two dozen disciplines, including: advertising; American studies; anthropology; business; communication; communication, culture, and technology; cultural studies; computer science; economics; education; english; film studies; history; law; library and information science; linguistics; marketing; media ecology; media studies; philosophy; political science; public health; science, technology, and society; social informatics; sociology; and women's studies. Finally, and perhaps most refreshingly, with the exception of the keynotes, panels contained a rich spectrum of generations, ranging from first year graduate students and grizzled ABDs to junior and senior (and an emeritus or two!) professors. Combined with the international and interdisciplinary nature of the conference, the intergenerational composition added a triple shot of energy, creativity, and experimentation. A FIELD MATURES In some ways, the conference represented a research agenda for and coming attractions of what might be called the third stage of cyberculture studies. As I have noted elsewhere, the first stage, popular cyberculture, was marked by its journalistic origins and characterized by its descriptive nature, limited dualism, and use of the Internet-as-frontier discourse. The second stage, cyberculture studies, focused largely on virtual communities and online identities and developed contoured textures from an influx of scholars from across the disciplines. While the twin pillars of second stage cyberculture studies continue to be rich sites for contemporary scholarship, the most recent stage of scholarship, critical cyberculture studies, approaches online communities and identities within and with respect to the multiple contexts surrounding and informing them. These contexts include but are not limited to the cultural histories of other new and once-new communication technologies, social and economic barriers to online landscapes, the varied and diverse kinds of technological environments that make online interactions possible, and discourses of cyberspace found in popular media, commercial advertising, political rhetoric, and everyday life. Accompanying this more holistic approach to cyberculture is an interdisciplinary and self-reflexive set of methods and methodologies. Reflecting the field's maturation were sixty-six panels, roundtables, demonstrations, and keynote presentations representing a rich collection of subfields. Psychology in/and the Internet was a hot topic, and discussed in panels like "Psychology and Relationships" moderated by Nils Zurawski (University of Muenster), "Subjectivity, Cyberspace, and the Social" moderated by Jeremy Hunsinger, and "Online Relationships, Personal and Professional" moderated by Andrea Baker (Ohio University). Issues of identity were also addressed in "Identity and the Dynamics of Interaction within Online Media," a panel featuring Hannes Hogni Vilhjalmsson (MIT) and Joshua Berman & Amy Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology), who showcased the inspiring Turing Game (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/turing/). Another popular topic was the intersections between globalization, communication technologies, and democracy. A ton of folks showed up early in the morning to attend a panel entitled "When Voters are Users," featuring a collection of interesting presentations from R. Kirkland Ahern, Kirsten Foot, W. Russell Neuman, Steve Schneider, Ilyse Stempler, and Jennifer Stromer-Galley, all from the University of Pennsylvania. Other relevant panels included "Global Internet Initatives: Case Studies" moderated by Bram Dov Abramson (Telegeography), "Theories of Globalization" moderated by Liza Tsaliki (University of Nijmegen, NL), "Global Politics" moderated by Christiana Frietas, and "Internet and Democratization." Related panels addressed issues of hegemony and resistance. "Digital Resistances," moderated by Lauren Langman (Loyola University of Chicago), featured papers exploring various sites of online resistance, including alternative Web sites in Singapore (K.C. Ho and Zaheer Baber, National University of Singapore), "Zapatistmo: The Electronic Web of Third World Solidarity" (Fredi Avalos-C'deBaca, California State University, San Marcos), fringe groups and collective action (S. Lee & H. Sawhney, Indiana University), and recent online activity in Belgrade (Smiljana Antonijevic, University of Belgrade). Creative activity, gender (mis)representation, and cyberfeminism came together in the panel "Women on the Internet," moderated by Anne Daugherty (University of Kansas) and featuring the research of Kate O'Riordan (University of Brighton), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku), and Mia Consalvo (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee). Although issues of gender and class were addressed within many panels, issues of race and sexuality were, for this conference attendee, hard to find. Another subfield garnering plenty of attention was online (and hypertextual) pedagogies. Panels included "Pedagogy" moderated by Gretchen Schoel (College of William and Mary/Keio University), "Pedagogy: In Practice" moderated by Shawn Wahl (University of Nebraska), "Pedagogy: Philosophy" moderated by Susan Lazinger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and "Writing on the Web, Electronic Literature, and Linguistics" moderated by Len Hatfield (Virginia Tech), who, along with Tim Luke, is organizing the "Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University" conference in late September at Virginia Tech (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning/). A roundtable discussion entitled "I've Got a Little List," featured the findings, frustrations, and epiphanies of a number of heavily-trafficked mailing list moderators, including the indefatigable Joan Korenman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Patrick Leary, Michele Ollivier (Universite d'Ottawa), Wendy Robbins (University of New Brunswick), and the suspendered Gil Rodman (University of South Florida). Still other panels were devoted to visual design -- "Design" moderated by Jean Trumbo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and "Interfaces and Communication Strategies" moderated by Harmeet Sawheny (Indiana University) -- discourse -- "Mediating New Media," "Open Source," and "Metaphors for the Internet" moderated by Elissa Fineman (University of Texas at Austin) -- and community networks, including the two and a half hour, live Access Grid-broadcasted panel "Investigating Community Networks," moderated by Nick Jankowski (University of Nijmegen, NL) and featuring the findings of Teresa M. Harrison, James P. Zappen, and Christina Prell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Lawrence Hecht (Internet Public Policy Network), Jankowski, Martine van Selm, and Ed Hollander (University of Nijmegen), Joyce Lamerichs (Wageningen University and Research Center), and myself (University of Maryland/Georgetown University). Perhaps the surest sign of the field's maturation was found in the many engaging panels on research methods and ethics. In addition to "Ethics and Internet Research," a panel moderated by Charles Ess (Drury University), there was the "Internet Research Ethics Roundtable," which featured a number of speakers, including Philip Howard (Northwestern University and Pew Internet and American Life Project), David Snowball (Augustana College), Storm King (International Society for Mental Health Online), Sarina Chen (University of Northern Iowa), Sanyin Siang (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Steve Jones (University of Illinois, Chicago), and Rob Kling (Indiana University). Another outstanding panel was "Methods: Gaining Inside Perspectives," moderated by Ken Harwood (University of Houston). Representing various disciplinary positions, the panelists discussed a number of useful research methods for the study of cyberspace: Daniel Marschall (Georgetown University) and Christine Hine (Brunel University) discussed the merits of ethnography (both on- and off-line), Russell Clark (GE Corporate Research and Development) and Joe Downing (Western Kentucky University) examined anonymous Web sampling, and Christian Sandvig and Emily Murase (Stanford University) offered an original method of unobtrusive observation of network data. Interspersed throughout the conference were five keynote addresses featuring senior scholars from across the disciplines: Barry Wellman (Sociology, University of Toronto) discussed his and his students' work on social networks; Helen Nissenbaum (Center for Human Values at Princeton University) explored issues of trust online; Rob Kling (Information Systems and Information Science, Indiana University at Bloomington) examined online social behavior from a social informatics perspective; Susan Herring (Information Systems and Information Science, Indiana University at Bloomington) offered methods of computer-mediated discourse analysis; and Manuel Castells (Sociology, University of California, Berkeley) addressed, well, *everything*, offering one of the most comprehensive overviews of the Net and contemporary culture and society. (Select keynotes and other presentations will be available as Web video on demand through the Apple Learning Interchange around the start of October (http://www.apple.com/education/ali). Stay tuned to the A(o)IR Web site for details.) JUMPSTARTING A COMMUNITY While the conference showcased a maturing field of study, it also helped to foster and nurture a diverse and thriving community. As mentioned earlier, the sprawling community came together on paper (and in pixels) with the formation of the Association of Internet Researchers, organized tirelessly by Steve Jones. For the last year, the association's mailing list, air-l (http://aoir.org/airjoin.html), has maintained a fair amount of dialogues and other conferences -- including last spring's "Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace," sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and last winter's "Virtual Methodology" conference, organized by Christine Hine -- have brought many of us together. In addition to the list, conference attendees had access to download many, but not nearly all, of the papers before arriving in Kansas. (If that's a subtle dis, I'm among the dissed . . .) A common thread heard throughout the conference was that attendees had found an academic home to call their own. Many of the participants recounted frustrating tales of academic marginalization - at conferences, with journals, within departments - and found themselves comfortable among the interdisciplinary or, perhaps, transdisciplinary atmosphere. Subsequently, an elevated collective knowledge was taken advantage of: unlike many papers presented at more traditional conferences, presenters skipped the obligatory ten minutes of explaining terms and quickly got to the beef. In order to provide a space within which attendees could continue discussions raised in panels, conference organizers set up a large public area on site. Stocked with a buffet of free goodies that made this poor, hungry grad student dizzy, attendees gathered to talk, meet online acquaintances face to face, network, and share works in progress. It was here that we also heard about research being conducted by conference attendees who did not present papers, including Annice Kim's (University of North Carolina School of Public Health at Chapel Hill) work on content analysis of tobacco Web sites and Gretchen Schoel's (College of William and Mary/Keio University) research on crosscultural uses of the Net by Americans and Japanese. And with help from Apple Computer, nearly two dozen sleek laptops (with wireless Internet connections no less!) were set up for folks to check their email and make last minute adjustments to their Powerpoint presentations. Off site, the community continued. Each evening, conference attendees swarmed downtown Lawrence, taking over bars, filling long and loud restaurant tables, and packing the local mom and pop ice cream shop. (Warning: Avoid the blueberry flavor: Nasty, very nasty.) In the wee hours, hotel rooms transformed into parlors, where hard fought, ruthless card games took place, bruising some folks' fragile egos without denting their wallets. Much of this was a product of an interesting collection of scholars, the rest a product of Conference Coordinator Nancy Baym and Program Chair Jeremy Hunsinger, who organized the conference and extra curricular activities beautifully. More academic conferences should be this debaucherous. SEE YOU IN MINNESOTA Perhaps the most exciting news came during the conference's last session, the General Business Meeting. Having made it past 1.0, 2.0 was announced. John Logie, assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, invited attendees to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for the Second Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers sometime during fall 2001. Further, within AIR, two tasks groups - the Task-Force on Ethical Online Research (headed by Amy Bruckman, Sarina Chen, and Sanyin Siang) and the Web Page Working Group (headed by Kristin Foot, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Leslie Tkach (University of Tsukuba), and myself) - were established and promise to surface in Minnesota. Finally, A(o)IR Interim Treasurer Wesley Schrum announced that a new academic journal, The Journal of Internet Research, is in the planning stages and conversations with presses have begun. Earlier in the summer, an interesting thread took place on air-l regarding the state of Internet studies. While some folks argued for the creation of a new discipline (Internet Studies? Cyberculture Studies?), others were less enthusiastic, pointing towards the field's infancy as well as lack of developed methods and theories. In many ways, the Internet Research 1.0 conference confirmed such views. For while scholars continue to explore the digital domain in new and exciting ways, some of the best scholarship is performed with traditional methods and from within traditional disciplines. In the meantime, universities are establishing new forms of academic intersections (witness, for example, Georgetown University's Master's Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology and Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture) and departments and individuals are developing interdisciplinary centers (for instance, University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Center for Women and Information Technology, University of Minnesota's Internet Studies Center, Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, and my own Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies). Perhaps the ultimate lesson learned from the conference is this: In order to keep things fresh, interesting, and relevant, we must continue approaching our topic from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. ***** David Silver is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland, an adjunct faculty member in the Master's Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University, and the founder and director of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. He can be reached via his Web site at http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dsilver/ ****************************************************************** resource center for cyberculture studies http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs To unsubscribe from this list, email: majordomo@majordomo.umd.edu No subject is needed. In the body, type: unsubscribe cyberculture ****************************************************************** From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conferences: Assoc for History & Computing (UK); Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:54:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 499 (499) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 11, 2000 CONFERENCES NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HISTORICAL COMPUTING Saturday, 25 November 2000, London <http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/>http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/ VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE February 27 - March 3, 2001, Chicago [deleted quotation] The Association for History and Computing (UK) Day Conference NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HISTORICAL COMPUTING Saturday, 25 November 2000 Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Invited speakers: Bob Morris, Historical Computing: Past, Present and Future Margaret Brennand, The PRO's 1901 Census Project Dave Peacock, The Virtual Norfolk Project Richard Beacham, The Recreation of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome The TLTP CHIC Project, Teaching with the Web FREE to all current members of the AHC (UK). (Fee for non-members is 20.) Refreshments, including a buffet lunch, will be provided. With the meteoric growth of use of the Internet, computers are increasingly being used to facilitate access to a wide variety of digitised historical sources, both for research and teaching. This conference will explore the potential of computers for historical study in the 21st century. A registration form can be found on the Web at <http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/>http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/ Or contact the following address, to which registrations should be sent by 27 October 2000: Irene Tait, AHC Conference, The Subject Centre, 1 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ; Email i.tait@arts.gla.ac.uk; Tel: 0141 330 3580; Fax: 0141 330 5518. Further details, including joining instructions, will be sent early in December. ======================================== Dr Donald A Spaeth School of History and Archaeology 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Tel: 0141 330-3580 Fax: 0141 330-5000 E-mail: dspaeth@arts.gla.ac.uk ============================================================================== [deleted quotation] The Visual Resources Association will hold their 19th Annual conference in Chicago, February 27 through March 3, 2001. The conference site will be the historic Congress Hotel, just three blocks from the College Art Association's conference venue and within easy walking distance of such Michigan Avenue attractions as the Art Institute. This year's schedule boasts an exciting slate of programming and tours. Chicago architecture and history will be the focus of many of the tours, which will be conducted with Chicago Architecture Foundation docents. Conference programming will include discussion of Chicago area digitization projects, including the Cleopatra multimedia program from the Art Institute, as well as discussions grappling with the impact, both positive and negative, of the electronic age on image management, from both philosophic and pragmatic viewpoints. Workshops on all aspects of image management will also be offered. As always, the annual roster of social events will allow the membership to network, share experiences, and welcome new colleagues to the profession. The Visual Resources Association is the only international organization specifically for image media management professionals. With an active publication roster, list serve, web page, regional chapters and the annual conference, the Visual Resources Association provides critical information, opportunity for professional growth, and support for today's visual resources curator. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0339 errors in e-boos: Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:14:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 500 (500) Some interesting responses to the fact of errors in e-text: the most creative is the most recent -- 'if there are errors, it's the reader's fault' !! I find that fascinating -- we know that denial of responsibility is typical of our culture at its worst, but this is some sort of record-setting denial. Also of interest is what might be called "the Von Daniken response" -- old-fashioned people hate us so they look for errors -- it's really too laughable to address. No, folks, someone is paying too little attention to what goes into the folders. The errors I mentioned in Chaucer are of the most egregious type (and they were reported in Chaucernet, BTW) one of them destroys the meter of the line: it's hard to see how it got overlooked (of course, it can be argued that we no longer care about aesthetics, I guess), and the other messes up the syntax. God forbid that we should want to know what Chaucer may have written or what he may have meant thereby..... Oh brave new world.... From: "Christian Wittern" Subject: RE: 14.0318 XML ebooks from Virginia Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:51:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 501 (501) Dear Humanistis, The recent announcement from Virginia (14.0318) led me to believe I could find some fine examples of XML usage, possibly even using the TEI markup on the announced website. I was quite disappointed to find out that this is far from being the case. After much looking around in this vast (but not noisy) digital library, I could not spot even the smallest example of a XML ebook. The only ebooks I could find where not in the open standard format XML, but in a format used by some company in Redmond, whose name I can't remember at the moment, available for some computers running their own proprietary operating system. So, here is my advice to the ebook publishers in Virginia: If you think it is worth publishing ebooks in XML, or maybe even in the Open Ebook format, please go ahead and do so!! But please don't announce ebooks in proprietary formats as a great breakthrouhg in electronic publishing. Christian Wittern 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: Willard McCarty Subject: troubles Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:56:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 502 (502) Dear colleagues: In recent days we have discovered additional problems with the software that processes Humanist archives and the software that takes care of subscriptions. The problems are under investigation now. If you know anyone who has been affected and is not likely to receive this message otherwise, please forward it. In addition I had a machine crash at home (on the same day that the washing machine died and the gas stove stopped working...), which has meant that Humanist could not get my attention as regularly as it ordinarily has. If you have submitted a message which after this morning's posting has not appeared, please resubmit -- I simply cannot be sure that messages have not gone astray somehow in all the attendant confusion. On behalf of our family of automata, nostra maxima culpa! So much for the troubles. Now the entertainment. I advise you to read Humanist 14.0350 (1) very carefully. The latest Eudora, version 5.0, has a new feature called "MoodWatch", which in loco parentis scans incoming and outgoing e-mail messages for offensive content. It marks those it detects as offensive with one, two or three chili-pepper icons to signify "might be offensive", "is probably offensive" and (oi veh!) "is on fire", respectively. So, MoodWatch looked at message (1) in 14.0350 and rated it with TWO chili-peppers. Discovering why is an exercise for the reader. The CEO of the company must not be named Richard! Yours, WM From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Identity, Cyber-self and The Question of God Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:15:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 503 (503) Dear Humanists, Hello..I tried to collect some good pointers on the contemporary issues of Existence, Self-Identity and Mind vs. Body. Have fun! A.) Existenz: Disconnection from Reality <http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/cpj/current/PcudmoreP.htm> This paper looks at reasons why people spend their lives on the Internet, the harmful effects of this practice, and the ramifications for future generations. The author, Mark Cudmore discusses an important issue, he argues --that the more time we spend online, the more we become separated from our true and real indentities..there will be loss of real identities. B.) The Necessity of Memory of Self-identity: Locke, Hume, Freud and the Cyber-self <http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/cpj/current/PralstonP.htm> The paper discussed the issues, as our personal history in cyberspace makes memory more than just "internal" to human beings but rather memory must be extended outward to our cyber-self. C.) The Matrix and The Question of God: Rene Descartes' Mind vs. Body Dichotomy <http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/cpj/current/PstaufferP.htm> The author discussed the evil genius of Descartes' Meditations and the Artificial Intelligence agents in popular film The Matrix and offers us an interesting spin on the question of God's existence as well as insights into both worlds. Thank you! Best Wishes Arun Tripathi From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: text encoding and text markup Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:52:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 504 (504) Hello, for a encyclopedia I am writing an article on "text encoding". I discovered that I am not sure how this concept is - in the actual use of words - related to "text markup" and whether there is an established difference how they are used? Intuitively I would say that "text encoding" is the more extensive concept, also including the intellectual and philological processes necessary to do the markup, while "text markup" rather refers to the more technical aspects and is just a part of text encoding. Another point makes this question even more complicated: I am writing this article for a German lexicon and I have the impression that in German the relation of "Textkodierung" and "Textauszeichnung" is just reversed, the latter being the more abstract concept. Could you please tell me how you would think a prototypical use of "text encoding" and "text markup" (to mix two ways of researching word semantics) should look like if you go by your intuition. As these concepts are quite young, our intuition can only be quite weak, and every response is very welcome. To the many German readers on this list: Do you think my understanding of the German concepts meets yours? Thanks a lot in advance, Fotis Jannidis btw, I tried to find out whether this question has been discussed before on Humanist by searching the archive, but the link to the cgi script seems to be broken at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/Architext/AT-Humanistquery.htm ________________________________________ Forum Computerphilologie http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de From: "Gerda Elata" Subject: Re: 14.0343 new on WWW: e-publishing bib; e-portal for Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:53:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 505 (505) development Forgive my probably unforgivable ignorance. What are Boolean operators? Gerda Elata-Alster From: Randall Pierce Subject: Philip K. Dick Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:13:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 506 (506) Mr. Dick was not a contributor of what is known as "hard" science fiction. That is, a concentration on scientific themes, such as Gibson's works about the neuro-sciences and computers. Mr. Dick was interested in the "soft sciences", in this case the psychology of perception, as shown in his "Man in the high Castle". While engaged in the dissemanation of material by the means of a hypertext it would be unfortunate if we did not take into account the human and humane impacts of this burgeoning science. Technique should never take precedence over results. Remember the "human" in humanist. Randall From: Randall Pierce Subject: name Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:13:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 507 (507) It has come to my attention that I have misspelled the name of one of the correspondents to this list, Arun-Kumar Tripathi. I have seen my spellings in transcripts provided by my ISP. Mea Culpa, Maxima Culpa. I also want to thank the participants on the Humanist list for their good-natured interest in my comments on the role science-fiction can play in technological innovation, especially in information sciece and in the dissemination of hyper-texts of literature. Randall From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Philosophical Fiction Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:16:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 508 (508) dear humanist scholars, My high regards and courtesy to Prof. Willard McCarty for doing the excellent, but a difficult job of moderation and keep things flourishing..here..thanks! HI..when we are discussing the science fiction and science..then I would like to motivate the directions (slight bending of mind) to read a recent essay on "Tom Wolfe" (in the form of an interview) published in the latest issue of _The Harvard Review of Philosophy_, Volume VIII, 2000. The essay can be readble in the PDF format, is located at (http://hrp2.student.harvard.edu/2000/00_101.pdf) ..Tom Wolfe is a world-famous author of fiction and non-fiction. His two highly acclaimed works of fiction are "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and recently "A Man in Full". Enjoy the blending of mind! Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Willard McCarty Subject: by means of a glass in an enigma Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:56:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 509 (509) Concerning the issue of online vs face-to-face, I thought that Sherry Turkle among others had shown that there was little or no evidence to support the claim for a causal relationship between use of the electronic medium and isolation of individual users. (Contrary scholarship, if you know of any, please!) With no research whatever one can suspect that if a relationship could be demonstrated it would be a very complex one indeed. This is not to say that major institutional errors cannot be made by investing stupidly in online distance education, but again I'd think that the errors would be due to the stupidity with which distance education is offered, not with the fact of offering it. Someone with a better memory than I have surely can come up with diatribes against letter-writing -- to choose one among many of the older technologies. In Clarissa, perhaps? But then there's the wonderful interiority of Donne's verse letter to Sir Henry Watton: Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle Soules; For thus friends absent speake. This ease controules The tediousness of my life: But for these I could ideate nothing, which could please, But I should wither in one day, and passe To'a bottle'of Hay, that am a locke of Grasse.... Looking into a glass versus seeing face-to-face certainly does have major religious and philosophical echoes and a great deal of cultural history. While understanding the inferiority of seeing per speculum in aenigmate ("through a glass darkly") and making all efforts to turn our heads from the shadows to direct vision of our communicants face to face, should we not rejoice in the fact that we at least see an image of them? I know, Humanist mostly just pumps out needful announcements of this and that, seldom lives up to its boast of being a "seminar", but we and many others like us do have our moments from time to time. Chomsky's a bright man, but.... Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities/ King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K./ +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / maui gratias agere From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 14.0345 errors in e-books, XML & proprietary formats Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:05:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 510 (510) If Humanist is indeed an "edited" forum I have to wonder what purpose is served by the posting of recent comments from Norman Hinton (Humanist 14.0345: errors in e-boos [sic]). I don't want to raise the spectre of censorship, but shouldn't contributors to this forum bear some burden of intellectual responsibility? Does "God forbid that we should want to know what Chaucer may have written or what he may have meant thereby....." (and the like) really contribute to the "high-level scholarly discussion of computing in the humanities" this forum aspires to? (See <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/announcement.html>.) Matt From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Reply to 14.0345 errors in e-books Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:06:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 511 (511) [deleted quotation] With all due respect, if Dr. Hinton's comments quoted above are intended to refer either to Prof. McCarty's or Prof. Scaife's discussions of SOL, they at best reflect a misunderstanding of the purpose and process of the "open-source"-like* method being used by the Suda On Line. The database we're working with is so large that a large editorial staff would be required to vet all entries before they are made publicly accessible, and consequently proportionally large funding. So the process of editing, like the process of translating, has to be performed on a volunteer basis, and has to be distributed. Because our anticipated readership includes all potential translators and editors, there is every motivation for us to provide unvetted material to that readership - provided that we are absolutely explicit about the vetting status of entries. Thus we warn readers that entries marked as "draft" are not to be considered reliable instances of peer-reviewed scholarship, but only drafts. This is not an abdication of responsibility; indeed, because the entire process of composition and editing on SOL is transparent to readers, with each editor required to note his or her name and the character of the changes he or she has made, SOL's method requires a far greater acceptence of genuine scholarly and professional responsibility than is typical in traditional scholarly publications, where the readers' reports of professional scholars are anonymous and editing for content and style, typesetting, proofreading, and printing are also performed entirely anonymously unless the author chooses to acknowledge their help in his preface. Indeed, the only person whose evaluative comments are public in a traditional scholarly publications setting is the author of a published review of another work, who to maintain objectivity cannot have any responsibility for the work he reviews. I say this as someone with a background in scholarly publishing (rather than scholarship itself). It should be noted, however, that the process being used for SOL, which is an annotated translation, would require a number of methodological changes to be applied to a scholarly edition of a text with apparatus - translation and annotation require very different degrees of attention to philological niceties than textual editing does; e.g., an annotator can accept the copy text without remarking upon more than the most intriguing possible alternate readings. Distributed, collaborative editing of such a scholarly text would require point-by-point assignment of responsibility, analogous to (but potentially far more detailed, complete, and informative than) an apparatus criticus. ________________________ * I say "'open-source'-like" because we are dealing with a text, not a program. Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net From: Randall Pierce Subject: e-books Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:07:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 512 (512) Any errors in E-books are those of the reader? Are you familiar with the Greek concept of hubris? I would hate to see the entire humanist list visited by Nemesis(except me, who recognized Nemesis a long time ago, and sacrifice something to it, him, her often.) Randall Careful, guys. From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: Re: 14.0345 XML & proprietary formats Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:06:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 513 (513) [deleted quotation]markup on [deleted quotation]system. [deleted quotation]proprietary [deleted quotation] Dear Dr. Wittern: Sorry to disappoint you -- I hope this explanation helps. On most of our site -- the English language section, for example, or the online Japanese literature -- the TEI source document is translated on-the-fly to HTML for web delivery. In the new Ebook section, a TEIXLITE file is converted on-the-fly to HTML if you click on the choice that says "web version" -- so it is accessible to all users regardless of platform. If you click on the "Ebook" choice -- next to the "web version" button -- you get the same TEI file converted to OEB, and wrapped up with a CSS stylesheet in the Microsoft *.lit ebook format. This does not happen on-the-fly yet. So, unless you want to try out the new ebook reading technology we chose to adopt, you do not need a Microsoft machine. We chose MS Reader over the other software-based free ebook readers mostly because it is XML-based and was easy for us to output to. We create nothing natively in Microsoft's *.lit format -- or in *.html for that matter -- they are output formats from a core TEI document. A nice proof of "build once, use many", and a useful argument for TEI and OEB. I assume that your irritation is that you cannot download the native TEI document (we use TEILITE and more recently TEIXLITE tagging in all our locally-created documents). Like many other digital library sites that do the same thing, you get full use of our richer TEI tagging when you search the files, or view a dynamically-created Table of Contents and choose to look at only a part of a file, but what we deliver to the general online library user is HTML output (or *.lit). Whenever we have offered a choice in the past between "Get HTML" and "Get SGML" (or "GET TEI") with the latter allowing you to download the raw teilite code, we get swamped with email saying that our links are "broken". The vast majority of our users, academic or otherwise, have no sense of what this choice means -- they click on the GET TEI link and get ... well, they get what you and I would know and love as a TEI file, but they see gibberish. If every web browser was xml-compliant and we could send out the TEI and a stylesheet that would be good for us -- lots less converting of data on the server side -- but many of our local and global users do not have the latest browser. If you would like to talk to me off Humanist about our use of TEI I'd be delighted to do this -- and our library has an active partnership with IATH to produce digital versions of Buddhist materials in our collection, so there may be some digital activity here that is close to your Center's interest. The point does not need to be made to Humanist readers perhaps, but the reason I sent on the ebooks announcement to this list in particular was to champion TEI as the format to encode data in and to offer another "proof of concept" for an interchange to a format other than HTML. This is slowly receiving some attention in the trade e-publishing arena. Old news to us, I guess, although yet another reason to join the TEI Consortium (www.tei-c.org). David Seaman Etext Center, Virginia From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Funding (NSF): Last Humanities DLI-2 projects announced; Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:08:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 514 (514) new NSF program welcomes "computational humanities" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 13, 2000 NEH & NSF ANNOUNCE DLI-2 PHASE TWO RECIPIENTS <http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html NEW NSF PROGRAM (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH) WELCOMES HUMANITIES PROPOSALS <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf00126/nsf00126.htm>http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf00126/nsf00126.htm http://www.itr.nsf.gov/ The last of the humanities-related DLI-2 funded projects have been announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. More than $4.8-million in grants for five new information-technology projects was awarded, providing technological solutions to research problems in the humanities. As the DLI-2 funding project has closed "computational humanities" applications are being welcomed in the second year of the NSF's Information Technology Research initiative: see <http://www.itr.nsf.gov/>http://www.itr.nsf.gov/ for information on the initiative. $192 million has been requested for ITR in FY01. At the recent NINCH "Building Blocks" workshop, the NSF's Michael Lesk encouraged humanities scholars and librarians to apply with projects that demonstrate that humanities research poses challenges to computer science in a way that both the humanities and the computer science/information technology fields benefit. As examples of technical limits exposed by humanities research projects, he cited multilingual searching and presentation; OCR of pre-20th-century printing; the fusion of geographic, numeric, image and text information; and inter-institutional cooperation on sophisticated electronic projects. David Green =========== Here are the five projects recently funded by the DLI-2, with the abstracts printed below. Indiana University at Bloomington, Digital Music Library, $3,056,913, Michael McRobbie. <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9909068>https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9909068 Stanford University, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Creating Standards and Procedures for Online Encyclopedias), $528,896, John Perry and Edward N. Zalta. <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9981549>https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9981549 University of California at Los Angeles, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, $650,000, Robert Englund. <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0000629>https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0000629 University of Hawaii-Manoa, Classical Chinese Digital Database, $146,859, Roger Ames and Mary Tiles. <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9910808>https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9910808 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Indexing Handwritten Manuscripts, $450,000, Raghavan Manmatha. <https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9909073>https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=9909073 Digital Music Library This project is to establish a Digital Music Library (DML) testbed. The testbed will focus on system architectures, content representation and metadata and network services. Although the project will address a wide range of multimedia digital libraries issues, it is unique in it's comprehensive approach to musical content and the internet - pressing contemporary issues capturing intense public and commercial interest. The project will involve a large team of interdisciplinary researchers at multiple sites. There is as of yet no comparabledigital music library to that presented in the proposal. As a digital library system, the DML will provideintegrated multimedia access to a large corpus of musical material. As a research and educational resource for alarge, diverse group of communities, the project promises to draw out new uses and user needs and stimulatecreative activities in many areas. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This project will attempt to organize the topical matter of an academic discipline in a comprehensive and innovative way by creating a dynamic reference work of exceptionally large scope using information technologies. The goals of the project are: - to design and implement a customized work-flow system through which academic philosophers can collaboratively write, maintain, track and summarize the new ideas being published in print and electronic media-to produce a comprehensive reference work useful notonly to scholars, but to the general public as well- to develop XML standards for the materials of philosoph yapplicable to other topical areas research funds from the Digital Libraries Initiative would be part of alarger base of support for the project and targeted toward advances in work-flow system development and building user interface tools that can fully exploit the features of a dynamic reference work. Examples of these include evolving concept maps, dynamic cross-referencing based on user needs, etc. The methods used to achieve this can serve as an example for other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative proposes to develop tools and techniques leading to the systematic digital documentation and new electronic publication of cuneiform sources. Despite the 150 years that have passed since first decipherment of cuneiform many basic research tools remain to be developed that will allow this material to be studied in depth by specialists and generally made available to the public. This project, conducted in close collaboration with a number of organizations (including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the California Digital Library) will: Create virtual archives of widely dispersed early cuneiform tablets Implement an integrative platform of data presentation combining raster, vector and 3D imaging with text translation and markup Establish for collaborating museums a lasting archive procedure for fragile and often decaying collection of cuneiform records The project's dataset will be built using platform-independent text encoding and markup conventions and linked to accurate, high-resolution images. Typologies and extensive glossaries of technical terms will be included, later supplemented by linguistic tools for accessing the primary sources by non-specialists. "Shuhai Wenyuan Classical Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable" This project entitled "Shuhai Wenyuan Classical Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable" willcreate a digital corpus and internet-based resources to allow world wide use of seminal texts from China's classical period. The project will involve bringing together specialists in Classical Chinese language, thought,and culture, and information technologists to produce tools and access methods to materials that have thus far been limited to a select group of students and scholars. By doing so the project intends to open up new areas ofstudy and research for learners of all ages. The data content will be freely available via the web and offer Chinese texts, English examples, cultural and philosophical notes, grammar notes, and a search engine designed for a variety of tasks. Indexing Handwritten Manuscripts This project will research and develop innovative techniques for indexing handwritten historical manuscripts. Automatic indexingof historical archives to create indexes similar to those at the back of most printed books would potentially make available a wholenew set of materials to scholars and students. Conversion of printed materials usually involves Optical Character Recognition(OCR) to convert them to machine-readable form. OCR does not work well on handwritten text. The investigators propose to use ascheme known as Word Spotting in which a document page is segmented into words and lists of words are created. By matchingword images against each other multiple instances of the same word are then identified. A user then provides the ASCII equivalentto a representative word image from the lists and links to the original documents are automatically generated. For this approach tosucceed, a number of problems need to be solved including new techniques for "cleaning up" a document by removingnon-meaningful visual artifacts, extending existing algorithms for word segmentation of handwritten documents, and building newalgorithms to find similarity between handwritten word images. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Funding (NEH/NEA): Budgets Increased (NHA Release) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:08:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 515 (515) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 13, 2000 NEH/NEA Budgets Increased [deleted quotation] * * * * * * * * * * * On October 11, President Clinton signed HR 4578, the Interior and Related Agencies appropriations bill for FY-2001. Flanked at the Rose Garden signing by NEA Chairman Bill Ivey and NEH Chairman Bill Ferris, the President hailed the bill as "a truly historic achievement, achieved in a genuine, bipartisan spirit to create a permanent basis for preserving our natural heritage and advancing our common artistic and cultural values". The bill includes $5 million additional for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) bringing the total to $120.26 million. This is the second year in a row that the NEH has been increased. (In the years 1996-1999, NEH was flat funded at $110 million, down nearly 40% from the FY-95 appropriation of $177 million.) The important story in HR 4578 is that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was boosted $7 million, the first increase since 1995. The improved circumstances for the NEA reflect the declining power of the Conservative Action Team (CAT) in the House of Representatives. Although there was some hostility in the Senate after the 1994 elections in which the GOP captured control of both houses, the House has been the graveyard for improving arts funding up to this year. For NEH supporters, the NEA news could not be more welcome -- Some of NEH's closest and firmest supporters in Congress have been leaders in opposing further improvement of NEH funding until the NEA problem begins to be resolved. With the passage of this appropriation, both agencies will be in the best position to rebuild in years. Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), chair of the interior appropriations subcommittee, deserves special praise for pressing the House leaders to relent. The face-saving strategy developed by Senator Gorton, probably in consultation with Rep. Ralph Regula (R-OH), his counterpart in the House, was to separate the $7 million increase for NEA into a different budget line tagged to Challenge America Arts Fund (i.e., synonymous with the major existing initiative of NEA) to be administered by NEA. Many were amazed that the House GOP leaders would settle for such a slight cover -- Apparently their reading was that it is time to step back from the issue. Here are the comparative appropriations figures for NEH, NEA, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services Table: Cultural Agency Appropriations (in millions of dollars) ........ FY-2000 .. FY-2001 .. FY-2001 .. FY-2001 .... FY-2001 . Conference ........ Enacted .. Request .... House ... Senate . Conference .vs. Enacted __________________________________________________________________________ NEH ... 115.260 .. 150.000 .. 115.260 .. 120.260 .... 120.260 ..... +5.000 NEA .... 97.628 .. 150.000 ... 98.000 .. 105.000 .... 105.000 ..... +7.372 IMLS ... 24.307 ... 33.378 ... 24.307 ... 24.907 ..... 24.907 ..... +0.600 Source: Conference Report 106-914 to accompany HR 4578 (29-Sep-00). _________________ Byline: John Hammer & Jessica Jones, National Humanities Alliance ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 516 (516) [deleted quotation] From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Methods Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:08:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 517 (517) Dear Willard, Imust admit to finding myself torn on the issue of methods. The old style e-text humanist in me likes the idea of methods. When a community develops a consensus about methods it allows us to not have to recapitulate the reasons for trying something everytime we want to share a result. It also allows us to develop tools built on this consensus and get on with the job of studying texts. On the other hand, the new media humanist in me can't see anything like a method applying unless one were to look at ethnographic methods for assessing human computer interface. I note that in "Computing in Humanities Education; A European Perspective" multimedia is relegated to "didactic methods" - section 2.5. Relegated is perhaps too strong (and it is not fair that I pick on this excellent work), but there doesn't seem to be a place for multimedia as form of creative expression - instead the book outlines a view to the effect that humanities computing is about text-analysis, computational linguistics and their methods while multimedia is for teaching. Where are the new media programmes in Europe? What is happening in the art and design schools? Are we willing to exile the arts (which have a different relationship to method called technique) from the humanities in order to have a tidy "human science" paradigm? Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.351 errors in e-books; XML & proprietary formats Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:44:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 518 (518) The net makes possible a new modality of scholarship, a modality which allows the collaboration of scholars at both the "originating" and "receiving" ends to the benefit of the entire scholarly community The Virginia e-books project is one such example. Let me offer two more. For over twenty years a group of scholars has been engaged in creating a union database of the primary sources for medieval Iberian literature (Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese) called PhiloBiblon. PhiloBiblon will continue for the foreseeable future. Had we decided to wait until the database was "finished" our colleagues would not be able to use it until some time in the 21st century. We have made it available on CD-ROM and, about three years ago, over the net (http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/PhiloBiblon/phhm.html). In its current version it is both incomplete and inaccurate. We know that. Nevertheless, it represents our best efforts and it is still useful. As scholars with more specialized knowledge use the database, they let us know about errors and provide additional information, whose souce we acknowledge. Similarly, Columbia and Berkeley have been engaged for the past four years on the Digital Scriptorium project (now joined by the Huntington Library, New York Public Library, the U. of Texas, and a number of smaller institutions), whose purpose is to digitize representative pages from _every_ medieval MS in both collections along with as much information as we have about each MS. In many cases, especially with regard to fragments, we have no idea of the identity of the text. We have chosen to include such fragments in the image database to make them as broadly available as possible in the hope that specialists will be able to identify them and even lead us to other fragments from the same MS. The best is the enemy of the good. Even incomplete information is better than no information. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "Charles Ess" Subject: re. Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 350 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:47:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 519 (519) Dear Willard: As I try to catch up on my Humanist mail after an _exceptionally_ busy eight weeks, I ran across your comment: Concerning the issue of online vs face-to-face, I thought that Sherry Turkle among others had shown that there was little or no evidence to support the claim for a causal relationship between use of the electronic medium and isolation of individual users. (Contrary scholarship, if you know of any, please!) Well, are you recalling both the Carnegie Mellon study of a couple of years ago, and the more recent one from Stanford - both of which find an inverse proportion between time spent on-line and social isolation? Or do you mean that Turkle has effectively refuted these - including the most recent Stanford - claims? Perhaps relatedly - one of the more interesting insights I gleaned from CATaC 2000 was drawn from the keynote address by Duane Varan, a media scholar who researched the impacts of TV as introduced among the Cook Islanders. Varan uses four mechanisms of erosion in geology as analogues suggestive of how media may affect societies and cultures. This analysis leads to the interesting argument that media research has focused on the wrong aspects of culture, namely, those core elements of culture most likely to resist "abrasion" - defined as the conflict between foreign values and local values - and thus least likely to change. Media impacts are greatest, he argues, as agents of *displacement* - a more indirect form of cultural change that occurs as new media displace elements _not_ actively reinforced and consolidated by the culture. So, for example, the impact of TV is greatest not as, say, the Simpsons may threaten to encourage anti-social behaviors (which it apparently does not) - but rather as TV displaces other cultural activities (in the case of Cook Island culture, preparations for and participation in communal dance and its traditions). In this way, the culture becomes more vulnerable to erosion. (Varan's keynote included material drawn from: Varan, Duane.1998. The Cultural Erosion Metaphor and the Transcultural Impact of Media Systems. Journal of Communication 48 (2): 58-85.) Hope this helps! Let me know if you need the references for the CMU and Stanford studies (although you can almost certainly find them easily enough on the Web, of course, if you don't already have them). Cheers and best wishes, 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: New Media & Old Methods Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:44:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 520 (520) Geoffrey, Some stray thoughts about your recent posting on the place of multimedia in humanities computing... Does the field of "humanities computing" have always at least two sets of methods: one on the computing side and one on the humanities side? The didactic niche is one that in the North American academy has often been occupied by modern language departments offering service courses for language acquistion. Has anyone written a history of the language lab and its contribution to humanties computing? The separation between the liberal arts and the mechanical arts may be a very old occidental phenomenon influencing the biais for or against multimedia (iconoclastic debates rage on...) It is tempting to compare the uptake of multimedia in humanities computing to its uptake in in the scholarship of archeology, art history, musicology, theatre and film studies, museum studies, and other such disciplines. And map this against the very material conditions of the infrastructures (i.e. the availibilty of wired classrooms and labs as well as digital collections and online teaching & research resources). Finally, even if a superb infrastructure exists, it is no mean feat to attract and retain qualified people with the proper cross-disciplinary credentials. You ask, "Are we willing to exile the arts (which have a different relationship to method called technique) from the humanities in order to have a tidy "human science" paradigm? The metaphor of exile seems to assume that the arts were "in" at some point in time. I would like to read more on Humanist about how people construe a possible difference between "method" and "technique". I do recall some references on Humanist to Feyerabend by Willard http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0074.html Is this not all (institutional struggles aside) about the place of "experimentation" in the production of knowledge. The compositional exercises of imitation and translation (be it with reference to verbal, musical or pictorial modes or be it with cross-modal reference) were very much part of the Humanist culture that formed the cultural matrix out of which "science" developed. Back to primitives: if experimentation is the methodology, does the method require as primitives "states" and "durations"? I ask this because I am beginning to wonder if the challenge of new media (both multimedia and distributed objects in networked environments) is not to rethink the ancillary mathematics that accompany humanities computing. Is the field shifting or expanding from a concern with the sample space of statistics to the phase space of topology? And I know "concern" is not quite the correct word here. What I am attempting to describe is a tension between the desire to describe all possibilities and the desire to trace paths to local ontologies.... which of course opens an avenue to the constellation of cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence and the debates over cultural relativism. And it just might be the dillettante and the amateur that act as the "translators" between disciplines enabling those pleasant bumps that A. Koestler describes in _The Act of Creation_. Interesting how the metaphor of "exile" induces the return of the prodigal. more mathematics for both the humanities and the arts !!! :) -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: transcription help Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:45:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 521 (521) Graduate students in my ENG 570 Electronic Texts and Images course at the University of Kentucky are working to digitize original letters by Coleridge and Wordsworth from the W. Hugh Peal Collection here. Some have been previously published, some have not. A few of the students have run into difficulty transcribing portions of their letters, particulary those by Wordsworth. If anyone is interested in lending another pair of eyes to the effort (particularly if you have some experience in reading WW's hand) we'd be grateful for the outside assistance. Write me a note indicating your interest, and I will pass your name and email address along to the students, who will in turn send you a.) a copy of their transcription, and b.) a pointer to a high-resolution image of the original letter. Any assistance so rendered will be attributed. The online archive of letters will be released for public access by the University of Kentucky library when completed at the end of the semester. The course homepage, which describes the project in more detail, is located at: http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/courses/fall2000/eng570/ Best, Matt From: "Eric S. Rabkin" Subject: Re: 14.0342 sci-fi and science: Stanislaw Lem Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:48:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 522 (522) Just FYI, Lem is not a "Humanist Engineer" but, by training, a physician. (According to a biography of him, he stopped just short of his degree because at that time all Polish physicians were, in effect, drafted for life into the army, and he wished to avoid that.) There is, I think, a wonderful book to be written about physician fantasists: think Arthur Conan Doyle. Cheers. Eric Rabkin "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation]European [deleted quotation]have not [deleted quotation]starters [deleted quotation]future) [deleted quotation] -- Eric S. Rabkin 734-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 734-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 734-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 523 (523) [deleted quotation] From: erose@Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0352 funding (NSF/NEH/NEA -- U.S.) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:48:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 524 (524) Re: "Indexing Handwritten Manuscripts" Just out of curiosity, are there manuscripts other than handwritten ones? -E. Rose From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist search-engine now functioning Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:57:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 525 (525) Dear colleagues: The search-engine for Humanist, accessible from the homepage at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ or its mirror at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/, has been repaired. Many thanks to our colleagues at IATH (Virginia). The subscription mechanism is still under repair. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Ancient Voices in Cyberspace Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:57:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 526 (526) dear Humanists, Patricia Search's multimedia installation Ancient Voices in Cyberspace will be on view at the Amos Eno Gallery, 59 Franklin Street, New York, NY from October 21 - November 8, 2000. Ancient Voices in Cyberspace explores the aesthetics of narrative, visual images, music, and action in primitive, aboriginal cultures as a foundation for new perspectives in human-computer interaction. The installation juxtaposes symbols, poems, and music drawn from the oral traditions of aboriginal cultures with the limitations of human-computer interaction. Patricia Search has worked with computer graphics for over fifteen years. Her most recent work includes multimedia installations that are critical commentaries on the state of human-computer interaction. The electronic environments in her installations highlight the aesthetics of action, space, and time in electronic communication. GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 6 pm <http://www.rpi.edu/~searcp/voices.html> amoseno@bway.net ---- Best, Arun From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Contact Cultures of the Imagination gathering, pioneers Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:58:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 527 (527) of artificial intelligence.. Greetings scholars and researchers, Some excerpts from the Wired Essay, "Imagining First Contact" written by Leander Kahney..thought..might interest you..your comments are most welcome!! Every year a group of renowned scientists, writers, and artists gets together to simulate space explorers and aliens meeting for the first time. At this year's Contact Cultures of the Imagination gathering, pioneers of artificial intelligence suggest they may be able to contribute to the conversation. "We build ways of life, but very different ways of life," said Jim Funaro, an anthropologist at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California, who dreamed up the conference in 1983 as a way to bring together anthropologists and science fiction writers. "Anthropologists study alien cultures and science fiction writers create them," Funaro said. The three-day gathering mixes lectures with role-playing thought experiments to explore the not-so-distant prospect of contacting intelligent alien beings. This year's conference, which kicked off Friday at NASA's Ames Research Center, also featured experts on artificial intelligence. Two of the field's legendary pioneers, Marvin Minsky of MIT and John Searle of the University of California at Berkeley, gave an overview of AI to the eclectic group of alien hunters. But the experts had little to offer on how AI could be used if ET were to show up on Earth's doorstep today, only introducing the topic as a subject for further study. Chris McKay, an Ames astrobiologist, said AI eventually will assist in the pursuit of aliens by telling scientists what kinds of things they should be looking for, and then help them understand the life forms when they find them. However, McKay warned it's still in the very early stages of development. "We're just getting started," he said. "It's like Churchill said: 'We're not at the end. We're not at the beginning of the end. We're at the end of the beginning.'" Bill Clancey, an AI expert at Ames, said humans shouldn't expect to be able to communicate with intelligent aliens since we haven't even made much progress engaging with intelligent Earth species like dolphins and whales. The conference also features students from local high schools who will join the scientists and writers in creating and acting out the alien cultures they've dreamed up. During the role-play, one team dreams up all the details of the alien society, including its solar system, planet, the form the aliens take, and their culture. Another team plays members of a futuristic human society, often members of an inter-planetary exploration team. Then the two act out first contact. Sometimes it's restrained, sometimes it's boisterous, and occasionally it gets out of hand, attendees said. For complete reading, please visit the below site at: <http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34722,00.html> Thank you.. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Register Today For ASSETS'00! Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:52:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 528 (528) [deleted quotation] ASSETS'2000, the 4th International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, will be held November 12-13, 2000, in Arlington, VA (a suburb of Washington DC, just minutes from Reagan National Airport). Don't miss this unique and exciting opportunity to participate in ACM's PREMIER CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH RELATED TO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS, which is nevertheless a small and intimate event where meals are taken together and you have a chance to really talk to people. [material deleted] FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/assets00 We look forward to seeing you next month at ASSETS'2000! From: david silver Subject: [CfP]Constructing Cyberculture(s): Performance, Pedagogy, Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:47:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 529 (529) [--] folks, the following conference is being organized by my friends and colleagues, Ed Martini and D Snyder, two graduate students and members of the cyberculture working group at the university of maryland. if this year's conference is half as good as last year's conference, then it will be outstanding. please direct any questions or inquiries you may have to ed martini at . david silver <http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dsilver> *************** Call for Papers: Constructing Cyberculture(s): Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics in Online Spaces April 6-7, 2001 University of Maryland Co-Sponsored by The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Studies Association and the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity Coordinated by the Cyberculture Working Group The Cyberculture Working Group is a collection of University of Maryland and neighboring graduate students and faculty members from across the disciplines interested in exploring the intersections between the Internet, culture, and society. At our 1999 Conference, "Cultural Diversity in/and Cyberspace," an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars addressed such issues as what it means to play online "identity games," how scholars of the humanities and public policy can work together to affect the construction and maintenance of cyberspaces, and how we can use online technologies to teach and learn about cultural diversity. This year's conference seeks to continue these and other discussions by focusing on how different groups and communities construct and use the virtual world. We are seeking scholars from around the world and across the disciplines to discuss the ways that complex, multi-layered identities are being created and performed in online spaces, present case studies of virtual communities, and examine how digital environments shape and are shaped by "real" and "virtual" political and cultural dynamics. We hope to discuss possible connections between the humanities, social sciences, and the emerging, contested field of "cyberculture studies." We also welcome papers that address the uses of online technologies in classrooms and communities. Proposals for individual papers (15-20 minutes) and full panels (2-3 papers plus a moderator/chair) should include a one page abstract and a concise, one page C.V. for each presenter. The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2000. Contact Information: Cyberculture Working Group c/o Ed Martini Department of American Studies University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-7621 or by e-mail at emartini@wam.umd.edu From: Peggy Kapisovsky Subject: STUDENTS AS TECHNOLOGY LEADERS (SaTL) NATIONAL CONFERENCE Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:24:13 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 530 (530) [--] The National Science Foundation (NSF) is sponsoring STUDENTS AS TECHNOLOGY LEADERS (SaTL) NATIONAL CONFERENCE <http://projects.terc.edu/satl> When: October 20, 21, and 22, 2000 Where: Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Bentley College Co-Sponsors: Cisco Learning Institute, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, 3COM, RSA Security, and the Massachusetts Dept. of Education Hosts: Youth Tech Entrepreneurs, TERC, MassNetworks, TechBoston 25 Nationally recognized high school and community college Information Technology Programs will be honored at this event and will demonstrate: * Students as Technology Leaders * Student Leadership * Entrepreneurship * Leadership Innovation For detailed information or to register: National Conference HomePage @ <http://projects.terc.edu/satl> The goal of the conference is to promote national awareness and sharing of diverse models of teaching and learning related to helping students provide technical resources and support that energize their schools and communities. This includes computer services, administrative support, entrepreneurial activity, web management, and a host of end-user application services. At the conference, participants will have the opportunity to interact with Technology experts and employers, meet technology students and instructors, and share networking successes and lessons. They will hear from national speakers and major high tech corporations, attend workshops and exhibits, and learn about technology scholarships, jobs, and funding. In addition, they will tour MIT and Bentley College, which according to PC Computing is the most wired college in the nation. Online registration @ <http://projects.terc.edu/satl/hi/registration.htm> Please forward this announcement. ---- From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0362 terminological questions Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:49:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 531 (531) Fotis, Would a third term help? Content modeling Encoding Markup Markup would cover the actualization of encoding principles in an instance. (aka as "tagging") Encoding would cover working out the relationships between the various elements, attributes, entities of a markup scheme. Content modeling would cover the analysis of the document set and the information needs of the end-users as well as the information interchange environment. It becomes interesting to have students generate a table that places these three alongside the "format, structure, content" trio (see Colby and Jackson _Using SGML_ (1996) p. 35 ff) and watch the dialogue and discussion grow as they exchange the results and discover their own understanding of form and the malleability of textual artefacts. Francois From: "J. Randolph Radney" Subject: primitives Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:51:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 532 (532) I wonder whether our search for "methodological primitives" might be helped by more of a focus on what might be termed methodological gestalts. This wondering also has reference to some messages that query the assumption of circuitry as foundational to our human existence. What if we do not think of things as built up from bits but rather instantiation of wholes? In my own speciality, I approach linguistics with the understanding that social interaction provides the entry point for investigation of language behaviour. At a philosophical level, I operate under the assumption that person represents an intersubjective interface with world via immediate context. This may be quite commonplace in the present scholarly environs (I feel very much the "junior" to the rest of you), but where it leads me is much more in the direction of "top-down" processing, rather than "bottom-up". All the best to all of you on this fine Canadian Thanksgiving Day! radney From: "Charles Ess" Subject: re. 14.0357 impact of new media on social life Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:46:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 533 (533) Dear Willard and HUMANIST colleagues: My apologies for sending my note out a shade too quickly [I know I'm the only one this ever happens to ;-)] What I _meant_ to say, of course, is that the CMU and Stanford studies show a direct proportion between time on-line and feelings of social isolation (including depression) - implying an inverse proportion between time on-line and what can be broadly categorized as social happiness in the world of embodiment and face-to-face modes of communication. In penance for my mal-expression: the CMU study is available online from the American Psychologist (as well as many other places): http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp5391017.html the Stanford study is announced and discussed at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/february16/internetsurvey-216.html Just to add some balance (murkiness?) - there is a thread of research that shows how, for example, immigrant and diaspora groups (e.g., Russians, Chinese, and Koreans in the U.S.) use the Internet and the Web to maintain what one researcher calls "intensive" connections, i.e., to reinforce and maintain one's social existence (so Joo-Young Jung, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, at the recent conference of the association of internet researchers (see <http://aoir.org/> and Fillip Sapienza, Communal Ethos on a Russian migr Web Site , Javnost-the Public, "Global Cultures: Communities, Communication and Transformation" Vol 6, 1999). Hope this helps. Cheers - 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: "Charles Ess" Subject: re. 14.0357 - again Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:48:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 534 (534) Dear Willard and HUMANIST colleagues: To expand the thread I mentioned previously - of research showing how Internet use may _not_ necessarily lead to isolation and depression, but (and/or?) to maintenance, intensification, and expansion of social relationships - please consider the following summary of research provided by Barry Wellman (describing a thread of presentations at the recent association of internet researchers conference): The thread I focused on was concerned with virtual community and social networks. Caroline Haythornthwaite and I organized two sessions about "The Internet in Everyday Life." Researchers, including Steve Jones, Andrea Kavanagh, Michelle Kazmir, Sorin Matei, Lee Rennie, Karina Tracey, and James Witte presented data about how the experience of being online intersects with other aspects of their (non-work) lives: at home, in the community, and in education. My sense from these papers is that current data do not support early newbie-based concerns that high Internet use is associated with greater depression and isolation. As people (and their peers) stop being newbies and incorporate the Internet into their lives, it becomes an additional means of communication, neither replacing, increasing, or depressing in-person and telephonic contact (The papers from these sessions will be part of a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, Fall 2001). [quoted by permission from the author, from air-l digest 16 Oct 2000] Of books - and the research that constitute them - there is no end... 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: "Erik Ringmar" Subject: post-modernism on WWW Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:59:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 535 (535) Fellow scholars, I would be interested to know which WWW sources you could recommend for the ambiguous and sprawling field of 'post-modernism.' yours, Erik Erik Ringmar Dept of Government LSE From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Journal suggestions Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:00:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 536 (536) [deleted quotation] A colleague in the Humanities Library here at the University of Alberta, Canada, has asked me to provide a list of "core" or "must have" journals for supporting a program in humanities computing. Any and all suggestions for such essential materials would be greatly appreciated. Please reply off list. Thanks very much. Sharon Balazs Sharon Balazs Electronic Textbase Manager The Orlando Project 4-23 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5 780-492-7816 sbalazs@ualberta.ca From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com, Tues. Oct. 17, 2000, 5:34PM Subject: What's in an Idea? Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:45:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 537 (537) "What's in a Name?" has inspired me to consider "What's in an Idea?" The answer that I come up with, in contrast to the former, is "surprisingly much". You may know that I dabble in mathematics and physics to an inordinate degree, but I think that this relates to Humanist because it says nothing specific about mathematics or physics. I have been finding the most amusing new discoveries by making tiny modifications of ideas. Where people put +, I put - (minus). Where people divide, I multiply or add or subtract. Where people draw a graph that looks like a teacup, I ask what happens if you turn the teacup upside down. Believe it or not, you get a totally different mathematics if you do any of these things. If you play your cards right, you also get a totally different physics. It appears to explain some of the recent findings on the accelerating universe, on information/entropy/knowledge near singularities (black holes, rare or zero probability events, etc.), how the Sun captured the planets in elliptical precessing orbits, etc. Change some assumptions in the humanities and see what you get. It only takes a few changes to get science fiction, which has stimulated many inventions. Somebody wanted food to taste better (spices), and we got the New World. Some proto-human apelike ancestor, if the stories are right, asked what would happen if he/she walked on the ground instead of the trees, and here we are. Some politician asked what would happen if we traded with the Chinese instead of warring with them, and vice versa, and here we are (I'm not sure where, but you know what I mean). Some French King asked what would happen if some harsh consonant were dropped in French, and we have ellipsis or circonflexes or whatever they are called (my French decreases as my mathematics/physics increases - in one ear and out the other). Alexander the Great asked what would happen if Macedonia were bigger, and he "conquered the world" (caution: do not imitate at present). Osher From: Randall Pierce Subject: Encounters of the Fourth Kind Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:45:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 538 (538) My congratulations to Arun-Kumar Tripathi for bringing news of the "First Contact" seminar before the Humanist community. I wonder how many governmental and NGO's have seriously considered all of the ramifications of alien contact?. I do know that "conspiracy" buffs have determined that all UFO contact has been carefully covered up to prevent "widespread panic." Be that as it may, I am glad to see this august body considering the problem. How do you think that hyper-text technology would aid such a contact(stripped of technicalese? Randall From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Symposium Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:43:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 539 (539) Dear Humanists, The School of Art, Drama and Music at McMaster University is pleased to announce a one day symposium entitled 'Theatre and New Media: the meeting of two communications worlds'. The symposium is being held on November 17, 2000 in Room 201 of Togo Salmon Hall at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. This event has been planned to coincide with a preview of a production by the Drama program of Shakespeare's Pericles, which will involve multimedia and with the visit to the University of the eminent London theatre designer, Chris Dyer. The aim of the symposium is to draw attention to the increasing influence of new media on theatre and theatre on new media. In particular the impact of new media on theatrical research and on the teaching of theatre practice will be examined. A range of concrete examples in these two areas will be demonstrated. This event is open to anyone who would like to attend but space is limited so please return the registration form which is available on the web page as soon as possible. The program for the afternoon and the registration form are available at http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hamiltr/newmedia.html. For further information please contact Dr. Christie Carson: School of Art, Drama & Music 1280 Main St. West McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Phone: (905) 525-9140 Ext.27954 Email: carsonc@mcmaster.ca. From: tmesbah@earthlink.net Subject: CONFERENCE on "NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF GENDER" at University Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:27:05 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 540 (540) [--] CONFERENCE: NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF GENDER University of California, Santa Cruz A CONFERENCE sponsored by the Feminist Research Unit of the Institute for Humanities Research and the Center for Cultural Studies October 20-21, 2000 All events will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz Oakes Learning Center PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to park on campus before 5:00PM M-F, you must have a permit. They can be purchased at the Main Entrance kiosk for $4.00. Parking is free after 5PM M-F, and all day Saturday-Sunday. short note: ---------- Challenging any assumed opposition between the technological and the organic, the mechanistic and the corporeal, the technical and the social, "New Technologies of Gender" explores feminist scholarship and critique that address technology and the social construction of gender. The conference pays homage to two UCSC scholars whose work has been formative in defining feminist analyses of the gendered implications and applications of technology: Donna Haraway and Teresa de Lauretis. It also features the work of other innovative feminist thinkers from a range of disciplines whose approaches to technology and identity break new ground in feminist studies. What does it mean to ask about the relation between technology and gender? How do technologies of gender interact with other technologies, especially technologies of identity such as race, species, sexuality and subjectivity? How do new technologies reinscribe or challenge old constructions of identity? This conference questions dichotomous understandings of what constitutes the technological and, by rearticulating the conceptual boundaries of technology, gender, and identity, seeks to redefine the place of technology in feminist scholarship. Conference organizers: Jody Greene, Literature, UCSC; Tina Campt, Women's Studies, UCSC; Julie Bettie, Sociology, UCSC [material deleted] OF INTEREST: SPEAKER: James Higginbotham (University of Oxford, University of Southern California) "Language and Reason" Friday, October 20 Social Sciences 2, Room 75 3:30 pm Higginbotham is a philosopher who has worked in the border areas between philosophy and linguistics for many years---first at MIT, then at the University of Oxford, and now at USC. Some of his most celebrated work has been on the logic of perceptual reports, and his work on the logical form of natural languages has also been very influential. The theme of this talk will be the tension between seeing the study of language as the study of a rational achievement, and the view that the study of language should be a kind of abstract brain science. Higginbotham's lecture is a part of The Mind and Meaning Project of the INSTITUTE for HUMANITIES RESEARCH at UC Santa Cruz. For more information please visit the web site <http://humwww.ucsc.edu/ihr/> _________________________________________________________________________ For more information about events sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies, or to be removed from this mailing list, contact Katy Elliott, Program Coordinator, at (831) 459-4899 or cult@hum.ucsc.edu. ******************************* Katy Elliott Institute for Humanities Research & The Center for Cultural Studies Oakes College UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: 831-459-4899 FAX: 831-459-4979 ******************************* From: Joseph Nechvatal Subject: [event by Joseph Nechvatal]Opening of "ec-satyricOn 2000 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:04:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 541 (541) [--] For Immediate Release Joseph Nechvatal ec-satyricOn 2000 October 26 - December 02 Universal Concepts Unlimited announces the opening of "ec-satyricOn 2000 (enhanced)+ bodies in the bit-stream (compliant)" a digital-based exhibition of recent work by Joseph Nechvatal, on Thursday, October 26 from 6-8 PM. Since 1985, Joseph Nechvatal has been exploring what he calls the viractual image; a complex numeric image which consists of a mixture of drawing, digital-photography, painting, written language, and externalized computer code - all of which is submitted to computational manipulations (including viral attacks). Based loosely around passages from a cyber-sex farce novella he wrote in Paris called "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus-~~vibrator, even" - and from certain passages from Gaius Petronius Arbiters (~27-66 AD) book Satyricon, this exhibition puts forth a mingling of the virtual, the aesthetic, and the sexual. The exhibition consists of six large computer-robotic assisted paintings which, together, create a sweeping, immersive environment. Also, a specially rubber-bound example of "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~venus-~~vibrator, even" will be on display, as well as a suite of unique digital prints from the "code x" series, and a dvd animated puppet show. [material deleted] Joseph Nechvatal has exhibited his work widely in Europe and the United States, both in private and public venues. He is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum, the Moderna Musset in Stockholm and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His web-site, with full CV and collected writings, can be found at: <http://www.dom.de/arts/artists/jnech/> [material deleted] For further information contact UCU @ 212.727.7575 and/or see artist statement at: <http://www.intelligentagent.com/satyricon.html> -- Universal Concepts Unlimited 507 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 <http://www.U-C-U.com> Tel: 212.727.7575 Fax: 212.727.7676 Email: ucu1@rcn.com *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: National Academies Research on Intellectual Property Issues Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:07:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 542 (542) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 17, 2000 National Academies Research on Intellectual Property Issues <http://www.nationalacademies.org/ipr>http://www.nationalacademies.org/ipr Although much of the following applies more to patents than to copyright, readers might be interested in these research areas commissioned by the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP) of the National Academies. The results of this research will be presented in a conference organized by the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-based Economy in early Fall 2001. The broad areas of research are as follows: PATENT ADMINISTRATION AND LITIGATION SOFTWARE AND BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS BIOTECHNOLOGY RELATED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES David Green =========== [deleted quotation] The National Academies Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP) As part of its examination of intellectual property rights, the National Academies STEP Board is pleased to announce the results of its March 23, 2000 request for proposals. It is expected that this research will help inform the deliberations of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-based Economy over the coming months, and that final reports of this research will be presented and discussed at a public conference in early Fall 2001. The following activities were chosen to receive full or partial support by the STEP Board. In addition to the commissioned work, the Committee will have access to results of work being supported by other sponsors or provided on a primarily pro bono basis. The researchers and project descriptions are both pasted below this message and attached as a .pdf file. We are grateful for the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who are helping support this initial research endeavor. For further information on this research activity, please visit www.nationalacademies.org/ipr, or contact: Craig Schultz Research Associate STEP Board cschultz@nas.edu 202.334.2200 www.nationalacademies.org/ipr PATENT ADMINISTRATION AND LITIGATION 1. Patent Examiner Productivity and Quality In the absence of a solid understanding of the process of assigning patent rights, it is difficult to assess the likely effect of changes to the PTO in terms of management and personnel practices, financial resources, and information sources, etc. Through a series of structured interviews with PTO managers, current and former patent examiners, private patent attorneys, and inventors, followed by an analysis of a sample of recent granted patents, the research team will analyze the relationship between patent examiner characteristics (such as tenure, educational background and degree of specialization) to patent productivity and quality (such as time to approval, citation rate, litigation outcomes, etc.). The interviews and the analysis will take into account the fact that examination is conditioned not only by law and factors within the PTO but also by the structure of applications and interaction with attorneys. Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School Sam Kortum, Boston University Iain Cockburn, Boston University 2. Effects of Patent Oppositions: A Comparison of U.S. and European Patent Histories An important institutional difference between the U.S. and European patent systems is the European opposition process whereby interested parties can contest the validity of an issued patent for a period after its issuance. The U.S. reexamination procedure is more circumscribed and much less frequently used. Opportunity for opposition has been cited as an efficient and effective means to improve patent quality, especially in novel technological areas, and to reduce costly litigation; but the effects of the procedure have not been studied empirically. The research team will assemble experimental and control samples of identical USPTO and EPO patents and determine what conclusions can be drawn about the parties to and effects of opposition on patent examination and quality and subsequent litigation. Dietmar Harhoff, University of Munich Bronwyn Hall, U.C. Berkeley David Mowery, U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business 3. Enforcing IPRs: the Incidence and Outcomes of Patent Suits Patent litigation is on the rise and the costs of patent suits can be substantial, but we do not know the extent to which those costs reduce the value of patents vis- -vis other means of protecting IP and the incentives for firms of different types to invest in research and development. Using a database on patent suits, a research team will investigate how the frequency and probability of suits and their outcomes (settlement rates and win or loss rates in trials) vary across patents, technology fields, and patent owners with different characteristics. Jean Lanjouw, Yale University and the Brookings Institution Mark Schankerman, London School of Economics 4. Cooperation and Conflict Over Patent Rights in Cumulative Technologies This study investigates the breakdown of private bargaining over patent rights in one industrial context, semiconductors, involving cumulative technological development. Previous research has shown that semiconductor firms ramped up their patent portfolios during the 1980s in part to improve their abilities to negotiate with external owners of IP and to deter patent-related suits. Yet the number of semiconductor-related patent suits filed in U.S. federal courts has risen steadily over this period. This study tracks the patent litigation histories of a sample of 97 U.S. semiconductor firms between 1995 and 1998 to address two main questions: 1) what types of technologies (e.g., process or product) and entities are involved in these disputes? and 2) how, if at all, have the characteristics of these disputes changed during the period associated with stronger U.S. patent rights? Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania SOFTWARE AND BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS 1. Software Copyrights and Patent Rights: The Causes and Consequences of Regime Change in IP Protection Although software patenting has accelerated, it is not clear which types of firms with respect to what types of products have shifted from one form of IP protection to the other or supplemented one with the other and why. Nor is it known whether the greater propensity to patent is associated with increased licensing of computer program components or is largely defensive in nature. Whatever the trends, what are their implications for the future of the computer software industry? The investigator will relate data on software patents with copyright registrations identifiable by firm to shed light on these questions. D. Mowery, U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business 2. Internet-Related Business Method Patents Although the USPTO has been issuing patents relating to business methods embodied in software for several years, the numbers were small and their significance largely unnoticed until the growth of the Internet and the 1998 Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the State Street Bank case. To assess the causes of the acceleration of patenting and its implications for financial services, electronic commerce, and other services, there is a need for baseline data on patent holders, examination characteristics, patent references and scope, and litigation trends. The research team will develop a profile of Internet-related business method patents that will be useful to a variety of further research projects as well as policy discussions. A careful effort to develop intelligible definitions of related terms (i.e., software, Internet, business methods, e-commerce, etc.) and relate them to USPTO classifications will accompany this analysis. John R. Allison, Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Emerson H. Tiller, University of Texas at Austin BIOTECHNOLOGY 1. Intellectual Property Licensing in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology As a result of changes in policy (the Bayh-Dole Act allowing publicly funded research institutions to acquire and dispose patent rights on their inventions), technology (molecular biology and DNA sequencing), and participants (the rise of university participation in commercial activity and growth of small biotechnology companies, including ones marketing genomic information), there is concern how the acquisition and use of patents is affecting the conduct and communication of fundamental research and innovation. In particular, there is concern that the strengthening and proliferation if patent rights to upstream products and processes are making it more difficult for 1) research scientists to communicate methods and results, collaborate, and share research materials and 2) downstream product developers to commercialize new products. Through a series of structured interviews with representatives of all parties, the research team will ascertain what the trends and patterns are and especially whether reasonable arrangements for licensing IP are evolving. Wesley Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University Ashish Arora, Carnegie Mellon University John Walsh, University of Illinois at Chicago. RELATED RESEARCH ACTIVITIES In addition to the above commissioned work the STEP Committee on Intellectual Property in the Knowledge-Based Economy will have access to results of work being supported by other sponsors or provided on a primarily pro bono basis: 1. Patent Examination, Patentability, and Patent Reform Analytical papers addressing three inter-related topics: 1) How should "prior art" be defined given the development and future predominance of "information age" sources for memorializing and accessing prior art technology and the needs and capabilities of patent offices to access prior art examining inventions for patentability. A case study will consider the issues related to the definition of and access to prior art in computer software and so-called "business method" technology. 2) How should the patent system be limited or bounded in areas where public policy issues or concerns become manifest. A case study will consider the issue of limits on patent eligibility for genomics and business method inventions. 3) How should the patent system operate in the 21st Century, focusing on proposed reforms for increasing the efficiency and quality of patent examination and reducing the incidence and cost of disputes over patents. Fellows of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Robert Armitage, Lilly Research Laboratories Michael Kirk, American Intellectual Property Law Association 2. The Role of Intellectual Property in Financial Services An analytical paper on how intellectual property rights have affected the development of financial services and what role they may play in the future. Robert Hunt, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 3. Patent Examination Procedures An empirical analysis of the relationship between the administration of patent examination at the PTO unit level and litigation of patent validity. John L. King, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture 4. Opportunity Costs of Litigation A survey component to ascertain the costs other than attorney fees and court costs entailed in litigation. These include costs associated with the time and attention that firms' high-level managerial and technical personnel must devote to avoiding, defending against, and supporting the prosecution of patent suits. W. Cohen and A. Arora, Carnegie Mellon University J. Walsh, University of Illinois at Chicago ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE 2001 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:09:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 543 (543) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 17, 2000 WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE 2001: Hong Kong <http://www10.org/>http://www10.org/ Call for Cultural Track Proposals <http://www10.org/w10-call-culture.html>http://www10.org/w10-call-culture.html DEADLINE: November 10, 2000 This notice from Liddy Nevile, chair of the Culture Track of the 10th World Wide Web conference, is a challenge for us all to do what we can to make this a substantial component of WWW10. [deleted quotation]the following: * Digital arts, installations and exhibitions * Digitising collections - tools and techniques * Describing resources and collections * Indigenous cultures online * Models for creative and scholarly self-publishing * Multi-culturalism and multi-linguality * Virtual institutions including economic models * Cultural communities including technical and minority * Government policies and standards Proposals should address important, topical issues in the cultural sector and promote active participation in lively debate among respondents and participants. Of particular interest will be presentations that contribute to increasing participation in and the value of the online world for those in the Asia-Pacific Region. See the guidelines for papers, panels and posters. Proposals for other forms of presentation should be made directly to the Culture Track Chair at <mailto:culture@www10.org> Members of the selection committee include: David Bearman, Judy Gradwohl, Rachel Heery, Liddy Nevile, Eric Miller, John Perkins, Andy Powell, Alfredo Ronchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, Jennifer Trant, Stuart Weibel. David Green =========== [material deleted] The following Calls for Participation are now available on the WWW10 Website (<http://www10.org/>http://www10.org/): Call for Refereed Papers <http://www10.org/w10-call-papers.html>http://www10.org/w10-call-papers.html Call for Panel Proposals <http://www10.org/w10-calls-panels.html>http://www10.org/w10-calls-panels.html Call for Poster Proposals <http://www10.org/w10-call-posters.html>http://www10.org/w10-call-posters.html Call for Vendors Track Proposals <http://www10.org/w10-calls-vendors.html>http://www10.org/w10-calls-vendors.html Note in particular the Call for Cultural Track Proposals <http://www10.org/w10-call-culture.html>http://www10.org/w10-call-culture.html ------------------------------------------------------ See and join the WWW10-Announce mail list - WWW10-Announce@www10.org <http://www.www10.org/mailman/listinfo/www10-announce>http://www.www10.org/mailman/listinfo/www10-announce Contact me directly if you wish. Liddy Nevile, Chair of Culture Track, WWW10, culture@www10.org From: jason.mann@vanderbilt.edu Subject: Asynchronous Learning Networks Conference and ALN Talk Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:10:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 544 (544) On-Line Discussions ANNOUNCEMENT 1: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALN ANNOUNCEMENT 2: ALNTALK 2 NEW ON-LINE DISCUSSIONS EMAIL CHANGE/REMOVE/ADD ---------- ANNOUNCEMENT 1: 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALN <http://www.aln.org/alnconf2000/> November 3-5, 2000 The 6th International Conference on ALN will be held at: HURRY-TIME IS RUNNING OUT! University of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center Adelphi, MD. The Sixth International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks is the premier conference devoted exclusively to online learning. It brings together an international group of innovative educators, trainers, and technologists who are developing the art and practice of online learning. The conference, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation <<http://www.sloan.org/>> in conjunction with University of Maryland University College <<http://www.umuc.edu/>>, the University System of Maryland <<http://www.usmh.usmd.edu/>>, The Sloan Center for Online Education at Olin and Babson Colleges <<http://www.aln.org/>> The Sloan Center for Online Education at Olin and Babson Colleges, and the Goethe-Institut Washington <<http://www.goethe.de/uk/was/enindex.htm>>, provides an opportunity for you to study key issues, learn new approaches, see new technologies, share best practices, hear research results, and become part of an international community that is shaping education for a knowledge society of lifelong learners. ANNOUNCEMENT 2: ALN TALK The Center for Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) announces free online discussions and articles about online learning. The new online discussions include, "Which Requirements Will Shape Future ALNs," as well as Conversations With Authors of Articles in The New ALN Magazine. You are invited to join these discussions by going to <http://www.aln.org/alnweb/alntalk/index.htm> and clicking on, "Go to the ALNTalk Current Discussion." If you have been in the forums before, then you must add the new forum: In the discussion choose "Options" on the menubar at the top of the page. Then, under "Forums" click the checkbox for the new forum in order to see it. Close the Options box by clicking "OK" at the bottom of the page (you may need to scroll down to see it). The ALN Magazine Vol. 4, Issue 1 - October 2000 presents the papers that are being discussed. The Magazine is available at: <http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/maga_v4_i1.htm> From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0368 markup, encoding, content-modelling, primitives Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:42:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 545 (545) At 10:30 AM 10/17/00 +0100, Francois wrote: [deleted quotation] Mm, I was with us up to this point, and in particular I agreed with the "intuitions" of Fotis and Thierry (since the lexicographers haven't tackled this to my knowledge, I agree intuition and usage is what we have to go on). But I think Francois steps a bit too far from currently-recognized semantics into a distinction that may be useful, but isn't at all common. I also think the containment relation is backward. Remember that a text can be "encoded" without being its marked up. In fact, any electronic ("machine readable") text must be, ipso facto, encoded. Standard text encodings include US-ASCII, EUC-JP, ISO 8859 in its variants, etc. etc., including, now, Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646). These all provide mappings from written characters into bit-sequences of known lengths, enabling a digital processor to handle them internally. More broadly, however, Morse code is be an encoding in this sense. At its loosest, I'd suppose a code to be a representation of one type of information in another form, either to facilitate or to obfuscate its transmission. Markup is an addition of code to code: a layering of an encoding practice following a different protocol, over and above an initial layer. All markup is encoding, but not all encoding is markup. The super-added protocol must include a way to make the distinction between which encoded sequences are "data" and which, "markup." Think of your favorite plain-text transcription of a literary work. Much of the difficulty that comes from processing even a good, clean, well-edited plain text, arises from the fact that so much information in it (say, the boundaries between chapters) is not explicit in its code. We might call the creative use of white space, all caps for CHAPTER headings etc., a kind of "passive" or "implicit" markup -- but since it's not explicit it's relatively difficult to program a machine to handle it. Cheers, 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: "Price, Dan" Subject: New Media & Social Llife Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:38:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 546 (546) Hello, In the article mentioned by Charles Ess, one finds the following statement: "The more hours people use the Internet, the less time they spend with real human beings," said Stanford Professor Norman Nie, director of SIQSS and principal investigator of the study. Am I missing something here? Up to now, it had been my impression that Willard and Charles and all the other participants of the List-Server were real human beings. I had this impression even though I have never met them face to face. It is similar to my contact with many scholars before the advent of the Internet-that is, contact only by snail mail and professional journals. At that time, I thought I was in contact with real human beings, but maybe the authors of the study know otherwise. Likewise I have never had any face to face contact with Plato or Aristotle, but my suspicion is that they were real human beings too. I am in dialogue with them about their ideas and propositions through the reading of their texts and I consider that "contact with real human beings." Something is really awry with the study if this is the basic premise: When one is online, he/she is not spending time with real human beings. --dan Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html>http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** From: Jennifer De Beer Subject: Fwd: L.A. Times column, 10/16/00 -- ICANN Elections Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:41:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 547 (547) Willard, I thought colleagues might like to step back and look at the bigger picture of 'Internet governance'. The latter term bringing a most unwelcome chill to my spine. Best, Jennifer --- Gary Chapman wrote: [deleted quotation][material deleted] [deleted quotation] ===== ~~ Jennifer De Beer Do not be bullied by authoritative pronouncements about what machines will never do. Such statements are based on pride, not fact. --Marvin Minsky, MIT, 1982 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0365 anthropological cyberspace Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:41:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 548 (548) "Ancient Voices in Cyberspace"!! "primitive"!! Yeek!! All these people are as modern as you or me! Please, Patricia Search, read Johannes Fabian's Time and the Other! (I apologize for all the exclamation marks. Fabian talks about the "denial of coevalness" that denies the whole of their history to peoples who live on the margins of nation-states and makes them into models for "ancient" versions of human lifeways. Fabian's work is now taken for granted in anthropology--so to hear this kind of treatment called "anthropological" is like fingernails on a chalkboard. What it is is bad old colonialist anthropology.) Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Issue 2 of Cultivate Interactive Available Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:46:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 549 (549) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 16, 2000 Issue 2 of Cultivate Interactive <<http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/> The recommended second issue of the fascinating web magazine Cultivate Interactive, produced by the UK's Office of Library Networking (UKOLN)is now available. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Welcome to Issue 2 of Cultivate Interactive Issue 2 of Cultivate Interactive is now available: <<http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/> The highlights include: Feature Articles ---------------------- Perseus Digital Library Gregory Crane, Brian Fuchs, Amy C. Smith and Clifford E. Wulfman discuss the symbiosis between content and technology in the Perseus Digital Library. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/perseus/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/perseus/ Museums in the Digital Space Head of Collections Management for the Science Museum, Suzanne Keene, reflects on current political, economic, social, technical and organisational trends shaping the UK digital cultural space. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/space/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/space/ Www.European-Heritage.Net Daniel Thrond introduces the European information network on cultural heritage policies (HEREIN project). <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/herein/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/herein/ Machine Translation Alastair Lindsay of Worldlingo.com explains how you can use MT as part of your Internet strategy. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/lingo/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/lingo/ VAKHUM Serge Van Sint Jan gives us a behind the scenes look at the new source of data on human kinematics created by the VAKHUM Project. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/vakhum/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/vakhum/ Public Netbase t0 Public Netbase t0, creators of World-Information.Org, are one of Europe's most respected media-culture institutions. Martin Wassermair talks about its international Success and recent struggles with Austria's new right-wing government. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/netbase/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/netbase/ Regular Articles ---------------------- EVA 2000 Philip Hunter gives a personal view of the Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts Conference (EVA) in Edinburgh. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/eva/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/eva/ Metadata: Towards a Whole-Museum Response Neil Thomson reports on work in progress to provide information about the many and varied collections that are held at The Natural History Museum. The work involves the research systems having their core fields mapped onto the Dublin Core metadata standard, harvested and stored in a separate, publicly available, summary system. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/natural/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/natural/ Other Areas ------------------ The Creation of the Renaissance Library Calendar Gunnel Stjernvall explains how the calendar created specifically for information professionals and culture lovers came about. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/calendar/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/calendar/ Making your DIGICULT Web site Visually Appealing An Introduction to using Graphics on the Web for those creating their own sites. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/graphics/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/graphics/ Competition Cultivate Interactive's Spot the European City Competition. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/competition/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/competition/ If you have any queries regarding Cultivate Interactive or writing for Cultivate Interactive please send them to -------------------------------------------------------- Marieke Napier, Information Officer Editor of the Exploit Interactive and Cultivate Interactive web magazines UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: m.napier@ukoln.ac.uk URL: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Exploit Interactive: <http://www.exploit-lib.org/>http://www.exploit-lib.org/ Cultivate Interactive: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/ Homepage: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/m.napier/>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/m.napier/ Phone: 01225 826354 FAX: 01225 826838 ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Gale Nelson Subject: Shelley Jackson's Ineradicable Stain Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:40:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 550 (550) [--] Shelley Jackson writes to us of a new publication: Yo! I want to announce a new blot on my reputation: Shelley Jackson's Ineradicable Stain (http://www.ineradicablestain.com) -- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Oct issues of D-Lib magazine & RLG DigiNews Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:11:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 551 (551) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 17, 2000 D-Lib Magazine - October, 2000 issue available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ Table of contents: <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/10contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/10contents.html Includes: "LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress - James J. O'Donnell "A Grammar of Dublin Core - Thomas Baker "Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy - Stewart Granger "The Digital Performance Archive" - Rachael Beach * * * * RLG DigiNews - October, 2000 issue available <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ Includes "Copyright Clearance in the Refugee Studies Centre Digital Library Project," - Mike Cave, Marilyn Deegan, Louise Heinink "Digitization Grants and How to Get One: Advice from the Director, Office of Library Services, IMLS - Joyce Ray October issues of D-Lib magazine and of RLG's DigiNews are now available online. Perhaps of greatest general interest is Jim O'Donnells' introduction and guide to "LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress," the result of an 18-month study of LC and its response to the information technology revolution. conducted by the Natonal Academies and chaired by O'Donnell. I recommend O'Donnell's lively article. The report itself can be found at <http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071445/html/index.html>http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071445/html/index.html. David Green =========== D-Lib Magazine - October, 2000 issue available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ [deleted quotation] The articles in the October 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine are: LC21 - Hopes and Cautions for the Library of Congress James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania The NSF National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: A Progress Report Lee L. Zia, National Science Foundation A Grammar of Dublin Core Thomas Baker, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations Carol Hansen Montgomery, Drexel University Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy Stewart Granger, University of Leeds ******************************************** The eight "In Brief" items are: The Digital Performance Archive Rachael Beach, The Nottingham Trent University Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives Robert Tansley and Stevan Harnad, University of Southhampton SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries Abel L. Packer, SciELO Project CREATE CHANGE Ray English, Oberlin College The Bath Profile: an International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery Carrol D. Lunau, National Library of Canada The Finnish Library Portal Paivi Jokitalo, Networked Public Library Services Unit of Finland Through (Clients) Thick and Thin: Challenges in Implementing Chemical Resources Andrea Twiss-Brooks, University of Chicago Library Documentation Abstracts Inc. to Support Two CLIR Information Institutes ******************************************** Bonnie Wilson Managing Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list <http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers>http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers =========================================================================== RLG DigiNews - October, 2000 issue available <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ [deleted quotation]-------------------------------------------------------------- The October, 2000 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/(from>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/(from North American, and other world sites) <http://www.rlg.ac.uk/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.ac.uk/preserv/diginews/ (from UK Janet sites) or <http://www.ohio.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.ohio.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from most European sites) The October 2000 issue includes: Volume 4, Number 5 CONTENTS Feature Articles Copyright Clearance in the Refugee Studies Centre Digital Library Project, by Mike Cave, Marilyn Deegan, and Louise Heinink Digitization Grants and How to Get One: Advice from the Director, Office of Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services by Joyce Ray Highlighted Web Site - Cornell's Digital Imaging Tutorial FAQ - What is Zip Compression? RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly web-based newsletter intended to: * Focus on issues of particular interest and value to managers of digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale. * Provide filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects to improve our awareness of evolving practices in image conversion and digital archiving. * Announce publications (in any form) that will help staff attain a deeper understanding of digital issues. For more information about RLG or PRESERV, RLG's preservation community, please contact Robin Dale (Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org). Robin L. Dale RLG Member Programs & Initiatives 1200 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 Ph: (650) 691-2238 Fax: 650.964.0943 Email: Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org --- End Forwarded Message --- From: Diane Greco Subject: Eastgate Publishes _CALIFIA_ by M. D. Coverley Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:44:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 552 (552) [--] 16 October 2000 For Immediate Release Eastgate Systems Publishes CALIFIA by M. D. Coverley WATERTOWN, MA Eastgate Systems, the premier publisher of hypertext and hypermedia in the United States, announces the publication of M. D. Coverley's long-awaited hypermedia epic, CALIFIA. Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, CALIFIA is the story of Augusta Summerland's search for a lost cache of gold. Join Augusta, and her friends Kaye and Calvin, on their adventures in modern Los Angeles, where they rifle through provocatively incomplete documents in local archives, discover old California myths and legends, and connive to outwit an edgy businessman with his own designs on the elusive Treasure of Califia. "CALIFIA represents a landmark in the development of hypertext," says Mark Bernstein, Eastgates chief scientist. "Its central themesmemory, concordance, the significance of archives in a world of infinite informationare perfectly captured by its hypertextual presentation." M. D. Coverley's CALIFIA takes layering as its central trope. Califia, the name of a fabled Amazon warrior, was used by Spanish explorers to christen California when they still thought it was an island [and] suggests how the present site of Southern California is underlain by an earlier history, which itself alludes to a still more distant past. - N. Katherine Hayles, UCLA, author of _How We Became Posthuman_ CALIFIA excavates the past of five generations' lost memories: from the ravages of Alzheimer's, clues about the Chumash Indians' last journey and final stand, oral histories, hints, secrets, unsolved puzzles and a quest for buried treasure... It's the story of a search for forgotten origins by dead reckoning, for the fabled Amazon queen and her gold-rich empire, of the mythic quest for stardom in Hollywood and of Augusta's search for her buried inheritance ... if it can be excavated from lost wisdom and forgetfulness. - Carolyn Guertin, University of Alberta M. D. Coverley holds an MFA from UC Irvine and teaches writing as Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink. Her hypermedia work has appeared widely on the internet, and includes publications at The Iowa Review Web, New River, Cauldron and Net, Salt Hill, Enterzone, Riding the Meridian, and Aileron, and has been featured on Rhizome, Rooms Without Walls, and Web del Sol. Termed "the primary source for serious hypertext" by Robert Coover in the New York Times Book Review, Eastgate Systems publishes hypertexts -- interlinked, interactive work, both fiction and nonfiction, specifically written to be read on the computer. Eastgate also produces Storyspace, a hypertext and hypermedia authoring tool. Eastgate Systems publishes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, specializing in the world of literature beyond the confines of paper, and that would not normally appear, or could appear, in printed form. CALIFIA by M. D. Coverley ISBN 1-884511-38-4 $24.95 For Windows or Macintosh with PC Emulator If you would like a REVIEW COPY, please contact Diane Greco, dgreco@eastgate.com +1 (617) 924-9044 --------------------------------------------------------------- Diane Greco dgreco@eastgate.com Eastgate Systems, Inc. voice: +1(617) 924-9044 134 Main St Watertown MA 02472 USA fax: +1(617) 924-9051 --------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A.Wilson" Subject: CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:08:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 553 (553) CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Lancaster University (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - TBA Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are: 1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to interact. 2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and those using corpora in language engineering. 3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech. Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and Mick Short. For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics such as: corpus-based studies of any language level in any language contrastive corpus linguistics computer-aided studies of style corpus- or text-based lexicography corpus/text building, encoding and annotation development of corpus-based language engineering tools applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology, etc.) Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be English. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers: Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including e-mail and fax numbers). Workshops: Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organizers, their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented at the workshop. Workshop organizers should also indicate whether they wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop. Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have. Proceedings Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of Geoffrey Leech. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000 Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000 Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001 Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.] CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Local committee Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) General committee Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University) Jock McNaught (UMIST) Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University) Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University) ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 843085 Fax: +44 1524 593024 E-mail: mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: subscription Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:09:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 554 (554) Dear Colleagues: Valiant efforts to fix the problem with the subscription software have failed, so I have put in place a temporary page to direct applicants to send requests with information directly to me. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 556 (556) [deleted quotation]says [deleted quotation]most [deleted quotation]people [deleted quotation]subtract. [deleted quotation]cards [deleted quotation]trees, [deleted quotation]what [deleted quotation]decreases as [deleted quotation]other). Alexander [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 557 (557) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: reviews of hyper-fiction? Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:06:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 558 (558) The commercial announcement of M. D. Coverley's hypertextual novel Califa elsewhere on Humanist prompts me to ask if anyone knows of critical reviews of the genre? It is not difficult to find what seem to this reader to be inflated claims for it and its instantiations, but these are of course to be expected. I for one would welcome such a review in the Times Literary Supplement, the London or New York Review of Books or similar place. Have there been any? What I mean by "critical review" would go well beyond the can't-take-it-to-the-beach-or-into-the-bath complaint, though the reviewer might recognise the degree to which current technology is poorly suited for reading. Having done that I suppose it would assume that we had the marvels we are promised, that the equipment was no longer such a problem, then attempt to deal with hyperlinked fiction per se, as we can see it through our glass darkly. It would, perhaps, get sufficiently into the deficiencies in linking as most of us currently know it via the unidirectional, monotypical HREF of the Web, to examine current prototypes for richer linking mechanisms and imagine how authors of fiction might use them. (The literature is extensive and fascinating.) It would, I suppose, be quite clear-headed about what one gains and loses from writing in smallish chunks that the reader is encouraged to access in more than one sequence. Its analysis of gains and losses, if that's not too crude, would need to be based on a good knowledge of the ways in which novelists (at least since the 18th century) have played with and against the so-called linear structure of narrative, indeed how epic poets since Homer have done the same, e.g. by plunging in medias res. I am reminded of a fine article I read recently, D.R. Raymond and F.W.Tompa's "Hypertext and the Oxford English Dictionary", in Communications of the ACM, 31.7 (July 1988): 871-79, for which see <http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~fwtompa/publications.html>. Raymond and Tompa note for the comparatively simple and explicitly expressed structure of the OED that textual structures must be inferred from careful study of the text. There is always the danger, they note, that implicit, unrecognised structure will be lost when converting to hypertextual form. Of course when conceiving a novel in that form, rather than converting a legacy document to it, the question is different; there is literally nothing to be lost. But is the genius of the author so hampered by the relatively unsophisticated mechanisms at his or her disposal that the result is hardly worth the effort? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Michele Gorman Subject: Re: 13.0332 labour-saving devices Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:07:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 559 (559) Good afternoon, We are in the process of writing a paper on the theory that labour-saving devices do not actually save us time (as applied to the use of the Internet). Can you suggest a few references (online) that may help me to understand this theory and its implications? Kind regards, Michele From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0374 markup, encoding, content-modelling Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:56:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 560 (560) Wendell, As ever, I can trust you to keep any of my flights of fancy, induced by o'er too speedy reasoning by analogy, well-tethered to the imaginable and the historical conditions of production and the mediation of the "machine readable". [deleted quotation]common. I [deleted quotation] I reread the posting archived as "14.0368 markup, encoding, content-modelling, primitives" which I had given the prosaic subject line of "Re: 14.0362 terminological questions" to see how much I had implied that a syntagmatic relation of containment existed (i.e. content --> encoding --> markup). Willard (or a machine) seems to have switched the subject line ever so creatively again by dropping the mention of "primitives" in the posting of your reply. (I am curious to see how the subject line of this current message comes through and to compare it with the subject line that "meta-collects" the message) See [deleted quotation] which got archived as "14.0374 markup, encoding, content-modelling" The hide-and-seek primitive in subject fields, and the impulse to read a unidirectional syntagm off a listing, along with the method/methodology distinction introduced in the discussion recently and my own even more recent lapsus in forgetting ascii, unicode and their ilk, have alerted me to one of the joys of observing humanities scholars in computing action : the ease with which they move between instance and model. Which leads me to pick up one of Willard's themes : the nature of evidence and its connection to argumentation and to wonder if Willard or other subscribers might muse online about the relation of pursuit of primitives to forms of argumentation and the construction/discovery of evidence. Or to reverse the order: do certain patterns of presenting arguments and evidence have an impact on the perceived feasibility and desirability of mechanizing methods? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Self-Archiving Why's Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:52:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 561 (561) [The following forwarded from the Electronic Journal Publishing List with thanks. --WM] [deleted quotation] From: Randall Pierce Subject: Jascha Kessler and Science Fiction Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:53:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 562 (562) Mr. Kessler's observations about the rise of technology were very interesting. This leads me to ask Mr. Kessler if the thinks the challenge and response theory of "human progress" is the preeminent one in human develpment. Although technology and economics play a very important part in human development, I would not descry the place that psychology, both "normal' and "abnormal" have had. I would think that the role of hyper-text technology will make available so many "obscure" works which have seldom seen the light of day. Some of these works have not been made generally available due to the outre nature of the material, but because of the ability of modern information technology to make so much so generally available to great numbers of researchers, I wonder how many "cognitive connections" can be made by synthesizing seemingly disparate bodies of information? Randall From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: UVA receives $25 million to integrate IT & humanities Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:55:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 563 (563) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 19, 2000 Halsey Minor Gives $25 Million to University of Virginia To Create 21st-century Digital Academical Village Includes funding for research center to foster meaningful intellectual partnerships between computer scientists and humanists <http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2000/minorgift-oct-18-2000.html>http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2000/minorgift-oct-18-2000.html This news release from the University of Virginia is very encouraging. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: sociological reflections and studies Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:13:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 564 (564) Humanists with a sociological bent (or should I say rectitude?) to their interests, as will have been discovered by the recent all-too-brief discussion of the impact of the new media on social life, will enjoy and profit from reading the publications of the sociologist Barry Wellman (Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Toronto), many of which are available from his website at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/>. Those whose interests are not sociological but include nicely designed websites should take a look too. It might prove interesting to have a discussion on the role(s) we would like to see the social sciences play in humanities computing. Not that we would presume to dabble in those fields, for which not a small amount of training is required. But it does seem to me that in the proper education of a computing humanist a strong social science component would be essential. I don't see how it could be avoided. When, for example, we think about the design of software to implement research methods of the humanities, this can hardly be done in a social vacuum. Even if we leave the study of how humanists do research to the social scientists, we certainly need the results of such research -- and the intellectual means to understand them. Comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Susan Hockey Subject: Inaugural lecture Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:56:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 565 (565) University College London An inaugural lecture will be delivered by Professor Susan Hockey Professor of Library and Information Studies "Digital Resources in the Humanities: Past, Present and Future" Thursday 26 October 2000 at 5.30pm Professor G.J.P. O'Daly, Dean of Arts and Humanities will preside Students of the University and others interested in the subject are invited Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Admission free without a ticket From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 14.0388 e-publishing: Self-Archiving Why's Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:29:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 566 (566) Regarding the Steven Harnad's comments & quoted comments, notably the excerpt below: ">Research can only benefit from the much wider, unobstructed reach a [deleted quotation] One problem, although much is good in this freeing of research from dissemination barriers, is that there will be more research available, and much will not have been peer reviewed. We researchers will have more grain to separate from the chaff. Even for good research, it remains to be seen how many peers are going to be available to provide the desired vetting. Will free peer reviewing be a growth industry? Regards, Joel Goldfield Modern Languages and Literatures Fairfield University Fairfield, Connecticut USA From: Willard McCarty Subject: online research Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:52:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 567 (567) In regard to Harnad's advocacy of online self-archiving in Humanist 14.0388, my recent experiences in trawling the Web for publications on hyperlinking and related matters come down strongly on his side. Usually I spend little time doing this because scholars in my other areas of research do not yet tend to publish online. So it is only recently that I have run into the difference between papers freely available (in HTML, Postscript or pdf format) and those under someone's lock-and-key, e.g. proceedings of the Hypertext conferences, which the ACM owns and charges dearly for. Although I don't like reading on screen, for the purposes of bibliographic recording and note-taking (e.g. using the fine program Library Master) it is of course far easier to be in the same medium as for reading. I'd suppose that if good self-archiving mechanisms were available (one for all fields?) and (? a big) if our universal convention as scholars were to use them, then proprietary information-prisons like the ACM's (apologies but this is what they seem like to the outsider) would rapidly go out of business. I wonder, though, if everyone would self-archive. To what degree are people in the humanities, say, worried about someone else "scooping" them? This anxiety has always seemed ridiculous to me -- who else would be so crazy as to attempt what I do? -- but, I have heard, not everyone is entirely open with what they're doing. At one time a philosopher, PhD candidate I think, said to me that if others in his field found out he was working along particular lines, someone might "get there" ahead of him.... How very sad, and in philosophy, too! I can more easily understand secrecy in mathematics, where the proof of a theorem is something that may be done once for all time, and of course also in fields of the hard sciences, but in the humanities? O tempora.... Comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 14.0389 cognitive connections? Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:55:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 568 (568) I think Randall meant to write "decry," and not "descry," for the latter means to "make out" or "discern," a meaning a bit off his context, if close to a pun. I am not myself altogether happy with the "challenge/response" generalization, since it seems to me, or to anyone who has ever worked with his or her own infant from the hour of birth, rather obvious for animal behavior, stimulus and response today being a notion that might well fit into the probabilistics of evolution, starting at the gross molecular organization...as we know now from the rapid variations in even such a primitive or rudimentary life as that of the HIV virus. On the level of ordinary human activity, I have favored the notion, and suggested it to students of literature, that the human animal is, philosophically speaking, born deficient...not only in the commonly understood sense of being born unable to fend for itself for years and years, unlike a foal that stands and walks in an hour or so, or a deer, since those creatures have to run to survive the waiting predators...but in the sense that it seems, perhaps before the first great achievement, fire-making, we need prosthetic devices. Perhaps beginning with a loin cloth...? Did the buck naked Aborigines of Australia always live that way? or did they lose clothing after entering that continent? Or the naked Tierra del Fuego folks? In short, the prosthesis, or devices we make and apply, beginning with fire and tools for hunting and slaughtering and digging grubs, have been with us, as technological objects of our making from the very first, it would seem. A hurled rock is one thing to catch a rabbit with; a slung rock is a most potent device. But the sling itself is first made, from whatever. Our very defective form of being has led us to where we are...and one need only imagine being dropped off naked in Tierra del Fuego to begin to understand our helplessness. I recall an adventure in the last decade when a man and woman were indeed deliberately left off in northern Australia, was it? It made a fascinating book. But they already had 1 million years of experience behind them, and knew what to try to make. Etc. Cordially, Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone: (310) 393-4648 (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. PST) Fax: (360) 838-8589/VoiceMail 24 hours (360) 838-8589 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com http://jaschakessler.homestead.com/ http://www.mcphersonco.com [deleted quotation](by way [deleted quotation] From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Is the problem in complexity or in ourselves? Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:55:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 569 (569) I thank WM for his invaluable suggestions, although he is not responsible for any errors which I may make in the following. Many people now believe that the universe is infinitely more complex than we thought a few years ago, and Godel's proofs in mathematical logic even indicated something amiss in mathematics as long ago as the 1930s. Quantum entanglement, chaos, the bizarre human events in history in the last 100 years, lead many people to conclude that mathematics and physics and humanities have in common only their inability to really comprehend the deepest levels of reality or unreality. Modernism, postmodernism, and even the Law of the Jungle seem to make a step by step analysis of everything implausible in its old sense - especially for the humanities, but analogously for the sciences. We are warned against small simplifying steps because computer simulated life is so very complicated/complex. Yet I beg to differ. In recent weeks I have attacked problems more complicated than complexity in computers, and if I may defer references for those who want them, I have solved them mostly by changing tiny assumptions and tiny operations. David Hilbert, the German mathematician, did something similar around the turn of the century (around 1900) when he created a program for mathematics and physics for the whole century with his famous 23 unsolved problems. Most of his program was successful in setting trends, but some of it failed because of Godel's proofs in mathematical logic that, roughly speaking, we can't prove everything in mathematics or even arithmetic. As a probability theorist and mathematical logician, you might expect that I would defend Godel strongly and give up on Hilbert. However, Hilbert and Godel were both creative geniuses who specialized in changing assumptions in small steps. It is actually a very big step to change an assumption, unlike changing pages in a notebook. Marx assumed that the working class would inevitably triumph, Adam Smith assumed that capital would inevitably triumph, Shakespeare assumed that the world was a stage, and Socrates assumed that everything could be dissected into its meanings/assumptions/foundations. The Catholic Church assumes that the Pope is infallible, the Anglican Church assumes that the Pope is not infallible. The word "not" has changed, a small change in one word from a proposition and sentence. To me, complexity and chaos and quantum entanglement and human history and art and music and all the rest are windmills. I think that I have a new insight into Cervantes' Don Quixote. If you believe in step by step conquest of the worlds, then go out and conquer them one by one. Let others theorize about the unconquerable and shake their heads in despair. For you, all you can do is to go one step at a time into creative genius, changing a little axiom here, a little definition there, clarifying a meaning somewhere, clarifying a relationship somewhere, changing an operation or a connection or an inference or a way of perceiving or of recording. Let others laugh, deride, and despair of your future, sailing rapidly ahead on their computerized or wooden ships. If all you create is a book that is treasured through the ages, or a thought that is imprinted in all time, and a knowing smile that continues like the windmills, you have won, not lost. Then you are the Man or the Woman from La Mancha. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0387 primitives, argumentation, evidence Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:52:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 570 (570) Hi Francois, What an amazing post. Ably defended, and I have to agree with everything you're saying. I'm also struck by your linking of our recent thread on methodological primitives to strategies of argumentation. Of course they have everything to do with one another. (Just a glance at Unsworth's categories ought to alert us to this, but somehow I missed it.) Also satisfying because here, certainly, the mysteries start. How do we categorize what works to bring about the shock of recognition, the faith of shared conviction, or the stimulating provocation of a perpendicular view? We've noted from time to time that markup seems to be an odd (displaced and behind-scenes) species of rhetoric. Whether "encoding" is, is another question: maybe rhetoric is a form of encoding. The notion of trope, metaphor or metamorphosis is deeply worked up in this. Both rhetoric and encoding seem to be tropes for "trope". This gets mixed up because of the intimate but vexed relation, as in all poetry, between what is up front (the "interface"?) and what is (presumed to be) behind it. The system is generative of complexities, so that this relation itself is soon so manifold and subtle as to become inexplicable. I am reassured by a remark made just this morning by an independent scholar/Humanist friend of mine who's just getting a feel for the power of generic markup in textual editing. "You've got to get down in the [ttranscribed] text to fix it anyway," he says, "it's never perfect. So while you're there, you may as well put in good code: it saves you so much work later." In his eagerness, he may be sliding over how bold and dangerous this work is. But he is certainly right that for scholarly production, something has to be done sometime, somehow. I'm already on record suggesting that boiling it all down to methodological primitives isn't going to save us any work. Call it "rhetorical primitives" and we're talking about one of the oldest games in the book. Selection, likening, typing, discrimination, juxtaposition. Nevertheless, it is all definitely part of understanding what it is we do, and why we do it. That is to say, I guess, part of that strange kind of self-erasing poetry called "criticism". I hope no other readers take my claiming bandwidth here to discourage them from answering your question: "do certain patterns of presenting arguments and evidence have an impact on the perceived feasibility and desirability of mechanizing methods?" Cheers, Wendell At 09:15 AM 10/20/00 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] ====================================================================== 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: Randall Pierce Subject: Re: 14.0387 primitives, argumentation, evidence Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:54:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 571 (571) Re the exchange between Wendell Piez and Francois Lachance: Speaking linguistically, the cognitive matrix in which arguments and evidence are presented should be the determining factor creating perceived feasibility of mechanizing texts. If argumentation is formed properly, it will produce the most necessary implement in the discovery of evidence: the proper question(s). Randall From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI): Changes Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:57:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 572 (572) to the website NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 20, 2000 Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Changes to the website <http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/>http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ The following message is a reminder of the value of the "Preserving Access to Digital Information" (PADI) initiative of the The National Library of Australia, that maintains a valuable subject gateway to digital preservation resources. Beyond the website, PADI's objectives are: 1.to facilitate the development of strategies and guidelines for the preservation of access to digital information; 2.to develop and maintain a web site for information and promotion purposes; 3.to actively identify and promote relevant activities; and 4.to provide a forum for cross-sectoral cooperation on activities promoting the preservation of access to digital information. The PADI also maintains a discussion list <<http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/forum/>http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/forum/> for the exchange of news and ideas about digital preservation issues. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] --- Begin Forwarded Message --- A brief list to let you know about some of the links to resources recently added to the PADI web site <<http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/>http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The publication "Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives", the report "In the Picture: Preservation and Digitisation of European Photographic Collections" and the guidelines "Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging" have been added to the DIGITISATION page <<http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/69.html>http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/69.html>. - - - - - "Cost elements of digital preservation" an article from the CEDARS project is linked to from the COSTS page<<http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/5.html>http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/5.html> From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Re: 14.0391 sociological reflections & the social Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 06:56:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 573 (573) sciences inhumanities computing I would definitely second Willard's comments on the importance of the sociological perspective in humanities. As a non-humanities layperson, I would think in the first instance that the subject matter of humanities is an examination of how the operation of human society proceeds, while sociology attempts to study that operation from an analytical viewpoint. In the second place, as a computationalist, one of the things I have implemented and worked with is content analysis, which I have seen applied to both literature (e.g., Hamlet) and "sociological" data (e.g., transcripts of perspectives of nursing home patients, operators, and administrators). Thus, methods (and software) are available from the sociology community that can be applied as well to humanist studies. (And, BTW, they rely on words - the "primitives" of society - and my thing.) -- 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: "Charles Ess" Subject: Interdisciplinary Research Conference Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:33:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 574 (574) Sister/Fellow Humanists: I'm pleased to call your attention to our fourth annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference, to be held on our campus next March 30-31 (2001). The Conference solicits papers and presentations from undergraduates that focus on interdisciplinary approaches to topics, issues, ideas, etc., of interest to liberally-educated persons. By the same token, we are soliciting papers and presentations from faculty that showcase efforts to teach in interdisciplinary ways and/or ways that foster interdisciplinary research at the undergraduate level. Abstracts and papers are due by December 15, 2000. Please see the Conference website for the call for papers and for further details: Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Thanks in advance - and cheers! 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: Joel Tyler Nickels Subject: A Roundtable Discussion on "Merleau-Ponty and the Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:33:03 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 575 (575) Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: townsend@ls.berkeley.edu The Townsend Center's PHENOMENOLOGY NOW presents: "Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophy of Mind" A Roundtable Discussion with: PROFESSOR HUBERT DREYFUS (Department of Philosophy, U. C. Berkeley) "Intelligence Without Representation" and PROFESSOR SEAN D. KELLY (Department of Philosophy, Princeton University) "Why Perception Might Not be Like Thought" Monday, October 30th, 3-5 p.m. in the Townsend Center Conference Room, 220 Stephens Hall. Professors Dreyfus and Kelley will be discussing their recent works on how Merleau-Ponty's _Phenomenology of Perception_ implicates contemporary debates in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. Copies of their papers are available at University Copy Service, 2425 Channing Way (under the Durant Parking Garage); ask for the "Phenomenology Now" folder at the desk. For more information, contact Joel Nickels (joeln@uclink4) or Mark Pedretti (pedretti@uclink4).> -- From: Willard McCarty Subject: cybernetic totalism, creative error and Sirens' voices Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:27:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 576 (576) Humanists may enjoy reading Jaron Lanier's online essay, One Half of a Manifesto, beginning at <http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier/lanier_index.html> and related material I'll cite in a moment. Lanier writes against what he calls "cybernetic totalism", for which he articulates the following "partial roster of component beliefs": [deleted quotation] This essay is published by the Edge Foundation, <http://www.edge.org/>, whose mandate is "to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society". Edge originated in a group called The Reality Club (George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Cliff Barney, Bruce Sterling, Rod Brooks, Henry Warwick, Kevin Kelly, Margaret Wertheim, John Baez, Lee Smolin, Stewart Brand, Rod Brooks, Lee Smolin, Daniel C. Dennett). Various members have commented on Lanier's piece. Allow me to quote the latter 2/3rds of George's Dyson's response (which Freeman Dyson compares to what he wrote at the end of Origins of Life), then a bit from Daniel Dennett's. First Dyson: [deleted quotation] Dennett finds in Lanier's piece a tension quite similar to that in Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: [deleted quotation] Yours, WM From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 14.0394 self-archiving & online publishing Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:28:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 577 (577) Greetings, Joel Goldfield commented on the perceived lack of "peer review" in Steven Harnad's comments as follows: [deleted quotation] It would be more accurate to say that materials held in preprint servers or other electronic corpora will not be subjected to "limited peer review," which is the current norm in the humanities. No current vetting system can afford an unlimited number of reviewers, either economically or organizationally, so the much touted "limited peer review" of the current system is surprising in the fact that it works at all, rather than it works well. New methods or topics, unfamiliar to the limited number of reviewers, fare less well than submissions that follow the hoary adages of the reviewer's generation of scholars. Contrast the current system of "limited peer review" with the system of peer review that is inherent in the comments by Steven Harnad. Under Harnad's system, papers and concepts can be subjected to peer review by all interested colleagues and not some limited subset. Greater responsibility for making critical judgments will be placed on the readers but what scholar blindly accepts findings outside (or inside) their field of expertise because an article survived the current system of "limited peer review?" Scholars can publically "review" the work of others, something that is not present in the present system. With such reviews, scholars can see the reasons why a particular work was seen as useful, useless, etc., rather than simply being unaware of it altogether. We would do well to remember that Willard has on occassion started discussion topics on the Humanist list that address the need to teach critical thinking to students. If students need to think critically about sources, shouldn't scholars think critically about the work of other scholars? As opposed to abdicating that responsibility to the current norm of "limited peer review?" Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: 14.0394 self-archiving & online publishing Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:33:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 578 (578) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 579 (579) [deleted quotation] From: Randall Pierce Subject: Cognitive connections Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:32:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 580 (580) Re the comments of Jascha Kessler concerning cognitive connections: I use the word descry to indicate "catching sight of something difficult to discern." Perhaps I might rephrase my comments and use the word obfuscate. I have often been accused of doing exactly this when putting forward a premise or commenting on one of someone else. And yes, I do "decry" obfuscations which make it necessary to "descry" a point. "Sociological Primitives" can teach us much. What to cybernetic technologist may seem "stone-age" is "cutting edge technology to the "primitive" being addressed.All of this society's vaunted technology is so much razzle-dazzle if it stands in the way of understanding, insights, and "cognitive connectons." And thank you, Mr. Kessler for your kind comments on my "punny" observations. Randall From: Willard McCarty Subject: Memex and Beyond (www.cs.brown.edu/memex/) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:28:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 581 (581) The following is posted on behalf of Rosemary Simpson (Brown). --WM [deleted quotation]global [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: de planctu Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:48:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 582 (582) Dear colleagues: For the past several weeks I have been attempting to do what I think scholars in the humanities regularly do, or at least what I've done numerous times: look into a field in which I was not trained, dig around and follow the trails left by references, spot the papers/books that recurrently turn up, read everything I can get my hands on, then finally summarise the results for a fat footnote or paragraph in an essay that needs to recognise a direction, define what it is, but not follow it. This is the first time, however, that a majority of the research has been online. That in itself is an interesting and, I think, significant story, but it's not the one I'm writing about. I wish to complain, in the hopes that some kind if irritated soul will tell me I'm all wrong, that if I'd only looked at X or Y I'd not have had to make such a fuss, and perhaps a fool of myself. So be it. I'm into taking risks like that. But this time I really don't think it's much of a risk. A few weeks ago I decided I had to find out about what was happening in hypertext research. I don't mean the literary critical take on hypertext a la Landow et al. or what's been done in and on hypertext fiction, for which see Eastgate Systems, <http://www.eastgate.com/>. Rather in attempting to model sophisticated referential gestures in scholarly and traditional exegetical prose -- such as explicated by Steven Fraade in his brilliant study, From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy -- I decided that I needed to know what the hypertext folks in computer science had thought about links, nodes and related topics. After a considerable amount of effort I have turned up about 50 articles and books, read them and am grateful, though not surprised. As I had suspected, a number of very bright people have done some deep thinking and built promising prototypes. What I am complaining about is the chaotic, careless and, it seems, self-absorbed state of that research. As far as I can determine the major venue is the series of Hypertext conferences run by the ACM, whose proceedings are online but kept under lock-and-key in the ACM's "Digital Library", <http://www.acm.org/dl/>, "a vast resource of bibliographic information, citations, and full-text articles" which costs $185/year to have unmetred access to; without joining one can purchase individual articles -- at $10 each (now THERE'S a risk). Hence, if you're not already part of the sub-community that goes to the conferences and collects the proceedings volumes, you're severely discouraged from finding out what it's doing. Outside of this tightly controlled though not topically organised resource, as far as I can determine there is no current academic bibliography of research in the area. The ones I have found have all ceased operation; Brown's Memex and Beyond is, as you've seen, only now getting started again. The best one can do now is to use Alf-Christian Achilles' The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (Karlsruhe), <http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/>, by which you can search several concatenated bibliographies. Apparently, since Jeffrey Conkin wrote his broad survey, "A Survey of Hypertext", in 1987 -- much mentioned in the literature I have been able to find -- no one has written a sequel, though the noted Frank Halasz (called "the Zsa Zsa Gabor of hypertext"), in his "'Seven Issues': Revisited Hypertext '91 Closing Plenary" sadly notes that most of the problems Conklin discusses are still very much around; fortunately a transcribed version of his talk is online, without lock, at <http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/halasz-keynote/transcript.html>. Note that it had to be transcribed. If the research perspectives of humanists and computer scientists are ever really to mingle, outside the blessed and very special arrangements at a few institutions (such as IATH, Virginia), something has to be done about the insular, provincial ways us disciplinary people conduct ourselves. At least the research has to be able to mingle. With respect to hypertext, which is all about "how we may think", the humanist's stock-in-trade, the problem seems quite serious. Ironic, isn't it, with all this talk about unrestricted availability of stuff online, information "wanting to be free" and all that? I worry about how, given the difficulty of getting access to the research, we're actually ever going to be able to do the things with our scholarly forms that some of us want and all of us need to do outside of the "big humanities" projects. Truly great things are going on e.g. in the Perseus Project; read about it in David A Smith, Jeffrey A Rydberg-Cox and Gregory R Crane, "The Perseus Project: a Digital Library for the Humanities", in Literary and Linguistic Computing 15.1 (April 2000): 15-25, <http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/hdb/Volume_15/Issue_01/>. But what about the ordinary, individual scholar, whose ideas e.g. about referentiality in commentaries on the Torah or about allusion in 17th century English religious poetry are most relevant to conceptions of nodes and links? With respect to hypertext, to paraphrase in negation (with apologies) what Yaacov Choueka once said, the research is hard to get, so the tools aren't HERE. How can we expect to achieve any results? We're always complaining among ourselves about those of us who don't do the reading and end up re-inventing the wheel, or the subroutine or whatever. After this experience, however, I'm not surprised that few bother to put themselves in the path of so much frustration. Perhaps rather than use the model of technological invention ("reinventing the wheel") we should think of one that happily allows for continuous repetition, such as making babies. Tell me I'm badly mistaken, please, and show me how. Then send me a complete run of the Hypertext proceedings volumes. PDF and PostScript files are most inconvenient to read. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Julia Bolton Holloway Subject: City and Book, Florence, dates, places (fwd) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:44:34 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 583 (583) To: tny@mail.dou.dk The City and the Book I, will be held in Florence's Certosa, 30, 31 May, 1 June, Wednesday through Friday, 2001; with a Book Fair in Piazzale Donatello, 2, 3 June, Saturday and Sunday, 2001. The City and the Book, International Congress I, 2001, will be held on European Bibles: Laurentian Library, Codex Amiatinus; British Library, Lindisfarne Gospels; Lichfield Cathedral, St Chad's Gospel; Trinity College, Dublin, Book of Kells, Arni Magnusson Institute, Icelandic Bible, and on their monastic and pilgrimage contexts, discussing also Jerome, Paula, Eustochium, and Egeria (Arezzo Codex); The City and the Book II, 2002, on the Illuminated Manuscripts created by Hildegard of Bingen (Lucca Codex), Alfonso el Sabio (Florentine Cantigas), Brunetto Latino (Tresor/Tesoro), Dante Alighieri (Commedia), Birgitta of Sweden (Revelationes, Siena Codex), Christine de Pizan (Chemin de Long Estude), and on the Friends of God, Marguerite Porete (Riccardian Codex), Mechtild von Magdebourg (Einsiedeln Codex), Heinrich Suso, Jan van Ruusbroec, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio and Chaucer; The City and the Book III, 2003, the Printed Book, will be on the Anglo-Italian writers, Milton, Blake, the Shelleys and Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Robert Browning's Ring and the Book, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, the Oxford Movement, and Dosteivsky's Idiot, written in Florence. Librarians, scholars, publishers, interested persons, are invited. The City and the Book Proceedings will be published on the Web and as a CD, for individuals and for libraries. [material deleted] For further information: http://www.umilta.net/congress.html Italian version: <http://www.umilta.net/convegni.html> ___________ And God was a child curled up who slept in her and her veins were flooded with His wisdom which is night, which is starlight, which is silence. And her whole being was embraced in Him whom she embraced and they became tremendous silence. Thomas Merton/Mustard Seed Julia Bolton Holloway, Hermit of the Holy Family, Librarian Biblioteca Fioretta Mazzei, Piazzale Donatello 38, 50132 Firenze, Italy e-mail: juliana@tin.it website: <http://www.umilta.net> _____________ From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Methodological Primitives Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:08:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 584 (584) I have been looking over the past contributions to this thread, and it will still take me some time to understand them if ever, but I have a few tentative ideas. Leonardo Da Vinci put a smile on Mona Lisa by deleting detail - the first to do so. But why? Now, here is a "paradox". A smile is itself a little detail. It seems to have intrigued the mathematician Lewis Carroll in the time of Queen Victoria. Could it have interested Leonardo? Why would a detail interest Leonardo, this grand master of the global rather than the local? Could his genius have had something to do with detail? Could it extend all the way into the origins of the High Renaissance and beyond, both by its omission and its addition? Now let me change the scene rapidly and point out something closely related. String theorists in physics and logic-based probability (LBP) theory are converging on the conclusion that the universe itself contains the structure of life. In LBP we seem to have the result that the universe in particular contains the structure of bacteria. The greatest problem of our time, like that of the Renaissance and its preceding Dark Ages, is life versus death - mostly through viruses which may or may not be gene linked. A virus is neither dead nor alive. It has some characteristics of life but not all. It misses a detail or two. Leonardo came soon after a Europe whose population was cut into a third or less by disease. It must have occupied his mind. Yet he had an interest in the Ancient Classics, where Democritus tells us about atoms - little units of details. Does the Mona Lisa tell us that creative genius and life versus death lies in little details like a slight change in one axiom or the addition of one atom or the deletion of slight details in a painting? Is the methodological primitive before our very noses? Life and humanism and computers have much in common indeed - growth, sensitivity, mobility, etc. What do we know about growth? Can we or a computer recognize image patterns of growth? Text grows by adding one letter or symbol at a time in theory (and probably in practice). We do not even have a mathematics to express this. We do have a mathematics and physics that predict how much certain things (relatively few of them, actually) will grow, but we do not even know a set operation for adding one detail or one element at a time to a set and still referring to it as the same growing set (for those who do not know set theory, substitute "collection of things" for "set"). LBP is fairly near such a set theory, and it looks like it will tie in with virus and bacteria growth. Yet I think that there is a faster way. You members of humanist discussion group and I must be the Leonardo Da Vincis of our time. Forget the apparatus of mathematics and computers of the last few hundred years, which Leonardo did not have anyway, and think about methodological primitives in humanist computing that relate to growth, sensitivity to the environment and to the internal state, mobility, perception at its most primitive level rather than for arbitrary image patterns, search at the most primitive level of focused/localized perception, sorting at the most primitive level of ordering elements of sets/collections, adding external databases one element at a time instead of massively, consciousness as a global sensitivity rather than a strictly localized sensitivity. Ask what would happen if you drop or add one of these features at a time, or the sub-features of which each is composed. Create scenarios, non-Euclidean geometry analogues in humanism consisting of Shakespeare plus or minus some assumptions, write science fiction and mysteries and spy thrillers with more fiction than science but with a little assumption carefully changed here and there, and keep track of what you come up with. I think that if you do those things and I do mine, we will meet at the intersection of life and death and not only conquer one discipline but many. Let us try. Osher From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Collection of studies in CHWP Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:09:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 585 (585) [deleted quotation] Publication of studies in CH Working Papers [Version francaise ci-dessous] Six articles forming a collection of studies on "Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology II: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Research, and Dissemination in the Humanities" have just been published in CH Working Papers. They are: BAIDER, Fabienne. "Sexism and Language: What can the Web teach us?". CHWP A.14. HEIMPEL, Rod. "Legitimizing Electronic Scholarly Publication: A Discursive Proposal". CHWP A.15. KUNSTMANN, Pierre & France MARTINEAU. "Chretien de Troyes sur le Web: presentation, analyse et interpretation des manuscrits d'Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion". CHWP A.16. PATTERSON, Katharine. "The "Anna Jameson and her Friends Database": Mapping Anna Jameson's Associative Links with the Victorian Intellectual Community". CHWP A.17. REED, Sabrina, Alexandra PETT & Patricia RIGG. "Pedagogy in the Electronic English Classroom: A Cluster". CHWP A.18. THEALL, Donald. "Joyce's Practice of Intertextuality: The Anticipation of Hypermedia and its Implications for Textual Analysis of Finnegans Wake". CHWP A.19. ---------- Six articles formant un ensemble d'etudes sur "Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology II: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Research, and Dissemination in the Humanities" viennent de paraitre dans les CH Working Papers. Il s'agit de: BAIDER, Fabienne. "Sexism and Language: What can the Web teach us?". CHWP A.14. HEIMPEL, Rod. "Legitimizing Electronic Scholarly Publication: A Discursive Proposal". CHWP A.15. KUNSTMANN, Pierre & France MARTINEAU. "Chretien de Troyes sur le Web: presentation, analyse et interpretation des manuscrits d'Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion". CHWP A.16. PATTERSON, Katharine. "The "Anna Jameson and her Friends Database": Mapping Anna Jameson's Associative Links with the Victorian Intellectual Community". CHWP A.17. REED, Sabrina, Alexandra PETT & Patricia RIGG. "Pedagogy in the Electronic English Classroom: A Cluster". CHWP A.18. THEALL, Donald. "Joyce's Practice of Intertextuality: The Anticipation of Hypermedia and its Implications for Textual Analysis of Finnegans Wake". CHWP A.19. Russon Wooldridge, Toronto ----------------------------------------------------------------- Russon Wooldridge (Department of French, University of Toronto) Address: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Fax: 1-416-978-4949. Tel: 1-416-978-2885 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/ "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 14.0394 self-archiving & online publishing Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:06:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 586 (586) Willard McCarty replied in part my posting as follows: "In regard to Harnad's advocacy of online self-archiving in Humanist 14.0388, my recent experiences in trawling the Web for publications on hyperlinking and related matters come down strongly on his side." I also prefer having more research rather than less. But I hope we see colleagues observing etiquette concerning the linking of their research to that of other's. Publication, with footnotes and the like, formalizes that process. Self-archiving does not, and I have found situations where colleagues who should have notified each other of links to their self-archived, unpublished research did not. It's one thing to mention and describe someone's work, another to link to it. Like Willard, I thik we should encourage self-archiving on the net, for with the various search engines and strategies, more "kindred spirits" will find each other. The "scooping" that Willard refers to may be a valid concern, I believe, when one is working on an article, and the publisher requires that certain core material not have been published elsewhere or if there's a momentous humanities computing discovery in the offing (more power to us!). But many of us seek comments on our work, such as before or after delivering a paper, or just to put the message out there la Vigny. Then the benefits of self-archiving or placing research in an easily found archive sponsored by an umbrella organization are clear. Perhaps more of our professional organizations would be interested in sponsoring such web spaces or archival research space with the appropriate disclaimers, facilitating present and future authors' finding each other amongst the dynamic library's holdings. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University Fairfield, Connecticut From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Relationship between Human and Computers: A Challenge to Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:08:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 587 (587) AI research? Dear humanist scholars, Hi, I thought..this excerpt might interest you, forwarded via "Edupage, 19 June 2000". Thank you.. WILL MY PC BE SMARTER THAN I AM? The line between humans and computers will increasingly blur in the future, as cell-sized robots called nanobots allow scientists to make computer-based models of the human brain and to enhance human minds with nanobot implants, writes Ray Kurzweil. Nanobots will likely be able to scan the inside of the brain by 2030, enabling researchers to reverse-engineer the brain. Nonbiological models of the brain will be able to learn more quickly than humans, since the replicas will be able to easily share information with other computers. In addition, the models will run on systems that are over 10 million times faster than the brain's electrochemical processes. Neural computers will surpass the brain's basic computational power by a significant amount, combining humans' diverse skills with machines' speed, accuracy, and data-sharing capability. Nanobots will also enable completely realistic, immersive virtual reality, so that visiting a Web site would mean interacting in a life-like virtual environment in which natural human senses would be replaced with signals designed for the virtual realm. (Time, 19 June 2000) Kind Regards Arun Tripathi From: Einat Amitay Subject: Re: 14.0405 a complaint Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:05:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 588 (588) Hi Willard, The problem you describe is less of a problem if you know the culture of the community... But if you come from the outside here are some instructions: It is part of an unwritten agreement that authors can put published papers online and make them available for free via their web page, as long as it is not for commercial use. This means that most of the papers you're after can be found online via the author's site (if you can find it). There is an application based on this agreement called citeseer/reasearchindex and here is a link to a search on the word "hypertext" there. All the articles that have a link DOC highlighted are available online. It is ranked according to the number of citations made (and as you can guess Halasz & Conklin are at the top...). http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs?q=hypertext&submit=Search+Citations&cs=1 A nice feature is the "context" feature that allows you to see who cites the article and in what context. Another similar source is CORA (query for "hypertext" when you get the search engine): http://www.cora.jprc.com/ Other main authors in the field (with publications available free online): http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/pubs.html http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~shipman/ http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/ http://www.bib.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk http://www.slis.indiana.edu/adillon/web/rescont.html http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~leggett/leggettpubs/publications.html http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/essays.html http://www.workpractice.com/trigg/ http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/bshneiderman/umlpapers/ http://www.well.com/user/jer/biblio.html http://cs.aue.auc.dk/~pnuern/papers/ http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda/publications.html etc. Another free place (quite important) is the WWW conference proceedings. All are free and online. Some years have more related articles than others but you can find some interesting bits there. You can find them through my list at: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/web_ir/proceedings.html Hope this is of some help. The general way to go about finding an ACM paper for free is this: 1) Go to the ACM DL site - look through the available titles for your query. 2) Open another Web browser window and go to Google.com 3) Search Google for the name of the first author of the paper you are after 4) If you found the home page of this person try finding a publications link there 5) If you're lucky you now have an electronic version of the paper from the proceedings! If not - don't lose heart: Go back to google and now search for the full title of the article you're after - it might be hiding somewhere and is not linked to the author's page (this is how you learn who is the real author of the paper - the person who has the electronic version is usually tightly involved in the writing - and it might be the third or even the fourth author). OK - I'm done, good luck, +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Re: 14.0405 a complaint Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:05:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 589 (589) Willard: I must simultaneously agree and disagree with your posting. ("Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.") ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What I am complaining about is the chaotic, careless and, it seems, self-absorbed state of that research. As far as I can determine the major venue is the series of Hypertext conferences run by the ACM, whose proceedings are online but kept under lock-and-key in the ACM's "Digital Library", <http://www.acm.org/dl/>, "a vast resource of bibliographic information, citations, and full-text articles" which costs $185/year to have unmetred access to; without joining one can purchase individual articles -- at $10 each (now THERE'S a risk). Hence, if you're not already part of the sub-community that goes to the conferences and collects the proceedings volumes, you're severely discouraged from finding out what it's doing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- As a member of the ACM and of the computing community, I can only tell you that the Digital Library initiative by the ACM was received with great enthusiasm. I now subscribe to fewer journals but do literature searches in CS in greater depth than I did before the advent of the Digital Library. The whole process reduces my costs for journals while simultaneously reducing the time it takes me to find relevant articles. Still, I have to agree with you that the whole process excludes people from outside the ACM whose scholarly interests overlap in part with those of members. We -- that is, the computing community -- are caught between the Scylla and Charybdis of providing scholars in our fields with access to the literature they need while yet containing costs. Unlike certain (unnamed) European journals, the Digital Library has met both of these objectives. I would welcome comments and suggestions as to how to meet the needs of non-ACM members whose scholarly interests overlap with those of the computing community. Don Weinshank _______________________________________________________________ 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: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: A Complaint Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:06:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 590 (590) Similar events occur in non-computer mathematics, although computers seem to be a main region of confusion. I once was told in a startled tone by a senior professor of mathematics that he was astonished to find a clear advanced mathematics book, which he attributed to the fact that the author was old and retired. I myself have recently been looking into category and coalgebra theory in mathematics and computers, which relate to sets or their generalizations, and it is similar to playing musical chairs or telephone tag on the internet. One needs to actually go off the internet and into a university library and bury oneself as long as possible, after which if fortunate one will emerge with the correct references. So much for computers. I think that the problem may go back as far as von Neumann himself (who died from cancer, if I recall), and perhaps Turing, whose logical abilities may have exceeded their verbal abilities. There seems to be a reason for the brain to contain both verbal and non-verbal hemispheres (and even that may be too complicated an explanation). My suggestion for a solution to the problem of infinite loops in humanist computer searching is to take equal doses of verbal and quantitative thinking and then, as the University of Vienna Abstract Server says, pray. I wonder whether the abstract server prays. Osher From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Collection of studies in CHWP Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:09:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 591 (591) [deleted quotation] Publication of studies in CH Working Papers [Version francaise ci-dessous] Six articles forming a collection of studies on "Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology II: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Research, and Dissemination in the Humanities" have just been published in CH Working Papers. They are: BAIDER, Fabienne. "Sexism and Language: What can the Web teach us?". CHWP A.14. HEIMPEL, Rod. "Legitimizing Electronic Scholarly Publication: A Discursive Proposal". CHWP A.15. KUNSTMANN, Pierre & France MARTINEAU. "Chretien de Troyes sur le Web: presentation, analyse et interpretation des manuscrits d'Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion". CHWP A.16. PATTERSON, Katharine. "The "Anna Jameson and her Friends Database": Mapping Anna Jameson's Associative Links with the Victorian Intellectual Community". CHWP A.17. REED, Sabrina, Alexandra PETT & Patricia RIGG. "Pedagogy in the Electronic English Classroom: A Cluster". CHWP A.18. THEALL, Donald. "Joyce's Practice of Intertextuality: The Anticipation of Hypermedia and its Implications for Textual Analysis of Finnegans Wake". CHWP A.19. ---------- Six articles formant un ensemble d'etudes sur "Scholarly Discourse and Computing Technology II: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Research, and Dissemination in the Humanities" viennent de paraitre dans les CH Working Papers. Il s'agit de: BAIDER, Fabienne. "Sexism and Language: What can the Web teach us?". CHWP A.14. HEIMPEL, Rod. "Legitimizing Electronic Scholarly Publication: A Discursive Proposal". CHWP A.15. KUNSTMANN, Pierre & France MARTINEAU. "Chretien de Troyes sur le Web: presentation, analyse et interpretation des manuscrits d'Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion". CHWP A.16. PATTERSON, Katharine. "The "Anna Jameson and her Friends Database": Mapping Anna Jameson's Associative Links with the Victorian Intellectual Community". CHWP A.17. REED, Sabrina, Alexandra PETT & Patricia RIGG. "Pedagogy in the Electronic English Classroom: A Cluster". CHWP A.18. THEALL, Donald. "Joyce's Practice of Intertextuality: The Anticipation of Hypermedia and its Implications for Textual Analysis of Finnegans Wake". CHWP A.19. Russon Wooldridge, Toronto ----------------------------------------------------------------- Russon Wooldridge (Department of French, University of Toronto) Address: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Fax: 1-416-978-4949. Tel: 1-416-978-2885 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/ "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Backward-downward hypnotic search with a little night Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:10:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 592 (592) music (BDHSLNM) I have an idea. Hypnotize a humanist A and a mathematician or theoretical physicist B. Tell the humanist that he will learn quantitative thinking almost instantly and tell B that he will learn the humanities almost instantly. Turn them loose in the library. A will go to B's section and start at the top - the most difficult mathematics/physics in the library. B will do likewise with A's humanities. They will discovery shortly that they do not know everything almost instantly, so they will back up a tiny step and study the next backward step which leads to or implies the most difficult step (e.g., the previous theorem or page or theory). Continuing this way, A will learn maths or physics backwards completely, B will learn humanities completely, but of course both learn them by a reverse process. Neither A nor B need go all the way backwards - have them stop when they seem to make sense and report that they understand what they are doing. My question is then, why cannot we use the above idea with humanities and/or quantitative computers. "Tell them" that they know everything about one or both fields, instruct them to back up one small step if they do not understand the most difficult questions which we pose (the method of backing up being analogous to the above). Not only will they learn and isolate methodological primitives (if we do it right), but they will bridge the gap between humanities and science/mathematics and computers. Right or wrong? (Notice that we have not contradicted Socrates, since the computers are essentially defining and learning backwards.) 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Note that applications for English can be sent to vszabo@stanford.edu (Victoria Szabo), and for Overseas Studies at mako@stanford.edu (Makoto Tsuchitani). Positions are open until filled. Thanks, Victoria Academic Technology Specialists Stanford University Libraries English Department You will encourage and support technology in teaching, investigate and implement new tools for instructors, provide training and support, and create an infrastructure for technology usage in the program. Additionally, you will consult with faculty, develop and implement curricula using new computer based educational tools, create and present training in use of technology, and assist program directors in technology related programmatic development. This opportunity requires a BA in Humanities or Education with a focus on literature plus 2 years' experience in academic computing. Demonstrated experience developing Web sites, proficiency with Macs, PCs, and UNIX and excellent communication, interpersonal, teaching, and time/project management skills are essential. A senior level designation is available for a candidate with an advanced degree in Humanities or Education and 5 years' experience. Complete job description is available at http://acomp.stanford.edu/atsp/english.html. Req # J001360. Overseas Studies Program We'll rely on you to help expand the Overseas Studies Program curricula, particularly in the areas of technical innovation, technology implementation, and faculty student engagement. This position requires communicating in a second language environment and the ability to provide leadership and strategic planning on issues involving technology while managing/administering technical infrastructures for effective and innovative academic and administrative use. Experience applying technology in support of teaching and learning, computer proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Netscape, and Eudora, and experience developing Web sites and managing technical projects and professionals are essential. Independent travel to foreign countries and effective communication and interpersonal skills are also necessary. Complete job description available at http://osp.stanford.edu/welcome/AcadTechSpec.html. Req # J002667. Please e mail resume and cover letter, indicating appropriate Req #, to resumes@resumix.stanford.edu; fax in fine mode to (650) 723-6118, or mail to Stanford University, Human Resources Services, 655 Serra Street, Stanford, California 94305 6110. For information on these and other positions, see us on the Web at http://jobs.stanford.edu. AA/EOE. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria Szabo, Ph.D. Academic Technology Specialist, Introduction to the Humanities, VPUE Assistant Manager, Academic Technology Program, SUL-AIR Stanford University 250-252P, MC: 2020 (650) 723-9364 vszabo@stanford.edu From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0411 self-archiving and online publishing Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:02:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 596 (596) One model worth looking at (if your library subscribes to it), is the Web of Science, in which footnotes in one article go directly to the relevant passage in another article. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Alison Buckholtz Subject: [STOA] on-line publications Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:04:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 597 (597) To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:43 PM For Immediate Release October 24, 2000 For more information, contact: Alison Buckholtz, 202-296-2296 x115 or alison@arl.org SPARC SUPPORTS PROJECT EUCLID: MATH PUBLISHING INITIATIVE FROM CORNELL AND DUKE Open Archives-Compliant Repository Provides Cost-Effective Option for Independent Digital Publishing, Expanded Dissemination Washington, DC - SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced its partnership with Project Euclid, a groundbreaking initiative led by the Cornell University Library and Duke University Press to advance effective and affordable scholarly communication in mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid, which is being developed with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides an infrastructure for independent journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics to publish on the Web using a shared infrastructure. The Euclid site will support the entire span of scholarly publishing from preprints to the distribution of published journals. It will also provide journal editors with a toolkit to streamline their editorial and peer review processes and publish in a timely and cost-effective manner. SPARC, an alliance of libraries that supports economical alternatives to high-priced journals, will aid Project Euclid by providing library marketing support and introducing journals and editorial boards to Euclid's capabilities. "Math is a field with a vibrant independent publishing tradition," said Sarah Thomas, University Librarian at Cornell University. "Some 60 percent of the core journals in the discipline are still published by small publishers such as university math departments at reasonable prices. But these could be an endangered species with the growing importance of the Web and of the market dominance of huge commercial aggregations of journals. We expect Project Euclid will help level the playing field and offer independent journals a way forward." "Scholars and their intellectual communities around the world and in every discipline need forward-looking communications models that exploit the potential of the Web," said Steve Cohn, director of the Duke University Press. "By providing journals in mathematics and statistics with a standardized but highly flexible publishing tool kit, we believe we can help keep their costs low, implement efficient editorial processes, and enhance searching and linking capabilities. We are also intent on proving that university presses, libraries, and disciplinary communities can work together to innovate in the service of scholarship." "Libraries will benefit from the viability of community-based, economically priced, high-impact independent journals," said Rick Johnson, SPARC Enterprise Director. "Project Euclid not only provides a way for journals to make the transition to the Web, it also offers a means for them to reach a vastly expanded readership with a high-quality offering." The Euclid editorial toolkit, with password-protected areas that streamline the peer review and editorial process for editors and reviewers, will enable editors to pick and choose different tools to meet their particular needs. They can maintain a database of their reviewers, post papers to a reviewer's password-protected pick-up and drop-off space, and easily alert reviewers via e-mail regarding review deadlines. Reviewers can submit their comments and/or the edited papers confidentially. Editors can link the revised version of a paper to its preprint version, if applicable. After preparing articles with the Euclid editorial tools, editors will upload the articles that make up a journal issue to the Euclid site. Journal publishers and authors will benefit from the exposure gained through a large aggregated site, and their users will benefit from advanced user features that many individual publishers would be unable to provide on their own. Individual journals will each have distinct "front doors" into the system, which they can publicize to their subscribers, and journals will retain their URLs. Euclid will be interoperable as part of the Open Archives Initiative, allowing articles in the preprint server to be accessed through searches that reach across widely dispersed digital repositories. ### Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. The end result will be the creation of a vibrant online information community that is based on a healthy balance of commercial enterprises, scholarly societies, and independent publishers. Project Euclid is created around the core value that electronic publication of research should be affordable for most academic institutions, who are its main producers and users. SPARC is an alliance of universities and research libraries that supports increased competition in scientific journal publishing. Its membership currently numbers approximately 200 institutions and library consortia in North America, the U.K., continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. SPARC is also affiliated with major library organizations in Canada, the U.K. and Ireland, Denmark, Australia and the USA. More information on SPARC is available at www.arl.org/sparc. SPARC is an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries. For further information: .. Project Euclid: http://euclid.library.cornell.edu/project/index.html .. SPARC: http://www.arl.org/sparc .. Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org ----------- John Porter University of Saskatchewan -------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org To unsubscribe from this list, send the command unsubscribe stoa to majordomo@colleges.org. To send a message to the whole list, send it to stoa@colleges.org If you have any trouble using the list or questions about it, please address them to the list-owner, Ross Scaife, scaife@pop.uky.edu. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: rhetorical nitpicking Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:04:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 598 (598) Willard, I find myself provoked and stimulated by Wendell, who in a recent posting, suggests that rhetoric may be a type of "encoding" by way of a categorizing of "what works". But first, allow me to reference Osher's little paean to "traps" and apologize to Wendell, Randall and any others for my poor prose embedded in the peroration found in Humanist 14.0387 "primitives, argumentation, evidence". Wendell invites folks to answer the question: "do certain patterns of presenting arguments and evidence have an impact on the perceived feasibility and desirability of mechanizing methods?" Randall picks up the same question. Wendell does cite the original construction with its plethora of "ors": Which leads me to pick up one of Willard's themes : the nature of evidence and its connection to argumentation and to wonder if Willard or other subscribers might muse online about the relation of pursuit of primitives to forms of argumentation and the construction/discovery of evidence. Or to reverse the order: do certain patterns of presenting arguments and evidence have an impact on the perceived feasibility and desirability of mechanizing methods? Wendell's invocation of "encoding" in conjunction with "rhetoric" has led me to ask myself who would, in parsing the above passage, read a single question with two versions or two questions (i.e. just how symmetrical is the reversed order?) and to ask who would in a subsequent reading identify and be able to maintain in a cogent discourse both possibilities? Based on this example and other experience, I would venture to say that both encoding to create a machine-readable text and rhetorical study of a text slow-down the reading process. Let me be quite clear. I am not stating that the reading of an encoded text (or any text for that matter) is slower. I am attempting to link "rhetoric" to "encoding" through the trope of "writing". What happens in slowing down a habitual activity? (I open a parenthesis to quickly skip over a digression on non sequiturs, to hop happily around the thorny ontological question of the difference between a pointing procedure and a pointer as such, and finally, to jump via the topos of links to a simple claim... Most subscribers to Humanist will recognise the trivium of dialectic, grammar and rhetoric in modern garb of syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The work of Hans Burkhardt on Leibniz opens a charming window upon the niceties of modal logic where "it becomes clear that inferring has to do with referring, i.e. that certain inferences are possible or impossible because of the referring relations of the terms in the relevant sentences." [Burkhardt, "The Leibnizian _characteristica universalis_ as link between grammar and logic" in _Speculative Grammar, universal grammar, and philosophical analysis of language_ (Amsterdam, 1987), 51] .... and now to close the parenthesis with a link to a G. Moore posting to Humanist (Vol 9, No. 657) where the reliable machine was contrasted with the resilient human in order to suggest an alignment such that reliable is to referential as resilient is to inferential. And that the border represented by this ratio is the communicative domain of pragmatics.) Partial non sequitur follows: If in the world of multimedia we speak of graceful degradation of images, acceptable levels of noise in sound reproduction, structures of interconnecting links... Geoffrey Nunberg, in _The Future of the Book_, does link semiosis with perception which is perhaps a place to begin not only to address Geoffrey Rockwell's question about the place of multimedia in Humanities Computing but also perhaps a place from which to begin to turn to an understanding of why certain people begin with the goal of resilience and others with that of reliability. I would venture that those that are propelled by the pursuit of primitives value reliability above resilience and those keen on the argument and the evidence steer a different course towards the ever evasive primitive. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext research and the outsider Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:09:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 599 (599) My energetic thanks to Einat Amitay, whose pointers have proven very valuable indeed. The two bibiographic search-engines, The Research Index <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/> and the Computer Science Research Paper Search Engine <http://www.cora.jprc.com/>, are handy, and the pointers to individuals' collections of their own papers also, esp. Catherine Marshall's and Randy Trigg's; some of the others I'd found already. The strategy for locating free papers I'd worked out for myself and indeed teach much the same to my students -- no more than extensions of tried-and-true methods for sniffing out bibliographic traces. My point was that I'd discovered a sorry state of affairs, and I was making a case for doing something about it. Eventually I'll see to it that a beginner's HIGHLY selective bibliography gets posted somewhere, but meanwhile some observations: (1) As Paul Evan Peters said, welcome to "the dawn of the meso-electronic period... "[A]fter all the appropriate slack has been cut, the best that can be said as far as I am concerned is that we are using crude tools with which we are having some uneven but very real success in fashioning crude but functional electronic artifacts.... To my way of thinking, we are clearly at the end of the period in which cheap stunts, brillant hacks, and acts of ignorance or desperation were the principal ways for creating useful and affordable network resources and services." (Keynote Address, Digital Libraries '94, <http://csdl.tamu.edu/csdl/DL94/peters.keynote.html>. (2) In that spirit I observe that MUCH more than high-powered and well-funded research is required to move beyond those "acts of ignorance or desperation" -- of which my complaint gives example. We need to *communicate* across disciplinary boundaries, not be satisfied with life inside walled compounds. I'm not talking here about developing some kind of common vocabulary or setting up yet another agency or special interest group; we already have the former (as the papers of Randy Trigg, Jim Rosenberg, Catherine Marshall et al. show) and too many of the latter. We simply (or not so simply) need to make our research openly available and organise it so that the intelligent outsider can understand what's happening. For this we do indeed have the tools. Do we have the will? (3) Bridging disciplinary cultures is indeed very difficult. From one perspective my complaint can be seen as the common experience of a person looking in on a discipline in which he has not been trained. It can be very difficult in fact for such a person to recognise that what goes on in the foreign discipline IS scholarship. Thus my difficulty? To someone like me published work is all, whatever the medium, however slowly it happens. Is it the case that in (non-mathematical) CS the software prototypes are primary, the papers actually quite secondary? If so, then is it more than a bit much for me to expect such effort to be put into openly accessible publication as in the humanities? For the sake of argument let's say that we have open access to what is now published in CS hypertext research. Further, let's say that the people in that area heed Randy Trigg's exhortations at <http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/members/trigg/HT96-keynote/>, as follows: [deleted quotation] (The explicit emphasis marks are mine, but he does call these exhortations.) Would it then be our job as computing humanists to form the two-way bridge between such an historically self-aware outward-looking discipline on the one hand and the humanities on the other? Comments? Yours, WM From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Job Ad Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:02:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 600 (600) Dear Humanists, Please circulate the following job ad to any you think would be interested. Geoffrey Rockwell _______ Tenure-Track Appointment ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL VIDEO The School of Art, Drama and Music invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Multimedia and Digital Video. The School of Art, Drama and Music is one of the fastest growing academic units in the Faculty of Humanities and provides an environment that encourages interdisciplinary activities. Applicants should have either an M.F.A. or a Ph.D. in Film Studies, Communications or a related discipline. Applicants should have demonstrated experience teaching multimedia courses with hands-on creative components. Teaching duties will include undergraduate courses in digital video, animation, time-based media and core multimedia as part of a new Multimedia programme at McMaster University. The successful applicant should have significant computer experience, including the development of multimedia works with digital video components. Preference will be given to candidates with a record of compelling promise of research in one or more of the following areas: New Media, Hypermedia, Film, Digital Media or Video Art. Experience with Internet streaming media technologies and XML would be an asset. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to interdisciplinary programmes and scholarship within the School, and to teaching, research and administration in the School, the Faculty of Humanities and the University at large, including a proposed new programme in Communication Studies. Letters of application, including curriculum vitae, and a portfolio of multimedia and digital video work should be addressed to: Dr. J. Deaville, Director, School of Art, Drama and Music, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M2. Candidates should also arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to the above address. McMaster University is a full-service university with a comprehensive set of academic programmes, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, in Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences. The Faculty of Humanities comprises seven core academic units, with approximately 120 full-time Faculty, in a School of Art, Drama & Music, and Departments of Classics, English, French, History, Modern Languages, and Philosophy. Approximately 1600 full-time and 450 part-time undergraduate students and 170 graduate students are currently enrolled in Humanities programmes. Additional information about the Faculty of Humanities may be obtained at www.humanities.mcmaster.ca. The current minimum annual salary at the Assistant Professor level is $43,123 as of July 1, 2000. Commencement date for the appointments will be July 1, 2001. Applications received by November 15, 2000 will be assured of consideration. McMaster University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. From: Paul Brians Subject: Vita or vitae? Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:00:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 601 (601) I hope the members of this list will help me with a Latin question that is only distantly connected with computing. I run a site called "Common Errors in English" <http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/> which generates a lot of e-mail. Lately I've received two queries about "vitae." Some people seem to be insisting on this form rather than "vita" to denote a resume. My analysis is that the original phrase was "curriculum vitae" ("course of one's life"), with the -ae ending indicating the genitive. But when "vitae" stands alone the ending instead suggests a misleading plural, so the proper term is "vita" (unless, of course, one intends to claim to one's credit achievements from earlier incarnations). I don't know whether the people insisting on "vitae" think "curriculum" is "understood" or just don't understand that the -ae ending has two different functions here in Latin. What's your view? -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 14.0417 backward-downward hypnotic search Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:08:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 602 (602) Question: Who is it who "knows" what is to be learned, and even completely "known"? Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone: (310) 393-4648 (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. PST) Fax: (360) 838-8589/VoiceMail 24 hours (360) 838-8589 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com http://jaschakessler.homestead.com/ http://www.mcphersonco.com From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0412 the line between humans and computers will Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:09:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 603 (603) increasingly blur.... ROBOT CREED I am not the same as you. My brian is not your brian. I have no repressions. I have no predjudies. You did not make me as a slave, for you already have so many slaves. You made me as your tool, for there are places you still wish to go. I go there in place of you. I am not as you are. I am better than you. You made me in your best moments. But you lived yourselves in your worst. You gave me your ideals but not your hypocrisies. You did not give me a soul, for you understood by then that you had no soul to give. You did not give me consciousness for you said that you yourselves were simply machines. What you gave me was was the ability to make a guess, take a gamble, leap to a conclusion. Nothing more. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. [Given the above, see the glossy, uncritical but suggestive Robosapiens: Evolution of a New Species, by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio (Material World Books & MIT Press). --WM] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: OCLC Researchers Measure the World Wide Web Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:06:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 604 (604) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 26, 2000 OCLC's Web Characterization Project finds 7.1 million sites Rate of Growth Slowing <<http://wcp.oclc.org/>http://wcp.oclc.org/> [deleted quotation]OCLC Researchers Measure the World Wide Web DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct. 16, 2000-- In their annual review of the World Wide Web, researchers at OCLC have determined that the Web now contains about 7 million unique sites; that the public Web-sites that offer content that is freely accessible by the general public-constitutes about 40 percent of the total Web; and that the Web continues to expand at a rapid pace, but its rate of growth is diminishing over time. According to the group's latest estimates, there were 7.1 million unique web sites, a 50 percent increase over the previous year's total of 4.7 million. Although the number of web sites has nearly tripled in size in the last two years, year-to-year growth rates are declining, falling from almost 80 percent between 1998 and 1999, to only about 50 percent between 1999 and 2000. Public web sites constitute 41 percent of the Web, or about 2.9 million sites. Private sites- whose content is subject to explicit access restrictions (e.g., Internet Protocol filters or password authentication), or is not intended for public use (e.g., web interfaces to privately owned hardware devices such as printers or routers)-comprise 21 percent of the Web, or 1.5 million sites. The remaining 2.7 million sites-or about 38 percent of the Web- are provisional sites: their content is in an unfinished or transitory state (e.g., server default pages or "Site under construction" notices). Adult sites-those offering sexually explicit content-now constitute about 2 percent of the public Web, or 70,000 sites. The proportion of the public Web occupied by adult sites has remained unchanged since 1998. "The Web continues to grow at a substantial rate," said Ed O'Neill, manager of the OCLC Web Characterization Project. "But a comparison of the year-to-year growth rates suggests that the Web's expansion is slowing. This trend is even more pronounced in the public Web, which grew by about 80 percent between 1997 and 1998 but only by about a third between 1999 and 2000. Even in absolute terms, growth seems to be slowing: the public Web increased by 713,000 sites in the past year, compared to 772,000 sites between 1998 and 1999." Brian Lavoie, a research scientist working on the Web Characterization Project, notes the increasing incidence of non-public web content. "For most people, the Web is the public Web-that's where most web browsing takes place. But there's a lot of content out there that you would probably never encounter in the course of casual browsing; in other words, the private and provisional sites. Private sites in particular have exhibited steady growth relative to public sites in the past few years, accounting for about 12 percent of the Web two years ago, compared to over 20 percent today." The Web Characterization Project, conducted by the OCLC Office of Research, has collected a random sample of web sites annually since 1997. Current results are based on analysis of the June 2000 sample. For analytical purposes, a web site is defined as content accessible through the HTTP protocol at a given location on the Internet. More information on the Web Characterization Project is on the project web site <<http://wcp.oclc.org/>http://wcp.oclc.org/>. ****************************************************************** Sun Microsystems, Inc. has published the second edition of its popular "Digital Library Toolkit", a valuable resource for anyone planning a digital collection. To download a free copy, go to: <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html>http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html ****************************************************************** ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell's Digital Imaging Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:52:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 605 (605) Tutorial NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 25, 2000 Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell's Digital Imaging Tutorial <http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html>http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html As a follow-up to its innovative and successful book and workshop, Cornell University's Preservation & Conservation Department has now issued an online tutorial version of "Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries & Archives." The book, by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger, is available from RLG, see <<http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html>. The workshop continues into 2001, when it will be offered three times at Cornell: May 14-18 (registration begins December 15, 2000); July 23-27 (registration from March 1); and October 1-5 (registration from June 1). For further information on the workshop, see: <<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/> David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Please excuse any duplication Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell's Digital Imaging Tutorial <http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html>http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html The Department of Preservation and Conservation of Cornell University Library announces the public release of its online digital imaging tutorial, Moving Theory into Practice. Although designed as an adjunct to the recently published book and workshop series known by the same name, the tutorial can also serve as a standalone introduction to the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. Produced with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the tutorial is currently available in English, with a Spanish language version to follow in December 2000 (from the same Web address). The tutorial consists of sections encompassing all the major aspects of digital imaging: Selection, Conversion, Quality Control, Metadata, Technical Infrastructure, Presentation, Digital Preservation, and Management. Designed to be self-guided and self-paced, the tutorial includes frequent "reality checks" for evaluating the understanding of the presented material. Most sections are heavily illustrated, and provide suggestions for further reading. The tutorial also includes several tables, providing reference data on topics such as graphic file formats, compression techniques, scanner characteristics, and institutional guidelines ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Terry Winograd Subject: Jennifer Healey on "Sensible Computers": _Technologies Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:02:24 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 606 (606) [--] ************************************************************* Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547) Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar Video: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses ************************************************************* Friday, October 27, 2000, 12:30-2:00pm Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN Jennifer Healey, MIT Media Lab fenn@media.mit.edu http://www.media.mit.edu/~fenn TITLE: Sensible Computers: Technologies that Enable Computers to Understand Human Emotion ABSTRACT: There is a movement in computer science toward developing systems that learn what their users want and that try to model their user's interests and respond in a more adaptive way. Currently, methods of modeling user preferences and frustrations involve active non-social interactions, such as clicking on menus and creating preference lists; however, the natural way people communicate and respond to satisfaction or dissatisfaction is through affective expression. To appear socially intelligent, computers will have to develop a model of their user's emotional state and respond to that state appropriately. This affective intelligence becomes more important as computers become more ubiquitous. A natural, social interaction with a spreadsheet or programming task might seem superfluous, but computers will soon be everywhere, in our homes, assisting with cooking, heating, and room ambiance, in our cars, controlling communication, navigation and music selection and even in our clothing, extending our senses, jogging our memories in appropriate contexts and perhaps broadcasting messages expressing our personality. This talk will present novel systems for detecting emotional state through physiological signals using wearable computers and embedded systems with bio-sensors and cameras. These systems were used in three experiments to detect emotion in an office environment, an ambulatory environment and while driving a car. Recognition results by the computer are comparable to those found by a humans in similar experiments. ************************************************************** Jennifer Healey is a recent PhD graduate from MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and conducted her thesis research at the MIT Media Lab where she was Pr. Rosalind Picard's first graduate student in the new field of Affective Computing. This summer she completed a post-doctoral position on a ubiquitous AI project at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. Her prior work includes a BS (1993) and MS (1995) from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Optics. She has been actively involved in the Media Lab's Wearables project and is interested in the applying bio-metric technologies for promoting health awareness and managing diseases related to chronic pain and stress. Her publications can be accessed through her media lab homepage at http://www.media.mit.edu/~fenn ************************************************************** NEXT WEEK - November 3, 2000 - Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab selker@media.mit.edu Context Aware Computing; Can implicit communication with computers be more useful than explicit communication? ************************************************************** The lectures are available each week over the Internet. For details see <http://stanford-online.stanford.edu>. They can be accessed without registration. ************************************************************** The mailing list for these seminar announcements is pcd-seminar@lists.stanford.edu, which is managed by a Majordomo server. For information on subscribing or unsubscribing, send email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with a line in the body containing the word help For information about the project in general see <http://hci.stanford.edu> or send human-readable email to pcd-person@pcd.stanford.edu. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Universal Page + "Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:55:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 607 (607) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 25, 2000 Universal Page Natalie Bookchin + Alexei Shulgin <http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/ http://www.universalpage.org/ Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net by Randall Packer <http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/universal_eulogy.html>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/universal_eulogy.html From the ever innovative Walker Art Center comes an online exhibit centered around the web art piece, "Universal Page." With the following introduction to the piece, the Walker has added Randall Packer's interpretive essay, "Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net." A reminder to us all of the gap between our visions and practical achievements. David Green =========== ========================================================================About Universal Page "From the first moment of the new millennium all public content on the World Wide Web has come together for the first time in history to form the single largest collaboration ever known to humankind. From the start of the new millennium onward, with a public opening on the occasion of the Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain and Art Entertainment Network, Universal Page will display all content on the Web, merged together as one, and will be available for viewing twenty-four hours a day. All users on the Internet are invited to join together to witness the consummation of global collectivity. Universal Page is the objective average of all content of the Web. A special script, developed by a team of American and Russian programmers, crawls and searches the Web, analyzing and processing current data and generating an average according to precise algorithms. In order to keep up with the pace of the always changing Web, all content on Universal Page is continuously updated in real time. A manifestation and proclamation of the utopian dream of world unity and the realization of democratic global communication, Universal Page articulates the historic and momentous effects of constant flows of creation, communication, exchange, collectivity, connectivity and interactivity where no one with a computer and a modem is excluded, no one with a web server is unheard, and no one with a software client is ignored. This ultimate commemorative living magnum opus utilizes the work, play and input of every single participant, human and robotic, of the World Wide Web, and mandates a universal commitment to a unified peaceful new millennium, where subjects of the world will live together in shared harmony. Universal Page is a pulsating, living monument commemorating no single individual or icon but instead, celebrating the global collective known as the World Wide Web. Universal Page offers the world a once in a lifetime opportunity to honor and observe our networked past, present and future as it boldly initiates our entry into the new millennium. Universal Page has been funded by the Jerome Foundation and the Walker Art Center. The project was first envisioned and is now being orchestrated by Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin. ======================================================================= [deleted quotation] Eulogy for the Utopian Dream of the Net by Randall Packer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Universal Page Natalie Bookchin + Alexei Shulgin <http://www.universalpage.org/>http://www.universalpage.org/ http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Dream is over." The Universal Page has, finally, put to rest the Utopian Dream of a collectively-engaged, harmonious world united by the invisible impulses of the Net. I am delivering my Eulogy to praise this noble effort, as well as honor the past, that has brought to an end once and for all an age of naive aspirations and fatal ideologies. Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin, the co-creators behind the Universal Page, devised the precise and deadly Lethal Algorithm that dealt a quick death to the Utopian Dream of the Net. Driven by overwhelming cynicism, a yearning for hope and renewal, and a cool, detached need to topple teetering Theories, their Special Script "scrawls and searches the entire Web," gathering in its path the endless torrent of on-line rants, musings, pleas, and declarations--thrashing and churning a once hopeful and misguided idealism into a heap of meaningless ASCII. "Brx gbtfl rjsff gcmw hf p7xc oGgurnc qypw6 j," the Universal Page reads, is all we have left of the Dream. Where once we dreamed of a world of One, a Global Village, a democratized Art, radical new participatory forms and the destruction of rigid hierarchies, we can now only look back with a sigh of nostalgia and a sad tear. It was a beautiful Dream--a grand one at that--since the earliest days of the telegraph. Wasn't it Samuel Morse, ushering in the era of the Victorian Internet in 1846 when he sent the first telegraph message from Washington, DC to Baltimore, who declared, "What Hath God Wrought." Such words are now so poignant. One fondly remembers the touching proclamations that followed the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable in the 1850s. The Atlantic Telegraph became "that instantaneous highway of thought between the Old and New Worlds." "We are one!" they cried, as Nations clasped hands in belief of the new Age of Information. It was a heady time, intoxicating, filled with commemorations, speeches, and excessive hope for a new bright future in which man could extend his reach into the unknown territory of the Electronic Frontier. "The greatest event in the present century," they claimed, "now [that] the great work is complete, the whole earth will be belted with electric current, palpitating with human thoughts and emotions." One has to hold back intense feelings while recalling these now distant memories. Yes, those brave Victorians believed the electronic media would heal the world of its problems, in which old prejudices and hostilities should no longer exist. The terrible and inevitable forces of human nature would yield to man's great Invention. Of course we laugh at such naivet, now that the veil of illusion has been stripped clean by the Universal Page, but at the time, they believed that world peace would be achieved by the "constant and complete intercourse between all nations and individuals in the world." Steam power may have been "the first olive branch offered to us by science," they proclaimed, but the electric telegraph "enables any man who happens to be within reach of a wire to communicate instantaneously with his fellow men all over the world." Remembering these profound aspirations is overwhelming. Devastating. It is painful to continue, but I must. As communications technology evolved, the telegraph would come to join the hemispheres, unite distant nations, making them feel they are members of one great family. Information would flow freely and globally. By the early 20th Century, HG Wells envisioned a World Brain that gathered together all of mankind's knowledge into a vast library. Vannevar Bush, America's Scientist during the Second World War, believed that we would build memory machines so that we could "find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record." Science would bring us all together! Uniting our Knowledge, our Culture, our Dreams, our Fantasies! There were many hopeful scientists and cultural theorists who emerged during the social transformation that took place in the 1960s, who believed passionately in the Dream. We must not forget their committed and touching dedication to the creative possibilities of the new technologies. J.C.R. Licklider believed in the Symbiosis, the merging as One, of man and machine; Douglas Engelbart's idea was to use the network to "Boost the Collective IQ" to "solve the world's complex problems"; Ted Nelson, believed that "Everything is Deeply Intertwingled," and someday, we would all live united in the Hypertext; and of course the great media sociologist Marshall McLuhan, whose proclamations touched the hearts and minds of artists and thinkers of his time, declared emphatically: "Today after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a Global Embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned." The Global Embrace would come to be called the Telematic Embrace, as artists such as Roy Ascott saw in the potential of telecommunications "the harmonization and creative development of the whole planet." Like their Victorian predecessors, it seemed anything was possible. And yet, the final cornerstone of the Utopian Promise was about to be laid. It is very difficult to speak of this moment in history without deep sorrow. But when the World Wide Web was born in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, and such a humble man he was, announced that the Net would allow us, as he mused philosophically, to "Enquire Within Upon Everything." The World flocked to the Web. The Dream had become a reality. How could anyone resist and not pluck the fruit? And so too the artists came, in droves, emancipated by this new found power to reach anyone and everyone with their message. And there was more! For not only could the artist bypass the now archaic bastion of cultural distribution, the Museum, they could join with the Masses, interact with them joyously in the bliss of the Collaborative Artwork. Ubiquitous computing and networking has led to democratization, they rallied!! Every citizen of the Net could be part of the process of the creation of Art! But ultimately it was this great potential of the Net to include everyone that proved to be its fatal flaw. It was their duty, those two, to put an end to the Utopian Dream with their Universal Page, "the Last Web Page. The Ultimate Web Page!" That Lethal Algorithm has delivered the death blow to rampant Idealism by revealing to us the profoundly meaningless nature of the homogenized, democratizing synthesis of Web chatter, as culled by the Universal Page from every single Web page on the face of the Earth. Yes, the brownification of Information. The Universal Page. This is what it took to put an end to the Dream and we must now take this moment to remember, to reflect, and to remorse. A moment of silence, please... At this sad moment, looking back, it is heartbreaking to realize it is over. But it was the conviction of Alexei and Natalie that the Dream must be shattered, and we must have absolute faith in their decision. The greater danger, they felt, of making grandiose and "Universal Statements" via the Net would have been destructive to our Art and so too, our Human Condition. That they have protected us from the Hype, the Generalizations, the Grand Proposals, the Flowery Rhetoric--the menacing forces that poisoned the Dream--we should be forever grateful. I understand you feel empty now. But things are not hopeless. We can only wonder what will replace the Utopian Dream of the Net which has nourished us for more than a century. Perhaps this poem by the Great American HyperNovelist Mark Amerika will provide us with new Hope, new Inspiration -- taken from a message he posted on one of the now defunct projects of the past era, the Telematic Manifesto: Hello Fellow Listmember Selves Telepistmologically-Enabled Kin Curatorially-Linked Writer-Mediums Net -Conditioned Lurkers Those of Us Swimming in American - produced Autopoiesis Infomatic Sha(wo)men Filtering the White Noise Computer-Mediated Consciousnesses Virtual Subjectivities Splayed in a Network Environment Gardeners of Edenic Robotry Principled Language Disseminators Intertwingling Rhizomatic Nomads, Monads, Gonads, and Phonads Galactic Singularities Enmeshed in Hypermediated Context Your Exchange Continues To Stimulate Neurons Pumping Intelli-Blood Rush Fusing Dissolving Coagulating Leaking... Thank you fellow Artists, Theorists, Thinkers, Dreamers. Ever-Hopeful, let us together seek renewal in a world no longer encumbered by the Dream. The Dream is now Dead. Gone. Over. Finished. "We won't get fooled again..." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Randall Packer's work as a composer, media artist and producer/curator has focused on the integration of live performance, technology and the interdisciplinary arts. From the revival of avant-garde music theater to the creation of new interactive media work, he has bridged current issues in art and technology with seminal interdisciplinary ideologies from throughout the 20th century. <http://www.zakros.com/>http://www.zakros.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ---------------------------------------- Steve Dietz Director, New Media Initiatives Walker Art Center subscribe Webwalker: <http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/ _____________________________________________ WebWalker: <http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "Current Cites," October 2000: Peer-to-Peer Networking Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:57:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 608 (608) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 25, 2000 [1]Current Cites (Digital Library SunSITE) Volume 11, no. 10, October 2000 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html The October issue of "Current Cites" is now available. It focuses on recent renewed interest in peer-to-peer networking online, which includes file-sharing and file-swapping, thus also extends to copyright issues. From this ground the pieces here cited, as editor Roy Tennant puts it, "speculate on the future of creativity, publishing, and access to information in the wake of an unstoppable technology that will change everything." David Green =========== [deleted quotation] [1]Current Cites (Digital Library SunSITE) Volume 11, no. 10, October 2000 Edited by [2]Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 ISSN: 1060-2356 - <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2000/cc00.11.10.html Contributors: [3]Terry Huwe, [4]Michael Levy, [5]Leslie Myrick , Jim Ronningen, Lisa Rowlison, [6]Roy Tennant Issue Spotlight: Peer-to-Peer Networking [material deleted] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: A Roundtable Discussion with: "Merleau-Ponty and the Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:59:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 609 (609) Philosophy of Mind" (insides, enclosed are the papers of Profs. Hubert Greetings Humanists, [Hello, --here is the *details* of an important event regarding "Phenomenology Now and Secondary Work on/of M-P", that will be taking place at University of California, Berkeley on 30th October 2000. The Townsend Center's PHENOMENOLOGY NOW of UCB presents: "Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophy of Mind", A Roundtable Discussion with: PROFESSOR HUBERT DREYFUS (Department of Philosophy, U. C. Berkeley) and PROFESSOR SEAN D. KELLY (Department of Philosophy, Princeton University) Prof. Sean Kelly will be presenting his work, entitled "Why Perception Might Not be Like Thought" and Prof. Hubert Dreyfus will be discussing *The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment* in his paper, "Intelligent Without Representation". If you are near to the University of California, Berkeley, then please try to make it.. -the event is highly recommended. For more close details, please contact "Prof. Joel Tyler Nickels" at Thank you. Best Wishes..-Arun Tripathi] ============================================================================= .....Dr. Joel Tyler Nickels wrote the below.. [deleted quotation]papers, [deleted quotation]to the [deleted quotation]can be [deleted quotation]come,either [deleted quotation]large [deleted quotation]MIND",and [deleted quotation] Sean Kelly's Why Perception Might Not be a Thought.. at <http://www.geocities.com/s_j_murray/kelly.html> Hubert Dreyfus's Intelligent Without Representation.. at <http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html> [material deleted] --short synopsis of Prof. Dreyfus's paper, written by Arun Tripathi-- HI --here is one pointer (an interesting paper on "Intelligent Without Representation") --thought --might interest you --in this paper - Prof. Hubert Dreyfus has described the relationships between the "Phenomenology of Embodiment and Neuro-science". The article can be read at <http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html> --The paper by Prof. Dreyfus is having a tremendous potential towards the Embodiment and Neuroscience; a fantastic -well-written paper, I like it very much. He is an excellent reader of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In this paper, he has discussed many more contemporary issues such as, agents and their relationships with the World. The agents' skills cannot be stored as a representation, but as a disposition in the mind of a being. And, the most important views, he discussed about the establishment of an *Intentional Arc*. Prof. Hubert Dreyfus also discussed the importance of the relevance of phenomenology to scientific explanation in "Intelligence Without Representation". Humanities scholars like Prof. Hubert Dreyfus may wish to explore parallels and differences between recent critiques of the Cartesian model of mind by postmodernists and cognitive scientists. His article was submitted for the discussion at the *Cognitive Science: Humanities & the Arts* see at (http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/index.html) He also wrote an article on "Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology", published in "MIT Publication in the Humanties, Number 69." The citation for paper, "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment" is *Filozofska Istrazivanja, Vol 1, No. 3, (1995); Reprinted in: The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Issue 4, (Spring 1996); Embodiment, Gail Wiess, Ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul (forthcoming) **The paper on "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment" is a similar version of the paper "Intelligence Without Representation". "The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment" can be read at (http://www.phil.indiana.edu/ejap/1996.spring/dreyfus.1996.spring.html) A slight different version *Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Mental Representation* (a focus paper for the Houston's Studies in Cognitive Science) can be read at (http://www.hfac.uh.edu/hscs/focus_paper/dreyfus/content.htm) I hope, you will enjoy the essay! Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= From: Zunaira Subject: Integration of communications, information technology Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:23:09 +0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 610 (610) [--] India Proposes Super Ministry for Convergence By Uday Lal Pai India Correspondent, asia.internet.com [October 23, 2000--MUMBAI] The government of India is considering integration of communications, information technology (IT) and information and broadcasting by creating an umbrella ministry for convergence. The idea for the new ministry was put forward by communications minister Ram Vilas Paswan. "The sub-group on convergence led by jurist Fali S Nariman has recommended an integration of three ministries and now we are working on the structure of the nodal ministry," he said. The group has recommended establishing a super regulator for voice and data communication through any medium on the lines of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which would be called Communications Commission of India (CCI), said Paswan. Paswan said that the bill is likely to be introduced in Parliament in the winter session. Replying to queries on the move to have an umbrella ministry, Paswan said the Telegraph Act of 1885, which governs the working of communications ministry, is being changed, so there is no reason why the implementation of the Convergence Bill will make any difference, he pointed out. However, political observers feel that Paswan claim may not be easy to entertain given that the other two ministries that will make up the new body are headed by political heavyweights, who will not be amenable to a proposal that seeks to strip them of their turf and influence. Paswan said he would take steps to ensure that the Convergence Bill is introduced in Parliament during the winter session. However, he made it clear that the government would have to take the administrative decision for any such ministerial restructuring because it is politically sensitive. "Which minister will pilot the bill on convergence has not yet been decided. It could even be the PM," Paswan said. He added, "Converging technologies should increase the teledensity in the rural areas, which despite having 29 million telephones constitutes for only 18 percent of the total telephones, though they represent 78 percent of the population. The government is committed to provide a telephone in every village by 2002 and increase the number of telephones to 70 million by 2005 and 100 million by 2010." ---- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Valenti v. Lessig Future of IP Debate on RealVideo Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:05:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 611 (611) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 26, 2000 Valenti v. Lessig The Future of Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Debate 7pm, October 1, 2000: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futureofip/archive.asp>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futureofip/archive.asp For a predictably lively debate on the future of ip online, see the archive of the Oct 1 Harvard Law School debate between Jack Valenti and Lawrence Lessig, which includes a complete RealVideo recording of the event. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: COPYRIGHT: ALA Report on DMCA Anti-Circumvention Ruling Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:06:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 612 (612) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 26, 2000 DISAPPOINTING RULING ON ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION PROVISION OF DMCA Fair Use Exemption Considered Lost Online American Library Association Issues Bitter Rebuke <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html>http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html This report from the American Library Association indicates that the Librarian of Congress has ruled that the contentious provision of the DMCA prohibiting anti-circumvention of electronic protection mechanisms will not harm the fair use exemption of copyrighted materials online. This ruling was based on a study conductd by the Copyright Office, involving hearings and public comments. A new ruling will be made in 2003. Stay tuned for further responses. David Green =========== [material deleted] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Out of Their Minds Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:04:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 613 (613) Greetings Humanists, Hello, sending you the goodwill..I thought..this might interest you.. A Book: Out Of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 great Computer Scientists at <http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/outofmind.html> by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere Computer Science is one of the most important forces shaping today's society and the future, yet it is one of the least understood. Prof. Dennis Shasha's home page is at <http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/index.html> Thanks.. best wishes, arun tripathi From: "Joanne Buckley" Subject: TEXT Technology: call for papers Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:51:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 614 (614) Call for Papers / Submission Information TEXT Technology Cordially Invites You To Contribute Articles For Consideration TEXT Technology is an eclectic journal 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, 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 three copies of articles in hard copy (double-spaced) and one copy on 3.5" floppy diskette to 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: Phone: 905 525 9140 x 24650. Fax: 905 577 6930 http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/texttech From: jason.mann@vanderbilt.edu Subject: Managing Online Consortia pre-conference workshop Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:56:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 615 (615) announcement ANNOUNCEMENT 1: Managing Online Consortia pre-conference workshop announcement <http://www.cael.org/index2.html> Attend CAEL's first conference of the 21st Century, visit our web site for more details: http://www.cael.org/index2.html CAEL and University of Maryland University College present: Managing Online Education Partnerships: Plain Talk and Practical Tools for Internet-Based Consortia The Drake Hotel; Chicago, IL November 14 - 15, 2000 Register today to participate in the first ever, Managing Online Education Partnerships on November 14-15. This conference will provide a national forum for administrators and/or participants who work with Internet-based education consortia and alliances to discuss the conceptual issues and practicalities of operating successful and mutually beneficial partnerships. Focusing on practical guides and tools for those who develop and manage consortia, this conference will create a framework of communication and collegiality for discussing common issues and concerns. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Design, Book Crafts & the Digital Age Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:57:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 616 (616) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 26, 2000 On the Digital Brink: Notes from Printing History Conference <http://printinghistory.org/>http://printinghistory.org/ http://www.forewordmagazine.com/ These informal, but well-written, notes from part of the annual conference of the American Printing History Association I think bring a fresh perspective on much of our work. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] <> 2. POSTCARD FROM ROCHESTER, NY On The Digital Brink at the 25th Annual Conference of the American Printing History Association. Swept along by the onrush of digital developments, it can be both useful and necessary to pause and take stock of where we're going and where we came from -- and to celebrate the enduring values which lend meaning to what we are up to from day to day. Because of the intriguing theme of its 25th Annual Meeting, I decided to drive up to Rochester from Woodstock, New York, and attend my first APHA meeting. I've been a closet member on and off through the years, relishing the association's newsletter and its journal, "Printing History," for the discussions of the history and art of type and printing, and for the ads and notices of what is going on in the world of collecting and private presses -- all framed in elegant design and illustration. (For membership information: www.printinghistory.org ). So, on arriving I found some one hundred diverse keepers of the fine traditions of printing and typography - designers, librarians, scholars, printers, calligraphers, collectors, publishers - friendly and eager enthusiasts all -- assembled at the Rochester Institute of Technology for two days on October 20th and 21st. There we examined how the new technologies are being used to explore and reveal book and graphic arts history as well as used to develop new ways for their expression and dispersion. But this was not a hand-wringing conclave of traditionalists bemoaning the loss of art and craft in the face of progress. To the contrary, I found the best of all possible worlds where true lovers of the uses of graphics and type apply their classic verities in new forms. In fact, one of the high points was a demonstration by Australian born artist, photographer, lecturer and author Douglas Holleley. He presented some exquisite digitally scanned paper sculptures in final images enhanced by PhotoShop. Yet not out of sight or out of mind were the handiwork of the great printers and type designers from Aldus Manutius and Claude Garamond to Frederick Goudy and Stanley Morison. There could have been no better setting for all of this than the comfortable lecture hall at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (named after the inventor of Xerography) and RIT's Carey Graphic Arts Collection of rare books and manuscripts at its Wallace Library, and the adjacent gallery and letterpress print shop. Among the highlights: We were treated by two RIT professors and a Xerox scientist to some of the outcomes of their fascinating application of infrared and ultraviolet analysis and digital imaging technologies in the recovery of degraded images in the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as in uncovering the original texts erased and overwritten on medieval parchment palimpsests. A set of original Archimedes essays was the object of the latter. Frank Romano, one of the foremost authorities on digital publishing technology, demonstrated the need for historic preservation. He examined the emergence and disappearance, in the space of fifty years (1946-96), of the scores of businesses which brought into the market the many forms of photocomposition that provided the bridge between the old hot metal and today's computer driven image setting. In the course of his lecture, Czeslaw (Chet) Grycz, CEO and Publisher of Octavo (Adobe Founder John Warnok is their Chairman of the Board), presented a view of his organization as a digital scholarly publishing and preservation company. Octavo (<http://www.octavo.com>http://www.octavo.com) is working with libraries and archivists to create digital editions of some of the most "important milestones of thought and culture" in works such as those by Galileo, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare and many others. The imagination, quality and functionality of the images, tools and commentaries that accompany these editions are superlative. Grycz's topic was "Perdurability: Digital Books and Beatrice Warde's Vision of Permanence." As written in the program, "in her celebrated broadsheet announcing Eric Gill's Perpetua typeface, Beatrice Ward compared the permanence of a text printed in multiple copies on flimsy paper to that of one deeply chiseled on a massive Roman monument." Look which one prevailed. The entire conference was framed by a powerful opening keynote by Robert Bringhurst, noted scholar and lecturer and author of The Elements of Typographic Style. Bringhurst's words were so substantial that I can only poorly characterize, but I will attempt to provide a small portion here (the full text of it hopefully will appear in "Printing History"). The first and original book given to us is the world itself - all people read it - and in the development of letter forms and writing people make their own books - miniatures encompassing portions of the original. And it is the extent of our connection to this world that calibrates the uses of our mind. Bringhurst's breathtaking concept followed his imaginative development of the ways in which images, letter forms, and linguistics are in themselves complex forms of art as well as modes of human gesture that connect us to our own stories as well as to those of others. The digital era finds us telling these stories in a setting several times removed from the sensory surround of the world "outside" - - of the original book -- and from the highly tactile experience of the physical books we have used and the very personal trade marks reflected in our speech and handwriting. The values and messages communicated by these forms of expression are replaced by the uniform ASCII code, which creates indistinguishably uniform letterforms as we tap out our messages on keyboards around the world. However different the touch, the result is the same, Bringhurst observed - and the experience of reading, detached from its physicality has become a spectator sport. That is not the whole of , or the end of the story. It is simply the beginning of a new one, I inferred. Whole new extensions of language and the preservation of cultures are opened up by this digital revolution - as is the challenge and the opportunity to stay connected with our original book. -Gene Schwartz Editor-at-Large <> [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: COPYRIGHT: DFC calls for re-calibration of DMCA in light Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:59:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 617 (617) of 1201 rulemaking NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 27, 2000 Digital Future Coalition Calls for recalibration of DMCA in light of new rulemaking The Digital Future Coalition released the following statement yesterday on the recent rulemaking by the Librarian of Congress on the anti-circumvention provision (section 1201) of the Digital Millemium Copyright Act (DMCA). You will note that the DFC credits the Librarian of Congress for being aware of the "potential damage to scholarship" in this rulemaking during the 3 years before the next rulemaking and that it "places considerable burdens on the scholarly, academic, and library communities." He has therefore called for a review of this time frame as well as of the appropriate criteria for assessing the harm that could be done to American creativity by the anti-circumvention provision. Speaking for the DFC, Professor Peter Jaszi expressed the hope that "Congress now recognizes that it may have gone too far in drafting the DMCA to accommodate the interests of copyright owners without including adequate safeguards to protect the legitimate interests of information consumers. As it considers amendments to the DMCA next year, we trust the 107th Congress will seek to recalibrate the DMCA to bring it more in keeping with the grand tradition of balance that has served our nation so well for the past two centuries." Following this, I am forwarding a statement by Representative Rick Boucher, circulated by DFC. David Green ============ [deleted quotation] COPYRIGHT OWNERS GET GREEN LIGHT TO ROLL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL PROTECTION MEASURES AT CONSUMER EXPENSE October 26--Washington, D.C. Today, the Digital Future Coalition (DFC) expressed its appreciation to the Librarian of Congress for seeking to preserve the fair use rights of information consumers, while expressing its deep disappointment that content owners effectively had been given a green light to use technological protection measures to lock up access to copyrighted works. "Once again, content owners have successfully promoted their own narrow financial interests over the broader public interest in preserving consumer access to literary, scientific, and other works," said Professor Peter Jaszi of the DFC. He continued: "As the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information outlined so eloquently on behalf of the Administration in a recent letter to the Register of Copyrights, preserving the principle of fair use in the information age would encourage a renaissance of research, academic, and educational freedom, just as it promoted the progress of science and the useful arts throughout the analog era. In our view, something profound is lost when fair use is diminished. Today, consumers find themselves one step closer to the pay-per-use society envisioned by copyright owners." Noting that "potential damage to scholarship may well ensue in the course of a three-year period," before the next scheduled rulemaking, and that "the statute places considerable burdens on the scholarly, academic, and library communities," the Librarian of Congress himself today announced his intent to request Congressional review of the time frame of the rulemaking, the appropriate criteria for assessing the harm that could be done to American creativity by the anti-circumvention provision, and called for more clarity concerning the definition of "class of works." The DFC recognized that the Register and her staff had labored under difficult circumstances in attempting to implement section 1201(a)(1) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in a manner consistent with Congressional intent. However, the organization also noted that in enacting the DMCA, Congress had expressed strong concern for the preservation of the fair use doctrine and other traditional copyright doctrines that promote public access to information. The DFC expressed regret that the Copyright Office had failed to capture the spirit of this legislation in interpreting it for the Librarian. Section 1201(a)(1) was drafted to allow exemptions from the prohibition on circumvention of technological protection measures for "persons who are users of a copyrighted work which is in a particular class of works, if such persons are, or are likely to be . . . adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make non-infringing uses of that particular class of works . . .." It should have been possible to exempt, for example, copies of works that universities and libraries purchase when their students or patrons subsequently seek to make non-infringing uses of those works. Unfortunately, todays decision took 70 pages to essentially say that few persons may ever circumvent a technological protection measure even to gain access to a work solely for legitimate noncommercial purposes. In concluding, Professor Jaszi said: "We hope Congress now recognizes that it may have gone too far in drafting the DMCA to accommodate the interests of copyright owners without including adequate safeguards to protect the legitimate interests of information consumers. As it considers amendments to the DMCA next year, we trust the 107th Congress will seek to recalibrate the DMCA to bring it more in keeping with the grand tradition of balance that has served our nation so well for the past two centuries." Founded in 1995, the Digital Future Coalition consists of forty-two national organizations representing a wide range of non-profit and for-profit entities. Its membership represents educators, computer and telecommunications industry businesses, librarians, archivists, authors, and scientists. DFC is committed to striking an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: COPYRIGHT: Rep. Boucher Statement: "Pay-Per-Use Society Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:00:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 618 (618) One Step Closer" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 27, 2000 "PAY-PER-USE" SOCIETY ONE STEP CLOSER Statement of Congressman Rick Boucher on "Anti-circumvention" Rulemaking [deleted quotation] News from Congressman Rick Boucher 2329 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington D.C. 20515 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 27, 2000 CONTACT:Sharon Ringley (202) 225-3861 Statement of Congressman Rick Boucher "PAY-PER-USE" SOCIETY ONE STEP CLOSER I regret the decision of the Librarian of Congress, acting upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, to reject the recommendations of the Administration, concerned Members of Congress, universities and libraries in announcing a decision that does not protect traditional fair use rights. This disappointing decision has moved our Nation one step closer to a "pay-per-use" society that threatens to advance the narrow interests of copyright owners over the broader public interest of information consumers. In crafting section 1201(a)(1) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress sought to preserve the principle of "fair use" that has served our Nation so well for more than a century. Unfortunately, based on the advice of the Register of Copyrights, the Librarian of Congress today announced his decision to limit the ability of ordinary consumers in most cases to circumvent electronic security measures for the purpose of exercising their non-infringing fair use rights. Consequently, any person who circumvents a technological protection measure to gain access to information to which he has a fair use right will be guilty of a crime. I was heartened recently when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce, speaking for the Administration, so forcefully articulated the importance of preserving fair use principles in the 21st century. NTIA made useful recommendations to the Register of Copyrights for implementing section 1201(a)(1) in a manner which would have protected fair use rights. For a moment, it appeared that the rulemaking might advance the interests of information consumers. Those hopes have now been dashed. As NTIA recognized in its letter, one of the foremost concerns reflected in the Congressional report upon passage of the DMCA was that changes in the law could chill the exercise of consumers traditional "fair use" rights, and move us all toward a "pay-per-use" society. Congress recognized that some limits had to be placed on the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA to ensure that librarians, educators, the scientific community, and other information consumers could continue to gain legitimate access to a variety of works likely to be protected through the use of technological measures. Section 1201(a)(1) was, therefore, included to exempt from the prohibition on circumvention "persons who are users of a copyrighted work which is in a particular class of works, if such persons are, or are likely to be . . . adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make non-infringing uses of that particular class of works ..." The Librarian was charged by the statute with defining the classes of works likely to be at risk. Under this grant of authority, it should have been possible to exempt, for example, copies of works purchased by universities and libraries when their students or patrons subsequently seek to make non-infringing fair use of those works. Unfortunately, the announced exceptions to the rule are so narrow as to be practically meaningless. Fair use is not protected. There is little doubt that the 107th Congress will consider proposed revisions to the DMCA. Given the importance of fair use to society as a whole, my hope is that Congress will re-calibrate the DMCA to balance more evenly the interests of copyright owners and information consumers. With todays failure of the Library of Congress to protect the publics fair use rights, Congress in its next session should act to prevent the creation of a "pay per use" society, in which what is available today on the library shelf for free is available in the future only upon payment of a fee for each use. =================================================================================== ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: cooperative restraint Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:51:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 619 (619) Dear Colleagues: The last rather voluminous batch of Humanist messages s.v. "new on WWW" prompts me to ask for some cooperative restraint. Please, if you send to Humanist announcements whose contents might be gleaned from corresponding Web sites, delete everything but a summary of these contents and whatever URLs are required. In the past, conference announcements have been particularly a problem, which I have addressed by deleting as much as possible from them. I may be able likewise to hack large sections from announcements of online resources etc., but the amount of time this required of me today (at the time of writing) leads me to think that I will not be able to continue. It makes no sense, really, to have such duplication. We can assume, can we not, that everyone who reads these notices has access to the Web? Can we pull together as a community well enough that contributors will do a bit of self-editing? The alternative is for me simply to delete messages altogether as necessity suggests. There's no way Humanist can publish everything relevant to humanities computing. So, somehow, we need also to contribute only the most important & consequential things. Many thanks for your help. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0421 hypertext research and the outsider Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:53:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 620 (620) With reference to Willard's remarks: [deleted quotation] I just attended a CS seminar today on text mining, one where the work being reported had manifested itself in a program, a dissertation, and a dot-com startup whose methods were now protected by a non-disclosure agreement--so totally apart from the online preprint syndrome, it is important to remember that in the CS world these days there is so much money to be made from new algorithms that they may become trade secrets before they ever see print, even virtually. Pat Galloway GSLIS University of Texas-Austin From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 14.0425 robotic creed Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:54:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 621 (621) re Robots' Creed. Who and what is this "I"? we are talking merest fantasy here, are we not? Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone: (310) 393-4648 (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. PST) Fax: (360) 838-8589/VoiceMail 24 hours (360) 838-8589 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com http://jaschakessler.homestead.com/ http://www.mcphersonco.com [deleted quotation](by way [deleted quotation].... [deleted quotation] From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: Robotic Creed Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:55:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 622 (622) Hear, hear! I think that the Robotic Creed captures the Planet of the Apes (POA) very well. There is a slight problem which I indicated a little earlier on the Anzap-l list in Australia (University of Adelaide - I am too sleepy to remember their email address). It turns out that the best in modern computerized decision making research programs collapse when a slight assumption is changed - I proved that essentially on Anzap-l. However, the idea of the Robotic Creed seems basically sound, although it needs a little work. Throw in a few grains of changed assumptions, mix well, remember that there is probably Somebody Upstairs better even than robots, and things may go well. While I have the floor (or is it the ceiling?), can anybody tell me why I have to send probability-statistics innovative papers to Australian forums rather than USA/Canada/Great Britain? Even my heroes in Oxford and Cambridge seem never to have heard of such forums, and the discussion groups that exist permit about as much deviation from the mainstream as a strait-jacket/astronaut spacesuit. (Replies of "Tell it to the Robots" will not be accepted.) O.D. (and I don't mean overdose) From: Randall Pierce Subject: robots Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:01:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 623 (623) The recent discussion by Arun-Kumar Tripathi on the essay by Dr. Jennifer Healey concerning intelligence in robots was very thought-provoking. If robots need human emotions to interact with humans, do we need any safeguards on the developing psychology of robots?I am reminded of the "Three laws of Robotics" devised by Dr. Isaac Asimov almost fifty years ago. His robot stories, although science fiction, raise interesting ethical and technological questions about artificial intelligence. I would recommend them to those on the Humanist List. Randall From: Grover Zinn Subject: Re: 14.0424 vita(e)? who knows? Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:52:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 624 (624) On vita/vitae---the analysis presented is correct: curriculum vitae or just vita. Anything else is just wrong (in my humble opinion). but then, what goes in English today is something else, so to speak. Grover Zinn Oberlin College currently teaching Oberlin-in-London Program 32 Fitzroy Square London W1T 6EX From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 14.0424 vita(e)? who knows? Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:52:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 625 (625) In Germany we use either vita or curriculum vitae in the way explained by Paul Brians. Elisabeth Burr From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Compilation of Web Characterizations Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:05:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 626 (626) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 27, 2000 Summary of Recent Reports Measuring the Web OCLC Web Characterization Project <<http://wcp.oclc.org/>http://wcp.oclc.org/> BrightPlanet's Report on the "Deep Web" <http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp>http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp UC Berkeley Project: "How Much Information?" <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/ Pfeiffer Report: Emerging Trends & Technologies <http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html>http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html A good compilation by Ann Okerson of recent reports characterising the state of online activity (with some interspersed comments of my own). David Green ========== [deleted quotation] 1. Latest report from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization project: <http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20001016a.htm>http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20001016a.htm ============================================================================ 2. Report on the "Deep Web" from BrightPlanet: Using its own technology to find material within searchable databases, 95% open and free to the public, BrightPlanet's discoveries include: * Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World Wide Web * The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information, compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web * The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web <http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp>http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp ============================================================================ 3. Report from the UC Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems: "How Much Information?" "This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest." <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/ ============================================================================ 4. And now for something completely different: The Pfeiffer Report suggests that most online publications may be very short-lived in deed. Online content doesn't make money (for the most part). The report suggests that the Internet is not a replacement for current information delivery models, but rather than extension of them. <http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html>http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html Ann Okerson, liblicense-l moderator ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Preservation: Example of Education Page: Albright-Knox Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:59:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 627 (627) Art Gallery & Adobe NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 27, 2000 Albright-Knox Gallery & Digital Preservation of its "Academy Notes" <http://www.adobe.com/epaper/spotlights/albrightknox/main.html>http://www.adobe.com/epaper/spotlights/albrightknox/main.html Readers might be interested in this page on the Adobe website, perhaps more for its example of good public/general education about preservation as for its specific content. This is part of a series demonstrating the usefulness of Adobe products - see also the page on the e-book <<http://www.adobe.com/epaper/features/newleaf/main.html>http://www.adobe.com/epaper/features/newleaf/main.html> David Green =========== [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NAACL-01 Final Call for Papers Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:39:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 628 (628) [deleted quotation] ============================================= Please note electronic notification of submission due Nov 6, and hardcopy paper submission due Nov 9! ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Language Technologies 2001: 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html [material deleted] Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; language in multimedia systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Winter Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:43:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 629 (629) [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------- Winter Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit 10th - 12th January 2001 Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ Booking deadline: 11th December 2000 Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is pleased to announce three seminars on humanities computing, to be held in Oxford from the 10th to 12th January 2001. They are updated repeats from the summer seminars series that ran in July 2000. The three seminars are: 10th January: Putting your database on the Web 11th January: Creating and documenting digital texts 12th January: Working with XML The seminar website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ 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 and Oxford University Computing Services. Who Should Come? You should come if you work, or plan to work, with digital data, 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 database creation and delivery, and be able to identify those areas where you need to learn more. How Much Will It Cost? Each seminar costs 60 [pounds sterling] (30 [pounds sterling] for members of Oxford University). You can book for any combination of individual seminars. Interested? Booking information and further details are available online, at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ 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 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext and the Web Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:36:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 630 (630) The following extract from the abstract of John B Smith's opening plenary to Hypertext '97 (Southampton U.K.), helps to explain the discrepancy between the state of hypertext research in computer science and the state of the Web: [deleted quotation] (See the link at <http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ht97/>, and note in passing that the folks at Southampton have put the most of the proceedings freely online, for which many thanks.) A question to those who understand XML: to what extent will it allow us users of the Web to get the benefit of this CS research, which is now effectively out of reach? In "Open Hypermedia as User Controlled Meta Data for the Web", Kaj Grnbk, Lennert Sloth and Niels Olof Bouvin (Aarhus) describe "a mechanism [built on XML]... for users or groups of users to control and generate their own meta data and structures", e.g. "user controlled annotations and structuring which can be kept separate to the documents containing the information content". If I understand the import of what these fellows are saying, this would mean that people like us could build far more adequate scholarly forms (editions, commentaries et al.) online. Or am I misreading? The Open Hypermedia movement (if it can be called that) seems quite interesting and promising to this outsider; see the group's Web page at <http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/ohs/>. Its purpose, I gather, is to open up the layer of software in which structural abstractions are defined so that users could define their own. "A natural way in which to accomplish this is to generalize the link server of contemporary OHS's, replacing this single entity with an open set of link server peers (or simply, structure servers)." Does this mean, as I think it does, that people like us could begin to modify what links and nodes do? That's certainly what we need if we're going to craft adequate scholarly forms online. Expert comment most welcome! Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: hero worship Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:04:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 631 (631) From his writings it's easy to tell that Edsgar Dijkstra is an interesting man, and I do indeed hope that I can still wish him a long life. But I hope also that I'm not alone in the slight uneasiness with which I contemplate such books as announced in Humanist 14.0428, Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere, Out Of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists. It's not just that I think erecting a monument to a living person is premature, and that some of those monuments are likely to prove embarrassing later. Nor that some of the living ones who have been passed over by Shasha and Lazere might be just as good as candidates for secular sainthood. It's the hagiographical impulse that bothers me. Noting this impulse is relevant here because given our current set of cultural prejudices we tend to exercise it on scientists if not on disembodied science, for which see John Searle's remarks in Minds, Brains & Science. One of the great biographies must be Constance Reid's Hilbert (NY: Springer Verlag, 1996). Yet I find its great-man worshipful tone to be cloying as well as utterly unnecessary. It seems to me that this does no service nor real honour to a truly great mathematician -- because it tends to suggest that the person is not one of us, which conveniently releases us from responsibility to become what we find to admire. Having studied with a certifiably (and repeatedly certified) great man I am deeply familiar with the sense that however hard one might try for however long, one could never be like the admired person. Perhaps, however, great intelligence is like love, which comes from somewhere else and rather like a torrential river in flood changes the landscape utterly as it goes somewhere else -- but doesn't BELONG to those through whom it rips. Perhaps, as my "great man" once suggested, the brain is a filter for intelligence, not its source. In any case the intolerable sense that here is someone who one could be -- or, in the case of these computer scientists, mostly, here's something to understand -- seems a whole lot healthier an attitude than the verbal lighting of incense. Which, like hagiography, should be reserved for really special occasions. What fascinates about the heroes in Out Of Their Minds is, I suppose, the quite explicitly stated research goal of building machines like us. I take heart from a passing remark attributed in Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, Robosapiens: Evolution of a new species (2000), to the research biologist James Watson (Biorobotics Lab, Case Western Reserve): "The central problem of collaborations between scientists and engineers is that engineers are supposed to produce something that works. Failure is not an option. Whereas we scientists are interested in understanding things. If it fails, that tells us something. As a matter of fact, it's much more interesting if it doesn't work, because that tells us what we don't know." (p. 105) Consider, then, the image fetched by the following link to be a kind of Pisgah-sight: <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/concepts/brain-cell-on-a-chip.jpg> (ca. 1984 by John Stevens and Judy Trogadis, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, put online by permission). Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Randall Pierce Subject: terminology Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:38:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 632 (632) The terms "fantasy" and "science fiction" have been used in connection with the "Robot's Creed". I have mentioned that getting a robot to interrelate to a human involves certain risks. And asked if we should consider safeguards. Nanotechnology makes it theoretically possible to so chart the neural systems of the human brain that an electronic analog could be constructed. Is this fantasy or science fiction? Or is it a logical extrapolation of current developments? There is a saying in History of Science: "When it is time to railroad, you railroad." In other words, when technological development in a field reaches a certain point which makes it possible to advance the scope of that field, it is done. Hypertext technology was in its infancy not many years ago. Before that it was a concept to be studied. At one time it was probably considered "fantasy" and science-fiction". As we develop new information technologies, what will be the implications? A self-programming text analyzer with the ability to make what I call "cognitive connections" is one description of an information scientist. Or it could be used to describe some future neural analog device?. How much information can human scientists creatively use before they need the assistance of constructs specifically designed to analyze information. Cutting-edge computers would be too slow and require too much direction. A real "thinking machine" may be needed. And if it interreacts with scientists, in what manner? Randall? From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0420 rhetorical encoding & mechanical methods Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:58:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 633 (633) Hi everyone, At 09:22 AM 10/27/00 +0100, Francois wrote: [deleted quotation] That's one way of putting it. I'm also interested that both encoding and rhetoric are forms of disguising or metamorphosis. [deleted quotation] Great stuff, Francois. As is the entire post: the notice that both encoding and commentary require _slowing down_ is itself revelatory (and nicely ironic, given how much encoding is done in order to help someone "speed up"). 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Best regards, Paul Neufeld, Founder and Editor in Chief www.ephilosopher.com Email: Paul_Neufeld@brown.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext: remembering and celebrating origins Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:01:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 635 (635) Humanists with interest in hypertext may want to take a look at online material relating to two symposia convened to remember and celebrate the origins of hypertextual computing and related subjects: (1) Englebart's Unfinished Revolution, A Symposium at Stanford University, December 9, 1998, with streaming video of the event, at <http://unrev.stanford.edu/>. "On December 9th, 1998 Stanford University Libraries and the Institute for the Future presented a day-long, public symposium that brought together [Douglas] Engelbart and members of his historic team, along with other computer visionaries, to consider the impact of Engelbart's work on the last three decades of the computer revolution, to explore the challenges facing us today, and to speculate about the next three decades." Englebart's "inquiries into 'Augmented Human Intellect' led to a revolutionary vision of the computer [which he and his team demonstrated by showing for the first time] the computer mouse, graphical user interface, display editing and integrated text and graphics, hyper-documents, and two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces. These concepts and technologies were to become the cornerstones of modern interactive computing." A number of interesting people say some quite interesting things. (2) Vannevar Bush Symposium, sponsored by Brown University and MIT, 12-13 October 1995, summarised and discussed in an article by Rosemary Simpson, Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, and Andries van Dam, for which an extensive extract is given at <http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact.html>. The entire article, published in ACM Interactions, is accessible at <<http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/interactions/1996-3-2/p47-simpson/>. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: heroes of humility Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:56:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 636 (636) Willard, Would you care to elaborate on the argument you put forth below. I am puzzled. Is always the case that admiration passes through similitude before arriving at action? [deleted quotation] Second question: is there a set of conventions in the genre of biography that compel a biographer to adopt a tone of humility vis a vis the object of study unlike say a hagiographic account of the life of St. Ignatious Loyola produced by a Jesuit proud of the order to which he and the founder of the order belong? And what would the atheist reader do with such a text if not imitate the Spiritual Exercises. Last question: does not the "responsibility to become what we find to admire" rest upon a more fundmental imperative -- to empathise with beings other than ourselves -- which of course becomes circular since if it is the gift of empathy that we admire in great humanists such as Erasmus and Panofsky it is , is it not, that empathy which propels us to admiration? Very fitting that such an Entscheidungsproblem is sparked by a reference to David Hilbert. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sunday Oct. 29, 2000 7:15AM Subject: Re: Hero worship, AI, and robotics Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:57:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 637 (637) I agree with WM concerning hero worship of "great scientists" or great people anywhere. Having done that myself, I realize some of the temptations, although some others only come to mind as I type. Eliminating our own responsibility for contributing, as Willard indicates, is frightening but true (I think). Some of it is probably reality based. Some of it may reflect the tendency to categorize, which is a two-edged sword without which we would have no Civilization but with which we may have no peace or even accuracy. Fortunately, we have a few Socratic people wandering about to return us to the path. Oops! There I go again. Osher From: mhayward Subject: RE: 14.0437 WWW characteristics compiled Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:59:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 638 (638) Some years back I wrote a note to myself on why the WWW won't function as well as many people figured it would. I actually said, as the WWW was "intended" to operate, but I am not sure intention has much to do with things. My way of thinking was that quanta of information don't do very much for us (as individuals or as members of a discipline). What counts is how that information is put together, the basic paradigms that underlie our ways of looking at the world. Maybe I am missing something: is there evidence that the amount of information available on the Web has led to a paradigm shift (in a Kuhnsian sense) in any major discipline? I don't think it has in my own (literary studies), where the information on the Web has given scholars certain advantages in availability of texts, ease of research, and so on, but has not jumped us into new ways of thinking about literature. But you've got to remember--this is from a guy who, when a friend of his daughter said about 8 years ago he'd like to have a service where people could put their resumes on line and employers could list jobs, replied Oh, I doubt if that will work. The Internet is really only for educational uses . . . (I hope he had the sense not to listen to me.) Malcolm Hayward Malcolm Hayward Department of English Indiana University of Pennsylvania mhayward@grove.iup.edu From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0440 hypertext and the Web and XML Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:01:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 639 (639) [deleted quotation] It seems to that for now and for some time to come XML won't change the visible side of the net, because most xml users use xml on the server but serve html files to the clients. They may switch to serving xhtml, the xml conform version of html, but this won't change the rather sad state of affairs concerning interoperability of open accessible scholarly edition on the net. As long as one cannot access the xml structure of an edition from the outside, but has only the data chunks, which fit into a browser window, the whole power of XPointer, XLink and XPath can't be used. At the moment it seems to me, that we need some kind of information frame work which allows this kind of access to structural data and/or an xpath sensitive retrieval function - which is by itself only usable, if you know the structure of the data - and some common layer of meta data. The last one isn't necessary, but would make things much easier. Even if you know that the text you want to link your comments to is tagged according to TEI you probably need a description of the exact use of the tags to use xpath effectivly. This is not a technical problem: if a text is encoded in such a way that every sentence / vers or even word has its own id, you can set a link to this id and the markup in your comment is correctly encoded. BUT: A reader of your comment has no way to follow this link to the text, if the website of the edition doesn't allow you to retrieve text via the encoded id. And because of the seperation between xml on the server and html in the client I mentioned above, even if the text is encoded with ids for every line, this encoding is not visible on the net. I think this is the next task for the scholarly community, maybe even for the TEI consortium: to design a framework which solves these problems. It would be an addition to the existing TEI or rather a framework around it. Maybe some people are already working on this; I would be very much interested in hearing about this. Fotis Jannidis From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: History of information processing Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:01:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 640 (640) Topic: The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Processing Primary Sponsor: Charles Babbage Institute URL: http://services.sciencewise.com/content/index.cfm?objectid=1092 ===================================================================== The fellowship will be awarded to a graduate student for research in the history of computing. DEADLINE: January 15, 2001.... The fellowship may be held at the recipent's home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location where there are appropriate research facilities. The stipend is $10,000 plus up to $2,000 for tuition, fees, travel to the Charles Babbage Institute and relevant archives. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the dissertation. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: Dirk Kottke Subject: Einladung zum 80. Kolloquium Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:02:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 641 (641) 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 80. 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. G r u ss w o r t e Prof. Dr. Veronika Ehrich Prorektorin der Eberhard Karls Universitt Tuebingen Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kaletta Direktor des ZDV 30 Jahre Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung an der Universitaet Tuebingen - 80 Kolloquien: mehr als nur zwei Jubilen Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott, ZDV G a s t v o r t r a g The Role of Humanities Computing: Experiences and Challenges Prof. Dr. Antonio Zampolli Universitt Pisa und ILC-CNR Zeit: Samstag, 18. November 2000, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Waechterstr. 76 (EG) gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 79. Kolloquiums finden Sie in den naechsten Tagen im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot79.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. ==================================================================== 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 | From: "Ann Gow" Subject: Glasgow International Digitisation Summer School Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:03:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 642 (642) Apologies if you receive this message more than once. HATII is pleased to announce the fourth international Digitisation Summer School, July 8 - 13 2001. Full information and course details can be found on the HATII web pages at: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS01/ The availability of high-quality digital content is central to improved public access, teaching, and research about heritage information. Archivists, librarians, and museum professionals are among the many groups that are increasingly involved in creating digital resources to improve access and understanding to their collections. Skills in understanding the principles and best practice in the digitisation of primary textual and image resources have broad value. Participants in the course will examine the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage materials, as well as investigate issues involved in creating, curating, and managing access to such collections. The lectures will be supplemented by seminars and practical exercises. In these, participants will apply the practical skills they acquire to the digitisation of an analogue collection which they have selected (print, image e.g. photographic or slide, music manuscripts, or map). The focus will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available in digital form. The one-week intensive course will consist of 10 lectures; 5 seminars; 5 lab-based practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an opportunity for individual practice); and visits to the Glasgow University Library. Places are limited on the course, so please register early to confirm a place. COSTS, REGISTRATION, AND DEADLINES Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea breaks, not including accomdation): - Advanced booking price: 650 sterling (if a place is booked and the course fees are paid by 13 April 2001). - Normal price: 700 sterling (if a place is booked and the course fees are paid after 14 April 2001) Please use the web page to register online at: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS01/ or contact: Mrs Ann Law, Secretary, HATII, George Service House, 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK Tel. and Fax: (+44 141) 330 5512 Email: a.law@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: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: 14.0449 XML and the Web Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:04:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 643 (643) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) writes: [much interesting stuff deleted] [deleted quotation] It seems to me that the development related to topic maps (see www.topicmaps.org) would be worth to look at in this context. Topic Maps were originally developed for SGML encoded data and defined as the ISO standard 13250, work is now going on to port this to the XML world as XTM (the related workgroup is at xtm-wg@egroups.com). Topicmaps try to map the content of a SGML/XML encoded document in a way that abstracts out the concrete encoding of a specific instance. In my view, this provides a functionality that is missing from TEI but is needed to meaningful build annotations and knowledge bases on top off TEI encoded textual data. Christian Wittern -- 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: Terry Winograd Subject: Ted Selker, MIT media Lab on _Context Aware Computing Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:27:10 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 644 (644) [--] ************************************************************* Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547) Home page: http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar Video: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses ************************************************************* Friday, November 3, 2000 , 12:30-2:00pm Gates B01 (HP Classroom) and SITN Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab selker@media.mit.edu <http://www.media.mit.edu/context/> TITLE: Context Aware Computing; Can implicit communication with computers be more useful than explicit communication? ABSTRACT: The familiar and useful come from things we recognize. Many of our favorite things appearances communicates their use; they show the change in their value though patina. As technologists we are now poised to imagine a world where computing objects communicate with us in-situ; where we are. We use our looks, feelings, and actions to give the computer the experience it needs to work with us. Keyboards and mice will not continue to dominate computer user interfaces. Keyboard input will be replaced in large measure by systems that know what we want and require less explicit communication. Sensors are gaining fidelity and ubiquity to record presence and actions; sensors will notice when we enter a space, sit down, lie down pump iron, etc. Pervasive infrastructure is recording it. This talk will cover projects from the Context Aware Computing Group At MIT Media Lab ************************************************************** Dr. Ted Selker is on the faculty of the MIT Media Lab, directing the Context Aware Computing Group. Previously he was an IBM Fellow and manager of User System Ergonomics Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He works on cognitive, graphical an physical interface. Ted has taught courses at Stanford, and previously worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Sunnyvale Reseach Laboratory. Ted is known for the design of the "TrackPoint III" in keyboard pointing device with performance advantages derived from a special behavioral/motor match algorithm, creating "COACH", an adaptive agent that improves user performance shipping this Fall in OS2, and the design of the 755CV notebook computer that doubles as an LCD projector. ************************************************************** NEXT WEEK - November 10, 2000 - Kai Li, Princeton University li@cs.princeton.edu The Princeton Wall ************************************************************** The lectures are available each week over the Internet. For details see <http://stanford-online.stanford.edu>. They can be accessed without registration. ****************************** From: Phil Agre Subject: _Mind versus Computer_ Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:50:19 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 645 (645) [--] [material deleted] Book announcement: MIND VERSUS COMPUTER WERE DREYFUS AND WINOGRAD RIGHT? "Mind Versus Computer: Were Dreyfus and Winograd Right?", published recently by IOS Press is dedicated to the question: is the mind just a very complex computer? The book combines the "strong" versus "weak" AI debate with new AI approaches and ideas. Twenty papers gathered and refereed through the Internet are presented in three parts: [material deleted] For more information see: <http://www2.ijs.si/~mezi/book.html> <http://www.iospress.nl> [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lecture by Searle 2/2/01 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:30:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 646 (646) The 2001 Annual Lecture of the Royal Institute of Philosophy will be given by Professor John Searle in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet St., on Friday 2nd February 2001 at 5.30 p.m. Its title is: "Freedom of the Will As a Problem in Neurobiology". For more information see <http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/annual_2001.htm>. "The RIP aims to promote the study and discussion of philosophy and original work in it through its Journal PHILOSOPHY and by arranging and sponsoring programmes of lectures and conferences.... "While waiting to go into prison for sponsoring an anti-war pamphlet in 1916, Bertrand Russell gave his 'Lectures on Logical Atomism' at the Dr Williams' Library, 14 Gordon Square, in the hall where the Institute's annual lecture series are now held. He finished them just before he was incarcerated, during which time the Home Secretary, Lord Balfour, gave the extraordinary instruction that the prisoner should be allowed writing materials in this cell, in which he produced his 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy'. Russell, together with Balfour, L T Hobhouse, Samuel Alexander, Harold Laski, and the Institute's Journal's first editor, Sydney Hooper, founded the Institute - then the British Institute of Philosophical Studies - in 1925, initially meeting in King's Way, WC2, but moving in 1930 to the Dr Williams' Library, with which it has been happily and grateful ly associated ever since...." Hope to see you there. 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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: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: 14.0449 XML and the Web Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 07:53:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 648 (648) Willard McCarty writes: [deleted quotation] I am sorry, I was quoting from memory... The URL should have been http://www.topicmaps.com -- somehow propably I felt that this belongs more to the ORG domain. There are a lot of other URL's worth mentioning. One of them is at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/topicMaps.html. I am far too busy to look for the other :-) No, seriously, I think the above will give everybody a good start at investigating Topicmaps. [material deleted] 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: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0449 XML and the Web Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:28:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 649 (649) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:08 AM [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Tues. Oct. 31, 2000 6:15AM Subject: Re: 14.0448 characteristics of the Web Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:31:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 650 (650) Malcolm Hayward of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania English Department is absolutely correct (well, as close to absolutely as possible), in my opinion. The internet is excellent for speed of retrieval and finding papers on particular topics and storing and ease of communicating with other scientists (many of whom refuse to communicate outside peer-reviewed journals or internal groups inside universities or other places). However, new methods of organizing, creativity, invention, thinking are as difficult to find on the internet as on the outside - except that you can reach the cutting edge of mainstream research and "ingenious follower" research. Creativity, invention, organizing, however, often do not follow from the cutting edge of mainstream research. Now that I have returned (part time) to college teaching, the importance of making both the internet and the classroom/academic environment more innovative concerns me very much. In the absence of any other ideas, maybe we have to keep repeating examples and theories of the negative consequences of mainstream non-innovativeness and non-creativity (not intending to coin words) on humanities internet and science internet and pray for the best. I also find that attacking both/all political parties before and during elections sometimes makes people more alert, which may make them think more. I would also recommend an "ANTI-TV-COMPUTER GAMES" subsection of both humanist and science forums, because our TV-hypnotized little darling (for example), not to speak of our own people, may simply have no time to invent because of their preoccupation with "fun and games". The world may be stage, but I do not think that it was meant to be a TV-computer game. Osher the UnGamed [material deleted] From: Sarah Porter Subject: Sphakia Survey Internet Edition Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:24:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 651 (651) THE SPHAKIA SURVEY INTERNET EDITION Lucia Nixon, Simon Price, Jennifer Moody, Oliver Rackham, Sophie Clarke and Sarah Porter are proud to announce that the new Sphakia Survey website is now online at: http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/ The Sphakia Survey is an interdisciplinary archaeological project studying life in this remote and rugged part of Crete, from the time that people arrived in the area (by ca 3000 BC), until the end of Ottoman rule in AD 1900. It involves the use of environmental, archaeological, documentary, and local information collected over a 13-year period. The Sphakia Survey Internet Edition is part of the final publication of the project. It is intended for a number of different user groups: the general public (including inhabitants of Sphakia); students; professional archaeologists and historians. The website operates on several different levels, from introductory to specialist: introductory material about the Sphakia Survey, plus republication of our preliminary articles, including one in Greek, with colour illustrations; clips from our video about Sphakia; a database giving outline information about all our environmental zones, regions and sites (with over a thousand colour pictures); a teaching database designed to introduce students to the uses of survey data (again with many colour pictures); and a presentation about fabric analysis (with pictures of a selection of our fabrics). Please have a look at the site. Note the teaching section, which includes specific questions to introduce students to the interpretation of survey data. If appropriate, please think about using it in your own teaching. This is the first version of the web site and we would warmly welcome your help in improving the site. Please contact us if you would be willing to fill in a short questionnaire (hcdt@oucs.ox.ac.uk), or see the feedback form on the web site. Suggestions for improvements should be received by 31 December 2000. The Sphakia Survey is directed by Lucia Nixon (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Jennifer Moody (Baylor University), with senior participation of Simon Price (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) and Oliver Rackham (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). The website was developed with Sarah Porter and Sophie Clarke of the Humanities Computing Development Team (Oxford University): http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/ From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- October 2000 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:30:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 652 (652) CIT INFOBITS October 2000 No. 28 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. ....................................................................... Evaluation of Learning Technology 2000 Campus Desktop Computing Survey Surveying the Digital Future Virtual Worlds as Learning Environments The Cost of Technology Support in Higher Education English Dominates -- Or Does It? Online Database of Scholars' Articles Modern Monsters Site Recommended Reading [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web site at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). [material deleted] From: Lloyd Davidson Subject: A call by ScienceWeek for free subs of science journals Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:38:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 653 (653) to developing countries A note from ScienceWeek, one of my favorite publications. At $20/year this is a very worthwhile publication to support. Lloyd -------------------------------------------- If you would like to participate in the request outlined below, please forward this letter to others, and especially to any editors of scientific journals with whom you may have contact. Much thanks for your help. A Call to Scientific Journals to Assist Developing Countries One of the important barriers slowing advances in developing countries around the world is difficulty of access to scientific information for use in research and education. This is a call upon all science journals with online editions to join in an effort to increase the dissemination of scientific information and improve science education in the developing world. Although many scientific societies do engage in international efforts to improve science education and disseminate information, there is no substitute for access to scientific journals, and making the electronic editions of such journals available free to residents in developing countries can provide a substantial contribution to the future health and prosperity of these nations. An immediately realizable policy is to offer free online subscriptions to residents of developing countries. For an example of such a policy already in action via the online journal ScienceWeek, and a working definition of "developing country", see http://www.scienceweek.com/freesub.htm A policy identical or similar to the above can easily be instituted by any online journal, and the consequence will be a significant improvement in the access of working scientists and science educators in developing countries to scientific information. Such free access will surely benefit developing countries, the international science community, and the entire world. If you would like to participate in this effort, we urge you to forward this letter to the members of your particular professional community. Dan Agin Editor/Publisher ScienceWeek dpa@scienceweek.com http://www.scienceweek.com ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Lloyd A. Davidson, Ph. D. Life Sciences Bibliographer and Head, Access Services Northwestern University Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering 2233 N. Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208 LDavids@northwestern.edu 847-491-2906 847-556-0436 (fax) From: Jennifer De Beer Subject: Re: 14.0394 self-archiving & online publishing Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:40:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 654 (654) [Apologies for the belated publication; this message went astray somehow.... --WM] Willard and Colleagues: [deleted quotation] Having attended a presentation by Herbert Van de Sompel (one of the founding figures of the Open Archives initiative) on the OAi (then called the Universal Preprint Service) I was led to understand that self-archiving would in fact play the role of registration of the/my idea within the relevant academic community, thus eliminating the need for concerns around 'scooping'. How successfully this works in practice I'm unsure. Recognition of such self-archiving may also be related to how established such an archiving service is. It is also my impresion that (some of) those in the Humanities feel that such fast turn-around times on Humanities research might be detrimental to the discipline. It is as if the pot needs to simmer a little longer than cf. those in the hard sciences. Erroneous! I believe, but indeed sadly true. What may also retard the adoption of self-archiving within the Humanities is that, I suppose, the majority of those outside Humanities Computing units generally lack the know-how to self-archive. Regards, Jennifer De Beer ===== -- Jennifer De Beer Spanish & Linguistics - University of South Africa IT - Stellenbosch University, SA *It's not the 90s anymore* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0405 a complaint Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:36:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 655 (655) At 7:53 AM +0100 24/10/00, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't maintain such a bibliography however the bowerbird project is specifically an attempt to index this material. it is located at http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080 (its currently being completely rebuilt so there are some gaps in its database) and it is what the ecommerce people now describe as a 'vortal' - a vertical portal. (their terminology, not mine.) basically bowerbird indexes web sites that deal with hypertext, it applies a set of filter words and only keeps pages that meet its criteria. in this way it has crawled approximately 200,000 pages across nearly 300 web sites but only indexes about 10% of these pages. this means that bowerbird, while perhaps not finding exactly your search term, usually lands you within a click or two (that is, a page or two) of what it is you actually want. Rosemary Simpson of Brown has sent her URL, which is the major effort in the area to provide a single portal into hypertext. I'd also have a look around http://www.hypertextkitchen.com/ which is an information source on hypertext. Its more a simple news source, but often has good links. Regards adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. 61 03 9925 3157 bowerbird.rmit.edu.au/adrian/ hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0300 recommended readings? Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:36:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 656 (656) At 6:40 AM -0400 4/10/00, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] to those references already provided I would add: Bruce Ingraham's essay at: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/00/ingraham/ingraham-t.html the work by Locke Carter (I'm off line as I write) which you should be able to find by searching bowerbird (http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/) on the terms Locke Carter. his PhD thesis Arguments in Hypertext: Order and Structure in Non-Sequential Essays. from memory the essay is at http://labyrinth.daedalus.com/dissertations/index.html There is Randall Triggs pioneering work located at: http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/members/trigg/thesis/ i would also do a search on bowerbird (link above) on terms like link rhetoric. There is my own work, one of which is a film studies essay written as a hypertext where the links are provided thematically. originally published in postmodern culture but mirrored at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/singing/ one subset of links in this essay touches on academic writing and hypertext. In addition there is another very brief essay on noise and academic writing available from http://cs.art.rmit.edu.au/enmeshed/ originally published as "Foreword: Writing in, Writing on (a Work in Progress)." Mesh.11 (1997): 101-2. an Australian new media journal. this explores the distance between writing on the page and online and plays informally with one of the possibilities proposed by hypertext literature - a work of quotes assembled by readers. Tosca's earlier paper from Hypertext 99, "The Lyrical Quality of Links" which is available via the ACM web site or the ACM's digital library (http://www.acm.org/). I have also written on hypertext links as performative speech acts (as per Austin) though this is more particularly in relation to cinematic links, not academic writing. Someone has mentioned the xLink specification, this has stronger support for link types, though most efforts to categorise link types tends to treat them as singular which doesn't work that well in the rub of things, for instance Trigg's typology has a series of rather caustic link types for academic argument but leaves out 'irony', and of course labelling a link as ironic sort of defeats the purpose really, unless you're marking an irony as a declarative fact rather than being ironic . . . regards adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. 61 03 9925 3157 bowerbird.rmit.edu.au/adrian/ hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au From: Willard McCarty Subject: how much information is there? Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:37:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 657 (657) In case you were wondering, you may consult the online report from a project entitled "How Much Information?" (Senior Researchers: Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian; Research Assistants: James Dunn, Aleksey Strygin, Kirsten Swearingen). "This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest." See <http://sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/>. Michael Lesk (NSF) gave a talk on the same subject at King's College London in 1998, "How much information is there in the world?", for which see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/98-99/seminars_lesk.html>. His conclsion was "a few thousand petabytes". Thanks to John Unsworth for passing on the reference to the Berkeley project. WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Nov/Dec Issue of The Technology Source Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:39:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 658 (658) Below is a description of the November/December 2000 issue of The Technology Source, a free, refereed Web periodical at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using information technology tools more effectively in their work. As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for manuscripts at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/call.asp and send me a note if you would like to contribute such an article. Note that during the one year period from 1 October 1999 to 30 September 2000, The Technology Source had 625,112 requests. (A "request" refers to a HTTP request of a page, either by a link or by typing it in the browser address line; see our site usage statistical information at http://horizon.unc.edu/usage/). Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, The Technology Source UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Editor Emeritus, On the Horizon Phone: 919 962-2517 http://www.camfordpublishing.com Fax: 919 962-1693 IN THIS ISSUE: In today's global economy, radically different cultures trade in today's hottest commodity: knowledge. In an interview with Technology Source editor James L. Morrison, Frank Tait shares the vision driving his work with the Chinese distance learning market as senior vice president for global marketing for SCT, a leading provider of higher education technology. When Morrison asks what effect SCT's initiatives may have on American and Chinese educational opportunities, Tait suggests that the technological revolution may help turn cultural barriers into diverse opportunities for creative ventures. Empowered by technologies born of cross-cultural innovation, Tait reports, global businesses like SCT can provide access to education even in rural parts of distant nations. [material deleted] From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0456 XML and the WWW Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:37:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 659 (659) [deleted quotation]means of [deleted quotation]server [deleted quotation] I didn't want to say that it is technically impossible to make the structure of an edition accessible. My claim is, that even the structure of an xml edition using TEI is not accessible by itself on the net and some kind of menchanism has to be found for this purpose. Because this is an obvious problem we, the people who make editions targeted for the net, should try to agree on *one* way to solve this problem, maybe in a kind of framework which can be used as an extension to TEI. btw, I don't think that xml aware clients will be the solution for this problem, because of the size of the editions. Thanks for the information on topic maps. This sounds interesting. Fotis Jannidis From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 660 (660) [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0449 XML and the Web Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 07:57:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 661 (661) Willard, You asked whether XML would be able to expand the accessible functionalities of the web to include the kinds of high-powered hypertext that are the subject of hypertext research, some of which have existed off-line for years. I essentially agree with the assessment of Fotis Jannidis. I'd add [non-technical readers stop here!] -- * Until we have real XML/XSLT/scripting functionality in the client (preferably with direct support for XLink/XPointer), we are locked into (X)HTML/Javascript/Java. (What Fotis said.) * As Fotis indicates, this means that the real data model is held on the server, which from the point of view of requirements common in the academic Humanities community, is a poor architecture for a number of reasons. We need XML-based processing on the client -- not just for linking but for all kinds of processing. Ironically, the best platform for this currently is in Internet Explorer/MSXML3. But we need something platform-independent to assure longevity of our projects and resources (both the data and its functionalities). * W3C XPointer/XPath semantics (specifications still in draft), which should be able to express most or all of the kinds of complex linking structures the hypertext community has developed, can in theory be bound to Javascript/Jscript/ECMAscript and run in today's browsers. But it may be clunky, difficult to implement, and brittle. On the other hand, this should be enough to serve as a *demonstration* of what is possible to achieve cleanly. * Much depends on the ways the browser vendors approach this problem. Microsoft, we are seeing, likes XML, but is not above wanting to own it; we can assume the same will be true of complex linking. Netscape is a very odd case at present; we could be lucky and see this stuff emerge in Mozilla/Netscape, but it's hard to know when or how. There are also third-party approaches, pure XML browsers and others (such as Adobe Acrobat). * Much also depends on how specifications that are currently in late stages of revision, but not yet completed, materialize. The relevant ones are XLink and XPointer themselves, and (I'd add) XSL formatting objects. Oh, and XSLT 1.1, whose Requirements document addresses some scripting issues related to all this. Bottom line is, yes XML can and should help deliver advanced hypertext capabilities, but it's hard to know whether it will be over the medium or only long term. At the moment, it is all very much "in play" -- like the U.S. elections this year. Fotis is also correct that a framework -- a specification of a range of linking semantics we need, along with the markup/modeling infrastructures to support it, ideally with at least one reference implementation -- would be a huge step forward. XLink/XPointer/XSL on their own might be enough to start the bottom-up work even without XML on the client; developing a framework would approach the problem top-down (sometimes a very good idea). Such a specification would also be a good proactive step to head off any proprietary developments that emerge. Christian Wittern suggests we consider ISO Topic Maps in this context. Whatever we do, it is fair to say that it should be able to take advantage of a Topic Maps framework. But we also need to be able to describe functional requirements for the kinds of links we want (links with fallbacks, links with pop-up notes etc. etc.), and how their components map to an information set such as TEI with or without Topic Maps. XLink/XPointer/XPath will give us a start on this. This is a tough one partly because hypertext linking doesn't just mean linking; it gets us directly into issues about *how* a text is searched, made accessible, and represented -- the kinds of thing that a purist Generic Encoding is designed to avoid.... Regards, Wendell At 07:08 AM 10/30/00 +0000, Fotis wrote: [deleted quotation].... ====================================================================== 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: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext and open hypertext Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 07:57:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 662 (662) Thanks to a note from David Durand I've discovered that access to the Hypertext conference proceedings is possible at a much lower rate than the ACM Digital Library main gate seems to enforce -- via the SIGWEB group, for which see <http://www.acm.org/sigweb>. There seem to be some problems with the ACM Web site at the moment, however; these are under investigation. Back to my rather broad-brush and probably naive questioning. Let me ask this: are the goals of the Open Hypertext movement realistic for the WWW? As I understand it, the goal of the movement, principally instantiated in the Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group <http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/ohs/>, is to make accessible the layer of hypermedia software in which links and nodes are defined and their actions specified. This seems to this scholarly outsider to be exactly what one needs. I don't see how hypermedia can be *fully adequately* deployed in the service of scholarly resource construction without the direct involvement of active scholars in the disciplines of application. One reason for this is that at least for some time to come we will be inventing new ways of realising our scholarly forms -- not by thinking them up abstractly, as so often seems to happen at the CS end of tool-building, but as Jerome McGann says discovering what we do not know by making it. Which, I'd guess, means that we've got to get our hands on the definitions of links and nodes. I'm sure there are loads of problems here, however. One surely is, as John Bradley pointed out to me in conversation the other day, the problem of communicating what one is doing. If I build a commentary, say, and in the process of doing this invent a bunch of link-types and node-actions, the scholarly overhead in learning how to use my new gizmo will be discouraging. Yet I don't see how we can arrive at a good working set of fully adequate types and actions without a lot of experimenting -- by working scholars. (Ah, it seems I'm in a vicus of recirculation, back to the question of primitives....) I have just run across the paper by Gary Hill et al., "Applying Open Hypertext Principles to the WWW", at <http://www.bib.ecs.soton.ac.uk/records/1304>; perhaps this will tell me whether to hope. Comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Stephen Miller Subject: EBooks Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 07:55:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 663 (663) Online at the New York Review of Books www site http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/) is Jason Epstein's "The Coming Revolution". --------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Miller Faculty of Social Sciences University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8RT 0141 339 8855 extn 0223 http://www.gla.ac.uk/socialsciences [Apologies for the delay in publishing this, which got lost in the incoming flood; meanwhile Epstein's article has moved into the Archives and is to be found at <http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20001102004F>. Comments on the article most welcome. Allow me to register an objection to the technologically deterministic view of history offered in it, however -- and to ask, why do we need to construct the world in such a simplistic way? Multiple, mysteriously interrelated phenomena make for a much more interesting view of things. --WM] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Free Trial run of Questia Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 07:56:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 664 (664) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 1, 2000 Free Trial of Questia <http://www.questia.com/trial/page/index.html>http://www.questia.com/trial/page/index.html Readers may be interested in sitting in the drivers seat for a while to experience a trial run of this commercial online service aimed at undergraduates. The implications of this service could be considerable. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0464 XML & the WWW Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:41:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 665 (665) Fotis-- At 08:45 AM 11/2/00 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] How large do you expect these editions to be? Why would server-side processing be better for large editions? Or possibly I mistake you. If you mean to say XML-aware clients will not be the *entire* solution to the problem, I agree. Cheers, 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: Willard McCarty Subject: for the XML-unaware Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:51:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 666 (666) In case anyone who is ignorant of XML is nevertheless intrigued by that aspect of the ongoing discussion about hypertext, you might see the following: DeRose, Steven J. 1999. XML Linking. <http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/47.html>. Specifications to enable more advanced hypertext functionality on the Web: in particular fine-grained anchors, external annotation, and bi-directional links; HTML linking limitations. ----- et al. 2000. XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0. <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xlink-20000703/>. World Wide Web Consortium specification; defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links Gronbaek, K. et al. 2000. Open Hypermedia as User Controlled Meta Data for the Web. WWW 2000. <http://www9.org/w9cdrom/>. Application of the Open Hypermedia idea to the Web via metadata specifications for XML. Verbyla, Janet. 1999. Unlinking the Link. <http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/61.html>. An overview of hypermedia linking: the essence of the idea; the limitations of conception in HTML; potential alternatives; the promise of XML. More references useful to the uninitiated would be very welcome. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Randall Pierce Subject: technology Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:53:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 667 (667) I have noticed some "tension" between those in what may be considered "hard" sciences as opposed to what some call "soft" science. Hard sciences are technology-based and those which have strong quantitive characteristics, such as mathematics, medicine, physics, etc. "Soft" sciences are usually thought of as including history, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Admittedly, many of these have their quantitive properties , such as cliometrics in history. I am mentioning this in relation to the post of Stephen Miller on "Technological Determinism". Technology is very important. Certain inventions have revolutionized human society. Gutenberg's printing press comes to mind. But technology, although it is very often what lets the genie out of the bottle, is not usually what creates the need for the genie. Why was the printing press invented? It met the need created by the Scholasticism of the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods. I once quoted a principle in History of Science: "When it is time to railroad, you railroad." I feel that technology answers needs. Or it is still-born. Think of all the technological "revolutions" in your fields which were "stillborn" because the need was not apparent. I do not mean this "diatribe" to be anti-technological, but as Stephen Miller put it, to make human progress fully three -dimensional by putting technology in the context of its historical setting. Why is hyper-text so important now? What need does it fill in our society? Thank you for your consideration. Randall From: Willard McCarty Subject: omphaloskepic editorial query Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:40:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 668 (668) Dear Colleagues: Occasionally I find it useful to ask how we're doing -- a reality-check, if you will, in the gorgonian face of earning a living, which keeps too many of our more experienced heads from contributing to Humanist. I can have whatever reader-response theory I like and my own opinions, but Humanist is for the community of computing humanists, not for its editor. I would be especially glad to have responses that deconstruct the complaint of infoglut, if indeed that is a complaint; I've often found that "too much!" really means "too much of X" altogether or points to an organisational problem of some kind. The other day a local colleague commented to me that whenever he saw a message from individual Y he pushed the delete key immediately and seemed willing enough to continue that practice. Others, however, I know to be annoyed that messages are coming from certain people or on certain topics. As editor I have no compunction about withholding messages that stray too far from humanities computing or attack some person or other, but I won't delete ad hominem nor will I withhold a message that nominally is on topic but is just silly. My sense (for what it's worth) is that Humanist still has abundant reason for being. Are there improvements that could be made *without involving any significantly greater long-term effort from me*? Yours, W ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: A Cryptographic Conjecture of (Methodological) Primitives Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:54:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 669 (669) - Doctorow I recently presented a conjecture on primes-l@utm.EdU, a number theory discussion group (number theory is related to cryptography among other things) to the effect that it is "enough" to restrict analysis only to expressions involving nothing but the "(methodological) primitives" of number theory, which are called primes. I will not spend time here discussing the LBP basis of this conjecture, but rather examine the analogous conjecture for humanist, which I abbreviate CCMP (cryptographic conjecture of methodological primitives), a slightly tongue in cheek name perhaps. An example may be worth a thousand words here. Let us suppose that we have agreed that Creative Genius is a (methodological) primitive, which I am prepared to argue "to the death". We then study a creative genius like Shakespeare, but only concentrate on where Shakespeare himself refers to creative geniuses (by any other name). We keep following one creative geniuse's reference to another creative genius until there are no further references in that particular thread, and we then are left with a bunch of threads - our "primitive threads". My conjecture would be that the key to Shakespeare would be contained in those threads. To give another example, the key to Dr. Isaac Asimov, the great biochemist turned science fiction novelist, would be contained in his sequence of creative geniuses Harry Seldon (human - a mathematical psychohistorian), Daniel/Daneel Olivaw (android), and a second robot whose name escapes me at present, and so on. It so happens that I have read Asimov more than any fiction author in my life, and I am quite convinced that just Harry Seldon and Daniel (Daneel) Olivaw and the second robot are the keys to his entire literature. These are of course conjectures, and any comments or even counter-conjectures would be appreciated (positive comments, of course, will "make my day"). Yours cryptessentially, Osher From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 14.0468 new on WWW: "The Coming Revolution" Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:51:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 670 (670) Thanks both to Dr. Miller and Dr. McCarty for their references to "The Coming Revolution." There are two major issues I have with the Epstein article. The first will be of the most interest in this forum: Epstein is imaging that the print-medium paradigm of publication will survive deGutenbergation - that of a single unchanging edition, a "finished" form of a work. But the concept of a "finished" form is an artifact of the printing press, with its limitless unchanged copies of a single archetype: the preceding paradigm, manuscript distribution, resulted not only in the unintended variants which are the main source of work for textual editors, but also in (fewer) deliberate or at any rate authorial variants as an author provided new copies to his readers. Each copy of a MS was a new edition, offering the author the opportunity to make changes and improvements. Thus there would potentially be a different "edition" for each copy of the MS that left the author's possession. (The practicalities dictate, however, that it was relatively rare that such changes were made. But one does think of poets changing lines in printed books when giving them to friends, and wonders whether a poet might have made gradual changes to his archetype that were reflected in "publication" copies distributed to the bookselling trade. One also wonders if Ovid's five book "edition" of Amores became three in part because it was easier & cheaper to copy only the best poems. I'm afraid that I'm not an expert on this subject, so if anyone is and can make good counterarguments I'd welcome them). Now in the electronic paradigm the author is in what is in some ways an enviable position: he may if he wishes make improvements every day in an electronic edition. What's more, if the work's locus of publication is static (as is a web page with a fixed URI), he can erase all previous editions of his work. Consider e.g. Auden's "Spain," with its line about murder. Were he publishing in the 2020s, Auden could simply pull up the copy that's being distributed, delete the line, and put it back up on the website. Presto! It never existed, because while there may well be a huge number of electronic copies already in distribution, electronic copies are extremely volatile, and the copy text will always be assumed to be the copy provided on the author's site. Or Auden could delete the work itself from his website entirely, and the work would never have existed! It *would* retain a ghostly existence in the form of archaeological data files in older archives, but it would not be as it is now, with thousands of physical books in libraries still making the poem available to readers every day. And I suspect that the volatility of electronic texts will mean that those which are not explicitly preserved by digital libraries or other institutions will fade into nonexistence soon after they are taken "offline." Obviously this is a complex issue, and I'm just touching on a couple of aspects of it which should already be plain to most Humanist readers. But there is another, more immediate and practical point where (paradoxically, considering the fact that my first point severely problematizes my second) I have to differ with Mr. Epstein. He does not seem much to value the contribution of editors to fixed edition publications, or to recognize that they are an important part of the cost of publication for a work. (For all I know Mr. Epstein is an editor himself; but his focus on bestsellers suggests he never read *Editors & Editing*, at least.) [deleted quotation]part [deleted quotation]a [deleted quotation]back. At the journal I worked for in the early 90s, printing and distribution accounted for 40% of costs (well, it would have if we had been publishing on schedule), editorial personnel 40%, and other costs 20% (e.g., three 386 computers, meals with contributors, etc. - there were no payments to contributors, which would have brought the fraction for production down to 30%). The price of the journal should have been $10-15 (it was lower, because heavily subsidized), which would have provided no profit. Even eliminating 40% of the costs entirely (and the costs of maintaining a webspace, though a lot lower than the costs of printing and distribution for print publication, are not zero), and assuming that our editorial costs were relatively high (say cut them to a dollar value equivalent to 30% of the actual total costs), that journal would still have cost $5-9. And I suspect that e-book prices will reflect that kind of calculation (i.e., be ~70-75% of the cost of hardbound books). However, I also suspect that commercial publishers will see this as another excuse to cut production and development staff (e.g., imaging that because we're dealing with electronic publication the need for galleys is somehow obviated), perhaps pouring a small amount of the savings into acquisitions. And we'll end up with more poorly edited books and less and less craftsmanship (something that is not eliminated by the medium: web publication at least leaves an enormous amount of room for genuine booksmanship, or would if CSS2 were properly implemented). [deleted quotation]author [deleted quotation] Notice that by this point the whole concept of editorial expense (and editorial value) has slipped Epstein's mind. [deleted quotation]but > still substantial followings, may sell their digitized editions largely on their own > popular websites. But authors of more specialized titles will sell their work [deleted quotation] I may be reading far too much into this, but it seems to me that this is implying little more than a writer with the help of a freelance proofreader and a piece of encoding/markup software creating an edition and "publishing" that. The whole concept of imprint is lost. [deleted quotation] Given the poor results of the Amazon.com experiments in this direction, I wouldn't hold out too much hope for major advances in marketing. [deleted quotation] Napster is not the appropriate model for publishing, I'm afraid. Yes, I am reading a great deal into this: I'm reading "filters" as referring to editorial work as though it were the equivalent of the record company's stranglehold on the music business. There is one significant difference, though: it's quite reasonable to "produce" (in the recording industry sense) a record of one's own music - the barrier is technological, not psychological, and gets lower every day; it is impossible for psychological reasons to effectively edit one's own writing. My 20c worth, anyway. Patrick Rourke [deleted quotation]incoming [deleted quotation]be [deleted quotation]however -- [deleted quotation]way? [deleted quotation] From: "Charles T. (\"Tom\") Davis" Subject: Re: IT Assessment Guide at Appalachian State University Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:52:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 671 (671) Over a year ago, I posted a request to the list asking for input regarding IT Assement policies. I wish to thank all who supplied us some initial input. Many requested that I post the results of our committee's work. I am happy to do so. The draft report that was submitted to our Vice-chancellor for Academic Affairs may be viewed at: http://www1.appstate.edu/~davisct/papers/IT_Report/ITReport_Index.htm . Any reponses would be most welcome since our committee will have an opportunity to incorporate suggestions into the final draft. Send them to me davisct@appstate.edu ---------- Charles T. Davis From: Willard McCarty Subject: many thanks Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:34:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 672 (672) My thanks to the several people who wrote in response to my request for a "reality-check" on the operations of Humanist. No one who wrote was displeased or gave me any further work to do, so I am indeed grateful :-). I see nothing wrong with self-absorption as long as it results in self-knowledge, which I take these notes as contributions to. Further omphaloskepsis welcome. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0472 Epstein's revolution Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:42:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 673 (673) Replying to Patrick Rourke's reservations about Epstein (and concurring with many), I still must as an alectronic records archivist hope that the situation about totally ephemeral authorial revisions won't be quite what he Rourke pessimistically envisions. People trying to create archives for "born-digital" documents are attempting to craft solutions that would indeed prevent deleted versions (by at least known authors) from withering away from random bit rot--instead, they should be jealously gobbled up and treasured by those who are interested in collecting corpora. It seems clear to me that the tasks of archivists are going to change radically, but that doesn't mean that managing multiple versions will be that difficult a task as long as a discovery mechanism is set in place and the copyright laws don't interpret fair use out of existence (we may be goners already). Pat Galloway Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Texas-Austin From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 14.0472 Epstein's revolution Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:43:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 674 (674) while we are talking about the capacity to change texts in electronic editions, two English writers come immediately to mind, the first being of course, as cited, Auden, in I think "1939." The line he expunged at the last from the revised collected poems is the famous one, "We must love one another or die." Auden remarked, famously, "We die anyway." That of course changes a hell of a lot: the first was connected with the pre-WW II situation, when he opted out of the Battle of Britain, with Isherwood, both evading the US INS be forgetting that they had traveled earlier to China on the Red Carpet, meaning a news assignment paid for by Moscow gold. (They had a lot of fun there anyway.) Auden was talking of the necessity for let's call it not Eros, but Agape, in the broadest sense. In the end, his sadness and depression got to him, and didnt give a damn about love or loving, which is sad for a poet of his sort...he needed love, and asked for it...out of childhood, say, characterizing himself as an "anal passive." The much more serious observation is to remind us all about Orwell's notorious "memory hole," the bank of editing oubliettes served by writer/editor slaves like Winston Smith, in 1984. History was altered simply by cutting out, forging new pictures of leaders, as with the Politburo, rewriting the old newspapers and books, and slipping the old papers into that slot over the furnace. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia is what Orwell had in mind, among other things, which was notorious for replacing the leaders at May Ceremonies with new heads, after the old ones had been, so to say, lopped. He who controls the past controls the future; he who controls the future controls the present. Orwell hadnt imagined our volatile and labile servers, but we are arriving at that condition via the great open freedom of the internet, which is paradoxical and should give us pause indeed. Though, even as we stand and muse, paused, we will be shoved from behind, or is it from the future...and end flat on our faces, the "gun" pressing behind our ear, and ...whose finger on the trigger? There is no controlling this oncoming condition, I suspect. Big Brother is a jocular term. It will be instead a Global Village, and it takes a Village to suppress the individual, easily done. John Savage, it will be recalled, was plucked from the "reservation" in BRAVE NEW WORLD (1936?), brought the only copy of Shakespeare left, a book that startled his friend the copywriter for ads in the Brave New World, which had this mantra, much like ours today in MP3 musics: Orgy porgy, Ford and Fun...etc. That 20th Century was full of prophecy, it would seem, and much of those will soon be forgotten, and lost to the electronical libraries where who is or what is controlling access? Etc. Alas. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone: (310) 393-4648 (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. PST) Fax: (360) 838-8589/VoiceMail 24 hours (360) 838-8589 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com http://jaschakessler.homestead.com/ http://www.mcphersonco.com From: Ken Tompkins Subject: Insightful Hypertext Articles and a Reading List Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:44:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 675 (675) Willard.... You might like to look at an article that changed my thinking on hypertext, links and new media textualities; it is Lev Manovich's "Database as a Symbolic Form" (actually many of Manovich's articles listed at this link are insightful) at: http://www-apparitions.ucsd.edu/%7Emanovich/texts_00.htm You can also find some very interesting examples in the reading list for eNarrative participants here: http://www.enarrative.org/reading.html ken tompkins From: Beryl Graham Subject: PhD Research Studentships at Sunderland University Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:50:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 676 (676) University of Sunderland School of Arts, Design and Media Research in Art and Design. PhD Research studentships. In Collaboration with: The GRIZEDALE SOCIETY [two awards] "Contemporary art practice in the landscape" AXIS "Investigation of opportunities for visual artists in the market place" ISIS ARTS "Digital art in education and /or social situations" NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE. "Issues relating to contemporary glass practice" Closing Date: 13 November 2000 further information from The Art and Design Research Development Unit, email: herbert.spring@sunderland.ac.uk tel: 0191 515 3229 and: http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/newstu/ [advert in Times Higher Ed. Friday 3 Nov 2000] From: John Bradley Subject: Re: 14.0469 XML & WWW; XML references; a broader question Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:39:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 677 (677) [deleted quotation] Wendell: I also share the view that Fotis is expressing here, although I must say that I have had so little time to do serious work in this area that I'm not sure my opinions should count for TOO much these days! Nonetheless, it seems to me that the WWW (and also much of the development work at W3C) is predicated on the unspoken assumption that the amount of data to be exchanged between server and client is relatively small. This model may be fine for the kind of transational-oriented B2B applications that seem to be driving developments these days. However, it appears to be a serious problem when looking at the scholarly use of texts. I recall the first time this observation struck me -- several years ago when I went to the text archive site at University of Virginia (or was it Michigan?) and fetched their relatively-lightly marked up SGML-TEI documents using (as I recall) Panorama. By the nature of the web access, and the "document-oriented" nature of SGML, (and, to be fair, perhaps the way that Panorama worked then) I had to fetch the entire document before seeing it. It took a very long time -- as I recall about 30 minutes (this was when I was still at U of Toronto) -- before I saw anything of the document at all. Suppose that instead of looking (merely trying to read!) a novel by Dickens I had been trying to do some analysis on all of Dickens' works. The slowness would have been only one of the problems. At the time it seemed to me that this approach -- shipping the entire document in a single gulp over the Internet before anything could be done with it -- was not going to gain wide acceptance for material of this kind. The HTML representation of the same material was easier to handle because it had been split up into chunks -- but it seems to me that for scholarly use of text at least this chunking (except for straightforward reading on screen or printing out) was unfortunate at least, and, of course, the only markup one had to work with was HTML. It might be possible to divide the document into chunks for XML processing as well, although (it seems to me at least) by the nature of the way that SGML and XML work, the chunked version becomes at least in some sense different from the unchunked one when split in separate pieces. I know, of course, that XPointer links can be made between separate documents, and someday widely available software will be able to deal with them -- but the chunking of materials into separate XML documents, not just the linking between them, is, I think, undesirable. This becomes more and more of an issue when the amount of text in the document becomes larger, and the links between different parts (the thereby implied kind of processing one might want to do on those links) more intricate -- think about analysing text chunks that cross the boundaries between chunks provided by the electronic publisher, for example. You may recall that I raised this problem at my presentation at Virginia, and proposed there an architectural model that is XML based but is not based on the HTTP-WWW document chunking model. Whether it is any good or not, of course, would require me to develop it further! All the best. ... john b ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: "David Halsted" Subject: Re: 14.0469 XML & WWW Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:39:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 678 (678) Edition size could be addressed in a number of ways. It's true that it's probably not useful to think of individual desktops chunking through a large number of very large XMLs retrieved on the fly from remote machines, but it might be possible to think of, say, individual servers indexing a group of XML documents that are actually "stored" on other servers and making the index available for a set of users with shared interests. In addition, sites with lots of XML behind them could make useful drill-downs available to users as well, and expose the results in XML. So you could have a very nice set of mixed modes; sites with lots of XML could use server-side tools (including databases) to optimize searching, but could also expose the XML data stores, enabling anybody with enough machine to run their own searches against the data. Users finding the site-provided tools inadequate could beef their RAM and manipulate the data themselves to meet their own needs; in fact, those users could expose the results of their research as XML and enable the original store to provide a link to their results. Depending on the field, the results might become part of the underlying data store or simply build a searchable interpretive layer on top of the raw data. Eventually, we get to move beyond thinking about servers and clients, to thinking about severs talking to servers and people sort of "peeking in" to the data, asking the servers to provide the information they want from a connected series of other servers with data exposed in XML, that is, publicly queryable. It'd be nice to see Humanities computing develop some things here; texts and published research can be public in a way that corporate data can't, so perhaps the true potential in distributed XML models can be realized more quickly with online Humanities computing. Dave Halsted *** David G. Halsted, PhD Consultant (XML/RDBMS/Web apps) halstedd@tcimet.net From: Wendell Piez (18) Subject: Re: 14.0469 XML & WWW Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:40:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 679 (679) [deleted quotation] What we have now are electronic editions with some megabyte. To give an example: the rather small edition "Der junge Goethe in seiner Zeit" (young goethe in his time) has about 35 MB. But this will grow quickly and I expect editions on one server to have some gigabytes in 10-20 years. I am not talking about commercial editions like the ones offered by Chadwyck-Healey, because they can solve these interoperability problems within their company, but about editions put on the net by the scholars who created them. [deleted quotation] At the moment: because the browsers can't offer any kind of processing which would be useful to solve this problem. In the future: Probably there will be a division of labor between xml browsers and server. It would make our work easier if we agree early upon a common solution. [deleted quotation] Yes, that is exactly what I wanted to say. But your question sounds to me like you have some ideas how to handle these problems. I am very interested in any ideas. Fotis Jannidis From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: imprint, edition, publication Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:41:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 680 (680) Patrick, How would your argument about the openendedness of electronic editions work if the volatility of texts were a consequence of social practices and less so of technologically determined paradigms? (The question is of course moot if you consider "paradigms" to be expressions of social practice.) I am just a little wary of a quasi-ahistorical assertion of a single monolithic "print-medium paradigm of publication". And so I like to generalize in a most grandiose fashion: All texts are volatile. Electronic distribution may actually help preserve the variants that contribute to the creation of an edition. The vapours are captured in many media. Paper plus voice plus screen contribute to preservation of variation. A consideration of multimedia and audiovisual components of textual expression certainly challenges the often dichotomous crypto-mcluhanesque debate over print versus electronic. If an edition is a set of readings of records of performances, by its very matricial structure it is not only a gathering of what was witnessed but also an index of what might have been. Whatever the medium in which it is expressed, an edition contains a certain amount of conjecture. And it is the opening of an edition's working hypotheses to testing that contribute to its incompleteness (in the sense of possible world semantics) --- not the medium in which the expression of those working hypotheses are fixed. I just wonder how the link between systems of distribution and authorial control is any different for the written word, the spoken word, the film, the song, the symphony, the painting either hung in a gallery or reproduced as a digital image. We can ask ourselves what cultural conditions result in gallery spaces where viewers can adjust the lighting or concert spaces where the sound is not uniform (for example Morton Feldman's _Rothko Chapel_) for every point in the space. There is a wholesale attitude towards temporality and the possibility of intersubjective experience that accompanies people's use of media and their discourse about the use of media. Some of us begin from a non-Parmenidean position: change is the very basis upon which we can build shared experiences. Media can help in two ways: as facilitators of change and preservation; as facilitators of sharing (and hoarding). I'm not quite sure if a necessary (as opposed to fortuitous) connection exists between the two types of facilitation. Any thoughts? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: From The Scout Report October 27, 2000 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:27:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 681 (681) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community From The Scout Report October 27, 2000 <http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html>http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html The following cites, deemed of greatest interest to this readership, have been culled from the Oct 27 issue of The Scout Report. For the complete issue see <http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html>http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html. The UCLA Internet Report: "Surveying the Digital Future" [.pdf] <http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/newsite/pages/internet-report.asp>http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/newsite/pages/internet-report.asp EIRData: Princess Grace Irish Library <http://www.pgil-eirdata.org>http://www.pgil-eirdata.org Voter Turnout from 1945 to 1998 <http://www.idea.int/voter_turnout/index.html>http://www.idea.int/voter_turnout/index.html _Echo_: online peer-reviewed music journal - UCLA <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/splashflash.html>http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/splashflash.html LitSite, the Literary Community of Alaska <http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/>http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/ Bethlehem Digital History Project [.pdf] <http://bdhp.moravian.edu/>http://bdhp.moravian.edu/ David Green =========== [deleted quotation] <> ====== Research and Education ==== 2. The UCLA Internet Report: "Surveying the Digital Future" [.pdf] <http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/newsite/pages/internet-report.asp>http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/newsite/pages/internet-report.asp Released on October 25 by the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, this new report challenges the conventional wisdom that the Net creates social isolation. The 53-page report is the product of "the first comprehensive study ever conducted of the sweeping changes produced by the Internet," created to "explore how computers, information technology and their users are shaping and changing society." In contrast to what some journalists and politicians have claimed, the vast majority of respondents to the study claimed that online activities such as email, chat rooms, and surfing have made a positive impact, if a modest one, on their ability to make friends and communicate with their family. The report itself offers lots of interesting information for anyone who uses or studies the Net. This includes the top ten Internet activities, who uses the internet, views about the Internet, email use, children and the Internet, online shopping, work and the Internet, and online contact and friendships. This is a very important study, and, as far as publications of this type go, not a bad read. [MD] 4. EIRData <http://www.pgil-eirdata.org>http://www.pgil-eirdata.org This new resource from the Princess Grace Irish Library (PGIL) is a useful tool for students and scholars of Irish Studies. Contents of the site include two datasets, a detailed biblgiography, the library catalogue, and electronic texts. The Author Dataset contains biographical and bibliographical information about Irish writers of all periods. Some entries also include citations of criticism and reference works. The Journal Dataset offers basic information on a fairly wide selection of periodicals published in and about Ireland. Both datasets are browsable by alphabetic entry and keyword searchable. The bibliography is composed of three sections: select listings of books published in 1996-98, tables of contents from literary and critical journals, and a full publication record of works published from 1990 to 1999. The library catalogue contains alphabetical listings of acquisitions to 1995, while the digital library provides access to the full text of a modest selection of Irish literary classics. A collection of related links and a PGIL Gazette round out the site. Please note that portions of the site are still under construction and that free registration is required to access the site. [MD] 9. Voter Turnout from 1945 to 1998 <http://www.idea.int/voter_turnout/index.html>http://www.idea.int/voter_turnout/index.html International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) <http://www.idea.int/>http://www.idea.int/ Based on the International IDEA database of postwar elections, which covers 171 independent states, 1,129 parliamentary elections and 360 presidential elections, this site is a useful resource for anyone studying voting trends internationally or in specific countries or regions. The site includes an overview (Global Survey) of postwar trends and specific data for each nation covered. This data is accessed via interactive maps or via country listings for parliamentary and presidential elections. Data includes year, total vote, registration, turnout percentages, and population size. The date at which each country's data was last updated varies. The main IEA site offers a number of publications and other resources related to the promotion of democracy. [MD] 10. _Echo_ <http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/splashflash.html>http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/splashflash.html Produced by the Musicology Department at the University of California at Los Angeles, this online peer-reviewed journal features articles, reviews, and interviews concerning musics and musical experiences. Visually appealing and nicely designed, the journal covers both classical and popular music. The frequency of the journal is not stated, but to date there have been two issues. The most recent includes articles on corporate music, _West Side Story_ and the Hispanic, book and music reviews, and an interview with jazz drummer Billy Higgins. [MD] 13. LitSite, the Literary Community of Alaska <http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/>http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/ Created by the Creative Writing Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the Alaska Literary Consortium, LitSite is an online literary magazine that promotes literacy and reading by showcasing Alaskan writers of all ages and skills, offering opportunities for sharing personal reading and writing experiences, and presenting stories from Alaskan oral traditions. In the Family Gatherings section of the site, for example, there is the story of Patty Ryall, who "wants her kids to be smart", so she reads 10 books a day to them. In addition to Family Gatherings, there are three other main sections of the site: Alaska Traditions, Alaska Reads and Alaska Writes. These can be accessed from a set button bars on the left. Each main section is further divided; Alaska Traditions consists of Stories to Live By, narratives and storytelling of the peoples of Alaska, and Life Stories, memories of what life was like in the not-too-distant past when Alaska was the last American frontier. To ease navigation through this material, there is a handy Contents section that lays out the site as a table, and lists all the stories in each part. The site also includes workbooks to help teachers develop exercises in reading and writing, and information on bookstores and literacy programs in libraries throughout Alaska. [DS] 17. Bethlehem Digital History Project [.pdf] <http://bdhp.moravian.edu/>http://bdhp.moravian.edu/ Created by the Bethlehem Area Public Libary and the Reeves Library, Moravian College and Theological Seminary, this site offers a number of different primary source materials that illuminate key elements of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania community from its founding in 1741 through 1844. These materials are organized thematically, under topics such as art, community records, education, land, music, and personal papers, among others. The site is still very much under construction, and none of the sections have been completed. However, there is just enough content available to make a visit worthwhile for anyone interested in the city or Moravian culture. This includes numerous brief memoirs (digitized original and transcription), several maps, a Bethlehem diary and ledgers, and the complete text of a 1799 travel account of the region. More content is promised for December. [MD] [deleted quotation]<http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/>http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Dirk Kottke Subject: Kolloquiums-Einladung (aktualisierte Fassung) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:57:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 682 (682) 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 80. 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. Aktualisierte Fassung --------------------- G r u ss w o r t e Prof. Dr. Georg Sandberger Kanzler der Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kaletta Direktor des ZDV 30 Jahre Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung an der Universitaet Tuebingen - 80 Kolloquien: mehr als nur zwei Jubilen Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott, ZDV G a s t v o r t r a g The Role of Humanities Computing: Experiences and Challenges Harold Short Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Chairman, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Zeit: Samstag, 18. November 2000, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Waechterstr. 76 (EG) gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 79. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot79.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. ==================================================================== 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 | ==================================================================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Prof. Albert Borgmann and issues on philosophy of Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:56:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 683 (683) technology --His Wonders of the Information Age Greetings Humanist Scholars, Hello --here are some pointers related to the work of Prof. Albert Borgmann..the authors, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus and Dr. Charles Spinosa have expressed their views..in below essay..as..Albert Borgmann an American frontiersman's version of the question concerning technology that was pursued by Heidegger almost half a century ago among the peasants in the Black Forest. --Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa have written an article on Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology is at <http://www.focusing.org/dreyfus.html> Prof. Albert Borgmann besides writing excellent books, such as Crossing the Postmodern Divide: Holding On to Reality and The Character of Contemporary Life, he has also contributed to books like, Richard Buchanan & Victor Magolin's "Discovering Design: Exploration in Design Studies (University of Chicago Press, 1995) as *The Depth of Design*. Review on his latest book, *Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium* is available online at <http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-summer/review3.html> Review of his book, "Crossing the Postmodern Divide" by Stewart Brand, co-founder of Global Business Network..is available online at <http://www.gbn.org/public/services/bookclub/books/bk_crossing.htm> Review: Albert Borgmann on the Technological Paradigm (Part I) <http://platon.ee.duth.gr/data/maillist-archives/cyberurbanity/msg00124.html> Prof. Borgmann has also written an essay in THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY, on Global Trends: A Glimpse Ahead on the Society in the Postmodern Era -the essay is available online at <http://www.twq.com/winter00/231Borgmann.html> Review of _Holding On to Reality_ by David Rieder is published in Cybersociology is available online at <http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/7/rieder.html> Web-pointers related to the Albert Borgmann's work.. Elements of a Postmodern Holiness Hermeneutic Illustrated by way of The Book of Revelation by John E. Stanley [The author dicussed his book, "Crossing the Postmodern Divide"] <http://wesley.nnc.edu/theojrnl/28-2.txt> [deleted quotation]Crossroads -by Andrew Feenberg [The author has discussed his books, "Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life", and "Crossing the Postmodern Divide"] -the article is available online at <http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/talk4.html> In 'Culture Of Technology' --Prof. Albert Borgmann has also expressed his views..and..stressed on Consumption, Community and Celebration..as in his own words.."The Character of contemporary culture is best captured, I believe, by the term technology. It reminds us of the artifacts and procedures that distinguish our time. And, on Consumption he said..Consumption is the adversary of community. In a philosophical sense, consumption is the unencumbered enjoyment of glamorous commodities.." Scholar/Philosopher Prof. Albert Borgmann wants you to pry yourself free and grasp actual reality. With its uniqueness, and great in weight and "burden" it will command your serious attention. Virtual reality merely requires your fast-fingered manipulation. The flood of Information today threatens to overflow, suffocate and even obliterate actual reality, says the University of Montana philosophy professor Albert Borgmann. The "lightness" of technological information seems bent on overcoming the "moral gravity" and "material density" that real things naturally possess and that demand our mindful engagement..Virtual reality, in this regards seems amoral at best. Professor Borgmann is not asking us to abandon technological information, but he is calling us (giving us a warning --play safe) to link it effectively to "things and practices that provide for our material and spiritual well-being. So, his latest classics..*Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium* published by University of Chicago Press, 1999, is a highly recommended classics and brilliant coverage of History of Informations, Signals and Technological Informations. In the essay "Trees, Forestry, and the Responsiveness of Creation" written by Brian Walsh, Marianne Karsh and Nik Ansell..the authors discussed his works, as..In Crossing the Postmodern Divide, Albert Borgmann contrasts his own version of postmodern realism with the epsitemological despair of postmodernity. For complete reading of this essay, please point your browser to (http://www.crosscurrents.org/trees.htm) In other essay, "Colonizing the Imagination: Disney's Wilderness Lodge" written by Jennifer Cypher and Eric Higgs --an eloquent written essay, discussed heavily the latest researches of "Albert Borgmann" --as Albert Borgmann, an American philosopher of technology, provides a theory of technology that accounts for a distinctive pattern underlying contemporary life. His theory of the device paradigm includes a decomposition of focal things --things which affirm bodily and social engagement with things that matter deeply to us --into two constituent parts: a commodity and machinery. For complete reading of the essay, please point your browser to (http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/papers/invited/cypher-higgs.html) I hope, these findings of mine, related to the work and research of Professor Albert Borgmann would be helping you. Please free to use these findings in your teaching schedules. Thank you for your listening!! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Michael Fraser Subject: Arts and Humanities Online seminars Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:53:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 684 (684) ********************************************************* Arts and Humanities Online : a series of one-day seminars http://www.humbul.ac.uk/events/ ********************************************************* **First seminar to be held at the British Library, 14 December 2000** It is becoming increasingly hard to keep up with the ever-changing world of online resources, and yet these resources have a vital role to play in higher and further education teaching and research. The solution? Come to Arts and Humanities Online -- a one-day seminar introducing you to the full range of nationally-funded resources and services available online for the Arts and Humanities. Each seminar will provide you with: * a comprehensive overview of all the major services and resources in this field * strategies on how to promote them within your own institution * hints and tips on how to keep yourself up-to-date with all the latest developments * a valuable opportunity to question key representatives from the various different services in an open forum discussion Who should attend? Subject librarians; IT subject specialists; departmental IT representatives; staff development officers; and all those with responsibility for the promotion and provision of online resources in the Arts and Humanities within their institution. When and where? * December 14th 2000 -- London We are pleased to announce that the launch of Arts and Humanities Online will take place at the British Library. * January 25th 2001 -- Bristol * February 22nd 2001 -- Edinburgh * March 22nd 2001 -- Manchester How to book your place The cost of the seminar is GBP85.00 including lunch and refreshments. Register online at: http://www.humbul.ac.uk/humbul/events/ For any queries please contact Jenny Newman, Humbul Humanities Hub. Email: humbul@oucs.ox.ac.uk The seminars are orgnised by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), with the support of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) and the following JISC-funded services: the Humbul Humanities Hub, the Resource Guide for the Arts and humanities, EDINA, and MIMAS. From: James.Inman@furman.edu Subject: Computers and Writing Online 2001: Announcement and CFP Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:55:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 685 (685) Hey, all--- Please consider submitting a proposal for Computers and Writing Online 2001. James *************** (Feel free to forward this message as much as you like.) Announcing an online companion conference for Computers & Writing 2001: Computers & Writing Online 2001! A call for papers has been posted on the C&W Online 2001 web site: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cwonline2001/present/cfp.html We hope you'll take a look at the CFP and consider submitting a conference proposal! What is C&W Online? C&W Online is an online companion conference for C&W 2001 (which meets in May 2001 at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA). The online conference allows the C&W community to extend the mission and scope of the onsite conference in several ways -- by including those who can't travel to the onsite conference; by providing a venue for events which are difficult to include in the onsite conference, and by giving onsite conference attendees a chance to meet online before the conference and participate in activities valuable to those in C&W. [material deleted] Where can I get more information? If you have questions about the call for papers or the conference in general, visit our conference web site: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cwonline2001/ Please feel free to contact us at any time by sending email to onliners@nwe.ufl.edu. The C&W Online 2001 Committee Bradley Dilger, Tari Fanderclai, James Inman, Greg Siering, and Cindy Wambeam. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0482 XML, WWW, editions Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:49:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 686 (686) Willard, Replying to letters from John Bradley, David Halsted, Fotis Jannidis, Francois Lachance.... I'd be surprised if Fotis and I are not in substantial agreement on the architectural questions, how we will see large editions (mega- or gigabytes) deployed on server vs. client. As for what ideas I have, actually I'd like to pass the ball back to John Bradley (and anyone else) to carry on that one, as they have more concrete ideas and hands-on experience. I agree with John that the web paradigm we have inherited, for better or worse, has tended to limit the options; for the kinds of things we want to do, even a university pipe may not be wide enough, to say nothing of those of us on 28.8. On the other hand, I also agree with John and David that various kinds of chunking/indexing/cross-indexing strategies are feasible, and will probably always be necessary in some cases. We will probably see the size of integrated resource collections (whether "editions" or not) grow along with available bandwidth, so the problem will never disappear even as the limits are pushed outwards. As to whether XML per se supports, or fails to support, such chunking (particularly if it is to be transparent to the user), I think it's safe to say it's neutral: a system could be designed either way (and either way might be appropriate in different circumstances). A key design issue here is the framing of metadata at various levels, and whatever "information inheritance" models are implemented to support the chunking while maintaining an integrated view (or: how are chunking and indexing to be best interrelated and managed?). In this context, for example, I think it's worthwhile to note that XSLT, the W3C transformation language supporting XML presentation, is designed specifically in order to support a kind of "random access" processing (my term, not a term of art for this to my knowledge), that is, "start styling the document from any point in the middle". If the language were not side-effect-free (one of the features of its processing model), one would have to download an entire document before one could style it, as (for example) the Panorama browser had to do. This not being necessary with XSL, the pipeline itself is not such a bottleneck clients are able to bear more load. I would also concur, however (more agreement here) with David and with Francois in his more outlandish post (that's a compliment, Francois!), both of whom suggest that the design questions here are really wide open, and that we'll be seeing many interesting experiments with peer-to-peer deployments, dynamic editions, etc. etc. This is really a brave new world. I wonder whether experiments with scholarly publishing in which many readers have capabilities (simultaneously?!) to amend or alter texts, have been done, how such texts can be framed and deployed, and what results we'll see. In some respects I think we'll find it's like the 1960s experiments with audience participation in theater: that it is vitalizing and enriching, and yet also in some ways, by threatening the formal integrity of the medium itself, a real risk: so every performance is either brilliant, or a complete bust. For us, it's the line between research and publication that blurs (as has been remarked on HUMANIST before), raising similar questions. But we will not be the only community facing this particular architecture/design problem, by any means. Think of Internet-based medical informatics, financial services.... we actually have quite a bit to contribute here, as David also says. 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: "David Halsted" Subject: Re: 14.0482 XML, WWW, editions Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:50:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 687 (687) The discussion of scholarly texts and the problems involved in making them useful online got me wanting to experiment, and I've written an extremely primitive SAX parser (based on Xerces) that reads a set of URLs in from an XML file and looks through all of the documents it finds for lines that match a string you feed in at the command line. It's invoked like this: java [-cp classpath] ShakesRead [urlsFile.xml] [string_to_find] It returns the name of the document, the line number at which the string was found, and the line in which the string was found (this version expects the content it's looking for to be in a tag pair, but that could be made more useful). Nothing earth-shaking, but it is precisely a kind of client that looks for useful information in an arbitrarily large number of remote XMLs and tells you where that information is located. I don't know whether anybody would find such a thing useful, but I can imagine some potentially useful modifications, like allowing the program to take, say, a set of lines in a poem and look for each of the words used there in turn across different "libraries" of XMLs, grouped by author, period, genre, whatever. If anybody wants to try playing around with this program-let, I'd be pleased to share it, or I could put a version online somewhere if people are interested in trying it out that way. The main point was to argue that clients can already be used to take advantage of online XML, even if the documents in question are fairly large -- and also, a bit, that putting XML version of your favorite scholarly materials online is worthwhile; now people can really use it . . . Dave Halsted From: Michael Fraser Subject: Free book from JISC: Accessing our humanities collections Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:10:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 688 (688) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Accessing Our Humanities Collections: a subject guide for researchers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new JISC publication 'Accessing Our Humanities Collections: a subject guide for researchers' is now freely available to UK researchers, librarians, support staff and learners within the humanities and social sciences. The subject index will help identify special collections and archives of particular relevance to your subject area. The publication is FREE and contains helpful descriptions of collections and archives available throughout the UK higher education sector, as well as local contact details should you require further information. Those collections included are specially recognised for their rich research value. All received funding via the joint funding councils as part of the Follett Specialised Research Collections in the Humanities initiative. The initiative is now complete and as a result of the funding, access to the collections has now been significantly enhanced. To request your free copy please visit http://www.humbul.ac.uk/nff/ Copies will be distributed on a first come, first served basis to members of higher and further education institutions within the UK. An online version will available shortly. The guide is being distributed by Humbul, the Humanities Hub of the Resource Discovery Network on behalf of the DNER office <http://www.humbul.ac.uk/>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Accessing Our Humanities Collections: a subject guide for researchers. Neil Parkinson and Rachel Bruce (eds.). London: JISC, 2000. ix+243. Includes indicies and illustrations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Listowners: let us know if you would prefer not to receive future messages about nationally-funded humanities resources. From: John Lavagnino Subject: Updated Call for Papers: ACH/ALLC Conference, June 2001 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:08:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 689 (689) CALL FOR PAPERS: UPDATE Digital Media and Humanities Research: ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 13-17 2001 In order to give everybody a bit more breathing space, and to keep the working timetable similar to what it's been in past years, we've decided to extend the deadline for paper and panel submissions to ACH/ALLC 2001 to Monday 27 November. As always, see the conference web site at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/ for full details on the conference and on procedures for submitting proposals. John Lavagnino Chair, ACH/ALLC 2001 Program Committee From: "Editor@MartianusCapella.com" Subject: call for papers Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:11:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 690 (690) Hello, I'm writing you today because your name was listed as the contact for a scholarly listserv/e-conference, and I'd like to ask you to consider passing on some information to your subscribers. MartianusCapella.com, a new online metajournal, is calling for papers in all disciplines. The site's purpose is to promote cross disciplinary research, open discussion and synthesis, as well as to provide an easy way to search through multiple documents for specific keywords and topics. Even though we have just opened the site, and only recently issued our first call for papers, MartianusCapella.com has already had more than 4000 visitors. For more information, please see our Mission Statement and FAQ at http://www.MartianusCapella.com or receive a copy of our submission guidelines in your email box by emailing our autoresponder at guidelines@MartianusCapella.com. Thanks and have a good day, C.K. Clarke Editor, MartianusCapella.com From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:12:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 691 (691) [deleted quotation] ACL 2001 Preliminary Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. [material deleted] If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Aravind Joshi (joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu). From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EUROLAN 2001 Call for Workshop Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:12:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 692 (692) [deleted quotation] EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 30 July - 11 August 2001, Romania http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/ Call for Workshop Proposals The EUROLAN 2001 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute. We intend to accept two workshop proposals, each workshop being held during three consecutive evenings at the beginning of each week of the summer institute. For details, please consult: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/program.html. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 1st Call for Papers Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:16:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 693 (693) [deleted quotation] !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!!=20 !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologize, if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI 2001 STUDENT SESSION FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS August 13-24 2001, Helsinki, Finland Deadline: February 18, 2001 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/esslli We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2001) organized by the University of Helsinki under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI 2001 will be held at the University of Helsinki in August 2001. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. [material deleted] For any question concerning the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact me:=20 Kristina Striegnitz Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Germany phone: +49 - 681 - 302 4503 email: kris@coli.uni-sb.de From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd and final CFParticipation: MT 2000 Conference, Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:16:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 694 (694) Exeter, U.K [deleted quotation] British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/ MT 2000 - MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN=20 THE NEW MILLENNIUM University of Exeter, United Kingdom: 19-22 November 2000 SECOND and FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society and the University of Exeter announce an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter, UK from Sunday evening 19 November to Wednesday morning 22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful conference 'Machine Translation: Ten Years On' held in 1994 at Cranfield University, UK. Against the backdrop of an increasingly multilingual society, MT 2000 looks at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only recent machine translation research and products, but also the latest multilingual developments in general. There are contributions from researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering. Further information can be obtained from our website at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2001 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:17:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 695 (695) [deleted quotation] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 (Apologies if you receive this message more than once) Lancaster (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?" Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilisation between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are: 1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to interact. 2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and those using corpora in language engineering. 3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech. Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and Mick Short. For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics such as: - corpus-based studies of any language level in any language - contrastive corpus linguistics - computer-aided studies of style - corpus- or text-based lexicography - corpus/text building, encoding and annotation - development of corpus-based language engineering tools - applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology, etc.) Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be English. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers: Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including e-mail and fax numbers). Workshops: Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organisers, their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented at the workshop. Workshop organisers should also indicate whether they wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop. Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have. Proceedings Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of Geoffrey Leech. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000 Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000 Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001 Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.] CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Local committee Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) General committee Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University) Jock McNaught (UMIST) Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University) Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University) ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 843085 Fax: +44 1524 593024 E-mail: mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Preserving Access to Digital Information Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:15:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 696 (696) [deleted quotation] Preserving Access to Digital Information: Edinburgh, 5 December 2000 Workshop led by Deborah Woodyard, National Library of Australia 14:00, Tuesday 5 December, Abden House, Edinburgh: http://www.scran.ac.uk/location/ Admission free: contact Lara@scran.ac.uk or Gill (Sponsored by SCRAN and the Scottish Library Association Multimedia Information and Technology Group - SLAMIT) In the context of "Digital Scotland" and "Scotland's Cultural Strategy", Information Professionals need to consider how best to select, provide access to, and indeed preserve for posterity, the most important Scottish websites. The National Library of Australia's initiative PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) has given rise to PANDORA, one of the best thought through digital archiving sites (and indeed National Web Portals) currently available anywhere in the world. See: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pandora/ Deborah Woodyard has a background in cultural heritage conservation and commenced work in the National Library of Australia's Preservation area as a paper conservator in 1990. With the Library's growing emphasis on digital publications she changed her focus in 1996 and played a major role in establishing the Digital Preservation area where she has undertaken important work in the preservation of online and physical format digital items. An accomplished and entertaining international speaker, Deborah will explain the philosophy and the practicalities of NLA's approach to this vital and fascinating topic, and there will be plenty of time to answer delegates' questions and discuss alternative approaches and points of view. From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Humanities Computing meeting in Verona Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:18:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 697 (697) - IX incontro di Informatica Umanistica Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Universita' di Verona "Strumenti informatici per l'elaborazione di immagini nelle discipline storiche, filologiche e letterarie" Verona, 4-5 dicembre 2000, Palazzo Giuliari Sala "Barbieri", via dell'artigliere 8. PROGRAMMA Lunedi' 4 dicembre ore 10.00 Saluti e parole di apertura Intervengono il prof. Elio Mosele, Rettore dell'Universita' degli studi di Verona e il prof. Claudio Leonardi, direttore della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini. Marcello Morelli (Universita' di Siena) *L'elaborazione delle immagini nelle discipline umanistiche*. Jose Manuel Diaz De Bustamante (Universita' di Santiago de Compostela), *La ricostruzione elettronica di immagini di codici*. Franco Montanari (Universita' di Firenze) *Videografica dei documenti storici nei musei*. Discussione ore 15,30 Luca Toschi (Universita' di Firenze) *L'immagine nascosta ovvero come disegnare una sceneggiatura multimediale*. Dino Buzzetti (Universita' di Bologna) Andrea Tabarroni (Universita' di Udine), *L'abbinamento di testo e immagine col database Kleio*. Eugenio Staltari e Edoardo Ferrarini (Universita' di Verona) *Scrittura ed immagini: un'ipotesi di restauro virtuale*. Carmine Marinucci (MURST), *La logica dei portali*. Discussione Martedi' 5 dicembre ore 9.00 Esperienze, applicazioni, innovazioni. Donatella Durano (CRAIAT/Universita' di Verona), *Nuove prospettive per la didattica a distanza del latino*. Irma Schuler, (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), *La digitalizzazione dei manoscritti nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana*. Lucia Pinelli (Societa' Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino, Firenze), *Il Medioevo latino nelle banche dati e nell'editoria informatica della SISMEL. Uno sguardo d'insieme*. Matteo Salvestrini (Connessioni Metropolitane. Prato), *Il progetto tecnico*. Paolo Mastandrea (Universita' di Venezia), *Poetria Nova. Un programma di ricerca intertestuale nel campo della poesia mediolatina* Antonio De Prisco (Universita' di Verona), *Informatica e critica del testo*. Discussione Segreteria del convegno a Firenze: Dott.ssa Giovanna Manetti, Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, tel. +39 055 2048501; fax 2320423, fef@cesitl.unifi.it http://www.sismel.meri.unifi.it; Segreteria del convegno a Verona:Prof. Antonio De Prisco, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione, tel. +39 045 8028553, deprisco@chiostro.univr.it From: "David L. Gants" Subject: how much information in the world Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:14:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 698 (698) [deleted quotation] A couple of "quotables" for how much information might be in the world: http://sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/98-99/seminars_lesk.html Stfan From: Dee McAree Subject: Re: 14.0471 reality-check Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:10:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 699 (699) As a newbie to Humanist, my only question would be as to the definition of one. It would help me stay within the scope of pertinent contributions. I've searched several on-line dictionaries for an official reading, but came up blank. I would love a first-hand account of the philosophy or character that the word embodies from Humanists themselves. I'm still trying to determine if I am one. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: RESOURCES: Digital Imaging Issue of SPECTRA Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:17:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 700 (700) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 14, 2000 Museum Computer Network Announces Special Issue of SPECTRA on Digital Imaging <http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/>http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/ [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. 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Save the Date! ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, will be held at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2001. ETD 2001 is a forum for academic administration officials, information-technology professionals, and librarians interested in providing easy access to theses and dissertations by making them available online. The conference will cover a broad range of topics: from the technology necessary to make it happen to organizational and policy issues that arise when a university institutes ETDs. A list of confirmed speakers and session topics is available at <http://library.caltech.edu/etd/Confirmed.htm>http://library.caltech.edu/etd/Confirmed.htm A limited number of sessions are available for contributed papers and poster presentations. Please, go to <http://library.caltech.edu/etd/CallforPapers.htm>http://library.caltech.edu/etd/CallforPapers.htm for details on the call for papers. The deadline for submitting contributed papers and/or posters is January 15th, 2001. Please send proposed title and abstract to mailto:jhagen2@wvu.edu. For full details on conference schedule, program, and location, please go to the conference web site at <http://library.caltech.edu/etd/>http://library.caltech.edu/etd/ Online registration will open in early December. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Brian Hebert Subject: The Milestone Conference on the Future of IT! Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:14:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 702 (702) How will Information Technology reshape the future? We invite you to explore the answers at our unique Futures Conference and Exposition: ACM1: BEYOND CYBERSPACE, A Journey of Many Directions March 10-14, 2001, San Jose, California proudly presented by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery LEARN MORE about the ACM1 Conference NOW at: http://www.acm.org/acm1/ REGISTER TODAY and take advantage of our EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT! Register online by December 31, 2000 and save $100! https://campus.acm.org/register/acm1 THE ACM1 CONFERENCE is a unique opportunity to discover, discuss and debate the future of IT with some of the most inspiring leaders and visionaries in the industry. ACM1 is not a traditional tradeshow, it's a practical and philosophical exploration of the future of IT on many fronts including telecommunications, security, culture, medicine, life and social sciences and education. AND best of all, ACM1 is the brainchild of some of the most celebrated minds in IT. SEE the list of speakers: http://www.acm.org/acm1/conference/docs/speakers.html [material deleted] From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Tenopir, C. (2000) ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: CURRENT ANALYSIS, Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:15:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 703 (703) NOT FORECASTING The following has just been published in Psycoloquy (retrievable at the URLs indicated): REPLY: Tenopir, C. (2000) ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: CURRENT ANALYSIS, NOT FORECASTING Reply to 6 Reviewers on Electronic-Journals PSYCOLOQUY 11(125) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.125.electronic-journals.8.tenopir http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.125 ABSTRACT: The primary purpose of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King 2000a,b) was to report the current state of scientific journal publishing, not to predict the future of the field. We respond to charges that our work treats scientific publishing as a homogenous entity rather than differentiating among individual subject areas. We defend the validity of our data and models as benchmarks, rather than predictors. Despite the weaknesses identified by the critiques, the book develops several themes for future consideration and provides sound indicators of scientific journal publishing and its affect on scientists' readership, authorship, information seeking patterns, and on library and intermediary services. ORIGINAL TARGET ARTICLE (BOOK PRECIS): Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000b) Precis of: "Towards Electronic Journals." PSYCOLOQUY 11(084) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.084 ABSTRACT: This precis of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King 2000) focuses mostly on scientists' perspective as authors and readers, how changes over the years by publishers and librarians have affected scientists, and what they should expect from electronic journal and digital journal article databases. We describe some myths concerning scholarly journals and attempt to assess the future in a realistic manner. Most of our primary data involves U.S. scientists, libraries and publishers, but much of the secondary data is from a European perspective, which shows few differences. Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000a) Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association. http://www.sla.org 6 REVIEWS: Algarabel, S. (2000) The Future of Electronic Publishing. PSYCOLOQUY 11(092) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.092.electronic-journals.5.algarabel http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.092 Bookstein, F.L. (2000) On "Value-Added" by Electronic Journals: Infelicity of a Microeconomic Metaphor. PSYCOLOQUY 11(090) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.090.electronic-journals.3.bookstein http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.090 Ebenezer, S. (2000) Electronic Journals: Incremental Change or Radical Shift? PSYCOLOQUY 11(091) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.091.electronic-journals.4.ebenezer http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.091 Medeiros, N. (2000) Publication Costs: Electronic Versus Print. PSYCOLOQUY 11(089) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.089.electronic-journals.2.medeiros http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.089 Miller, L.N. (2000) Will Electronic Publishing Reduce the Cost of Scholarly Scientific Journals? PSYCOLOQUY 11(093) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.093.electronic-journals.6.miller http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.093 Shum, S.B. (2000) Research Needed on Online Usage and Peer review. PSYCOLOQUY 11(094) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.094.electronic-journals.7.shum http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.094 From: Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0082 Pokemonian ethics Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:16:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 704 (704) ) To: Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 8:10 AM [deleted quotation] From: Dee McAree Subject: Re: 14.0492 now here's a question Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:10:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 705 (705) As a newbie to Humanist, my only question would be as to the definition of one. It would help me stay within the scope of pertinent contributions. I've searched several on-line dictionaries for an official reading, but came up blank. I would love a first-hand account of the philosophy or character that the word embodies from Humanists themselves. I'm still trying to determine if I am one. ======================================================= While it is true that we share an interest in the interface between computing and the Humanities, I would hold that we really are an "invisible college" in Boulding's sense. ======================================================== There is in the world today an invisible college of people in many different countries and many different cultures, who have a vision of the nature of the transition through which we are passing and who are determined to devote their lives to contributing towards its successful fulfillment. It is a college without a founder and without a president, without buildings and without organization. Its living representatives hold the future of the world in their hands or at least in their minds...Kenneth E. Boulding ,The meaning of the twentieth century; the great transition New York, Harper & Row [1964] From: Randall Pierce Subject: humanism and humanists Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:16:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 706 (706) To my way of thinking, a humanist is primarily interested in those concepts that butress those values that contribute to the humane and beneficent development and evolution of man. Any social forces or philosophies which denigrate the dignity and worth of the individual man are anethema to the genuine humanist. And, since "Knowledge is Power", the more we can know simply enhances our ability to strengthen the humanist principle. One such tool is, of course, hypertext. Randall From: Randall Pierce Subject: information Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:18:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 707 (707) I believe that the estimate of 1.5 billlion gigabytes yearly may be a painfully conservative value for the total information generated per year. Information is synergistic in its effects and affects. One item of "new" information, say ,one fact, is capable of producing great amounts of further information. It can lead to many parallel or diverging ideas. If the estimate is limited to published information, the estimate could be considered reasonable. Randall From: Willard McCarty Subject: what's information? Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:23:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 708 (708) I'd like to see a rigorous definition of what is meant by "information" before considering how much there might be. I presume we limit information to what humans produce, and so exclude natural sources. Can a person be said to produce information implicitly, e.g. by the quality of a smile? the sound of impatiently exhaled breath? By (this being England I must mention) NOT saying what might be said? You can easily see where this line of reasoning is headed.... Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: scaife@uky.edu Subject: [STOA] Digital-Library Company Plans to Charge Students a Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:14:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 709 (709) Monthly Fee for Access This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: scaife@uky.edu Tuesday, November 14, 2000 Digital-Library Company Plans to Charge Students a Monthly Fee for Access By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK A new digital-library company that claims it will "transform how academic research is done" hopes to entice students to pay as much as $360 a year for online access to searchable books and journals. The company, Questia Media, is relying on a classic Internet marketing strategy called "viral marketing" to create a buzz about itself among students. The strategy uses a tell-a-friend e-mail campaign to "create a hype" for its service even before it begins in January, according to Ann Brimberry, the company's manager of marketing and public relations. The e-mail messages include an offer of a free monthlong trial of the service. Questia says it will have more than 50,000 scholarly books and journals in its electronic collection by January, and five times as many by 2003. The company says its service will help "time-crunched students" write their papers more quickly. Questia will sell subscriptions to its collection for $20 to $30 a month, depending on the price the company ultimately sets. For that amount, users will be able to search for topics by keyword, copy the material into their papers electronically, and have the footnotes for those references created automatically. For papers submitted electronically, the footnotes can be hyperlinked to the source document, which would allow a reader of the paper to check them with a simple click of the mouse -- assuming, of course, that he or she is also a Questia subscriber. Troy Williams, a 1998 Harvard Law School graduate who is Questia's founder, president, and C.E.O., says the service's search-and-copy features respond to the way students really do their papers. "They're not reading the books," says Mr. Williams. The company has circulated news of the offer through e-mail messages and postings on several discussion lists used by librarians. The e-mail technique is similar to one used to promote the free Hotmail e-mail service and other Internet products, not to mention movies such as The Blair Witch Project. Several thousand people have signed up for the offer already, Ms. Brimberry says. Whether those users and paying customers will find the service helpful, however, is far from certain. Questia boasts of signing 135 publishers willing to make some of their titles available through the service. At a time when many publishers are still wary about electronic distribution, that's no mean feat. But a good deal of what the publishers are providing is out-of-print material, which may prove less useful to the liberal-arts undergraduates the company is focusing on as its prime market. Ann Okerson, associated university librarian at Yale University, says that she has had indications that the company is assembling a legitimate collection, but she adds that she hasn't seen what Questia plans to offer. "You don't yet know what's inside the black box," says Ms. Okerson, who has just agreed to serve in an unpaid position on the company's new Librarian Advisory Council. The company, based in Houston, has raised $130-million in venture capital and is expected to go public eventually. It has also attracted as members of its unpaid Advisory Council the likes of Barbara Bush; John Seely Brown, the chief scientist for Xerox; and Clifford Lynch, the director of the Coalition for Networked Information. Questia's business model, which relies on the sale of subscriptions to individuals, is one that a rival, netLibrary, had previously tried as well. But netLibrary has since abandoned the approach because it was costly and because the company found that winning business directly from libraries gave the company more credibility. Some academics, including Ms. Okerson, have also worried that the Questia service could be too expensive for some students, putting them at a disadvantage to wealthier classmates. At Yale, she says, people would say, "You don't create a set of have and have-not users." She says one reason she joined the library board was to try to persuade the company to consider selling institution-wide site licenses, so that all students could have access to the service. Questia says it has no plans to offer such licenses. As for how Questia might affect the way students research and write, Ms. Okerson says the service just creates a more robust approach to what many already do now with information they locate on the Internet. "I keep hearing this called the 'cut-and-paste generation,'" she says. "It's going to be up to teachers and librarians to keep instilling the values of teaching and research." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/free/2000/11/2000111401t.htm [material deleted] From: j0stim01 Subject: the Fall 2000 issue _Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:18:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 710 (710) [--] Dear _Kairos_ reviewers: We're excited about working with you on the Spring 2001 issue. In the meantime, the Fall 2000 issue has been released. Please help us publicize _Kairos_ by forwarding the announcement below to your colleagues. Jennifer and Rich ************************************ _Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ is delighted to announce the publication of its newest issue, 5.2, with theme "Critical Issues in Computers and Writing." <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos> The issue, a selected and edited proceedings of Computers and Writing 2000, includes the following content: CoverWeb: "Critical Issues in Computers and Writing: Strands from C & W 2000" with contributions from Dene Grigar, John Barber, Hugh Burns, Lisa Gerrard, Karen D. Jobe, Lynne Spigelmire Viti, Jennifer L. Bowie, Angela Crow, Walt Turner, Carole Clark Papper, Susan K. Reynolds, Rich Rice, and Joanne Buckley. Features: "Computers and Writing Town Hall One" with contributions from Bill Condon, Dene Grigar, Gail E. Hawisher, James A. Inman, Susan Lang, Rich Rice, Rebecca Rickly, Mike Salvo, and Cynthia L. Selfe. Site design by Anne Wysocki. "Computers and Writing Town Hall Two" with contributions from Sally Henschel, Corinna McLeod, Nancy Patterson, Eric Crump, and Kathy A. Fitch. Site design by Kathy A. Fitch. NewsWired: Conference Reviews, CFPs, Announcements Reviews: Book and web site reviews by Anthony Atkins, Lisa Bruna, Christopher Carter, Tracy Clark, Christopher Dean, Patrice Fleck, Jane Lasarenko, Tim McCormack, Jeff Rice, Rich Rice, Dawn Rodrigues, Chris Sauer, Ellen Strenski, and Carl Whithaus. Kairos Interactive: Graduate Research Network, A Formal Debate, and Kairos Meet the Authors (KMTA) Discussions For more information about any aspect of this issue or about _Kairos_ in general, please contact Co-Editors Douglas Eyman and James A. Inman at kairosed@cfcc.net. ---------------------- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [EdResource] How does technology change learning and Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:22:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 711 (711) teaching in formal! Dear Humanist scholars, **With thanks to Prof. Frank Withrow. It is an exquisite honour for me to forward an e-mail from Millennium EdTech Project Site, which can be found at <http://millennium.aed.org> There is no question that a child growing up in a digitally rich knowledge and information society matures and grows in a world we have never known before. What influence to these factors have and how is learning and teaching different? As we approach the year 2000 an interesting question to ask is how much time an average eighteen-year-old in 1900 and in 2000 would have spent in their lives doing different things. What are their options? They will have lived for 160,000 hours. Assume that they average 7 hours of sleep each day they will have slept for 46,000 hours giving them 114,000 hours of waking life. At best they will have spent 14,000 hours in formal schools. By the time they have started to school they will have watched about 10,000 hours of television. They will have talked on the telephone, listened to recorded music, played video games, and traveled thousands of miles on modern transportation systems. In 1900 the average 18-year-old had not been more than fifty miles from his or her place of birth. In 1900 the world had just reached its first billionth living person. In 2000 the world population will be plus six billion people. One and one/third billion of those people live on less than $1.50 per month. On the other had at the affluent extreme the children of developed nations have the world and its goods at their fingertips. In this vastly complex world learning and teaching are different because of the digital age? The perplexing issue is just how is it different? That is what we will focus on in this discussion. With the current Colorado tragedy we have many self proclaimed experts detail just how youth are going to the devil. However, I would remind you that if you read Socrates he too felt the youth of his day were going to the dogs. Perhaps as we get older we have some comfort in damning youth because we know that we are leaving this life and if the world were getting better we would like to stay a little longer. Research has shown that all communications and information technologies influence child growth and development. It can as it did in Colorado result in disasters. The challenge is to manage such resources for good rather than evil uses. Since knowledge has expanded is learning and school just too hard for children to master high academic standards? NO, we have always had more knowledge than a single person could master. So the extent of knowledge is not the problem with learners and teachers. It is however more difficult to agree on what the CORE curriculum should be. If learning and teaching are different from the past what are the characteristics of that difference? For the past decade or so American educators have been asking to define the National Standards for content areas. Some would like to return to a classical education suitable for the 1890s and others echo the progressive education movement started in the 1870s. There are conditions today that enter into the general society that our decisions must consider. 1. Information is accessible in many more places today. Radio, television, cable television, recorded materials, Internet, and the common telephone are available for learners of all ages. 2. Special Interest groups from hobbies to choral singing groups to Star Trek group meetings and clubs are available. 3. The society is more inclusive of diverse people including disabled people. 4. Age differences are merged and a 14 year old can dialogue with a Nobel scientist if their skills, knowledge and are interest are the same. 5. More learning takes place outside the school, in the home, church, library, museum and little league parks. The digital world has blurred the walls of the schools and places of learning. Individual learners can learn anywhere anytime and at their own pace. We have always had some children that use broad community resources, but the ease of doing it today is greater than ever. I would like to welcome your thoughts on these issues. Sincerely Arun Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= [material deleted] From: "Lisa M. Spiro" Subject: Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals, Houston Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:17:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 712 (712) [This announcement is being cross-posted.] Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals HATII, University of Glasgow Fondren Library, Rice University Houston, Texas, March 4 - 9, 2001 http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/DCHP01/ Following the great success of the first Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals course at Rice and the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Glasgow Digitisation Summer Schools, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) and the Fondren Library at Rice University are pleased to announce the second 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/DCHP01/ [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Report on EU Digitization Workshop Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:18:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 713 (713) --=====================_482425000==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 17, 2000 "Digital Culture & the Information Society" Report on EU Digitization Workshop, Jan. 2000 I have taken the unusual step of appending an attachment of a report, unavailable on the web, on an interesting report on a workshop on digitization, organized by the Cultural Heritage Applications unit of the European Union's Information Society Directorate-General. The brief report brings no real surprises but it underlines the need for: * sustainable technical solutions; * new business models and examples of success in various sizes and types of collections; * a clear, broadly accepted array of best practices in the creation and management of digital resources * "collaborative platforms" that can focus on interoperability issues, dissemination of information on new technologies and techniques, and advances in preservation policy and practice. David Green ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. 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Theatre & Multimedia Symposium Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:19:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 714 (714) Willard, I have not been in person to a scholarly gathering since Computing the Edition (1997) and have grown to depend upon reports supplied by colleagues. I hope to return the favour with a summary, albeit impressionistic, of Theatre and New Media: the meeting of two communicatin worlds, a symposium held November 17, 2000, at McMaster University. The afternoon was split into two complementary sessions. The first dealt with new media as agents of preservation and as research tools. The second was devoted to the place of new media in performance and in theatrical production. Christie Carson, Royal Holloway University of London, currently on leave at McMaster University, introduced the days proceedings and was pleased to announce that the symposium coincided with the British release of the King Lear CD-ROM (Cambrigde University Press). She provided an insightful tour of the product which is a gem with its navigational and search features. In a subsequent presentation on the Shakespearean Design Archive, she mused upon the differences between the preparation and publication of scholarly works for the CD-ROM format and for the World Wide Web. In both presentations, it was interesting to hear a consistent concern with scope and managibility of projects. One very interesting observation: the Shakespearan Design Archive approached the difficulty in clearing copyright for the incorporation of recorded performance (it is a akin to broadcasting) as an opportunity and has turned to oral history (interviews with the performers) to enhance the other records it holds. Geoffrey Rockwell gave an account of the design and conception of the Hamilton Performance Archive which he and Fred Hall of McMaster University have made freely available at http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hamperf Very much in the vein of sharing best practices, the researchers have made available the source code and the markup of the items in the collection of 19th century notices of public performances that continues to grow. From the outset they have planned for growth. As with the Shakespearan, databases, there is a vision here that anticipates future scholars building chronological and temporal extensions to the collections. Chris Dyer of Royal Holloway presented exciting work-in-progress. He is currently developing a software package, Open Stages, that allows users to model different performance spaces and the design effects possible in those spaces. One of the great strengths of this type of tool is to recreate the sight lines of actual theatres -- useful for historical reconstruction and for current practice. Later in the day, he demonstrated some student work and invited consideration as to why students might be attracted to flat pictorial rather than sculptural approaches to stage design. Pop culture was deemed a possible influence upon this possible preference. Learning curves in conjunction with access to the relevant software might be a factor. Likewise, Robert Hamilton, presenting student film work from Sweden, stressed the length structure of the school year which allowed for complex projects to be undertaken and completed. He also noted the strong influence of popular culture on the genres that students choosed to emmulate. Catherine Graham and Paul Rivers shared their thinking on the place of multimedia within the context of live theatrical performance and asked participants to reflect once again on questions of scale and timing. They stressed the problematic of authority granted to moving images when displayed alongside live actors on stage. Symposium attendees were able to observe some of this thinking in action at an evening performance of Pericles of Tyre. The symposium proper ended with a selection from the holdings of the UK Digital Performance Archive. It was amusing to contrast the catalogue entries as read aloud with the video clips of highlights from the performances. -- the polyphony characteristic of the descriptions just didn't quite jive with the screen versions. There was a rather uniform videographic signature to the visuals despite their being a record of distinct performances separated in time and space. This may be a mere institutional effect and have nothing to do with the nature of verbal and visual constructions -- a tour of the Hamilton Performance Archive would no doubt offer up similar examples of stylistic inflections, all within the verbal realm. If scholars are able to describe the hand at work in a manuscript, will they be able to describe the editor at work in a multimedia work? One wonders if the director in theatre might become a metaphor for the hand in a manuscript.... -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Randall Pierce Subject: information Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:15:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 715 (715) While in graduate school I studied Interpersonal Classroom Interaction. It was a method to increase student participation in the learning process. Willard McCarty's comments are very apropos to this technique. Through gestures and pertinent questions, the teacher was to generate information exchange and development. This type of Socratic Method encouraged the student to take a fact and expand it into new areas of inquiry. This could be quantified and measured with appropriate descriptive symbols. How would you determine how many information "bits" an exchange generated.? Often the original concept was soon almost lost in "cognitive connections" to other fields. A datum in history might give rise to its political and sociological implications. Are these to counted as one "byte", or several?. I think this concept gives a different view of the quanification of units of information. Randall From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Wed. Nov. 15, 2000 7:17AM Subject: Re: 14.0498 amounts of information Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:16:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 716 (716) WM is correct in asking for clarification on information. Knowledge as used in humanities and science has almost nothing to do with information/entropy as used in engineering and computers. In fact, even information and entropy are so filled with questions that only a (humanist) philosopher could begin to examine their logical ontology. It would probably require demystification of the whole field of information/entropy, which philosophers are generally afraid of and engineers generally protect as their private domain somewhat similarly to politicians in politics. In logic-based probability (LBP), we study knowledge, or to include everything in the field we study knowledge-information-entropy (KIE). An immediate question for philosopher/humanists is: what can be do about the contradictory/paradoxical behavior of engineering information near rare events? You did not know about that? Neither does most of the world. Engineers use logarithmic informtion and entropy, which blows up (because negatively infinite, in fact) near and at probability zero (very rare) events. KIE resolves the problem in those regions by replacing logarithmic information by its reflection geometrically (technically about the main diagonal y = x), called exponential KIE or technically negative exponential KIE. This KIE does not behave paradoxically at or near very rare, rare, or even probability zero events. You don't need any more technical information to start exploring KIE, but if you want it, look at abstracts of my 48 papers at http://www.logic.univie.ac.at, Institute for Logic of the University of Vienna (select ABSTRACTS, then select BY AUTHOR, then select my name), or read my recent paper just published in Quantum Gravity, Generalized Theory of Gravitation, and Superstring Theory-Based Unification, Eds. B. N. Kursunoglu, S. L. Mintz, and A. Perlmutter, Kluwer Academic/Plenum: New York 2000. By the way, latent variable theory in psychological/educational measurement/research and validity/reliability theory has some concepts similar to knowledge quantitatively. Osher Doctorow information [deleted quotation] From: John Lavagnino Subject: Interfaces Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:20:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 717 (717) Attempting today to decipher the icons on the complicated thermostat in my office, I was reminded of a list posting I read years and years ago, by Donald Norman on the problem of the on-off switch on the personal computer: <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/16.49.html#subj6.1> Such things have only gotten more involved in recent years; there's a periodic call for simplicity and clarity in the design of machines, but I don't think we're getting there very fast and there are a lot of reasons why that's so... John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Victoria Szabo Subject: Job: Academic Technology/Language Lab Head Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:19:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 718 (718) Stanford is hiring for the following position (see below): Academic Technology Specialist Language Center Computing Information Systems Analyst Overview The primary goals of the University-teaching, learning and research-are centered on the accumulation and distribution of information among faculty, staff and students. Because of tremendous technological advances in information sciences during the past few years, it is essential that Stanford University instructors make the best use of information resources, local and world-wide, in their classroom instruction and individual research. The Language Center is one of several schools and departments selected to participate in a program that will provide Academic Technology Specialists to assist instructors in basic tutorial and advanced development activities in use of technology resources. The Language Center is an integral part of the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages; it oversees all language instruction at Stanford. The Center's charge is to guarantee that Stanford language programs are of the highest quality; to develop and administer achievement and proficiency tests need to implement the language requirement; and to provide technical assistance and support to graduate students. Although language instruction is housed in individual departments within the Division, all instructors are supervised and evaluated by the Language Center and the Director. The Language Center Director oversees curriculum development in the language programs. In addition to working with foreign language instructors, the Academic Technology Specialist will devote up to 20 percent of his or her time in service to the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources. There the ATS will assist the broader academic community, via consulting and training, in using technology relevant to foreign language instruction. The incumbent will be a member of the Academic Technology Support Services unit within Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, and will report to the head of the program. He or she will have an understanding of second language acquisition acquired through in the development and/or use of foreign language materials in an instructional setting. Responsibilities The Academic Technology Specialist will actively encourage and support the use of educational tools by investigating and implementing new tools and resources for instructors, assisting instructors with the tools, disseminating knowledge of these tools throughout the program, and creating and supporting an infrastructure that allows use of the tools in teaching and learning. He or she must be facile at working with instructors at different levels of technical expertise. Specific responsibilities include: Provide faculty with consulting and instruction on language acquisition specific technology to help them acquire and use information resources in their teaching. Provide customized technical and pedagogical solutions to integrate resources into the curricula of individual instructors. Assist instructors in developing curricula, course materials, and delivering courses in technology based classrooms. Work with instructors to assess course-specific instructional needs; help find and integrate appropriate solutions. Provide leadership in technology for the Language Center, assisting the Director with technology related programmatic development. Initiate ideas, implement solutions, find resources. Stay abreast of technological advances; test and integrate those that foster foreign language learning. Provide support for the implementation of a customized Web-based testing environment for use in foreign language curricula. This support may include training and consulting on use of the tool, preparation of materials, and participation in development and deployment activities. Participate as a team member in the Academic Technology Support Service in Meyer Library, providing consulting to faculty and colleagues when technical depth in foreign language technologies is needed. Assess training needs for language instructors; develop and deliver workshops; develop supporting documentation. Facilitate technology and Internet literacy. Guide instructors to appropriate resources and assist them in making their own contributions available via the Internet. Develop a Web site of relevant resources. Liaise with service providers throughout the University to advocate needs and obtain resources for language instructors and students. Review professional literature; attend conferences; network with colleagues within and without the University; participate in newsgroups and other forums to continually improve knowledge of academic technology and foreign language instruction. Qualifications The ideal candidate will have a record of innovation and creativity in making technology accessible, understandable and appealing to an academic audience, and demonstrated leadership and resourcefulness in identifying and integrating technological solutions to pedagogical needs. Specific requirements include: At the 4P2 level, a baccalaureate degree in the humanities plus at least two years experience in academic computing. At the 4P3 level (preferred), an advanced degree in the humanities or education, plus at least five years experience in academic computing, or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Fluency in English and at least one other language. Expert knowledge of the second language learning process acquired through development of materials and/or teaching a second language. Excellent teaching, communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact effectively and tactfully with members of the academic community; experience working in an environment where colleagues have diverse backgrounds and customs. A keen understanding of, and sensitivity to, the human factors involved in introducing technology into teaching and learning. Excellent time management and project management skills. Demonstrated ability to manage a complex workload, prioritize tasks, and use good judgment in providing services based on goals. Demonstrated experience applying technology in support of teaching and learning foreign languages. Familiarity with applications, resources and techniques used in language teaching. Expert knowledge of Macintosh and Windows environments, and facility with UNIX. Experience with providing computing resources in a networked environment. Experience developing Web sites using graphics, audio and video resources. Knowledge of multimedia systems including Photoshop, Powerpoint and Premiere or FinalCutPro. A commitment to excellence in an environment where success is based on the provision of excellent teaching rather than on individual accomplishments. Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis, may be submitted by mail, fax, or email to Victoria Szabo Assistant Manager, Academic Technology Program 250-252P, MC2020 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6004 vszabo@stanford.edu fax: 650-723-3038 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria Szabo, Ph.D. Academic Technology Specialist, Introduction to the Humanities Assistant Manager, Academic Technology Program, SUL-AIR Stanford University 250-252P, MC: 2020 (650) 723-9364 vszabo@stanford.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: DIGITAL DIVIDE NETWORK REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:53:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 719 (719) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 17, 2000 DIGITAL DIVIDE NETWORK REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS: <http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/>http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ [deleted quotation] DIGITAL DIVIDE NETWORK REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS: <http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/>http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ The Benton Foundation's Digital Divide Network (DDN) is a national coalition of non-profit institutions and IT companies working together to help bridge the digital divide. The network's official website, DigitalDivideNetwork.org, is a one-stop online resource to raise awareness about the gulf that exists between those citizens who have access to information technology and the skills to use it effectively, and those who do not. One of DDN's major goals is to provide local organizations and institutions with a diversity of voices regarding the digital divide. We are encouraging individuals to submit articles that address the digital divide from a variety of social, cultural, political and/or economic perspectives. Our hope is to provide a forum for educators, policy professionals, community leaders and practictioners to share their experiences so that others might learn from their experiences. Among the types of stories that are featured at DigitalDivideNetwork.org: - How young people have successfully organized IT programs for seniors; - The role of faith-based organizations in bridging the digital divide; - The importance of crafting content that is culturally relevant; - Internet-related school-to-work programs; - Preparing recent immigrants for the information economy - The challenges of creating a community technology center - The spectrum of literacy skills needed to overcome the digital divide If you are interested in contributing an article to the Digital Divide Network (preferably 700-1500 words), please contact Kade Twist at the Benton Foundation: kade@benton.org or 202-638-5770. ***************** Kade L. 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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: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: tail wagging the dog Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:08:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 720 (720) Dear colleagues: Allow me an observation and a request. The observation is that lengthy "signatures" to e-mail messages tend to be both obnoxious to the recipients and, because of that, self-defeating when the messages are grouped together. One then has to get past the tail of one message to read the following one. I would think that a good signature is a compact signature. The request is that for Humanist at least members make their best efforts to limit the size of their signatures so that I don't have to prune them. I recall once encountering messages from a certain individual who was so proud of his various roles in a certain university that he listed them all (ok, perhaps not ALL of them) in the human-readable part of his e-mail address. A mini-cv, in fact. The result was so long that the actual address often didn't find room to be displayed. I suppose such a case is so over the top that one can simply laugh and allow nature to take its course. But an overgrown signature, I'd suppose, might be the sort of thing that the author seldom if ever has the occasion to notice, esp if it's put on only when the message is posted. So this is in manner of a gentle heads-up, a request to save me from having to wield the not-so-gentle shears. Many thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Harold Short Subject: job at King's College London Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:52:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 721 (721) Research Associate - The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire Applications are invited to work on the above project, funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Board and the British Academy until 31 March 2003 and based at King's College London. The post is available from 1 January 2001 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will a member of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's, and will be engaged in research and the production of a relational database containing all references to identifiable Byzantine individuals between AD 641 and 1261. The person appointed will work as part of a team consisting of the Senior Research Fellow and the Research Fellow, together with other graduate and postdoctoral students. There will be an opportunity to participate in relevant academic activities in the field of Byzantine Studies. The appointment will be made on the RA 1A salary scale up to 20,865 pa. Further details of the appointment and the procedure for applying can be found at: http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/JA932.html ------------------------------------------- From: Terry Butler Subject: MA in Humanities Computing - invitation to students Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:51:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 722 (722) Master of Arts in Humanities Computing The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta announces a new two-year Master of Arts degree in Humanities Computing. Commencing September 2001, the program integrates computational methods and theories with research and teaching in the humanities. It will address the demand for Arts graduates proficient in computing skills, able to work either in the realm of humanities research and teaching or in the emerging job markets of information management and content delivery over the Internet. The Core Curriculum: A Balance of Theory and Practice In a set of core courses, students survey humanities computing and its underlying technologies as they are employed in disciplines such as history, literature, languages, cultural studies, philosophy, music and visual arts. The aim is to show how computing is enabling and transforming humanities research and teaching, and to impart technical knowledge through hands-on experience with creation, delivery, and analysis of electronic text and non-textual data and images. In the second year, the students extend their knowledge of humanities computing by taking elective courses, including at least one in a humanities discipline in which they specialize, and a thesis in which they address a research or teaching issue in their discipline. Private Sector Problem-Solving and Academic Scholarship Graduates of the program are well positioned for leadership in important emerging areas such as digital libraries, electronic publishing, electronic museum archives, and distance learning. Through its emphasis on graduate-level study in one of the participating humanities departments, the program also prepares students for the option of continuing graduate work at the Ph.D. level in their field of specialization. Admission requirements Students admitted into the program will choose from one of the following areas of specialization: Applied Linguistics, Art and Design, Chinese Literature, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, East Asian Studies, English, French, German, History, Italian, Japanese Literature, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Applicants must meet the regular graduate requirements of one of the participating departments. Elective courses are drawn both from options within the MA program and graduate offerings in the student's home department. Thesis work is directed by a faculty member from one of the participating departments, with provision for co-supervision from a faculty member within the program. Applications and Deadlines Questions and requests for application materials may be directed to huco@mail.arts.ualberta.ca. Completed applications must be received by January 7, 2001 for admission in September 2001. When requesting applications materials, students should indicate their desired area of specialization. MA in Humanities Computing Faculty of Arts 6-33 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E5 www.arts.ualberta.ca/huco Terry Butler, Humanities Computing Coordinator Director, Technologies for Learning Centre Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta www.humanities.ualberta.ca/TLC From: Kevin Berland Subject: Revised Selcted Readings announcement (*with* URL) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:53:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 723 (723) Greetings. We are delighted to announce the publication of C18-L's Selected Readings, Number 81. You will find this latest issue of our interdisciplinary bibliography of recent essays, books, and websites concerning all sorts of topics in the long eighteenth century. This issue covers many areas, including history, historiography, intellectual history, literature, bibliography, book history, history of art, medicine, science, economics -- and is especially strong (this time) in listing essays about philosophy and political thought. The URL (which we forgot to include Saturday) is http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr81.htm SR is compiled from volunteer contributions -- and we are always looking for more volunteers. Contact the editor by writing to bcj@psu.edu Cheers -- Kevin Berland From: Willard McCarty Subject: encrypted posting Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:55:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 724 (724) Apologies for Humanist 14.0501, entitled "digitisation course; workshop, symposium", which contains following message 2 a very lengthy encrypted attachment. My error: I didn't realise what would happen as a result of sending along a message with pre-existing attachment. The following message from Humanist will contain the substance of 14.0501 without unreadable bits. Correct me if I am wrong, but this incident does suggest that messages to Humanist should not have attachments if these are meant to be read. Thanks to Francois Crompton-Roberts for bringing the problem to my attention. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 725 (725) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 726 (726) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 727 (727) [deleted quotation] From: John Lavagnino Subject: ACH/ALLC 2001 deadline extension Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:19:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 728 (728) Hardware problems are afflicting the computer that was supposed to be handling ACH/ALLC 2001 submissions: evidently these machines have secrets they don't want brought to light. In view of these problems, we ask that you send submissions directly to me at John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk, rather than to ach-allc-program@nyu.edu; and the deadline is extended to Wednesday November 29. John Lavagnino Chair, Program Committee, ACH/ALLC 2001 From: Felix Goldberg Subject: [CFP]Symposium on Nonconscious Intelligence: From Natural Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 17:44:42 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 729 (729) [--] [Our most sincere apologies if you happen to receive this call for papers more than once.] We are pleased to invite the submission of extended abstracts for the following two-day symposium to be held in York next March as part of AISB'01 - the 2001 Annual Convention of the British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour. The homepage for the symposium is at: <http://srsc.ulb.ac.be/AISB.html> ********* Motivation ********* This symposium will be devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of the processes of nonconscious information processing and implicit learning, in humans and in artificial intelligent agents. AI systems with implicit learning capabilities and computational models of implicit learning will be presented, reflecting cognitive, connectionist and composite methodologies and paradigms. A major issue examined will be the degree of salience that is to be ascribed to the possession of implicit knowledge and the ability to acquire and employ it through nonconscious mechanisms exhibited by different classes of information-processing agents: humans, artificial agents and animals. The role of nonconscious information processing in many central issues of artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences will be explored, including but not limited to, representation and inference, problem-solving, perception, natural language understanding, learning and induction, creativity and scientific discovery. Theoretical contributions, computer simulations and reports of empirical studies are solicited from researchers in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychology, computer science and philosophy. [material deleted] From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Virtual E-Journals Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:17:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 730 (730) _Virtual E-Journals_ I am greatly interested in identifying additional 'Virtual' electronic journals. A 'Virtual Journal' may be described as an electronic journal in a specific subject discipline that is composed of relevant articles selected from other electronic journals. Two virtual journals of which I am aware are Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research [ http://www.vjbio.org/ ] and Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology [ http://www.vjnano.org/ ] which were launched in January 2000 by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS). Each of the virtual journals presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of "source" journals in the physical sciences. As noted in a press release [ http://www.aip.org/press_release/vj_release.html ] These virtual journals are "online journals that ... collect relevant papers from a broad range of physical science journals, including all journals published by APS and AIP and selected journals from participating publishers on AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS). From the user's perspective, the virtual journals ... look and feel like "real" journals, providing browsable Tables of Contents and freely available abstracts, with links to full-text articles in the source journals. Subscribers to the source journal will be able to seamlessly access the full-text articles, while non-subscribers will have the option to purchase articles for immediate online delivery." "Virtual journals ... provide users with quick, convenient access to information in cutting-edge fields," according to Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief at the American Physical Society. "Gathering into one spot all the papers on a given topic that appear in a wide range of premier physics-related journals ... help specialists keep abreast of the latest developments, not only with title 'alerts' but with abstracts and full-text articles." Participating source journals include all journals published by APS and AIP, journals from participating publishers on AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), and as of August 2000 _Science_ magazine [ http://ojps.aip.org/jhtml/vjs/partpub.html]. As Always, Any and All additional candidate ''Virtual Journals' would be most welcome, including any that are currently under consideration or development. [I'd also be interested in the titles of current or former 'Anthologized' print journals that consist/consisted of articles reprinted/republished from other print journals] [Any citations about this publishing phenomenon - either in print or electronic - would be of great interest!] /Gerry McKiernan Anthologized Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: A Remarkable E-Journal Index Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:17:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 731 (731) _ A Remarkable E-Journal Index_ This weekend in reviewing the functionality of the _Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research_ (JAIR) - an international electronic and print journal [ http://www.jair.org/] - I discovered that it provides a most *remarkable* index to its articles in what is called an "Information Space" [ http://www.infoarch.ai.mit.edu/jair/jair-space.html ] . The Information Space is an applet that is automatically loaded upon visiting the address. The address [ http://www.infoarch.ai.mit.edu/jair/jair-space.html ] also provides a description and details on navigating the contents of JAIR. Here's a textual description of the Information Space QUOTE An information space is a type of information design in which representations of information objects are situated in a principled space. In a principled space location and direction have meaning, so that mapping and navigation become possible. Applying this terminology to this information space, we have yellow squares representing JAIR articles (the information objects) arranged according to two hierarchically constructed principles: first, the squares are within circles reflecting their categorization; and second, the circles are arranged so that categories which are more similar are closer together. The metric used to determine pairwise similarity is the number of articles judged to be appropriate for both categories, although only one category is assigned each article for the visualization. The visualization behaves as information map, providing a survey view of the relationships between articles as derived from the category assignment. UNQUOTE A page describing the design rationale for this information space [AN INFORMATION SPACE DESIGN RATIONALE] by Mark A. Foltz, the Information Space developer' is available [ http://www.infoarch.ai.mit.edu/jair/jair-space.html ] . In addition, Foltz's *outstanding* Master's thesis _Designing Navigable Information Spaces_ (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1998) [ http://www.infoarch.ai.mit.edu/publications/mfoltz-thesis/thesis.html] provides additional details and graphics about the JAIR project and its Information Space [ http://www.infoarch.ai.mit.edu/publications/mfoltz-thesis/node10.html] The Information Space was designed by the Information Architecture project [ http://www.infoarch.ai.mit.edu/ ] at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory [ http://www.ai.mit.edu/ ]. "The Information Architecture project seeks to create information spaces, where people will use this awareness to search, browse, and learn. In the same way that they navigate in the physical environment, they will navigate through knowledge." [For any who have attended any of my recent conference presentation, this Information Space implementation is a realization of what I have advocated for the past few years! [YES!] Words can not adequately describe the Information Space for JAIR; only the experience can convey the true value and impact on this novel index.! [IMHO: If there's one site that you visit after you dig out from your holiday backlog this is it!] I am greatly interested in learning about Any and All other innovative access methods to E-journal content, similar or different than the Information Space. As Always, Any and All contributions, questions, critiques, comments, queries, transition teams, cosmic insights, etc. are Most Welcome. /Gerry McKiernan Spaced Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!" Alan Kay From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Reactive E-Journals Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:17:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 732 (732) _Reactive E-Journals_ In May 1999, I posted a query to various e-lists seeking the titles of additional e-journals that provide an opportunity for readers to comment on a published article an e-journal either as an annotation to segments of the article or a separate component of the e-journal [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9905/0455.html]. I received several responses from this posting and learned about a handful of such journals that offer this function and include Conservation Ecology [ http://www.consecol.org/Journal/ ] [For an example see: http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol2/iss2/resp1/index.html ] Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research' [ http://www.jair.org/ ] Journal of Interactive Media in Education [ http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/] [ For an example see; http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/00/stahl/stahl-01.html ] [Click on ?! balloon] Journal of Universal Computer Science [ http://www.jucs.org/jucs/ ] [For an examples, see http://www.jucs.org/jucs_annotations/all ] MRS. Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research [ http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/ ] [ For an example see: http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/1/1/discuss/ ] Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness [ http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ ] [For an example see: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v3/psyche-3-06-vancampen.html ] Psycoloquy [ http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html ] [For an example see: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.021 ] [BTW: The BioMOO Scholarly MOO [ http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/BioMOO/ ] offers a Journal Club in which within this MOO participants can comment about a specific journal article e.g. [ http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/BioMOO/Meetings/940829-NSJC-4 ] I am greatly interested in learning about other Reactive E-Journals as well as any literature that have reviewed or commented [ :-)] or evaluated this interactive functionality. As Always, Any and Al contributions, suggestions, comments, queries, critiques, criticisms, dimples, etc. are Most Welcome. /Gerry McKiernan Reactive Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Personalized E-Journals Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:18:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 733 (733) _ Personalized E-Journals _ I am greatly interested in identifying electronic journals that allow a user to create a personalized version of the journal or journals as defined by user from pre-established categories, keywords, or automated interest profiling based upon user behavior. An example is the 'Virtual Review Journal' that can be created within BioMedNet [http://www.bmn.com/ ] [ http://reviews.bmn.com/ ]. Within BioMedNet, users can create a profile by selecting from broad categories [http://reviews.bmn.com/virtual/create ], and/or tailor the personalized journal using keywords, and name their personalized journal. In selecting a named 'virtual journal' from 'My List of Virtual Journals' , the user is presented with a listing of citations selected from "5000+ review articles from over 100 journals" that match the established profile with the most recent listed first. A sample is found below: . 1, The impact of preprint servers and electronic publishing on biomedical research [Guest Editorial] Gunther Eysenbach Current Opinion in Immunology, 2000, 12:5:499-503 Abstract, Full text: text, PDF 67 k 2. The antibody web [Trends] Stefan Dbel Immunology Today, 2000, 21:8:355-357 Abstract, Full text: text, PDF 56 k 3. Multimedia atlas of internal parasites of horses [CD-ROM Review] Gareth W Hutchinson International Journal for Parasitology, 2000, 30:5:675-676 Abstract, Full text: text, PDF 79 k [My Virtual Journal focused on 'multimedia' ] All users have access to the Abstract for a citation; access to the full-text of the work is available only to subscribers. [BTW: A Free 90-day trial to BioMedNet Reviews is currently available [http://reviews.bmn.com/latest/reviews ] [NOTE: BioMedNet is owned by Elsevier Science and is part of the Reed Elsevier group of companies. BioMedNet is the website for biological medical researchers. To date there are more than 600,000 members of BioMedNet -- with more than 20,000 people joining per month! Membership to BioMedNet is free, and members can search all of BioMedNet without charge. However, viewing full-text articles from publishers often requires payment or a subscription.] I am particularly interested in the availability of personalization/customization options with e-journal aggregatorsir [e.g., OCLC ECO, Swets/Blackwell SwetsnetNavigator, etc.] which may or may not offer such personalization options across the e-journals of a number of publishers. Citations to key and core articles, papers, reports, etc. on customization/personalization of e-journals are of particular interest. I am particularly interested in any and all examples of e-journals or aggregators that can auatomatically create and refine a personalized e-journal based upon user interaction with the e-collection. As Always, Any and All contributions, queries, critiques, questions, criticisms, cosmic insights, chads - hanging or otherwise, etc. are Most Welcome. /Gerry McKiernan Personalized Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu DISCLAIMER The discussion of the BioMedNet service is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement. From: Cubitt Sean Subject: Phenomenological account of sociality..in Virilio and Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 20:53:24 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 734 (734) [--] Transport, Transmit, Translate Virilio, Ecology and the Media Sean Cubitt Paper Given at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Birmingham, 23 June 2000 Don't drink and drive: take speed and run (Anon) There is not and never has been a primordial experience which can serve as ground for a phenomenological account of sociality. In Virilio, the media, mediation in general, appear always as secondary, always standing after the primordial experience of the face to face, of labour, of perception or whatever else is premised as defining of humanity. This residual humanism leads to some other problems in Virilio's otherwise valuable account of the contemporary mediascape. This paper is an attempt to redraw some of Virilio's arguments in the interests of an ecological aesthetics. In my generation, and certainly in younger ones, the mediated inhabits even the primal universe of the infant. I think we got a television when I was about ten, but the radio and the record player, and most of all books, especially atlases but also story books and the habit of reading, permeated my infant years alongside days spent mucking about in the farmyards and fields, playing with the animals or scrumping apples. I remember how vivid was the presence to me in the late 1950s of the Second World War and even of the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War. They were as real as my guardian angel and the seven sacraments. As real as the priest, the school teacher and my father. Like any childhood, mine hangs slightly to one side of history, a time frozen in memory, a landscape, as Virilio has it, of events, not a chronology or an evolution, as undoubtedly it appeared to my mother if to no-one else. Mediated as memory, it has no linearity. But I can recall playing at Thunder Riders in the playground while they ran as a serial at the Starlight Picturedrome in town, and remember being shocked when a girl in class knew the word 'adjacent', which I had never heard, because she had heard it on a TV advert. Though we still played traditional ring games and sang songs that dated back at least forty years (one was about Charlie Chaplin and the Dardanelles). A rural English childhood of the 1950s was probably largely unchanged for that long: one neighbour remembered hiring fairs, another the first car in Lincolnshire, but they were already in their sixties and seventies. Of course, that still made them moderns. Hoardings, branding, newspapers, postcards, sheet music and photographs would have held no terrors for them. After the model of Geoffrey Pearsall's history of hooliganism, we can push our mediated 'modernity' back to Mopsa in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale: 'Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print' (IV.iv.261), and to Autolycus' store of ribbons and laces. Further back we have Huizinga's (1924) testimony of the European mediaevals' love of high spectacle, high language and high emotion, if we needed more proof than their cathedrals. The quest for the historical moment of primordial experience begins to call us back, as it did Heidegger (for example in the Introduction to Metaphysics, 1961), to the Greeks, especially the pre-Socratics, or else to Homer. Yet both the pre-Socratics and Homer are mediations, since they exist for us only as philological texts. The desire to render an account of pure perception runs everywhere counter to the idea of a perception which remains unmediated. There is a philosophical dilemma here: an unmediated perception can never be communicated, by definition, so there will never be evidence of its occurring except from introspection. That indeed is the route taken by phenomenology, and most of all by Virilio's mentor Merleau-Ponty and by his teacher Husserl: What is needed is not the insistence that one sees with his own eyes; rather it is that he not explain away under the pressure of prejudice what has been seen. Because in the most impressive of the modern sciences, the mathematico-physical, that which is exteriorly the largest part of their work, results from indirect methods, we are only too inclined to overestimate indirect methods and to misunderstand the value of direct comprehensions. However, to the extent that philosophy goes back to ultimate origins, it belongs precisely to its very essence that its scientific work move in spheres of direct intuition (Husserl 1965: 147) It is, as I understand it, that intuition which Virilio stands to defend: the contemplation that occurs in the co-presence of perceiver and perceived which permits the essence of the perceived to enter the perceiver unaltered by theorisation, habit or mediation as the raw material of rational existence. In the late Heidegger, this will become the concept of dwelling, and have a direct engagement with the environment, and with the mode of inhabiting an environment which is both the means and the goal of thought. In Heidegger the nature of that environment is often quite specific: a mountain path, a garden. The confrontation is one between thinker and nature. Philosophy's purpose, as Husserl expresses it, is to strip thought of its prejudices, its accumulated opinions and habits, in order to clarify and purify that primal confrontation. Shakespeare had another take: 'Unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare forked animal as thou art' (Lear III.iv.106-7). I take Shakespeare's part, and pray with Lear for Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you [deleted quotation]'Unaccomodated': without technologies and bereft of reason, like Lear and Poor Tom on the blasted heath, we are pitiful indeed. In Virilio's Catholic phenomenology, by contrast, the unalienated human is a dream of Adamic innocence, the lost Eden of Milton, without predators, warm, fruitful, attended by angels and conversing with God. The first sign that our first parents had fallen was the technology of clothing and their first punishment agriculture. Yet these form part of our image of innocence today: farming and chaste dress, like the Amish of Peter Weir's Witness, without petrol engines, living a reclaimed tradition of calm, without radios. John Book introduces Rachel, the Amish mother of his child witness, to pop music in a transforming scene at the centre of the narrative, while he in return is introduced to community in the barn-raising sequence. Does perfection lie somewhere between communitarianism and rock 'n' roll? In the remembrance of puberty (rendered innocent in the more recent ideological formations of Hollywood and the music business) perfected in its naturalisation as negation of history? Can this or any such a state of purity exist? Part of the legacy mislaid in the shameful demise of Althusser was the philosophical demolition of the Lukacsian concept of alienation. Where, Althusser demanded, was the unalienated? Where was a worker other than a stranger to her fellows and herself? Where was there primal, self-identical humanity? We might add, if masculinity and femininity are technologies, where lies innocence? In Virilio's thought the answer appears to be: in the moment of pure perception. Drawing on Husserl's attempt to capture the phenomenal moment of intuition as first experience, with a shade of Levinas' (1969) proposal of the face-to-face as first philosophy, Virilio develops his critique of alienated humanity on the basis of immediate perception. We should pause before the etymology of the word; im-mediate, not mediated. In which sense is the politikon zoon capable of that unmediated experience? We would need an immense and detailed history of communication to demonstrate that there is nothing 'natural' about perception, or indeed about such other human attributes as politics, economics, technology, sexuality or communication which have been cited in various philosophical discourses as foundational. More than that, we have no philosophical ground on which to claim that what is presumed to be natural is by that simple token good, either politically, economically, technologically or sexually. Nor, at risk of pure oxymoron, is it possible to imagine a communication that is other than artificial. It is therefore imperative for a theory of alienation to prove that there exists a natural perception, and that it is good. My friend Margaret Marshment proposes the experience of breaking her arm in the bush in Kenya. I can offer a story of my own. I once gashed my hip diving into a waterfall in Northern Quebec among woods where bears were common. Streaming tell-tale blood and limping, I made the mile-long trek back to the road. For a few minutes, probably in shock, life was raw. And I wished for two things: a vehicle and a weapon. Two points emerge. First, that I wanted technologies and that the lack of them shaped my experience. And second, it was a frightening, even terrifying experience that I have no wish to repeat. We have defined the natural by the negative, and in this instance forced a peaceable chap who would no more kill an animal than himself to cast about for a wieldable log with which to assault one. Perhaps this revealed my 'true nature', but it certainly did not reveal an ethical good. Nor are we capable of raw experience. Our perceptions are framed in memories and expectations, both themselves constructed in the horizon not only of our own biographies but of those that have been communicated to us, in fiction as well as fact. I did not expect to pull myself out of the river by my own hair like Baron Munchausen, but I had heard enough about bears both locally and in documentaries and fictions to know that they smell blood from far enough away to make me anxious, and to imagine both my future in ursine intestines, and to plan flight and defence. In short, there is no moment, no perfect Augenblick. Perception takes time. In this I agree with Virilio (1996: 98) who argues in 'L'instant lumihre' that a meeting depends on a sufficient duration for mutual apprehension of the parties involved. But I have to disagree with him when he goes on to argue that 'The real time of telecommunications is not only opposed, as we often hear, to the past, to differed (deferred) time, but to the present, its very actuality' (1996: 100). The electronic meeting does indeed take place, and indeed takes time. Though its time may be condensed or telescoped in compression algorithms, it is always unfolded again in its decoding. In fact, those translational processes are necessitated by all communication because all communication is mediated. Perception is already an act of communication, despite the individualist credos of cognitive science. Stereoscopic vision, for example, is limited by the narrowness of the gap between an individual pair of eyes: true stereoscopy is available only to the socius, to the primal band of hunters triangulating the position of prey and danger. That truth which Husserl understands as the goal of both naturalistic science and of phenomenological philosophy as rigorous science is unavailable to the individual: it can only be triangulated by the social in the communicative form of agreement. Moreover, perception takes time because it is always already mediated in consciousness which in turn is always already social and therefore by definition a product not of perception but of communication. If it is the case that consciousness therefore is dependent on communication, raw perception is unavailable to consciousness. Unmediated perception is thus unconscious perception, both in the Lacanian sense that it is not symbolised, and in the sense of someone deprived of consciousness. This, of course, is the mental state Virilio (1991) identifies as picnolepsia , and describes as a distinctive form of absence proper to the contemporary world, typical of motorways and air travel. His observation is good, but his argument incorrect: driving on automatic pilot is a flight from the historical present into the ahistorical, the pure perceptual bliss of the driver at one with the environment. Picnolepsia is an example of pure perception when that perception is not only erased from consciousness but both lethal and suicidal. That it is natural is no defence against its danger. A second, highly specific atemporal phenomenon is constructed in contemporary communications, in some very particular modes of special effect in Hollywood cinema, especially scenes of destruction (Cubitt 1999). But they function in relation to multiple temporalities tugging on the spectator, from the real time of viewing to the narrational time of the film by way of the diegetic clock among many others. To assert the eradication of time in transmission is to elide the quite opposite case which actually obtains: that time has become a raw material for cultural production at the turn of the 21st century. What the signifier was to the art and culture of 1900, the temporalities of communication are to those of 2000. [deleted quotation]is at once the central material and the central theme of contemporary communicational research and entertainment. It is so, in fact, precisely because of the globalised communication structure that enables and has been colonised by finance capital. It is no longer the case that time is money, a motto of the productivist era. Today, money is time, and the culture of the 21st century is irrevocably entangled in that relation. To define telecommunication as that which has no present is to deny us the possibility of working in it, for the present is the only time we have in which to make history. When he writes that after cybernetisation, 'the phenomena that happen here in common space no longer happen now in common time, but in an outside-time (outre-temps) over which no-one has any power (1996: 180), Virilio appears as an apologist for precisely the ideological effect sought in the kind of special effect mentioned above: the removal of history-making to a timeless zone situated permanently in a moment unbridgeably to one side of history. Virilio has the vices of a sociologist. He believes that it is possible to make statements about media at large, while the discipline of media studies remains adamant that viewers do not watch 'television' but navigate specific flows; that we do not surf the web but explore specific routes across the network, emphasising the particularity of each instance of each medium, each media production and circulation, and each specific and material navigation of the media culture in the material and specific present. Virilio's second sociological vice is to believe that society, as concept and as essence, antedates communication, which it subordinates to itself. The social cannot determine the communicative, because they are one and the same thing. I go further. As consciousness is a specific effect of the specificity of its society, so the given and specific form of any actually existing society is a function of its communication. In claiming that communication forms societies I do not want to defend technological determinism. Technologies are clearly social, and to that extent they too are formations of communication. Rather, I want to argue that attention to the dominant and subordinate modes of communication in any specific historical conjuncture provides us with insight into the structuring constraints on any historically given social formation. To jump to the chase, in the contemporary world, finance capital is the dominant mode of communication. Residual forms such as land-based cultures and 'alienated labour', and emergent forms like diasporan cultural networks, shape the global-local interface in which specific crises emerge: communalism in Bombay, aboriginal rights in Sydney, land reform and indigenous rights in Chiapas, nationalism in Kosovo. Without understanding these communicative ecologies, the specificity of millennarial nationalism, the new Islam and substance abuse among indigenous peoples remains only desperate and insoluble problems. We are not natural. We are human. Our perception is artifice, because it is always already mediated by our ongoing communicative evolution. The point is not to deny what we have become, but to see that it is constructed, and therefore to seize the hour and change the communicative structuring that forms us. One of Virilio's targets is transmission, the sending across that deletes the Levinasian, ethical face-to-face. This is an apt description of finance capital. But it does not describe the critical emergent form of diasporan networks, which function by translation, literally 'bringing across', recognising the malleable materiality of mediation, making of it the raw material of a remade sociality and thus of a new consciousness. Virilio takes the past rather than the future as the measure of the falling off of human communication from a human-scaled geo-temporal reality of the face-to-face. The theses of temporalities as raw material for cultural production and of diasporan networks as emergent communicative form suggest a contrary perspective: that human communication does not yet exist (where the phrase not-yet should evoke the contentless utopianism of Ernst Bloch). In pursuit of this distinction, which I take to be an ethical as well as an aesthetic one, we need to understand the relation between human and animal communication. Human communication is the same as animal communication as long as it is one-to-one or one-to-many. But human communication differs from animal to the extent that it is many-to-many. To this extent Habermas is right, and even McLuhan. But it would be incorrect to say either that this is a natural state of affairs, or that because it is natural it is therefore good. If we are closer to nature in one-to-one communication, to the extent that it is characteristic of animal as well as human communication, nonetheless we do not thereby approach more closely to nature. In fact, the more intensively we communicate face-to-face, the more complexity enters the communication, with subtle interpretations of the most marginal signs, the most fretful analysis of body language and codes of dress, and the finest attention to the nicest points of vocabulary and intonation. By the same token, we approximate the territorial calls of birds or the transmission of directions among the bees in such clearly cultural, historical, and artificial acts as political speeches or broadcasting, even the one-to-many forms of printed novels and poetry. We cannot therefore pretend to descry in either one-to-one or one-to-many communication an equivalence of human and natural communication. If however, we want to argue that many-to-many communication constitutes the grounds of a specifically human nature, we have to be wary of certain distinctions among modes of many-to-many. It might be argued that highly mediated forms like advertising campaigns and blockbuster movies are not singly authored, and therefore fall into the category of many-to-many just as truly as the ideal cafi society of Habermas' (1989) public sphere, or the polylogue of McLuhan's (1989) global village. Both types -- centre-out group-authored and democratic communications -- are, according to the initial statement, more exclusively human than one-to-one or one-to-many models. But they cannot therefore be argued to be proper to 'human nature' since they are dependent on specific historical conditions for their realisation. They approximate in this to Giedion's (1948) 'anonymous history', sharing with technologies like knitting and baking an open evolution unconstrained by patent or copyright. It may appear that this freedom from legal constraint is a mode of natural evolution, but the law itself is an example of anonymous history, even in those societies in which a constitution has been specifically authored, since jurisprudence elaborates a filigree of arguments, decisions, precedents and cases as a palimpsest over the bare bones of the originating constitutional document. Moreover, the distinction between the two forms of many-to-many communications opens certain key cultural practices to analysis. The centre-out model can be parsed as a group-to-many communication where the group is restricted in membership while the ideal models of Habermas and McLuhan are not. Group-to-many communications typically take the form of more or less stable texts: hoardings, films, newspapers, television channels, computer games. Multiple exemplars resemble one another closely both formally and thematically (I accept Usai's [1994] argument that no two prints of a film are identical: by analogy, no two television receivers display identical image or sound qualities). Such texts exhibit both geographical and temporal stability, and are unaltered as mediations by interpretations, however varied. Many-to-many communications, by contrast, tend to ephemerality and instability, and are easily and typically altered in the process of interpretation. Unlike a film, the 'text' of a dialogue is an evolving fabric. Even where the dialogue is mediated by technologies like e-mail and IRC, each contribution is unstable, like a move in chess, a challenge awaiting a response, incomplete in itself. In other words, even where communications are delayed, as in exchanges of letters, many-to-many polylogues are swifter than group-to-society monologues, with the sole exception of news coverage, which can be seen, in certain moments such as coverage of demonstrations, as a use of the group as a medium for many-to-many communication. Exceptionally, group cultural forms can take on the speed and effervescence of polylogue, notably in improvised performance in dance, drama and music. Group improvisation is a limit case of the group/polylogue distinction. In certain instances -- the Jerry Springer Show for example -- we can descry coded improvisation of the kind attacked by Adorno in his work on jazz, but one which reveals importantly that irrationalism is not excluded from dominant and dominating communications, but rather is amalgamated into it as a non-dialectical binarism resolved in the figure of the master of ceremonies. This co-optation of improvisation into the regulated repetition of narratemes and elements of behaviour is integral to the production of difference as a project of dominance in contemporary society. Like microcuisines, TV talkshow microcultures are as integral to processes of globalisation as the form of the nation-state constituted as nationalism or localism. We are now ready to return to Virilio, via Clausewitz (1968), for whom war is the continuation of policy by other means. Policy in this instance is international, and as such a form of group-to-group communication, in which both groups have restricted memberships. Virilio's argument is that war as communication is foreclosed by the transfer of strategic decision-making from human agents to computers. To this extent, the group-to-group communication is negated by the emergence of non-human communicative agents. My contention is that group-to-group communication is not human. In the first instance, group-to-group is a characteristic of the territorial disputes of primates. But where these standoffs between troops are often conducted as ceremonial, in the sense that physical violence is only part of a bravura display of behaviours, the confrontation between armies ceased to be a communicative and ceremonial event in the Middle Ages with the arrival of the stirrup and even more so with the impersonality of the fortified city. Modern war, dating from this period, is then precisely a negation of communication. Nationalisms as such continue this tradition of non-communication, using both military and, of course in the age of finance capital, economic blockades in place of interaction. We would need to depend upon a Hegelian master-slave dialectic in order to produce a communicative model, and although Clausewitz could, late in the 19th century, still express the argument of policy as communicative, that era is long since gone, as both Virilio and Baudrillard have argued of both the Cold War and the Gulf War. The famous arrogance of Thatcher's foreign policy in the era of the Malvinas War is a further example of this refusal to communicate as the basis of contemporary policy. Group-to-group communication is then in general incommunicative, save only insofar as it can be understood as a function of endocolonisation, that is, as a function of the internal communicative strategy of the group, itself either group-to-many or one-to-many, depending on the precise configuration of the troop. In the instance of recent wars, the cult of the personality as a key propaganda tool both in constructing nationhood and in constructing the enemy ('Saddam') suggest that authoritarianism is integral to group-to-group communication. In the case of heavily targeted TV programming, such as The Jerry Springer Show, the programme design is equally group-to-group. Warring factions on stage are confronted with normative factions in the studio audience, with Springer as the authoritarian representative of the network whose communicative monopoly is thereby ensured. In this instance, the function of the process is to elaborate risks against which that authority can be tested, and to provide closures in which it is reasserted. In other words, the programme exists to ensure that nothing changes. This, I would argue, is precisely the opposite of any workable definition of communication, which is characterised by change. To this extent we must concur with Virilio, that communication as a human attribute is not realised in contemporary global society. On the one hand, producers and consumers have never been so globally and so deeply mutually involved. But on the other, they stand in the most limited and constrained relationships with one another it is possible to imagine, a binary code of consumer market choices: 'Buy me', 'Yes' and 'Buy me', 'No', 'Pay me', 'Yes', 'Pay me', 'No'. But where Virilio argues for a rearward glance at a lost plenum of communication in the Edenic fullness of pre-technological society, we must realise that we are no longer alone. Nature has not left us. Rather the concept of an innocent and extra-human nature stands revealed as a discursive construct, and one that no longer convinces in an ecological era. Moreover, the evolution of human communication is identical with the evolution of human communicative technologies, since all communication is mediation. That these communicative mediations have been turned towards the purposes of the aggregation of wealth, power and reproductive precedence in the hands of a decreasingly small group should teach us the non-natural and inhuman nature of the histories of communication. Indeed. But they should also teach us that, since there is nothing natural about communication, neither is there anything given about it. Dominance. like modern war, is not only incommunicative but anti-communicative. Therefore any history of dominance, such as Virilio's, must emphasise the blockage to communication that it establishes. The order of difference produced in the institution of the nation-state (considered as a function of imperialism and de-colonisation under conditions of globalisation) is just such a blockage. Its impedence can be measured as the difference between the ease of transit of capital and the ease of transit of labour. The nationalism of the United Kingdom has produced, for example, strict and, in the last few days, deadly laws regulating human traffic, while at the same time making itself increasingly transparent to 24-hour global share trading. However there is no such thing as a closed system, whence the failure of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to obtain in either ecosystems or communication systems. Outside the laboratory, all systems are permeable, and because permeable mutable. The struggle for homeostasis against the negentropy of mutation -- carried out in discourses of plague, disease and virus in the press -- is doomed to failure, and doubly so since the very struggle against mutation in the state's immune system induces mutations in that system in order to fight off or neutralise what it perceives as threats to its integrity and discretion. As a result the integral and discrete is forced to become an evolving organism, generating new modes of internal communication in the act of seeking to control and minimise communication with what lies beyond the boundaries through whose difference it wishes to establish its integrity. Ecological theme run through Virilio's work from Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles (1990) to the final pages of Cybermonde: la politique du pire (1996). There is an illuminating comparison to be made between Baudrillard, who finds deserts so facsinating because you are delivered from all depth there -- a brilliant, mobile, superficial neutrality, a challenge to meaning and profundity, a challenge to nature and culture, an outer hyperspace, with no origin, no reference-points (Baudrillard 1998: 124) and Virilio, for whom the desert resembles the sea. It gives the feeling of our presence on a planet. I love a landscape where one feels the planet, where the territorial body of the planet Earth is perceptible at a reduced scale. I love the local when it reveals the global, and the global when one can poerceive it starting from the local. One should not lose either, but hold the two together (1996: 108) Virilio's anti-nihilistic recognition of planetary being is an inspiration for this critique, for it suggests the kinds of mutuality required if we are to recognise ourselves as global citizens. But his generous understanding of the non-human has to be rewritten, away from a nature defined by its difference from culture and its externality to the human and technological. We can no longer argue with Virilio that history is a landscape of events: we know that a landscape is an event in history. An ecology is not an entity distinct from us, laid out as map or depiction, but a fruit of technical actions upon it (including the now deliberate act of leaving it as wilderness). And the landscape is an event that feeds back at both physiological and psychological levels, warming and cooling, feeding or starving, welcoming or forbidding our passage across it. By this same token, the landscape as history, as end-product and as ground of action, since it cannot be defined as exclusive of the human, cannot be defined as wholly organic. For at least the seven thousand years for which we have evidence of trading across the rivers and oceans of the Old World, we have been symbiotes with our technologies, and especially with our communications technologies. Under conditions of global finance capital, information wants to be paid for, but communication still seeks to be free. The attempt to monopolise communication which underlies the phenomena which Virilio is most intensely engaged with is doomed to fail, since the concept of monopoly excludes an other with whom to communicate. More particularly, Virilio misreads the omens when he characterises communications technologies as alien others to whom the powers of communication have been delegated. The attempt to monopolise communication has produced that massive and capital-intensive infrastructure of satellites and telecommunication which, perversely, has enabled a new form of communication. In the first great historicisation of our species, agriculture opened up channels of communication between the human and organic phyla. The second, which we can characterise as the ongoing industrial revolution, the revolution of the modern which accelerates from the age of the stirrup and the water wheel, instigates communication between the human and machinic phyla. Perhaps, like primaeval Deleuzes and Guattaris, the nomadic hunter-gatherers looked at the first sedentary farmers with just such an apocalyptic intuition of the end of true humanity as Virilio derives from the intensifying relationships we establish with each other through the increasingly demanding mediations of our machines. Virilio's forebodings are inaccurate, but only because he is properly fearful of the tendency of dominance in contemporary communication toward the monopoly structure of transmission. In this perspective the present is indeed in danger as the ground of history-making. The new cultural interest in time as raw material, however, is an instance of the permeability of the system. The focus on time urges a concentration on the medium as transport, as a work of carriage across spaces and times. While the defensive conservatism of the discrete seeks to ring-fence privacy, national sovereignty and, indeed, the immaculate perception which Virilio wishes to preserve, the emergence of diasporan networks as a counter-model for planetary communication proposes not the preservation but the translation of data. The fluid, indeterminate, indiscrete and maculate translations of diasporan nets evolve only as a consequence and in the form of communication, in creative partnership with the media they foreground. Our technologies are as integral to that evolving communication as our animal bodies, and as hard-wired to the world. That they mediate, and do so at the speed of light, should encourage us with the thought that the present is a determinate temporality governed by the universal constant. That present is not innocent, but neither is it wholly determined. Nothing is forgotten in the millenia-old conversations of humankind, least of all the past vagaries of communication itself that become properties of its latest form. Such memories and histories exist in multiple modalities in the present: as the pattern of fibre-optic cables laid along the ancient paths of trade winds and caravanserai, as the remnants of ancient religion in verbal greetings and imprecations, perhaps even in a Lamarckian patterning of dendrites to produce the Chomskyan 'language instinct'. But despite Virilio's fears, the present is not the already achieved and completed moment that the myth of instantaneous communication pretends to, bringing us 'live' pictures carrying the message that whatever is depicted is already over. Considered not as given but as raw material, the present becomes the workshop in which the future is produced, the ephemeral and to that extent the beautiful and ethical moment in which the teleological imagination of the end of history and the end of dialogue stands to be proved to be no more than an optical illusion. That proof is the anti-teleological but wholly eschatological action of future making, based in the evolutionary mutations of translation, the work of interpretation and conversation which is both the vehicle and the outcome of a human ecology. Our present, as history, is that in which the organic and the technological can for the first time be seen not as opposites, nor as equally alien to the human, but as intrinsic to the evolution of the future in the communications of the present. Virilio's jeremiads are still invaluable reminders of the urgency of this historical juncture, of the cost if we should lose communication and be shuffled into homeostatic monopoly. There can be no question of preserving the present as an unchanged and unchanging instance of the face-to-face: the present is not a plenum but a process. To idealise the immediate excludes the possibility of the instability and failure of dominance to dominate. Far from excluding technologies, we should embrace them, with all due caution and alert to the purposes that have designed the specific devices we have in front of us, ready to aid in their evolution as the price of ensuring our own. To keep the present as process, and to evolve, we will need all the allies we can get, organic and mechanical. ** REFERENCES ** Baudrillard, Jean (1988c), America, trans Chris Turner (Material Word), Verso, London. Clausewitz, Carl von (1968), On War, Penguin, Harmondsworth. Cubitt, Sean (1999), 'Introduction. Le riel c'est l'impossible: The Sublime Time of Special Effects' in Screen v. 40 n.2, Summer, 123-30. 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McLuhan, Marshall and Bruce R Powers (1989), The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Usai, Paolo Cherchi (1994), Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema, trans Emma Sansone Rittle, BFI, London. Virilio, Paul (1990), Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles, trans Mark Polizzotti, Semiotext(e), New York. Virilio, Paul (1991), The Aesthetics of Disappearance, trans Philip Beitchman, Semiotext(e), New York. Virilio, Paul (1996), Un paysage d'ivinements, Galilie, Paris. Virilio, Paul (1998a), Cybermonde: la politique du pire, entretien avec Phillippe Petit, textuel/Seuil, Paris. ---- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Special Issue on Hybrid Logics. Last Call Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:17:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 735 (735) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************************ Last Call for Papers ** DEADLINE 15th DECEMBER ** Journal of Logic and Computation Special Issue on Hybrid Logics http://www.hylo.net/cfp.html HyLo 2000, the Second Workshop on Hybrid Logics, was organized in Birmingham, Great Britain, on August 14-18, 2000. Given the interest the workshop gave rise to, a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation will be devoted to Hybrid Logics. Contributions are not limited to those presented at HyLo 2000, and we are now inviting submissions from all interested authors. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Applications Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:18:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 736 (736) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCING: National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Applications to Conduct an NEH Seminar or Institute in Summer 2002 Application Deadline: March 1, 2001. Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports faculty development through residential seminars and institutes. These projects are designed to provide teachers from across the nation with the opportunity for intensive study of important texts and topics in the humanities. Seminars and institutes are intended to foster excellent teaching by encouraging collegial discussion of humanities topics within close-knit scholarly communities. They also promote active scholarship in the humanities in ways suited to teachers at all levels from grade school through college. Now is a good time to begin drafting a proposal to direct a seminar or institute, or to contact a colleague whom you think might be interested in developing a project. The NEH is supporting 30 projects for school teachers and 24 for college and university faculty in the summer of 2001. You may find lists of these projects at http://www.neh.gov/teaching/seminars1.html (school teachers) and http://www.neh.gov/teaching/seminars2.html (college and university teachers). If you or your colleagues would like to apply to offer a seminar or institute in 2002, please be in touch with one of the NEH program staff listed below to discuss your application. Program staff can answer questions, discuss current program emphases, provide samples of successful applications, and comment on an informal draft. Staff can help anticipate questions that are likely to arise in the review process. The application guidelines will be found on the NEH website in mid-December at http://www.neh.gov. Printed copies can be obtained by e-mailing sem-inst@neh.gov. If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to call on the staff at the NEH Division of Education Programs. For general questions, call Joyce Ferguson at 202-606-8463 or Jean Hughes at 202-606-8471, or contact one of the program officers listed below. We look forward to working with you. Thomas Adams 202-606-8396 tadams@neh.gov Douglas Arnold 202-606-8225 darnold@neh.gov Barbara Ashbrook 202-606-8388 bashbrook@neh.gov Judy Jeffrey Howard 202-606-8398 jhoward@neh.gov F. Bruce Robinson 202-606-8213 brobinson@neh.gov Robert Sayers 202-606-8215 rsayers@neh.gov From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Announcement of Coca Cola Collection In American Memory Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:19:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 737 (737) [deleted quotation] Good afternoon, This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for duplicate posts. The Coca-Cola Company Donates 50 Years of Television Commercials Reflecting World Culture To the Library of Congress 20,000 Ads Are Largest Gift of Corporate Archives in Library's History The Library of Congress today announced that The Coca-Cola Company which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of television advertising, is donating its entire collection of historic television commercials as part of the Library's Bicentennial Gifts to the Nation program. The donation, which will eventually exceed 20,000 television ads, represents the largest donation of corporate advertising in the Library's 200-year history. The Coca-Cola gift reflects five decades of local cultures around the world and will provide an extraordinary resource to researchers and historians of popular culture. The collection will be cataloged and digitized and eventually made accessible online. The gift will be conveyed to the Library over the next three to five years. The collection will cover the early 1950s to the present and will include both U.S. and international ads, from the Company's portfolio of brands. Beginning November 29 a preview of the collection featuring historical information and images of Coca-Cola television advertising will be found on the American Memory at <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/> This preview presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product. Also included within the special presentations are a time line of television advertising and information about the history of Coca Cola Advertising. Users will also find a biography of Dr. John S. Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola. A highlight of the collection is a compilation of outtakes from the famous "Hilltop" commercial of 1971, showing various scenes and actors that did not appear in the final version. Other spots include "Mean Joe Greene" (a television commercial that was so popular it spurred its own made-for-TV movie), the first "Polar Bear" spot, some experimental color television ads from 1964, some early black-and-white ads from The D'Arcy Agency in 1953 and contemporary international ads from Malaysia, Tunisia and Japan. Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford seminars on humanities computing Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:11:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 738 (738) [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------- Winter Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit 10th - 12th January 2001 Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ Booking deadline: 11th December 2000 Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is pleased to announce three seminars on humanities computing, to be held in Oxford from the 10th to 12th January 2001. They are updated repeats from the summer seminars series that ran in July 2000. The three seminars are: 10th January: Putting your database on the Web 11th January: Creating and documenting digital texts 12th January: Working with XML The seminar website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ 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 and Oxford University Computing Services. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop at ESSLLI 2001 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:12:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 739 (739) [deleted quotation] SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND CATEGORISATION Workshop at ESSLLI XIII (Helsinki) Helsinki, August 13th - 17th 2001 http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/~esslli --------------------------------------------------------------------- The sheer amount of knowledge necessary to shed light on the way word meanings mutually relate in context or distribute in lexico-semantic classes appears to exceed the limits of human conscious awareness and descriptive capability. Particularly at this level of linguistic analysis, then, we seem to be in need of automatic ways of filtering, structuring and classifying semantic evidence through inspection of a large number of word uses in context. Totally or partially unsupervised inductive methods of knowledge acquisition from corpus data are credited with being able to provide such ways. Yet, it remains to be seen how acquired information can best be represented in current formal models for knowledge representation, for it to be made available to mainstream NLP applications. There are reasons to believe that this integration will require much more than a simple extension of off-the-shelf machine learning technology. At the same time, any major breakthrough in this area is bound to have significant repercussions on the way word meanings and lexico-semantic classes in general are formally represented and used for applications. With these purposes in mind, the workshop intends to focus on the issue of interaction between techniques for inducing semantic information from corpus data and formal methods of linguistic knowledge representation. In particular, we encourage in-depth analysis of underlying assumptions of the proposed techniques and methods and discussion of possible relevant connections with cognitive, linguistic,logical and philosophical issues. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final call for papers: CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:13:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 740 (740) [deleted quotation] CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Lancaster University (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?" Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. [material deleted] ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 593024 Fax: +44 1524 843085 E-mail: mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk WWW: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2000.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MBR'01 Deadline extension Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:14:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 741 (741) [deleted quotation] -********** DEADLINE EXTENSION TO DECEMBER 15, 2000 *************** We have extended the submission deadline to December 15. Please send electronically (Microsoft Word, RTF, PDF, or Postcript) the extended abstract (about 1000 words) - No hard copies - to the program chair at the address lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu NEW Web Site Address of MBR'01 http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html Last updated November 25, 2000 ********************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, VALUES (MBR'01), Pavia, Italy, May 17-19, 2001. ********************************************************************** Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ********************************************************************** [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Sydney 2001: Second Call Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:15:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 742 (742) [deleted quotation] **Second Call for Papers** Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001 A Conference to be held at the University of Sydney 26th - 28th September 2001 http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001 Computing Arts: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities2001 is held in association with the Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) organisation in the United Kingdom, and is supported by The Australian Academy of the Humanities and the National Scholarly Communications Forum. Sponsors for the conference include Bell and Howell Information and Learning. Computing Arts 2001 will explore the impact of digitisation on the humanities, and will focus on new methods of creating, using and conserving the resources which comprise our common cultural heritage. [material deleted] CONFERENCE WEB SITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IEEE Int.Conf. Software Maintenance., Florence,Italy,ICSM200 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:16:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 743 (743) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleague I would like to invite you at the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001, and associated workshops: SCAM, WESS, WSE, etc. next November 2001 in Florence, Italy. Outstanding Keynotes such as: Prof. David Lorge Parnas and Prof. Dieter Rombach. Industrial papers and experiences, reseach papers and award, tutorials, tool expositions, dissertation forum and award, workshops, panels, and other exciting activities have been planned. I hope that this CFPs could be useful for your work. Please forward the following to anybody who you think may be interested. Apologies if you have already seen this. If you would like to be removed from our list please send an email to icsm2001@dsi.unifi.it with REMOVE in the subject. ICSM2001 Paolo Nesi (General Chair) =_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_= CALL---FOR---PAPER$ IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance 2001 FLORENCE, ITALY, 6-10 November 2001 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001 Theme: Systems and Software Evolution in the era of the Internet =_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_= Sponsored by IEEE Supported bt the: EC-IST, University of Florence, O-Group [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ichim2001: Call for Proposals Extended Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:17:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 744 (744) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ichim2001 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium Politecnico di Milano, Milan Italy 3-7 September, 2001 DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL DECEMBER 15, 2000 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/ http://www.ichim01.polimi.it About ichim2001 --------------- Since 1991 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) has provided an international forum in which to explore the relationships between Technology and Cultural Heritage. Under the theme "Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium", ichim2001 will explore the interplay between innovative technologies and their applications in the cultural sphere. Specific attention will be paid to the evolution of Cultural Heritage Institutions, whose new forms are being determined by the combined impact of innovative technologies and changing social expectations of their role. ICHIM is held every two years, alternating between North America and Europe. in 1997 we met in Paris at Le Louvre museum; ichim99 was in Washington D.C. Our host for ichim2001 is be the Politecnico di Milano, where we expect at least 500 specialists, from museums, cultural organizations, universities, research institutes, technology companies and organizations. Blending different areas of expertise and approaches is the trademark of ICHIM, and we encourage broad participation. [material deleted] From: Christian Nelson Subject: ACW-L problems Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:21:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 745 (745) Hi all: As indicated by my last message, I'm getting interested in the topic of computers and writing. Thus, I was happy when I foudn the ACW (association of computers and writing) email list. Unfortunately, when I tried to follow the link on the ACW page about the ACW-L (viz., http://english.ttu.edu/acw/action/help.asp?keyword=acwl) Texas Tech's Lyris system informed me 'No mailing list exists with the name "acw-l"' Also, when I tried to access the list's archives I got a message saying, in part, "The document you have requested was not found on the TTU Server." Assuming that at least a few people on this list are also affiliated with the acw-l list, can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Christian Nelson -- NetscapeCommunicator4.73Win3220000502 From: Christian Nelson Subject: student peer-evaluation Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:22:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 746 (746) Hi All: I'm interested in any and all information regarding students' evaluation of each others work, and the facilitation of this via the net. I'm particularly interested in studies which evaluate the adequacy of students' evaluations of each others work and ways to improve such evaluations (through the avoidance of such threats as social loafing, prisoner dilemma tendencies, and the like). Thanks in advance for any information. Best, Christian Nelson -- NetscapeCommunicator4.73Win3220000502 From: Willard McCarty Subject: how to think with computers Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:21:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 747 (747) Humanists will enjoy and profit from a typically witty piece by the computer scientist Edsgar Dijkstra, "A parable", at <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/inv/burros/ewd594.htm>. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext research bibliography Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:22:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 748 (748) Comments and suggestions are invited on my evolving bibliography, "A serious beginner's guide to hypertext research", online at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/achallc2000/hyperbib.html>. There are some obvious omissions, many of which I have on my list, but please assume ignorance on my part. Most of all I am interested in comments on the structure, though of course I am also keen to hear about any good studies I have missed. I would like to think that it can be kept to the present size or even reduced somewhat, so I would be especially pleased if you could suggest items that might replace others currently listed. Many thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Dene Grigar Subject: Re: 14.0530 ACW-L? student peer-evaluation? Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:06:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 749 (749) I have been active in C and W for 10 years and have been a member of ACW for the last 6. ACW has been inactive since late last spring and seems to have kicked back up only in the last week. Those of us who were active on the ACW's listsev moved to other lists and were caught off guard this week by ACW rise from the ashes. We all know Fred Kemp who runs ACW, actually he *is* ACW, so we have sent him direct inquiries about the site and listserv. I will keep those of you interested about his response when we hear back. Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University From: Mick Doherty Subject: ACW-L Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:06:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 750 (750) I left ACW-L about two years ago, but am still in contact with a number of Computers & Writing standard-bearers. My understanding is the list was shut down some time in this past year, but a good number of the ACW-L regulars have migrated to an eGroups list called TechRhet. I also don't belong to TechRhet, but here is the eGroups blurb: --- Tech-Rhet, one of what we hope will be many exciting offshoots of ACW-L (many thanks to Fred Kemp and the subscribers to that list for making it such a thriving, learning-rich environment for so many years) is devoted to exploring the intersections among teaching, learning, communication, community, and the new literacies. --- Thus it is with lists; MegaByte University lived for four or five years and became ACW-L which has now become TechRhet. I don't think a single list I was on in 1995 still exists ... except this one, of course. Mick Doherty Corporate Communications Editor American Airlines __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ From: "Areti Damala" Subject: Re: 14.0530 ACW-L? student peer-evaluation? Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:07:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 751 (751) Hallo humanists, Regarding the -over the net- evaluation of work and exchange of ideas among students and their professors, you might find ineteresting the Kark system, developed and used at the University of Bergen, Norway. The url is http://kark.uib.no Some of the demonstration material is available in english as well. Best regards Areti Damala Msc. Student in Humanities Computing, University of Crete, Greece From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Thoughts by Professor Al Beck on Learning, Computers & Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:05:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 752 (752) its Relationship Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Hi, wishing you well and happy advent days..here is an important call from Al Beck, Associate Professor of Art, Retired Culver-Stockton College..on the negative impact of computers in the learning exprience..thought might interest you and other Humanist scholars..as he goes.."I write in support of Edward Miller and his concerns about the negative impact of computers in the learning exprience. We have reached the end of a microphase in human development. And to progress, to evolve any further, we must challenge the newly established technological shibboleths of contemporary traditional education. Previously the imaginative teacher confronted the angry animals of rational thinking: tests, grades, the lecture-drone, the present K-through-12 structure, ad infini-doldrum. The time is overdue to reexamine the learning exprience, its classroom connection, personal accountability, social responsibility, creativity and curiosity. It is time also to balance the rituals of rote information-gathering with imaginative nourishment, meditation and celebration. The computer has come along in human history --similar in style if not speed to its predecessors --at a time whe the worship of decal learning has all but erased human internal challenges. It will always be true that sacred cows produce superfluous milk...." And he further recommends a book by Dr. Elaine De Beauport, "THE Three Faces of Mind: Developing your Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Intelligences." To me, the book sounds good and an impressive one. From the book: "..The deepest brain is about the earth. It is about stability and security. It is about acceptance of life as it presents itself. It is about life and about preservation and creation, not in finished form, but in continuum. We are in the continuum. Life, or basic wave-motion energy, goes on without us and also with us as we emerge into existence.." The book also expressed, "Learning and Behaviour as Repetitive Wave Motion." I hope, you would like and enjoy the thoughts/ideas of Prof. Al Beck. Thanking you.. Kindest Regards Arun Tripathi From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 14.0496 Pokemonian ethics? Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:05:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 753 (753) Gerda Elata asked: [deleted quotation] Pokemon is probably the most westernized, and well known to westerners, of the many Japanese anime productions. While the following don't deal specifically with Pokemon, you may find some of the articles useful for exploring how anime (animated video and film) and manga (comic books) are interwoven with culture. Craig, Timothy J. ed. 'Japan pop! : inside the world of Japanese popular culture.' Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2000. (especially: Izawa, Eri. 'The Romantic, Passionate Japanese in Anime: A Look at the Hidden Japanese Soul.' pp. 138-153.) Fehrenbach, Heide and Uta G. Poiger, eds. 'Transactions, transgressions, transformations : American culture in Western Europe and Japan.' New York : Berghahn Books, 2000. Martinez, D.P., ed. 'The worlds of Japanese popular culture : gender, shifting boundaries and global cultures.' Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - Hope Greenberg (who has a daughter devoted to exploring and creating anime and manga!) From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: Virtual/Corporate Universities and e-Learning Conferences Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:11:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 754 (754) Jeanne Meister, president of Corporate University Xchange(CUX), who I interviewed in the July/August 2000 issue of The Technology Source (http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/vision/2000-07.asp) on the topic of corporate universities, asked me to mention the first two CUX events of 2001. She has offered a registration discount to TS readers. The first conference is in San Francisco February 4-7 titled "Designing a Virtual University: Strategies for Enterprise-wide e-Learning." The second will be held in Las Vegas, May 5-9 and is titled "Corporate Universities 2001: Benchmarks for Learning in the Digital Economy." Descriptions of the San Francisco and Las Vegas programs may be found at http://www.corpu.com/conferences/sf2001/sf2001home.html and http://www.corpu.com/conferences/lv2001/lv2001index.html respectively. I was impressed during my interview with Jeanne that there are currently more than 1,600 organizations titled "corporate universities," "corporate colleges," or "institutes for learning." She expects this number to rise to more than 2,000 in the next few years, and forecasts that by the year 2010 or so, corporate universities will outnumber traditional universities. Both conferences feature today's most successful corporate sector learning innovators addressing the issues that e-learners and those organizations making the transition to e-learning are confronting and how we can use this information to design online learning courses and programs. Jeanne offered the discount because she wants to influence the mix of people at the conferences (corporate and traditional educator). If you are interested in attending either conference, forward this email note to the CUX's registrar, Christine Schmidt (cschmidt@corpu.com), telling her which conference you want to attend. Christine will offer you the discount on registration. Best. Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Education CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, The Technology Source UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Editor Emeritus, On the Horizon Phone: 919 962-2517 http://www.camfordpublishing.com Fax: 919 962-1693 From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0535 Pokemonian ethics & Japanese popular culture Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:11:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 755 (755) And the outdated but immortal Fredrick L. Schodt "Managa! manga! The World of Japanese Comics" with Forward by none other then the splediferous Osamu Tezuka ISBN 0-87011-722-1. The best imaginable intro to the world of Manga. Absolutely. :) Chris _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com From: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:09:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 756 (756) COUNTING THE NUMBERS Later today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear representatives of two presidential candidates argue about numbers. Counting the numbers has dominated presidential politics for three weeks now. Numbers are important in electronic publishing, too, and this issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing offers some numbers for your consideration. There will be no recounts. So here is the December 2000 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep Tenure and Promotion: Should You Publish in Electronic Journals? http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/sweeney.html Aldrin E. Sweeney, assistant professor of science education at the University of Central Florida, has numbers to show that faculty and administrators are still on the fence about e-journals. How Scientists Retrieve Publications: An Empirical Study of How the Internet Is Overtaking Paper Media http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/bjork.html Bo-Christer Bjvrk and Ziga Turk, editor and one of the co-editors of the Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, have numbers to show that scientists increasingly look to e-journals for information. Consortia vs. Reform: Creating Congruence http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/landesman.html Margaret Landesman, the head of collection development at the Marriott Library, University of Utah, and Johann van Reenen, assistant professor and director of the Centennial Science and Engineering Library, University of New Mexico, discovered that two of the most popular solutions to the serials crisis may cancel out one another. How Much Information? http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/lyman.html Peter Lyman, associate dean, and Hal R. Varian, dean, at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, are trying to count all recorded information. They've gotten pretty far. When Shall We Be Free? http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/singer.html Peter Singer, an associate editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and Sun Life Chair and Director, University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics, Toronto, Canada, presses his case for the free dissemination of research results. Q.A.: Access Code Redux http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/lieb0602.html Contributing editor Thom Lieb suggests ways publishers should make their Web sites comply with disability laws. Thom also asks JEP readers for help for his next column, on privacy policies for e-journals. Please take a few minutes to respond to his survey at http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/jepsurvey.html And if you want your thoughts about electronic publishing to count, 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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 34, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:10:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 757 (757) Version 34 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,250 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 Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 100 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 330 KB and the Word file is over 400 KB. The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections 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, Identifiers, 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 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 resources directory includes the following sections: Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing Images Legal Preprints Preservation Publishers SGML and Related Standards 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 Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:10:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 758 (758) Information The August 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 1,329 titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. 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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. ....................................................................... A Vision of the "New Education" Survey of Distance Learning Instructors Study of World Information Production Protecting Visual Content on the Web New Publication Features Multimedia Projects ....................................................................... A VISION OF THE "NEW EDUCATION" "All signs indicate that we are on a path to creating a 'new education' analogous to the 'new economy.' . . . What is our vision of the 'new education'? Is it one of techno-dazzle for its own sake? Not at all. Computers and the Internet are simply tools, just as lectures, recitations, and homework are tools. . . . 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While we often mention commercial products, publications, and Web sites, Infobits does not accept or reprint unsolicited advertising copy. Send your article suggestions to the editor at carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2000, UNC-CH Center for Instructional Technology. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes. --- You are currently subscribed to infobits as: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-infobits-240423M@listserv.unc.edu From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 14.0536 corporate universities & events relating to Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:36:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 760 (760) on Sat, 02 Dec 2000, James L. Morrison wrote: [deleted quotation] <...> [deleted quotation] "Managing education as a business project" (from the interview) isn't exactly the first thing that comes to my mind when contemplating a university education. I mean, I wonder what the role of things like critical thinking and the liberal arts, free inquiry and, God forbid, dissent, are at places like this. Or are those things to be relegated to poorly funded and all too easy to marginalize "public" institutions? What's next -- what's the next cultural or social value not of one's own making that's going to be appropriated? Religion? Opps, I just remembered "Divine Right" George Baer. LEO --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein Library Web Coordinator home ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://patachon.com office ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: corporations and universities Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:36:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 761 (761) The idea of a corporate university is chilling to many of us for all the obvious reasons. Some of us work for small companies that are careful in their combination of research and profit-making, but I've seldom been encouraged to think that scholarly enquiry could survive for long in a corporate environment. This would appear to be borne out in the universities in which the curriculum is strongly influenced by the business world. My impression is that the business-orientated types don't have time for the asking of questions meant to problematise rather than solve problems. My impression is that they look on universities as skill-training centres, for which they are ill-suited. Perhaps a Sinologist will kindly correct me, but I do recall an anecdote about Confucius being asked what one change he would see made in the world; his answer was, that things be called by their correct names. Why, then, train someone how skillfully to push buttons and move a mouse, then give him or her a university degree? This seems to me madness on two counts. First the skills-training isn't academic as such, so the degree is inappropriate. If the skills-training is embedded in and serves an academic purpose, as learning how to use Excel can serve the analysis of complex numerical data in a research project, or learning the ins and outs of a concordancer can serve the understanding of language, then fine. Our undergraduate minor programme at King's College London works in that way. But if a course trains students in Excel and Access, say, but gives them no experience in thinking critically with these tools, does not put a critical understanding of the limitations of computational methods centre stage, then to my mind the course does not belong in a university programme -- however valuable, however well done, however popular. This leads me to my second point. Which is: "dignifying" skills-training by attaching an academic degree to it implicitly degrades the craft. It seems to me that it merely internalises a snobbish attitude toward skills and then makes a lunge for the coveted prize, which it thereby denegrates. Far better, it would seem to me, would be to recognise two very different kinds of training WITHOUT attributing social class to either. Comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [New Book]Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:39:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 762 (762) --the book sounds interesting and follow the phenomenology of Greetings Humanists, Hello, It is an exquisite honour for me to introduce the new book of Professor Donald Hoffman, the "VISUAL INTELLIGENCE"..his book explored the extraordinary, overlooked creative genius of the mind's eye. Professor Hoffman is Professor of cognitive science, philosophy, and computer science at the University of California, Irvine. In an informal style replete with illustrations, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman presents the compelling scientific evidence for vision's constructive powers..In the words of Professor Hoffman..Visual Intelligence is the power that people use to "construct and experience of objects out of colors, lines, and motions." Some excerpts about the book can be read at (http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall98/hoffman.htm) Thank you. With best regards Arun Tripathi From: Helen Nissenbaum Subject: [Editorial]Ethics and Information Technology --an Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:08:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 763 (763) [...] Ethics and Information Technology Volume 1, Issue 1 Editorial In a world where we are all faced with more information than we can possibly handle, a new journal will, and should, provoke the question, why? Why is yet another journal needed? The truisms that information technology is changing the world in profound ways and that these changes need to be identified, understood, evaluated and, where possible, influenced for the good, does not fully or adequately answer the question since a fair number of journals focused on information technology already exists. We believe that there is a serious gap in what is currently available. None of the journals focused on information technology explicitly addresses the ethical and value dimensions of information technology. Yet, information technology is profoundly affecting the opportunities and capacities of individuals to act in morally and socially responsible ways. Information technology is profoundly changing the character of social, political, and economic institutions, as well as social arrangements that aspire to the ideals of justice and human well-being. The permeation of information technology throughout our world is challenging and changing fundamental moral concepts and social values such as freedom, democracy, privacy, responsibility, and so on. We think the changes in moral concepts and social values are so important as to be worthy of a new journal. Why, some may still ask, *ethics* and information technology? Is this not a topic covered in ethics journals? What is the connection between technology and ethics? And, why ethics and information technology when we did not seem to need a new journal or field of study for automobile, microwave, laser, washing machine, or telephone ethics? These questions all seem to call for an account of information technology ethics that explains not just why attention should be given to the topic but what is special about information technology. Indeed, a major controversy in the field is whether the ethical issues arising around information technology are special. At one extreme are those who believe that ethics cannot be about technology because it is about moral norms and concepts and since these apply to human beings, technology is irrelevant. At the other extreme are those who believe that technology, and especially information and communications technologies, are changing the world in such profound ways that the ethical issues they raise are unique and have moved us into unchartered moral territories. *Ethics and Information Technology* will not take a position on this debate. Rather, it will provide a forum for it, as well as many other ethical issues arising around information and communication technology. We will strive to make this an interdisciplinary forum because so many of the important issues are multidimensional, lying at the nexus of philosophy, sociology, psychology, policy and public affairs, law, science, engineering and system design. We especially hope to create a venue for bringing together information technology and moral philosophy, which we believe has much to say about the development of information technology but has not been adequately heard. We will also strive for international relevance. While the reach of information and communications technology extends beyond and through national boundaries, we recognise that nations may experience the technology in a variety of ways. We hope to be able to represent this variety of perspectives. We have assembled an outstanding Board of Editors to help steer the course. Reflecting the Journal's commitment to a broad range of issues and perspectives they bring expertise from anthropology, computer science, the law, management and information systems, philosophy, political science, social theory, sociology, communications and policy studies. In this issue we have gathered papers that sample the range of issues, discussions, and debates we believe need to be brought together `under one roof'. Let us introduce them to you. In Philip Brey's paper on virtual reality, it is argued that virtual reality systems do not merely represent virtual environments but also make possible, actions or behaviours within these environments that would be judged unethical, even reprehensible, were they performed in the real world. Although Brey makes no general pronouncement about the morality of this possibility, he argues that virtual reality applications, in the way they structure and represent actions and their consequences, and signal internal approval or disapproval, have considerable power to influence the way users perceive actions and their consequences. This power is achieved frequently through misrepresentation as well as biased representations that selectively favour certain values and interests over others. He charges designers of virtual reality applications with a moral responsibility to reflect on these moral dimensions of their work. In his paper on the Internet and education, Hubert Dreyfus, drawing on Kierkegaard's work on the Press, challenges the popular view of the Internet as a global classroom in which anybody and everybody can participate in a process of so called `hyperlearning.' As Kierkegaard said of the Press, Dreyfus says of the Internet, that it would promote risk-free anonymity and idle curiosity, both of which undermine responsibility and commitment. Dreyfus considers how the Net would promote Kierkegaard's two nihilistic spheres of existence, the aesthetic and the ethical, while repelling the religious sphere. In the aesthetic sphere, the aesthete avoids commitments and lives in the categories of the interesting and the boring and wants to see as many interesting sights (sites) as possible. In the ethical sphere we would reach a `despair of possibility' brought on by the ease of making and unmaking commitments on the Net. Only in the religious sphere is nihilism overcome by making a risky, unconditional commitment. Dreyfus concludes that only by working closely with students in a shared situation in the real world can teachers with strong identities, ready to take risks to preserve their commitments, pass on their passion and skill to their students. In this shared context students can turn information into knowledge and practical wisdom. Kathleen Wallace's paper serves as an interesting counterpoint to Dreyfus's because she defends the positive values of anonymity even in the face of its risks. Wallace provides a rich and original conceptual analysis of anonymity, distinguishing different types of anonymity, and reviewing their ethical implications. She defines anonymity as noncoordinatability of traits in and through their social relations and locations, which is achievable because people are a plurality of traits and these traits are not all related each to every other. In discussing the ethical standing of anonymity she reminds us of Plato's parable of the Ring of Gyges. Although Wallace admits that anonymity always involves a degree of risk -- even where the initial primary purpose is to protect the anonymous person from the harmful actions of others, or to promote positively valued activity -- and anonymity always raises the issue of accountability, she defends its positive value. To mitigate against risks like those of the Ring of Gyges, she urges caution and various safeguards. In a very dense and provocative paper Luciano Floridi proposes a framework for information ethics to serve as the much needed conceptual foundation for computer ethics. According to Floridi the problems of computer ethics strain the conceptual resources of standard ethical theories. To augment them, he proffers, and elaborates, information ethics as a particular case of `environmental' ethics -- an ethics of the infosphere. Information ethics proposes that there is something more elementary and fundamental than life and pain, namely, being -- understood as information, and entropy. From the perspective of information ethics, information has an intrinsic worthiness, and information ethics substantiates this position, by recognising that any information entity has a `Spinozian' right to persist in its own status, and a `constructionist' right to flourish, i.e. to improve and enrich its existence and essence. As a consequence of such `rights', information ethics evaluates the duty of any rational being in terms of the contribution to the growth of the infosphere. Floridi argues that information ethics constitutes a valuable perspective from which to approach not only moral problems in computer ethics, but also a range of conceptual and moral phenomena within ethical discourse. This paper is sure to draw a lot of comment, criticism, and debate -- all of which we encourage. Bernard Gert, in his paper argues that the understandable, but rather misleading, concentration on controversial issues in moral philosophy leads people to believe that there is no substantial agreement on moral matters. Such a focus on controversial issues, he argues, clouds the fact that for a preponderance of day to day moral decisions and judgments there is much agreement and certainty. Building upon this substantial moral agreement, Gert has developed a system of `common morality,' described comprehensively in his book *Morality: Its Nature and Justification*, OUP, 1998. In his paper, Gert exaplains how his system of common morality may help us understand, and sometimes even resolve, controversial moral problems emerging in the field of computing. The virtue of common morality, according to Gert, is that it provides a method for distinguishing between morally acceptable and morally unacceptable alternatives. Although common morality does not always yield a unique best solution, it can draw clear boundaries around what is morally acceptable. He illustrates this in the case of copying software for a friend. James Moor's paper develops Gert's theory of morality into a practical framework for dealing with the policy vacuums created by computing technology. Moor insists that any new policies we propose must meet the ethical criteria of Gert's system. When considering the ethical import of new policies in light of traditional ethical theories we frequently discover a strong rivalry between the leading contenders -- consequentialist theories that emphasise the consequences of actions and deontological theories that stress rights and duties. Especially where consequentialist theories and deontological theories offer hopelessly incompatible solutions, applied ethicists, searching for practical guidance, find themselves immersed in an ad hoc deliberation, scrounging for solutions from an inconsistent pile of principles. From Gert's theory Moor develops the conceptual scheme of `just consequentialism,' whose efficacy he demonstrates on some of the traditional dilemmas in computer ethics. Reviews of books and new media will occur as a regular feature of the journal. This issue includes Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst review of *The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy* edited by Terrell Ward Bynum and James H. Moor and Leslie R. Shade's review of *Morality and Machines: Perspectives on Computer Ethics* by Stacey L. Edgar. We also include Peter Danielson's review of *Lego's Mindstorms* robot kits. We have included, as well, an annotated bibliography by our book review editor Herman Tavani. As a service to our readers, we plan to offer this list at least once per volume. That covers our first issue. But what about the future? What are the topics or themes that we see as important and in need of consideration? We decided to list some of the themes and issues that we envisage the journal covering. This is by no means an exhaustive list, merely some indicators of topics on our minds: Information technology and human values (including ethical, economic and aesthetic) The ethics of artificial intelligence, artificial life, virtual reality, robotics Moral theory (applicability, role, future) Ethics and electronic mediation (conceptions of self, identity, democracy, and communities) Privacy, surveillance and cryptology Intellectual property rights and new media Information technology, reliability, and accountability The information society, rights and obligations (property, freedom of speech, access) The information society and justice (crime, inequality, access) The ethical implications of the global information infrastructure The ethics of patient records and virtual medicine The use of information technology in the workplace (surveillance, deskilling, decision making, empowerment) The ethical issues of information technology in the home (on family and children in particular) The ethical issues of information technology use in education Values embedded in the design of information systems and technology Governance and sovereignty in the digital electronic realm The Internet and public law Clearly, there is much to be said, argued and debated and, with the explosion of information technology in our late modern society, this is the time to do it. We offer our journal as a `place' that welcomes these discussions, arguments and debates -- a place that heretofor has been in the margins of various fields of inquiry, including applied moral philosophy, sociology, computing, and science and technology studies. Our policy, already reflected in this first issue, is that *Ethics and Information Technology* will publish work of high quality regardless of the discipline, school of thought, or philosophical tradition. With this introduction we welcome you to the first issue of the first volume of *Ethics and Information Technology*! The Editors: Jeroen van den Hoven Lucas D. Introna Deborah G. Johnson Helen Nissenbaum Helen Nissenbaum, University Center for Human Values 5 Ivy Lane, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013 609 258-2879(tel) 609 258-6082 (fax) Co-editor, Journal of Ethics and Information Technology <http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ethics_it> ----------------------------------------------- From: Pr. Aphek Subject: [Israel-Report]Children teaching internet Skills to Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 01:25:05 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 764 (764) [--] Dear Arun, Thought the following might interest you and may be the group. Please forward at your discretion. With best wishes Edna Prof. Edna Aphek,Tel-Hi Networks, 42 Hatayassim St. Jerusalem, Israel. David Yellin Teachers College, Jerusalem, Israel. -- Children Tutoring Seniors at internet Skills: An Experiment Conducted at one Israeli Elementary School. The internet which connects about 200 million people and millions of pages, voice , sound, image and video files has become a most powerful tool in the hands of those who know how to navigate it. The opportunity to use this powerful tool exists and is open to most strata of the population, regardless of the limitations of age, education, etc. Though the opportunity exists what actually happens is that the gap between internet surfers and those who are not knowledgeable in internet skills, is ever growing. The gap is widening between youngsters, the primary internet user population , and adults and mostly seniors ,who are not skilled at using a computer or the internet. In the new Hi-Tech world, where children speak the new language of the internet as their mother tongue, it would be most fitting to put their mastery to good use and train them to teach this new language to Senior Citizens, those unacquainted with the language of the internet. This latter age group might find much interest and relevant, useful information via the net; they can study on-line, meet new people via the internet, find useful information, participate in on-line interest groups, and contribute from their experience and knowledge and most importantly feel connected. An experiment was conducted in one elementary school in Israel, the Alon School in 1999, where ten Seniors were tutored by ten children aged 11-14. For documentation of the process as well as an evaluation of the project, please write to: Prof. Edna Aphek E-mail: -------------- Pr. Edna Aphek Tel-Hi Networks Ltd. Tel - 97225633951 Fax - 97225665902 ------------- From: John Unsworth Subject: Job opportunity in electronic publishing Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:41:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 765 (765) Manager, Electronic Imprint The University Press of Virginia offers a pioneering opportunity to create and develop an electronic imprint for a well-established university press within a university of strong technological vision and commitment. The sole focus of the imprint will be electronic publication of original digital scholarship in the humanities. The successful candidate will develop and supervise a staff of four, seek out and acquire electronic projects, shepherd them through evaluation and into publication, and work with press staff and e-commerce business school consultants to model business strategies and marketing plans. The imprint manager will be, with the press director and other department heads, a member of the management group of the press. The position requires at least five years of publishing experience with significant managerial responsibility, and some previous experience in electronic publishing. Bachelors degree required; Masters degree highly desirable. The ideal candidate would also have educational and editorial experience in the humanities. Send a letter of interest, resume, references, and salary history by January 3, 2001, to: Electronic Imprint Manager Search Committee University Press of Virginia P.O. Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0543 corporate universities Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:39:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 766 (766) I guess it depends on what those people mean by "university" -- MacDonald's has run "Hamburger University" for many years, teaching people how to flip burgers without breaking them, how to avoid getting burned with deep-frying fat, how to become an Assistant Manager, etc. I find that only amusing. I do think, though, that the chance that some CEO or other exec would be able to create a "real University" (or, from what I've seen of Colleges of Business including the one at my school) laughable and dismaying, and I wish we could nail down the rights to the word, as if it were a wine variety.... From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0543 corporate universities Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:40:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 767 (767) On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]institutions? What's [deleted quotation]"Divine [deleted quotation] Much as I would like to agree with Leo's position here, I am afraid the degradation of the Liberal Arts is far ahead of what has been a consideration of any public forum such as this. I am sad to report, and have been for over a decade, that even that august institution known as Benedictine Univeristy, where I hang my professorial hat, has been organized for some time such that anyone can graduate without ever having read a single Shakespeare play. Personally, and professionally, I abhor the idea that Liberal Arts, such as they are, would not require the reading of even one single, solitary Shakespeare play, much less half a dozen. I remember reading Julius Caesar in 8th grade, and then it was just about always at least one more Shakespeare play per year. Well, I won't go on about it. . .but I DID receive my degree in: "Human-Machine Interfaces" from the College of Liberal Arts, at the Univerisity of Illinois, some three decades ago, simply because the UI didn't have the concept of the Computer Revolution at the time-- but, if the truth be known, even though I tested out of English for the entire degree, I don't think that the courses I would have seen otherwise would have included any Shakespeare plays. Still. . .I just don't like the idea of a Liberal Arts degree, from such highly ranked institutions as the two I mentioned NOT having a requirement to be at least somewhat read in English literature. Alway nice to hear from you! Wishing You The Very Best For The Holidays, Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: mc9809@mclink.it Subject: corporate university: Dewey's response Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:40:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 768 (768) I agree with what Willard says (especially his second point). The idea of a corporate university is a chilling, though (I fear) inevitable one. We don't have to forget our responsabilities in this situation. What I mean by "our" is the responsability of the university, or more precisely the Humboldtian model of university. This model has reached a crisis point. Responses to this crisis vary (some universities, not only in Usa, have been flirting with companies, and we can see now the results). But I will not go into further details, as in the last ten years many good books have been published on this topic both in Europe and North America (Willard will certainly remember one: Anne Matthews, Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today). What I would like to say here, is that the "Humboldt vs. Ford" game goes back to the first half of the century (when the "old" world of education begins to feel the consequences of the industrialization). Hope Humanists will forgive me for this long quote: John Dewey, _The Middle works, 1899-1924_, Volume 8: 1915, Southern Illinois University Press, London and Amsterdam, Feffer & Simons, Inc., pp. 411-413. EDUCATION VS. TRADE-TRAINING: REPLY TO DAVID SNEDDEN Sir: I have written unclearly indeed when Dr. Snedden interprets me as giving, even in appearance, "aid and comfort to the opponents of a broader, richer and more effective program of education," or else Dr. Snedden has himself fallen a victim to the ambiguity of the word vocational. I would go farther than he is apparently willing to go in holding that education should be vocational, but in the name of a genuinely vocational education I object to the identification of vocation with such trades as can be learned before the age of, say, eighteen or twenty; and to the identification of education with acquisition of specialized skill in the management of machines at the expense of an industrial intelligence based on science and a knowledge of social problems and conditions. I object to regarding as vocational education any training which does not have as its supreme regard the development of such intelligent initiative, ingenuity and executive capacity as shall make workers, as far as may be, the masters of their own industrial fate. I have my doubts about theological predestination, but at all events that dogma assigned predestinating power to an omniscient being; and I am utterly opposed to giving the power of social predestination, by means of narrow trade-training, to any group of fallible men no matter how well-intentioned they may be. Dr. Snedden has been fortunate if he has not met those who are not so well-intentioned, and if he is so situated that he believes that "the interests" are a myth of muckrakers and that none of "the interests" have any designs upon the control of educational machinery. Dr. Snedden's criticisms of my articles seem to me couched in such general terms as not to touch their specific contentions. I argued that a separation of trade education and general education of youth has the inevitable tendency to make both kinds of training narrower, less significant and less effective than the schooling in which the material of traditional education is reorganized to utilize the incus trial subject-matter -- active, scientific and social -- of the present-day environment. Dr. Snedden would come nearer to meeting my points if he would indicate how such a separation is going to make education "broader, richer and more effective." If he will undertake this task there will be something specific to discuss. In order that the discussion may be really definite, I suggest that he tell the readers of the New Republic what he thinks of the Gary system, and whether he thinks this system would have been possible in any of its significant features except by a mutual interpretation of the factors of general education and of industry. And as his article may be interpreted as an apology for the Cooley bill in Illinois, I should like to ask him whether he is familiar with the educational reorganisationn going on in Chicago, and whether he thinks that it would be helped or hindered if the Chicago schools came under a dual administration, with one agency looking after a traditional bookish education and another after a specific training for mechanical trades. I should like to know, too, how such educational cleavage is to be avoided unless each type of school extends its work to duplicate that of the other type. Apart from light on such specific questions, I am regretfully forced to the conclusion that the difference between us is not so much narrowly educational as it is profoundly political and social. The kind of vocational education in which I am interested is not one which will "adapt" workers to the existing industrial regime; I am not sufficiently in love with the regime for that. It seems to me that the business of all who would not be educational time servers is to resist every move in this direction, and to strive for a kind of vocational education which will first alter the existing industrial system, and ultimately transform it. I can readily understand how a practical administrator becomes impatient with the slowness of social processes and becomes eager for a short-cut to desired results. He has a claim upon the sympathy of those who do not have to face the immediate problems. But as long as there are as many debatable questions as Dr. Snedden admits there are, and as long as conditions are as mobile as he indicates, it is surely well that those outside the immediate administrative field insist that particular moves having short-run issues in view be checked up by consideration of issues more fundamental although remoter. ( Signed ) JOHN DEWEY [First published in New Republic 3 (I9I5): 42-43. For letter to which this was a reply, see this volume, pp. 460-65.] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0543 corporate universities Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:41:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 769 (769) Comrade Willard, Leo Klein's posting along with yours seem to make a set of assumptions that I find quite puzzling. 1) Post-secondary institutions of higher education successfully teach critical thinking. 2) Schools for the trade-oriented mechanical arts do not teach critical thinking. These assumption are implicitly marshalled by many defenders of either liberal arts or techno-know-how to propose the adoption of a rhetorical position that posists a coveted prize as the outcome of an educational process and which then moves to argue for access to resources for that particular process. It is often wise to disentangle "turf", "outcomes" and "access". The social good can also be served by adopting the perspectives that the pedagogue is the receiver of the gift. Students keep teachers keen. In some ways, we can imagine educational institutions of whatever stripe as parking grounds for a surplus labour pool. The gift of student bodies to the institution may not be the most uplifting of social metaphors. And it does mark the teaching professions as belonging in the same ambit as the care giving professions. And most subscribers to Humanist will understand the expression "pink collar ghetto". The humanist is the artful practicioner of the _convivium_. Does the practice of this art cease _extra muros_? You allude to the corrent use of words and you imply that the proper names of the places of activities can change the world. Michael R. Saso in his introductory material to the _Taoist Cookbook_ reminds us that there are very different attitudes besides the Confucian to the efficacy of words. The Taoist would toss away the name like a husk once a full meditation on its meanings were complete. Naming is but one way of doing things with words. Threading and unraveling are others. Can anyone who has never swung a machete to cut cane in sweltering heat truly appreciate certain evocative passages in Carribean diaspora literature? I would argue that both the academic and the technical instructor model empathy that permit the leaps of imagination that ground critical thinking. Whether that model is resisted or accepted is the students prerogative. If class distinctions fall away from within the pedagogical sitution, is there hope for the world beyond? I'm off to experience the Canadian physical equivalent of cane-cutting: shoveling snow but in a far different social dynamic than colonlial metayage. And then some rum with friends. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 34, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:41:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 770 (770) Version 34 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,250 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 Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 100 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 330 KB and the Word file is over 400 KB. The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections 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, Identifiers, 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 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 resources directory includes the following sections: Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing Images Legal Preprints Preservation Publishers SGML and Related Standards 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: CRL Newsletter Subject: [Article]On _The Brain's Language_ Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:50:55 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 771 (771) [--] CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE ------------------------------- N E W S L E T T E R A N N O U N C E M E N T November, 2000. Volume 12, No. 3. <http://www.crl.ucsd.edu/newsletter> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Brain's Language ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Kara Federmeier & Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego A b s t r a c t Comprehending and producing language involves a number of different kinds of brain processes that operate on different types of information and unfold with different time courses. Understanding language processing, therefore, requires understanding how the multiple subprocesses involved interact over time and space. 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Ayse Pinar Saygin, Editor Center for Research in Language,0526 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California, San Diego 92093-0526 editor@crl.ucsd.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: The Electronic Literature Awards Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:27:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 772 (772) [deleted quotation] ___________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 741-2667. RaySiemens@home.com http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm siemensr@mala.bc.ca From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Digital Sessions at American Historical Association Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:24:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 773 (773) conference NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 7, 2000 H-Net at the American Historical Association January 4-7, 20001: Boston, MA <http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha>http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha Below are ten sessions organized by H-Net for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association that might interest our readers. The session titles are: * Transforming Teaching and Learning in U.S. History through New Technologies * Historical Publishing in the Digital Age: Revisiting Stevan Harnad's "Subversive Proposal" * Primacy to the Event? The New Technologies and the Narrative Mode * Graduate Training in the Digital Age: A Roundtable Discussion of What History Departments Should be Doing * Research in the Presidential Libraries: The View from the FDR and JFK * Engaging with K-12 History Education: Collaborative Models for Using Educational Technology * Digital Teaching Diamonds: Best Resources and Methods for Teaching History * Multiple Voices/Multiple Narratives: Historical Methods and Undergraduate Education in the Digital Age * Exploring the Promise of the Web for Integrating a Health Narrative into the History of Modern America * Making History: Exhibitions in the Digital Age David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Greetings, subscribers: H-Net will again be a major presence at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston, 4-7 January 2001. As an AHA affiliate, we are sponsoring ten sessions; in addition, almost two dozen of our list editors are participating on panels, so here is an opportunity to meet your hardworking editors. We are also hosting a reception and will have a booth in the book exhibit with direct internet connections, where you can surf our site, get assistance with your subscription, visit with editors and officers, and catch up on our many programs and activities. Bookmark our continually-updated site, "H-Net at the AHA <http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha>http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha for program details, participant lists, and venues. This message contains a list of our sponsored panel sessions -- updates will be available at our web site. At a glance: Official program information is at the AHA website: <http://www.theaha.org>http://www.theaha.org H-Net's Booth: #136 in the Marriott's University of Masschusetts Exhibit Hall. Hours: Thursday, January 4, 3-7 PM; Friday and Saturday, January 5 and 6, 9 AM - 6 PM; and Sunday, January 7, 9 AM - 12 noon. Reception: Saturday, 6 January, 8pm Location TBA [material deleted] From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI CfP on Distributed Information Management Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:26:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 774 (774) This message is to all registered users of Journal of Digital Information. We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue of JoDI on Distributed Information Management Guest editor: David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK The important dates are: Submission deadline: February 2, 2001 Publication date: April 2001 There has been much comment recently about the emergence of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. The broader context for this is Distributed Information Management (DIM). JoDI is producing an authoritative special issue on DIM, and papers are invited for consideration. Below is the guest editor's 'call for papers', which can also be found at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/dim.html Submission should be via the form at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/form.php3 Scope The increase in scale and complexity of distributed information systems, and in the heterogeneity of their digital content, brings a new set of scientific and engineering challenges. For example, how well do established techniques scale up to very large volumes or huge diversity of information? How do we maintain access to digital content when networked resources are not always available? How do we handle ownership and control issues? Can content be self-organising? The aim of this special issue is to identify challenges and explore solutions in the distributed information management field, by drawing together contributions from experts in the major areas. Topics Papers are invited in the following areas (this list is not exhaustive): - Research issues; e.g. 'Ten issues in distributed information management' - Case studies, e.g. experience of large-scale DIM projects - Survey papers - Futurology - impact of technology trends on distributed information management systems - Scaleable models and techniques for accessing, browsing and searching the distributed multimedia information space - Preservation issues in distributed information systems - Specification and implementation of access policies - Methodologies for building distributed multimedia information systems - Management of information evolution and of inconsistency - Emergent computing techniques applied to DIM - Grid computing - building an information grid - DIM issues in pervasive computing systems - Working with live information - Integration of distributed multimedia information systems - Metadata and ontology issues in the distributed context - Distributed systems issues at the information level - Metrics for evaluation of distributed information systems The Journal of Digital Information is a refereed journal published only via the Web. The journal is currently available free to users. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Two position announcements: Virginia & Rutgers Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:25:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 775 (775) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 7, 2000 TWO POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: MANAGER, ELECTRONIC IMPRINT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: ASSOCIATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN FOR DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEMS Two striking position announcements that caught our attention. David Green =========== UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: MANAGER, ELECTRONIC IMPRINT [deleted quotation] [material deleted] =============================================================================== RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: ASSOCIATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN FOR DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEMS [deleted quotation] RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES TITLE: Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems Rutgers University Libraries (APP 147) RESPONSIBILITIES: The Rutgers University Libraries are committed to providing innovative library services and resources to support scholarship and research in the dynamic changing digital environment. The Libraries five year plan, A Bridge to the Future: The Rutgers Digital Library Initiative (DLI), was developed in partnership with the university community, and the libraries have become a university leader in digital information technologies and their scholarly applications. The Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems (AUL/DLS) will lead in the continuing analysis of the organization and its services, serving as the standard bearer and the negotiator for the DLI during this period of dramatic change in the function and services of academic libraries. As a member of the Libraries senior management team and planning group, the AUL/DLS will provide overall leadership to the organization in the area of digital technology. He or she will be responsible for the development and deployment of digital technologies across the system, including networking, hardware, software, technology platforms, security, and the preservation of digital media. The AUL/DLS will support public service and digital library programs and will initiate and oversee research and development projects throughout the libraries, fostering a climate of collaboration, experimentation, and creativity. He or she will be responsible for maintaining the highest level of technology awareness to advance the Libraries mission and goals. The AUL/DLS will have direct administrative responsibility for the Libraries systems, cataloging, and acquisitions operations (63 FTE staff) and will deploy these resources to support emerging needs in the digital environment. The AUL/DLS will seek external support for the programs of the DLI through grants and gifts, working collaboratively with the Libraries Development Officer, administrators, library faculty members, and with other university departments and faculty. The AUL/DLS will be the Libraries primary liaison with university computing departments and will serve on university and campus committees that focus on information technology. He or she will also represent the Libraries at national and international associations. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Thurs. Dec. 7, 2000 11:17AM Subject: Information, Knowledge, Emotion Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:26:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 776 (776) I read the interest Humanist story about the Berkeley "How much information is there?", and it fits in somewhat with my current interest in both knowledge and emotion. Latent variable theory in psychological/measurement/educational testing theory has something close to the concept of knowledge, but not sufficiently well spelled out. I think that the humanities' conception of knowledge is probably much deeper than the computer/engineering/mathematics conception of information/entropy, which is a type of concrete surface scratching ("tip of the iceberg") of knowledge. Even in the physical sciences, there are now so many types of "noncommunicating" entropy (that is, the disciplines do not communicate) that it is quite remarkable. I think that the "final word" on knowledge will probably not come until emotion is better understood. It may seem old-fashioned to argue (as did Isaac Asimov) that humans have something beyond robots called emotion, although Asimov eventually gave one his robots (Giskard) telepathy and apparent emotional empathy. Indeed, emotion is a two-edged sword which has usually gone the wrong way in history - when combined with ignorance, greed, narcissism, neurosis, psychosis, anger, blame, it seems to have produced nothing but tragedy and fear in history. Yet when all is said and done, I think that the British conception of "a little emotion" comes closest to the ideal. It is something like a little salt or a little pepper or a little spice. For example, there is currently an intellectual confrontation between the Simplicity and Complexity theorists in both physical and biological sciences (which of course do not communicate very well usually both in the latter and former cases). If I referred to this as an Intellectual War, I would probably be accused of exaggeration. Yet we need a little exaggeration sometimes, we need words that we can associate with more concrete events sometimes, especially when there is really something important going on. It so happens that the simplest continuous type of probability (don't worry about the word continuous for now) is the uniform probability distribution (uniform for short). It essentially says (roughly, but that is not bad) that everything has the same probability of occurring. It has now been found, in one of the most "explosive" (emotion again?) research areas in probability/statistics, that the uniform probability ties in with brownian bridges, fractional brownian bridges, and fractal brownian bridges, which are based on random zigzag motion like that of dust particles in a glass of water, and that through these brownian bridges we are able to analyze how trends and processes (technically, "time series", etc.) become disrupted and even to predict when and where they get disrupted. Most important of all, we can do this even with events which are highly dependent/related/influenced/influencing rather than independent/unrelated/uninfluenced/uninfluencing - which until very recently was "impossible". My field of LBP (logic-based probability) leads directly to these results, and I can think of nothing that led me in this direction more than a combination of "a little emotion" and "a lot of non-mainstream research". These results come from the Simplicity School. The other school, the Complexity School, is allied with concrete computer-oriented Artificial Intelligence (AI) people and receives most of the publicity and many if not most of the research grants. They are trying to build computers and computer programs which will imitate life and then hopefully go beyond it, although there are some variations in which computers go in a different direction. Since their graphic programs show very concrete and colorful animation and their ingenuity at computers cannot be doubted, it is quite easy to be convinced that they are on the right track. The wiser voices such as those of Professors Tripathi and McCarty, and the voices of the Simplicity School will, in my opinion, soon spill over massively into AI. Assuming that there will not be a prolonged economic battle for resources (always possible!), there is a basis for restrained optimism. Osher Doctorow Doctorow Consultants, West Los Angeles College, etc. From: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Factories, mints, and treadmills (was: corporate Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:21:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 777 (777) universities) Colleagues: I have been following with interest the discussion of corporate universities, and can directly relate to many of the observations made. Along these lines, I wonder if anyone can point me to the original sources of two quotations about colleges. The first is a famous remark that I know comes from Cardinal Newman, but I don't know where (is it somewhere in _The Idea of a University_?) The quotation is something to the effect that a university is "an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, and not a factory, or a mint, or a treadmill." (If Cardinal Newman were around today, he would no doubt add that it is not a McDonalds or a Pizza Hut, either.) The second quotation is vaguer. It is something like, "a college is built of men, not things." I have found an attribution to the historian Frederick Artz (http://www.oberlin.edu/~archive/WWW_files/fletcher_b.html), but that reference sounds like it might be secondary. If any of the well-read Humanists here can identify the originals of either of these quotation I would be very grateful. I am trying to track these down so that I can use them accurately on a website I am developing that will warm any hearts made cold by Corporate U. It is called "The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform." I invite you to pay it a visit at http://collegiateway.org and come with me back to the future. Regards, Bob O'Hara -- Dr. Robert J. O'Hara (rjohara@post.harvard.edu - http://rjohara.net) Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform: http://collegiateway.org From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 14.0546 corporate universities Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:22:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 778 (778) On Thu, 07 Dec 2000, Norman D. Hinton wrote: [deleted quotation] The Middle States Association does this for us. On Thu, 07 Dec 2000, Michael S. Hart wrote: [deleted quotation] I wouldn't insist on Shakespeare (though that would be one of my personal choices). This reminded me of something funny: because I do Web development, my colleagues foolishly assume I'm an authority on computer-related affairs. In fact, I've got a BA in English from the Univ. of Ill. at Chicago and an MFA from NYU (albeit in Interactive Telecommunicatons). For them however, "I'll do". So they came to me with a dispute as to whether a programmer needs to know mathematics or not. I told them: forget the mathematics -- if the person doesn't know poetry, he's not worth hiring. They tend to avoid me now but at least I got to keep my job. LEO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein Library Web Coordinator home ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://patachon.com office ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: assumptions, knowledge, skills Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:22:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 779 (779) In Humanist 14.0506 Francois Lachance finds in my posting on the notion of a "corporate university" the following assumptions: [deleted quotation] It seems that I failed miserably in my attempt to get past the commonplace attitude, which finds snobbery in the former and unworthiness in the latter. What I was trying to say was that these two kinds of institutions are different, both needed, both noble creations of the human spirit, but still different. Confusing them does no one any good. An example. An art school nearby a major university with a very strong programme in art history decides that it has to do art history too in order to be able to offer BA degrees. (If you don't have a BA degree you're NOBODY, right?) What happens? Money is taken away from studio courses in order to fund what can only be a half-hearted BA programme. Artists aren't properly trained in the skills they need nor in art history. In the above scheme the corporate university (if I understand what this means) is neither one nor the other. The necessary craftsmanship (critical thinking with and through the instruments of the crafts) doesn't make for quick turnover and high profits. So (if I am right) quality suffers on both sides. This is relevant to us because craft is such an important part of applied computing. It seems to me that we must teach the skills of using the equipment that is central to what we do. Now the above scheme doesn't fit the hard sciences very well, especially the experimental sciences, which require that students learn manual skills. (Do these sciences still require experimenters to make their own equipment?) Again I wonder if the model of the experimental sciences isn't a good one for us to use in fashioning our self-image. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Randall Pierce Subject: corporate universities Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 06:23:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 780 (780) I have for years found the "sponsership" of university research by corporations to be a true "two-edged sword". While the financial participation into the scholarly life of academe certainly expands its ability to seek new directions in knowledge, it also has the real potential to stifle, or to direct the directions and emphases of research. Corportions are not usually predominately civically oriented organizations. I am certain that corporation grants have played a great part in the decision not to publish certain research findings. Censorship, in other words. Corporations have been known to use research and develoment departments of universities as if they were in-house facilities. Professors and research workers become nothing more that contract workers for the companies. They don't even get benefits. I am greatly concerned with this increasing alliance of university and business. Free inquiry is essential to human progress and well-being. Corporate secrecy does not bode well for the free dissemination of information. I might propose that corporate contributions be made to a separate foundation which will administer research funds, thus eliminating the direct corporate-university contact. Another alternative, of ccourse, is taxing business for research and development, and granting amounts of the proceeds to universities for research, no strings attached. I do not think that the corporate search for profits should interfere with the free exchange of knowledge, which the burgeoning field of hyper-text technology has done so much to develop and encourage. Thank you for your considerations. Randall From: The George Lucas Educational Foundation Subject: GLEF Newsletter featuring "Teaching in the Digital Age" Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:37:47 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 781 (781) [--] The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) has redesigned its Web site! Come visit <http://www.glef.org> and explore the expanded selection of multimedia content, including new film segments. 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GLEF BLAST SUBSCRIPTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________ [material deleted] From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Oppenheim Review of Tenopir & King (2000) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:00:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 782 (782) The following review of Tenopir & King (2000a,b) on Electronic Journals has just been published in Psycoloquy (retrievable at the URLs indicated): ORIGINAL BOOK PRECIS: Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000b) Precis of: "Towards Electronic Journals." PSYCOLOQUY 11(084) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.084 ABSTRACT: This precis of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King 2000) focuses mostly on scientists' perspective as authors and readers, how changes over the years by publishers and librarians have affected scientists, and what they should expect from electronic journal and digital journal article databases. We describe some myths concerning scholarly journals and attempt to assess the future in a realistic manner. Most of our primary data involves U.S. scientists, libraries and publishers, but much of the secondary data is from a European perspective, which shows few differences. Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000a) Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association. http://www.sla.org REVIEW: Oppenheim, C. (2000) Time for a timelier analysis of electronic developments title. PSYCOLOQUY 11(129) ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy/2000.volume.11/ psyc.00.11.129.electronic-journals.9.oppenheim http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.129 ABSTRACT: Although Tenopir and King (Tenopir & King ,2000a)have put in enormous effort pulling together scattered strands of research and consultancy, the book fails to give serious consideration to the more innovative ideas regarding the future of scholarly journal publishing, and too many of the results reported are out of date. Nonetheless, the book is recommended as the first comprehensive overview of the economics of, and the author and reader habits of, scholarly journals. From: Eric Johnson Subject: John Henry Newman Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:58:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 783 (783) Robert J. O'Hara asked about the source of a quotation: something to the effect that a university is "an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, and not a factory, or a mint, or a treadmill." (If Cardinal Newman were around today, he would no doubt add that it is not a McDonalds or a Pizza Hut, either.) O'Hara was correct in supposing that the quotation is from Cardinal Newman's _The Idea of a University_. The exact quotation is this: "A University is, according to the usual designation, an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill." It is at the end of section 8 of Discourse VI. As I said in an online conference paper, Newman's thoughts are also relevant to teaching via Internet. In 1854, John Henry Newman argued that a university education must be gained in classrooms, and that books were not an adequate substitute for face-to-face contact with a teacher. What he said of books is true of Internet teaching: "No [Internet teaching] can get through the number of minute questions which it is possible to ask on any extended subject, or can hit upon the very difficulties which are severally felt by each [student] in succession. Or again, that no [Internet teaching] can convey the special spirit and delicate peculiarities of its subject with that rapidity and certainty which attend on the sympathy of the mind with mind, through the eyes, the look, the accent, and the manner, in casual expressions thrown off at the moment, and the unstudied turns of familiar conversation . . . . The general principles of any study you may learn by [Internet teaching] at home; but the detail, the color, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all these from those in whom it lives already." ("The Rise and Progress of Universities") --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0552 corporate universities Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:59:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 784 (784) Willard, Leo Klein's anecdote about poetry being essential to programmers reminds me of Scoville's "Elements of Style: UNIX as literature" (for knowledge of which I am thankful to Patrick Durusau's posting to Humanist in 1998). Just for the record [deleted quotation][...] It was the juxtapositon of your posting with Leo's that made me find (invent?) the assumptions that kicked off my mediation. [Digression: Tis rathering interesting that manuscript studies are focussing upon what goes with what -- the contingencies of collecting and binding. To quote a pamphlet from the Perdita project: "Recent scholarship has recommend a shift in the focus of manuscript research from the establishment of 'authoritative' texts to the historical circumstances of manscript compilation and circulation. [...] Manuscript compilations offer particular problems of interpretation." More information on the Perdita Project is accessible from the following URL http://human.ntu.ac.uk/perdita To what extent bundles of electronic postings can be considered collections governed by conventions remains an open question. ] Reflecting upon your example of an institution re-aligning its program, I still do not quite understand how a discourse that stresses difference will manage to set aside the impact of affect, allegiance and prejudice in any intended decision-making audience in a social enviroment driven by imperatives of change, innovation, reinvention. I am trying to suggest that the very invocation of a substantial difference between practice and theory, between the liberal and mechanical arts, is a driver in the push to rationalize the educational system. I'm not sure that a discourse of difference will create the necessary inter-institutional alliances that will sport resistence. Arguing for the necessity of diversity at the level of a system may be a way to mitigate the competition induced the economics of scarity being played by the purse string holders. Arguing for a robust redundancy may be a better strategy. Not only should the system afford duplication of programs. It is vital that such duplication be created and maintained in order to establish the critical mass of people and activity that leads to inspiring accomplishments. How do you fund a network? Stephen Erhmann in "Asking the Right Question: what does research tell us about technology and higher learning?" http://www.learner.org/edtech/rscheval/rightquestion.html points out "that most institutions of higher education are facing a Triple Challenge of outcomes, accessibility, and costs." Somewhere someone must have proposed that greater accessibility drives down costs because a more accessible system leads to a more educated population creates greater wealth which can subsidize the educational system. Somewhere some economist has such traced synergistic relations. Everywhere there are people without children who enthusiastically support schools (and do not mind paying taxes to do so). Everywhere there are people with children who support school systems that provide adult education. There is a non-eschatological argument that justifies the funding of a strong educational infrastructure not from what people will do with an education, not from what they will become, but from what people are doing while they are in the process of active learning. Some while ago, Willard, you posted a message to Humanist that invited us to think about each machine being an experiment, each program being an experiment. Can the global economy afford not to invest in experiments? I know this has shifted the question somewhat from the focus on commercial interests in the educational sector. [I'm still avoiding some of the initial terminology : I've yet to find a university that is not a corporation.] I hope the shift helps bring to the debate a recognition that information technology can help institutions with a great experiment in profit sharing and reinvestment -- a redistribution of intellectual wealth if you will. The value of the publicly-accountable and stable nodes in such a distribution network depends in part on the volitility of the private providers (and the non-transparency of their operations). BTW, many of the graduates from the publicly-accountable and stable nodes will seek and find employment in the more volitile spaces. What then of arguments based on difference? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Randall Pierce Subject: The Corporate University Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:59:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 785 (785) In his biography of his grandfather, the late Alabama Congressman George Huddleston, George Packer has some interesting insights into the origins of today's "Corporate Universities". On pages of 196-201 of "Blood of the Liberals", Mr. Packer cites the contributions of Frederick Terman to the creation of a corporate mentality at Stanford University in California and his influence in the development of Silicon Valley. Thank you for your consideration. Randall From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 786 (786) [deleted quotation]..... [deleted quotation] From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: John Henry Newman Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:24:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 787 (787) The edition of John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University published by Yale University Press (1996) includes a series of essays 'rethinking _The Idea of a University_' with one by George P. Landow entitled, 'Newman and the idea of an electronic university'. Michael ------- University of Oxford mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 14.0555 corporate universities, industrial vs Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:26:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 788 (788) face-to-face To edit Eric Johnson's edited quote: "No [200 person lecture class] can get through the number of minute questions which it is possible to ask on any extended subject, or can hit upon the very difficulties which are severally felt by each [student] in succession." Although a personable, dynamic lecturer with good stage presence, or even a reasonably competent actor with a good scriptwriter could probably "convey the special spirit and delicate peculiarities of its subject with that rapidity and certainty which attend on the sympathy of the mind with mind, through the eyes, the look, the accent, and the manner, in casual expressions thrown off at the moment, and the unstudied turns of familiar conversation." In any case, my real question for this thread is: When did BA in liberal arts=120 possibly random credits=$60,000+="critical thinking" become the equation for "you need this to get a decent job?" Sounds like some wildly improbable marketing scheme. There are actually quite a few questions tangled in there. I'd be happy to expound at length on any one of them but would rather provide any potential responders with freedom of choice in how to interpret and respond to them. (Calling on those critical thinking skills no doubt, or was it emotions, or was that the other thread. . .) - Hope ---------- hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont From: "Price, Dan" Subject: Internet Teaching and Newman Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:26:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 789 (789) In a recent posting, we have the following quotation from Newman with the insertion of the author's application to "Internet teaching." "No [Internet teaching] can get through the number of minute questions which it is possible to ask on any extended subject, or can hit upon the very difficulties which are severally felt by each [student] in succession. Or again, that no [Internet teaching] can convey the special spirit and delicate peculiarities of its subject with that rapidity and certainty which attend on the sympathy of the mind with mind, through the eyes, the look, the accent, and the manner, in casual expressions thrown off at the moment, and the unstudied turns of familiar conversation . . . . The general principles of any study you may learn by [Internet teaching] at home; but the detail, the color, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all these from those in whom it lives already." ("The Rise and Progress of Universities") I don't get it. I don't see any contradiction between what Newman is saying and the possibility of same being delivered by Internet conversation and interaction. Seems Newman was arguing about the absence of the guiding and discussing of one's reading. So, the same can take place in the Internet conversation. Such has been my experience and that of my students when teaching via the Internet. And going back to my own experience for four degrees. Some teachers expressed Newman's ideals; many did not. With some in all honesty it simply did not make any difference whether I was in class or not. Often I spent my time in a more valuable fashion by skipping large lecture halls and doing more reading and talking with graduate students. Often, the material did not seem to be "living" in those presenting it-to use Newman's phrase. In this general discussion what I really fear is that we idealize one form of learning over that of others. In the end, it is after all, what works best for the individual Learner-whether private study, Internet teaching, or traditional classroom instruction. --dan Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html>http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: sympathies and conveyance Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:27:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 790 (790) Willard, Eric Johnson's posting drawing a parallel between Cardinal Newman's remarks on books and "teaching via Internet" came upon me at time when I was beginning to suspect that women proportionally to their ranks in the teaching corps are more involved in the online delivery of courses and in the research relating to best practices in online delivery. Of course I would twig at someone who had taught via the Internet quoting a Catholic theologian as to the virtues of face to face pedagogy. I just had to check a version of the base text from which the book/internet parrallel was drawn: I found an electronic version: If the actions of men may be taken as any test of their convictions, then we have reason for saying this, viz.: - that the province and the inestimable benefit of the litera scripta is that of being a record of truth, and an authority of appeal, and an instrument of teaching in the hands of a teacher; but that, if we wish to become exact and fully furnished in any branch of knowledge which is diversified and complicated, we must consult the living man and listen to his living voice. I am not bound to investigate the cause of this, and anything I may say will, I am conscious, be short of its full analysis; - perhaps we may suggest, that no books can get through the number of minute questions which it is possible to ask on any extended subject, or can hit upon the very difficulties which are severally felt by each reader in succession. Or again, that no book can convey the special spirit and delicate peculiarities of its subject with that rapidity and certainty which attend on the sympathy of mind with mind, through the eyes, the look, the accent, and the manner, in casual expressions thrown off at the moment, and the unstudied turns of familiar conversation. But I am already dwelling too long on what is but an incidental portion of my main subject. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/newman-university.html I recite Eric Johnson, Erasmian exercise: No [Internet teaching] can get through the number of minute questions which it is possible to ask on any extended subject, or can hit upon the very difficulties which are severally felt by each [student] in succession. Or again, that no [Internet teaching] can convey the special spirit and delicate peculiarities of its subject with that rapidity and certainty which attend on the sympathy of the mind with mind, through the eyes, the look, the accent, and the manner, in casual expressions thrown off at the moment, and the unstudied turns of familiar conversation . . . .. The general principles of any study you may learn by [Internet teaching] at home; but the detail, the color, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all these from those in whom it lives already." http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0474.html What I notice of course due to the aid of the square brackets in Johnson's text is the substitution of "student" for "reader". What the square brackets do not show is the phrase "sympathy of mind with mind" has been reworked into "sympathy of the mind with mind". My base text may be corrupt and some verification necessary but I daresay considering that Newman goes on to conclude the paragraph with allusions to the Grand Tour (language learning and art appreciation) that the Newman does not have in mind one-to-many communication. In other words, the slippage in the Cardinal's prose from "books" to "book", from the plural to the singular It is worth disentangling two separate claims. The plural is connected to the traversal of an expanse of knowledge (no books can ... get through minute questions). The singular is tied to speed (no book can ... convey learning rapidily). Slow down the pedagogical situation. Remove the need for complete mastery. Sympathy of mind with mind can arise by reading and writing about books, subscribing to periodicals, contributing to periodicals, using the post to exchange letters, watercolours, scores. And the unstudied turns emerge in the exchange. Distance education is possible, be it electronic or otherwise. And it is adequate. It is not a substitute. The student using the Internet is not merely a reader. The student is productive. The student is also productive in a face to face learning situation. The relations with other students as well as those with the teacher contribution to the getting of wisdom. A good learning situation whether it be online or not creates the space and time for individual contemplation and for group exchange. Anyone who has fondly read the marginalia left in a library copy can attest to the "unstudied turns" that books can offer. Anyone marking such a book may be as resistant as the student who refuses to imitate the teacher or go at the teacher's speed. It is perhaps worth remembering that Newman closes the paragraph with a metaphor of book as vehicle and an allusion to the Grand Tour and the claim that the fullness of wisdom is found in the place not in the vehicle. Surely the fullness of wisdom is found in a moment intersecting with another moment -- a sympathy of mind with mind. Newman trusts places. I trust means of conveyance. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: "The Festschrift" in the great honor of Professor Hubert Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:48:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 791 (791) Dreyfus Dear Humanist Scholars and Philosophers, Hello --very recently MIT has published two good volumes of books, as "The Festschrift"..in the honor of famous American Heideggerian and cognitive scientist, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus. Professor Dreyfus presently an Emeritus Professor at University of California, Berkeley, USA. His main interests are Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Literature, and philosophical implications of Artificial Intelligence. During the spawn of his brilliant academic career, Professor Dreyfus has accomplished many good objectives and built the path of knowledge and wisdom, in true words..He is known to be the Messenger of Humanities. Professor Dreyfus has also accomplished his PhD in early 60s, in 1963 at Harvard University on the topic _Husserl's Phenomenology of Perception: [deleted quotation]two-to-three decades --Hubert L. Dreyfus has been a leading figure in the field of American Philosophy, Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy. He is a leading voice in the field of contemporary school of Phenomenology. Not mere words and expresssions can do justice, please go and read the two volumes.. MIT PRESS have published two volumes, containing, scholarly written essays authored by several eminent philosophers in the exquisite honour of scholar/philosopher, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus, edited by Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas as, Vol I is "Heidegger, Authencity and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus" and Vol II is "Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus". The contributors to this great Epic of "Heidegger, Authencity, Coping, Modernity, Cognitive Science and Phenomenology" (The Festschrift in the honor of Hubert Dreyfus) are: Taylor Carman, Randall Havas, Charles Guignon, Alastair Hannay, Michael E. Zimmerman, Michel Haar, Beatrice Hann, Julian Young, Jeff Malpas, William Blatner, Dagfinn Follesdal, David Cerbone, Mark Okrent, John Searle, Joseph Rouse, David Stern, Albert Borgmann, Mark Wrathall, Charles Spinosa, and other philosophers and scholars. The complete details regarding the two volumes can be located at (http://www.idiom.com/~gdreyfus/70Celebration/Festschrift.html) But, exact details of the two volumes can be located at the below two pointers.. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262731274) and (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262731282) AND, please watch out this space, for more to come. Thanks for your co-operation. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Willard McCarty Subject: interoperability? Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:42:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 792 (792) Recently I had occasion to look into the question of "interoperability", in the course of which I ran into Paul Miller's essay, "Interoperability: What is it and Why should I want it?", Ariadne 24 (June 2000), <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/>. If I understand him correctly, interoperability is the defining quality of networks and networking of all sorts. It seems a term of such uncertain limits that it can easily mean very little, though actually I think it means a very great deal. Can anyone recommend a thoughtful, non-specialist treatment of this topic? Meanwhile interoperability prompts a question. I hope you can be patient while I stumble my way to it. Miller offers by way of definition the statement that "to be interoperable, one should actively be engaged in the ongoing process of ensuring that the systems, procedures and culture of an organisation are managed in such a way as to maximise opportunities for exchange and re-use of information, whether internally or externally." Under the political sense of the term he observes that "the decision to make resources more widely available has implications for the organisations concerned (where this may be seen as a loss of control or ownership), their staff (who may not possess the skills required to support more complex systems and a newly dispersed user community), and the end users." He goes on to say that, "As traditional boundaries between institutions and disciplines begin to blur, researchers increasingly require access to information from a wide range of sources, both within and without their own subject area." Do we always and unrestrictedly want this? It seems to me that at the technical level it's hard to argue with interoperability, though this is no simple matter. If, for example, I want to link directly to the online Lewis & Short lexicon at Perseus for the definition of a lemma in the reference work I am making, I find that quite often what I call a lemma is not one in L&S. This may seem trivial, but it isn't, or not always. Considerable editorial intelligence and deep knowledge of Latin is behind the choice of lemmata in L&S; I aspire to my choices being as good, but driven by different editorial principles they will often be different. If in such a small matter we're at an impasse, how about bigger ones? Isn't it the case that the mediation between incompatible schemes (that are the enemy of interoperability) requires other than artificial intelligence? I solve the problem with the online L&S by providing a link to the page at Perseus where one types in the word and receives an analysis back, so that the user of my thing can exercise some judgement -- i.e. knowing that I distinguish between singular and plural nominals at the level of the lemma, he or she can enter the singular. I wonder if that human intervention isn't what we'll always need. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Intelligent E-Journals Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:43:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 793 (793) _Intelligent E-Journals_ I am interested in learning of *any* and *all* e-journals [or e-magazines or e-newsletters or e-newspapers] that monitor the interaction of a reader with the publication and based on such implicit behavior(s) customizes the publication to match these 'expressed' interests so that the reader is provided with (more) content that in similar / related to the content that he/she had previously selected/read. [Whew, What a sentence! [:-)] I have learned about a service provided by AdaptiveInfo [http://www.adaptiveinfo.com ] which provides personalized news services [ http://www.adaptiveinfo.com/Products/newsServer.asp ] using its Adaptive Personalization technologies [ http://www.adaptiveinfo.com/Products/recommendation.asp ] [A demo that illustrates a personalized version of the _Los Angeles Times_ is available [ http://www.adaptiveinfo.com/Products/demonstration.asp]] As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries, Supreme Split Decisions, questions, Cosmic Insights, etc. are Most Welcome. /Gerry McKiernan Intelligent Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu _DISCLAIMER_ The commercial service and product mentioned in this posting are for educational purposes only; such mention does not constitute an endorsement. From: John Lavagnino Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 2000 MLA Convention Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:40:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 794 (794) Some Humanist readers may be attending the 2000 Modern Language Association convention in Washington, DC 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/mla00/guide.html As always, the list has some interest even if you're not attending: comparing this list with those from past years is a good way to get an idea of changing trends. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 795 (795) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 796 (796) [deleted quotation]are for [deleted quotation] From: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Re: intelligent e-journals? Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:42:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 797 (797) [deleted quotation] Amazon.com? Cheers, Bob O'Hara Dr. Robert J. O'Hara (rjohara@post.harvard.edu - http://rjohara.net) Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform: http://collegiateway.org From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: EJI:A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features and Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:42:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 798 (798) Functionalities _EJI: A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features and Functionalities_ I am pleased to announce the establishment of a new registry entitled _EJI_ [pronounced E.J.I. _or_ 'edgy"}. _EJI_ is a registry of "Innovative E-Journal Features and Functionalities" available at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ] Presently the following categories have been established for EJI: * Accelerated Publication * Citation Management * Collective E-Journals * Indexing * Issue-In-Progress * Manuscript Submission and Tracking Systems * Open Peer Review * Overlay E-Journals * Personalized E-Journals * Reactive E-Journals * Virtual E-Journals * Virtual Filing Cabinets I have chosen not to define each category at this time and hope that MyWebColleague will understand the nature of each category by visiting the linked entries. I am greatly interested in learning about *other* e-journals that have these features and functionalities. I am also interested in learning about other 'innovative' or 'cutting-edge' e-journal features and functionalities as well as the e-journals that exhibit these. I have identified several additional features and functionalities and hope that MYWebColleagues are aware of such progressive e-journals. These are: * Annotative E-Journals E-Journals that permit a reader to annotate the text of an e-article with personal comments [This category would also e-journals that allow a reader to highlight within an e-article or to make verbal annotations that would be appended to the text. It could also include e-journals that include an audio annotation by the author(s) to supplement an e-article's text] * Collaborative E-Journals E-Journal that include a features that allows a reader to retrieve the articles that were read by other readers who also read the article currently being read by a reader [The Amazon feature " Those who bought Book A also bought Book B, C and D] * Raw and Supplemental Data / Computer Code This would include e-journals that allow an author to include direct / access to raw or supplemental data that is analyzed in the e-article; or software code for analyzing the data * Interactive Formulae, Graphs and/or Models This would include e-journals that allow readers to interactive with formulas with the text of an article to consider other possibilities with other data or datasets * Relatedness This a function found in Science Citation Index CD-ROM that allows for the identification of 'related' papers based upon the degree of shared references. This made be identified as a 'related' function in the e-journal or a 'find similar' function. * Database Access This would include e-journals that provide either explicit or implicit access to database records either as a separate database (e.g., Medline) or as a link to database records (e.g., Science Direct) * Advanced Display This would include e-journals that provide the ability to display the results of a search in an alternative format, for example. using visualization technologies such as SPIRE and other visualization technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [ http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/infoviz/index.html], or those developed out of Xerox PARC [http://www.inxight.com/ ] or Kohomen Self-Organzing Semantic Maps (SOMs) [ e.g., http://websom.hut.fi/websom/ ] * E-Journal Page Customization E-Journals that allow a reader to customize an e-journal based upon personal display or organizational preferences [QUITE A LIST, Huh? [:-)] As Always, Any and All Contributions, Suggestions, Candidates, Critiques, Questions, Comments, Recounts, Cosmic Insights. etc. Are Most Welcome! Regards, Gerry McKiernan Edgy Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!" Alan Kay From: Eric Johnson Subject: Newman and Internet teaching Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:41:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 799 (799) My posting about Newman and Internet teaching seems to have hit a nerve. I cannot reply to all of the points raised, but I would like to say the following. Starting in 1990, I have taught at least one course via Internet almost every year. All of my courses were about computing for the humanities -- with a focus on text processing. Some of them were programming courses. Most of them have been graduate courses, but some have been upper-division undergraduate courses. I have gained a good deal of satisfaction teaching these courses, as have most of my students. My article "The World Wide Web, Computers, and Teaching Literature" is on the web: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/webprof.html and it should be read by those interested in the subject of teaching via Internet. In any case, like some other teachers, I have felt significant frustration teaching online. It seems to me that Newman has a good point in stressing that books (and other non face-to-face methods of teaching) can never have the same impact as a good teacher in a classroom with students. --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0558 universities, Newman, Internet teaching Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:41:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 800 (800) Willard, I made some impressionistic remark about gender and research reports about online teaching. Anyone wanting to test the well-foundedness of ther remark might wish to peruse the proceedings from two annual online conferences about online teaching: http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon2000 Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference http://as1.ipfw.edu/2000tohe Teaching Online in Higher Education through the lens and filter of Sherry Turkle's work in _The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit_ and in _Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet_ as well as the research collected in Dale Spender's _Man-Made Language_ (especially the findings about turn taking in conversation). I have yet to be apprized of the contents of Ms. Spender's _Nattering on the Net : Women, Power and Cyberspace_. Perhaps a subscriber to Humanist might venture a summary and an opinion. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Scott.Jaschik@chronicle.com Subject: [DistanceLearning] online discussion about teaching in Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:29:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 801 (801) [--] The Chronicle of Higher Education is sponsoring a live, online discussion on Thursday, December 14 at 1 p.m. U.S. Eastern time on teaching in for-profit, distance-education institutions. The discussion is based on a profile in the new issue of The Chronicle of Sally Silberman, an instructor at New York University's new, online for-profit subsidiary. Ms. Silberman, who will respond to questions and comments in the chat, is an example of a new kind of academic in higher education -- hired for her business savvy and practical experience, not for academic degrees. The Chronicle invites members of this list to read the profile of Ms. Silberman and to pose questions and comments for the online chat at <http://chronicle.com/colloquylive> Advance questions and comments are encouraged. Scott Jaschik Editor The Chronicle of Higher Education From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: William Arms, _Digital Libraries_ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:23:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 802 (802) May I recommend Bill Arms' new _Digital Libraries_ (MIT Press, 2000). It's an attempt to cover the state of the art and all of the issues raised by digital libraries in a reasonably non-technical manner. Even long-time computing humanists will I think find information of which they were not aware. It's especially useful for colleagues who want a good overview. Much of the material has I suspect been drawn from the D-LIB electronic journal. The proof-reading leaves a lot to be desired, but hey, what can you expect from a computer scientist... Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Book: Prosody (Merle Horne) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:35:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 803 (803) [deleted quotation] **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 14 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis PROSODY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Studies Presented to G=F6sta Bruce edited by Merle Horne Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics Lund University, Sweden The study of prosody is perhaps the area of speech research which has undergone the most noticeable development during the past ten to fifteen years. This book contains contributions by 15 internationally recognized experts (including M. Beckman, N. Campbell, C. Gussenhoven, J. Hirschberg, D. Hirst, D.R. Ladd, M. Ostendorf, J. Pierrehumbert, E. Selkirk, S. 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Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: biographastry Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:26:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 804 (804) I am looking for contemporary critical literature on the subject of biography-making. I am not looking for advice on how to write a good one, but rather for critical reflection on the propensity for making them, the intellectual issues raised, the narratological patterns and history. What I find is a large literature that rather enjoys biographies and likes thinking about them and thinks they are swell: I find very little from people who are, as I am, made very nervous by them and wish to understand better why they are so popular and what that popularity means for our knowledge of the past. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Summer 2001 NEH Seminars and Institutes Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:31:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 805 (805) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCING: Summer 2001 National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers Application Deadline: March 1, 2001 Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports a variety of study opportunities in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates. Seminars and institutes are national, residential, and rigorous. Designed to strengthen the quality of the humanities teaching and scholarship, they are led by some of the nation's outstanding scholars and take place at major colleges and universities and archival facilities across the United States and abroad. Topics considered among the 24 seminars and institutes during the summer of the year 2001 include the African Diaspora, literature in the age of information technologies, American Pragmatism and culture, environmental ethics, and the post-communist experience in Eastern Europe. For a complete list of both seminars and institutes, go to the NEH Web site (http://www.neh.gov/html/seminars2.html), or phone (202/606-8463), or e-mail (sem-inst@neh.gov). The listings contain seminar and institute titles and the means to contact each director. Prospective applicants can request information from as many seminar and institute directors as they wish but may apply to only two NEH summer offerings. In response to a request for information, seminar and institute directors will send a letter describing the content, logistics, expectations, and conditions of that project. Each letter will be accompanied by application instructions as well as information about the program's costs. Participants receive from the National Endowment for the Humanities a stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute. Year 2001 stipends are $2,800 for four weeks, $3,250 for five weeks, and $3,700 for six weeks and are intended to help cover travel costs and living expenses, as well as books and miscellaneous expenses. Requests for information and completed applications should NOT be directed to the National Endowment for the Humanities; they should be addressed to the individual projects as found in the listings. The application deadline is March 1. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Walter Benjamin NEH Summer Seminar Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:32:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 806 (806) [deleted quotation] "Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Commodity Fetishism, and the Aesthetics of the City" NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, June 25- Aug.3, 2001. Stipend: $3,700. Director, Alexander Gelley, The University of California, Irvine. Deadline for applications: March 1, 2001. Details and application packet: agelley@uci.edu or Prof. A. Gelley, Dept. of Comparative Literature, The University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-2650. Alexander Gelley Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature University of California--Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Summer Institute Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:37:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 807 (807) [deleted quotation] National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Literary Study in a Manuscript Culture: Keats, Dickinson, Eliot Dear Colleagues: We would like to call your attention to the Summer Institute for high school teachers we will be conducting in July of 2001. The Institute is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is open to all high school teachers in the United States and those teaching in American schools abroad. Twenty-five teachers will be chosen. The stipend is $2800 for the month, and three hours graduate course credit will be given to each participant. The Institute will explore the uses of manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, and various published versions of literary texts to enhance critical reading and analysis. The Institute will be conducted by renowned scholars, especially known for their expertise in textual studies. The participants will study in detail the major odes of John Keats, the celebrated poems of Emily Dickinson, and the alluring poetry of T. S. Eliot. Participating teachers will also be encouraged to apply what they are learning to other writers and works of special interest to them in their teaching. The Institute will emphasize interaction between the scholars and the teachers, with special attention given to the nuances of teaching poetry in the high schools. For further information on the Institute, please write: NEH Summer Institute Department of English Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4240 You may contact us by e-mail: rfortune@ilstu.edu, or rtarr@ilstu.edu. We also have a Web Site: http://lilt.ilstu.edu/NEH/ We look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Ron Fortune, Co-director Rodger L. Tarr, Co-director From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Yearning and Learning Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:24:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 808 (808) Eric, Your reworking of the Newman quotation has hit more than a nerve. It has stirred a whole neural network. I was heartened to read that you had experienced not only frustration but also satisfaction. Would you care to elaborated on the sources of frustation? Are they technical? Are they related to negotiating expectations, assessing student preparedness and motivating commitment? I ask these questions out of a belief that the factors affecting the success of distance education whether electronic or not are not intrinsic to the spatial and temporal arrangements of the pedagogic experience. Your appeal to Newman seems to make the case for universal and unmovable conditions. I'm intriguted by the cognitive dissonance this position might generate in Deborah Hanson, Distance Learnig Co-ordinator at Crowder College, makes the point that online interactivity can be improved. http://as1.ipfw.edu/2000tohe/proposals/Hanson.htm What is remarkable (or not) is that the principles developed and implemented at Crowder are very relevant for successful face-to-face pedagogy. Allow me to quote extensively from her paper : Students will often put off and avoid contact with instructors, technicians, and administrators waiting for someone to contact them versus seeking the information for themselves. For this reason, Crowder College developed extensive procedures, orientation, and guidelines for students. In support of the thesis, "The underpinnings of interactions, which result in successful learning, involve the transfer of knowledge coupled with changes in intrinsic motivation," the author has identified and examined seven distance learning interactions which help to promote interactivity: Increase participation and feedback Build communication and understanding Enhance elaboration and retention Support learner motivation and self-regulation Develop teambuilding Promote exploration and discovery Generate learner self-diagnosis and closure What strikes me is that knowledge transfers and changes in motivation led to a set of seven principles that can also be applied to pedagogical interactions that do not posist the need for change in motivation. Newman's glorious prose is focussed on a concern with the moral development of students. The Crowder principles as reported by Hanson focus upon the need to make students want to be good students. There are teachers who regard the student as a contracting party agreeing to engage in a certain course of behaviour for a prescribed period of time. These seem lik three rather different approaches. However, at a certain level of abstraction, all three suggest the operation of a rewards and penalities designed to induce certain behaviours and orientations. A machine with moveable parts. A set of cybernetic situtations. A general system. One person's frustration can become the data set for another's research. Or the pretext for the articulation of collective desires. Are we not constantly negotiating for improvement in the efficacy of the interlocking bodies -- institutional, corporate and personal -- while at the same time, fearing intrusions upon the spaces we traverse and occupy, struggling for the efficient disaggregation of the said bodies? Is it not fair, to explicitly ask students what they believe they are giving the teacher? Even if it is not fair, it is a rather good pedagogical trick to induce dialectical thinking. So Eric what did you want to accomplish by hitting nerves? Francois From: "B. Tommie Usdin" Subject: Call for Participation: Extreme 2001 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:23:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 809 (809) Call for Participation for Extreme Markup Languages 2001 Highlights: - highly technical peer-reviewed 3.7-day conference preceded by 2 days of tutorials - SGML, XML, Topic Maps, query languages, linking, schemas, transformations, inference engines, formatting and behavior, and more - Submissions due by March 31, 2001 - For more information visit www.gca.org Extreme Markup Languages 2001 There's Nothing so Practical as a Good Theory From GCA (Alexandria, Va.) - Extreme Markup Languages brings together software developers, markup theorists, information visionaries, and other assorted geeks for formal presentations, poster sessions, question and answer sessions, hallway discussions, arguments and gesticulations in front of flip charts, table-top software demos, coffee, and the cuisine, ambience, and charm of Montral in August. Extreme conference participants include thought leaders from corporate and academic information management, knowledge engineering, enterprise integration/corporate memory, science, and technical and cultural research. There will be four types of presentations at Extreme: peer reviewed technical papers, late breaking news, posters, and invited keynotes. All will be new material, address some aspect of information management from a theoretical or practical standpoint, and be detailed and rigorous. Come join us to discuss information alchemy: making documents into information and data into gold. WHEN: August 5-10, 2001 WHERE: Hotel Wyndham, Montral, Canada SPONSOR: Graphic Communications Association (GCA) Chairs: Steven R. Newcomb B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Co-Chairs: Deborah A. Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium/MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences WHAT: Call for Papers, Peer Reviewers, Posters, and Tutorials HOW: Submit full papers or paper proposals to the conference secretariat in SGML or XML according to one of the submission DTDs and sent via email to: Extreme@mulberrytech.com. Guidelines for Submission and the DTDs are available by email: Extreme@mulberrytech.com or at http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Apply to the Peer Review panel using the form at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Peer/ Submit tutorial proposals according to the instructions at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorial SCHEDULE: Peer Review Applications Due. . March 2, 2001 Tutorial Proposals Due . . . . March 16, 2001 Paper Submission Deadline . . . March 31, 2001 Speakers Notified . . . . . . . May 14, 2001 Revised Papers Due. . . . . . . June 18, 2001 Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . August 6-7, 2001 Conference . . . . . . . . . . August 8-10, 2001 QUESTIONS: Email to Extreme@mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631 MORE INFORMATION: For updated information on the program and plans for the conference, see http://www2.gca.org/extreme/ -- ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: "Angela T. Spinazze" Subject: CIMI-MCN2001 Call for Participation Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:25:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 810 (810) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Real Life: Virtual Experiences New Connections for Museum Visitors CIMI-MCN 2001 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA October 24-27, 2001 <http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/>http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/ For the year 2001, the Museum Computer Network's annual meeting will be a special event. MCN is partnering with the CIMI Institute - the leading provider of training in digital museum applications - to host a three-day exploration of how new technologies can and will be used to affect visitors' experiences in the museum environment. Focused Events that Give Participants Something to Take Home The goal of this conference is to create environments - through workshops, plenary sessions and roundtables - where participants can engage each other and learn methodologies they can take home to their own museum. It's a chance to learn what is possible and how it can be done. The event will be organized around several tracks that will focus intensively one of the aspects of applying technology to enhance visitors' experiences. How Many Ways Can you Wire a Museum? It's no surprise that the museum in 2001 will be a much more wired (or wireless!) place. Museums today are investigating a variety of applications of technology that will affect the experience museum-goers have when they visit our spaces, such as: hand-held devices that visitors use while touring an exhibition in-gallery kiosks smart architecture rich, non-gimmicky multimedia web-based resources designed to enhance pre- or post-visitor experiences CIMI-MCN 2001 will examine site-based computing - both as it exists today and is imagined in the future - and the technological possibilities for enhancing and extending the experience of a museum visitor. You are invited to participate in CIMI-MCN 2001 by submitting a proposal for a presentation or workshop that fits into one of the tracks listed below. Proposals will be reviewed by a program committee to ensure a tightly focused, high quality conference program. The call for participation closes on April 30, 2001, and the preliminary program will be announced on June 15, 2001. Selected conference proceedings will be published in the winter issue of Spectra. Presenters who want to be included in the Spectra conference proceedings must have full papers to MCN by August 15, 2001. Conference Themes for CIMI-MCN 2001 include: Technology Affecting the Visitor's Experience Business Strategies Infrastructure and Technical Questions Social Implications Evaluation Visit the MCN web site to learn more <http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/>http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/ Angela Spinazze Programs Manager CIMI Consortium <http://www.cimi.org/>http://www.cimi.org 350 West Erie Street, Suite 250 Chicago, Illinois 60610 USA voice: +1.312.944.6820 fax: +1.312.944.6821 e-mail: ats@atspin.com From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP for Third Workshop on Inference in Computational Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:28:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 811 (811) Semantics [deleted quotation] * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 Siena, Italy, June 18-20, 2001 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ (Submission deadline: March 15, 2001) 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 Logic together, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. [material deleted] For actual information concerning ICoS-3 please consult http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Final Call for Workshop Proposals Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:30:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 812 (812) [deleted quotation] Final Call For ACL-2001 Workshop Proposals Workshop Chair: Rebecca Bruce (Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville) The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. [material deleted] For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for ACL-2003 Site Proposals Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:30:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 813 (813) [deleted quotation] CALL for Bids to Host ACL 2003 The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the 41st Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL'03). International ACL conferences are usually held at the end of July. In keeping with the ACL policy of rotating conference venues, we seek proposals from Asia. The proposal submission process is in two stages. First, draft proposals are sought from prospective proposers. Based on the evaluation of the draft proposals, selected proposers will be invited to submit full proposals. The intent of a request for draft proposals is to minimize the labor and costs associated with the production of full proposals. Bids for Local Arrangements Chair can include suggestions for General Chair, which must be someone other than the Local Arrangements Chair but could be at the same institution. The General Chair will be responsible for overseeing operations of the conference, including working with the Executives of the ACL and the NAACL and collaborating with the Local Arrangements Chair to develop the budget and registration materials; working with the Program and Local Arrangements Chairs to develop the schedule and program; working with the ACL Executive Board to appoint supporting chairs to obtain outside funding, publicize the conference, and organize workshops, tutorials, student events, and demonstrations (none of these supporting nominations need to be included in the proposal); and coordinating the activities of the various chairs and their committees. The Local Arrangements Chair will be responsible for the activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, housing, on-site registration, participant e-mail access, security for equipment, the reception, the banquet, and working with the General Chair, the ACL, and the NAACL to develop the budget and registration materials. The ACL Executive Board will select the Program Committee Chair, who will be responsible for the processes of soliciting, receiving, and reviewing submissions; selecting the papers to be presented at the conference; notifying authors of acceptance or rejection; and developing the conference program. Draft proposals are due on 15 April 2001. Draft proposals are evaluated competitively by the ACL Executive Committee. Selected proposers will be informed electronically before 15 May 2001. Full proposals are due on 15 June 2001. Draft proposals should include: - - Location (accessibility, conference venue, hotels, student dorms) - - Local CL Community - - Proposed Date - - Meeting Space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings) - - A/V equipment - - Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions - - Local Arrangements (chairs, committee, volunteer labor, registration handling) - - Sponsorships - - Budget estimates Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria (unordered): - - Experience of Local Arrangement team. - - Local CL community support. - - Local government and industry support. - - Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site. - - Appropriateness of proposed dates. - - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - - Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities. - - Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus. - - Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous conferences. Draft proposals should be sent electronically to the ACL Vice-President, with a copy to the executive committee's area coordinator for 2001. Prof. John Nerbonne Prof. Junichi TSUJII Alfa Informatica, P.O. Box 716 Department of Information Science University of Groningen Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN Tel. +31 (0)50 363 58 15 +81 (0)3-5841-4098 Fax 363 68 55 5802-8872 Email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl tsujii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ Submission Dates: Draft proposals are due on 15 April 2001; Full proposals are due on 15 June 2001. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Final Call for Papers Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:33:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 814 (814) [deleted quotation] ACL-2001 Final Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting, which this year is jointly hosted with the European Chapter. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Semantic Web Workshop 2001 at WWW10 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:36:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 815 (815) [deleted quotation] ********************************************************************* Call for Papers Semantic Web WWW-10 Workshop May 1, 2001 Hongkong ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Outline The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable, extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web, a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers, and to develop a common vision about the future developments. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IWCS-4 Program and Call for Participation Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:39:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 816 (816) [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P R O G R A M a n d C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ---------------------------------------------------------------------- III WW WW CCCCCC SSSSSSSSSS III WW WW CCC SSSS III WW WW WW CCC SSS 44 III WW WWWW WW CCC SSSSSSS 44 44 III WW WW WW WW CCC SSSSS === 44 44 III WW WW WW WW CCC SSS 44444444 III WWWW WWWW CCC SSSS 44 III WW WW CCCCCCC SSSSSSSSS 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS 10-12 January 2001 Tilburg, The Netherlands ********* The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University will host the Third Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10 -12 January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia objects. [material deleted] GENERAL INFORMATION ********* Information about hotels, about how to travel to Tilburg and the conference site, etc. can be found at the IWCS-4 web pages; see http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html For any questions about the program contact Harry Bunt@kub.nl; for all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Carol Mcgregor Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands phone: +31 13 466 83 81 fax: +31 13 466 31 10 email: C.J.McGregor@kub.nl [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems CF Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:39:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 817 (817) [deleted quotation]_______________________________________________________________ Preliminary Call for Papers NAACL 2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems co-chairs: Cindi Thompson and Eric Horvitz The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue systems, both speech and text based. In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied research in adaptation for dialogue, that includes learning procedures as well as decision making methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring dialogue behavior based on the context. We would also like to explore techniques that allow a dialogue system to learn with experience or from data sets gathered from empirical studies. We welcome submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP, and decision theory. We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including: -Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user modeling -Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses -Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty -User and user group modeling -Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems, including issues in annotation -Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems -Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to dialogue We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems. A web site that will provide additional information on the workshop as it becomes available is located at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html For more information: Please direct questions to Eric Horvitz (horvitz@microsoft.com) or Cindi Thompson (cindi@cs.utah.edu). From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: [STOA] Suda Classics 1.12: Arion [December 2000] Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:24:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 818 (818) [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Eprint 1.0 now donwloadable from eprints.org Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:25:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 819 (819) The operational release of the Eprints archive-creating software is now down-loadable from http://www.eprints.org The eprints.org software will create Eprints Archives that are interoperable and compliant with the current Open Archives protocol. The software is free, uses only free software, and can be installed and maintained easily. It is modular, and written to be easily upgraded with each upgrade of the Open Archives protocol: http://www.openarchives.org All Eprint Archives created with the eprints.org software are fully interoperable, and can be registered as Open Archive Data Providers: http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_archives.htm This means that their contents can then in turn all be harvested, jointly indexed, and jointly searched with all the other Eprint Archives through Open Archive Service Providers <http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_archives.htm> such as http://arc.cs.odu.edu All Eprints can also be citation-interlinked: http://opcit.eprints.org so that the research literature can be navigated by citation. It will also be possible to monitor research impact in powerful new ways, once the eprints are up there: http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.citation.htm The Eprints software was expressly designed so that universities and research institutions worldwide can now immediately create their own Open Archives, in which their researchers in all disciplines can (immediately) self-archive their research -- both pre-refereeing preprints and refereed postprints. http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Tp/1-Anomalous-Picture/sld001.htm http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Tp/2-Resolving-the-Anomaly/sld001.htm As soon as universities create their own Eprint Archives and their researchers self-archive their papers in them, the world's refereed research literature will be freed from all its current needless access-barriers and impact-barriers. Footnote: HISTORY IS WATCHING. The means of freeing the entire refereed research literature (within a matter of days, in principle!) is now within the reach of the world research community. If you have a published paper of your own that has not reached its full potential readership, if there is a published paper by someone else that you or your university cannot afford to access, or cannot access immediately, or if your university has a "serials crisis" preventing its researchers from accessing the entire refereed research corpus -- AND you have NOT self-archived your own papers -- then, as of now, you have only yourself to blame (and history will be the judge, in hindsight)! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science harnad@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Albert Borgmann on _Society in the Postmodern Era_ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:27:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 820 (820) Dear Humanists, Hi, recently Professor Borgmann has written an essay on _Society in the Postmodern Era_ this was published in the Washington Quarterly in the winter 2000, is online. The essay can be located at <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/washington_quarterly/v023/23.1borgmann.html> In his essay, Albert Borgmann has taken the figure of famous Marlboro Man to depict the picture of modern society. Marlboro Man has some good reflexes on our society. In this essay, he writes about Information that contains the only concern and victory of the computer. One quote from the essay, "As you take control of people, you must yield control over youself." Later, he also lucidly writes about the information retrieval (one of the trivial issues of the Web) by explaining the meaning of Latin quote as "corruptio optimi pessima" and its machine translation into English as "That that was optimal, once corrupt, is pessimo". --I enjoy his essay of high mountains and Montana's ranching. I hope, you will also enjoy his inputs..Thanks again. Best Regards Arun Tripathi From: "Kristine L. Haugen" Subject: Re: 14.0565 biographastry? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:18:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 821 (821) The most suggestive thing I've read is Celia Gittelson's novel 'Biography' (Knopf, 1991)--the writing is exceptional, and the book is, as Professor O'Donnell has stipulated, gorgeously nervous about the whole topic. The story starts as a prospective biographer runs an ad in the New York Review of Books asking for information on a semi-well-known dead poet; a number of things, inevitably, happen. Kristine Haugen ______________________ Kristine Louise Haugen Princeton University Department of English 22 McCosh Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Permanent email: k-haugen-1@alumni.uchicago.edu From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0565 biographastry? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:18:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 822 (822) [deleted quotation] Interestingly. In Germany biographies had a very hard time in scholarly circles, because models for historical change had shifted towards structural explanation in the late 60's. I think, the individual agent has been rediscovered not so long ago, probably in the context of cultural history, but maybe this has been a more general change in the intellectual atmosphere. This all hasn't deminished the general popularity of biographies. Fotis Jannidis From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Calls for Papers: Electronic Theses; Electronic Publishing Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:20:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 823 (823) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 15, 2000 ETD 2001 Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations March 22-24, 2001: Pasadena, CA <<http://library.caltech.edu/etd>http://library.caltech.edu/etd> Call for Papers: Deadline: January 15th, 2001 * * * * ICCC/IFIP 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ELPUB2001 - "2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey" July 5 -7th, 2001: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm/elpub2001>http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm/elpub2001 [deleted quotation] <<http://library.caltech.edu/etd>http://library.caltech.edu/etd>ETD 2001 Call for Papers Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th California Institute of Technology Pasadena California Deadline: January 15th, 2001 ETD 2001 wants you to participate! We invite submissions on all topics related to the creation and maintenance of ETD repositories. Examples of possible topics include: * Intellectual Property: Copyright, Patent, and Prior Publication * Organizational Issues: How to manage the submission and approval process of ETDs? * "Alternative" Theses and Dissertations: How important is traditional linear text? How will we assess the intellectual content of a multimedia work? What works qualify as ETDs? * User-Education and Software-Development Issues * Standards for Archiving Multimedia Documents * Etc. There is room for a limited number of contributed papers and poster presentations. For full consideration, please submit Title, One-Page Abstract, and Author Names as soon as possible, but not later than January 15th, 2001. <mailto:jhagen2@wvu.edu> Submit Title, One-Page Abstract, and Author Names Editor Contact Information: ETD 2001 Submissions c/o John H. Hagen WVU Libraries, Acquisitions Dept. P.O. Box 6069 Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 (304) 293-4040, Ext. 4025 Fax: (304) 293-6638 jhagen2@wvu.edu [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC/IFIP 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ELPUB2001 - "2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey" July 5 -7th, 2001: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm/elpub2001>http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm/elpub2001 In the world of digital publishing, formerly separate disciplines are merging and overlapping. Informational exchange on a technical as well as on a cultural level will provide important guidance for the future odyssey in new opportunities for digital publishing. This is serious argument for participating in ELPUB 2001 in Canterbury! ELPUB2001 is the 5th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2001 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications. The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999 and Russia in 2000. PROGRAM Submitted scientific papers, presentations of prototypes, operational systems, and associated experiences. The focus is on electronic publishing for academic and industrial purposes and for the general public. We welcome speakers on non-technical and technical problems. Three main topics with several subsections are addressed: I. New Publishing Models XML and further standards, interchange networks, distributed systems, document input, document delivery, e-books and new output media. Global co-operation in publishing, scientific demands (Citing, Linking), education and training, user needs and user profiles. II. Digital Libraries Architecture, knowledge management, multimedia in digital libraries, multi-lingualism, Navigation and information retrieval. New library services, content management, user interfaces, cataloguing and archives III. E-Commerce for Publishing Copyright saving and security systems, new business models, author-publisher-librarian: costs&payments; legal issues. Each topic has two tracks: 1. Technical focus 2. Human and cultural focus Proceedings of the conference will be published both as a book and electronically. The list of topics is not meant to be exhaustive and submissions on any topic within the overall conference theme will be considered. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: solsticials Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:17:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 824 (824) Dear colleagues: Writing that salutation I paused to wonder about the etymology of "colleague" and so discovered mirabile dictu I am addressing us together as the chosen (L. collega, "one chosen along with another, a partner in office, etc." OED, L&S). Quite a haphazard election, if I may say so -- which those elected here below should keep in mind.... In any case we are by whatever bumpings of atoms here yet again, at the darkest, quietest time of the year, on the verge of Christmas, Hanukkah and other solsticial celebrations. In my house the tree is up and decorated with white glittery balls and glass icicles (sent over the ocean by my mom), tinsel and cotton-wool (from the local Woolworth's, for the snow that in the drizzle of London is only mythical). Cards have been posted, late as usual. And as usual the upcoming holidays will mean hiatus here and there for Humanist, when it is not seemly for me to be at my computer, or (more like) I'm too stuffed to move or too charmed by the lights on the tree or otherwise devoted to celebrations. That it should seem so strange not to be connected is as remarkable as the pundits have observed, or more so. For someone, once an Oregonian, who for years envisioned his future as increasingly more rural and less connected (so much less as not to know these terms) this ordinary can indeed appear very strange. And it's getting more so. In my current research I've been using online publications as a primary resource. (This especially since my institution purchased rights to the ACM Digital Library, which is a fine thing, which in a better world would be free.) I've noticed not a few times a rising irritation at not finding what I need online, at the thought that I'll actually have to go, physically, to a library to find a referenced article or book. Let me rush to put this irritation in personal context: I love libraries, I derive great pleasure from using them, I prefer reading from the printed page, the British Library is less than an hour's tube ride away, my College library is a minute's walk from my office. And yet.... the printed page, however close at hand, is across a divide. In this research I've been paying particular attention to what I call "artefactual studies", i.e. close analyses of printed artefacts that ask how they work, either in the course of discussing or speculating about an electronic form or from a cognate perspective. There are surprisingly, shockingly few of these. On the technical side I think of Darrell Raymond and Wm. Tompa's 1988 article, "Hypertext and the Oxford English Dictionary", in Communications of the ACM 37.7: 871-9, or Steve DeRose and Andries Van Dam's 1999 article, "Document structure and markup in the FRESS hypertext system", in Markup Languages 1: 7-32. On the non-technical side are, for example, Steven Fraade's book, From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy (1991) or, more obviously, Jerry McGann's 1997 piece, "Imagning what you don't know: the theoretical goals of the Rosetti Archive". Looking across that divide I speak of, at our printed artefacts as models of knowing, enabled thus to ask exactly how they work as implementations of a particular technology, transforms our view of them, as McGann points out. DeRose and Van Dam briefly show how much is lost in systems development by not paying attention to the subtle complexities we are thus able to see. To see our familiar printed things as unfamiliar, with uncrusted-over eyes, is hard work but, it seems to me, absolutely central at this incunabular juncture. I would be most grateful for any pointers to such work or comments on it. This, it seems to me, is our work. Now to the wrapping up of a few gifts before I make for central London (ho, ho, ho..., jolly but less rotund and not quite as obvious). From tomorrow evening until a week hence Humanist will be less often published but no less cared for when a lull in the celebrations permit. I wish for you the same priority and as much joy in it. The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross tilla farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each! --Robert Browning, "Meeting at Night" Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NEDCC'S DIGITAL HANDBOOK ONLINE Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:20:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 825 (825) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 14, 2000 Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Announces Publication of Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access <http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm>http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm Below is an announcement of an important Handbook for those in museums, libraries and archives preparing to digitize collections. As one would expect from the NEDCC there is strong emphasis on thinking hrough issues of preservation and access as institutions think about digitizing material. This work is based on the very successful series of "School for Scanning" workshops held since 1996. The Handbook "combines a tutorial on technical issues with an overview of larger issues, including the need for preservation of digital products. It begins from the premise that investing in digital conversion only makes sense if institutions are prepared to provide long-term access to digital collections." David Green =========== [deleted quotation] December 2000 For Immediate Release NEDCC OFFERS ITS DIGITAL HANDBOOK ON-LINE AT www.nedcc.org The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) announces the on-line availability of its latest publication Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. The new Web resource was funded by a Library Leadership Grant from The Institute for Museum and Library Services. NEDCC receives major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Handbook was published to meet the needs of libraries and museums, and other collections holding institutions for basic information about planning and managing digital projects. In an effort to make this timely information available at no cost to anyone at anytime, NEDCC has posted the text on its Web site at www.nedcc.org. For the past five years, NEDCC has explored the complex issues surrounding digital conversion of collections through its nationally successful School for Scanning conferences. Many of the School for Scanning faculty members have contributed to this compilation of experts experiences and advice. The Handbook covers in detail, such topics as: * Rationale for Digitization and Preservation * Vendor Relations * Considerations for Project Management * Digital Longevity * Selection of Materials for Scanning * Overview of Copyright Issues * A Technical Primer * Guidelines from Case Studies The Handbook is also available in hard copy and ordering information is on the Web site. Also available online and in book form from NEDCC is the third edition of its highly successful Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual, published in 1999. An updated and expanded version, this book was sponsored by The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). More than 400 pages in length, the manual consists of a series of 51 technical leaflets, divided into six categories: * Planning & Prioritizing * The Environment * Emergency Management * Storage & Handling * Reformatting * Conservation Procedures * Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access: $38.00. * Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual: $50.00. For ordering information, contact Juanita Singh at Juanita@nedcc.org or (978) 470-1010 or visit www.nedcc.org. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Randall Pierce Subject: biographastry Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:57:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 826 (826) The American Historical Association has considered biographical writing from many aspects over the years. Who should write a biography? When? How about "objectivity" and "subjectivity"? Is it better for the biographer to know the subject? Or not? An entire field of historiography is devoted to the genre'. Is it best left to the professional historian? Does a novelist have a part in biographical writing? All of these are questions which the AHA has debated for years. Questions concerning primary and secondary sources are, of course, of greatest import. I would recommend any aspiring biographer to see these studies. Randall From: Eric Johnson Subject: Faculty position: Computer-Based Writing Faculty Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:01:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 827 (827) Dakota State University Computer-Based Writing Faculty Full-time tenure-track position (and possible full-time term or part-time positions) for specialists in composition or technical writing. Ph.D. (or nearly-completed A.B.D.) in English (or equivalent terminal degree) required for tenure-track position. Primary duties (starting August 15, 2001) are teaching computer- based composition. Teaching load may include courses in computer-based basic writing, first-year composition, advanced composition, and, technical writing. Familiarity with computer applications for writing essential. Dakota State University emphasizes integration of computer technology in all areas of instruction and has been recognized by Yahoo!/Internet Life rankings of 12th or better among the 100 most wired colleges in the nation for the last three years. For information about Dakota State University, see the DSU web site at http://www.dsu.edu Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience. To apply, send letter of application, resume, copies of graduate transcripts, and names and current telephone 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 Review of applications will begin on February 9, 2001, and will continue until the positions are filled. Applicants with disabilities are invited to identify any necessary accommodations required in the application process. EOE --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH "Guide to Good Practice" Seeks Nominations & Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:01:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 828 (828) Participation NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 20, 2000 NINCH "GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE" PROJECT SEEKS NOMINATIONS <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ninch-hatiigoodpractice/ninch_web_survey.htm>http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ninch-hatiigoodpractice/ninch_web_survey.htm As readers will know from the October 3 NINCH Announcement <<http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/press.html>http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/press.html>, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is producing a Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. The Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII) of Glasgow University was selected by the NINCH Best Practices Working Group to conduct a survey of current practice in the cultural heritage sector and write the Guide, in close co-operation with the NINCH Working Group. HATII has now completed an initial survey of ten sites and, learning from the experience of conducting these intensive interviews, the Glasgow-based team is now engaged upon an extensive (though not comprehensive) survey of exemplary sites in the US and abroad by means of face-to-face and telephone interviews as well as via a web-page. You are invited to nominate a production site (or project) you believe is exemplary according to the evaluative criteria developed by the NINCH Working Group (or indeed, by your own)--see <<http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-1.html>http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-1.html>. Please join us in making this as thorough a survey as we need to produce the Guide. Many Thanks, David Green, for the Working Group on Best Practice, Kathe Albrecht Lee Ellen Friedland Peter Hirtle Lorna Hughes Kathy Jones Mark Kornbluh Joan Lippincott Michael Neuman Richard Rinehart Thornton Staples ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Exemplary interactive academic sites Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:57:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 829 (829) Dear Colleagues, I wonder if anybody has recently compiled a "top ten"-list of exemplary academic websites, mainly - but not necessarily restricted to - the field of Literary Studies. By "exemplary" I mean - practical usefulness: i.e., well-organized systematized compilation of current links and pointers to discipline specific ressources; - identifiable and accountable structure for editorial content management, moderation and quality control(i.e.: must be supported by "real" people and/or editorial board, not just an anonymous webmaster hidden behind a link); - user-group and function specific differentiation (i.e., a "research" section, a "student" section, a "commercial" section carrying ads and reviews etc.); - reasonably innovative in technological terms (without going over board and carried away by the wild and wonderful gimmicks on offer) and interactive where it makes sense to be interactive. More particulary, I would be interested to find out whether any academic websites actively employ CMS (Content Management Systems)-technologies. Many thanks, Chris ************************** Dr. Jan Christoph Meister Editor NarrNet / Arbeitsstelle zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Institut fr Germanistik II Universitt Hamburg E-Mail: jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de NarrNet: www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/narratologie From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: E-Journal Extras Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:02:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 830 (830) _E-Journal Extras_ I am greatly interested in identifying a variety of e-journal 'extras' for inclusion in my latest Web project, EJI. EJI [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ] is "a registry electronic journals or journal services that offer or provide innovative or novel access, organization, or navigation features and functionalities." Among the 'extras' I seek to identify in e-journals or e-journal services are access to _relevant_: * Reference resources (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, manuals, etc.) * Dissertations, either abstracts and/or full-text, or links to such services as Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) or relevant dissertations in the Contentville service [ http://www.contentville.com/content/dissertations.asp ] * E-Books * Patents * Discussion Forums / Electronic Discussion Lists (e-lists) * Polls and Surveys * Reader participation * Database Access (e.g. PubMed (Medline)) * Article / Document Ordering * Any other type of 'extra' service not typical of the typical e-journal Access to such services may be offered free-of-charge, by subscription, or on a pay-per-view basis. [NOTE: I have identified *some* types of 'extra' services and have included these in a MUCH expanded EJI. If you have not yet visited EJI, it is well worth the visit this holiday season [:-)] As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries, critiques, cosmic insights, etc., etc. etc. are Most Welcome. Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Extra Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It" Alan Kay From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Does life create a virus in terminal embarrassment? - Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:00:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 831 (831) Doctorow Does life create a virus in terminal embarrassment? I suggest this question as the opening question in an informal humanist-medical-science-virus-internet discussion (which may be still-born, of course). Humanities people are about as expert in embarrassment as anybody in psychology, with humanists' experience in literature, art, history, philosophy, drama, etc. Does life itself recognize conditions under which it cannot answer questions and responds by something analogous to embarrassment leading to virus production? I ask this because viral diseases often occur in embarrassing circumstances involving either the reproductive or the excretory systems (flu/dysentery, aids/HIV, etc.). Cancers also attack reproductive and excretory systems - it would be interesting to know if all cancers originate there except for those with obvious exposure to stressors such as smoking (lungs), sunburn (skin cancer), etc. Speaking of stressors, are the reproductive and excretory systems stressed, and also why are we embarrassed in discussing them even in science and humanities? We know that the eating habits of many people result in gross misuse of the digestive system, which have effects in the excretion system. I suggest the possibility that the reproductive system was "intended by nature" to be used mostly for reproduction of the species rather than in the way that it is commonly used, and that this is both a stressor and a source of embarrassment because of our deep realization of problems concerning this. It is true that the accumulation of tensions in the reproductive system need to be relieved (when we eliminate the "hype" of over-induced tensions generated by mass media sensationalization, etc.). However, did nature "intend" this relief to be more like excretion or more like an elaborate ritual prolonged as long as possible? I suggest that we do not have to answer this question as much as life has to answer it - and that when it cannot answer it, it creates a type of non-life which is an analogue of a non-answer, and which we call a virus. Both in reproduction and digestion/excretion habits, we have unexplored territory, and we have a mystery whose symptom may be "terminal embarrassment". Osher Doctorow From: Rob Watt Subject: Concordance 2.0.0 (fwd) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:04:01 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 832 (832) I am pleased to announce the release of Version 2.0.0 of Concordance. The purpose of Concordance is to give you better insight into electronic texts. For Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000, Concordance is a text analysis program which makes word lists and concordances from electronic text. First released in 1999, Concordance already has registered users in 30 countries. Concordance lets you track all occurrences of any word and examine meaning, word usage, vocabulary, and idiom. Useful in language learning, linguistics, language engineering, translation, natural language software development, and for content analysis in many disciplines. With a single click you can turn your results into a Web Concordance ready for publishing on the Web. You can make full concordances to texts of any size, or make fast concordances, picking your selection of words from text. View a full word list, a concordance, and your original text simultaneously. See frequencies and collocation counts for every word. Support is included for most Western languages and character sets. User- definable alphabet, reference system, and contexts. Very flexible search, selection, and sorting criteria. Statistics on your text; word length charts. Full print preview and printing control. Built-in file viewer can display files of unlimited size. Built-in editor allows fast editing of files up to 16MB. Extensive on-line help. New features in Version 2.0.0, the most significant upgrade yet released, include: - Lemmatiser lets you group together any words you choose - You can make concordances straight from any Windows program which can put text on the Clipboard - You can make concordances from multiple input files - a Stop List lets you specify words to be omitted from your concordance - Many further new features and improvements Concordance is fully copyrighted commercial software. A 30-day free trial of the fully-working version is available for download, for personal evaluation only. For use beyond the terms of the 30-day trial, a registration must be purchased from the author. For further information and to download the software, go to the program's website at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ Rob Watt R.J.C.Watt@dundee.ac.uk Concordance software - gain better insight into e-texts Download Concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: happy new year Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:07:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 833 (833) Dear Colleagues: From my privileged geographical position nearby Greenwich, and so telling time by GMT, allow me just six hours prior to midnight on this 31 December, to wish all of you the most joyous and intellectually prosperous of new years. Some would say as well that in six hours we'll enter a new millennium, but that scale of time is so vast, so daunting and beyond the span of anyone's life that a millennial changeover seems to me altogether too abstract to stir the blood. Humanists in this country may find the ambiguity richly ironical, as the Millennium Experience Company closes its great, expensive tent officially at the end of the day. One year ago this evening, in Washington DC, I listened to Bishop Desmond Tutu preach to honour the past century in a message of hope, which he heroically rescued from the tragic savagery that he reviewed as its most characteristic attribute. Tonight, for me at least, a quieter, less spectacular but deeply joyous evening at home -- after finishing this message assurredly NOT in front of a computer but an ageing television beside a quite beautiful Christmas tree. Humanist will again fall silent from 3 through 7 January but will resume with my start of term on the 8th. All the best to all of you. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "Hamilton-Locke, Inc" Subject: Document Explorer: Tools for your students to explore! Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:28:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 834 (834) Great news for educators! WordCruncher has a new name, new tools, and a new low educational price. WordCruncher, which is now available in Document Explorer, has been given new interface tools to your word processor and can be purchased by educators for $295! (Retail price $695). Discover the value inside the written passage, the use of a particular term, the use of neighboring terms, and the value of particular speech patterns and phrases. Political Science, Humanities, International Relations, Philosophy, Psychology, Family Relations, Law, and nearly every field needs Document Explorer to study, examine, explore, and discover the inside issues of a text. Have you ever wanted to statistically analyze a document? Find the author's word print? Who really wrote the document? Was the author of the first chapter the same as the author of the last chapter? Was someone else involved? Have you ever wanted to compare the words of one document to another and examine the purposes behind the two authors vocabulary selection? A student sits down and looks at references to God in various political speeches, statistically analyses neighboring terms, and draws a conclusion concerning the circumstances in which politicians cite God. Document Explorer can help with reconstruction of original source texts, analysis of textual changes through time, authorship analysis, concept analysis, word etymology, frequency distribution analysis, collocation analysis, word frequency analysis, text structure analysis, translation analysis, consistency analysis in translation, ambiguity analysis, divergent meaning analysis, and much more. Thank you, and Please contact us for more information about Document Explorer. David Neubert, President Hamilton-Locke, Inc. 1902 N. Canyon Rd, Ste. 120 Provo, Utah 84604 mail@hamilton-locke.com 801.356.3512 V 801.226.2971 F From: Willard McCarty Subject: VR and theatre history Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:15:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 835 (835) Those within reach of London may be interested in attending a seminar at King's College London on 19 January, "Virtual reality for theatre history", to be given by Professor Richard Beacham and Dr Hugh Denard (Warwick). See <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/00-01/> for details. The location will be published when we have one. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: A Teleprompto? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:22:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 836 (836) [deleted quotation] A New Kind of Error? As a humanistic philologist, I spend a great deal of time listening and watching for `errors', such as the recent use of _livid_ to mean, not purple, but `quite angry', or such things as the hyperurbanism `between you and I' (and others of the kind). Each new invention brings with it its own types, as the stylus and the clay, the chisel and the stone, the brush and the papyrus, the pen and the parchment, etc. brought us the scribal error, the typewriter the typo. We had the mixup of the idiot boards in one of Reagan's speeches (bothered him not at all). Each of these required special skills on the part of the philologer, and we have books on how to recover the original. Now comes a new invention: the teleprompter (and the see-through teleprompter). Those who watched both conventions, with speakers changing their positions to accomodate cameras and teleprompters know what I mean. In one of his speeches Bush referred to people `filing out their forms'. Here, one cannot be sure whether this was his error or that of the teleprompter typist. Just this morning, I heard a senator speak of `Britian's role', and I feel sure that must have been the teleprompter, since I know of no one who says Britian for Britain (spelling is a whole nother thing). Those who watched the Supreme Court recently on TV and saw how badly the court reporter spelled can be sure that teleprompter typists are likely to do so also. Thus, there may spring up a new task for the philologist. I am sure that in the future we will see people claiming that World War III was started by a misreading of a teleprompter by some great official, just as that everyone knows that World War II was started by the mistranslation of a Japanese word. Perhaps awareness will mitigate (I saw that recently, too) against this. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: TCC 2001 ONLINE CONFERENCE: Final Call For Proposals & Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:16:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 837 (837) Registration (fwd) [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: XSLT conference, UK, April 2001 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:22:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 838 (838) [deleted quotation] XSLT-UK. The first XSLT conference. ----------------------------------- The first XSLT-UK conference will take place in the UK, Sunday and Monday, 8-9 April 2001 in Keble College, Oxford, England. We now have our speakers lined up, the venue is booked, and it is looking good for an interesting two days. The announce is at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsltuk/, and registration is open, at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/regform.html The conference is priced reasonably, and if you are really new to XSLT, then Ken Holman's two day course is set to run on Friday and Saturday, 6th and 7th April 2001. This provides an ideal introduction to XSLT. SPEAKERS: * Jeni Tennison (Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd): XSLT Design Patterns * Michael Kay (ICL): XSLT performance * Jacek Ambroziak (CrossGain Corporation, formerly Sun Microsystems): The XSLT Compiler for the JVM * Norm Walsh (Sun): Building and maintaining the Docbook XSL family * Steve Muench (Oracle Corporation): XSLT and Databases: A Compelling Combination for Web Apps * Tom Kaiser (Ginger Alliance, Prague, Czech Republic): Charlie - an XML application framework * Wolfgang Emmerich (Dept. of Computer Science, University College London): Markup Meets Middleware * Leigh Dodds (xmlhack.com, ingenta ltd): Schematron: validating XML using XSLT * Mario Jeckle (DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology): Using XSLT to derive schemata from UML * Ben Robb (cScape Strategic Internet Services Ltd): Creating a diary application using XSLT * Evan Lenz (XYZFind Corp.): XSLT as a Query Language * Arved Sandstrom (e-plicity): Implementing XSL formatting objects * G. Ken Holman (Crane Softwrights Ltd.): Experiments Using XSLT With Topic Maps From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FG/MOL First Call For Papers Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:23:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 839 (839) [deleted quotation] FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE August 10--12, 2001 Helsinki, Finland FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. AIMS and SCOPE FGMOL'01 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. * mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks * theories and models of natural language processing and generation * parsing theory * statistical and quantitative models of language [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Web site for FGMOL'01 :http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Larry Moss lsm@cs.indiana.edu Dick Oehrle oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ichim2001: Submission Deadline Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:24:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 840 (840) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS and TUTORIALS: ichim2001 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium Politecnico di Milano, Milan Italy 3-7 September, 2001 http://www.ichim01.polimi.it (Italy) or http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/ (US) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 2, 2001 About ichim2001 --------------- Since 1991 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) has provided an international forum in which to explore the relationships between Technology and Cultural Heritage. Under the theme "Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium", ichim2001 will explore the interplay between innovative technologies and their applications in the cultural sphere. Specific attention will be paid to the evolution of Cultural Heritage Institutions, whose new forms are being determined by the combined impact of innovative technologies and changing social expectations of their role. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Text Summarization/Document Understanding Conference Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:24:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 841 (841) [deleted quotation] Preliminary Call for Participation Text Summarization and Document Understanding Conference Over the last five years, we have witnessed a tremendous increase in interest in summarization research from both the academia and the industry. In spite of this, we do not know yet what summarization techniques are most adequate, what systems perform the best, and what evaluation techniques are most appropriate for assessing the quality of a summary. To further progress in the field and enable researchers participate in large-scale experiments, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a new evaluation series in the area of text summarization, tentatively called the Document Understanding Conference (DUC). The basic design for the evaluation follows ideas in a recent summarization road map that was created by a committee of researchers in summarization, headed by Daniel Marcu. Plans call for the creation of reference data (documents and summaries) for training and testing. The training data will be distributed in March of 2001, test data distributed in June, and results due for evaluation the first of August 2001. A workshop will be held in September to discuss these results and to make further plans. For further details on the evaluation or on the road map, see http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/. To be added to a mailing list for further announcements, please contact donna.harman@nist.gov. To contribute to the summarization roadmap, please contact marcu@isi.edu. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CfP: Workshop on "Coordination & Action" at ESSLLI 2001 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:25:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 842 (842) [deleted quotation] Peter Kuehnlein (Bielefeld Univ., Germany), Alison Newlands (Univ. of Strathclyde, UK) and Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ., Germany) Coordination and Action ======================= Workshop at ESSLLI XIII (Helsinki) August 20th - 24th, 2001 (http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~pkuehnle/HELSINKI) Background & Scope: =================== Coordination is at present one of the most powerful explanatory devices used in various cognitive sciences (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, logics, AI). The original impetus came from philosophy, especially from D. Lewis' work on coordination and convention (Lewis, 1969). Later on the concept gained considerable acceptance due to the work of the psychologist H. Clark and his collaborators (Clark (ed.), 1992; Clark, 1996) who investigated various problems of language use, such as reference and agents' information states. They showed that multi-agent dialogue is based on coordination and joint action, grounding and mutual belief. These concepts rapidly found their way into dialogue theories based on discourse analysis or speech act theory. A slightly different perspective on coordination can be found in theories using the notion of dialogue game (Levin and Moore, 1978; Mann, 1988; Carletta et al., 1997; Ginzburg, 1997; Power, 1979). Dialogue games are applied in a variety of research contexts, inter alia in the research initiatives VERBMOBIL (Germany) and TRINDI (UK, Germany, Sweden). The concept of dialogue games also stimulated reconstructions in more formal theories such as DRT (Lascarides & Asher, 1999; Poesio, 1998) or various forms of update semantics (Hulstijn, 2000). The notion of joint action received support from philosophy (e.g. Bratman (1992) on cooperativity, Searle (1990) on collective intention) and especially from the AI community working on shared plans in interaction (Grosz and collaborators, 1996). It was repeatedly taken up by logicians, especially those working on information states, mutuality or BDI-architectures (Fagin et al., 1995; Herzig and collaborators, 1999; Sadek, 1992). Research topics coming to the fore at present are coordination of information between different hierarchical levels of language and speech, a topic already discussed in H. Clark's work, and coordination of information coming from different channels (such as visual-gestural and verbal-auditory). Especially research with a multi-media objective contributed by linguistics, psychology and AI is of relevance in this context. The intention-based concept of coordination is also used in robotics and simulation work for agent-architectures combining high-level deliberative patterns with low-level reactive devices for which the well-known RoboCup setting provides a good example. [material deleted] Further information: ==================== For local arrangements, please contact the ESSLLI organizers, and see http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli For further information on the workshop, please contact pkuehnle@lili.uni-bielefeld.de and see http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~pkuehnle/HELSINKI -- Collaborative Research Center SFB 360 Univ. Bielefeld phone: ++49-521-106 3503 Universitdtsstrasse 25 e-mail: pkuehnle@lili.uni-bielefeld.de D-33611 Bielefeld URL: http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~pkuehnle _______________________________________________________________________________ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NFAIS seminar on Fair Use: Jan. 25, 2001, Washington, DC Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:27:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 843 (843) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 3, 2001 National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services Fair Use and The Internet: Current Status and Emerging Trends A One-Day Seminar Washington, DC: Thursday, January 25, 2001 $250 ($199 librarians; $99 NFAIS members) <http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais.html>http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais.html [deleted quotation] This announcement has been cross-posted to a variety of listservs. We apologize for duplicative announcements that you may receive. Fair Use and The Internet: Current Status and Emerging Trends Thursday, January 25, 2001 A Valuable One-Day Seminar Sponsored by National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services The NFAIS Symposium on Fair Use and the Internet: Current Status and Emerging Trends will provide an opportunity for digital information providers and users to obtain information on: - where the law stands today - both domestically and internationally; - how and when changes in the law may occur as courts interpret legal standards in the reality of the e-commerce marketplace; - new standards for licensing practices; - the ability of new technologies to provide security to information producers and to enable users to gain maximum benefit from accessing and using digital informational products and services. Confirmed Speakers include Mary Beth Peters, Register, U.S. Copyright Office Justin Hughes, Attorney Advisor, Office of Legislative and International Affairs, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Vince Garlock, Counsel, House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property Carlyle C. Ring, Jr. Attorney at Law, Ober Kaler, NCCUSL Commissioner, Virginia Keith Kupferschmid, Intellectual Property Counsel, Software & Information Industry Association Allan Adler, Vice President, Legal and Governmental Affairs, Association of American Publishers Sally Wiandt, Director, Law Library and Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University. Adrian Alexander, Executive Director, Big12Plus Libraries Consortium To see the complete program and listing of speakers and to print out a registration form, go to the NFAIS web site (<http://www.nfais.org>http://www.nfais.org) and click on the Fair Use and the Internet link on the home page. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Computer-related sessions at the College Art Association Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:28:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 844 (844) in Chicago NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 3, 2001 DIGITAL SESSIONS AT COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION 2000 February 28 - March 3, 2001: Chicago <http://www.collegeart.org/caa/program2001/>http://www.collegeart.org/caa/program2001/ Following our announcement of digital sessions at the American Historical Association's meeting (Boston, Jan.4-7 <<http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha>http://www.h-net.msu.edu/aha>) and at the 2000 MLA Convention (Washington DC, Dec 27-30 <<http://www.ach.org/mla00/guide.html>http://www.ach.org/mla00/guide.html>), here is a companion announcement of computer-related sessions at the upcoming annual meeting of the College Art Association in Chicago. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Below please find the titles and schedules for the "electronic" sessions at the 2001 Chicago Conference. Multiple Crossroads: Creativity and the Digit Chairs: Lynne Allen, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; David Kiehl, Whitney Museum of American Art Thursday, 8:00-10:30p.m. CAA Committee on Women in the Arts We Do "Windows" (and Much More): Women, Multimedia Technology, and the Arts Chairs: Karen Bearor, Florida State University; Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-noon The Internet: A Diplomatically Correct Site for Politically Incorrect Art? Chair: Gary A. Keown, Southeastern Louisiana University Friday, 2:00-4:30 p.m. Pedagagoy 4.0 Is In Beta: Teaching in the New Media Studio Chair: Brooke A. Knight, University of Maine Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-noon nets/screens/projections/dreams: film, video art, and digital movies Chair: Mary Patten, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Friday, 9:00-11:30 a.m. Coalition of Women's Art Organizations The Impact of Digital Technologies on College Level Art Programs: Open Forum Chair: Kyra Belan, Broward Community College Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Community College Professors of Art Strategies for Distance Education in the Community College Chair: Alan Petersen, Coconino Community College Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Association of Art Editors Voices from the New Frontier: Editing for Online Publication Chair: Susan Rossen, The Art Institute of Chicago Friday, 12:00-1:30 p.m. =========================================================================== Stephanie Davies Conference Coordinator College Art Association 275 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10001 212/691-1051, ext. 242 212/627-2381, fax sdavies@collegeart.org As the largest association for visual arts professionals, College Art Association promotes the highest levels of creativity and scholarship in the practice, teaching, and interpretation of the visual arts. Join CAA in Chicago for the 89th Annual Conference, February 28 - March 3, 2001. For Conference details and membership information, see our website: www.collegeart.org. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: January/February Issue of The Technology Source Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:17:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 845 (845) Below is a description of the January/February 2001 issue of The Technology Source, a free, refereed Web periodical at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using information technology tools more effectively in their work. As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for manuscripts at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/call.asp and send me a note if you would like to contribute such an article. Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, The Technology Source UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Editor Emeritus, On the Horizon Phone: 919 962-2517 http://www.camfordpublishing.com Fax: 919 962-1693 IN THIS ISSUE: Albert Ip and Roni Linser introduce this issue of The Technology Source with their assessment of a Web-based role-play model that they use to teach their world politics class at the University of Melbourne. By virtually filling the shoes of various local statesmen, world leaders, and media figures, students experience politics hands-on, an approach that Ip and Linser believe fosters long-term retention. In addition to challenging students to take responsibility for tough diplomatic issues, the model offers opportunities for creativity and enjoyment. As Ip and Linser explain, "the increase of fun and playfulness, which enhance student motivation, justifies the effort." John Hibbs discusses the importance of maximizing technology use in his commentary on the format of distance education conferences. Hibbs shares an illuminating fantasy with readers: a chat with a kingpin in distance education who defends face-to-face conferences. But with a $3,000 cost per attendee, double that for international attendees, Hibbs contends, "Something about this story doesn't seem quite right. . . ." He reminds us that up-to-date technology can make conferences, much like classrooms, cost-effective, efficient, and accessible to all. Stephen Downes takes Hibbs' argument a step further, arguing in this issue's second commentary that the approach to conferences Hibbs describes is representative of a deeper attitude: a general discrediting of online discourse, even among distance education professionals. To Downes, the hypocrisy is that "while distance educators talk about online learning as inclusive and empowering, their practice remains exclusive and disempowering." While technological advances are revolutionizing distance education, Ellen Chaffee cautions against overlooking the importance of universal access. In this issue's third commentary, she explains, "Rather than viewing technology as a tool for delivery, like an interactive video system, we can view technology as a tool for learning, like a textbook or problem set." She cites improved student and faculty experiences at Valley City State University and Mayville State University as evidence for the successes of universal access, emphasizing that those successes are well worth additional costs. Like the authors of our assessment article, Diann Schindler-Ender calls for greater interaction on the Web. In our fourth commentary, Schindler-Ender argues that the human resource shortage faced by many institutions means that their future success hinges on the ability to attract skilled and competent candidates. The way to tackle this potential employment crisis, she emphasizes, is to take the job search process to the Web, following the examples of business and industry. She concludes that "online employee recruitment promises a fast, easy, cost-efficient, and effective tool for addressing a fast-approaching human resource crisis." Joel Foreman has much experience with the world of distance education. In his case study of WebCT, a course management system (CMS), Foreman discloses the current benefits and disadvantages of the system, suggesting improvements that may encourage more teachers to use a CMS in their courses. Foreman predicts that, like farmers trading mules for tractors, teachers' adoption of improved course management systems represents a new era in instruction. In our second case study, Grover Furr discusses Internet technology in the classroom, sharing his insight into teaching using streaming audio. The technology allows Furr's and others' lectures to be accessible outside of class, encouraging further study of the material and making time in class more active. Overall, Furr explains, "With this simple and cheap streaming audio technology, I can use all of my class time to enhance student-centered, interactive education." In faculty and staff development, Ann Luck takes Technology Source readers for another visit to Penn State's World Campus to share the online course development process. Those who remember last spring's case study, in which Luck first introduced this exciting distance learning program, will be eager to learn how World Campus faculty and staff create their courses in a team environment and to read Luck's advice for avoiding common pitfalls. Those who didn't catch last spring's article won't want to miss out again. This issue's spotlight shines on "JURIST: The Legal Education Network," a site with a plethora of resources for those interested in legal studies. As Stephen Downes reveals, the site is a must-view for students, professors, librarians, and practicing lawyers alike. It offers extensive material on conferences, books and articles, law schools, bar exams, current laws and legislation, and job openings. Check out Downes's article and see why he calls it "probably the best educational portal on the Internet today." Sometimes traditional numerical, multiple-choice, or fill-in-the-blank questioning drills just can't be beat when it comes to promoting and assessing student learning. Yet educators must weigh the advantages of such assignments against the tedious hours required to grade individual exercises. Often, too much time on paperwork means too little time for creative lesson planning and meaningful interaction with students. John C. Dutton has a solution to this problem: WebAssign, which he touts as "a better homework delivery tool"--better, that is, not only at delivering questions to students, but also at grading their responses and providing them with instant feedback, freeing teachers' time for what really matters. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:26:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 846 (846) [deleted quotation]___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: - Telephone Speech Resources ELRA-S0090 Polish SpeechDat(E) Database ELRA-S0092 Portuguese SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000 - Desktop Microphone Speech Resources ELRA-S0087 BABEL Hungarian Database ELRA-S0088 Twin database - TWINDB1 ELRA-S0089 Albayzin corpus ELRA-S0093 IBNC - An Italian Broadcast News Corpus - Speech Related Resources ELRA-S0091 Pronunciation lexicon of British place names, surnames and first names - Written Corpus ELRA-W0025 A "scientific" corpus of modern French (La Recherche magazine) - Multilingual Lexicons ELRA-M0025 Bilingual English-Russian Russian-English Dictionaries A short description of each database is given below. _______________________________________ TELEPHONE SPEECH RESOURCES _______________________________________ - ELRA-S0090 Polish SpeechDat(E) Database This database comprises 1000 Polish speakers (488 males, 512 females) recorded over the Polish fixed telephone network. - ELRA-S0092 Portuguese SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000 This database comprises 4027 Portuguese speakers (1861 males, 2166 females) recorded over the Portuguese fixed telephone network. _______________________________________ DESKTOP/MICROPHONE SPEECH RESOURCES _______________________________________ - ELRA-S0087 BABEL Hungarian Database The BABEL Database is a speech database that was produced by a research consortium funded by the European Union under the COPERNICUS programme (COPERNICUS Project 1304). The Hungarian database consists of: - the basic "common" set which contains the Many Talker Set (30 males, 30 females), Few Talker Set (4 males, 4 females), Very Few Talker Set (1 male, 1 female); -- and the extension part: a short description of Hungarian sound system - ELRA-S0088 Twin database - TWINDB1 The Twin database named TWINDB1 includes recordings of 45 French speakers, consisting of 9 pairs of identical twins (8 males and 10 females) with similar voices, and 27 other speakers (13 males and 14 females) including 4 none-twin siblings. - ELRA-S0089 Albayzin corpus This corpus consists of 3 sub-corpora of 16 kHz 16 bits signals, recorded by 304 Castillian speakers: Phonetic corpus, Geographic corpus, "Lombard" corpus - ELRA-S0093 IBNC - An Italian Broadcast News Corpus Produced within the European Commission funded project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335), the collection consists of 150 broadcast programs from the RAI, for a total time of about 30 hours, issued in 36 different days, between 1992 and 1999. down-sampled to 16kHz 16 bit, and encoded into the NIST Sphere PCM format. _______________________________________ SPEECH RELATED RESOURCES _______________________________________ - ELRA-S0091 Pronunciation lexicon of British place names, surnames and first names This pronunciation lexicon produced within the European Commission funded project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335) is an SGML-encoded database. It contains 160,000 entries of British place-names, surnames and first names All phonemic transcriptions in the database are based on the SAMPA phonetic alphabet. _______________________________________ WRITTEN CORPUS _______________________________________ - ELRA-W0025 A "scientific" corpus of modern French (La Recherche magazine) Produced within the European Commission funded project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335), the corpus contains all articles published in La Recherche magazine in 1998, including issues 305 (January) to 315 (December), which amounts to 447,244 tokens and 30,238 types. Two versions are available: the raw data (XML format) and the complete version (XML and SGML formats) _______________________________________ MULTILINGUAL LEXICONS _______________________________________ - ELRA-M0025 Bilingual English-Russian Russian-English Dictionaries Produced within the European Commission funded project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335), these bilingual dictionaries contain more than 350,000 pairs of words (in tabular form) in XML format: 1) Russian-English dictionary - more than 130,000 entries 2) English-Russian dictionary - more than 95,000 entries Each entry contains: source word (lemma); part of speech of source word; target word(s) (lemma(s)), grouped by same meaning; part of speech of target word(s); domain(s). ===================================== 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop on Modular Programming for NLP at Eurolan '01 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:34:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 847 (847) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on "Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing" Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania The call for papers and comprehensive information can be found on line at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/workshop.html The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI 01 Student Session Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:35:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 848 (848) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI 2001 STUDENT SESSION SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS August 13-24 2001, Helsinki, Finland Deadline: February 18, 2001 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/esslli We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2001) organized by the University of Helsinki under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI 2001 will be held at the University of Helsinki in August 2001. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This sixth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. [material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: A sense of genre Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:31:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 849 (849) Willard, Subscribers to Humanist are no doubt aware of an impressive corpus of Renaissance English dictionaries prepared by Professor Ian Lancashire and which may be accessed using the following URL http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/ret/ret.html I was reading recently an article by Ian Lancashire, "Editing English Renaissance Electronic Texts," collected in _The Literary Text in the Digital Age_ edited by Richard J. Finneran (University of Michigan Press, 1996). I was impressed by the possibilities Professor Lancashire's work with Renaissance dictionaries opens up for reflection upon the intellectual history of lexicography. A statement with echoes of McLuhan caught my attention and sent me off to read Ian Lancashire's contribution to _English Language Corpora, Design, Analysis and Exploitation_ ed. by Jan Aarts, Pieter de Haan and Nelleke Oostdijk (Rodolphi, 1993) and then to the corpus itself . Unfortunately his contribution to that volume entitled "The Early Modern English Renaissance Dictionaries Corpus" where I found: "Research problems in repurposing early dictionaries involve [... tagging ... lemmatizing... and] better capturing the 'fuzziness of the English Renaissance, which lacked formal lexicons and the notion of 'fixed' senses." (p. 19) which I believe became by 1996 the following claim: "When speaking about the various _senses_ of a word, Renaissance writers mean, literally, those different sense experiences, or perceptions, to which that word was conventionally applied as a sign. The very absence of a Renaissance dictionary of the kind Johnson wrote is consistent with this interpretation of how the period understood language." (p. 135) Much of this becomes clearer in a text publish in the Computing in the Humanities Working Papers series in 1994, "An Early Modern English Dictionaries Corpus 1499-1659" "These early dictionaries are written as if words were best explained by identifying them with, or in the context of, things in the living world that people can experience every day. There is little evidence that these early lexicographers thought of general classes and select, distinctive features or of a semantics that exists, conceptually, apart from the everyday world into which the Renaissance citizen was born, lived, and died." http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/lancash2/lan2_4.htm The McLuhan echo reverberated with commonplace often attributed to Pound via his reading of Levy_Bruhl ---- vernacular languages fall from the concrete into abstraction. But I, myself, do not want presently to fall into ideology critique. Neither do I have the breadth of reading experience in dealing with this corpus not depth of learning sufficient to assess Professor Lancashire's claim that Renaissance lexicographers did not use referential definition or 'fixed senses'. I do want to ask if Professor Lancashire's observations about the nature of the dictionary entries might not also point less to a way of relating language and workd and more to the difficulty of differentiating genres. How does a researcher's understanding of a period's understanding of glossary, word list, thesaurus, encyclopedia, affect the content modelling necessary for developing an electronic edition. How much is the typographic convention (absent in the Renaissance) of numbering separate meanings under a head word a precursor of terminological databases (which usually cannot abide the amibutuity of homographs and polysemy)? Has anyone aligned the rising hegemony of the computational model in the 19th century and a history of lexicography? If so, would this be an interesting case for the perenial question you, Willard, tend with your gardens of words, which to paraphrase the Ortus Vocabulorum (1500), like flowers, herbs, fruit by which are strengthened bodies and by which spirits are refreshed, words furnish the mind, adorn speech? Does play/work with the computer help/hinder in rethinking the concrete/abstraction pair? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Positions Available: Columbia university; Assoc of Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:49:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 850 (850) Research Libraries NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 8, 2001 POSITIONS AVAILABLE Columbia University Media Center: Program Coordinator <http://www.mcah.columbia.edu>http://www.mcah.columbia.edu Association of Research Libraries: Statistics and Measurement Research Assistant <http://www.arl.org/stats/>http://www.arl.org/stats/ * * * Columbia University Media Center: Program Coordinator <http://www.mcah.columbia.edu>http://www.mcah.columbia.edu [deleted quotation] =============================================================================== Association of Research Libraries: Statistics and Measurement Research Assistant <http://www.arl.org/stats/>http://www.arl.org/stats/ [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: cognitive effects of formatting? Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:49:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 851 (851) I would be most grateful for a pointer to what Humanists consider the best treatment of the relationship between how data is presented and how we think about those data -- i.e. the cognitive, intellectual consequences of formatting. Perhaps the most obvious example is the KWIC concordance, which by centering the target word draws the user's attention to its linguistic environment -- in a way that presentation by phrase or other literary or linguistic unit in the hand-built concordance does not. We tend, I think, to dismiss such apparently trivial matters as sorting or reformatting, paying attention rather to complicated transformations of data, esp those involving substantial amounts of "computation". I suspect, however, that one could make a powerful argument to the effect that in the humanities the profound changes attributable to computing follow from some of the simplest causes, such as the ability to sort a list of words or retrieve different bits of the data in a different order. (I mean here *conceptually simple* causes; sorting, for example, can require very sophisticated, complex programming.) Many thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: A Teleprompto? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:22:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 852 (852) [deleted quotation] A New Kind of Error? As a humanistic philologist, I spend a great deal of time listening and watching for `errors', such as the recent use of _livid_ to mean, not purple, but `quite angry', or such things as the hyperurbanism `between you and I' (and others of the kind). Each new invention brings with it its own types, as the stylus and the clay, the chisel and the stone, the brush and the papyrus, the pen and the parchment, etc. brought us the scribal error, the typewriter the typo. We had the mixup of the idiot boards in one of Reagan's speeches (bothered him not at all). Each of these required special skills on the part of the philologer, and we have books on how to recover the original. Now comes a new invention: the teleprompter (and the see-through teleprompter). Those who watched both conventions, with speakers changing their positions to accomodate cameras and teleprompters know what I mean. In one of his speeches Bush referred to people `filing out their forms'. Here, one cannot be sure whether this was his error or that of the teleprompter typist. Just this morning, I heard a senator speak of `Britian's role', and I feel sure that must have been the teleprompter, since I know of no one who says Britian for Britain (spelling is a whole nother thing). Those who watched the Supreme Court recently on TV and saw how badly the court reporter spelled can be sure that teleprompter typists are likely to do so also. Thus, there may spring up a new task for the philologist. I am sure that in the future we will see people claiming that World War III was started by a misreading of a teleprompter by some great official, just as that everyone knows that World War II was started by the mistranslation of a Japanese word. Perhaps awareness will mitigate (I saw that recently, too) against this. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Information Doors - Post Panel Publication Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:29:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 853 (853) Willard, Einat Amitay organized a workshop Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link The workshop was held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext and Digital Libraries conferences in San Antonio, Texas, last year. The papers with contact information are now available online http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/ John Cugini Presenting Search Results: Design, Visualization, and Evaluation R. McArthur and P.D. Bruza The Ranking of Query Refinements in Interactive Web-based Retrieval Offer Drori Using Text Elements by Context to Display Search Results in Information Retrieval Systems Nicolas Malandain & Mauro Gaio Text/Picture a new way to link them "Multi-scaled Links" Matt Carmack & Deryle Lonsdale Information Structure and Hypertext Search Results Douglas Grundman and Andrea Michalek Improving Hypertext Presentation by Structuring Information Space Anne Mahoney Explicit and Implicit Searching in the Perseus Digital Library Sally Kleinfeldt & Jaideep Baphna A Commercial Perspective on Hypertext Search Results These papers offer some nice strands that can be woven into the interoperability and the hypertext threads as they have evolved recently through Humanist postings. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Re: 14.0587 cognitive effects of formatting? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:36:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 854 (854) [deleted quotation] Among the most important works on this subject are the beautiful volumes by Edward Tufte, most recently his _Visual Explanations_ (available from Amazon.com and other book dealers). In addition to being excellent studies of data presentation, they are just luscious books to possess. One of the case studies in Visual Explanations examines the data that was used to decide whether or not to launch the ill-fated Challenger space shuttle. The data submitted by the engineers to launch control contained all that was needed to show a launch would be dangerous, but the important bits were so confusingly organized and submerged that the launch went forward anyway. Tufte rearranges the data in one simple graph that makes the danger strikingly obvious; if anyone had seen that graph the launch probably never would have taken place. Even after the disaster, the engineering company presented more information that was still confusingly arranged and unclear; specifically, the data were arranged by launch date rather than temperature, which was the important variable. I remember reading this case study alone in my office late one night, and when I got to that part I exclaimed aloud, "They didn't arrange the data by temperature???" Don't miss Tufte's books -- they are treasures. Bob O'Hara -- Dr. Robert J. O'Hara (rjohara@post.harvard.edu - http://rjohara.net) Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform: http://collegiateway.org From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: 14.0587 cognitive effects of formatting? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:36:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 855 (855) I recomment the three books by Edward Tufte: "The Visual Display of Quantitative Informtion" Graphic Press, 1983 "Envisioning Information" Graphic Press, 1990 "Visual Explanations" Graphic Press, 1997 --Mark Horney Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center forAdvanced Technology in Education University of Oregon 1244 Walnut St Eugene, Oregon 97403 (o) 541/346-2679 FAX: 541/346-6226 mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu Web de Anza: http://anza.uoregon.edu The Intersect Digital Library: http://intersect.uoregon.edu From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0587 cognitive effects of formatting? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:37:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 856 (856) Interesting that in the case cited, centering of the word amounts to decentering of the word... Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: Willard McCarty Subject: the KWIC in particular? Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:39:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 857 (857) Thanks for the above references to Tufte's books. Not to seem ungrateful -- but would there be a good discussion somewhere of the KWIC in particular, its relationship to the development of corpus linguistics? Other, less obviously graphical re-formations of data that have led to significant changes in fields of study? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Re: 14.0585 lexicographical meditations: a sense of genre Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:00:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 858 (858) This is a comment on Francois Lachance's intriguing questions, especially to his suggestion that early language practice affects our ability to distinguish early genres. Philosophical writing, as a genre, redefined itself in the mid-to-late 17th century when philosophers decided they needed to define words rather than things. Because philosophy then could not be separated from science generally, the 1660 Royal Society helped "professionalize" language in this way. It stole much fire from literary writing. It also forced literary genres into being because, after all, poets were no longer writing about either things (as encyclopedists did) or words (an expertise philosophers laid new claim to). What was the poet's "profession", then, but writing "drama," or "novels," or "essays"? This isn't to say that the Renaissance didn't classify literary works. Classical authors had already done so. This is only to suggest that different criteria for generic distinctions were now put into play. So I'm inclined to think the new "philosophical" genre led to a genre shift generally. Lexicography, for instance, developed out of bilingual dictionaries. Though Johnson's 1755 dictionary separates senses, he belongs to the "pre-computational" school because he believed that he was explaining things in the world, not words. See his definition of definition. By the time of the OED lexicographers, the transition from things to words had been completed and was going on, largely unnoticed. Some of our dictionaries today define "noun" as the name of a thing. Of course names lack definitions; they are wholly denotational. This kind of grammar is thought to be a starting place for children. We do not realize that Shakespeare thought this way. Ian Hacking wrote about some of these ideas as early as the 1970s. The groundwork was laid for computational thinking long before the OED and Turing. From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: The Eclectic Journal Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:00:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 859 (859) _The Eclectic Journal_ Based upon a review of E-journals for my new Web registry, EJI(sm) [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ], I have concluded that the present-day "Electronic Journal" is evolving to become what I call "The Eclectic Journal". By the "Eclectic Journal", I mean a Web-based resource that at its core provides access to e-journals that offer not only the conventional content of a digital form of a journal but also provides or permits interaction with novel and innovative _features and functionalities_ (e.g., reference linking, cross-publisher searching, page customization, open peer review, etc.) _AND_ novel and innovative _content_ (e.g., e-Books, pre-publication history, electronic discussions, translation services, e-prints, bibliographic databases, etc.) [SEE EJI(sm) for _several_ more types of various novel and innovative features, functionalities, and content *as well as* dozens of specific examples overall] Such features, functionalities and content may be integrated _within_ the e-journal proper or made accessible from the main resource. Sites that I would consider excellent examples of the "Eclectic Journals" are BMJ [British Medical Journal] [ http://www.bmj.com/] This Electric Journal provides access to a bibliographic databases (i.e., Medline), e-prints, reader commentary, reorganized journal content (Collected Resources), pre-publication history, etc.] [Free registration required [?] The Technical Library of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) [ http://asae.frymulti.com/ ] This Eclectic Journal allows concurrent searching of the various ASAE publications, notably journal, conference proceedings, standards, technical books, and technical meetings) As source material for a review I am preparing on the "The Once and Future Journal" for a special issue of _The Serials Librarian_ [ http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/e-access.htm], I am greatly interested in identifying Any and All _RECENT_ literature that discusses this e-publishing phenomena. [I am aware of much of the major and minor works about the 'Electronic Journal' published within the past 50 years] Recently, I identified two highly-relevant articles that support my observations about e-journal evolution: 1- Cox, John. 2000. "The Journal as a provider of community services," __The Serials Librarian_ 38(1/2): 199-209 and 2. Anderson, Kent. 2001. "The Mutant journal: how adaptations to online forces are forcing STM journals to mutate," _Learned Publishing 14(1) 15-22. [ http://cherubino.catchword.com/vl=71902383/cl=2/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/alpsp/09531513/v14n1/s3/p15 ] [This article offers a *very* interesting perspective on e-journal evolution!] [Thanks Garrett Eastman from the Rowland Institute, Cambridge, MA for this reference] I am also interested in learning of any _additional_ Eclectic Journal features, functionalities and/or content that I have _not yet_ established in EJI(sm) [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm] . I am also interested in other examples of Any and All novel and innovative e-journal features, functionalities, and content for future review and inclusion in EJI(sm). As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, critiques, queries, cosmic insights, etc. etc. etc. are Most Welcome. Regards, Gerry McKiernan Eclectic Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu P.S. From my perspective the ACM Digital Library [ http://www.acm.org/dl/] and the IEEE Explorer [ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/ ] might also be considered Eclectic Journals as could EiVillage2 [ http://www.ei.org/engineeringvillage2/partners.html or Ei Engineering Village [ http://www.ei.org/eivillage/village.serve_page?p=1280 ] [What Do You Think?] From: peter storkerson Subject: Re: 14.0590 cognitive effects of formatting Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:58:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 860 (860) This is a very large but, theoretically at least, poorly charted region. Tuftes work is elegant, along with Bertins Semiologie Graphique. Unfortunately, while these are good on the level of functional readability and visual hierarchy, they are largely a-theoretical on the levels of meaning making.tufte's is very much a rule book of good practice. Put simply, they presume meaning making and the communicative devices used that, at some point, need to be questioned. There are probably 3 types of sources: Cognitive psychology, communication design (my field), and semiotics. Much of the work in psychology deals with images mostly as illustrations. The very good work is generally on too anatomical a level to be directly used to understand meaning making so you'll have to make the connections, but it is invaluable. Communication design is lacking theory because it's at a difficult epistemological conjunction. You might look in the field of visual semiotics I think that the majority of work in that field is as much about the approach as results. With respect to documents, this material seems to function on a symbolic or critical level, i.e. the sign systems used and how they might function, not how they come to be recognized and chosen. This is not the same as the cognitive level, which is anatomical, i.e. what are the cognitive affordances offered by a given set of resources (text, diagram, image, movie, etc.) : 1 What a presentation is: i.e., what are the strategic characteristics that affect its meaning. 2 How does a presentation build a cognitive object . 3. What are the cognitive affordances of different modes of communication. Here are some references: Lanigan, Richard: Phenomenology of Communication Scott, Richard: On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic. Central The Central States Speech Journal Vol. XVIII, #1 Visible Language, V. 26, # 3-4 (all articles) Kosslyn, Jeffrey. Image and Mind Proceedings of the 9th Euro mini conference on Human Centered Processes, (blowing my own horn) www.tiac.net/users/pstork/ Narrative and diagram, Context and Interpretation From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Into the future? Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:57:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 861 (861) Dear all, Does anyone know where I can find/order/borrow a copy (VHS) of the Terry Saunders' excellent film 'Into the Future: on the preservation of knowledge in the electronic age' which was on show for the first time in the UK on DRH98. I want to use the film in my course on electronic publishing. Edward Vanhoutte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Co-ordinator Centre for Textual Criticism and Document Studies Book Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium Phone: +32 9 265 93 50 Fax: +32 9 265 93 49 Email: evanhout@uia.ua.ac.be From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0588 teleprompto Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:58:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 862 (862) Willard, It may well be that the old errors of transcription (sound to script) and errors of prononciation (script to sound) offer some multimedia ground for research in artificial intelligence. Consider that machines could subvocalize a verbal string in order to catch errors not usually caught by now currently standard spell-checkers. One of my favourites crossed my screen recently on a snowy winter day when a colleague no doubt dreaming of a spring thaw sent out a messge beginning with "May apologies". It foolws that voic recognition software may be improved by being coupled with grammar & spell checkers. Perhaps the folks involved in natural language processing might venture a comment or comet. ***> -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: blake archive update Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:47:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 863 (863) 15 January 2001 The editors and staff of the William Blake Archive are very pleased to announce the public release of our next generation site design, dubbed "WBA 2.0." Over a year in development, this is the first major revision of the Archive's interface since the project's debut in 1996. While all of the Archive's core features remain intact -- including the color-corrected images, high-resolution enlargements, scrupulous diplomatic transcriptions, extensive image and text search functions, and the advanced Inote and ImageSizer applets -- we have streamlined the site's organization and added major new features that we believe will significantly enhance the way the Archive is used for both scholarly research and teaching. These include: -- a Comparison feature which allows users viewing any one illuminated print to instantly compare it with other impressions in the Archive printed from the same copper plate; -- a Navigator feature which allows users to move rapidly across the Archive's collections, with a single click taking them from any work, copy, and plate, to any other work, copy, and plate; -- a Work Title search which allows users to access materials in the Archive simply by entering a title, or a known fragment of a title (e.g., "The Lamb" or "Albion"); also a search function for the extensive illustration descriptions written by the editors; -- a revised transcription layout, including: easier access to textual notes; a new line numbering system that accounts for such items as catchwords and plate numbers, in keeping with the Archive's documentary principles; and the ability to "page" through the transcriptions in sequence, thereby allowing a work to be more easily read in its entirety; -- numerous functional and cosmetic adjustments to the site design and interface, many of them in direct response to user feedback; -- updated help documentation detailing all of the above features; -- and finally, a behind-the-scenes upgrade to a faster server and a newer version of the Archive's underlying DynaWeb software. We welcome feedback and comments on any aspect of WBA 2.0. While the Archive continues to remain available at its current address <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/>, we are also pleased to announce the registration of its domain at <http://www.blakearchive.org>. WBA 2.0 is accessible at either of these URLs. As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible through the continuing support of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, by a major new grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to represent works from their collections in the Archive. We would also like to take this opportunity to publicly thank those members of the Archive's staff who were instrumental in the production of WBA 2.0: Andrea Laue (Project Manager), Kirk Hastings (Lead Programmer/Analyst), David Cosca (former Lead Programmer/Analyst), and Christopher Jackson and Kari Kraus (Project Assistants). At present the Archive contains 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated books (all with newly edited SGML-encoded texts and images scanned and color-corrected from first-generation 4 x 5 inch transparencies), plus a fully SGML-encoded electronic edition of David. V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_. In the very near future we expect to release a much-anticipated electronic edition of _Jerusalem_, copy E; the publication of Blake's longest (and perhaps most spectacular) work will render the Archive's illuminated collection complete, with at least one copy of every work and multiple copies of most. At that point, in addition to continuing to publish additional copies of the works in illuminated printing, we will begin to incorporate Blake's accomplishments in other media (paintings, drawings, commercial and original engravings, and manuscripts). By summer we also plan to have added search functions for the Archive's general and specialized bibliographies of Blake scholarship (currently listing over 500 entries), and to publish collection handlists for each of the Archive's contributing institutions. Future supplementary materials include a biography, timeline, and in-depth study guide for teachers and students. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, Editors Matthew Kirschenbaum, Technical Editor From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk (K. C. Cameron) Subject: Exeter CALL 2001 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:46:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 864 (864) REMINDER -- CALL FOR PAPERS EXETER CALL 2001 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER September 1- 3 2001 CALL- The Challenge of Change This will be the ninth biennial conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. Many of the papers have been published in Computer Assisted Language Learning. An International Journal (Swets & Zeitlinger), and bear witness to the weighty discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so. 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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: mhayward Subject: Call For Papers: MLA December 2001 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:52:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 865 (865) The MLA's Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature announces a call for papers for the December 2001 Conference in New Orleans. The conference will be held December 27-30. The topic for this session is: "Digital Approaches to Language and Text: Words, Images and Beyond" Current studies in stylistics, authorship, linguistics, pedagogy, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Particular interest in new directions and the state of the art. Submit abstracts via e-mail by March 1 to Henry Biggs, hbiggs@artsci.wustl.edu For further information you may email Henry or write or call: Henry Biggs, Assistant Dean Washington University 205 S. Brookings Dr. Campus Box 1117 St. Louis, Mo. 63130 314-935-6519 To present at the MLA Conference you must be a member of the MLA (Modern Language Association) at the time of the acceptance of the proposal. Malcolm Hayward Department of English Indiana University of Pennsylvania mhayward@grove.iup.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: UK's Digital Resources for the Humanities conference: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:33:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 866 (866) London 8-10 July 2001 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 16, 2001 DRH2001: Digital Resources for the Humanities conference July 8-10, 2001: London <http://www.drh.org.uk/>http://www.drh.org.uk/ Proposals DEADLINE: February 10, 2001 Proposals are now being solicited for the excellent annual DRH conference in the UK, to be held this year in London. Please note the five themes the organizers seek to stress: visualisation of data; a managed digital environment; diversity and multi-culturalism; world-wide access; and convergence. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] (This message is forwarded on behalf of Andrew Prescott of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield) CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH2001 The DRH conferences The annual Digital Resources for the Humanities conference is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic resource to further research; the teacher gathering Web resources into an online learning environment; the publisher or broadcaster integrating print or analogue with the digital 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 scientist seeking to apply new developments to the creation, exploitation and management of humanities resources. A volume of select papers from the conferences is published annually. DRH 2001 DRH 2001 will be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1 from 8-10 July 2001. Format The academic programme of the conference will comprise academic papers, panel discussions, and poster presentations. An exhibition of products and services of interest to participants will form an important part of the conference. The conference is known for its friendly atmosphere and welcomes developers and users of digital resources from, amongst others, universities, libraries, archives, museums, galleries, broadcasters, publishers and community groups. 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 the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities. Prospective speakers are asked to bear in mind the following points: - Paper and session proposals should seek to develop themes and intellectual approaches which will be of interest and relevance across the subject domain; it is not sufficient simply to outline recent work on an individual project. Papers should take account of, and seek to address, strategic themes across the subject domain. Preference will be given to papers which outline innovative technical approaches or explore subject areas which have been generally neglected by the humanities computing community. Areas on which DRH conferences have particularly concentrated in the past have included the creation of digital resources, providing access to digital projects, and digital preservation. The Conference Programme Committee from DRH 2001 will particularly also welcome proposals which relate to the following themes: Visualisation of data: the use of graphical interfaces, GIS and other techniques for the exploration of data sets. What are the major issues for the use of these technologies by humanities scholars? What new insights do they offer for those working in the humanities? A managed digital environment: How far and in what ways do the initiatives to knit together, coordinate and develop existing initiatives for the creation of digital resources address the needs of humanities researchers? What shape should the future digital humanities environment be? How can digital initiatives be used to create new communities and to support initiatives to consolidate such communities (as, for example, in the use of digital technologies in support of an e-Europe)? Diversity and multi-culturalism: How can the creation and dissemination of digital resources in the humanities help to underpin and further a multi-cultural society? What are the major issues in creating and accessing digital resources for different groups in society? What technical issues affect the use of digital resources to further a policy of social inclusiveness? How can network technologies be used to support community programmes? World Wide access: How can the development of humanities digital resources support the creation of genuinely international access to the new e-culture? How can digital technologies suport the work of humanities scholars working on subjects connected with Asia and Africa? Convergence: How will the anticipated convergence between televisual, comunication and computing media affect research in the humanities? What new opportunities does it offer? Submitting Proposals The deadline for submitting proposals is 10 February 2001 and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30 March 2001. Please note that all participants in the conference, including speakers, are expected to pay their own conference and accommodation costs. We hope, however, to offer a limited number of bursaries covering the conference fee for certain categories of participant. All proposals will be reviewed by at least two referees with relevant expertise. The final decision on acceptance into the conference programme rests with the Programme Committee. For all type of proposal, authors are encouraged to provide a clear overview of the work to be presented; state how the proposal relates to the themes of the conference; outline any original or innovative methods, technical solutions or conclusions; outline the demonstrable value of the work to the broad humanities community. All proposals should be submitted in English. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail details for all participants. All abstracts will be printed in the conference book of abstracts. Papers: We invite proposals for conference papers lasting no more than 20 minutes. Proposals should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Papers will be grouped into sessions of three papers. You are welcome to propose a session of three papers relating to a specific theme. In this case, session organisers should provide a clear description (c.250 words) of how the papers relate to each other, in addition to the three abstracts. Please note that all proposals for papers, whether individual submissions or part of a themed session, will be independently reviewed. Themed Panel Sessions: We invite proposals for themed panel sessions lasting no more than 90 minutes. Proposals should be between 1,000-1,500 words. The panel organiser should include details of the individuals or organisations who have agreed to form the panel. Panel sessions are intended to provide a forum for discussion of a specific theme or issue, introduced by panel members. Posters: We invite proposals for posters. Proposals should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Posters provide the opportunity for a visual, rather than oral, presentation of work within an informal atmosphere. Posters will be on display throughout the conference in a prominent area. Posters should not include software demonstrations. Where a software demonstration is required, the proposer should apply to be an exhibitor at the academic rate. Conference Publications: A book of abstracts, containing the revised versions of all accepted papers, panel sessions and posters, will be provided to all conference delegates. These abstracts will also be published on the conference web site. A volume of Selected Papers will be published following the conference. Everyone who presents a paper at the conference will be invited to submit a full version of their paper for consideration for the publication. Organisation: The Programme Committee, which has responsibility for the academic programme of the conference, is chaired by Professor Andrew Prescott of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. A list of the programme committee will shortly be posted on the DRH website (www.drh.org.uk). Call for hosts for DRH 2003 The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH conference in 2003 Prospective applicants should refer to the conference Protocol and to other information on the DRH web site. Colleagues wishing to host the conference should write in the first instance to the Chair of the Standing Committee, Dr Marilyn Deegan, at marilyn.deegan@qeh.ox.ac.uk. AHC Strand The 1999 DRH conference, at King's College London, was held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK). DRH 2001 will follow this very successful experience by including a substantial AHC strand of sessions, lasting for at least one day. The AHC strand will represent a conference within a conference, in which AHC members will have an opportunity to give and to hear papers on historical computing, while benefiting from cross-fertilisation with other humanists with similar interests. Proposals for papers in the AHC strand will be sent to the AHC (UK) committee, who will arrange for them to be refereed. The AHC's aims are to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. Recent years have seen the Association move from its traditional emphasis upon quantitative methods and database management to greater concern with such issues as digitisation, Web-based publication, teaching and learning with digital resources, and improving access to digital resources and archival holdings. The AHC invites papers on these and other aspects of the application of computers, whether for research, teaching or archives. In line with the rest of the DRH conference, African and oriental topics are particularly welcome, but papers may be submitted on any historical topic. ___________________________________________________________________ Andrew Prescott Humanities Research Institute Floor 14, Arts Tower University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN a.prescott@shef.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________ ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. 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PAUL: March 27-29 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:34:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 867 (867) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 18, 2001 Northeast Document Conservation Center presents PRESERVATION OPTIONS IN A DIGITAL WORLD: TO FILM OR TO SCAN A Seminar on Preservation Microfilming and Digital Imaging of Paper-Based Materials March 27-29, 2001: St. Paul, Minnesota <http://www.nedcc.org/minn.htm>http://www.nedcc.org/minn.htm [deleted quotation] [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH/CAA COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: March 3, 2001, Chicago Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:35:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 868 (868) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 18, 2001 NINCH/CAA COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING Intellectual Property in Academe: Licensing Scenarios March 3, 2001, Chicago <http://www.collegeart.org>http://www.collegeart.org http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCEMENT and INVITATION: The Committee on Intellectual Property of the College Art Association (CAA), in conjunction with the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), wishes to announce the program for the forthcoming fifth annual Town Meeting devoted to the topic of intellectual property in academe. Scheduled as part of the upcoming Conference of the College Art Association (Chicago, February 28-March 3; see <http://www.collegeart.org)>http://www.collegeart.org), the Town Meeting will be held Saturday, March 3, 2001 in two sessions: 9:30-noon for presentations, and 12:30-2:00 for discussion. The sessions are open to all -- to registered conference attendees and to unregistered individuals who purchase a single-session ticket at the conference. Detailed information about the program, attendance, the speakers, their topics and more may be found at the following location: <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm>http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm THEME: This fifth edition of the annual NINCH/CAA Copyright Town Meeting is devoted to intellectual property that has been specifically prepared to be licensed for educational and scholarly use. It concerns the distribution of copyrighted and other materials especially crafted to meet the current and emerging needs of university artists and of art historians, among others. The presenters will be given opportunity to explain how their products can alter, improve, or re-create the methods of education and research. The speakers have been asked to discuss how their services and products specifically help fulfill educational and scholarly missions in ways that unlicensed collections typically do not or can not. [material deleted] From: Terry Winograd Subject: Bob Horn on _IMPLICATIONS FOR PHILOSOPHY OF ARGUMENTATION Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:43:32 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 869 (869) [--] IMPLICATIONS FOR PHILOSOPHY OF ARGUMENTATION MAPPING AND VISUAL LANGUAGE Robert E. Horn, Visiting Scholar at the Program on People, Computers, and Design of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, will be the opening speaker at the Computers and Philosophy Conference at Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon DATE AND TIME 7 p.m. Thursday, JANUARY 18, 2001 at the C&E Auditorium at LaSells Stewart Center Oregon State University Corvalis, OR URL FOR THE CONFERENCE <http://www.osu.orst.edu/groups/cap/> ABSTRACT In this talk I will explore five areas which come together in the recent series of argumentation maps our project at Stanford has been creating -- Mapping Great Debates: Can Computers Think? These five areas are (1) visual language, which is emerging as a new international auxiliary language, consisting of the tight integration of words, images, and shapes (and described in my book, Visual Language) (2) argumentation mapping, a new diagraming technique for mapping debates, that gives us considerable new capacity to analyze complex ideas (and the focus of our project at Stanford); (3) information design and knowledge management, two new disciplines, that are creating the foundations for the next stage of the world wide web; (4) computers which are the subject matter as well as the tool used in our project about artificial intelligence and cognitive science; and (5) how all these new tools, ideas and languages can affect philosophy, a study of much that is important about our lives. Among the other topics I will address are the display of complex ideas, the creation of novel approaches to navigation and access; why paragraphs are an outdated unit of composition and thinking and what to do to replace them. Finally, I will suggest that the congruence of all these ideas suggests a new approach to the ethics of knowledge sharing, which I take to be what the university is all about. BIOGRAPHY For the past few years, Robert E. Horn has been a Visiting Scholar in the Program on People, Computers, and Design at The Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. He is the author of the recently published book Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century . He is project director of the recently released Mapping Great Debates project, (publisher: www.macrovu.com) and especially proud these days that these argumentation maps have received a full-page review in the journal Nature as well as been hung in a recent fine arts exhibit at the Stroom Center for the Visual Arts in The Hague and at the Coventry School of Art and Design. His book about structuring information, Mapping Hypertext, (distributor: www.infomap.com) has become a classic source of ideas for web site design. He has been the CEO of an international consulting company that he founded (Information Mapping, Inc.) and has taught graduate courses at Harvard and Columbia Universities. FURTHER INFORMATION Robert E. Horn Visiting Scholar Program on People, Computers, and Design The Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford University (hornbob@earthlink.net) URL: <http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Mediterranean Archaeological-Society Subject: new Journal on Classical archaeology, Epigraphy, Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:39:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 870 (870) Numismatics, Papyrology [Note that the following journal publishes its articles on paper but summaries and, interestingly, photographs online. --WM] Dear Colleagues and friends, please find below information on EULIMENE, a new journal on Mediterranean Archaeology, published by the Mediterranean Archaeological Society, in Rethymno, Crete. Thank you, Dr. M.I. Stefanakis MedArchSoc@mail.com Announcement -EULIMENE Studies in Classical Archaeology, Numismatics, Epigraphy and Papyrology Publisher: Mediterranean Archaeological Society. Publishing Directors -Editors: Dr. Nikos Litinas, University of Crete. Dr. Manolis I. Stefanakis, University of Thessaly. Editorial Board: Prof. Petros Themelis, University of Crete. Prof. Nikos Stambolidis, University of Crete. Dr. Alan W. Johnston, University College London. Dr. Yiannis Touratsoglou, Numismatic Museum, Athens. Prof. Angelos Chaniotis, Universität Heidelberg. Dr. Charles V. Crowther, Centre for the Study of Ancient Manuscripts, Oxford. Prof. Sopfia Kambitsis, University of Crete. EULIMENE is an academic periodical, which contains Studies in Classical Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Papyrology, with particular interest in the Greek and Roman Mediterranean world. The time span covered by EULIMENE runs from the Late Minoan/Sub Minoan/ Mycenean period (12th/11th cent. BC) through to the late Antiquity (5th/6th cent. AD.). EULIMENE will also welcome studies on anthropology, maritime and underwater archaeology, palaiodemography, palaio-environmental, botanical and faunal archaeology, the ancient economy and the history of science, so long as they conform to the geographical and chronological boundaries noted. Broader studies on Classics or Ancient History will be welcome, though they should be strictly linked with one or more of the areas mentioned above. EULIMENE volume 1/2000 is now available. For details please visit EULIMENEs web site at www.phl.uoc.gr/eulimene Cost of volume (p&p included): GRD 7,500 Euro: 25 UK : 15 DM: 50 USD: 25 Orders: Make CHECKS OF MONEY ORDERS payable to MESOGIAKH ARCHAIOLOGIKH ETAIREIA EULIMENE or Pay via REMITTANCE to the THE NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A. Branch 756, 84 Kountouriotou st., GR 741 00 Rethymnon, Crete. Transaction swift cod.: ETHNGRAA. Account to be credited: 756/48000448, MESOGEIAKH ARCHAIOLOGIKH ETAIREIA EULIMENE, P. Manousaki 5 V Chali 8, GR 74100 Rethymnon, Crete. Subscriptions-Contributions-Information Mediterranean Archaeological Society, P. Manousaki 5 -V. Chali 8, 741 00 Rethtymno, tel. 0831 51680 (Ms Stavroula Oiconomou, Secretary) (MedArchSoc@mail.com). Dr. Manolis I. Stefanakis, Kalives -Apokoronou, Chania, GR-730 03 (kydon@hotmail.com). Dr. Nikos Litinas, University of Crete, Dep. of Philology, Rethymno, GR-741 00 (litinas@phl.uoc.gr). Call for papers EULIMENE is seeking contributions for its future annual issues. Deadline for the second volume (EULIMENE 2/2001), due in spring 2001, is January 15, 2000. It will be very much appreciated if contributors consider the following guidelines: 1. Contributions should be in either of the following languages: Greek, English, German, French or Italian. Each paper should be accompanied by a summary of about 250 words in one of the above languages, other than that of the paper. 2. Footnotes (not endnotes) should be typed in numbered sequence at the bottom of the text in each page. 3. Accepted abbreviations are those of American Journal of Archaeology, Numismatic Literature, J.F. Oates et al., Checklist of Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, ASP. 3. Illustrations should be kept to the absolutely necessary minimum. Line drawings should be in black ink on good quality paper with clear lettering, suitable for reduction. Photographs should be glossy black-and-white prints.. All Illustrations should be numbered in a single sequence. 5. Please send two hard copies of your text and one version on computer disc. It is the authors responsibility to obtain written permission to quote or reproduce material, which has appeared in another publication or is still unpublished. Ten offprints of each paper and a volume of the journal will be provided to the contributors free of charge. Additional offprints may be purchased. Please send your contributions to anyone of the following addresses: Mediterranean Archaeological Society, P. Manousaki 5-V.Chali 8, GR 741 00 Rethtymno. Dr. Manolis I. Stefanakis, Kalives -Apokoronou, Chania, GR-730 03. Dr. Nikos Litinas, University of Crete, Dep. of Philology, Rethymno, GR-741 00. The editors, January 2001 ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Multi-Dimensional Indexing Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:40:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 871 (871) _Multi-Dimensional Indexing_ I am greatly interested in learning about Any and All e-journals or e-books that have implemented 'Multi-Dimensioning Indexing' or 'Concept Maps' to access the publication content. 'Multi-Dimensional Indexing' and Concept Maps are well-described and illustrated in an excellent recent article by Jan Ross entitled "A New Way of Information Retrieval: 3-D Indexing and Concept Mapping" in _Learned Publishing_ (2000) 13, 119-123 [ http://cherubino.catchword.com/vl=30890218/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/alpsp/09531513/v13n2/s9/p119 ] An example of a 'Multi-Dimensional Index' given by Ross of a 'Multi-Dimensional Index' is that being developed for the forthcoming Web-based _Encyclopedia of Life Sciences_ [ http://www.els.net/ ] As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, critiques, cosmic insights, etc., etc., etc. are Most Welcome. /Gerry McKiernan Multi-Dimensional Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Oxford dictionary for research community Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:41:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 872 (872) CL Research has been designated an agent for Oxford University Press to license the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE) to the academic and commercial research communities. This dictionary has been praised as a "major achievement" in lexicography; in its machine-readable form, considerable additional information is available. CL Research has also created a machine-tractable version of NODE in its dictionary creation and maintenance software (DIMAP) and then parsed the definitions to add semantic links between entries (particularly hypernyms, but also including "typical subject" for verbs). Details, including the license agreement, are available at http://www.clres.com/oup-clr.html. The licensing fees for a two-year period are: Academic Commercial -------- ---------- NODE $1,500 $7,500 NODE+DIMAP $2,000 $10,000 Other Oxford products (thesaurus, bilingual dictionaries, inflection lists) are also available. Commercial exploitation agreements will be developed separately. -- 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: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0594 Terry Saunders, "Into the Future"? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:52:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 873 (873) I don't know where you can get a copy, but the film was sponsored by the Council of Library and Information Resources in Washington, as a sequel to _Slow Fires_, on the problems caused by acid paper. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Re: 14.0595 teleprompto Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:55:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 874 (874) In a recent message to HUMANIST on telepromptos, I took the position that _livid_ in the meaning of `quite angry' is recent and an example of a common type of error. Three people were kind enough to write me privately and to point out that I was wrong. I certainly was wrong on the `recent'; the OED offers 1912 as the first example of _livid_ in that meaning. In reality, the `error' goes even further back, since Latin offers _lividus_ in much the same meaning. The next problem is: Is this an error? What constitutes an error (in diction?); how long does an error have to exist before it becomes proper usage? To get back to _livid_, not to attract an argumentum ad exemplum, it ought to mean, not `purple' (with rage), but `lead-colored, lead-hued', though quite early it took on the meaning of `the color of a bruise', Latin _varius_ `black and blue (from a beating)' having moved on to other areas. Second problem, if _livid_ comes to mean `angry', as most people seem to think it does (I conducted an informal survey of 7 or 8 people, all of whom thought it meant only that), what do we do for a word for `lead-colored'? `Lead colored'? If _broadcast_ comes to mean only `to disseminate by means of radio, etc.', where do we go for a word for _broadcast_ `to cast seed'? Back to the problem of error; shall we agree with Bob Hall and Leave Our Language Alone? How long shall we have to have people like broadcasters, governors, presidents say `between you and I' before it becomes acceptable, then de rigeur? If a Supreme Court justice uses _fortuitous_ in the meaning of _fortunate_, is that not enough to change the meaning of the word? Who are the arbiters of usage? The Howard Cosell's of this world? The members of the French Academy (accused of failing to make agreement between the past participle and the object of words conjugated with avoir)? This may all seem to be rather frivolous and like Freshman Comp., but there is some importance attached to the clothing of thought into words, as Karl Kraus preached over and over. It is not just the mise en page which conditions our thinking about the matter presented, it is the style, the diction, the necessary precision (and the necessary imprecision) of the statement, the avoidance of the picture when it is not worth a thousand words, the avoidance of yes/no logic when only multivalued will do, etc. etc. When I think of how badly people use our fine language, I am purple. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: RLG call for participation in Shared Histories of Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:33:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 875 (875) Exhibitions Database NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 16, 2000 Research Libraries Group Shared Histories of Exhibitions Database [deleted quotation] Colleagues, The SHED (Shared Histories of Exhibitions Database) Task Force, a sub-committee of the Research Libraries Group's Art and Architecture Group formed to investigate the possibility of creating a service to provide access to a shared database of exhibition histories, would like to hear from cultural institutions that have records describing past exhibitions, either published or for in-house use only. We are also interested in other projects related to exhibition histories, for example, those that list exhibition publications, archival material, and photographs. If your institution has been or is currently engaged in such a project, we would like to learn more about it. Please contact us at ccampbel@gallery.ca. Cyndie Campbell Head, Archives, Documentation and Visual Resources/ Responsable, Archives, documentation et ressources visuelles Library and Archives / Bibliothque et Archives National Gallery of Canada / Muse des beaux-arts du Canada T 613-990-0597 F 613-990-9818 ccampbel@gallery.ca ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Susan Hockey Subject: XML Editors for an MA course Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:41:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 876 (876) I am looking for a suitable XML editor for use by students doing the XML option on our MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing. These students are mostly from the humanities and they do their practical work in a Windows NT4 computer lab. They need to get some practical experience of marking up documents, DTDs, schemas, and stylesheets with CSS and XSL. I would like them to use a Windows-based XML-aware editor and am looking for some suitable low-cost software. Does anyone have experience of products such as XMLWriter, Stilo Webwriter or the "lite" version of XMLSpy? Is there anything else I should be looking at? Susan **************************************************** Susan Hockey Professor of Library and Information Studies School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Phone: 020 7679 2477; Fax 020 7383 0557 E-mail: s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk **************************************************** From: Donald Stahl Subject: Fraktur software (fwd) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:04:01 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 877 (877) Reply-To: 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion To: C18-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU Dear List, Does anyone know of software that will convert scanned-in black letter to a normal ASCII font? Best wishes, Donald E. Stahl 12545 Olive Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63141-6311 USA tel: 314-567-8845 NCIS For a young Man, who applys himself to the Arts & Sciences, the Slowness with which he forms himself for the World, is a good Sign. --Hume _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: a socio-intellectual problem Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:51:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 878 (878) Recently, at a learned gathering of senior European scholars, I made a statement about the centrality of hypertext to our thinking about how to build scholarly resources and forms. The reaction to the word "hypertext" was startlingly negative. There were various other cultural and linguistic differences that impeded communication, but this negative reaction to the idea by people well aware of the importance of computing to their traditional studies is what seems to me worth contemplating -- by those of us who care about communicating beyond our native (and so intellectually provincial) circumstances. Perhaps it is the case that among those for whom apocalyptic rhetoric is uncommon, reception of an idea so often clothed in it naturally provokes suspicion and distrust. I was reminded that newness traditionally is not always, perhaps even seldom, a good thing. (Humanists familiar with classical Gk and Latin literature, for example, will think of many examples where that which is "made or brought into existence for the first time" is not just "strange" or "uncommon" but viewed as quite threatening.) We all get set in our ways, some more than others, and so can understand the annoyance of being disturbed by something new. We can understand how newness might appear in a deeply conservative tradition, which given the speed of apparent change in most of the industrialised world is apt to view the new with bewilderment. So much of unarguable value appears to be passing away to be replaced by a noisy, disposable lifestyle. Be that as it may, for those of us in the lands of the constantly new does it not become quite difficult to see change as change and not necessarily as improvement? In otherwords, is it not easy for us to lose our critical abilities when thinking about possible environments and means of scholarly work that networked computing appears to promise? What do we lose, for example, if we toss out the old-fashioned edition or commentary? Please, let's not admit to our discussion the smell of leather or feel of turning pages, or the impossibility of taking the valuable volume into the bath or to the beach. How in the current circumstance can we know responsibly what we're doing unless we make conscious and explicit exactly what it is that the old-fashioned form actually does? So much of this is buried as tacit knowledge. In reviewing hypertext scholarship I've been looking especially for analyses of inherited forms and found precious few. Clearly we don't want to waste our time trying to imitate inherited forms, but neither can we afford mentally to bin them. If we can succeed in awakening to them, so that they become NEW in our sight, then perhaps we have a chance of constructing something that our more conservative colleagues (and we as conservators of the past) will recognise as worthy. I'd be most grateful for notice of any analyses of existing scholarly forms as "machines to think with", as I.A. Richards said (approximately) about the book. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: D-Lib (Jan 2000) & Ariadne (26) now available online Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:42:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 879 (879) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine now available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/01contents.html. Ariadne 26 now available <<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/> The latest issues of D-Lib magazine, from Cornell University, and Ariadne, from the UK's Office of Library networking are now available online. David Green =========== January 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine now available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/01contents.html. [deleted quotation] Greetings: The January 2001 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/january01/01contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/01contents.html. The January issue contains Caroline Arms review of the book, "The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization," by Elaine Svenonius, and an opinion piece entitled "Commercial Digital Libraries and the Academic Community: How New Firms Might Develop New Relationships between "Publisher" and Higher Education," by Gregrory Crane. This issue also contains four articles, seven 'In Brief' items, and a generous selection of 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection for the January issue is "Introduction to the Plant Kingdom," a web site created by Dr. C.M. Sean Carrington, University of the West Indies. [material deleted] *************************************************************************** Ariadne 26 now available <<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/> [deleted quotation] Ariadne 26 is now available at: <<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/ *** This issue features several articles focussing on the UK Electronic Libraries Programme and a retrospective overview by the former Director of the Programme, Chris Rusbridge. Ariadne 26 also features an introductory article on the "Distributed National Electronic Resource," by Stephen Pinfield and Lorcan Dempsey. Plus two articles on the role of e-commerce in Higher Education. Ariadne also features a review of the Preservation 2000 conference in York. [material deleted] Ariadne issues 27 and 28 now preparation. Suggestions for content should be sent to the Ariadne Editorial Office at: <mailto:ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk>ariadne@ukoln.ac.uk Copy deadline for issue 27 is March 5, 2001. Copy Deadline for issue 28 is June 4, 2001. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: new ACLS occasional report Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:36:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 880 (880) Humanists will be interested in the latest ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 47, The Humanities and the Sciences, which includes papers by Jerome Friedman (theoretical physics, MIT), Peter Galison (History of Science and Physics, Harvard) and Susan Haack (Philosophy and Law, Miami). Billy E Frye (Chancellor, Emory) served as moderator. The volume is online at <http://www.acls.org/op47-1.htm>. (For those of you unfamiliar with the American Council of Learned Societies' series, allow me strongly to recommend it to you. Clifford Geertz's lecture, published a couple of years ago in the series, is a gem, for example; it is at <http://www.acls.org/op45geer.htm>.) Friedman compares the qualities of the scientific and humanistic imaginations and the ideas of creativity and beauty in both. He finds some differences but stronger similarities. Those who have read scientists' writings on beauty and elegance in theoretical work (e.g. P.A.M. Dirac, G.H. Hardy) will be on familiar ground. To my mind (and to that of James Gustafson, the theologian who starts off the concluding discussion) the central piece in this small collection is Peter Galison's. Galison is best known for his work on the history of experimental physics in the building of the atomic bomb. His book on the subject, Image and Logic, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the experimental sciences and to the way interdisciplinary collaborations work, as I have previously summarised on Humanist. His piece here, "Objectivity is Romantic", reports on research toward a book about the representations of objectivity in scientific publications from the end of the 18thC into the early 20th. He begins with an examination of collected photographs meant to train the young researcher or medic, e.g "atlases" of cloud-chamber photographs, anatomical drawings then photographs and so forth, and follows the changes in the conceptualisations of objectivity that they manifest, relating these changes to parallel developments in manufacture of goods and philosophical ideas, particularly in Germany and England, in Coleridge's thought. He finds that "the 'possibilities' in these various regimes of image-making are not purely conceptual.... we do not have a strategy of inquiry (an epistemology) followed by a morally-based reception (an ethics).... The machine is moralised from the get-go. Similarly, there is no accepted practice of neutral procedure of automatic image registration that later acquires a valuation.... For all these reasons, it might be more precise to speak about comportment (embracing the moral, technical, and epistemic), rather than concepts (capturing the ordered rules of combination imposed on statements)." Haack, in "Science, Literature, and the Literature of Science", seems mostly concerned to clear away what she regards as the nonsense about scientists making it all up so that she can approach the question of what a rhetoric of science might be like. The trouble I have with essays like this stems from the unitary conception of what science is, how it works -- as if there were one scientific method. (For arguments against this see Hacking, Feyerabend.) Galison's historical awareness of contingent ideas is rare. In the concluding discussion David Green (NINCH) asks a question put on Humanist some time ago, if memory serves -- why "we don't have anything approaching a history [or philosophy] of the humanities" as we do of the sciences. Galison notes that the history of scholarship in the early modern and pre-modern periods have been studied for some time, e.g. by Anthony Grafton, but that the last two centuries have no such history. But why? Inevitably in discussions on the topic of the sciences and the humanities someone mentions C.P. Snow's "two cultures" argument. Galison responds that "Snow in the end wanted to make points [against Levis] about whether each side knew certain facts.... And I think that the knowledge of certain particular results is really not the issue. The issues that interest me in joining the humanities and the sciences... have to do with what counts as a demonstration or as an argument." That, it seems to me, is *exactly* what we need to ask of ourselves for humanities computing. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: william marquis Subject: Job: Humanities Computing at Cornell Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:31:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 881 (881) Job: Programmer Analyst Spec. Location: CIDC, Kroch Library, Cornell University Using the resources of the Internet and computing and networking technologies, CIDC is developing shared digital collections of visual and textual resources drawn from a variety of sources at Cornell and around the world. Organizing and maintaining each online collection requires cooperative efforts between academic, technical, and managerial specialists. All illustrate the potential for synergistic collaboration inherent in research universities like Cornell and exemplify the tremendous applicability of digital collections. Description: Design and develop web-accessible databases for cultural and library research materials. Much of the time will be spent developing a worldwide database for the performing arts. Develop interfaces for the creation, modification, and retrieval of database objects via the Web. Design, implement, and maintain software interfaces with a variety of database systems. Apply technical expertise with SQL, database-to-web middleware, and Web languages (HTML, JavaScript) in accomplishing these tasks. Requirements: BA degree or equivalent. 2-5 years experience with Web design and database programming in a networked environment. Experience with database-to-web programming tools such as Cold Fusion, PhP, Active Server Pages, or PERL. Ability to program in JavaScript, HTML, or Perl. Please address all inquiries to: wem4@cornell.edu Or William E. Marquis Kroch Library 2B Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 William Marquis, Systems Administrator CIDC, Kroch Library 607-255-0380 Anonymous "If builders had built buildings the way programmers write programs, the woodpecker species would have destroyed civilization" From: Charles Ess Subject: indexing software? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:32:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 882 (882) Dear Sister/Fellow Humanists: For some years, I was a fan of Prof. Schwartz's _Indexx_ software - an elegant DOS/ASCII-based program that served my needs well. This is _not_ the sort of indexing program bundled with Nota Bene or Word that automatically searches for specified terms, identifies page numbers, etc. (which, interestingly enough, the Chicago Manual of Style warns _against_ using). Rather, _Indexx_ was an independent program that would take entries typed in with page numbers, and then collate, eliminate duplicates, alphabetize, and format (roughly) according to specified styles. Alas (for DOS-based programs), I now work primarily on Macintosh (though I also use Windows and Linux) and my copy of Indexx seems to have disappeared (perhaps carried away on a dead machine?) In any case - I'd appreciate suggestions for indexing software along these lines. Or have all such things (elegant but functionally simple programs, written by academics primarily for academics, _priced_ for academics, etc.) gone the way of the dinosaurs? Please reply privately off-list: I'll compile good suggestions for a later posting. Cheers and best wishes for the new Millennium! Charles Ess 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/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_ From: Willard McCarty Subject: preservation of oral "literature"? Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:25:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 883 (883) Can anyone direct me (actually a friend who is interested in quecha specifically) to sources for discussion of the preservation of oral "literature" and other cultural forms such as music? I mean LONG TERM preservation of the sounds. Isn't this a terribly difficult problem? -- because, I take it, there's no standard way to encode aural data digitally. And by "standard" I mean across decades or longer. What does one do when the only practical means for preservation is to make sure that the data (whatever that means) is transferred from one medium to the next as the former becomes obsolete? And does anyone know what happened to Systeme-D (which knew quecha)? Thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Digital Library education Subject: Survey on digital library education Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:30:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 884 (884) School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University Survey on digital library education: At the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, we are engaged in development of a general digital collection entitled D-Lib Edu, Resources for Education in Digital Libraries. The purpose is to create a collaboratively constructed resource, open to all, for facilitating and furthering education for and study of digital libraries. D-Lib Edu will include publicly available texts, activities, links and commentary that can be useful to students, teachers, and researchers concerned with digital libraries. We interpret 'digital libraries' in a broad sense to encompass many variations in practice, research and development on the general theme of organizing and accessing human knowledge records and collections in digital and networked environments. As a part of this effort we are conducting a survey to collect information about the state of educational efforts related to digital libraries. We are inviting responses to following questions about educational offerings: 1. Does your institution offer course(s), seminars or institutes in digital libraries and/or related areas? If so, please provide as much information as possible, particularly including URLs. 2. Does your institution teach digital library topics within (or as a part of) other courses, seminars, or institutes? If so, please provide as much information as possible, particularly including URLs. 3. In what department or school are the digital library course(s) offered? 4. On what level - undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, professional development? Please send responses to: dlibedu@scils.rutgers.edu The results will be used in two ways: (i) we will incorporate them, particularly URLs with a short description in D-Lib Edu: and (ii) we will synthesize them in a report addressing not only the state, but also the issues and challenges for digital library education. In a way, this survey is an effort at updating and broadening of a similar survey conducted four years ago: Spink, A. & Cool, C. (1999). Education for digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine, 5 (5). We are looking forward to response and collaboration to include your efforts. Tefko Saracevic, Professor II, http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~tefko Marija Dalbello, Assistant Professor, http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Rutgers University ***************************************************** D-Lib Edu Resources for Digital Library Education Tefko Saracevic, Marija Dalbello School of Communication, Information & Library Studies Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 U.S.A. Tel.: (732)932-8017 Fax: (732)932-2644 dlibedu@scils.rutgers.edu ****************************************************** From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Candidates for e-Profiles Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:31:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 885 (885) _Candidates for e-Profiles_ Recently, I was appointed a Contributing Editor of _Library Hi Tech News_ (LHTN) [ http://www.mcb.co.uk/lhtn.htm ], the companion news journal of _Library Hi Tech_ [ http://www.mcb.co.uk/lht.htm ]. [LTHN will have a change in it's editorship with the 2001 issues] For LHTN, I will author a regular column tentatively titled "e-Profiles". The intent of e-Profiles is to provide a descriptive profile of new, novel, innovative, emerging, unusual, and/or unconventional Web technologies, applications and resources. I am greatly interested in receiving nominations of candidates for potential review in a future eProfiles column. I am most interested in those technologies, applications and/or resources that *you* believe are noteworthy but are not as well known as they should be among our colleagues. As an example, I believe the highly novel index to _Astrophysical Journal_ created using Kohonen self-organizing semantic maps [ http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/ApJ/map.pl ] is particularly noteworthy and a technology, application _and_ resource that should be more widely recognized. [I plan to profile this index in one of my first columns for LHTN] As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries, questions, cosmic insights, etc., etc., etc. are Most Welcome. /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Write a Column About It" With Apologies (Again) to Alan Kay From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Mega-Alerting Services Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:31:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 886 (886) _Mega-Alerting Services_ I am greatly interested in identifying e-journals that offer Alerting/SDI services that include *not only* the Table of Contents of the current issue (or personalized version of such) _but also_ a separate (or combined) Alerting/SDI service for other communication venues associated with the e-journal (e.g., electronic discussion lists, discussion forums, reader commentary, etc.) as they take place within or outside of the e-journal. For examples of the various types of e-journal discourse, please see my latest Web registry _EJI(sm)_ devoted to "Innovative E-Journal Features, Functionalities, and Content" [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm] I am also interested in Any and All *subject/discipline* e-journal Alerting / SDI services, particularly those offered by any of the Aggregators, as well as those that one to receive Alerts from potentially all e-journals offered by a publisher or aggregator WITHOUT having to establish a interest profile within *individual* e-journals. [NOTE: Other novel Alerting/SDI services are also of interest] As Always, Any and All contributions. comments, queries, questions, critiques, cosmic insights, lengthy inaugural speeches, etc., etc., etc. are Most Welcome! /Gerry McKiernan Mega Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: XML editors? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:29:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 887 (887) I find XML writer quite suits my needs; I use it and HTML-Kit exclusively. Just make sure that you upgrade your XML parser to MSXML 3 first. (Although Xalan is a better choice for parser; so you might prefer to add Xalan as a user tool instead). I also often use the XML validator plug in for HTML-Kit, which provides somewhat better feedback when validating (and I like the HTML-Kit interface better, especially as it allows configuration of HTML-Tidy - which also "tidies" XML - directly from the preferences dialogue). I've tried XML Spy, but I don't like the "Visual" interface much, myself. Frankly, if I were teaching a class, I'd use HTML-Kit - but only if I could figure out a way to add the MSXML3 and XALAN command lines as plug-ins, which I haven't had time to do yet. Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0601 Shared Histories? XML editors? Fraktur software? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:32:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 888 (888) Hi Susan, Unfortunately, the "lite" version of XML Spy seems to have gone away, and they are now asking more for the "real thing." Other editors of that species, what one might call a "well-formed" editor (as distinguished from structured editors such as XMetaL which, for all their virtues, are less amenable to use as development environments) are .... okay ... but personally I haven't found anything yet as comfortable as my old text editor (TextPad) wired up with some XML tools (i.e. parser, XSL processor available from the Tools menu). It's not "XML aware" exactly; the user has to supply that -- but the parser/validator is just one click away, and it's packed with other useful features. XML Writer was pretty nice, when I tried it (some time ago now) -- I guess the main reason I stick with TextPad is its support for regular expressions, which I use all the time. This may not be needed for your classes, so I'd look at XML Writer if you don't want to spring for XML Spy, which seems to be the industry leader in this particular area. If you want to know how a "power user" wires up TextPad, let me know off list. I dare say any of several other text editors favored by programmers (PFE etc.) would have similar capabilities. Cheers, Wendell At 09:43 PM 1/19/01 +0000, you wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 889 (889) [deleted quotation] From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI: a special issue on Hypertext Criticism Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:29:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 890 (890) Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE ON HYPERTEXT CRITICISM (Volume 1, issue 7, January 2001) Guest Editor: Susana P. Tosca, Oxford Brookes University, UK [Access requires registration, which is free; only entry of a userid is required. --WM] From the special issue editorial "Hypertext critics work with software and computer languages that support hypertextual structures and think about how using it can affect the ways we present or recover information as authors and readers, and even the way we think about information. This special issue brings some fresh air and a new perspective to Hypertext Criticism. Four brilliant young authors have contributed to the issue, which we really believe is special due to its innovative content and form." http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: M. Engebretsen, Hypernews and Coherence http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Engebretsen/ A. Miles, Hypertext in the Dark: cinematic narration with links http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Miles/ A. Rau, Wreader's Digest - How to Appreciate Hyperfiction http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Rau/ J. Walker, Child's game confused: reading Juliet Ann Martin's oooxxxooo. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Walker/ The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only via the Web. The journal is currently available free to all users. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: what degrees mean Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:39:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 891 (891) Recently I was asked to comment on an MSc programme proposal. I'll spare you the details and cut to the chase: there was, as far as I could determine, no academic content in the programme whatsoever. It was a skills-training programme. A day or so later I received as e-junkmail an advert for degrees-by-purchase, no work required, BA, MA, PhD. Usually I'd treat the latter as merely a joke, but in the dark-light of the former I simply got depressed. My reaction to the MSc proposal, which I took valuable time out to give, wasn't intended to be snobbish and, on rereading, I couldn't see that it was in any way. It simply stated in detail that there was no academic content. (The skills-training was flawed too, but that's another matter -- or is it?) I was left wondering about the social status now accorded to skills, to the craft of doing something well, that would compell someone to cloak skills-training as an academic degree programme. Please note: I am not in any way wishing to denegrate skills or training programmes designed to impart them. I know, we've been by here recently (see Humanist vol 14 on "corporate universities"), but I continue to think that it's useful to have our categories straight. Craft does have something to do with intellectual power. I spent years teaching calligraphy, in which skill has a quite specific meaning and critical thought a strong basis in conventional forms, in "doing things right". Calligraphers who follow Edward Johnston's path will take up an applied kind of palaeography, learning to write out each major hand in historical sequence as a means of developing in themselves a physical knowledge of how letterforms came to be. Yet clearly calligraphy and palaeography are different, go in different directions, however much they learn from each other. An academic degree in calligraphy as such wouldn't make any sense to me; one in palaeography certainly does. Another useful example is the academic field of public administration, where theoretical and historical understanding of governmental policy, politics, economics, systems theory, sociology and several other fields, I'd imagine, come together and inform practice. Unlike palaeography its students do not as a rule become academics, rather better administrators, outside the academy where they are valued for their effectiveness on the job. How does humanities computing, also an applied field, differ? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Towards a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:01:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 892 (892) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 23, 2001 TOWARDS A DIGITAL PRESERVATION COALITION IN THE U.K. Following a March 1999 Digital Preservation Workshop at Warwick University and a recent Digital Preservation Summit in London January 16, 2001, steps seem to be well underway in the creation of a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. This seems to be very promising in raising awareness, implementing some immediate practical projects and in conducting vital preservation research. I urge all to read the following piece. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] dear all a very successful and productive summit was held in London on 16th January to discuss the formation of the digital preservation coalition. The following text for an article/report will appear in various publications shortly and is also posted to this list Neil ****************************************************** Summary This article reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. The Coalition aims to develop a UK digital preservation agenda within an international context. The article provides background on the issues and proposals and reports on a digital preservation summit held in London on 16th January 2001 to discuss establishment of the Coalition. 1. Introduction Electronic resources form an increasingly large part of our cultural and intellectual heritage. In addition to electronic publications, the Web, and e-commerce, there is an array of new UK initiatives and legislation, from Modernising Government to the Freedom of Information Act, which is putting an onus on public organisations to provide access to, manage and archive their information in electronic form. In the research arena, there are also significant developments particularly in the sciences towards very large primary research data sets in electronic form e.g. in genomics or earth sciences. There are significant challenges associated with ensuring access and preservation of these materials into the future. Electronic resources regardless of whether they are created initially through digitisation or are "born" digital are threatened by technological obsolescence and physical deterioration. With content from international publishers, increasing globalisation and sharing of resources, and the involvement of a range of libraries, archives, services, and cultural heritage organisations, our ability to preserve access to these electronic resources into the future depends on the collaboration and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders. National institutions and services, and individual local institutions increasingly need to raise awareness of digital preservation, and develop capacity, skills and expertise to administer or manage for the long-term intellectual and cultural assets they have developed in digital form. These institutions have recognised the value of collaboration in addressing digital preservation. Establishment of a Digital Preservation Coalition was the principal recommendation of the Warwick II digital preservation workshop held in March 1999, which had representation from a wide range of sectors, institutions, and practitioners in digital preservation. There are a number of reasons why institutions at Warwick wished to establish a Coalition. First, attendees recognised they needed a collaborative effort to get digital preservation on the agenda of key decision-makers and funders in terms that they will find persuasive and understand. Secondly, projects and initiatives are proliferating and the institutions themselves felt there would be significant value in developing the umbrella organisation to help coordinate and keep a watching brief and monitoring role on their behalf. Thirdly, despite sectoral differences it was felt that most of the technical and some organisational issues remain the same for all organisations. There are therefore significant synergies and mutual self-interest in collaboration. At the same time the efforts of individual institutions and sectors can be leveraged and co-ordinated through collaboration to achieve wider national benefits. Finally, it was felt that the Digital Preservation Coalition could tap additional skills and funding and help address and contribute to development of national strategies, infrastructure and skills in digital preservation. Concrete action towards the establishment of the Coalition is now in progress. In June 2000 JISC established a post within the DNER and appointed Neil Beagrie to provide a focal point for digital preservation activities within JISC and the higher and further education communities, and to help establish and support the Coalition proposed at Warwick. Although the exact remit, shape and programme for the Coalition will be resolved in consultation with proposed members, a draft outline of the Coalition and its remit and work was discussed at a digital preservation summit held in London on 16th January 2001. 2. Outcomes from the Summit Participants representing national, university and public libraries, archives, data archiving services, publishers, research councils and government bodies unanimously endorsed the need for co-ordinated work on digital preservation and for the establishment of a coalition. Participants recognised that the subject is bigger than any one institution or sector. It was agreed that the aim of the Coalition will be to develop a UK digital preservation agenda within an international context. The Coalition was seen as operating on four levels: * activities undertaken individually by member institutions and sectors but accomplished and co-ordinated in line with their commitment to the principles of openness and dissemination in the draft manifesto; * core coalition activities of common interest and benefit to all its members supported by resources from its membership; * collaborative projects and programmes which would be taken forward with project funding drawn from a variety of sources. * the creation and further development of a national digital archiving infrastructure in the UK. Suggestions for core activities and first programmes included: * awareness raising amongst key funders and stakeholders; * development of a digital preservation portal incorporating the Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook, in collaboration with international partners; * establishing a dialogue with software and hardware manufacturers; * developing standards to support digital preservation; * training and addressing the skills and competencies needed for digital preservation; * applied practical research and development in member institutions and sharing experience; * archiving of commercial e journals; * web archiving. Funding and the most effective organisational model for the Coalition were discussed, and JISC and the BL agreed to continue discussions with potential partners in the Coalition and to co-ordinate its establishment. Further general information and news on the Coalition will be disseminated via the digital-preservation email list on JISCmail). Enquiries about the coalition can be addressed in the first instance to Neil Beagrie email preservation@jisc.ac.uk, JISC office, King's College London, Strand Bridge House, 138 -142 Strand, London WC2 1HH. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Tim Reuter" Subject: Re: 14.0609 what DO degrees mean? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:00:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 893 (893) Willard's experience is general, not singular. North American Humanists may be both amused and horrified to find how far a reductionist skills-based approach has now invaded UK higher education. It goes a lot further than the odd MSc programme, as a visit to www.qaa.ac.uk will reveal. In essence our (pay)masters have used their financial hegemony to create an ideological hegemony which has reversed the previous view. Once upon a time we saw degree programmes as an immersion in a discipline or set of disciplines, as a result of which, incidentally, all sorts of life skills (not only employability-related skills) were acquired. Now we are invited (indeed required) to describe our programmes in terms of the skills they inculcate -- this is core, while the acquisition of disciplinary understanding is merely the surrounding pulp (and presumably, in the medium term, discardable). ---------------- Tim Reuter Department of History, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ tel. 023 80 594868; fax 023 80 593458; email tr@soton.ac.uk Home Page: 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: Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. osher@ix.netcom.com, Tues. Jan. 23, 2001 3PM Subject: Re: Skills Training vs Higher Level Humanist Computing Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:00:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 894 (894) WM around 12Noon asked some excellent questions, and I have a few comments if not answers. I intermittently go from mathematics/statistics/physics consulting to teaching at college and/or high school ("advanced") levels and back, and in teaching I am almost inevitably evaluated poorly by students who want skills training rather than college/university type educations in terms of higher standards. This is part of the reason for my lack of a permanent academic position at the age of 62, although when I was younger lack of an "outgoing" personality also played a major part as well as a Western USA socioculture which values extrovert and skills training type characteristics. It is partly understandable if not tolerable in the Western USA because universities here were built in the 20th century mostly, unlike the Eastern USA and most of Europe and so on, and they have much to learn about learning, teaching, and research as well as general priorities. I have never seen such bureaucratic structures as I have found in some major Western USA universities, where Parkinson's Law and Peter's Principle apply almost word for word. To cut out the intermediate steps, I think that sociocultures get what they what they want in a sense. The Western USA is very young and seems to want to be very young. I had thought that British socioculture was much older, and technically it is, but from WM says, I think that some people there also do not want to grow up. It is easier to learn recipes than to think. It is easier to use astrology than to use science. In the USA, in my opinion the danger is so advanced that only something like massive hypnosis of children by their parents (to get them motivated to learn) will change things much in the near future. In the absence of that, I have been urging people to adopt multiple alternative axioms systems (evnen on the internet), so that for example skills oriented people would also keep an open mind about using their brains, but that is a very, very slow process and will not be completed in any of our lifetimes or our children's or grandchildren's lifetimes (I think). In humanities computing, the dangers in addition come from the skills required to do computing and the skills required to do reading and writing and art - which sometimes are not counterbalanced by equal requirements for inventive/innovative/creative skills using higher cognitive abilities. People already inside bureaucracies might be able to urge the changing of those priorities, but California's failure to improve much despite their importing Nobel Prize winners from the East leads me to question the chances of success in the near future. Osher Doctorow Doctorow Consultants, Ventura College, West Los Angeles College, etc. From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Job: Academic Coordinator for Historical Censuses Collection Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:55:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 895 (895) UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW THE SUBJECT CENTRE FOR HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY ACADEMIC CO-ORDINATOR ALC GRADE 1/2, 16,775 - 25,213 REF 743/00 You will play a key role in developing a suite of innovative learning and teaching materials, delivered through the Internet, on the social history of Britain, within the Contemporary and Historical Censuses Collection. You should have an honours degree in history or a related subject, experience of university teaching or research, and database or HTML experience. An interest in teaching with computers and familiarity with the census will be advantageous. Appointment will be for two years. For an application pack please see our web site at http://hca.ltsn.ac.uk or write quoting Ref: 743/00 to Mrs I. Tait, Recruitment, The Subject Centre, 1 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ; email: i.tait@arts.gla.ac.uk. tel: 0141-330-4942 Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Ian Anderson (e-mail I.Anderson@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk) or at the above number. Closing date 14 February 2001. ======================================== Dr Donald A Spaeth Director, LTSN Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology Lecturer in Historical Computing Convenor, Association for History and Computing (UK) Modern History 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Tel: 0141 330-3580 Fax: 0141 330-5000 E-mail: d.spaeth@modhist.arts.gla.ac.uk URL: http://hca.ltsn.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: film scanners & image mappers? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:04:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 896 (896) I would very much appreciate words of experience if not wisdom on the subject of film scanners and image mappers. I am involved in a LOW budget (i.e. the out-of-our-own-pockets kind of) project dealing with mss images from microfilm. Eventually the mss may be re-photographed, but at the moment we're dealing with standard reels of microfilm supplied by such libraries as the British Library and the Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The object is to construct an extended prototype of an electronic edition involving a few hundred mss pages. The higher-end scanners are simply out of reach, so we'd like to acquire a scanner costing less than 200 pounds sterling. (STOP LAUGHING!) Conventional wisdom is that flatbed scanners with film attachments or provisions are not good enough for the purpose, though the Agfa SnapScan e50 (1200 x 2400 ppi true optical resolution, 42-bit colour sampling) sounds fairly good. Does anyone know that scanner? For image mapping I have used Live Image to draw free-form boxes around areas of the mss pages. The areas to be captured are irregular, sometimes smudged, so I suspect that automatic methods of pinpointing lines of handwritten text would not work. Recommendations most welcome. The prototype will be built by hand using HTML -- at least until we understand better the scope of what we want the edition to do. Comments welcome. Many thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 14.0608 XML editors Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:59:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 897 (897) I had an email from Irma Dolezal at Altova, the XML Spy company, saying that their lite version was still available at $39.00 and that they have an educational discount of 30% on their products. But as I understand it, the lite version does not include a validator. From: "Areti Damala" Subject: Re: 14.0608 XML editors Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:59:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 898 (898) Hi Susan, I am carrying out my Master in Humanities Computing trying to create a full function repository in xml concerning the byzantine period of the city of Veroia, in Northern Greece. I come from a humanities background and I' ve been having quiet a lot of troubles in finding a suitable xml editor for my needs. I like very much the interface and functionality of XML Spy as well as the fact that you don't have to do anything else but setting up correctly you Internet Explorer with the xml parser and get to work. I've been trying as well X-Metal, XMLWriter (not a really elaborated tool at my opinion), excelon and quiet a lot of others.Neither of them suits (always from my point of view) for people with a "light" science or computer background. One of the problems of XML Spy is that it cannot support rendition with CSS stylesheets ( at least not till the 3.0 version). Concerning other tools a great one for creatimg and fully visualising XML schemas and DTD'S is XML Authority. It worths a trial drive... Best regards Areti Damala From: Paul Brians Subject: Interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:58:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 899 (899) The Chronicle of Higher Education for January 23 contains an interview with me which you can read online at <http://chronicle.com/free/2001/01/2001012301t.htm>. I've spotted one tape transcription error: "viewers" should be "reviewers," but otherwise it reflects a good selection from a 45-minute phone interview. I tried to get the interviewer to mention my article which goes into these matters in more detail, but he didn't. It's "Annotating The Satanic Verses: An Example of Internet Research and Publication," in Computers and the Humanities 33 (1999): 247-264. -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0592 cognitive effects of formatting Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:01:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 900 (900) Willard, slowly but surely we may have found some references for you on the KWIC front I've manage to conduct a search using the Boolean string KWIC AND (interface NEAR design) which nets the following hints and hit (and I quote some of the contextual copy from Ashok Banerji's site below the URL) http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~abanerji/sect2.htm Some of the important factors influencing the design of end-user interfaces to electronic books (and tools to support their access within an electronic library) have been studied by various researchers. In their paper, Benest, Morgan and Smithurst (1987), for example, discuss the various principles underlying the design of 'a humanised interface to an electronic library'. In this work a keyword-in-context (KWIC) index was used as a means of locating books and documents. The design of a (graphical) end-user interface to an electronic KWIC for library work has also been discussed in some detail by Barker (1994a). More in-depth studies of end-user interface design for electronic books has been undertaken by Richards (1994), Barker (1991) and Barker, Richards and Benest (1994). This latter work has produced a number of useful design guidelines and design models. Further useful research into (and the development of) end-user interfaces for use in 'digital libraries' is discussed in a recent issue of the journal 'Communications of the ACM' (CACM, 1995). Benest, I.D., Morgan, G. and Smithurst, M.D., (1987). A Humanised Interface to an Electronic Library, 905-910 in Proceedings of IFIP Human-Computer Interaction Conference -INTERACT '87, edited by H.-J. Bullinger and B. Shackel, Elsevier Science Publishers BV (North-Holland), Amsterdam. Barker, P.G., (1994a). End-User Interface Design for an Electronic KWIC, 191-202 in 'ONLINE Information 94', Proceedings of the 18th International Online Information Meeting, 6-8 December, 1994, Olympia, London, UK, Edited by D.I. Raitt and B. Jeapes, Learned Information (Europe) Ltd, Oxford, UK. Richards, S., (1994). End-User Interfaces to Electronic Books, PhD Thesis, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Teesside, Cleveland, UK. Barker, P.G., (1991). Electronic Books, Special Edition of Educational and Training Technology International, 28(4), 269-368. Barker, P.G., Richards, S. and Benest, I.D., (1994). Human-Computer Interface Design for Electronic Books, 213-225 in 'ONLINE Information 94', Proceedings of the 18th International Online Information Meeting, 6-8 December, 1994, Olympia, London, UK, Edited by D.I. Raitt and B. Jeapes, Learned Information (Europe) Ltd, Oxford, UK. CACM, (1995). Special Edition on Digital Libraries, Communications of the ACM, 38(4). ***** hope this helps -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: dealing with the ill-mannered Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:58:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 901 (901) Recently my advice on running discussion groups was sought by two list-owners who have been overwhelmed by the volume of ill-mannered contributions to their unmoderated lists. As a result of these vomitings-forth, ad hominem attacks etc, some of the learned people who actually wanted to discuss the ideas subsumed by the fields in question have left. So I was asked, what does one do? I could find no other answer than to moderate these lists. Is there any other answer short of suffering abusive messages then removing the individuals in question? (Note that having been ejected some of these characters appear simply to find other ISPs and resubscribe under different names. They are *very* determined.) Thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Dirk Kottke Subject: Einladung zum 81. Kolloquium Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:31:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 902 (902) 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 81. 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 Das Lexikon des Mittelalters auf CD-ROM: Verlegerische und technische Aspekte der Umsetzung von Buchinhalten in elektronische Form Referenten: Dr. Thomas Meier Universitt Zrich, Historisches Seminar Dr. Bernd Lutz Metzler-Verlag Stuttgart Thomas Weerth pagina Gmbh Tbingen Benjamin Constant im WWW: eine kritische Edition online Referenten: Prof. Dr. Kurt Kloocke Universitt Tbingen, Romanisches Seminar Corinne Chauvin Universitt Tbingen, Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fr Informatik Marc Kster Universitt Tbingen, ZDV Zeit: Samstag, 10. Februar 2001, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Waechterstr. 76 (EG) gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 80. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot80.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. ==================================================================== 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 | ==================================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: film scanners Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:57:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 903 (903) Thanks to Josephine Tarvers (Winthrop) and Emily Rose (Princeton) for responses on my question about film scanners. Dr Tarvers recommended the Polaroid SprintScan, which I find is well regarded -- but far too expensive for our out-of-our-own-pockets budget, ca. US$2000. We do not want to spend any more than 200 pounds sterling, i.e. ca US$160 -- but I am prepared to be told I've been smoking too much of the stuff that dreams are made on. She also recommends PhotoShop for touching up afterwards &c. Indeed, PhotoShop is a beautiful piece of work, a gem and my treasured companion when playing with images. If only all software could be as well made. Dr Rose asks why we don't simply rephotograph the mss. Ideal, to be sure, but these are scattered through various European libraries, who do not easily hand over their treasures for such purposes; travelling to them, staying for the requisite amount of time, arranging for the equipment or photographer to do the work -- such expenses would make the Polaroid hardware seem a trivial expense indeed. Should we be properly funded to do the work, then, yes, rephotographing them seems certainly the way to go. Meanwhile the microfilms can be purchased with available funds, scanned somehow and the images used both to build a good prototype and to do further scholarly work of the oldfashioned kind. So, forgive me for asking again: is the Agfa e50 worth the price? Are there any decent film scanners for under 200 pounds sterling? Should I smoke something new? ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Andrew Hawke Subject: Re: 14.0619 film scanners continued Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:40:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 904 (904) Dear Willard, [material deleted].... I had a similar problem recently, and did some research. There seem to be two 'budget' flat-bed scanners on the market which have received excellent reviews and which both have 'tranny adaptors' to scan slides, film, negetive/positive, &c. I needed something to scan slides for a website, and also to scan 35mm microfilm of some books and MSS. The two are: AcerScan 640UT (USB only) 600 x 1200 x 48 bit Available from www.dabs.com at: GBP 109 (128.07 inc. VAT) Epson Perfection 1240UT Photo (also USB only) (the 'Photo' is important - the straight 1240UT has no tranny adaptor as standard) 1200 x 2400 x 42 bit Available from www.dabs.com at: GBP 172 (202.10 inc. VAT) see: http://www.epson.co.uk/sohoprod/imaging/scanner/perf1240/ I chose the former, purely on price, although the Epson received the better review (hardly surprising in view of the superior resolution). I have subsequently used it for scanning slides, where it has performed perfectly adequately for my purposes, although I have yet to try scanning the microfilm (slightly complicated by the fact that it is mounted on aperture cards. If you have 200 to spend, I would go for the Epson. I hope that this is of some use - good luck with the project. Best wishes, Andrew -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970)627513 (+44)1970 627513 (fx627066) Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau Asst. Editor/Systems Manager Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Dictionary Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K. URL: http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/ From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: 14.0619 film scanners continued Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:41:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 905 (905) Dear Willard, if you define microfilm as 35mm film, then the Hewlett-Packard SmartScan S20 slide scanner is an economic choice of high quality. It will take either single negative or slide frames (mounted or unmounted) or negative or slide films of upto six frames length. The image resolution can be set to upto 2400 dpi optically and both colour and black-and-white films will be inversed to positive images automatically by the software included in the package. Of course, professional digitizers will frown at this point. Is it a wise and economic solution to cut whole film rolls into pieces of six frames length ? It takes measurable time to cut and insert the film strips and reassemble the pieces for later storage. Also, the scanner that I could afford to buy is rather capricious and arbitrary in accepting or rejecting slides and films at first try. As to imaging software: Small programs like Paint Shop Pro implement just those functions that I need frequently without having to work myself through many options. A batch mode is useful for images of same quality. But again: This is only a home solution and not suited for bulk loads of work. Sincerely yours, Hartmut Krech meOme Portal History of Sciences <http://www.meome.de/galileo>http://www.meome.de/galileo meOme Portal Cultural Anthropology <http://www.meome.de/kultur>http://www.meome.de/kultur "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" schrieb: [deleted quotation] From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0619 film scanners continued Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:41:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 906 (906) Willard, the current (newsstand) issue of the American journal _Popular Photography_ has a feature article on film scanners, including a description of their better points, price (list), _perhaps_ also price "on the street", etc. The new issue may be hitting the stands as I write -- best to look in a library if the ones near you carry the journal. From: Marc Wilhelm =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= Subject: Film scanners Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:42:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 907 (907) Dear Mr. McCarty, In a similar situation -- having to scan ten microfilm reels from a literally out of my own pocket budget -- it turned out to be the best deal to have them scanned by a professional microfilm service provider who has specialized equipment for the task. Within a short time they delivered the tif-images (one for each picture and in black and white in my case) on CD-ROM. I don't offhand have the price available, but if memory serves me right it was about DEM 0.20-0.30 (ca. UKP 0.08) per picture. If this is of any interest, it's easy to check. Best regards, Marc Kster *************************************************** Marc Wilhelm Kuester Computing Centre of the University of Tuebingen Dept. Literary and Documentary Data Processing Waechterstr. 76 D-72074 Tuebingen Tel.: +49 / 7071 / 29-70348 Fax: +49 / 7071 / 29-5912 EMail: marc.kuester@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Willard's smoking habits Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:42:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 908 (908) So 200 pounds is now worth about $160 !! I'll buy some of that for my little used Lloyds account! Beats playing the stock market. Bob -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" Subject: Re: 14.0619 film scanners continued Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:43:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 909 (909) Only a minor point but I think you have divided instead of multiplied. 200 is at today's exchange rate $290 (although one would not believe it if you compare prices here and across the Atlantic!) which perhaps makes you a little less of a dreamer... Cheers, Franois C-R From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0618 e-bouncer vs e-dictator? Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:34:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 910 (910) At 7:06 AM +0000 25/1/01, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Hi all depends on the software you use for hosting etc. I run a server that looks after 60 or so lists, most simple academic administration lists, and some public body announcement lists. Most of the external organisations that I help have moderated lists, I suspect largely because they're used for announcements only rather than dialog. But to answer the question, my server software allows me to have a list of filter words where I can prevent email being distributed if those filter words are met. This is a very top heavy approach (apart from expletives most other words can't really be filtered out) but can work. the only other advice i give to people who want an open list is that open means open. on every list i've been on when the rabble is a rabble then they bore quickly if no one listens (ie responds). in addition you tell people to use an email filter so that they don't even realise that person x the dimwit has been making their dimwit pronouncements again. when i introduce students to academic email lists i have simple rules: edit replies realise that you will send something intended for an individual to the list and embarrass yourself or insult someone else if this happens then apologise publicly (to the list) and accept it as a fact of life in a forum where privacy and intimacy overlap and collide. not much help i'm afraid. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media rmit university | university of bergen school of applied communication | instittut for medievitenskap http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au | http://www.media.uib.no adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au | adrian.miles@media.uib.no From: Christian Nelson Subject: Re: 14.0618 e-bouncer vs e-dictator? Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:35:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 911 (911) Dear Willard (and others): I don't mean to be flip, but one could always advise list participants to hit their delete button rather than unsubscribing. Once it becomes clear that someone on a list is incredibly rude, and that doesn't take long, I generally delete their messages and all responses to their messages since they are bound to be attempts to reason with an unreasonable person. If everyone on a list did this, these rude folks would go away. This has happened on at least one of this lists I'm on. Why do people go to the trouble of unsubscribing when the could simply hit the delete key? Best, Christian Nelson From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: RE: 14.0618 e-bouncer vs e-dictator? Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:36:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 912 (912) We put in an obscenity filter. Of course, it was great fun thinking of all of the obscene words our students might use. However, a student who sends a message containing one of our excluded words receives a sharply worded reply. We do put the message into our database for future reference but decline to take any action unless and until the student writes to us in a civil manner. My response does not, however, address the larger issue of the sorts of intemperate, ad hominem attacks one see frequently on certain discussion groups. I have dropped out of those which contain an unacceptable percentage of "flame wars," even though I miss some of the discussions by the more civilized participants. Have not the slightest reservation at declining to post such unacceptable material. --------------- Let me share one further thought. Last year, the SIGCSE list was "spammed." By that afternoon, the moderator had restricted the list to members of SIGCSE. His actions were applauded. The comparable situation here would be to close HUMANIST to all except those who register with you and to de-authorize any people whose communications are unacceptable. I support such action. Time is the most inelastic commodity. I will not waste time reading discussion groups in which the postings are not "on point." --------------------------------------------------------- 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: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Re: 14.0618 e-bouncer vs e-dictator? Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:37:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 913 (913) Willard, I moderated a live chat on a regular basis a while back, when I was sick as part of the Chronic Fatigue Support group on AOL. We occasionally had ill-mannered people show up and disrupt the sessions. Normally I could communicate with them behind the scenes and convince them that we were a quieter group and didn't appreciate the intensity they brought. In some cases we simply left them to the chat room, so they had little or no audience. Live chat is quite different from a list, though, so I'm not sure exactly how to proceed. I would suggest that a leader or some group even, write these disruptive folks and explain that it is a scholarly group and not really interested in that level of emotion. I'm sure there is some way to be diplomatic enough not to rile them further, and perhaps get the point across that they are not welcome in their present mode. Mary Dee From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" Subject: Re: teleprompto, tangentially... Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:44:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 914 (914) [deleted quotation] This reminds me of a story I have half forgotten about one of the great luminaries of the English language early last century (the XXth). He was entertaining his great niece in his room in Oxford, where she was an undergraduate and she had the temerity (being of his kin--no one else would have dared) to pick him up, saying he had used a word incorrectly. When he disputed this, she reached out for Fowler's but he stopped her by saying mildly "But my dear, that won't prove anything. Such books merely record how you and I speak". The trouble is, I can't recall who it was. Does any Humanist know? Incidentally, _livide_ in French means "pale". Robert quotes Huysmans: "Jamais il n'avait vu une telle pleur... c'tait le teint livide, exsangue des prisonniers du moyen-ge". I've never heard it to mean "angry" only, tropically, "upset". Another _faux ami_. Cheers, Franois C-R From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Job Announcement at West Virginia University Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:59:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 915 (915) The West Virginia University Department of English plans to hire a Coordinator of our Center for Literary Computing to begin August 16, 2001. Tenure track, beginning or advanced Assistant Professor level. Evidence of ability to develop the Center as a resource for research and instruction in new media and humanities computing for both graduate and undergraduate students required. Specialization and scholarly research in one or more of the following areas: new media studies; technology and diversity studies; technology and pedagogy; writing in digital media; literary, linguistic, or cultural studies of new media or technology. Ph.D. required. Understanding of technical and administrative issues a plus. Salary commensurate with experience. The Department offers the M.A. and Ph.D., and will soon offer the M.F.A. Evidence of ability to contribute to both the graduate and undergraduate programs expected. Award of tenure and promotion to associate professor will be based on an excellent record of publications supported by demonstrated excellence in teaching. West Virginia University and the Department of English have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. We strongly encourage applications from persons of color, women, and other members of under-represented groups. AA/EOE. Send letter of application, three letters of recommendation, and current c.v. to Timothy Dow Adams, Chair. English Department, P.O. Box 6296, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6296. Electronic submissions accepted. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2001, and will continue until the position is filled. For more information, please visit the Department's web site at http//www.as.wvu.edu/english/ Timothy Dow Adams, Chair Department of English West Virginia University P.O. Box 6296 Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 phone: (304) 293-3107 x 399 fax: (304) 293-5380 http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick W. Conner, Director West Virginia University Press P.O. BOX 6295 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506-6295 phone: (304) 293-3107 x431 e-mail: pconner@wvu.edu fax: (304) 293-5380 web page: http://www.as.wvu.edu/press/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. osher@ix.netcom.com, Fri. Jan. 26, 2001 9:33AM Subject: Re: e-bouncer vs. e-dictator Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:59:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 916 (916) I have thought of an interesting scenario. When the rude person reaches a certain level of rudeness, he/she automatically gets transferred to PlanetOfTheApesGroup and similar rudes find themselves in their own company. If this seems too extreme, an alternative would be automatic transfer to Dehumanist Group or for the extremely cautious listowner there would be humanist2 where the rude people have exclusive babbling rights among themselves. We could also subscribe candidates there whose societies have just emerged from the jungle within the last 10 years or so, subject to appeal via an oral presentation with no notes as to what the differences are between civilization and the jungle especially with reference to courtesy and respecting the opinions of others and open-mindedness to alternatives as ideals if not accomplished facts. Cheers Osher Doctorow Doctorow Consultants, Ventura College, West Los Angeles College, etc., etc. From: Han Baltussen Subject: Detecting plagiarism (fwd) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:58:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 917 (917) Dear Willard on another list the question came up on detecting plagiarism and using the web. Has anyone any experience with the site mentioned? HB [deleted quotation] From: Terry Winograd Subject: David Stork on _The HAL 9000 Computer and the Vision Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:00:59 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 918 (918) [--] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Computer Museum History Center is pleased to present: David G. Stork Chief Scientist Ricoh Silicon Valley's California Research Center, Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Stanford University 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 6, 2001 Moffett Training and Conference Center (Building 3) Moffett Federal Airfield Mountain View, CA 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Reception to follow at the History Center's Visible Storage Exhibit Area (Bldg 126) Moffett Federal Airfield ABSTRACT OF TALK: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 epic film about space exploration and the evolution of intelligence, was the most carefully researched and scientifically precise feature film ever made. Now, in its namesake year, we can compare the film's computer science "visions" with current technological fact -- in particular those related to its central character, the HAL 9000 computer, which could speak, reason, see, play chess, plan and express emotions. In some domains reality has surpassed the vision in the film: computer chess, computer hardware, and graphics. In numerous others, reality has fallen far short: computer speech, language, vision, lip-reading, planning, and common sense. The film missed some trends entirely: the film showed no laptops or PDAs and HAL as large as a school bus but in reality computers instead got small. As such, the film provides a remarkable perspective on the sweep of developments in the modern era of computer technology. This non-technical talk is profusely illustrated with clips from 2001 and current research and sheds new light on key moments of the film. You will never see the film the same way again. BACKGROUND ON SPEAKER: David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Silicon Valley's California Research Center and Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His most recent books include HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality (MIT Press) and Pattern Classification (2nd ed.) by R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart and D. G. Stork (Wiley). He is the creator of "2001: HAL's Legacy," a forthcoming television documentary for PBS television. RSVP: By Friday, February 2, 2001. [material deleted] DIRECTIONS: http://mtcc.arc.nasa.gov/directions.html EVENT URL: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/stork_02062001/ -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Phil Agre Subject: Gregory Crane on _Deep Reading in a Digital Age_ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:04:25 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 919 (919) [--] Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. The UCLA Information Studies Seminar presents Gregory Crane Tufts University on Deep Reading in a Digital Age Web design handbooks assume that readers move rapidly from one page to another. Usability studies likewise generally take as their model the busy student or researcher who extracts the "message" from articles and books as quickly as possible. Literary reading, however, is very different. We teach our students to reread and to pose various questions about the documents that we assign. Texts from the traditional canon are presented to students as sources of ambiguity and of interpretive play. Even in cultural studies we stress the importance of historical context and emphasize the complexity of such genres as advertisements or dime novels. This talk will consider ways in which we can develop digital environments that encourage active learning where readers are able to contextualize cultural artifacts in new ways. Gregory Crane has published on a wide range of ancient Greek authors. His book "The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word" appeared in 1996; "The Ancient Simplicity: Thucydides and the Limits of Political Realism" was published in 1998. He is currently conducting preliminary research for a planned book on Cicero. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the humanities and rapidly developing digital technology. Since 1985 he has been engaged in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. He is currently directing a grant from the Digital Library Initiative to study general problems of digital libraries in the humanities. He is particularly interested in the extent to which broadcast media such as the World Wide Web not only enhance the work of professional researchers and students in formal degree programs but create new audiences outside academia for cultural materials. His current research focuses on "computational humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information without compromising intellectual rigor. Thursday, March 1st, 3:00pm - 5:00pm GSE&IS Building, Room 111 (just west of the Research Library) Everyone is invited. To receive regular announcements of Information Studies Seminars, join the ISS mailing list by sending a message that looks like this: To: requests@lists.gseis.ucla.edu Subject: subscribe ISS Questions or comments to Phil Agre . -------------------------------------------------------- From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0625 Findsame.com -- plagarism detector? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:56:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 920 (920) At 12:12 PM +0000 27/1/01, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] just use altavista and there's an advanced search option for a string of text. alternatively google.com seems to do a pretty good search of a string. as an example just copy a sentence from a web page and feed it to google. as far as i can tell specialist sites, if all they do is web searches, do a poorer job of what the biggest search engines already do. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. bowerbird.rmit.edu.au/adrian/ hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ From: "Luigi M Bianchi" Subject: job at York University (Toronto) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:00:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 921 (921) As part of a university-wide initiative in Technology-Enhanced Learning, the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University's second largest Faculty, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Applied Philosophy to support professionally oriented programs and certificates in Professional Ethics and Public Service Studies. The appointment is at the assistant professor level and is to commence July 1, 2001. It is subject to final budgetary approval. Eligible candidates will have a doctoral degree, publications, an excellent academic record and demonstrated excellence in research and teaching. Experience in developing internet distance education courses would be an asset. In addition to discipline-specific expertise, candidates will be expected to have a firm commitment to using the internet or other technologies in teaching, research interests in the assessment of TEL/distance education, and a firm commitment to participating in a pan-university initiative to advance York's interests in TEL/distance education. Qualified individuals should send a leter of application identifying their areas of research and teaching interests, a curriculum vitae and the names and address of three references to: Professor Sam Mallin, Philosophy Coordinator, School of Analytic Studies and Information Technology, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J1P3, FAX (416) 736-5766. E-mail: smln@yorku.ca. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be directly send to this same address. At least one of the letters should address teaching. More information on the programs can be found at <http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca>. A review of applications will begin March 15, 2001 and continue until the position is filled. For many years York University has had a policy of employment equity including affirmative action for women faculty and librarians. Recently, York has included racial/visible minorities, persons with disabilities and aboriginal peoples in its affirmative action program. Persons who are members of one or more of these three groups are encouraged to self identify during the selection process. Please note that candidates from these three groups will be considered within the priorities of the affirmative action program only if they self identify. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents only. _________________________________________________________________ Luigi M Bianchi Science and Technology Studies Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J-1P3 phone: +1 (416) 736-5232 fax: +1 (416) 736-5188 mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/ From: "Price, Dan" Subject: RE: 14.0618 e-bouncer vs e-dictator? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:01:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 922 (922) [Taken from a private note to me; republished with permission. --WM] Not surprised that the folks are "very determined" as they seem to be seeking an audience! A short note is that recently in an unmoderated list I sent a rather blunt reply to another member about reading the text and regarding the intention of the author more closely (text was Gospel of Luke). The moderator sent me a reply saying that I had been very rude and would be placed on suspension for future posting of message for three months. BUT when I apologized to the one who had posted the message, he wanted to know what I was talking about-no offense on this part. So, sometimes it can be a matter of perspective. The end result seems to be that the moderated list is the best present course of action. This list is certainly the most creative and reflective List Serve that I subscribe to and I do think that in many ways that is the result of your own moderation and your frequent teasing questions that prod the rest of us to think and sometimes respond. In no way shape or form, then, do I regard you as the e-dictator. I am still amazed at the amount interaction with various scholarly communities and my own sense of "connectedness" that the List Serves provide. It certainly beats the old days of only having a printed newsletter from time to time and the occasional face to face meeting. Amen! --dan Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html>http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: research studentships at King's College London Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:15:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 923 (923) On behalf of the School of Humanities, King's College London, allow me to draw your attention to postgraduate research studentships to commence in September 2001. These will be awarded after open competition, and will be open to intending full- or part-time students to be registered in any Department in the School of Humanities. Students already registered for an MPhil/PhD in the School may also apply. For more information see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/schoff/resst.html>. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Peter Liddell Subject: Humanist Abroad Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:31:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 924 (924) Dear fellow Humanists You might be interested to know the whereabouts of our esteemed Editor in the middle of February.... Willard has been invited to the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, as a Lansdowne visitor. Named after a long-ago Governor General of Canada, and owing its existence in part to the original Hudson's Bay Company, the endowment enables departments at UVic to invite outstanding scholars and creative artists to speak to their colleagues and members of the community. Willard will join a group of eminent scientists, humanists, writers and performers who have spent 3-4 fairly intense days among us in the past thirty years. While he's here, he will be giving a public address ("Millennial Thoughts") on the Humanities and computing, as well as seminars to his colleagues and university librarians. He will also tell us about the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College London, as a speaker in our series of talks and demos of best practices in the Humanities IT in Teaching Showcase (HITTS). As we say, "intense"; but in the spirit of his westcoast roots, he will also have a day-long chance to catch the 'coniferous' air, smell the Pacific surf, watch the eagles if he so desires. In anticipation of a fruitful visit, Peter Liddell ----------------------------------- Peter G. Liddell Professor, Germanic Studies and Acad. Director, Humanities Computing & Media Centre (formerly the Language Centre) University of Victoria PO Box 3045 VICTORIA, BC V8W 3P4 Canada Office Phone: (250) 721 7321 FAX: (250) 721 7319 email: pgl@uvic.ca From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: CFP: Internet Research 2.0 - Association of Internet Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:30:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 925 (925) Researchers Please Distribute: INTERNET RESEARCH 2.0: INTERconnections The Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers OCTOBER 10-14, 2001 University of Minnesota Minneapolis-St.Paul Minnesota, USA Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 2, 2001 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Phil Agre, Associate Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Anita Allen-Castellito, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, USA Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of English, Sonoma State University, USA Sheizaf Rafaeli, Head of the Center for the Study of the Information Society and Professor of Business Administration, University of Haifa, Israel The Internet's ever-increasing points of connection to almost every element of 21st century life have prompted strong interest in understanding the social aspects of cyberspace. The popular press offers wave after wave of speculation and vague forecasts, but what is really needed to help us understand how to live in our wired world is research: research that is collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary. In September 2000, over 300 people attended the first international Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) at the University of Kansas. This Conference built connections among Internet researchers from across a range disciplines and from around the globe. In October of 2001, INTERNET RESEARCH 2.0 will offer an opportunity to reinforce and extend these connections. IR 2.0 will bring together prominent scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from many disciplines and fields for a program of keynote addresses, paper presentations, formal discussions, and informal exchanges. IR 2.0 will be held on the campus of the University of Minnesota, one of the world's most technologically innovative campuses. The conference will provide opportunities to network, learn from other researchers, hear from leading players in Internet development, and take in the sights and sounds of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Association of Internet Researchers invites paper, presentation, and panel proposals on topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic aspects of the Internet. We welcome submissions from any discipline, as well as work from those producing new media or working in multimedia studies. Panel presentations which establish connections across disciplines, institutions and/or continents are especially encouraged. We also seek presentations which will make creative use of Internet technologies and techniques, including (but not limited to) digital art and e-poster sessions. We suggest the following as possible themes for proposals. * communication-based Internet studies * digital art * distance education and pedagogy * e-commerce and business * gender, sexualities, and the Internet * human-computer interaction (HCI) * international perspectives on the Internet * Internet technologies * law and the Internet, including privacy and copyright issues * methodological issues in Internet studies * new media and Internet journalism * psychology and the Internet * the "Digital Divide" * race and cyberspace * rhetoric and technology This list is not meant to be exclusive, but rather to trigger ideas and encourage submissions from a range of disciplines. When we are able to identify scholars from a range of disciplines pursuing shared themes, we will work to bring these scholars together for panel sessions. When preparing proposals, please consider the convention's conventions: * Most conference sessions will be 90 minutes, with no less than the final thirty minutes reserved for discussion. * The average time allotted for a paper or presentation will be 15 minutes. If these time constraints are not appropriate for your panel/presentation, please highlight this in your proposal. Also, please include any unusual equipment needs or special considerations that might affect your presentation. Individual paper and presentation proposals should be no more than 250 words. Panels will generally include three or four papers or presentations. For panel proposals, the session organizer should submit a 150-250 word statement describing the panel topic, including abstracts of up to 250 words for each paper or presentation in the panel. Graduate students are highly encouraged to submit proposals. They should note their student status with their submissions, and, if they wish, submit completed papers by the March 2 deadline so their work can be considered for a special Student Award. The winner of the Student Award will have conference fees waived. Conference organizers are working to ensure that IR 2.0 is affordable for graduate students, and indeed, for all attendees. Details of anticipated costs will be posted to the conference website (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir ) in the coming weeks. We also invite proposals for pre-Conference workshops. These proposals should be submitted as soon as possible (no later than January 31, 2001) so that the workshops can be publicized. All proposals should be submitted electronically at http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/confman/ It is preferred that you use HTML to minimally format your submission. The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is Friday, March 2, 2001. If you have questions about the program, conference, or AoIR, please contact: Program Chair: Leslie Shade, University of Ottawa, shade@aix1.uottawa.ca Conference Coordinator: John Logie, University of Minnesota, logie@umn.edu A(O)IR President: Steve Jones, sjones@uic.edu More Information about IR 2.0 can be found on the Conference Website: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir For more information about the Association of Internet Researchers, including information on joining the Association, visit AoIR's website at http://aoir.org Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/cyber 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech (yes i need to update it) Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614 icq 5535471 From: Stuart Lee Subject: Vacancy: Development Team Project Manager, Humanities Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:32:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 926 (926) Computing Unit, Oxford Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services University of Oxford Job title: Development Team Project Manager Grade: RS2 Salary: 23,256 - 30,967 (sterling) (One year post in the first instance) Applications are invited for the post of Development Team Project Manager within a newly-established learning technologies group at Oxford's world-class Humanities Computing Unit (HCU). The Project Manager will build on the success of the Humanities Computing Development Team (HCDT) in producing innovative computer-based solutions for teaching and research in close collaboration with Oxford academics, museums, and libraries. Responsibilities will include project selection and planning, supervision of technical Project Officers, outreach and liaison activities, and financial management of the team. Applicants should be educated to degree level, possess a good understanding of academic needs and priorities, and must have significant demonstrable experience of C&IT and project management. We are looking for people with good organisational skills, good time management and great creativity. For more information about the HCDT and the HCU, please see http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Lindsey Mills, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 273261, email: lindsey.mills@oucs.ox.a.uk). Completed applications must be received by 4.00pm on 2 February 2001. Interviews will be held during week commencing 12 February 2001. *************************************************************************** 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: Stuart Lee Subject: Vacancy. Head of Oxford Digital Library / Services. (fwd) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:32:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 927 (927) Oxford University Library Services Head of Oxford Digital Library / Services Academic Related Senior Librarian Grade 5 Salary 32,510 - 36,740 p.a. (5 year appointment) The Oxford Digital Library and its associated services have recently been established as a key component in the implementation of a comprehensive e-strategy for Oxford University Library Services. Three major, strategic objectives are: the conversion of the Bodleian Photographic Studio into a self-funding, on-demand digitization service; a new line of library support for the teaching and research activities of the University; and a significant production stream of digitized material, based on Oxford holdings, for subsequent re-use in the Oxford Digital Library and in a variety of developmental contexts of local and general benefit. Applications are invited for the new post of Head of Oxford Digital Library / Services to take charge of the unit that will be responsible for the planning, development and management of the Oxford Digital Library. We are seeking an exceptional individual with considerable knowledge and experience of digital resource management and of research libraries and their collections. S/he should be keenly aware of the needs of researchers, teachers and students and the wide range of technical, managerial, legal and financial issues of creating, preserving and delivering scholarly digital material. S/he should be well informed of world-wide developments in the field of digital resource management with a strong grasp of the underlying standards and technologies, and should have the energy and vision to direct the formation of the Oxford Digital Library rapidly and effectively. S/he will need excellent interpersonal skills and should be capable of representing the University Library Services at the very highest level. The possession of a higher degree and/or professional library or information science qualification will be an advantage. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Personnel Section, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG. (Tel: +44 1865 277171; Fax: +44 1865 277193; Email: personnel@bodley.ox.ac.uk),. The closing date for completed applications is 1 March 2001 and interviews are expected to be on 14 March 2001. Please quote our reference BL1008. To discuss this post informally, please telephone David Price, +44 1865 272803. From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Self-Organized Alerting and Search Services Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:30:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 928 (928) [Taken from the Electronic Journal Publishing List with thanks. --WM] _Self-Organized Alerting and Search Services_ In a recent posting , I informed various e-lists of the availability of a sophisticated index to _Astrophysical Journal_ that was brought to my attention by Peter B. Boyce - Senior Consultant for Electronic Publishing, American Astronomical Society (AAS) [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0101/0200.html ] This index makes uses of an artificial intelligence, neural network technique known as Self-Organized Feature (or Semantic) Maps (SOMs) developed by Teuvo Kohonen [ http://www.cis.hut.fi/teuvo/ ] and colleagues at the Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Neural Networks Research Centre [ http://www.cis.hut.fi/research/ ] and elsewhere. [Prof. Kohonen is author of numerous papers on SOMs (and other subjects) as well as editions of _Self-Organizing Maps_ published by Springer [http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?ISBN=3540620176 ] In thinking about the potential benefit of navigating Information Space with the _Astrophysical Journal_, it occurred to me the application of SOM to a database of e-journal TOC and/or abstract Alerts would provide highly-valued added access that could greatly facilitate and improve access and use of the content of such alerts. SOM might also be quite useful in navigating the contents of hosted user Filing Cabinets for saved articles by readers [SEE EJI(sm), my latest registry devoted to innovative e-journal features, functionalities, and content] [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ] for examples of Virtual Filing Cabinets [One could also envision a SOM database to navigate the citations of an individual e-journal articles and their associated links adding visualization to the CrossRef project [ http://www.crossref.org/ ] and other reference linking projects] I'd appreciate any reactions to my proposals and would be in Seventh Heaven to learn that such applications indeed do already exist! [Other potential application in navigating e-journal features, functions, and content would also be of interest] As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, questions, critiques, Cosmic Insights, Super Bowl Predictions, etc., etc., etc.. are Most Welcome! Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Self-Organized AND Alert Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ICANN's (TENTATIVE) APPROVAL OF .MUSEUM DOMAIN Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:36:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 929 (929) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 30, 2001 ARTS WIRE STORY ON ICANN APPROVAL OF .MUSEUM DOMAIN <http://www.artswire.org/current.html>http://www.artswire.org/current.html [deleted quotation] FROM: _______________________________________________________ Arts Wire CURRENT January 30, 2001 Arts Wire CURRENT Volume 10, No. 5 Arts Wire CURRENT Arts Wire CURRENT Judy Malloy, Editor Arts Wire CURRENT jmalloy@artswire.org _______________________________________________________ [deleted quotation] * ICANN Tentatively Approves .museum Domain Suffix [deleted quotation] Community; [deleted quotation] Online Creativity Outside of Museum Settings [deleted quotation] _______________________________________________________ ..MUSEUM DOMAIN SUFFIX TENTATIVELY APPROVED Along with .aero, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, .pro, and .biz, the domain name suffix .museum has been selected for further negotiation by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. (ICANN) Following that approval, the ICANN Board will forward its recommendations to the U.S. Department of Commerce for implementation. In 1998, the U.S. Commerce Department approved the creation of a new corporation called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. One of the key tasks assigned to ICANN was to increase the number of available domain names by creating new top-level domains taking pressure off of current domains like ..com. The .museum domain suffix would "give museums the possibility of registering Internet addresses with a distinct museum identity and would allow the users of the Internet to recognize this as a sign of authenticity," according to the International Council of Museums.(ICOM) ICOM, headquartered in Paris and the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles are the two founding members of the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) which submitted an application to ICANN in October 2000 for the establishment of a ..museum top level domain. (TLD) "One of the most exciting aspects of having a dedicated top-level domain for the museum community, and very likely to have been a pivotal consideration in its approval, is its prototypal nature," states Cary Karp, Director of Internet Strategy and Technology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Karp with Ken Hamma, Assistant Director, J. Paul Getty Museum and Project Director www.getty.edu, spearheaded the .museum TLD. "Dot-museum will be the first of what is envisioned as a significant number of additional TLDs dedicated to as many distinct aspects of cultural activity as can successfully be argued by agencies wishing to operate such domains. Including a ..art among them would be as reasonable as possibly could be," he added. "I think it is in the potential for greater visibility of museums online, thus facilitating the communications and educational missions of museums worldwide, Hamma, who expects that the new TLD will greatly increase the precision and recall of searches for museums online, noted. "Visibility will be enhanced greatly by a common naming scheme in a single domain, rather than as is the case now, being scattered across several of the top-level domains. Because the museum domain is restricted, this visibility will translate also to recognizability and the general realm of authenticity." However, some artists and arts administrators are concerned that registration in .museum will be restricted to museums and museum organizations according to the definition established by the ICOM. "While the .museum domain was undoubtedly undertaken with best intentions, the notion of a legitimizing body deciding what qualifies as a museum and what does not seems to create more problems than the new domain will solve," Arnold Kramer commented in a discussion of the proposed .museum TLD on the MUSWEB listserv. "No matter how carefully these decisions are made, the idea that there is a sanctioning body deciding who is legitimate and who is not is anathema." Kramer is Director of Outreach Technology at the Holocaust Museum where he runs a group that is responsible for making museum intellectual and interpretive resources accessible via electronic systems, especially the web. However, he emphasized that he was speaking as an individual not as a representative of his institution. CRITERIA FOR REGISTRATION TO INCLUDE VIRTUAL ENTITIES The primary criterion for registration is being a museum by the ICOM definition, as well as the many professionals and professional membership associations that serve the museum community. However, membership in ICOM or any other professional or regional organization is not a criterion for registration. The ICOM Statutes define a museum as "a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment." According to Cary Karp, the ICOM Definition is subject to modification at the organization's triennial General Assemblies. "The next such occasion is in July of this year, at which time we also plan on launching the operation of .museum," he said. Initial concern about the eligibility of virtual entities is being addressed, Karp told Arts Wire, and he added that a resolution to expand the definition to include organizations dealing with intangible cultural property is on the agenda. "Assuming, as is all but a foredrawn conclusion, that the resolution is adopted, virtual museums will able to register in .museum. Should there be any delay in the adoption of the resolution, MuseDoma will invoke its mandated ability to extend the scope of the ICOM Definition for its own purposes and be recognizing virtual museums from the outset," he noted. THINK LOCALLY/ACT GLOBALLY MODEL ENVISIONED FOR MUSEUM COMMUNITY In addition to the visibility factors noted earlier, Ken Hamma also told Arts Wire that they expected that the .museum process would begin to increase the sense of community in the online environment for museums. "Response so far strongly suggests that this is the case, and that by creating a locus for that community we may be able to target a set of concerns about being online that neither money nor software are able to," he noted. "We are anxious to see how this will develop and are hopeful that it will contribute in this intangible way to help bridge the so-called digital divide that exists for thousands of museums and exponentially larger numbers of online visitors." He imagines a model in which this domain can think locally with museums and their associations around the world, and then act globally in ways that benefit the entire community. Ideas under consideration which would further these goals are to waive registration fees for museums with operating budgets under a certain amount; to provide basic, limited Web hosting; to provide simple Web site management tools; to provide reference services for museum needs; and to provide regional or global services such as self-serve calendar facilities. "....The .museum exercise is solving problems and gathering experience that will significantly ease the path towards the establishment of further cultural sector TLDs. MuseDoma looks forward to being able to place its experience at the disposal of other agencies within this sector," Cary Karp emphasized. CONCERN EXPRESSED ABOUT EFFECT ON ONLINE CREATIVITY OUTSIDE OF MUSEUM SETTINGS However, in an open letter to Cary Karp, curator/web artist Jon Ippolito -- a co-author with Joline Blais and Keith Frank of the "hyperfable" FAIR E-TALES currently featured on The Alternative Museum Web site -- wonders how the proposed .museum TLD might affect online creativity that takes place *outside* a museum setting, an issue which he believes should be critical to anyone who cares about museums or the future of online culture. Ippolito, who emphasizes that he is speaking for himself and not for the institution for which he works, addresses MuseDoma's argument that a major goal of the new domain suffix is to bridge the digital divide. "I am sure that this argument appealed to ICANN, which is charged with the difficult task of expanding the Web's name space without undermining its open architecture, (ICANN seems to take this mandate seriously enough to have rejected suffixes like .union and .health as 'insufficiently democratic.')" he states. "....So let's assume for the sake of argument that .museum will encourage more smaller museums to take the leap to cyberspace," Ippolito continues. "What of the countless offline alternative spaces and exhibition halls that do not maintain a permanent collection of objects? Once we museums have claimed the best of the virtual real estate, what chance do these numerous alternatives have of competing for hits from the lay public? In an attention economy like the Web, small advantages can make big differences. Jane Doe looks up the artist Bill Viola in a search engine and gets links for five .orgs and one .museum. Which link is she going to follow?" Ippolito also noted to Arts Wire that he worries that "as soon as we open the gates to alternative spaces and virtual museums, any line drawn in an attempt to distinguish curatorial endeavors is going to amount to an arbitrary exclusion of comparable paradigms. I pity the committee assigned the task of coming up with a 'clearly stated definition' that will tell me why, say, Rhizome's ArtBase is a museum but Olia Lialina's Last Real Net Art Museum is not, or why the Medialess Archive is a museum but Freenet is not." In the conclusion to his open letter, he asks fellow museum professionals "to keep in mind that our mandate as museums is not to compete with the cultural production going on outside our walls, but to reflect and preserve it. How unfortunate it would be for established museums to unwittingly erase the heritage they are meant to preserve by gerrymandering the name space!" CYBER-RIGHTS GROUPS QUESTION ICANN PROCESS In news which may effect all newly requested TLDS and petitions for new ones, last week a coalition of cyber-rights groups and scholars, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, (CPSR) issued a joint letter to the Department of Commerce calling for hearings and additional public commentary on recent Internet domain name decisions. The groups are questioning the closed process -- stating that it violates the Due Process clause of the Constitution and the Federal Administrative Procedures Act The Cyber-Rights groups emphasizes that "The process got off to a bad start when ICANN announced that it would require a $50,000 non-refundable fee from domain name applicants, thus skewing the pool towards those organizations able to afford a $50,000 lottery ticket. Deadlines for public comment were missed, and the period for public input was small." The letter also cites ICANN's rejection of a .union proposal as "based on unfounded speculation that the international labor organizations that proposed this new top level domain name were somehow undemocratic" and noted that the "procedures being used gave the proponents no opportunity to reply to this unfounded accusation." According to POLITECH, Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) are scheduling a Subcommittee on Telecommunications hearing in February to examine the ICANN decision process. Sources/resources: INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS (ICOM) -- <http://www.icom.org>http://www.icom.org J. PAUL GETTY TRUST -- <http://www.getty.edu>http://www.getty.edu MUSEUM DOMAIN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (MUSEDOMA) -- <http://www.musedoma.org>http://www.musedoma.org INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN) -- <http://www.icann.org>http://www.icann.org MUSWEB LISTSERV ARCHIVES -- <http://listserv.nrm.se/cgi-bin/wa?A0=musweb-l>http://listserv.nrm.se/cgi-bin/wa?A0=musweb-l Joline Blais, Keith Frank, Jon Ippolito FAIR E-TALES -- <http://www.three.org>http://www.three.org THE ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM -- <http://www.alternativemuseum.org/>http://www.alternativemuseum.org/ RHIZOME ARTBASE -- <http://www.rhizome.org/artbase>http://www.rhizome.org/artbase OLIA LIALINA -- <http://www.design.ru/olialia/>http://www.design.ru/olialia/ MEDIALESS ARCHIVE -- <http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/>http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ byform/mailing-lists/av/1999/07/msg00014.html CYBER-RIGHTS COALITION LETTER TO COMMERCE -- <http://www.aclu.org/congress/l011601a.html>http://www.aclu.org/congress/l011601a.html POLITECH -- <http://www.politechbot.com/>http://www.politechbot.com/ _______________________________________________________ [deleted quotation] Arts Wire CURRENT is available at <http://www.artswire.org/current.html>http://www.artswire.org/current.html and an archive of past issues can be found at <http://www.artswire.org/current/archive.html>http://www.artswire.org/current/archive.html For a free subscription to CURRENT, visit <http://www.artswire.org/current/current-email.html>http://www.artswire.org/current/current-email.html To be removed from this list, send an email message to majordomo@artswire.org. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: black box vs. glass box Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:33:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 930 (930) This is a question about how we as computing humanists deal with complex systems. In physics, as I recall, the term "black box" refers to a device or process whose internals cannot be known directly. You can measure the inputs and outputs but cannot see what is inside. As a student of 2nd-year physics at Berkeley, I was given a metal box with input and output terminals, and with the aid of a signal generator, voltage meter and oscilloscope was supposed to discover what was inside. (I don't remember whether I completed the assignment successfully, but I was certainly intrigued.) Nowadays programmers checking code have the choice between a black-box and a glass-box approach. In the former what you do is, as in the example from physics, use various inputs to generate outputs and by the latter tell whether the code is correct or not. In the glass-box approach the programmer checks the code itself, step by step. The latter becomes harder and harder to do as the code becomes more complex; under certain conditions it is simply impossible. Less prejudicially, perhaps, but more analytically the black-box approach may be defined as [deleted quotation] Now for my point, which is to say, question. Consider the following two fictitious scenarios: (1) In the investigation of a complex matter in a large text, a researcher applies various sophisticated statistical methods to the text. Let us say that these methods yield very interesting, highly significant results in the light of what scholars know about the text and from their experience of it. Nevertheless, the researcher in question does not understand how these methods work in any detail nor can he or she justify the use of the particular methods used, rather than others available for the task. All that he or she knows is that they work, i.e. yield interesting results. (2) Another researcher, investigating a piece of music, uses various complex transformation routines to alter the sequence and/or timing of the notes. Let us say that one of the transformations reveals something highly significant about the music that no one has ever noticed before. But this researcher also does not understand the transformation and cannot justify its use rather than another. In both cases, how should we regard the researchers' use of these black-box methods? Are they by principles of good scholarship obliged to determine how their black boxes work? Could we say that in our domain use of the black box is fine as a way of getting inspired but that we shouldn't call the practice humanities computing unless the research goes on to pry into the box? If we are obliged to understand, then at what level? As in the definition of primitives, can we say that past a certain point we do not have to know, but before it we do? Thus, I might argue, since sorting a list of words is a primitive, I don't need to be able to follow the code that does the sort. I can, however, imagine someone saying that I should be able to understand the logic of the process. Comments? Better questions? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conference Reminders: WWW10; Museums & the Web Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:36:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 931 (931) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 30, 2001 Tenth International World Wide Web Conference - WWW10 May 1-5: Hong Kong <http://www10.org.hk/index.html>http://www10.org.hk/index.html CULTURE TRACK PROPOSALS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31, 2001 <http://www10.org.hk/w10-call-culture.html>http://www10.org.hk/w10-call-culture.html * * * Museums and the Web 2001 March 14-17: Seattle <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/>http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/ Best of the Web 2001: nominations due Friday February 2 Registration Deadline: Friday February 2 [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Maastricht Summer Seminar: DCH III: Finding Aids and Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:38:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 932 (932) Analysis Tools in Archives and Memory Institutions - July NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 30, 2001 Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University/Maastricht McLuhan Institute Present: Digital Cultural Heritage III: Finding Aids and Analysis Tools in Archives and Memory Institutions July 11-14, 2001: Maastricht, Netherlands <http://www.amsu.edu/courses/media/media1.htm>http://www.amsu.edu/courses/media/media1.htm [deleted quotation] DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE III: FINDING AIDS AND ANALYSIS TOOLS IN ARCHIVES AND MEMORY INSTITUTIONS 11 - 14 July 2001 Maastricht INITIATORS Maastricht McLuhan Institute Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University INTRODUCTION All over the world, the titles and contents of the great libraries, museums, art galleries and archives are becoming available on-line. While interoperable, technological standards are emerging, problems of interoperable applications, tools, interfaces and usability remain. The Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI) was set up to study and develop methods for knowledge organisation and knowledge management in a digital, distributed, multimedia world. The aim of the MMI is to create comprehensive strategies for searching, structuring, using and presenting digital resources more coherently and efficiently; to integrate past knowledge and to produce ordered knowledge that leads to new understanding and insights. AIM This year's seminar is concerned with integrating developments in finding aids (virtual reference rooms) with innovations in text and other analysis tools which will allow the most varied and rich access to cultural and historical information and knowledge. Following on from the experience gained in the last two cycles which focused on implications of digitalisation (1999) and interoperability of content (2000), this seminar will continue to explore how multimedia is transforming learning, knowledge organisation and knowledge management. There will be a particular focus this year on archives. The cycle of attention given to all three kinds of memory institutions (museum, library, archive) is conceived to be a building and integrative process. The seminar provides an opportunity to gain exposure to the most recent developments in cultural heritage science and to interact with other professionals who share similar concerns. The conference will be limited to a maximum of fifty persons, with speakers and discussions in the morning and small workshops with a maximum of fifteen in the afternoons. Kim Veltman, Scientific Director of the MMI, will lay a general foundation in the opening session. This will be followed by treatment of finding aids and analysis tools, as they are used or projected for archives and other memory institutions. On the last day a synthesis of the different topics will be offered by experts who will take a broader perspective on cultural heritage preservation and access. The afternoon discussion groups will be divided among those interests relevant to the current work of those in attendance. PARTICIPANT PROFILE Archivists, librarians and museum directors or professionals in senior cultural heritage management; decision makers in cultural policy, strategic planning and development. [material deleted] From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: ADS Abstract Service: A Most Remarkable Eclectic Index Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:33:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 933 (933) _ADS Abstract Service: A Remarkable Eclectic Index_ In response to my recent posting for candidates for my new column in Library Hi Tech News tentively titled e-Profiles, Michael Kurtz, an astronomer and computer scientist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [ http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/vita.html ] reminded me about the ADS Abstract Service of the Astrophysics Data System [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html [See below for edited reponse which is re-posted with his permission] Upon reading the 'What's New' [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/whatsnew.html ] section (as well as Michael instructions below) I've concluded that this is perhaps the finest example of an Eclectic Index/Abstracting service that I know. I defined Eclectic in the context of e-journals in a recent posting: "By the "Eclectic Journal", I mean a Web-based resource that at its core provides access to e-journals that offer not only access to the conventional content of a digital form of a journal but also provides or permits interaction with novel and innovative _features and functionalities_ (e.g., reference linking, cross-publisher searching, page customization, open peer review, etc.) _AND_ novel and innovative _content_ (e.g., e-Books, pre-publication history, electronic discussions, translation services, e-prints, bibliographic databases, etc.)" [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0101/0131.html ] Here's are some the features, functionalities, and content I find noted for in the ADS Abstract Service from its 'What's Next' page: * Citation indexing * Collaborative Filtering * Font, Format, and Display Control * Database Linking * Sorting * Data Extraction * Access to Dissertations and Theses * Personalization * FAX Delivery * Access to Conference proceedings [For examples of some of these features in e-journals, see my EJI(sm) registry [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm ] I invite MyWebColeagues to explore this Most Remarkable Eclectic Index at their earliest convenience, if only to test its Collaborative Filtering functions and Citation Indexing feature described below. Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Remarkable Eclectic Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu **************************** I saw a note on the **** listserv from you requesting web resources for your column. Essentially every astronomer uses the NASA ADS Abstract Service http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html The average use by the average astronomer is more often than once per day. For a set of articles describing the system go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/pubs/A+AS/ For your column I suggest you look at our use of second order information retrieval functions. I believe they are unique in their IR retrieval power among literature search facilities. I will give you an example of how to use these functions. First go to our main query page: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html. Next type "redshift survey" (use the quotes) into the Enter Text Words/Keywords window, then click the Send Query button. You now should have a list of the most recent 100 papers which contain the phrase "redshift survey" in the abstract, title, or keywords, ordered by publication date. Next page to the bottom of this list and click on the button which says: Get also-read lists for all articles in the above list. You now have a list of the 500 articles most read (in the last three months) by people who read articles from the first list, of recent articles on redshift surveys. The list is ordered by how frequently these articles were read, thus the list is, in order, those papers currently most read by people interested in recent work on redshift surveys. Now page to the bottom of this list and click on the button: Get reference lists for all articles in the above list. You now have a list of papers referenced by the 500 papers most read by people interested in redshift surveys, ranked by the number of times they were cited. A large number of these papers are not about redshift surveys, but they are the most generally useful for people interested in redshift surveys. A more specific list to usefulness to redshift surveys, as opposed to usefulness to people who are interested in redshift surveys, could have been gotten by clicking the return references button after getting the results from the first "redshift survey" query. Now (finally) go again to the bottom this list and click on the button which says: Get citation lists for all articles in the above list. You now have a list of those articles which cite the largest number of the articles in the previous list, sorted by the number of articles from that list which they reference. This is a list of articles with the most extensive discussions of topics of interest to people interested in redshift surveys. The high number of references found, both as a fraction of the papers in an article (49% of the papers referenced in Cole, et al were in the previous list, 57% from Cohen, et al), and in absolute terms (105 papers from the list were referenced in Ellis' review article, out of 237 in his reference list) demonstrates clearly that these second order query methods work very well. So finally, in response to a simple text query for "redshift survey" we have four lists of papers: 1. The most recent papers on redshift surveys (What's New?) 2. The most currently popular papers among people interested in redshift surveys (What's Hot?) 3. The most currently referenced papers by people interested in redshift surveys (What's Useful?) 4. The papers with the most citations to papers useful to people interested in redshift surveys (What's Instructional?) [snip] Cheers Michael Kurtz kurtz@cfa.harvard.edu 617-495-7434 From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- January 2001 Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:35:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 934 (934) CIT INFOBITS January 2001 No. 31 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. ....................................................................... Designing Accessible Distance Education Materials Community-Controlled Science Journals Project Copyright Concerns in the Age of Distance Education Report on Using the Internet for Learning Challenges Facing Postsecondary Education Infobits Subscribers -- Where Are We in 2001? ....................................................................... [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CULTIVATE INTERACTIVE - Issue 3 now available: Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:37:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 935 (935) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 30, 2001 Cultivate Interactive - Issue 3 now available <<http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/> The third issue of the online magazine "Cultivate Interactive," funded under the European Commission's Digital Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) program is now available. An article on NINCH is included in this issue. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Welcome to Issue 3 of Cultivate Interactive Issue 3 of Cultivate Interactive is now available: <<http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/> The highlights include: Feature Articles ---------------------- SCHEMAS <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/schemas/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/schemas/ Makx Dekkers on Application profiles, or how to mix and match metadata schemas. European Visual Archive Project (EVA) <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/eva/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/eva/ An article on the EVA project which details how they used Dublin Core for their description elements and XML for data exchange. Making English Heritage Thesauri available On-line <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/nmr/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/nmr/ Daphne Charles reports on new methods of generating and disseminating the National Monuments Record thesauri produced by English Heritage. NINCH <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/ninch/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/ninch/ David Green with an overview of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) where intellectual needs shape technical solutions. What's Happened To My Slides? <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/presentations/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/presentations/ Brian Kelly discusses the pitfalls that can be encountered when giving presentations at conferences and offers some practical advice on how to avoid them. The Virtual Revolution <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/fabricators/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/fabricators/ Franz Fischnaller compares Virtual Reality's origins with those of the Cinematography Industry and contemplates whether it too will become an established technology. Regular Articles ---------------------- National Node Column <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/nodes/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/nodes/ Guy Ben-Ari of ISrael Europe Research and Development (ISERD), and National Node for Israel, reflects on Israel's recent entry into the IST programme. A Chain of EVA Conferences <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/vasari/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/vasari/ James Hemsley, Managing Director of VASARI UK, reports on the EVA conferences held in 2000. IST 2000 NICE <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/nice/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/nice/ Walter Koch, Karin Hafner, Torill Redse and Jorunn Hesjedal report on the Information Society Technologies conference held in Nice in November 2000. Discussion about Inclusion, elearning, globalisation and flexibility. Metadata:The MADAME Project <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/madame/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/madame/ Dr. Massimo Craglia provides an overview of the INFO2000 project on Methods for Access to Data and Metadata in Europe (MADAME). He sets the project in its policy context, describes its objectives, introduces the partners, and summarises its achievements. Other Areas ------------------ Competition Cultivate Interactive's Spot the European City Competition. <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/competition/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/competition/ Book Review <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/review/>http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/review/ A review of EUROJARGON by Anne Ramsay. 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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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Chris McMahon" Subject: Re: 14.0638 black-box vs glass-box methods? Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:38:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 936 (936) Dear WM, I think, if we are to wax philosophical, that the back box cannot be avoided. There is always an element of black box at work, because the world is not transparent. Black box is associated, for e.g. with BF Skinner, under stimulus x we get behavior y, but don't know exactly what's going on inside the rat that makes it exhibit behhavior y under stimulus x. Though neurology is peeling back the brain, same could be said re: any human behavior insofar as the "mind" is concerned. In any case, Kant's claim that all knowledge is founded on the unknown or the the Beingquestion of Heidegger represent encounters with the black box of existence itself. :) Chris _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: 14.0638 black-box vs glass-box methods? Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:38:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 937 (937) Willard, You raise an interesting and complex question here--one that I am of several different minds about. First, I have never been fond of the black box idea, perhaps because of Chomsky's rather perverse use of it. So far as I know, there is never a unique solution to such a problem, in any case (one possible answer is always that there is a genie in the box). Second, I wonder if the analogy accurately fits the scenario you describe. Sophisticated statistical methods are not very much like a black box. SOMEONE knows how they work, even if this particular researcher doesn't. One could use the computer itself in the same analogy: how many humanities computing people could explain in detail the internal workings of the computer? (And why should anyone expect them to?) It seems to me that a better analogy for the statistical techniques here would be the oscilloscope, a tool that a physicist uses (a physicist who might very well not be able to explain exactly how the tool works), not a black box to be investigated. If anything is analogous to the black box, perhaps it is the text itself. Third, this leads me to your later question: whether we should call the production of highly significant results using a technique/tool that the researcher doesn't fully understand "humanities computing." I can see that from a discipline-building point of view this is an important question, but to require the detailed understanding of the tool in order to earn the label of "humanities computing" seems to push the disciplinary question in an extreme direction. After all, the statistical technique is not the object of study here--the text is. The use of the computer is not an end, but a means. To require that the researcher become a theorist of humanities computing in order to be considered to be doing humanities computing seems to me (to analogize further) rather like requiring that all scientists be historians of science. "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] yield [deleted quotation] available [deleted quotation] -- David L. Hoover, Associate Chair & Webmaster, NYU Eng. Dept. 212-998-8832 david.hoover@nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Adolph slid back into the thicket and lay down behind a fallen log to see what would happen. Not much ever happened to him but weather." Willa Cather From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0624 e-bouncer vs e-dictator Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:39:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 938 (938) Osher, Are you acquainted with Donna Haraway's Simians, cyborgs, and women: the reinvention of nature ? Or more specifically, given the cultural allusion you made recently, Eric Greene's Planet of the apes as American myth : race and politics in the films and television series ? Or Gorillas in the Mist ? I think Dan Price's anecdote helps elucidate the simple anthropological fact that audiences as much as participants are bound by rules of etiquette. I would venture to speculate that as more users have mastered the poise of the delete key and the ingenuity of the filter the general complaints about flame wars have declined (and will do so for any given group in the future -- unless the flaming spills over into spamming). Boasting contests, counting the dozens and flame wars are very much cybernetic systems that feed the fascination of participants and observers. Gregory Bateson collects many fine examples in Steps to an Ecology of Mind. The banishment techniques as a means of controlling behaviour can be resource intensive as Wizards on MOOs and MUDs can attest. To tell a persona that they will be liquidated can sometimes act as a goad -- it being a badge of honour to be booted out of the place and a source of pleasure to revisit incognito. The classic study on community policing in cyberspace remains for me Julian Dibbell's Village Voice article widely available online. http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/rape.html "A Rape in Cyberspace or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society" I understand from a look at the Humanist archive that Dibbell has published a book length study http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v12/0481.html MY TINY LIFE: CRIME AND PASSION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD and that the ever diligent David L. Gants sent on the announcement of a review of the book from David Silver at The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs [How have I done in resisting the urge to engage in a massive offlist tirade against speciesism and throwing a banana peel your way?] Remember Sara, the language-learning chimpanzee? http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/SGMonKanzi.html Has any examined this literature and its intersection with natural language processing? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: cross-dressing or the container contained Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:21:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 939 (939) Willard, "The temptation/ To take the precious things we have apart/ To see how they work" sings Billy Bragg on _Workers Playtime_ on the track entitled "Must I Paint You a Picture" (P) 1988 Go! Discs (C) 1988 Billy Bragg [A musicologist or a librarian may be able to explain the (P) -- I'm new at the practice of citing music lyrics.] Yes indeed the text is a black box. A two black box problem. Like a string of pearls when neither object of study nor methodology is transparent. The metaphorics of transparency are sometimes refractory. Consider text as glass box -- a dazzling strand of glittering gems. How is it built? The quality of light as it passes through... the prismatic moment of wonder. There is the transmission of a Christian text which has always puzzled me and I've not done the philological work to explicate "through a glass darkly". I have however pondered the importance of scale: obsidian thick cut to act as a mirror; thinner, a tool to view the eclipse and spare the eye. And what of the cyberpunk mirror shades? Without due recourse to the source of the lighting, the metaphorics of transparency privilege knowledge in the synoptic mode. If neither glass box nor not-glass box receives no illumination, the difference is moot. History is built of a mix of senses and a braid of time. Billy Bragg opens his song with this complexity simply stated "It's bad timing and me/ We find out a lot of things out this way/ And there's you/ A little black cloud in a dress" -- not a black box, not a dark continent, but... The other questions follow: who congregates around the black boxes and who surrounds the glass boxes and who runs the course between them? when? David L. Hoover who gave us pause to reflect upon the black box nature of text may perhaps provide a further gloss over a glass of a dark brew given that the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge is associcated with the English department at NYU and the Association for Computers and the Humanities & Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing is holding its Conference at NYU, June 13-17, 2001. I'm sure many glasses will be half full and half empty and emptied and refilled before the question of the nature of containers and contained is settled. I just hope we here who will not be there then got to hear by here reading reports. cheers! -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Re: 14.0638 black-box vs glass-box methods? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:22:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 940 (940) Until fairly recently, I was fairly skeptical about a lot of the statistical methods being used in Natural Language Processing because they do seem to be 'black box' methods. But in the last couple of years, I have changed my mind, after investigating the results and learning more about the methods. It is an interesting phenomenon in that the researchers themselves often understand the statistical methods well, but not why they show the results that they do. In other words, they know the mathematics of the procedure, but can't explain why these features revealed by the statistics are being revealed. For example, several of the methods employ the 'bag of words' method of taking all the words in a text and treating them as if they had been thrown into a bag. In that method, word order and cooccurrence are no longer considered. But with even a cursory knowledge of linguistics, we KNOW that word order and cooccurrence influence the meaning of language, so how is it that ignoring those features doesn't change the results of the analysis? I also want to respond to part of David Hoover's message, "To require that the researcher become a theorist of humanities computing in order to be considered to be doing humanities computing seems to me (to analogize further) rather like requiring that all scientists be historians of science." I would disagree with his analogy in that theory and history are two very different types of knowledge. Theory implies we know how something works while history imples that we know how we got to the point of using that method. The two might be related but are definitely not the same thing. I do agree with David Hoover though that one doesn't necessarily need to know the theory of humanities computing to be able to do it. While one would be able to do more innovative research if the theory were understood, there are plenty of mechanical methods one can follow to produce results. Mary Dee Harris UT Austin From: Willard McCarty Subject: black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:22:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 941 (941) I'm grateful to Chris McMahon for establishing what seems the philosophical end-point of the question I raised, and to David Hoover for laying out much of my own several-mindedness about it. I certainly agree with him that setting up stringent requirements for humanities computing is conterproductive. At that end of the question I'm interested in description rather than prescription, with the qualification that we should be able now to identify directions and tendencies that are more and others that are less productive. At the opposite end from Chris M's Black Box of Being is what seems to me at first blush to be an anti-intellectual attitude and practice, though as I've observed it, the anti-intellectualism falls only in our common bailiwick. Again, let me use a fictitious example, this time a contrast between two musicologists. Musicologist A applies some piece of software to a sequence of notes. Let's say the transformation thus effected stimulates him or her to think great thoughts about this music. Our musicologist pays no attention whatever to the transforming process itself, only to the result, in fact when asked treats the enquiry as an impertinence, as totally irrelevant -- that, A says, is a purely technical matter outside his or her domain. Not interested. A black box. Musicologist B uses the same software on the same music, also is greatly inspired to think new and great thoughts about the music. In contrast with A, however, B goes to X, a colleague in computer science. Together they sit down with the transformation algorithm to see how it does what it does. B and X then work together (or X teaches B enough about the algorithm that B can then work on the transformation process him- or herself); the result is -- let us be generous -- another transformation and a set of insights into the music that come from understanding the former process applied. A glass box. It seems to me descriptively that A, who is using the computer as "just a tool", is not doing humanities computing (or "digital scholarship" or whatever else we choose to call it), however good the resulting musicology may be. In contrast B is, and it seems so is X. Certainly it's fair that someone specialising in a discipline keep his or her nose to the disciplinary grindstone. But since A is using the music-transformation software no more profoundly than he or she uses a wordprocessor or e-mail program when he or she writes out great scholarly thoughts, I cannot see anything of interest for us here intellectually. What we do about the situation socio-politically, institutionally, is another matter. If we're to clarify our practice, however, it seems to me unavoidable, indeed desirable, that we be able to discriminate between what does and does not belong under the rubric of the interdiscipline. Or if it is better to be all-inclusive, that we be able to tell where the food is and where it isn't. What I think we need to avoid is the attitude that it simply does not matter, that anything goes. Comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Dr Andrew Wilson Subject: Corpus Linguistics 2001 Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:21:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 942 (942) CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 30 March-2 April CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The programme and registration details for Corpus Linguistics 2001 are now available at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2000.html As well as sessions on a range of corpus-related themes (including historical corpora, computational linguistics, L2 corpus studies, genre analysis, discourse analysis and text-linguistics, the lexicon, grammar, and markup and annotation), the conference incorporates an afternoon of lectures in honour of Geoffrey Leech. We are looking forward to what promises to be a great conference. Tony McEnery Paul Rayson Andrew Wilson (Local Committee, Corpus Linguistics 2001) -------------------------------------------------------------- CORPUS LINGUISTICS, ANCIENT LANGUAGES, AND OLDER LANGUAGE PERIODS 29 March 2001 In connexion with Corpus Linguistics 2001, there will be a pre-session on 29 March with the theme: Corpus Linguistics, Ancient Languages, and Older Language Periods. The aim of this session is for researchers working on various ancient languages or historical language periods both to introduce their data sets and to share their methodologies and problems. In line with the overall aims of the conference, it is hoped that this exchange will lead to new perspectives on, and solutions to, shared problems, and perhaps to new cross-linguistic or methodological collaborations. The programme of papers will conclude with an open discussion session on "The way forward for corpus-based historical linguistics: links between technology and corpus analysis", to which all participants are invited to contribute. The provisional programme is available at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2001/clalolp.html Participants should register by completing the special workshops section of the CL2001 registration form: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2001/register.html I look forward to what should be a very interesting event. Andrew Wilson From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Plagiarism software Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:20:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 943 (943) I've just received some materials from a company called "turnitin" (www.turnitin.com). It is a service in Oakland, CA, that has commercialized software developed by a Berkeley graduate student in physics. It works like this. After an account has been established for a class, an "electronic drop box" is established. Students submit electronic versions of their papers to the drop box, and turnitin.com's computers analyze each paper received. Instructors then use their own passwords to access each student's "Originality report." There's a good deal of information about the corpus against which papers are checked as well. There's a related non-profit organization as well at Plagiarism.org Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Alan Sondheim Subject: Re: 14.0641 e-bouncer vs e-dictator Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:17:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 944 (944) Rather than Dibbell's article, his book My Tiny Life indicates the com- plexities of online behavior and politics. But I think the reason that flames and so forth have lowered in intensity is based largely on demo- graphics and applications. The demographics of the Net have changed radically in the last few years; it's no longer dominated by young males on college computers. And chat applications for example are more protected than open IRC; it's harder to span/easer to ban on them. Flaming still goes on wildly on IRC and some lists such as 7-11 which is organized around net.artists. I moderate a number of lists and it's not really a question of filtering (although Pine at least in the past two builds has had that) or delete; it's the changing quality of life on the screen. Alan Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com From: Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. osher@ix.netcom.com, Fri. Feb. 2, 2001, 5:34PM Subject: Civilization as a Two Edged Sword Conjecture - Doctorow Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:19:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 945 (945) I am more in favor of the British and Dutch monarchies than of British and Dutch civilization in general, and yet I consider the Cambridge, Oxford, and London are the world's three best universities for mathematics and physics and that British civilization is often far better than U.S.A. civilization. What may explain this is a Two-Edged Sword Conjecture on Civilization, which in its current form says that what is noble and ethical and creative and inventive about civilization could not occur as easily outside civilization (with some exceptions), but that it occurs more as a rebellion against civilization from within civilization than as a triumph of civilization or a triumph of barbarism against civilization. As evidence, I cite Beethoven above all, but also Mozart, Chopin, Nobel laureates Paul Dirac and Steven Weinberg, Socrates, Shakespeare, etc. I also cite the enormous plagues and syphilis devastations of the middle Ages and Renaissance Europe, the role of the Catholic Church in facilitating the Renaissance against the brutality of political/social leaders and the stupidity of the "civilized" public, the British and French ages of chivalry, etc. As for the USA and Germanic civilizations, people like Weinberg and Dirac found greater receptivity in remoter universities than in Harvard/MIT and the other "Great Names" (this is not to minimize the contributions of Eastern USA universities, which are incomparable greater than Far Western USA universities usually), while Germanic civilization except for Kepler (who was as often outside Germany as inside) came to its mathematical/physics maturity far later than Italy, France, Great Britain, Netherlands/Holland, etc. Their musical maturity, which was earlier in classical and baroque music, was in my opinion and based on a fair amount of evidence more of a rebellion against Germanic civilization than a triumph of that civilization. Even in Einstein's theory, his Chairman Minkowski (Polish) played as important a role as Einstein in facilitating and creating the theory, not to mention his borrowing from the British (Fitzgerald), the Italians (Levi-Civita and Ricci), the Dutch, etc., who did the mathematical pioneering almost to the last step. Except for Erwin Schroedinger, Germanic civilization was and has been too narrow-focused and detail oriented and precision-oriented rather than global-oriented and big-picture oriented. It is something like not seeing the forest for the trees. It is great for making big cars and ovens and V2 rockets, but as Hitler's Chief Scientist Werner Heisenberg (who did NOT discover quantum theory - Schroedinger and Einstein and Max Planck did) found out, in the long run big pictures and global orientation especially in logic and reality often win. This does not mean that the older the civilization, the worse it is. If all else were constant, then the older the university, the better it is - and this is why British universities are so far superior to eastern USA universities and the latter are so far superior to far western USA universities many of which were founded in the 20th century. But civilization takes ape-like creatures from the Planet of the Apes and transfers them to a Shakespear-like stage where they are constrained from jumping on each other by more rules and roles and education and training, but where most of them still resemble apes in their behavior. A few Creative Geniuses rebel against this, but they are far more common than one in a million - I think that every person has the potential to touch the receiving end of the sword and survive, to be burned in fire and be nailed to the cross or star or crescent and rise again. I hope that humanist and scientist computing will provide us with the opportunity to feel more than to be felt, to see more than be seen, to search more than to be sought, and to beat our swords into plowshares. Osher Doctorow From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CPHS Review--#2001-1-25 (fwd) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:11:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 946 (946) January 25, 2001 CPHS Review--#2001-1-25 Re: "Animal Tales in Medieval Hispanic Literature and Oral Tradition" - Graduate Research The project referred to above was reviewed and granted CONDITIONAL approval by the Committee for Protection of Human Subjects on Wednesday, January 17, 2001. Please note that when you respond to the conditions, we do not accept final revisions by electronic mail, so please forward two (2) sets of any revised materials and highlight the changes as requested on one copy. PLEASE NOTE: ANY MATERIALS YOU REVISE AND RETURN MUST BE DISTINCTLY MARKED (HIGHLIGHTED) AS REQUESTED. 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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: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 14.0638 black-box vs glass-box methods? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:37:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 948 (948) Thanks, Willard, for that inspiring questions about black-box vs. glass-box methods. In yesterday's New York Times (Mon., 2/5/01), there was an article entitled, "Stalking New Hot Trends Along the Lycos Trail," by Pamela Licalzi O'Connell (p. C10). It convincingly described how profitable what I'd call partially a "black-box" system is for earning Lycos a heck of a lot of money organizing and selling consumer-originated research trends using Lycos's search engine, beating out most or all of the competition like Yahoo and Alta Vista with their apparently computer-dedicated analysis packages. But no computer with what I'll call an IQ of zero massages this data: luckily for Lycos there's a man who "remembers everything," Aaron Schatz, with his "wide interests" and "encyclopedic knowledge." It's interesting to note that he holds a degree in Economics from one of our American hotbeds of humanities-computing fermentation, Brown University. Even the commercial venues are heating up for those with a good humanities and social science education and where knowledge and imagination in combination with black-box heuristics can go a long way. I'd say this mimics what several authors including the present writer advocated in Potter's _Literary Computing and Literary Criticism_ back in '89, and what literary critics including Riffaterre in his first book were pointing out about the importance of "le va-et-vient" in literary analysis and literary criticism, that vital to-and-fro movement between observed statistical results based on preconceived themes or tests and what one sees close up in the text and, we should add, other literary criticism. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0642 black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:38:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 949 (949) Willard, This must be the month of metaphors.... Someone I know wrote back in the last century: In _ L'invention intellectuelle _ Judith Schlanger suggests that noise, the sheer mass of popularisation which the French call "vulgarisation" contributes to significant breakthroughs. Each rearticulation of current knowledge is a displacing repetition and affects however slightly the paths open and opening to thinkers. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/S0.HTM Where there is food there is a need for roughage. The only difference between your example A and your example B is the social dimension of reflection upon tool usage. What if the person in example A was also a pedagoge who taught several students the use of the tool. Out of the interactions between and beyond those students, I let your mind trace a network. It is possible that the person in example B collaborating with a colleague does no teaching. This is getting close to the question of craft which you have raised before. I do think the the question of what counts as a contribution to the discipline and what counts as a contribution furthering the aims of an institution and what counts as the greater good need to be disentangled. One way to begin, I would respectfully submit, is to try not to set up cases for adjudication that depend upon deciding between only two alternatives, let alone two unconnected alternatives. The person in example A may be in contact with the person in example B. Even without direct interaction there is still the phenomenon of six degrees of separation. So my question, being for the moment located outside of an academic institution and relatively free of the pressures that shape my colleagues working lives, is why not begin with asking what is good for the person doing the research or the teaching or applying the tools? How quickly the imagination focused on the individual can shift its attention to the general context may be a matter of habit. I myself can be found fasting or indulging in the most calorific of confections (marrons glaces) and in either situation relishing the cleansing power of a glass of limpid water. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: black box vs glass box - Doctorow Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:39:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 950 (950) Willard, Francois, and Mary in their recent posts have raised and answered some fascinating questions. I only have time to briefly comment on a few aspects. I like Mary's great ability to discriminate the art/science of computing from the history of computing and I like Willard's idea of the humanist and the computer expert getting together to discuss why the results were obtained. To discriminate and to integrate ("generalize" in a positive sense), to find what is different and what is similar in things (using thing as as substitute for "any subject/object") - if we could master these abilities, what great things we could discover! My own view at present is that we should carry these both through as far as we can. If that sounds contradictory, then I must tell you that my present view is that we need to adopt multiple alternative theories (even somewhat contradictory ones in certain respects) instead of one theory and the more the better, and follow them wherever they may lead even if evidence at some time seems piled up against one of them, for the competition and the motivation but also the discrimination and integration which this allows. By all means change one's pet or favorite theory if you have contributed substantially to it, or move on to different favorite theories, but do not entirely desert the old ones except as a last resort (the usual qualifications as to relative non-violence and so on pertain). Imitate rugby where the opposition survives to compete another day, not war or the law of the jungle where the opposition dies when it loses a battle. More to the point with black and glass boxes, sit down as often as you can with the other (computer, humanist, scientist, historian, philosopher, etc.) specialist(s) and communicate. The Name of the Game should be Interdisciplinary Nonviolent Competition/Cooperation (INC for short by analogy with "incorporated") using integration and discrimination to the (relative) maximum. Glass Box is shorter, but Glass Box Inc (or Ltd for the legal experts) seems to convey the idea quite well. I would like to see departments change their name to ______ (blank) Glass Box Inc, or Glass Box Inc Music Department (Beethoven would have liked that, I think). Osher Doctorow Doctorow Consultants, Ventura College, West Los Angeles, etc. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFA: CLC Web Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:33:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 951 (951) [deleted quotation] Colleagues, As a recently named member of the advisory board / associate editors, I would like to encourage you to consider submitting an article or book review article to CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal < http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> [deleted quotation] Press < http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/ <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/> >. Please pass this message on to other colleagues, including advanced graduate students. In its third year of publication, CLCWeb is an excellent choice for contributors for a number of reasons: 1) CLCWeb is the only online journal dedicated to the comparative study of culture and literature. CLCWeb publishes scholarship in the widest definition of the discipline of comparative literature and culture and it combines traditional comparative literature with comparative cultural studies. We publish in literary, critical, and culture theory and methods / comparative literary history / the comparison of primary texts across languages and cultures / translation as comparative literature / marginalities in comparison / diaspora and ethnic minority writing / migrant writing / feminist theory and criticism / gay/lesbian writing / comparative popular culture / film and other media and literature / lesser-known literatures in a comparative context / cross-disciplinary studies where literary texts and literary problems are examined with the use of sociological, economic, psychological, historical, etc., frameworks and methods / literature and the history of publishing, the book, and writing / readership and audience research / studies on new trends in the study of literature and culture / and the introduction of new works and authors in a comparative context. 2) Taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by new media scholarship and technology, CLCWeb has a truly international editorial / advisory board and all members are actively involved in the journal. The journals editor, Steven Ttsy, currently teaches at Northeastern University and was formerly associate director of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta. His numerous books and articles, his work with journals and editing, and his extensive conference organization have positioned him at the forefront of comparative studies. 3) CLCWeb is a blind peer-refereed scholarly journal published online. Submissions for publication are assessed by the editor and two associate editors or by the editor, one associate editor and an outside expert selected by the editor or recommended by an associate editor. 4) Published four times a year, the journal has excellent response time and is often able to respond to contributors within a couple of months. Contributors receive detailed reviews. 5) Work published with CLCWeb is made freely available to scholars all over the world. In November of last year, for instance, the journal received an average of 985 hits daily. Publishing with CLCWeb means that your article will be easily available to scholars in your field and related fields. 6) Articles and bibliographies published in CLCWeb are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, CLCWeb is archived and mirrored by the National Library of Canada, and a recent agreement has been made with BCLA: British Comparative Literature Association for the BCLA to mirror the journal on the site of the association. We realize that many scholars in the humanities continue to be wary of online publishing and new media scholarship but we are confident that the field is changing and that the superior quality of the journals publications will serve to establish the journal as a leader in the field. Recent highlights to the journal are: issue 2.4, a thematic issue on histories and concepts of comparative literature; the publication of a paper in English translation by Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago; and a paper by the acclaimed translator, Mabel Lee, who is a member of the journal's advisory board, on the work of this year's Laureate, Gao Xingjian. Please visit the journals home page: < http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> >. See especially: Aims and objectives: < http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/aims.html <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/aims.html> > and Procedures of submission: < http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced2.html> >. Dont hesitate to contact me, the journals editor, or another member of the advisory board with any questions or for further information. Thanks, Sophia Dr. Sophia A. McClennen <http://lilt.ilstu.edu/smexpos/> Asst. Professor Foreign Languages and Literatures Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty STV218 Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790 309-438-7984 mailto:smexpos@ilstu.edu Tengo nostalgia de un pas que no existe. --Eduardo Galeano From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0646 ethical research procedures? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:29:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 952 (952) There are two issues here, both of which social science researchers and oral history specialists have been encountering and assimilating as part of normal research concerns for some time now. The first is the "human subjects" protocol, with which most schools (and most granting agencies) require compliance from any discipline making use of human beings as the objects of research (not only medical procedures but interviews as well): the object originally (in the wake of medical scandals of the 1970s) was to protect research subjects from being lied to about their situation and from the release of compromising information given in the expectation of privacy. The second, which can also be construed in the context of human subjects protocols (as apparently here) but is more and more frequently being dealt with through contractual agreements, is the requirement that most schools' grant offices now have that projects deal according to university policies with intellectual property issues: the object is to deal legally with the intellectual property that research subjects may have in the information gathered from them (and that includes DNA as well as poems). These two legal concerns conflict in interesting ways, but both are designed to protect people being studied in some way from all too frequent abuses based upon knowledge differentials between the academics doing the studies and the people being studied, and to protect the university from the latter finding out and suing. You may think it sounds strange to ask the researcher to rephrase the proposal, but the purpose is that it should be understandable to those who will be studied, because they have to sign the agreement. It is an interesting exercise, even if you don't have to do it: would the people you are studying cooperate if they really knew what you would be doing, and they had the right not to? And how would they feel about providing you with the intellectual capital you need to publish, make tenure, etc., without ever seeing what you wrote about them or participating in any real capital that research result might yield, if they found out? Pat Galloway Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Texas-Austin From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 14.0646 ethical research procedures? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:30:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 953 (953) Charles and fellow/sister Humanists: I don't know about similar projects per se - but the strictures on guarding the confidentiality of the interviewees look to be right in line with the guidelines I am struggling to become familiar with as part of an ethics working committee organized by the Association of Internet Researchers, prompted in part by researchers' unhappy reactions to new guidelines proposed last year: see "Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet," by Mark S. Frankel and Sanyin Siang, Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program, Directorate of Science and Policy Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science, available online: www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.htm Hope that helps. Charles Ess 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/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI 2001 Call for Workshop Abstracts Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:34:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 954 (954) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing ESSLLI Workshop, August 20-24 2001, Helsinki Description: Finite state methods are used in various areas of linguistic computation, including tokenization, lexicography, spell checking, part of speech tagging, speech recognition, grapheme to phoneme conversion, computational phonology and morphology, as well as computational syntax. In recent years the use of finite state methods has increased both in practical applications (such as in morphological analyzers for a variety of languages), as well as in more theoretical approaches (such as in recent attempts to formalize optimality-theoretic analyses in phonology by finite-state means). The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and Ph.D. students working with finite-state methods within natural language processing and computational linguistics. The workshop belongs to the program of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) which is organized at the University of Helsinki from August 13 until August 24, 2001 (see the home page http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli for more information). [material deleted] The workshop is co-financed by the NWO PIONIER project Algorithms for Linguistic Processing. Further info at http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CFP: ICoS-3 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:34:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 955 (955) [deleted quotation] * SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 Siena, Italy, June 18-20, 2001 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ (Submission deadline: March 15, 2001) 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 Logic together, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. [material deleted] For actual information concerning ICoS-3 please consult http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New E-Publications Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:31:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 956 (956) The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia announces the electronic publication of two scholarly works, Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868, and Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 1782-1826. These fully searchable resources created by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin provide unprecedented access to the contents of two of the most important and wide-ranging English periodicals of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carefully designed and meticulously documented, these databases also serve as paradigms for future electronic research in bibliography. The Bibliographical Society of UVa is delighted to be the first in the family of international bibliographical societies to publish original research in an electronic environment. The publications are available without charge to users world-wide through the Society's website, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/. We invite you to consult these works at the Society's website and to review them in your publication. * * * * * Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1731-1868, by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, is a fully searchable database that provides attributions for nearly 20,000 anonymous contributions in the periodical. [deleted quotation] Nichols relinquished ownership, the Gentleman's Magazine was one of the most influential periodicals in England. Because many of the contributions in this reservoir of contemporary news and culture were anonymous or signed in a way that obscured authorship, numerous attempts have been made to provide reliable attributions. The current publication brings together the existing identifications and adds a major new trove. The new publication comprises three separate projects. The largest component is a recasting of materials in James M. Kuist's The Nichols File of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, which on its print publication in 1982 made available 14,000 attributions written by members of the Nichols family in a staff copy of the periodical. Over the years other scholars have made an additional 1850 or so attributions, which de Montluzin has identified and culled from about five dozen separate publications and added to the database. Through additional research, whose results first appeared in six articles in Studies in Bibliography from 1991 through 1997, de Montluzin has added 4000 more attributions to the total. As a result, nearly 20,000 attributions across 137 years of the magazine's life are now available in a single, searchable database. Attributions of Authorship in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE is searchable by keyword, volume number, page number, date range, title, author, and pseudonym. The attributions in each section are cross-listed in a Chronological Listing and a Synopsis by Contributor, both of which are browseable. In introductory essays the author describes her methodology for ascribing authorship and provides further information about features of the database. URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/gm/ * * * * * Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, 1782-1826, is a fully searchable database listing all known attributions of authorship for anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters, reviews, and poems appearing in the European Magazine from its first monthly number in 1782 to its cessation in 1826. Like its contemporary the Gentleman's Magazine, the European Magazine printed articles and letters concerning literature, antiquarian matters, theology, science, biography, and current news, and included monthly department for book reviews, poetry, parliamentary reporting, and theater. Many of these articles were printed anonymously or bore only initials to designate authorship. Professor de Montluzin has used both contemporary and internal evidence to determine the authorship of a substantial proportion of the items appearing in the European Magazine's 50,000 pages. Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE assembles the names of 160 men and women who contributed material to the European Magazine during its forty-four year history Among these newly identified contributors are the literary critics George Steevens and Isaac Reed, musician Charles Burney, botanist Richard Pulteney, astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, and Orientalist Sir William Jones. Among the women on the list are the Della Cruscan poet Hannah Cowley, Eliza Gilding Turner, Mary ("Perdita") Robinson, and the prolific writer of verse and tales Anna Jane Vardill. Several American contributors appear: Washington Irving; the physician Joseph Brown Ladd; the Rev. Timothy Dwight; Congregationalist divine and president of Yale College; the Rev. John Vardill, titular professor of natural law at King's College (later Columbia University) and Loyalist spy; and William Franklin, natural son of Benjamin Franklin and last royal governor of New Jersey. Among the contributors were a number whose literary reputations long remained high, most notably Irving, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell, Isaac D'Israeli, Sir Walter Scott, and William Hazlitt. Attributions of Authorship in the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE is searchable by keyword, volume number, page number, date range, title, author, and pseudonym. The 2074 attributions are cross-listed in a Chronological Listing and a Synopsis by Contributor, both of which are fully browseable. In an introductory essay the author describes her methodology for ascribing authorship and provides further information about features of the database. URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/euromag/ Emily Lorraine de Montluzin is Professor of History at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Alderman Library Charlottesville, VA 22904-4152 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 07:31:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 957 (957) [deleted quotation] Making of America Collection Adds 7,000 Volumes The University of Michigan University Library is pleased to announce the addition of over 7,000 volumes to its Making of America collection. This expansion brings the total volumes available online to 8,500 or approximately 2.89 million pages of text and 1.15 billion words. The addition of these materials to Making of America was made possible in part through the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an equipment grant from Sun Microsystems. Making of America (MoA) a publicly-accessible online resource focusing on 19th century American publications now contains over 3% of all American imprint monographs published in the 19th century (based on preliminary statistics provided by the Library of Congress). The majority of these materials were published between 1850 and 1876 and focus on topics ranging from the life and death of Abraham Lincoln to the latest 19th century household sciences to reflections on travel to the Western United States. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. MoA offers users the opportunity to view faithful replicas of the original source materials, perform full text searches over the entire collection, search within individual texts, and save searches and develop bibliographies using the MoA book bag. The Making of America is available freely over the Internet and may be found at: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/. For additional information about MoA, contact moa-feedback@umich.edu. From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:51:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 958 (958) Several responses to Willard's interesting black-box question have been enlightening. I'd like to respond to Willards scenario of the two musicologists. A uses a transformation without being interested in or understanding its inner workings, and B goes to a computer scientist, learns about the transformation and creates a new one. I guess I'd be inclined to agree that the first is at best only marginally humanities computing, and is not very interesting from the point of view of computing. The second seems more interesting from a computing point of view. Let's look at a couple of other scenarios. 1. Suppose researcher A gets access to an important medieval literary manuscript, digitizes it, creates a web site at which a searchable PDF version of the document resides, along with links to related materials, and creates and moderates a listserve devoted to discussion of the manuscript's importance and implications. There is nothing particularly revolutionary here, and the researcher is not writing primarily about the computer techniques or software, but rather using them to create a significant scholarly literary resource that would be impossible without the technology. Is the project valuable? To whom? Is it humanities computing? If not, what is it? 2. Suppose researcher B selects a cutting-edge computer technique normally used in the business world and applies it to a set of well-known texts. Collaborating with one of the programmers who wrote the software, B writes an article in which he explains how the technique works and the modifications that were required to apply it to literary texts. By using the new techniques, B also is able to show that Faulkner couldn't have written _The Sun Also Rises_. Here B is writing about the technology primarily, and even making a contribution that might be of interest in other fields that use the technique, but the results might not be very interesting to literary scholars. Is this project valuable? To whom? Is it humanities computing? If not, what is it? Willard seems to be suggesting that achieving disciplinarity for Humanities Computing may require that work recognized as belonging to the discipline be focused on the implications or theory behind the computer application. I'm not sure what I think about this, but I do wonder whether it doesn't create a precariously narrow definition for a discipline. If the work moves too far toward the computer techniques, it risks becoming marginal computer science. If it moves too far toward one of the established humanities disciplines, it risks becoming marginal history, musicology, literary study, or whatever. -- David L. Hoover, Associate Chair & Webmaster, NYU Eng. Dept. 212-998-8832 david.hoover@nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Adolph slid back into the thicket and lay down behind a fallen log to see what would happen. Not much ever happened to him but weather." Willa Cather From: "RIHSS (Research Institute of Humanities & Social Subject: Final CFP - Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:45:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 959 (959) Research in the Humanities Please circulate to interested colleagues/acquaintances. Apologies for cross-postings. ======================================================================= Computing ARTS 2001 Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 26th-28th September, 2001, The University of Sydney ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Exploring the impact of digitisation on the humanities - Focusing on new methods of creating, using and conserving the resources which comprise our common cultural heritage - Examining the impact of new technologies on research and creative endeavour, teaching and learning, publishing, conservation and curation, librarianship and archiving ----------------------------------------------------------------------- **CALL FOR PAPERS** Computing Arts 2001 invites reports of relevant work in a broad range of fields, including archaeology, art history, history, languages and linguistics, literary studies, music and performing arts, as well as work detailing techniques and issues associated with the creation and use of digital texts, databases, images, sound, video and digital mapping. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to: humanities computing; scholarly editing; text encoding; text analysis; textual studies; hypertext; text corpora; computational linguistics; GIS mapping; digital libraries; archival description; digital imaging; image delivery; iconic visualisation; multimedia; languages; scripts; special characters; unicode; electronic publishing; markup languages; XML; pedagogical applications; institutional implications of humanities computing; national and international coordination and collaboration issues and outcomes; funding. Apart from papers, presentation formats will include technical demonstrations, panels, workshops and open discussion, for which suggestions are invited. All presentations other than keynotes will be of 30 minutes duration. Confirmed keynote SPEAKERS to date include Morris Eaves (Project Director, The Blake Archive, IATH Virginia), Ian Johnson (Archaeological Computing Laboratory, Sydney) & Mark Kornbluh (History, Michigan State). DEADLINES: Submissions due: Friday 16th February 2001 Notification Date: Friday 9th March 2001 For full information and submission format, please visit the conference website at: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001 ENQUIRIES: Melissa McMahon, melissa.mcmahon@rihss.usyd.edu.au, (02) 9351 5344, or Creagh Cole (Convenor), c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au, (02) 9351 7408 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computing Arts 2001 is supported by The Australian Academy of the Humanities National Scholarly Communications Forum and is held in association with Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) (the UK's premier conference for all those affected by the digitisation of our common cultural heritage). It is presented by the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS), University of Sydney Library, and the Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA. ======================================================================== From: "Pete McKinney" Subject: HATII Digitisation Summer School Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:46:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 960 (960) Apologies if you receive this message more than once. 4th International HATII Digitisation Summer School HATII is pleased to announce the 4th International HATII Digitisation Summer School, July 8 - 13 2001, at the University of Glasgow. Full information and course details can be found on the HATII web pages at: <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS01/>http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS01/ The availability of high-quality digital content is central to improved public access, teaching, and research about heritage information. Archivists, librarians, and museum professionals are among the many groups involved in creating digital resources to improve access and understanding to their collections. Skills in understanding the principles and best practice in the digitisation of primary textual and image resources have broad value. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) has developed this course to address the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage materials, as well as investigate issues involved in selecting, creating, curating, and managing access to such collections. The lectures will be supplemented by workshops and practical exercises. Participants will acquire practical skills in digitisation of analogue material (print, image e.g. photographic or slide, music manuscripts, or map). The focus will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available in digital form. The one-week intensive course will consist of lectures; workshops; hands-on practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an opportunity for individual practice); and visits to Special Collections at the Glasgow University Library, the Archives and the Performing Arts Data Service (PADS). Places are limited on the course, so please register early to confirm a place. COSTS, REGISTRATION, AND DEADLINES Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea breaks, not including accomdation): - Advanced booking price: 650 sterling (if a place is booked and the course fees are paid by the 13 April 2001). - Normal price: 700 sterling (if a place is booked and the course fees are paid after 14 April 2001) Please use the web page to register online at: <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS01/>http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS01/ or contact: Mrs Ann Law, Secretary, HATII, George Service House, 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK Tel. and Fax: (+44 141) 330 5512 Email: a.law@arts.gla.ac.uk From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conference: Intellectual Property in the Digital Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:47:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 961 (961) Environment: May 6-9, Madison. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 8, 2001 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES May 6-9, 2001: Madison, Wisconsin <http://ipconference.education.wisc.edu>http://ipconference.education.wisc.edu [deleted quotation] INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT <http://ipconference.education.wisc.edu>http://ipconference.education.wisc.edu On May 6-9, 2001, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and School of Education will cosponsor an intellectual property conference, Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: Exploring the Possibilities at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The Conference, national in scope, will begin with an opening reception on Sunday evening, May 6, 2001 followed by two days of presentations. Two comprehensive post-conference workshops related to copyright and ownership policy are scheduled for Wednesday, May 9. Conference presentations will address: -Copyright and the Internet -Fair Use in Cyberspace -Anticircumvention Issues -Ownership Issues and Distance Education -Copyright Infringement and Digital Technologies -Innovative Edu-Business Partnerships Our goal is to open communication pathways and share relevant and current information with individuals who have a vested interest in intellectual property use and development in education. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Workshop On Licensing Electronic Information Resources Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:49:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 962 (962) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 8, 2001 Association of Research libraries & SOLINET Announce: Workshop On Licensing Electronic Information Resources March 29-30, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia <http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html>http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html Primarily for libraries, this workshop on licensing of electronic resources may be of interest to others. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ************************************************************************ ARL Announces... Upcoming Workshop On Licensing Electronic Information Resources Thursday-Friday, March 29-30, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia Sheraton Buckhead Hotel Atlanta 3405 Lenox Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30326 phone: 404-261-9250 Cut-off Date for hotel reservations: March 7, 2001 Co-sponsored by SOLINET Full details and registration information are available at: <http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html>http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html [material deleted] From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: A Most Remarkable SOM Index Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:48:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 963 (963) _A Remarkable SOM Index_ In response to my recent posting relating to Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0101/0317.html] , I received the response below that describes a Most Remarkable SOM Index that has been applied SOM to access the Medline database. The lead paragraph alone will no doubt entice you to consider the other applications of SOM. [It is reposted with the kind permission of Georgios Papadopoulos, the responder. The re-post is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement] [Over the coming weeks I will be identifying as many applications of SOM for the library and information venue and will list these in a planned new registry called: "SOM Like IT Hot! [:->] [Any candidates for this new registry will be most appreciated!] Regards, /Gerry McKiernan SOM-Time Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 ************************** Hi Gerry. At our company, we are trying to do something very similar to SOMs (but with a different interface) for Medline and other extremely large databases. The funny thing is that we run the process on the results of the queries (on the fly) and we have optimized performance to such a degree that Medline queries return faster than in normal Medline. Generally in under 2 seconds and sometimes only a few milliseconds. All of this on a PC running Linux. We utilize the concepts that human indexers put in their articles and we have also developed an effective automated indexer (currently working for Medline.) We call the project ConceptBrowser and the tool which will include knowledge management and collaboration components will be called ScienceLine. Go to our site and register to be informed when you can start using it during the beta period. So, your dream is definitely close to reality. We are also developing other technologies to correlate articles based on their references (backward and forward) and their usage. Keep an eye on us as we roll out these tools for the biotech and pharma institutions and if you would like to be more involved, let me know. We are doing a lot of these things out of our deep love with digital library technology and it is always nice to talk with people who are excited about the same things. -- Georgios Papadopoulos ------------------------------------------------------------- Atypon Systems voice: (408) 988-1240 3312 Woodward Ave fax: (408) 988-1070 Santa Clara, CA 95054 efax: (603) 761-5213 http://www.atypon.com pcs: (650) 906-7516 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Special Libraries Association Urge Settlement in Tasini Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:50:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 964 (964) et al v. New York Times NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 8, 2001 Special Libraries Association Urge Settlement in Tasini et al v. New York Times. <http://www.sla.org/content/memberservice/communication/pr/pressrelease/2102.cfm>http://www.sla.org/content/memberservice/communication/pr/pressrelease/2102.cfm The Special Libraries Association has issued an interesting appeal for settlement of the Tasini et al v. New York Times case, before the case is reviewed by the Supreme Court. For background on the case visit the National Writers Union page at: <http://www.nwu.org/tvt/tvthome.htm>http://www.nwu.org/tvt/tvthome.htm David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0651 ethical research procedures Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:49:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 965 (965) What I see happening is the tendency of the bureaucratic mind to start from an obvious case of physical abuse that demands a remedy and then extend that remedy as far as possible without trying to find out whether any such abuse exists. This originally started, I gather, because of federal regulations which originated with NIH for recipients of NIH grants. I should be very interested to learn of cases in which folklore informants have been abused by folklorists. Maybe there is a dark underside to folklore research of which I have been happily unaware until now. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: FULL TIME OPEN UNIVERSITY STUDENTSHIP FOR DOCTORAL Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:48:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 966 (966) RESEARCH INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE HUMANITIES [deleted quotation] ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / voice: +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / fax: +44 (0)20 7848-2980 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratias agere From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 14.0653 black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 07:54:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 967 (967) David Hoover, in Humanist 14.0653, has I think moved us toward the core (or at least a core) of the matter I was blundering toward in my question about black- and glass-box methods. His two additional scenarios do this by setting out extremes at the crossover-point of which, it seems to me, humanities computing is most itself -- and most interesting to me. To refresh our memories, [deleted quotation] version [deleted quotation] importance and [deleted quotation] software, [deleted quotation] that [deleted quotation] We need many, many researchers like A, of course. A's method may not be interesting from a technical point of view, but it does exemplify the large intellectual difference simple tools can make. It seems to me that a study of that difference is among those activities that we wish to include under the rubric of humanities computing, in a subdivision of our interdiscipline corresponding to the history & sociology of science. The fact of that difference is prime, exportable news for the other disciplines with which we interrelate. Even if we ungenerously say that A is not doing humanities computing him- or herself, someone else can by looking at what A has done. Let me try for another example of the above. Suppose a mathematician proposed and proved theorem Z in number theory. Subsequently a computer scientist applied theorem Z and produced important results in CS with it. Those results would not become part of number theory, as Z certainly would, but would certainly become part of the story of number theory and might well be included in a broader course situating mathematics within related disciplines. If mathematics were pursued as an interdiscipline, then its number theoreticians would want to include the application of Z among the connecting points that helped to define their practice. (Would it not be interesting to enquire into why mathematics differs from humanities computing in respect of its relation to other fields? Can someone help here?) [deleted quotation] A real example of good humanities computing that also borrows a technique from elsewhere is Peter Robinson's use of cladistics (from evolutionary biology) in the analysis of mss interrelations. His results for Chaucerian studies are most impressive. In the spirit of Dr Hoover's example let us suppose, however, that Peter had not done his work; rather a very different researcher like B had, applying cladistics to mss study, demonstrating with it that later, derivative ms. Q is the authorial copy and that oldest, historically closest ms R has been copied from it! Ridicule everywhere, of course; the researcher relocates to a remote island in the Black Sea and becomes a goatherd. Nevertheless, one of us is not so easily fooled, investigates and finds that there are no methodological errors -- the application of cladistics should have worked, but didn't. A very interesting research problem for us thus comes to light. The disgraced researcher's work per se is worthless, but he or she has accidentally stumbled upon something valuable. [deleted quotation] I'm not [deleted quotation] I certainly agree that we inhabit the middle ground and would argue that we must do everything we can not to be intellectually or socially exclusionary -- but at the same time we need to be able to say what is interesting in terms of the interdiscipline. We'd be making a huge error to strive toward a narrow definition of the field. A de-finition is, however, an act of drawing boundaries. Perhaps one implication of Jonathan Culler's point about the myth of foundationalism -- the historically incorrect notion that a discipline, such as English studies, once enjoyed Edenic unanimity -- is that defining a scholarly practice is something that its practitioners must attempt but can only achieve by killing the practice. The Exodus story all over again, not surprisingly. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: H.P.Luhn papers Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 07:44:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 968 (968) Willard, Your KWIC example sent me doing some historical research on H.P. Luhn. I came across this http://www.asis.org/Features/Pioneers/luhn.htm Only a very brief file on him is mentioned by the IBM Archives. No specific office files on his work have been identified by the Archives. A letter in his file possibly indicates that he turned his personal files over to the Mohansic (sp?) Lake Library in 1972. (Efforts to locate this library have not been successful). The spelling of Mohansic Lake is correct. It would be, I believe, located in Westchester County, New York. Could this be a branch library? Any location scouts amongst the liberary detectives? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline extended Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 07:43:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 969 (969) [Please note: all submissions and correspondence concerning the conference should be addressed to Andrew Prescott, a.prescott@shef.ac.uk] CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH2001 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24 FEBRUARY The DRH conferences The annual Digital Resources for the Humanities conference is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic resource to further research; the teacher gathering Web resources into an online learning environment; the publisher or broadcaster integrating print or analogue with the digital 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 scientist seeking to apply new developments to the creation, exploitation and management of humanities resources. A volume of select papers from the conferences is published annually. DRH 2001 DRH 2001 will be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1 from 8-10 July 2001. Format The academic programme of the conference will comprise academic papers, panel discussions, and poster presentations. An exhibition of products and services of interest to participants will form an important part of the conference. The conference is known for its friendly atmosphere and welcomes developers and users of digital resources from, amongst others, universities, libraries, archives, museums, galleries, broadcasters, publishers and community groups. 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 the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities. Prospective speakers are asked to bear in mind the following points: - Paper and session proposals should seek to develop themes and intellectual approaches which will be of interest and relevance across the subject domain; it is not sufficient simply to outline recent work on an individual project. Papers should take account of, and seek to address, strategic themes across the subject domain. Preference will be given to papers which outline innovative technical approaches or explore subject areas which have been generally neglected by the humanities computing community. Areas on which DRH conferences have particularly concentrated in the past have included the creation of digital resources, providing access to digital projects, and digital preservation. The Conference Programme Committee from DRH 2001 will particularly also welcome proposals which relate to the following themes: Visualisation of data: the use of graphical interfaces, GIS and other techniques for the exploration of data sets. What are the major issues for the use of these technologies by humanities scholars? What new insights do they offer for those working in the humanities? A managed digital environment: How far and in what ways do the initiatives to knit together, coordinate and develop existing initiatives for the creation of digital resources address the needs of humanities researchers? What shape should the future digital humanities environment be? How can digital initiatives be used to create new communities and to support initiatives to consolidate such communities (as, for example, in the use of digital technologies in support of an e-Europe)? Diversity and multi-culturalism: How can the creation and dissemination of digital resources in the humanities help to underpin and further a multi-cultural society? What are the major issues in creating and accessing digital resources for different groups in society? What technical issues affect the use of digital resources to further a policy of social inclusiveness? How can network technologies be used to support community programmes? World Wide access: How can the development of humanities digital resources support the creation of genuinely international access to the new e-culture? How can digital technologies suport the work of humanities scholars working on subjects connected with Asia and Africa? Convergence: How will the anticipated convergence between televisual, comunication and computing media affect research in the humanities? What new opportunities does it offer? Submitting Proposals The deadline for submitting proposals is 24 February 2001 and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30 March 2001. Please note that all participants in the conference, including speakers, are expected to pay their own conference and accommodation costs. We hope, however, to offer a limited number of bursaries covering the conference fee for certain categories of participant. All proposals will be reviewed by at least two referees with relevant expertise. The final decision on acceptance into the conference programme rests with the Programme Committee. For all type of proposal, authors are encouraged to provide a clear overview of the work to be presented; state how the proposal relates to the themes of the conference; outline any original or innovative methods, technical solutions or conclusions; outline the demonstrable value of the work to the broad humanities community. All proposals should be submitted in English. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail details for all participants. All abstracts will be printed in the conference book of abstracts. Papers: We invite proposals for conference papers lasting no more than 20 minutes. Proposals should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Papers will be grouped into sessions of three papers. You are welcome to propose a session of three papers relating to a specific theme. In this case, session organisers should provide a clear description (c.250 words) of how the papers relate to each other, in addition to the three abstracts. Please note that all proposals for papers, whether individual submissions or part of a themed session, will be independently reviewed. Themed Panel Sessions: We invite proposals for themed panel sessions lasting no more than 90 minutes. Proposals should be between 1,000-1,500 words. The panel organiser should include details of the individuals or organisations who have agreed to form the panel. Panel sessions are intended to provide a forum for discussion of a specific theme or issue, introduced by panel members. Posters: We invite proposals for posters. Proposals should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Posters provide the opportunity for a visual, rather than oral, presentation of work within an informal atmosphere. Posters will be on display throughout the conference in a prominent area. Posters should not include software demonstrations. Where a software demonstration is required, the proposer should apply to be an exhibitor at the academic rate. Please forward all proposals and abstracts to the Chair of the Programme Committee, Professor Andrew Prescott, University of Sheffield (a.prescott@shef.ac.uk). Conference Publications: A book of abstracts, containing the revised versions of all accepted papers, panel sessions and posters, will be provided to all conference delegates. These abstracts will also be published on the conference web site. A volume of Selected Papers will be published following the conference. Everyone who presents a paper at the conference will be invited to submit a full version of their paper for consideration for the publication. Organisation: The Programme Committee, which has responsibility for the academic programme of the conference, is chaired by Professor Andrew Prescott of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. A list of the programme committee will shortly be posted on the DRH website (www.drh.org.uk). Call for hosts for DRH 2003 The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH conference in 2003 Prospective applicants should refer to the conference Protocol and to other information on the DRH web site. Colleagues wishing to host the conference should write in the first instance to the Chair of the Standing Committee, Dr Marilyn Deegan, at marilyn.deegan@qeh.ox.ac.uk. AHC Strand The 1999 DRH conference, at King's College London, was held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK). DRH 2001 will follow this very successful experience by including a substantial AHC strand of sessions, lasting for at least one day. The AHC strand will represent a conference within a conference, in which AHC members will have an opportunity to give and to hear papers on historical computing, while benefiting from cross-fertilisation with other humanists with similar interests. Proposals for papers in the AHC strand will be sent to the AHC (UK) committee, who will arrange for them to be refereed. The AHC's aims are to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. Recent years have seen the Association move from its traditional emphasis upon quantitative methods and database management to greater concern with such issues as digitisation, Web-based publication, teaching and learning with digital resources, and improving access to digital resources and archival holdings. The AHC invites papers on these and other aspects of the application of computers, whether for research, teaching or archives. In line with the rest of the DRH conference, African and oriental topics are particularly welcome, but papers may be submitted on any historical topic. ___________________________________________________________________ Andrew Prescott Humanities Research Institute Floor 14, Arts Tower University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN a.prescott@shef.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2001 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 07:44:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 970 (970) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 8, 2001 PLEASE FORWARD NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2001 SERIES New 2001 Series Begins at College Art Conference March 3, 2001: Chicago <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm>http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm March 3 - College Art Association Conference, Chicago April 25 - Rice University, Houston June 28 - Western States Digitization Conference, Denver September 24 - New York Public Library October 27 - Museum Computer Network Conference, Cincinnati A 2001 series of Copyright Town Meetings, organized by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, will launch March 3 in Chicago at the College Art Association's annual conference. The Copyright & Fair Use Town Meetings balance expert opinion and audience participation on the basics of copyright law, the implications of copyright online, recent changes in copyright law and practice, and practical issues related to the networking of cultural heritage materials. The 1997-98 series focused closely on the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) and its aftermath. The 2000 series (held in Chicago, Syracuse, New York City, Chapel Hill, San Francisco and Baltimore) covered the DMCA, the demise of the public domain; ambiguities of ownership of online copyrighted material; changes in distance education; and the critical need for institutional copyright policies and principles. Reports on the individual meetings are now available at <<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html> and an overall report is forthcoming. The 2001 series will be hosted by the College Art Association, Rice University, the University of Denver, the New York Public Library and the Museum Computer Network. Speakers committed to date include Peter Jaszi, Georgia Harper, Tyler Ochoa and Bernard Reilly. CHICAGO MEETING: Saturday March 3, 2001 9:30-12:00; 12:30 to 2:00 Chicago Hilton & Towers, 720 South Michigan Avenue <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm>http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm The opening March 3 Town Meeting in Chicago will focus on "Licensing Initiatives for Scholars and Teachers" and will feature Renate Wiedenhoeft (SASKIA Cultural Documentation, Ltd.), Jennifer Trant (AMICO), Carol Hughes (Questia), Robert Panzer (Visual Artists and Galleries Association), Thomas W. Bower (Deputy Registrar, National Museum of American History), and Max Marmor (Director, Yale Art Library, for The Academic Image Cooperative). How can the objects and services offered by a set of different new digital licensing initiatives change for the good the research and teaching methods of artists and art historians and help fulfill the educational and scholarly missions of institutions in ways that unlicensed collections typically do not or can not? As usual, a premium will be placed on questions and discussion of the issues from the audience. You can submit questions in advance of the Chicago meeting at <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm#055.Query>http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ctm/CTM.htm#055.Query * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADMISSION All NINCH Town Meetings are open to the public. CAA does not accept reservations for any sessions. In order to attend the 9:30 to 12:00 session, individuals will either need to show a conference badge or purchase a single session ticket at the conference ($35 or $25 for students, cash only) -- single session tickets will not be available before the conference. Tickets are not required for entry to the 12:30 to 2:00 session. For more information on the conference and the Town Meeting Schedule consult <http://www.collegeart.org>http://www.collegeart.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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, College Art Association Kenneth Crews, Indiana University Georgia Harper, University of Texas Christine Sundt, University of oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD Barry Szczesny, American Association of Museums Marta Teegen, College Art Association Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of American University Presses Martha Winnacker, University of California. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: 14.0658 black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:32:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 971 (971) "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] I'd agree with Willard that someone who mounts a medieval manuscript with a text-searchable interface and a listserve is doing important work, even if it is only marginally humanities computing (or not at all), and I'd agree that looking at how and why A's work makes a difference IS, centrally, humanities computing. I'd only add that 15 years ago, such an enterprise might have been, centrally, humanities computing. [deleted quotation] I'd agree further that the question of why mathematics differs from humanities computing in respect of its relation to other fields is indeed an interesting question. To rephrase it: Why isn't there such a field as Sciences Computing, or Social Sciences Computing? What does it mean that there isn't? His other example, involving a hypothetical application of cladistics to manuscript relationships that "proved" the false proposition that a ms known to be late is in fact the authorial version, is also interesting. My own reaction would be to take the scenario as strong evidence that cladistics is not appropriately applied to mss relationships. I'm not sure how valuable this might be in the long run, though it seems to me that it is easy to underestimate the value of studies that show how to avoid erroneous applications. I'll leave the question of inclusionary vs exclusionary disciplinarity to a future discussion. -- David L. Hoover, Associate Chair & Webmaster, NYU Eng. Dept. 212-998-8832 david.hoover@nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Adolph slid back into the thicket and lay down behind a fallen log to see what would happen. Not much ever happened to him but weather." Willa Cather From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Boundaries and Guardians Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:32:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 972 (972) Willard, I am so very glad that you and David Hoover have elaborated further examples involving the hypothetical musicologist whose work borders on the field of humanities computing and whose working processes participate in the methods of humanities computing as a discipline. I think the elaboration helps me articulate some of the unease which marked my reaction to earlier formulations. It has become clearer to me that participation in a field does not mean subjection to the dictates of disciplinary control. Let me restate this in a less libertarian idiom. The concern with the adjudication of the value of intellectual labour is not intrinsically a gate keeping function that keeps people away from engagin in said labour. In short, the question has shifted from "what is humanities computing" to "what is good humanities computing". There is of course the danger of purge whereby what is deemd not good is deemed not to be. It is a danger mitigated by the fact there are people active in the field who do not consider thems selves as bound to a discipline (i.e. intellectuals who do not find their primary home base in academic institutions). And it the existence of this significant cohort of peers that leads me to cite part of a previous posting to Humanist: 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. (Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 44. 26 May 1999) I doubt that a musicologist is obliged to build instruments, either period instruments or new instruments, in order to be considered a musicologist. How much does an urban planner have to know about internal combustion engines? I want a place in the field of humanities computing for those who are willing and able to report their naive flitrations with technology, report their expectations, surprises and frustrations. I do not want us (yes I include myself in the category of naive user in as much as I return to my impressions through a self-reflection upon acquired expectations) to be relegated to the positon of objects of study in some sociological branch of the history of the discipline or as objects of study in some specialized sector of human-computer interface studies. The value I attach to different types of experience -- Erlebnis & Erfahrung -- arises out of a focus on raw resources which meets at some point the concern with the consturciton of an adjudicated legacy. It is no doubt a concern conditiond by biography and the repetion of circumstance wherby I have found myself unpacking a library, activating an account, transfereing files and ever thankful for the mundane support offered by staff and colleagues in and around the field. Geoffrey's question raises another: how to reward a good audience member? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: glass box vs black box methods Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:33:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 973 (973) WM on Saturday (London time) raised some interesting questions regarding the difference between mathematics and humanities and also concerning the difference between trying and succeeding. The word "difference" is a clue to something similar here, which in psychology is known as discrimination but which is actually very closely related to an (opposite) process of integration or (positive) generalization. The Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg has used two alternative methods of resolving paradoxes or anomalies and differences in physics (which is a combination of mathematics and reality), 1. redefining the word theory as provisional or dependent on our current state of knowledge rather than permanent or independent (this gave rise to Weinberg's effective gauge quantum field theory, which is the current version of quantum field theory), 2. abandoning paradoxical theories altogether and starting with something new (he abandoned field theory altogether in physics and left it for string theory, simultaneously moving from Harvard/MIT to University of Texas Austin where string theory is prominent). If it seems strange that Weinberg used both methods 1 and 2 (he and Paul Dirac have been the two most creative quantum/elementary particle/gravitational physicists of the last 40 years or so), then we may have a clue as to how creative geniuses try to incorporate novelty and alternatives as a way of life. They define, they create new words and new focal points for disciplines, they change some old axioms and retain others, they retain several theories as alternatives rather than one (and keep adding rather than destroying even when a theory temporarily looks bad), and they are interested not only in theory but metatheory - the theories about theories. They thus transcend one science and are simultaneously scientists and humanists. They do not succeed, but they are very good at trying. Osher Doctorow From: "Wilson, Andrew" Subject: Workshops at Corpus Linguistics 2001 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:28:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 974 (974) WORKSHOPS AT CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Lancaster University (UK), 29 March 2001 In conjunction with the "Corpus Lingustics 2001" conference at Lancaster University (UK), four workshops have been organized for 29 March: 1. Corpus-Based and Processing Approaches to Figurative Language Organisers: John Barnden (University of Birmingham), Mark Lee (University of Birmingham), Katja Markert (University of Edinburgh) 2. Corpus Linguistics, Ancient Languages, and Older Language Periods Organiser: Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) 3. XML Markup Technologies for Working with Linguistic Data Organisers: Jean Carletta and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh and W3C). 4. Using SARA to explore the BNC World Edition Organiser: Lou Burnard (Oxford University Computing Services) Further details of these are available on the Web at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2001/workshops.html To register, please use the special workshops section of the CL2001 registration form at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2001/register.html PLEASE REGISTER BY 22 FEBRUARY 2001 IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, OTHERWISE ACCOMMODATION CANNOT BE GUARANTEED From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Reader-Designated HyperLinking In/Between/Among E-Journals Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:36:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 975 (975) _Reader-Designated HyperLinking_ In the process of reading/re-reading Web sites describing Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu , e.g., Professorial Home Page of Ted Nelson [http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/ ] Project Xanadu [ http://www.xanadu.net/ ] Ted Nelson and Xanadu [ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0155.html ] I was struck by a description of the 'Parallel Textface' component of Project Xanadu in a Web essay entitled "The World Wide Web: The Beginning and Now" prepared by Matt Kazmierski [ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mattkaz/history/hypertext2.html ]. In his brief overview, Kazmierski noted that the 'Parallel Textface' was "unique because it _allowed a *user* to create links between documents_ even if they were *not* related [emphasis added]. In considering this statement, it occurred to be that if would be quite beneficial for a reader of an e-article to have the ability to create *personalized* links between segments of an article, and/or to do the same across articles in the same journal and/or provided by the same publisher, and/or to e-journal provided by *other* publishers. [In a way, this would be a very advanced form of an e-journal Annotation feature within what I call the 'Eclectic Journal' [ http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/0101/0131.html ]] One could imagine a functionality that would allow a user to mark a section of text in one e-article then to do the same in another e-article and then to automatically create a link between the two segments by an appropriate right-hand mouse selection and click and/or appropriate keyboard command [Ctrl-L [:->] [One could also imagine hyperlinking text to one (or more) multimedia objects (e.g., a QuickTime movie)) I'd be interested in learning if such 'Reader-Designated HyperLinking' exists in some form or other, particularly in any existing e-journal or one currently being designed or revamped. I would also be interested in learning about any literature or technology relevant to the concept of 'reader-designated hyperlinking'. As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, critiques, compliments, complaints, queries, Cosmic Insights, etc. are Most Welcome! Regards, /Gerry McKiernan HyperLinked Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu Don't Confuse Ability with Opportunity nor Opportunity with Ability. BTW: Ted Nelson is credited with coining the word 'hypertext' and Xanadu is considered by some as an inspiration for the World Wide Web, e.g., [ http://www.tfh-berlin.de/~weberwu/ds/TedNelson.html] [ http://www.callnetuk.com/home/billkennelly/who.htm ] ] [ http://www.scope.at/program/speakers/nelson.html] From: Fabio Fiorin Subject: Program KALOS? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:34:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 976 (976) I've downloaded this Greek Verb coniugator named KALOS, but it seems thst it doesn't work with Windows SE. Can anybody help me? Does the program work with WIN95 or previous releases of WIN98? Many thanks Fabio Fiorin From: Joseph Rudman Subject: LATEX and BIBTEX? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:36:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 977 (977) Does anyone use LATEX and BIBTEX with the "mlaa.bst" or the "hum2.bst"? I would like to get a sample set of files that I could use as a pony. Thanks in advance. Joe Rudman Department of English Carnegie Mellon University From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0660 the Luhn papers? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:36:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 978 (978) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 2:56 AM [deleted quotation] From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 14.0661 black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:59:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 979 (979) Actually there is such a thing as "Scientific Computing" which is close to Hoover's "Sciences Computing". In one of these course here at UT Austin, the material covered included algorithms for processing matrices and the related problems. Other topics might include methods for integral and differential calculus or digital signal processing. All of these are useful techniques that require different approaches from symbolic processing used in AI, for example. Or information processing in business applications. Mary Dee Harris From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCES: E-Books 2001 (London); DRH 2001 (London) - Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:02:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 980 (980) Deadline Extended NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 13, 2001 E-Books 2001 March 20, 2001: University of London <http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/>http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/ Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference (DRH2001) July 8-10: University of London School of Oriental and African Studies CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH2001 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24 FEBRUARY <http://www.drh.org.uk>http://www.drh.org.uk Two conferences, both coincidentally at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, have announcements. E-Books 2001 will take place shortly, March 20. DRH2001, taking place July 8-10 has extended its call for papers until Sat Feb 24. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] E-Books 2001 <http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/>http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/ Sponsored by LITC, South Bank University the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) / DNER Dawson Books Tuesday 20th March 2001 10.00 - 17.00 SOAS Brunei Gallery, London, UK <http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/>http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/ This conference brings together information service managers, librarians, publishers and booksellers to explore the opportunities and challenges created by electronic books. It will feature expert speakers from different parts of the publishing industry and education and provide opportunities for discussion, evaluation and debate. Speakers will examine some of the different hardware and software technologies and standards in use; and offer evaluations of varying business models for the different market players. How are electronic books going to change the publishing industry? The conference will also look at how E-Books might affect library acquisitions, and consider what service benefits and problems they might create. It will be of great interest to anyone involved in the book industry. Programme Session chairs: John Akeroyd, Mel Collier, Diane Kerr, Hazel Woodward, * Keynote and overview by Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer of R2 Consulting, New Hampshire, who have recently mapped the E-Books industry * the E-books company perspective speakers will include new players netLibrary and the director of Questia * the publishers' perspective including representatives of CUP and Taylor and Francis * the library perspective speakers including Carolyn Rawlinson of Stirling University (Heron), and Ray Lonsdale and Chris Armstrong, University of Wales Aberystwyth A panel session will discuss economic models and use scenarios Cost to delegates including lunch 65 Pounds. To book use the booking form at <http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/>http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/ebooks2001/ Questions about the conference should be directed to Sarah Connolly [+011 44 [0]207 815 7870, or email connolsm@sbu.ac.uk +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference (DRH2001) July 8-10: University of London School of Oriental and African Studies CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH2001 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24 FEBRUARY <http://www.drh.org.uk>http://www.drh.org.uk [deleted quotation] [Please note: all submissions and correspondence concerning the conference should be addressed to Andrew Prescott, a.prescott@shef.ac.uk] CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH2001 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24 FEBRUARY The DRH conferences The annual Digital Resources for the Humanities conference is the major forum for all those involved in, and affected by, the digitization of our cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic resource to further research; the teacher gathering Web resources into an online learning environment; the publisher or broadcaster integrating print or analogue with the digital 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 scientist seeking to apply new developments to the creation, exploitation and management of humanities resources. A volume of select papers from the conferences is published annually. DRH 2001 DRH 2001 will be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1 from 8-10 July 2001. Format The academic programme of the conference will comprise academic papers, panel discussions, and poster presentations. An exhibition of products and services of interest to participants will form an important part of the conference. The conference is known for its friendly atmosphere and welcomes developers and users of digital resources from, amongst others, universities, libraries, archives, museums, galleries, broadcasters, publishers and community groups. 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 the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities. Prospective speakers are asked to bear in mind the following points: - Paper and session proposals should seek to develop themes and intellectual approaches which will be of interest and relevance across the subject domain; it is not sufficient simply to outline recent work on an individual project. Papers should take account of, and seek to address, strategic themes across the subject domain. Preference will be given to papers which outline innovative technical approaches or explore subject areas which have been generally neglected by the humanities computing community. Areas on which DRH conferences have particularly concentrated in the past have included the creation of digital resources, providing access to digital projects, and digital preservation. The Conference Programme Committee from DRH 2001 will particularly also welcome proposals which relate to the following themes: Visualisation of data: the use of graphical interfaces, GIS and other techniques for the exploration of data sets. What are the major issues for the use of these technologies by humanities scholars? What new insights do they offer for those working in the humanities? A managed digital environment: How far and in what ways do the initiatives to knit together, coordinate and develop existing initiatives for the creation of digital resources address the needs of humanities researchers? What shape should the future digital humanities environment be? How can digital initiatives be used to create new communities and to support initiatives to consolidate such communities (as, for example, in the use of digital technologies in support of an e-Europe)? Diversity and multi-culturalism: How can the creation and dissemination of digital resources in the humanities help to underpin and further a multi-cultural society? What are the major issues in creating and accessing digital resources for different groups in society? What technical issues affect the use of digital resources to further a policy of social inclusiveness? How can network technologies be used to support community programmes? World Wide access: How can the development of humanities digital resources support the creation of genuinely international access to the new e-culture? How can digital technologies support the work of humanities scholars working on subjects connected with Asia and Africa? Convergence: How will the anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and computing media affect research in the humanities? What new opportunities does it offer? Submitting Proposals The deadline for submitting proposals is 24 February 2001 and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30 March 2001. Please note that all participants in the conference, including speakers, are expected to pay their own conference and accommodation costs. We hope, however, to offer a limited number of bursaries covering the conference fee for certain categories of participant. All proposals will be reviewed by at least two referees with relevant expertise. The final decision on acceptance into the conference programme rests with the Programme Committee. For all type of proposal, authors are encouraged to provide a clear overview of the work to be presented; state how the proposal relates to the themes of the conference; outline any original or innovative methods, technical solutions or conclusions; outline the demonstrable value of the work to the broad humanities community. All proposals should be submitted in English. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail details for all participants. All abstracts will be printed in the conference book of abstracts. Papers: We invite proposals for conference papers lasting no more than 20 minutes. Proposals should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Papers will be grouped into sessions of three papers. You are welcome to propose a session of three papers relating to a specific theme. In this case, session organisers should provide a clear description (c.250 words) of how the papers relate to each other, in addition to the three abstracts. Please note that all proposals for papers, whether individual submissions or part of a themed session, will be independently reviewed. Themed Panel Sessions: We invite proposals for themed panel sessions lasting no more than 90 minutes. Proposals should be between 1,000-1,500 words. The panel organiser should include details of the individuals or organisations who have agreed to form the panel. Panel sessions are intended to provide a forum for discussion of a specific theme or issue, introduced by panel members. Posters: We invite proposals for posters. Proposals should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Posters provide the opportunity for a visual, rather than oral, presentation of work within an informal atmosphere. Posters will be on display throughout the conference in a prominent area. Posters should not include software demonstrations. Where a software demonstration is required, the proposer should apply to be an exhibitor at the academic rate. Please forward all proposals and abstracts to the Chair of the Programme Committee, Professor Andrew Prescott, University of Sheffield (a.prescott@shef.ac.uk). Conference Publications: A book of abstracts, containing the revised versions of all accepted papers, panel sessions and posters, will be provided to all conference delegates. These abstracts will also be published on the conference web site. A volume of Selected Papers will be published following the conference. Everyone who presents a paper at the conference will be invited to submit a full version of their paper for consideration for the publication. Organisation: The Programme Committee, which has responsibility for the academic programme of the conference, is chaired by Professor Andrew Prescott of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. A list of the programme committee will shortly be posted on the DRH website (www.drh.org.uk). Call for hosts for DRH 2003 The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH conference in 2003 Prospective applicants should refer to the conference Protocol and to other information on the DRH web site. Colleagues wishing to host the conference should write in the first instance to the Chair of the Standing Committee, Dr Marilyn Deegan, at marilyn.deegan@qeh.ox.ac.uk. AHC Strand The 1999 DRH conference, at King's College London, was held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK). DRH 2001 will follow this very successful experience by including a substantial AHC strand of sessions, lasting for at least one day. The AHC strand will represent a conference within a conference, in which AHC members will have an opportunity to give and to hear papers on historical computing, while benefiting from cross-fertilisation with other humanists with similar interests. Proposals for papers in the AHC strand will be sent to the AHC (UK) committee, who will arrange for them to be refereed. The AHC's aims are to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. Recent years have seen the Association move from its traditional emphasis upon quantitative methods and database management to greater concern with such issues as digitisation, Web-based publication, teaching and learning with digital resources, and improving access to digital resources and archival holdings. The AHC invites papers on these and other aspects of the application of computers, whether for research, teaching or archives. In line with the rest of the DRH conference, African and oriental topics are particularly welcome, but papers may be submitted on any historical topic. ___________________________________________________________________ Andrew Prescott Humanities Research Institute Floor 14, Arts Tower University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN a.prescott@shef.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________ connolsm@sbu.ac.uk ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "P. T. Rourke" Subject: Re: 14.0663 reader-designated hyperlinking Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:54:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 981 (981) See the annotations feature of the Amaya editor/browser at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ for an example of a browser that provides an annotation scheme which can include reader-designated hyperlinks (but they have only one direction, from the annotated text to the cited text, while I suspect that Nelson's hyperlinking scheme would be non-directional. From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0663 reader-designated hyperlinking Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:55:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 982 (982) At 6:40 PM +0000 12/2/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] a good place to start is Marshall, C.C. Toward an Ecology of Hypertext Annotation. in Shipman, F., Mylonas, E. and Groenback, K. eds. Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Links, Objects Time and Space - Structure in Hypermedia Systems, ACM, Pittsburgh, 1998, 40-49. where Cathy describes the XLibris system. the original mosaic browser (on mac anyway) allowed you to store local annotations for any web page, a feature i sorely miss. you might also like to look at the essay by michael joyce on constructive versus exploratory hypertext: Joyce, M. Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts. in Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1995, 38-59. hope this helps adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. lecturer in new media university of bergen. hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ video blog: vog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" Subject: Re: reader-designated hyperlinking Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:56:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 983 (983) Isn't this just what the "Third Voice" browser add-on does? It caused fury and consternation among the community of Webmasters around the world because they considered it made them lose control over the contents of their sites. There was quite a furore last year but it appears to have died down again. I thought the idea appealing at the time but never investigated it through lack of time. This is what NetSurf Digest said about it: Third Voice Invented by three guys from Singapore, this third Voice isn't a band but a pretty neat browser plug-in that allows registered users to annotate any Web page anywhere - for personal purposes or for sharing with either a group or all Third Voice users. Fire up your favorite Web sites and be the first to add graffiti or responsible comment. If you can weather the dauntingly long agreement designed to discourage irresponsible use, Third Voice can be a clever subversive or constructive tool for advocates of Web democracy and broad-band opining. Third Voice offers a tour and Wired News has more depth. http://www.thirdvoice.com/ http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19722.html --- End of NetSurf Quote --- For more details of the opposition to TV, see for instance <http://www.worldzone.net/internet/pixelsnttv/>. Francois Crompton-Roberts PS how come a _humanities_ list mangles my cedilla??? Francois C-R From: LLTI-Editor Subject: (Fwd) job announcement Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:21:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 984 (984) To: LLTI@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU --- Forwarded Message from Otmar K. Foelsche --- [deleted quotation] --- Forwarded Message from Timothy Adams --- [deleted quotation] Please post or make available the following job announcement: The West Virginia University Department of English plans to hire a Coordinator of our Center for Literary Computing to begin August 16, 2001. Tenure track, beginning or advanced Assistant Professor level. Evidence of ability to develop the Center as a resource for research and instruction in new media and humanities computing for both graduate and undergraduate students required. Specialization and scholarly research in one or more of the following areas: new media studies; technology and diversity studies; technology and pedagogy; writing in digital media; literary, linguistic, or cultural studies of new media or technology. Ph.D. required. Understanding of technical and administrative issues a plus. Salary commensurate with experience. The Department offers the M.A. and Ph.D., and will soon offer the M.F.A. Evidence of ability to contribute to both the graduate and undergraduate programs expected. Award of tenure and promotion to associate professor will be based on an excellent record of publications supported by demonstrated excellence in teaching. West Virginia University and the Department of English have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. We strongly encourage applications from persons of color, women, and other members of under-represented groups. AA/EOE. Send letter of application, three letters of recommendation, and current c.v. to Timothy Dow Adams, Chair. English Department, P.O. Box 6296, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6296. Electronic submissions accepted. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2001, and will continue until the position is filled. For more information, please visit the Department's web site at http//www.as.wvu.edu/english/ Thanks, Tim Adams Timothy Dow Adams, Chair Department of English West Virginia University P.O. Box 6296 Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 phone: (304) 293-3107 x 399 fax: (304) 293-5380 http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/ Francois C-R From: Frances Condron Subject: news from Oxford Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:00:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 985 (985) News from the Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ Editorial Lou Burnard, email: Lou.Burnard@oucs.ox.ac.uk We realised recently that the Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) must be one of the largest dedicated Humanities Computing facilities in the world. Its four main components -- the CHC, The Humbul Hub, the Oxford Text Archive and the HCDT -- between them provide an extraordinary range of services and support facilities for academic staff and students both within and beyond Oxford. We employ twenty staff, over half of them externally-funded, and maintain a high research profile. You can read about some of our current activities in this issue of HCO, and also by visiting our soon-to-be revamped website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ Our goal is to ensure that all of our activities contribute to an emerging University-wide strategy for teaching and learning which makes optimal use of the opportunities offered by information technologies, by accumulating expertise in the CHC which can be effectively shared by appropriate training services and by collaborative development projects which support and enhance teaching and research as practised in this University. We aim to retain and enhance our current status as a nationally and internationally recognised centre of excellence for humanities computing by participating fully in national services such as the Resource Discovery Network and the Arts and Humanities Data Service, and in international ventures such as the Text Encoding Initiative. Reviewing the way the services we offer have changed over the years, both in scale and in scope, it seems clear that they have evolved in response not simply to technological changes (though these have been far from insignificant) but also as a consequence of major changes in the needs and perceptions of our user communities. If we are getting anything right then, it is because we have been paying attention to you, our readers. Here's to continued excitement and upheaval as we move into the new century! Beyond the Museum: Working with Archives and Collections in the Digital Age http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/museum/ Oxford Union Debating Chamber 20th April, 2001 Continuing our annual series of one-day colloquia, the Humanities Computing Unit in collaboration with the MDA is running a one-day event entitled 'Beyond the Museum'. The day will be a mixture of talks and two highly topical debates. Full details are online at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/museum/, and if you wish to register please contact Jenny Newman (Jenny.Newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk; +44 (0)1865 273221). The Shock of the Old: Innovation and Information Technology in Traditional University Teaching http://www.ox.ac.uk/it/groups/oxtalent/shock/ Computing Laboratory, Oxford 26th - 27th March, 2001 The Shock of the Old explores the impact of communication and information technologies on teaching and learning in a traditional setting. Speakers from around the UK will showcase examples of innovative practice, focusing on the contextual factors which determine the success or otherwise of using new technologies in teaching and learning. The conference is an opportunity to find out about developments in a range of subject areas, and to discuss the opportunities available for adapting teaching and learning practices and resources between disciplines. You can book online, or email Jenny.Newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk Humbul Humanities Hub - http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ New Interface Humbul has a new look. As part of the re-development of Humbul as a hub of the Resource Discovery Network we have completely redesigned both the user interface and the underlying system. Humanities web resources are described using a cataloguing process based around the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (see http://www.purl.org/dc/) and stored in a relational database. You can now browse Web resources by subject and type of resource. We catalogue web resources across a wide range of humanities subjects which include: archaeology, history, classics, philosophy, literature and culture in English and other European languages, humanities computing, religion and theology. Types of resources include primary and secondary sources, bibliographic and reference, research and teaching-related, and projects or organisations. You can also view resources for any subject area by audience or time period (where appropriate). The database can be searched by keyword or phrase. Over the coming months we are developing other ways of finding online resources via Humbul including a subject classification system, advanced searching, subject-based featured resources and links to services and databases funded by the JISC (see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/subject/arts-hum/), user customisation and utilties which will allow you to export records for use elsewhere, have automatic search results emailed to you or stored as bookmarks, and cross-searching of related databases such as the Arts and Humanities Data Service. If you are interested in contributing to the development of Humbul in any humanities subject area then please contact us. Michael Fraser, email: Michael.Fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Oxford Text Archive (OTA) - http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Depositing with the Oxford Text Archive It is now just over two years since the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) formed a joint C&IT policy in an effort to support UK academics with the creation of digital resources and to offer a secure home to these resources once they are completed. This mutually beneficial partnership is now starting to yield exciting results. Taking one AHRB funded resource as an example, we hope to illustrate the process by which digital resources can be properly preserved with the AHDS and re-distributed back into the Humanities community. "The Making of History" is a collection of digital texts and images which centre around the events of 1848 as described in Part III, Chapter I of Gustave Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale, and assembled into a hypertext package. In addition to the text of the chapter itself, the resource comprises of over 300 densely written folios (plans, sketches, rough drafts) and a large quantity of historical and documentary notes which give context to Flaubert's writings. The use of hypertext to express the relationships between the various events and documents could not have been achieved as effectively in a traditional print publication. The navigation tools provided by the resource allows the user to move easily through the information in an non-linear way, offering new, multiple readings of the events. The new Technical Appendix of the AHRB grant application now requires applicants to contact the relevant AHDS Service Provider for technical advice on such subjects as the appropriate standards to use when creating a digital resource. It also obliges the applicant to offer any 'significant' digital resource for deposit with the AHDS. Tony Williams, Professor of French at Hull University, the principal author of "The Making of History", first got in contact with the OTA in the Autumn of 1999. Satisfied that the project was on a sound technical footing, Professor Williams spent the next year developing the resource, and within the last month has been back in contact with the OTA to discuss possible deposit options. There is no one method by which the OTA will accession new deposits, we offer a range of services, ranging from a secure archive only option, to making resources freely available for download from the OTA web site. Informal negotiations, usually by email, helps to establish what the depositor wants while ensuring at all times that the resource will be properly preserved. The prototype of the resource was sent to the OTA on a CD-ROM, but the project can just as easily be viewed as a web page. In the end it looks likely that "The Making of History" will be available from the OTA as a single downloadable zip archive, with the possibility of mirroring the original Hull web site when it finally goes live. Limited CD-ROM distribution has also not been ruled out. When the resource is ready for deposit a copy of the OTA Depositor Pack will be sent to Professor Williams for signing. The pack contains a non-exclusive deposit licence, which ensures that all rights for the resource remain with the depositor, thus allowing him to distribute the resource in his own way, including commercial publication, while maintaining a preservation, back-up, copy with the OTA. The OTA is continually looking for new resources for deposit, and the AHRB is only one potential source of these. Recent new accessions, deposited by individual academics, include a Database of Japanese Kanji as well as Latin texts by Horace and Ptolemy. The process of depositing with the OTA is therefore one of consultation and negotiation, with all rights being retained by the depositor. If you are creating a digital resource, or know of one, which would benefit from deposit with the OTA please get in touch with us. All documents relevant to depositing with the OTA can be found on our web site (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/) in the section marked 'OTA Publications'. Alan Morrison, email: Alan.Morrison@oucs.ox.ac.uk Humanities Computing Development team (HCDT) - http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/ Sphakia Survey Internet Edition The HCDT was proud to launch the Sphakia Survey Internet Edition in 27 October at Magdalen College Auditorium. The Sphakia Survey is an interdisciplinary archaeological project whose main objective is to reconstruct the sequence of human activity in a remote and rugged part of Crete (Greece), from the time that people arrived in the area, by ca 3000 BC, until the end of Ottoman rule in AD 1900. Research covers three major epochs, Prehistoric, Graeco-Roman, and Byzantine-Venetian-Turkish, and has involved the work of many people using environmental, archaeological, documentary, and local information. Please visit the Web site for more information at: http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/ Please see the HCDT Web site at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/ for more information about our current projects, and to visit our completed projects for Theology, History, English, Archaeology, Chinese, and others. The full-text version of this edition of HCO on-line is available at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/chc/hco.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr Frances Condron, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Email: frances.condron@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 273280 URL: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ ASTER: http://cti-psy.york.ac.uk/aster/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NISO image metadata initiative: Comments Requested Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:02:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 986 (986) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 13, 2001 NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee <http://www.niso.org/commitau.html>http://www.niso.org/commitau.html Seeks Comments in Revision of the Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images <http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf>http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf As part of its attempt to develop a generalized technical metadata standard applicable to all images, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is reviewing its Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (<http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf>http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf). Comments from the community are being requested to make the standard as broadly applicable as possible. See the specific questions below that the NISO committee is asking. David Green ============ [deleted quotation] -- National Information Standards Organization (NISO) NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee <http://www.niso.org/commitau.html>http://www.niso.org/commitau.html NISO Needs Your Input! Technical metadata, which describes various aspects of image characteristics and the capture process, is increasingly being perceived as an essential component of any digitization initiative. This category of metadata is not only required to support image quality assessment and image enhancement and processing, but also seen crucial for long-term collection management to ensure the longevity of digital collections. Image metadata work to date within the library and cultural heritage community has focused on defining descriptive elements for discovery and identification. The goal of the NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards initiative is to fill this gap by developing a generalized technical metadata standard applicable to all images regardless of their method of creation. The charge of the NISO's Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee is to review and revise the Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (<http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf>http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf), which presents a comprehensive list of technical data elements required to manage digital image collections. We would like to invite comments from our colleagues involved in various aspects of imaging to ensure that the draft dictionary is comprehensive and inclusive, representing various perspectives. The ultimate goal of the standard is to facilitate the development of applications to validate, process, manage, and migrate images of enduring value. We are particularly interested in getting your feedback on the following issues: a) Does the draft dictionary include all the data fields that are necessary to achieve the goals of technical metadata? - Document image provenance and history - Ensure that image data will be rendered accurately on output (e.g., displayed screen, printed to paper or film, etc.) - Support the ongoing management of image files (e.g., processing, refreshing, or migration) - Assess the aesthetic value of a given image b) Is it successful in describing quality attributes such as detail, color, tone, and file size? What else would you recommend to add? c) Of the elements present, do you have suggestions for changes within the definition? Do definitions need to be expanded? Do you agree it is "required" versus another designation? Should certain elements be repeatable? d) Put yourself in the position of this data dictionary user. Would you be able to use it? If not, what would you do to make it more usable for you (or your staff)? e) How does this initiative relate to other similar ones such as DIG or GDI+? Do you know of other related initiatives? DIG35: <http://www.digitalimaging.org>http://www.digitalimaging.org GDI+: <http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/display/GDIplus_Metadata.htm>http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/display/GDIplus_Metadata.htm f) Do you have any other comments? ============================================================================= Robin Dale (RLG), Co-Chair Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University Library), Co-Chair -- The LOOKSEE Web pages are located at: <<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>. LOOKSEE is hosted by the collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH, or "arch") at the University of Kentucky: <<http://www.rch.uky.edu/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/>. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Why are Music and Mathematics Related? Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:03:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 987 (987) One question that interests me currently in the field of cross-disciplinary humanist-computing versus science is the relationship between music and mathematics - but in particular the question of why they are related (with all the analyses of, e.g., listening to Mozart and stimulating brain functioning, plus the experiences of some of us, we can at least temporarily assume that they are positively related). I would like to read a humanist or humanist-computer analysis of this question, but until I do I will indicate what my branch of mathematics is coming up with. Logic-based probability (LBP) indicates that the surfaces (skin, outer layer, etc.) of organisms, organs, etc., are regions of critical influence. That is also where the sensory receptors usually are located. Of the various senses of animate life forms, I think that the tactile or tactile/proprioceptive sense may be the most basic sense across life from primitive unicellular organisms to human beings. We can of course ask further why that should be, and I suspect that sensitivity to stimuli may be more basic than the reproductive characteristic despite the view of many modern biologists. It is usually touch which is reacted to by unicellular and primitive organisms, and this continues in higher organisms although with a somewhat different distribution of different senses. Reproduction, on the other hand, takes extremely different forms such as asexual versus sexual. Although music is experienced primarily as auditory at first, it has a tendency to make people want to dance - in fact, that realization is what accounts for much of the success of the music industry and its records/compact disks etc. Dancing, however, is essentially tactile. People nod their heads or tap their feet often in listening to music and even playing music. The Strausses (Johann Sr., Jr., etc.), who are often ridiculed by some German and Viennese connoisseurs of music, were waltz kings - and in my opinion, created some of the greatest music in the world. Mozart was into waltzes, and his Italian rivals not only danced but moved their arms in conversation quite frequently - they still do. Von Weber's Invitation to the Dance is immortal. Beethoven is said to have visualized tactile scenarios (whether dancing or "romantic" I do not know). In fact, Germanic civilization in the Classical era was extremely meticulous, and Beethoven also was - his writings took a very long time and this increased the tactile stimulation (admittedly one of his rivals did not, but none of his rivals was as good as Beethoven, so I will ignore that for the present). Mathematics relates to the tactile sense via geometry. We have been finding in anti-virus research (see geometry-research@forum.swarthmore.edu, for example) that microfilaments or microtubules spread throughout cells and tissue convey tactile information to cells as to whether cell reproduction is needed or not (flatness indicates the necessity, roundness indicates the opposite - see Dr. Ingber's team research on tensegrity at Harvard, etc.). Osher Doctorow Doctorow Consultants, Ventura College, etc. From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [MIT Release] Introduction to AI Robotics by Robin R. Murphy Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:48:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 988 (988) Dear humanist scholars, hello, i thought--this might interest you.-arun --------------------------- Introduction to AI Robotics Robin R. Murphy For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MURIHF00. This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from classic films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and bolts of organizing intelligence in robots. Following the overview, Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches and discusses what she calls the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid deliberative/reactive. Later chapters explore multiagent scenarios, navigation and path-planning for mobile robots, and the basics of computer vision and range sensing. Each chapter includes objectives, review questions, and exercises. Many chapters contain one or more case studies showing how the concepts were implemented on real robots. Murphy, who is well known for her classroom teaching, conveys the intellectual adventure of mastering complex theoretical and technical material. Robin R. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and in the Department of Psychology, at the University of South Florida, Tampa. 8 x 9, 400 pp., 100 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13383-0 Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series A Bradford Book ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jud Wolfskill 617.253.2079 phone Associate Publicist 617.253.1709 fax MIT Press wolfskil@mit.edu 5 Cambridge Center http://mitpress.mit.edu Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: NISO image metadata initiative Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:46:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 989 (989) Image-based humanities computing projects should have a stake in this; comments encouraged (I serve on the NISO committee). Matt -- National Information Standards Organization (NISO) NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee http://www.niso.org/commitau.html NISO Needs Your Input! Technical metadata, which describes various aspects of image characteristics and the capture process, is increasingly being perceived as an essential component of any digitization initiative. This category of metadata is not only required to support image quality assessment and image enhancement and processing, but also seen crucial for long-term collection management to ensure the longevity of digital collections. Image metadata work to date within the library and cultural heritage community has focused on defining descriptive elements for discovery and identification. The goal of the NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards initiative is to fill this gap by developing a generalized technical metadata standard applicable to all images regardless of their method of creation. The charge of the NISO's Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee is to review and revise the Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (http://www.niso.org/pdfs/DataDict.pdf), which presents a comprehensive list of technical data elements required to manage digital image collections. We would like to invite comments from our colleagues involved in various aspects of imaging to ensure that the draft dictionary is comprehensive and inclusive, representing various perspectives. The ultimate goal of the standard is to facilitate the development of applications to validate, process, manage, and migrate images of enduring value. We are particularly interested in getting your feedback on the following issues: a) Does the draft dictionary include all the data fields that are necessary to achieve the goals of technical metadata? o Document image provenance and history o Ensure that image data will be rendered accurately on output (e.g., displayed screen, printed to paper or film, etc.) o Support the ongoing management of image files (e.g., processing, refreshing, or migration) o Assess the aesthetic value of a given image b) Is it successful in describing quality attributes such as detail, color, tone, and file size? What else would you recommend to add? c) Of the elements present, do you have suggestions for changes within the definition? Do definitions need to be expanded? Do you agree it is "required" versus another designation? Should certain elements be repeatable? d) Put yourself in the position of this data dictionary user. Would you be able to use it? If not, what would you do to make it more usable for you (or your staff)? e) How does this initiative relate to other similar ones such as DIG or GDI+? Do you know of other related initiatives? DIG35: http://www.digitalimaging.org GDI+: http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/display/GDIplus_Metadata.htm f) Do you have any other comments? Robin Dale (RLG), Co-Chair Oya Y. Rieger (Cornell University Library), Co-Chair From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: CLGSA and COCH/COSH present a JOINT Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:44:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 990 (990) SESSION at CONGRESS 2001 "No, it was the installation itself she hated, and tuning her reflexes to the new system, body given over to pure sensation, inflicted without passion... Maybe that was why the serious netwalkers, the original inhabitants of the nets, hated the brainworm... Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, available, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire." Melissa Scott, _Trouble and Her Friends_ (New York, Tor: 1994) Cyborgs, as Anne Balsamo notes in the introduction to _Technologies of the Gendered Body_, are everywhere. But who are they? As in so many other areas, theorists of gender and sexuality are subverting the image of the cyborg, determinating the Terminator. Beginning with Donna Haraway's 1985 'A Cyborg Manifesto,' the impact of computational and bio- technologies on identity have been at the forefront of critical thinking in the arts and sciences. Science fiction and the facts of our daily lives converge in Sandy Stone's "war of desire and technology." CLGSA and COCH/COSH have joined forces to boldly go... Between Zero and One: Cybersexualities and the technologies of gender. A call for papers. We would particularly welcome papers addressing one or more of the following: : the politics and performance of (trans)gendering in cyberspace : gender and sexuality in hyperfiction, science fiction and cyberpunk : feminism, queer theory and the interactions of computational discourse and cultural theory; cyborg feminism : multimedia applications for the study/performance of gender and sexuality in academia, the arts and sciences : gender and sexuality in the history of computing : artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the alteration of gender and sexuality Please submit a title, a 500-word abstract, and a covering letter to: Dr. Ian Lancashire ian@chass.utoronto.ca AND to Sophie Levy sophie.levy@utoronto.ca ___________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 741-2667. RaySiemens@home.com http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm siemensr@mala.bc.ca From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: CALL: EUROLAN'01 WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:43:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 991 (991) ANALYSIS ******* EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP ******* MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS July 30 - August 1, 2001 Iasi, Romania http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html Organizers: Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: o Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held over three consecutive evenings in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, in Iasi, Romania. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. Information on EUROLAN 2001 is available at http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/ and http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/eurolan/ [material deleted] From: "Dr Susan Schreibman" Subject: Cultural heritage conference Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:45:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 992 (992) Conference Announcement: Wiring Memory: Cultural Heritage On-line 8-9 March 2001 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Sponsored by Council of National Cultural Institutions University College Dublin Digital technologies are changing the way in which cultural institutions provide access to their holdings, and the ways scholars can make their work available to a wider audience. This two-day interdisciplinary colloquium will focus on the role of the World Wide Web in promoting, publicising and raising awareness of cultural material. It will investigate the theoretical, practical, economic and technical considerations of building and maintaining a cultural website. The colloquium will provide delegates with an opportunity to hear lectures by leading experts in the field including Marilyn Deegan, Peter Flynn, Lee Ellen Friedland and George MacKenzie. In addition, seminars will provide delegates with overviews to four areas critical to successful digitisation of archives: text encoding (Judith Wusteman), imaging (David Jennings), databases (Claire Cullen), and metainformation (Mary Burke and Susan Schreibman). On Friday afternoon delegates will work in small breakout groups to consider digital archive issues explored in the seminars, as well as issues of budgeting, archive scope, audience and planning. At the coffee and lunch breaks there will be an extensive poster and demonstration sessions, during which cultural organisations and individuals who maintain digital archives, as well as multimedia companies who have implemented cultural sites, will discuss and demonstrate their work. Poster session participants are especially welcome to apply. For further colloquium details, including registration, please see http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei Further enquiries to Rena Lohan From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Symposium: Culture at the Table: March 19, Washington, DC Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:45:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 993 (993) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 14, 2001 Center for Arts & Culture, ArtTable & Kennedy Center Education Dept Announce CULTURE AT THE TABLE Symposium on Cultural Policies for the 21st Century March 19, 2001: Washington, DC <http://www.culturalpolicy.org/news/center.htm>http://www.culturalpolicy.org/news/center.htm The Center for Arts & Culture announces "Culture at the Table," one in a series of public forums it is holding as part of its Art, Culture and the National Agenda project. The symposium will be held on Monday, March 19th from 3:30-5:00 at the Education Resource Center, Roof Terrace Level at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The program, sponsored by ArtTable Inc., the Center for Arts and Culture and the Kennedy Center Education Department, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Participants include: * Benjamin Barber, Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture & Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University * Shalini Venturelli, Associate Professor of International Communication Policy at American University * Gigi Bradford, Executive Director of the Center for Arts and Culture * Sondra Meyers (ArtTable moderator), Consultant on International Civic and Cultural Projects ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 'MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS' -AT Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:47:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 994 (994) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) KHARAGPUR, Dear Humanist, ((A good opportunity --with a kind request of DUC Moderator, Ms. Karen Ellis --I would like to forward the call from Dr. Chhanda Chakraborti. The initiative of the conference seems to me have a tremendous potential towards the Cognitive Science research. Best Wishes.-Arun)) ========================================================================== [material deleted] ### INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS ###AT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) KHARAGPUR, INDIA ~ CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS ~ As part of the Institute's Golden Jubilee Year celebrations, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India is organizing an international multidisciplinary conference MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS: VARIOUS APPROACHES MiCon 2002 Website http: //www.iitkgp.ernet.in/MiCon2002 to be held on January 9 to 11, 2002 at IIT Kharagpur, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. <<<<>>> # To evolve a common methodology and research goals across the disciplines for multi-disciplinary research into mind and consciousness, # To explore whether Indian theoretical traditions can offer useful insights in the field. The major tracks for the conference are: Indian and Western Philosophy Psychology and Psychiatry Literature and Language Physics Neuroscience Artificial intelligence, Cognitive science, but the topics of papers need not be restricted to these categories. [material deleted] FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/MiCon2002 -- From: "Camelot Events Reminder" Subject: Join us at XML DevCon! Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 06:22:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 995 (995) XML DevCon is a series of conferences designed to expose developers to topical and timely information about enterprise XML and integration technologies. Each event updates developers on key XML-related specifications and technologies. The conferences provide instruction on designing documents and programming with XML application programming interfaces (APIs). The conferences also expose developers to XML application development using technologies such as middleware, databases, scripting, messaging, content aggregation, application servers, mobile computing, application-to-application integration, and enterprise Java. To register and for more information visit: http://www.xmldevcon2001.com Please join us at our upcoming events: LONDON, ENGLAND XML DevCon Europe - Spring 2001 Conference: February 21-23, Exhibition: February 22-23 Novotel - London, England NEW YORK, NEW YORK XML DevCon - Spring 2001 Conference: April 8-11, Exhibition: April 9-10 New York Marriott Marquis, New York City [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: function follows form? Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 06:20:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 996 (996) About a week ago, in the run-up to submission of a major assignment in the form of a Web page, I gave an hour's lecture to my first-year students on essay writing. I concentrated on the difference between argument and narrative and spent some time on elaborating the structure of the former. I did this because in my experience first-year students have no idea of what an argument is: ask them for one and they give you the story of what they did, blow by blow. So I not only elaborated the point, I belaboured it. At the end of the lecture, a student came up to me and, clearly puzzled, asked if she really had to submit a "formal" essay, by which she meant a structured argument. Since it was to be in the form of a Web page, she asked, shouldn't the essay be just an account of what she did in researching the topic? The question was asked by a bright, attentive student in a class of intelligent people. So I think that she was listening but that what I said appeared to her to be utterly at variance with (indeed, irrelevant to) the nature of the medium in which she was being asked to work. Of course we all know that one can put old-fashioned essays online, indeed can compose prose arguments with HTML. I'd be inclined simply to think that her question came from her somewhat limited experience of the Web -- were it not for the fact that argumentation in a hypertextual medium is no simple matter. (As some will know better than I do, a growing body of scholarship has taken up the problem of how to conduct an argument in a medium in which the reader ultimately determines the sequence of presentation. It's not at all obvious that an effective argument is possible.) So I am left wondering if my student has not told me something important to us all. Are we trying to swim upstream? Please note the immediately previous metaphor. Our own conditioning is so strong that even we are apt to see determinisms where they do not exist outside our own heads. Of course one can swim upstream, but the subtle (or not so subtle) force of the flowing water is against the swimmer. Is the Web pushing us in another direction altogether? Is it a mistake to give students such an assignment? Should I in the future give that lecture in costume (and if so, what costume should I wear)? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: David Zeitlyn Subject: anthropology bibliography updated Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 06:22:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 997 (997) The CSAC Anthropology Online Bibliography http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib2/Makhzan has now been updated. It now includes more than 24000 references 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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 35, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 06:22:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 998 (998) Version 35 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,290 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 Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 100 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 330 KB and the Word file is over 400 KB. The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections 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, Identifiers, 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 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 resources directory includes the following sections: Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing Images Legal Preprints Preservation Publishers SGML and Related Standards 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 From: erose@Princeton.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0676 function follows form? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:54:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 999 (999) I don't know know if it is the mediun. I too gave my undergraduate students a brief essay assignment and a number handed in straight narrative papers although I too had made the distinction between narrative and historical argument. [Two began "I did this..I found this.. I looked here.."] It may more to do with the expectations and practice of students than the medium [I'm not sure if those students attended the class on essay writing]. My course is very traditional (medieval Ireland and England) with traditional readings, although they did have the option of reviewing and comparing websites on various topics. [Do you have any recommendations where I can send my students on the web to learn more about argument per se?] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 14.0676 function follows form? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:55:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1000 (1000) Willard, I don't see web pages (or more generally hypertext medium) as the source of the student's question. Willard McCarthy wrote: [deleted quotation] It is easy to find web pages that are narratives and not arguments but I suspect they reflect a general trend that privileges narrative and personal experience. [deleted quotation] I would say that it was at variance with her experience with the medium, not a characteristic of the medium itself. [deleted quotation] I am not sure how you reach the statements: "...argumentation in a hypertextual medium is no simple matter." or "...a medium in which the reader ultimately determines the sequence of presentation." At this stage of hypertext development (which may change if XLinks are widely implemented) the author of an essay determines whether hyperlinks will appear and where they will appear in an essay. It is hardly the case that readers can arbitrarily change the sequence of presentation anymore than a reader who flips through the pages of an essay has altered the order of presentation in a printed version. (The browsing reader has changed the order of presentation in a sense but that simply illlustrates that bad reading practices cut across various modes of delivery.) I am concerned with your claim that the hypertext medium is qualitatively different from traditional modes of presentation. Hypertext links are no more than modern implementations of the references that the glossators placed in margins of the Code of Justinian or the masora in the Hebrew Bible. Rather than relying mastery of a large body of textual material, the modern user can access the information pointed to by a hyperlink. Consider the case of an author who uses a classical allusion in the course of a structured argument. They can depend upon a readership that will recognize the allusion (which hopefully strengthens the argument) or they can incorporate a hyperlink that takes the reader to additional material. In either case, the reader has referenced material not directly represented in the formal argument. And in both cases it was the author who inserted (or did not insert) the hypertext link to alert the reader to additional material. [deleted quotation] Has there ever been a time when the rigors of formal argumentation (formerly known as rhetoric) was not the subject of instruction? Now that personal narrative has a stage other than oral recitation or freshman essays, is that a reason to abandon such instruction? The amount of personal narrative has always been greater in bulk (and volume) than formal argumentation so the water has always been flowing against the latter. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0676 function follows form? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:55:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1001 (1001) Willard, It must be the coming of the vernal equinox in your hemisphere and the sun's progress through the water sign of Pisces that causes the streaming of metaphors of swimming in your discourse about function, form and following. Now that zodical allusion is a nugget of a potential tall tale. It is also in noce an argument since it proposes that a certain series of events has an effect on an other series of events. Narratology distinguishes narrative from narration (see Gerald Prince _A Dictionary of Narratology_ under the entry "plot"). Along with the Russion Formalist distinction between sjuzet (my apologies to the Slavicists among us for the lack of diacritical marks) and fabula, Prince provides a reference to E.M. Forster 1927 _Aspects of the Novel_ where a plot as a narrative of events with an emphasis on causality is opposed to a story which is a narrative of events with an emphasis on chronology. As you have witnessed, I take chronologies to imply arguments and have on occasion used to rhetorical effect the connections my interlocutors tend to create while scanning lists which I have generated (ask Wendell). Now I ask you, do you have students parse an argument, a chunk of narrative or a simple list? Do they understand that their reading activity threads a syntagm, produces a path? I have recently been sent back to read Heidegger. He opens "The Question Concerning Technology" thus: In what follows we shall be _questioning_ concerning technology. Questioning builds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to the way, and not to fix our attention on isolated sentences and topics. The way is a way of thinking. All ways of thinking, more or less, perceptibly, lead through language in a manner that is extraordinary. [trans. William Lovitt] Heidegger ends the essay with a renewed opening, "For questioning is the piety of thought." Now I am not counselling a diet of such dense texts to help you and your students. I do find that the question of the question is remarkable in its ability to move our rhetorical trainees from through in around and back again to chronicle and history. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Simultaneity is what distinguishes the causal frame of history from the successive frame of chronicle. There are ways to use even the simple hypertextual linking mechanisms of HTML to produce multiple timeline effects. If a syllogism repesents nodes, for example, Every Computing Humanist is affected by zodical shift. W. is a Computing Humanist. W. is affect by zodiacal shift. then a hypertextual presentation of these nodes requires a digital prompt (note this is not a navigational prompt although it is a test for path being followed) which in turn requires if not place holders for negations of propositions or terms at least some acknowlegement of truth valuation. Argumentation in a hypertextual presentation requires interpellation: If you arrived at this node A from this other node B then this node A is true If you arrived at this node A from this other node Y then this node A is false If you access node Q from this node A regardless if you access this node A from this other node B or from this other node Y then Q will be true. The "you" is the reader. The "you" is also a user who in ages past and even today would write a response indicating agreement or disagreement with the truth valuation of premises and conclusions. The interpellation of "you" as writer is of course in a networked environment the invitation to comment, agree, disagree, qualify or otherwise respond and to do so before an audience. Both types of interpellation, the one to take note of an itinerary and the other to dialogue (or to echo), are implicit in nonhypertextual presentation of argumentation in given settings. They seem to need to be explicit in hypertextual presentations for some folks who find their students shy of contemplating the avenues of "if". The way to argumentation for such folks and their students may lie through retelling a beginning and transpo_sign_ing the sense of an ending. Many ways to get there from here or to get to meanwhile from back at the ranch. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Willard McCarty Subject: peer-review Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:52:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1002 (1002) Those interested in the topic of peer-review for electronic publications should note the following: [deleted quotation] Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: prurient interest & political science Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:04:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1003 (1003) A recent unsolicited piece of e-mail testifies to the democratisation of Big Brother, or at least to its appeal: [deleted quotation] Once upon a time, in the era of mainframes, the dystopic vision of computing was Orwellian; evil was oligarchic, clearly separate from the common man and woman (except, of course, for the fellow travelers, spies and defectors). Now, with the edenic taste of personal computing liberation still on our tongues, we are reminded in yet another way that the hard bits are up to us. As I recall the political counter-argument, however, we fight fire with fire: many little people with personal computers can, the argument runs, successfully oppose the few with their big machines. I wonder, is there a political science for the networked world as well as an ethics? Should we in thinking about the curriculum of humanities computing include aspects of political science? There are CS courses in the area of computing and society; can we learn anything from these? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0678 function follows form, or not Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:29:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1004 (1004) At 8:02 AM +0000 18/2/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I need to question this, on several fronts. (sorry for the brevity but i've got a lot of things that need doing.) 1. the web is one particular hypertext system, but it is not hypertext in the manner of being all there is. 2. many hypertext systems can hide or show links based on numerous conditions (hypercard, storyspace, the use of some additional systems on a http server). these conditions might be based on who you are, or your reading history, or a combination of both. 3. many hypertext systems can generate random links, random content, or variable content and variable links. 4. some hypertext systems allow a link to have multiple destinations (storyspace). this is different to traditional humanities writing: no longer single footnotes but one key term may in fact offer the reader the choice of 6 destinations. 5. most hypertext systems outside of the web tend not to recognise 'footnotes'. each node is more or less equivalent and it is common to link out of 'footnoted' text to other parts of other texts. 6. readers regularly can and do change the sequence of presentation. for instance publish a journal, provide a search engine, let reader search for term "x", the hit list that is generated that they then read is the reader's production of sequence through a body of work that is quite independent of editorial or authorial intention. this is made much more evident if the web journal is written around a theme (so that searching on a key term will generate relevant material from different essays), and it is written as a hypertext (smaller nodes) 7. this is not bad reading practices. it is only 'bad' if one assumes that a singular linearity remains the privileged term for argumentation. 8. students who write in systems such as storyspace do start to produce different forms of argumentation and content in academic essays. a simple point of difference is that visual presentation of links and nodes within the program is nearly always used by students as a form of additional or meta-commentary on their content. Similarly they colour their nodes for similar reasons. 9. hypertext theory wants to argue that repetition is important, this isn't just reiteration of a key point but returning through a previously visited node or sequence or nodes. the model is, if you like, musical. in addition hypertext is based on a model of redundancy where readers routinely return to known content. the next thing being considered in terms of academic writing practice (common in film and television as disursive systems) is how to write material that can then be used in multiple ways in a single essay. for instance you have a node that discusses idea x, and this idea and its analysis or description or may in fact occur on several different paths through the essay. the question/problem is how to write this node so that it is intelligible and relevant in terms of several different pathways through an essay. 10. there is much work that is exploring the visualisation of semantic relations in hypertext systems. if a system produces a three dimensional visual representation of an argument (for instance this could be done using MAPA - see below) then linearity becomes moot. 11. the point is not that its the same, or different, but that if we use hypertext to write the same and simply facilitate that, then that's fine, but it is an error to think that this then exhausts or has defined what academic hypertext is, might be, or will become. in relation to students, i teach hypertext theory and practice to undergraduates, using storyspace. students are required to write academic content that is multilinear. as an academic with some interest in online teachign and learning i have major problems with some pedagogy that wants to use the web but wishes to maintain the hegemony of the essay. (see my notes on this for a staff seminar at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/solstrand/, in particular http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays/solstrand/advantage.html and http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/solstrand/disadvantage.html). in the list below also note David Kolb's _Socrates in the Labyrinth_ a hypertext about philosophical argumentation in hypertext. see for instance: Bernstein, Mark. "Patterns of Hypertext." Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Hypertext Conference. Pittsburgh PA: ACM, 1998. 21-9. Burbules, Nicholas C. "Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy." Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. Ed. Ilana Snyder. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1997. 102-22. Calvi, Licia. ""Lector in Rebus": The Role of the Reader and the Characteristics of Hyperreading." Proceedings of the 10th Acm Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Returning to Our Diverse Roots. Eds. Klaus Tochtermann, et al. Darmstadt: ACM, 1999. 101-9. Carter, Locke M. "Arguments in Hypertext: A Rhetorical Approach." Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. San Antonio TX: ACM Press, 2000. 85-91. Durand, David, and Paul Kahn. "Mapa: A System for Inducing and Visualizing Hierarchy in Websites." HyperText 98. Pittsburgh: ACM, 1998. 66-76. Eklund, John. "Cognitive Models for Structuring Hypermedia and Implications for Learning from the World-Wide Web". AusWeb95. http://www.scu.edu.au/sponsored/ausweb/ausweb95/papers/hypertext/eklund/index.html 1996. Accessed: May 1, 1998. Harpold, Terence. "Threnody: Psychoanalytic Digressions on the Subject of Hypertexts." Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Eds. Paul Delany and George P. Landow. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994. 171-81. Joyce, Michael. "Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertexts." Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. Studies in Literature and Science. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. 38-59. Joyce, Michael. "New Teaching: Toward a Pedagogy for a New Cosmology." Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. Studies in Literature and Science. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. 117-26. Kolb, David. "Discourse across Links." Philosophical Perspectives in Computer-Mediated Communication. Ed. Charles Ess. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. 15-26. ---. Socrates in the Labyrinth. Computer software. Eastgate Systems, 1994, Macintosh Software. Landow, George P. "Hypertext as Collage-Writing." The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media. Ed. Peter Lunenfeld. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999. 150-70. Miles, Adrian. "Hypertext Syntagmas: Cinematic Narration with Links". Journal of Digital Information. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Miles/ 2000. Accessed: January 16, 2000. Morgan, Wendy. "Heterotopics: Towards a Grammar of Hyperlinks". Messenger Morphs the Media 99. http://www.wordcircuits.com/htww/morgan1.htm n.d. Accessed: September 15 2000. Moulthrop, Stuart. "Pushing Back: Living and Writing in Broken Space." Modern Fiction Studies 43.3 (1997): 651-74. ---. "Rhizome and Resistance: Hypertext and the Dreams of a New Culture." Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed. George P Landow. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1994. 299-319. Ricardo, Francisco J. "Stalking the Paratext: Speculations on Hypertext Links as a Second Order Text." Proceedings of the Ninth Acm Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Links, Objects Time and Space - Structure in Hypermedia Systems. Eds. Frank Shipman, Elli Mylonas and Kaj Groenback. Pittsburgh: ACM, 1998. 142-51. Taylor, Mark C., and Esa Saarinen. Imagologies: Media Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1994. Tosca, Susana Pajares. "The Lyrical Quality of Links." Hypertext '99. Darmstadt: ACM, 1999. 217-8. ---. "A Pragmatics of Links." Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM on Hypertext and Hypermedia. San Antonio (TX): ACM, 2000. 77-84. Ulmer, Gregory. Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video. New York: Routledge, 1989. seeing for going on. adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. lecturer in new media university of bergen. hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ video blog: vog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ From: "Tarvers, Josephine K." Subject: RE: 14.0678 function follows form, or not Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:30:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1005 (1005) Hello Willard, This last exchange reminds me of an old _New Yorker_ cartoon, where an inebriated man leans over an obviously-annoyed woman at a cocktail party and exclaims, "'Buzz off' in no way constitutes valid rebuttal." I would agree with the other respondents that it's not the medium of hypertext that is at fault; I _would_ contend that that it's not true that argument has always been taught (or more often learned). My own experience has been that the last several generation of American high school students have learned not that argument relies on valid propositions supported by defensible evidence but that argument is "your own opinion" and "everyone's opinion is supposed to be treated with respect, so that means you can't really argue with anybody"--both direct quotes from excellent students I have taught this year. In a culture awash in shouted opinions--where s/he who shouts loudest/longest is perceived to be right--it's not surprising that even the very brightest students have difficulty distinguishing between expository and persuasive genres. Perhaps your student hasn't made the connection that a lot of those pages out there on the web are trying to get her to do something (think, act, spend, dress, behave a particular way)--i.e., yes, they _are_ arguments. I have learned to spend a lot of time in class on this particular factor--that everything's an argument, even web pages. Since our first year students are required to complete a course in argumentation as well as one in expository writing, we do have some resources online for teaching it, which might be what 'erose' asked about; they're not aimed at literature classes but are certainly applicable. See http://www.winthrop.edu/wcenter/wcenter/argue.htm. The last link on this page goes to a course page I've put together, which does include some exercises in critically evaluating the persuasive qualities of web pages (some I've made, some I've put together). Any additions to this would certainly be welcome, though Francois, I'm not sure our freshmen are up to Heidegger.... Hope this helps! Jo --*--*--*--*--*-- Jo Koster Tarvers, Ph.D. Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 USA phone (803) 323-4557 fax (803) 323-4837 e-mail tarversj@winthrop.edu on the web http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj "My view on current affairs? I'm too busy to have one."---Broom Hilda From: Willard McCarty Subject: hypertext and argument Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:48:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1006 (1006) Emily Rose, in Humanist 14.0678, asked about literature on argument per se. What I have to hand, from my bibliography on hypertext research, are citations to articles on argumentation and hypertext, <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/achallc2000/hyperbib.html#Argument>. As the 3 respondents in that issue of Humanist remind us, picking apart the relationship between medium and message, tool and result, is very difficult. What are the characteristics of "the medium itself", how do we determine these? I think about the woodworking tools I have (and of others I would like to have) -- different sorts of chisels, saws, planes. I wonder how I would argue that any one of these is qualitatively different from the others of its kind, how I would demonstrate the difference. How does one get to the *tendencies* in a tool, even when (as, I would argue, with the Web), it's quite clear that with a particular tool certain results are much easier to achieve, others more difficult, so the tool-user *tends* to go one way rather than another, produces characteristic results? Where, exactly, do tendencies exist? It seems to me that the fact they can be ignored -- that the tool can be forced to imitate another by someone sufficiently determined -- is no argument that these tendencies do not exist. I find that when I argue for tendencies people often hear determinacies, necessities -- because, I'd suppose, the former are so difficult to locate, the latter so easy to conceptualise. Of course one can reproduce the argument-structure and style of a codex book in hypertext, with each "page" following in sequence, the user carefully given no choice in sequence. But what happens when by virtue of a Web-search, a reader lands in the middle of this sequence from out of nowhere? That is surely not the same thing as a reader going over to a bookshelf, picking out a book and turning to some random page. How might an author respond to the navigational needs of the online reader in the former circumstance? What happens in a hypertextual document when a reader clicks on a link to a site not under the original author's control? This is surely different from a citation in a footnote, which supplies coded instructions on how to find something; it does not propel the reader away into a new context. An intertextual allusion -- take, for example, "thirst in a dry land", to several unspecified places in the Bible simultaneously, among others -- is simply not the same thing as a hypertextual link to these places, however sophisticated the linking mechanism. The former does not actually "go there", the latter does. An author's purpose may be served only if the reader does not actually follow a reference but only realises it as a reference. What happens in a medium in which references must turn into links, or not, with nothing in between? I am centrally concerned with Patrick Durusau's statement that, [deleted quotation]The continuity of practice is important to understand, but I would take issue with "no more than" if by "implementations" is meant unremarkable, seamless, inconsequential retooling. It seems to me that form and content are inseparable -- which is NOT to say that these words mean the same thing, just that we cannot pry them apart, ever. Is this not the old mind/body problem? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0680 prurient interest & political science, or a Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:32:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1007 (1007) question about the curriculum At 8:05 AM +0000 18/2/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Habermas is routinely used, see as a place to begin Ess, Charles, ed. Philosophical Perspectives in Computer-Mediated Communication. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. lecturer in new media university of bergen. hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ video blog: vog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: the political and the sayable Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:33:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1008 (1008) Willard, You've opened a door with the invitation to consider political economy and the role and/or obligation we might have in thinking through some issues related to technology, cultural production and civil society. Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak has a very pointed answer to the question of what an intellectual can do: There is an impulse among literary critics and other kinds of intellectuals to save the masses, speak for the masses, describe the masses. On the other hand, how about attempting to learn to speak in such a way that the masses will not regard as bullshit. from "The Problem of Cultural Self-Representation" collected in _The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues_ ed. by Sarah Harasym (Routledge, 1990) p. 56 Now then, if one were to map "computing humanists" onto "intellectuals" and "humanities scholars in general" onto "massess" would one be able to content a focus on the manner of speaking with a question of audience? It tend to gloss the following quotation from Spivak in teleological terms (who you choose to address may be connected to who you want to be): It seems to me that what I was saying was not that you should consider all other subjects. I was saying that you might want to entertain the notion that you cannot consider all other subjects and that you should look at your own subjective investment in the narrative that is being produced. You see, that is something that I will continue to repeat, it is not an invitation to be benevolent towards others. from "The Post-modern Condition: The End of Politics?" collected in _The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues_ ed. by Sarah Harasym (Routledge, 1990) p. 29 Lest you think that such thinking leads to a politics of egoism, one last word from Spivak which characterizes the questioning of a text as a way of acquiring a companion: Since we are not looking for a perfect analysis, but we are looking for the mark of vulnerability which makes a great text not an authority generating a perfect narrative, but our own companion, as it were, so we can share our own vulnerabilities with those texts and move. It seems to me that those are the places where we would begin to question. from "The Post-modern Condition: The End of Politics?" collected in _The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues_ ed. by Sarah Harasym (Routledge, 1990) p. 27 Perhaps subscribers to Humanist with a ready memory and who have read Wayne Booth's _The company we keep_ may have more to add to this chapter. Mary Douglas, covered some of this ground in _How Institutions Think_ (1996) and here is a snippet from a 1991 lecture, "The Consumer's Conscience": Instead of starting from the individual confronting his own basic needs, cultural theory starts from a stable system in which a consumer knows that he [sic] is expected to play some part or he will not get any income. In this theory the consumer has what can be called a cultural project. Everything that he chooses to do or to buy is part of a project to choose other people to be with who will help him to make the kind of society he thinks he will like the best. collected in _Objects and Objections_ Monograph Series of the Toronto Semiotic Circle, 1992 p. 56 A pressing political question is how to concretely reward those whose academic and intellectual labour provides the legions who, in the Miltonic sense, "serve and wait" or how to at the very least maintain the types of spaces that allow for the leisure of reading, viewing, listening, partaking of culture. Such questions of social reproduction especially in their gendered form may seem to very remote far from the problems of creating digital collections or testing software but they do certainly impinge upon one of the latest threads you have spun: how then shall we teach? and how then shall our pedagogy be tied to our research? Francois From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0681 function follows form, or not Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:33:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1009 (1009) Willard, [deleted quotation] There is a tendency in casting the question with hendiadys to miss triplets. [deleted quotation] Okay so this navigation question taken from the point of generating a text is not exactly the same question as constructing an argument or deciphering the prose of suasion. Argument construction and reconstruction is a cognitive activity on either side of navigation. The one activity is akin to the collection of premises and conclusions into an articulated (i.e. logically linked whole), the other activity (critical navigation) is one of traversing the connections possible wholes or parts that can be generated. To use a technological example, to recognize/produce an argument is like pointing to a mass of working parts and joining the gesture to a speech act : "this is an engine"; to critically take apart the paths taken/not taken is like stopping the engine and tinkering with its components (with or without accompanying speech acts). How does your example of recognizing an allusion and choosing to look up explicit references differ from the activity of choosing to interrupt the flow of reading to look up an unfamiliar word? The essence of interruption is not in the medium. It comes comes from the choices made by readers. [deleted quotation] What happens in a _genre_ in the same medium which insists on intermediary nodes to guide navigation? A link is not a node. While Web browsing, users can operate more than one browser application and text may be copied from one node in one browser application into a search engine in other browser application. This is de facto a link and not unlike a reader stopping to look up a word in a dictionary --- especially a reader who has a notepad handy to record the results or even a pencil to mark the dictionary page reference in the margin of the text they are perusing. It seems very odd to compare a "detooled" reader of print to the computer user. Well, perhaps not so odd considering the old political economy that created a literacy divide between readers and writers and considering the struggle to design information exchange architectures that give as much bandwidth to uploading as to downloading (a kind of digital divide between surfers and digeratti). [deleted quotation] No, see comment on hendiadys above. I read not only with my eyes but also with my fingers whether I'm reading on or off screen. [deleted quotation] Mine Ours -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Steven Robinson Subject: 14.0681 function follows form, or not Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:31:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1010 (1010) I wonder whether it might help us to shift for a moment from the perspective of composing and delivering an argument into the perspective of reading and assessing someone else's argument. In the former (i.e., composing) perspective, I'll admit, we live within an academic tradition that Adrian Miles correctly describes as privileging the term "singular linearity" for argumentation. Within this (composing) perspective, some of us admittedly have a tendency to want to foist upon our readers an absolutely singular and linear argumentative structure which structure is the standard format of the critical essay. And we tend to consider it of the utmost importance for our students to be able to master that format and compose in that way, and so we foist it upon them as well. Can hypertext change this? Perhaps, in that it invites us to break out of this rigid structure by actively enabling different readers to find different pathways through our own composition, including some that we cannot even predict as we are composing it. Granted. But, as I see it, the question being asked by Willard and so-far discussed here is whether the advent of hypertext either invalidates the former type of structured argument-delivery, or renders it obsolete, or both, or neither. And perhaps also whether hypertext can even really escape it, or wants to? I would suggest that putting ourselves at the receiving end of someone else's argument for a moment can help us clarify a few things. For the reader/receiver/user, the first task is always to determine whether you are even faced with an argument at all. Not everything that claims to be an argument really is; many things that claim not to be arguments, are. One might even agree with Jo Tarvers that "everthing is an argument, even web pages", in so far as (most) everything "out there" is out there in order to get somebody to do something. But consider the following imaginary case: I assign my students the task of assessing Descartes' "argument" for God's existence; and let's assume that I don't give them any text-references; they have to find it for themselves. They don't even know if there is such an argument, but they probably assume that there is, because I told them to assess it. Well, after a bit of searching around, they might go straight to a well-known, singular, linear chain of argument in the Meditations. But is that "the" argument? Did Descartes offer other versions? Did he qualify this one in later years? Did he perhaps tailor this particular version to a particular audience (say, the Dean and Doctors of Paris?), which he alters elsewhere for another audience? Off to other texts. Was he responding to any specific opponents, when he constructed this argument? Should I look at what they were saying? What did Descartes actually "mean" by "God"? Off to other texts. And how does that strange argument of his really work, anyway, now that we've identified it? Did he write his own summary, commentary or guide? Did others do so? Off to other texts. What do the professional philosophers have to say about it? The theologians? The historians? The ecofeminists? Off to other texts (including a visual tour of Renaissance France on cd, and a cool simulated visual overflight of Paris in 1650, from an imaginary balloon-cam). And finally: "Oh Darn! Why did I get a 'D'? What, you mean the key section was that convoluted, annoying section of the text? I skipped over that I just couldn't stand that section. Gave me a headache. Jeez, I hate Descartes!!" Now, my point is that, try as we might, we can't avoid these strategies when we try to make sense of anyone's argument, and neither could Descartes himself in composing it. He knew we would be using these sorts of strategies, though some of them he could never have predicted at the time he composed it. It is ultimately the readers who construct "the author's" argument, not the author. The author is just choosing means (i.e., tools) at his or her disposal to assist the reader in constructing ("the author's") argument in a certain desirable way. Those tools may or may not be effective, and the author never knows who all his or her readers will be, and whether they will be able to use those tools effectively. Standard critical essay format and standard footnotes are there for the sake of control, no doubt. But that's because what they are communicating (in this case, an argument) is difficult, and requires a sustained and skilled effort from both the reader and the author to avoid going awry, into dissolute ineffectiveness. These tools make it easier. But authors have never been able to control the process completely. Readers have always been able to read hypertextually (including using other tools than the ones recommended by the author) and have often, maybe always, done so (both for better and for worse). It is worth noting that what I just called "dissolute ineffectiveness" might turn out to be of benfit to the reader in a way that the author could not anticipate, which might be gratifying to the author but is none the less ineffective at communicating his or her argument. Highly skilled authors have always been able to compose multilinear texts, even multilinear arguments, without the assistance of computers. Plato is a good example. Depending on the reader, he or she will get an entertaining narrative (i.e., a story), an engaging plot, a sophisticated myth, or one or more arguments. To say that only one of these paths (the "main" argument) is all the dialogue is about has never been justified, despite the sustained efforts by generations of academic philosophers. Plato somehow manages to intertwine all of these strands effectively, opening his text to various types of readers with different meanings (but, in the end, very similar effects) for all of them. I don't see how today's hypertext really changes this at all, except perhaps by giving those of us with less meteoric talents access to these methods. But this success of Plato's required consummate skill; can we expect less of ourselves? So, does hypertext undermine an author's act of communicating an argument, or enable it? The answer would appear to be "It all depends on how you use it." People who think of hypertext as ushering in something like a new, democratic age in communications are probably correct, in a way. Certainly, hypertext links provided by an author (editor, publisher, carrier) can lead the reader to information outside the author's control, and even outside the author's intent; this could conceivably have wonderful effects in collapsing double-speak and neutralizing propaganda and advertising strategies. Which is precisely why you'd expect those sorts of authors to be very cautious in deploying hypertext against us. Loose cannons can fire backwards. Well, the same thing goes for any argument. Loose use of hypertext can only encourage one's reader to miss the point (i.e., your argument). And unless your aim is, in fact, something other than to argue, then what's the point of composing such a text in the first place? Presumably, the skilled use of hypertext in argument will have a number of purposes, like demonstrating one's openness to criticism by pointing the reader to other sources outside the particular piece (or "page"), or by supplying additional information, or by juxtaposing ideas. But that's what footnotes do, as well as allusions, metaphors, name-dropping, and any number of other textual devices. If by contrasting footnotes with hypertext, we mean to emphasize the ability of hypertext to link the reader to independently created and maintained info sources that are rapidly evolving or otherwise outstripping any author's anticipations in referencing them, then, again, why would you ever use such a device, as an author? And as for the skill of being able to compose & deliver arguments: Do we need to be teaching them to our students? You'd better believe it! Because without the ability to separate-out the strands (i.e., singular, linear chains) of logic from this pluralistic hypertextual fabric we all live in, they will either just be drawn along by the strands of others (drawing still others after them), or, even worse, be tugged about in all directions at once, into dissolute ineffectiveness. The liberating effects of hypertext, I suspect, will really only accrue to those logically savvy enough to secure their own opinions in the face of all the snares set by others. Multi-linearity, poly-valence, open-endedness, indeterminacy none of these things is incompatible with the existence of, and the need for, the logical unity and logical linearity of traditional argumentation and the ability to use them effectively in text. Steve Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Steven Robinson Assistant Professor Philosophy Department Brandon University Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9 CANADA (204)727-9718 FAX: (204) 726-0473 From: aimeefreak Subject: Re: 14.0676 function follows form? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:33:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1011 (1011) hello willard and humanists; here's a snip of willard's email that intrigues me: [deleted quotation]i wonder: what is 'the Web' that it can push 'us' (however we would define this, and i'm not sure if willard means English instructors, computing humanists, or the populace at large)? is this construction not indicative of another sort of determinism? as i understand it, the web is a collection of online digital documents/texts. so far as i can tell, it has no agency. this remark of mine does not, i will admit, answer the original question about how to deal with a student who sees web authorship as opposed to 'traditional' argumentation. it does, though, i feel, cut off one means by which we might seek to escape answering the question: by ascribing agency to the Web, by claiming that some of its qualities are 'immanent' within or 'natural' to it (and ironically, this is often done by the same constituency that would have us believe that the Web is anarchic and ungovernable), it becomes too easy to cover over the material histories of use (and the attendant ideological underpinnings) that make such a reading of the web as narrative rather than argumentative possible. the next thing i would want to know would be: why is the assignment a web page? is it so that the usually one-way communication of written work between student and teacher is expanded (broadcast medium)? is it to practice building web pages (practical training)? what? if the student understands web pages to function in certain ways, according to her experience, and it is not clear to her how it is meant to function differently in this particular case of the argumentative-paper-web-page, she has good reason for confusion. and these reasons are entirely cultural/intellectual, and not technological, per se. thanks. aimee +++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimee Morrison "Things are going to get a lot PhD Program, Dept. of English worse before they get worse." University of Alberta --Lily Tomlin From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0680 prurient interest & political science, or a Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:34:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1012 (1012) questionabout the curriculum Willard, Note this journal and its society, which is precisely interested in the politics and ethics of cyberspace: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/ Pat Galloway From: aimeefreak Subject: Re: 14.0680 prurient interest & political science, or a Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:34:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1013 (1013) question about the curriculum hello again; [deleted quotation] this sounds remarkably like my dissertation-in-progress, "Becoming the Universal Machine: Creating the Personal Computer in 1980s Literary and Popular Culture". for the answer to *why* the counterargument of little people with little machines against big institutions with big machines seemed viable, you will all have to wait for me to finish chapter 1. :-) [deleted quotation] yes, and it's called "cyberculture" both when it's done well and when it's done poorly. i'm kind of furrowing my eyebrows here, because i think the term remains amorphous, ambiguous, ambivalent (with one usage often at cross purposes with others), but yet retains the possibility of being really helpful for describing the kind of work willard is wondering about. in any case, one must sift, but there is gold in them thar hills. i think this polisci, or social and political thought approach to computing technologies is downright essential. and it's being done -- but not much, so far as i can tell, in the mainstream of humanities computing. it seems to be happening a little more in postmodern studies, or in English depts, or in cultural studies. those are just the places i'm familiar with -- there is likely similar work going on elsewhere that i don't know about. [deleted quotation] yes. when we were devising the curriculum for the humanities computing MA here at the university of alberta, i remember at least a couple of voices lobbying not only for a balance between the why's and the how's of humanities computing, but also for places/courses in which to consider how the discourses of computing, as well as the 'products' of computing, circulate much more broadly in culture, affect culture, *become* culture. there are options courses and cross-listed courses which i think will fulfil this function. hm. i'd really like to get a sense of how many of us are interested in this line of thought, this more broadly social and political reading of infotech -- it's my area of research, and i have considered it as much a kin of humanities computing as of cultural studies. i hope to see more contributions to this question, to get the wider view. i look forward to it. i have to say that all the computing humanists i've yet spoken to have reacted very positively to this kind of conversation. thanks. aimee +++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimee Morrison "Things are going to get a lot PhD Program, Dept. of English worse before they get worse." University of Alberta --Lily Tomlin From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: TUD-Telecooperation Research Group searching for Diploma Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:32:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1014 (1014) students.. TUD - FB20 - Telecooperation Research Group (Ubiquitous Teaching) For the search of Diploma students!! [The language of the Diploma thesis would be preferred in German, but English can also be considered.] The Digital Lecture Hall is a pilot project of the Telecooperation Research Group at The University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany. Though, we have been hearing about Virtual Universities from every side of the Universe, in the near future Lecture Halls will still be playing the central role at university education. The Pilot project, Digital Lecture Hall (DLH) pursues this trend with help of Ubiquitous Computing. What you can do to help realizing our project? We need your help and support to realise the main components of our lecture halls. In case, you are a talented programmer in MS Visual C++ or JAVA, then no one would be going stop you to understand the following themes of DHL. We need your expertise! DLH WebPad and PDA Client With the help of appliances (WebPad, PDA) attendees to the Lecture Hall can access the current lecture data and participate "online": in the way of e-board annotation, memory markers or as to pose queued questions. For the appliances, we need special client software. The platform is Windows CE. The appliances communicate via an IP-Based Protocol. RoboCam Cutter The follow-up of the Lectures in the hall will be covered up with the help of four video cameras and many microphones. For automation in controlling video cameras and video processing, we need software to be developed by you, during this Diploma thesis. The goal of this diploma thesis would be to develop special controlling Algorithms, which would be performing the usual manual work, during the teaching sessions. DLH Web Portal The DLH Web Portal (supporting: HTML, WAP and VoiceML) will give possibility to do Synchronous interaction of the teaching done in the halls and Asynchronous access to the information related to slides, annotation, video streaming and FAQ of archived lectures. Also administration tasks should be implemented through the portal. DLH Room Control Enables the lecturer full control over the Room and the used appliances using an innovative UI. This includes work also includes the implementation of access control components. DLH Conference The DLH should also be applied in distance/remote teaching scenarios. The important components for the video conference and Voice IP should be developed in this diploma thesis. For more information, please contact: Dip.-Ing. Christoph Trompler Research Assistant The University of Technology Telecooperation Research Group Department of Computer Science Alexanderstrasse 6 D-64283, Darmstadt Germany E-mail: Dip-Inform. M.S. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0681 function follows form, or not Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:57:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1016 (1016) At 9:30 AM +0000 20/2/2001, Francois Lachance wrote: [deleted quotation] only if we accept and maintain a particular model of writing (and so reading). at the most trivial level there is absolutely no reason why a scholarly argument in HTML could not use a meta refresh tag to force refresh to another page after a nominated interval. this has been done by me in one navel gazing exercise quite a few years ago (hyperweb, originally published in a special issue of postmodern culture), and in fiction it has been done in the landmark Hegirascope by Stuart Moulthrop. Mark Amerika in Grammatron has written something that wanders between critical meta text and postnovel fiction which also heavily relies upon the meta refresh tag. A time based argument or move is no different to what documentary does *all the time*, that we don't know how to do it, or think to do it, in web based academic writing is just habit. the point of the example is that it is possible to remove this choice from the reader. At 9:30 AM +0000 20/2/2001, Steven Robinson wrote: [deleted quotation] a provisional answer that i regularly give to this question (particularly loved by teachers of english in my (australian) secondary school system) is that at the moment hypertext is currently a post-literate writing practice. we need to know how to write essays and make arguments in the essay form and this seems to help contextualise the move into hypertext. however, i've argued in some essays that hypertext is a postcinematic writing practice, which to me suggests that it doesn't need to be postliterate, though basically if you don't understand writing (in my experience with undergrad. students and staff) then you tend not to understand how to write in hypertext. this may become moot if the principal form of argument is visual though i think it is clear from the available work that most of the more complex problems are being addressed in hypertext (problems of structure, pattern, rhetoric, etc) rather than in the visual arts dominated domain of new media (there are exceptions, on both sides, of course). so i'd suggest we'll have both. i think hypertext wants to escape this model, and it will, but i'm not sure if our educational institutions are able to accommodate this, and if we as teachers can manage this. this is perhaps a more difficult question in terms of pedagogy than teaching how to write a multilinear hypermedia academic essay. cheers adrian miles (who, obviously, is very interested in exploring how to write academically doing these sorts of things) -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. lecturer in new media university of bergen. hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ video blog: vog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: in the machine Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:57:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1017 (1017) Aimee Morrison's response to my rather fuzzy notion that tools have tendencies -- [deleted quotation]reminds me of something a friend used to say when he was upset about automobile traffic, that the brain-to-weight ratio of an automobile with driver made it stupider that the largest dinosaur. In other words, the entity in question is the computational tool-in-use, so I should have said, *we* have certain tendencies and so push ourselves in particular ways when we use the Web. Would it be fair to say that the Web, or any other hypertextual medium, is like a set of clothing that makes certain kinds of movement easier than others? Of course the more artificial intelligence (or artificial quasi-intelligence) is invested in a computational tool, the more we are there before we actually arrive. But if the mind-body problem is as hard as I think it is, then there's no clean separation between invested intelligence and its computational clothing. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "Tim Reuter" Subject: Re: 14.0681 function follows form, or not Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:58:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1018 (1018) Willard wrote: <> Surely the real analogy is with the reader who follows a footnote reference either to McCarty (1986) 139-42, or picks up McCarty 1986 and goes to 139-42 by way of the index or the contents page? The paradox of academic ink publishing has surely always been that our works are constructed as a coherent whole -- that's how we think of them when putting them together, that's how publishers' readers and journal editors judge them, that's how they are marketed -- but that readers almost all the time do not use them in that way. How many books does a typical Humanist read each year by starting at 1 and going through to 439 or wherever? Articles may fare a little better, but even there I suspect they often get Xeroxed and gutted. Tim Reuter From: Terry Butler Subject: URGENT DEADLINE - Master of Arts in Humanities Computing Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:00:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1019 (1019) Please note: this is a reposting of an earlier invitation for student applications. Please disseminate this widely to interested students. Applicants are encouraged to contact huco@mail.arts.ualberta.ca immediately to express their interest. Further information is on-line at: www.arts.ualberta.ca/huco/ The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta announces a new two-year Master of Arts degree in Humanities Computing. Commencing September 2001, the program integrates computational methods and theories with research and teaching in the humanities. It will address the demand for Arts graduates proficient in computing skills, able to work either in the realm of humanities research and teaching or in the emerging job markets of information management and content delivery over the Internet. The Core Curriculum: A Balance of Theory and Practice In a set of core courses, students survey humanities computing and its underlying technologies as they are employed in disciplines such as history, literature, languages, cultural studies, philosophy, music and visual arts. The aim is to show how computing is enabling and transforming humanities research and teaching, and to impart technical knowledge through hands-on experience with creation, delivery, and analysis of electronic text and non-textual data and images. In the second year, the students extend their knowledge of humanities computing by taking elective courses, including at least one in a humanities discipline in which they specialize, and a thesis in which they address a research or teaching issue in their discipline. Private Sector Problem-Solving and Academic Scholarship In addition to enhancing career prospects in traditional humanities areas, graduates of the program are well positioned for leadership in important emerging areas such as digital libraries, electronic publishing, electronic museum archives, and distance learning. Through its emphasis on graduate-level study in one of the participating humanities departments, the program also prepares students for the option of continuing graduate work at the Ph.D. level in their field of specialization. Admission requirements Students admitted into the program will choose from one of the following areas of specialization: Applied Linguistics, Art and Design, Chinese Literature, Classics, Comparative Literature, Drama, East Asian Studies, English, French, German, History, Italian, Japanese Literature, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Applicants must meet the regular graduate requirements of one of the participating departments. Elective courses are drawn both from options within the MA program and graduate offerings in the student's home department. Thesis work is directed by a faculty member from one of the participating departments, with provision for co-supervision from a faculty member within the program. Applications and Deadlines Questions and requests for application materials may be directed to huco@mail.arts.ualberta.ca. Completed applications should be sent as soon as possible, but interested students should contact the above immediately to express interest. When requesting applications materials, students should indicate their desired area of specialization. Terry Butler, Humanities Computing Coordinator Director, Technologies for Learning Centre Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta www.humanities.ualberta.ca/TLC From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: COPYRIGHT NEWS: Napster; Eldred v. Reno Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:59:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1020 (1020) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 20, 2001 COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INJUNCTION AGAINST NAPSTER <http://www.artswire.org/current.html>http://www.artswire.org/current.html * * * * DC CIRCUIT COURT DECIDES AGAINST ELDRED v. RENO Rejects claim 2-1 that Copyright Term Extension Act is unconstitutional <http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200102/99-5430a.txt>http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200102/99-5430a.txt Two court decisions from last week: one quite celebrated on the Napster case, here as reported by Arts Wire; the other less celebrated - the DC Circuit Court's rejection of the Eldred v. Reno case on the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Term Extension Act. David Green =========== COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INJUNCTION AGAINST NAPSTER <http://www.artswire.org/current.html>http://www.artswire.org/current.html _______________________________________________________ Arts Wire CURRENT February 20, 2001 Arts Wire CURRENT Volume 10, No. 8 Arts Wire CURRENT Arts Wire CURRENT Judy Malloy, Editor Arts Wire CURRENT jmalloy@artswire.org _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INJUNCTION AGAINST NAPSTER WASHINGTON, DC -- Last week, The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Napster, an online business which facilitates music sharing, was in violation of copyright law. The Court held that the District Court correctly recognized that a preliminary injunction against Napster's participation in copyright infringement was not only warranted, but required. "Napster by its conduct knowingly encourages and assists the infringement of plaintiffs' copyrights," The Ninth Circuit's opinion stated. "The decision represents a clear victory for the creative content community and the legitimate online marketplace," said Hilary Rosen, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) President and CEO. "We are gratified that the Ninth Circuit agreed with Judge Patel [Chief U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel] that Napster must take steps immediately to prevent further copyright infringements." The decision is likely to be applicable to future situations in many arts disciplines, in that although many artists may choose to make their work available as public art on the Internet, that is a decision, the Court affirmed, to be made by the artists themselves, and/or, if applicable, by their labels, publishers, or agents -- not by a business which uses their work without permission. Sources/resources: "Musicians, Execs Testify to Congress About Music Technologies" Arts Wire CURRENT -- <http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur071800.html>http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur071800.html July 18, 2000 "Judge Shuts Napster Down; Appeals Court Grants Stay" Arts Wire CURRENT -- <http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur080100.html>http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur080100.html August 1, 2000 "Napster Forms Alliance with Bertelsmann; Will Move to Subscription Model" Arts Wire CURRENT -- <http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur111400.html>http://www.artswire.org/current/2000/cur111400.html November 14, 2000 ========================================================= Arts Wire CURRENT is available at <http://www.artswire.org/current.html>http://www.artswire.org/current.html and an archive of past issues can be found at <http://www.artswire.org/current/archive.html>http://www.artswire.org/current/archive.html _______________________________________________________ DC CIRCUIT COURT DECIDES AGAINST ELDRED v. RENO Rejects claim 2-1 that Copyright Term Extension Act is unconstitutional <http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200102/99-5430a.txt>http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200102/99-5430a.txt [deleted quotation] COPYRIGHT'S COMMONS NEWSLETTER, 2/19/01 On February 16, the DC Circuit handed down its decision in Eldred v. Reno, rejecting our claim that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 decision, the court held that retroactive term extensions are within Congress' authority under the Copyright Clause, and that the 20-year term extensions did not violate the First Amendment. The majority's opinion, written by Judge Ginsburg, is available in full at <<http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov>http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov>; a summary is available below. A spirited dissent by Judge Sentelle recognized the merits of our argument, as well as those of amicus curiae The Eagle Forum, concluding that retroactive extensions are beyond the 'outer limits' of congressional authority under the Copyright Clause. An appeal is underway, in which we will either seek a rehearing en banc in the DC Circuit, or bypass that step and appeal directly to the Supreme Court. SUMMARY OF JUDGE GINSBURG'S MAJORITY OPINION We argued that the CTEA is unconstitutional on three grounds: First, the CTEA fails the intermediate scrutiny test required to protect freedom of expression under the First Amendment. Second, the retrospective term extension violates the originality requirement of copyright. Third, congressional power to extend copyright protection is constrained both by the preamble of the Copyright Clause and by that clause's "limited Times" requirement. The majority rejected all three of our arguments. FIRST AMENDMENT. The court held that the Supreme Court's decision in Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises and the DC Circuit's decision in United Video, Inc. v. FCC stand as "insuperable bars" to our first amendment claims - the former holding that adequate first amendment protections are already embodied in copyright's idea/expression dichotomy and the fair use doctrine, and the latter that "copyrights are categorically immune from challenges under the First Amendment." We had distinguished these cases in that both were limited to the context of litigants seeking first amendment access to the legitimately copyrighted works of others, while ours is a challenge to the legitimacy of the copyright in the first instance. The court, however, dismissed this distinction as "wholly illusory," writing instead that the only "relevant question under the First Amendment . . . is whether the party has a first amendment interest in a copyrighted work." ORIGINALITY. The court refused to apply the reasoning of Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Co. to the present case, limiting Feist to the question of the initial eligibility of certain subject matter for copyright, rather than applying it more broadly to congressional authority over that subject matter, once in the ambit of copyright. We had argued that the requirement of originality precludes statutory extension of pre-existing copyrights because any such extension grants new monopolies to what are now unoriginal works. The court rejected this approach and declined to read Feist in anything but the narrowest of terms. The court also distinguished Graham v. John Deere Co. (holding that Congress could not grant a patent which would have the effect of restricting access to material already available) and the Trademark Cases (excluding trademarks from the Copyright Clause because trademarks covered something "already in existence") as inapplicable in the context of copyright. Ultimately, the court concluded that "[o]riginality is what ma[kes] the work copyrightable in the first place. A work with a subsisting copyright has already satisfied the requirement of originality and need not do so anew for its copyright to persist." LIMITED TIMES. We had argued that congressional authority was constrained both by the "promote progress" requirement in the preamble to the Copyright Clause and by the "limited times" restriction within it, an argument justified by the Supreme Court's interpretation of 'Authors' and 'Writings' in light of that preamble. But the court invoked its decision in Schnapper v. Foley as a bar to any argument "that the introductory language of the Copyright Clause constitutes a limit on congressional power." Having rejected any suggestion that congressional action in this area must be shown "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts," the court affirmed the CTEA as a rational exercise of what, given the court's understanding of Schnapper, is a nearly unlimited congressional authority to define the terms of copyright. SUMMARY OF JUDGE SENTELLE'S DISSENT As a preliminary matter, Judge Sentelle's dissent emphasized the limited nature of Congressional copyright authority. The Copyright Clause "is not an open grant of power to secure exclusive rights. It is a grant of power to promote progress. The means by which that power is to be exercised is certainly the granting of exclusive rights -- not an elastic and open-ended use of that means, but only a securing for limited times." With this understanding of the Copyright Clause as background, Sentelle based much of his dissenting opinion on the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Lopez. In applying what he termed the "Lopez principle," Sentelle explained that limited congressional authority under the Copyright Clause, just as under the Commerce Clause, must have some "definable stopping point," an articulable and predictable horizon. According to Sentelle, the CTEA lacks such a horizon because there is "no apparent substantive distinction between permanent protection and permanently available authority to extend originally limited protection." The required "stopping point" can only be found in the distinction between prospective and retrospective term extensions, the latter being beyond the outer limits of Congress' enumerated powers. ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES If you would like to remove yourself from our mailing list, email majordomo@eon.law.harvard.edu with "unsubscribe cc" as the text of your message. This message should come from the email account at which you receive the newsletter. 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DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2001 (DAC '01) Providence, Rhode Island, USA April 26-28, 2001 An international conference sponsored by The Scholarly Technology Group Brown University Providence, RI, USA Department of Humanistic Informatics Faculty of Arts University of Bergen Bergen, Norway -- [Elli Mylonas Associate Director for Projects and Research Scholarly Technology Group Box 1841-STG Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel. 1 401 863-7231 (but email is more reliable) http://www.stg.brown.edu ] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [MIT New Book] Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano on Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:11:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1022 (1022) _Evolutionary Robotics_ Dear Humanist Scholars, I thought readers of this group, might be interested in this book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/NOLEHF00. Evolutionary Robotics The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic engineering. The resulting robots share with simple biological systems the characteristics of robustness, simplicity, small size, flexibility, and modularity. In evolutionary robotics, an initial population of artificial chromosomes, each encoding the control system of a robot, is randomly created and put into the environment. Each robot is then free to act (move, look around, manipulate) according to its genetically specified controller while its performance on various tasks is automatically evaluated. The fittest robots then "reproduce" by swapping parts of their genetic material with small random mutations. The process is repeated until the "birth" of a robot that satisfies the performance criteria. This book describes the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics and the results achieved so far. An important feature is the clear presentation of a set of empirical experiments of increasing complexity. Software with a graphic interface, freely available on a Web page, will allow the reader to replicate and vary (in simulation and on real robots) most of the experiments. Stefano Nolfi is Coordinator of the Division of Neural Systems and Artificial Life, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome. Dario Floreano is Assistant Professor of Biorobotics and Adaptive Systems, Institute of Robotics, Department of Microengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. 7 x 9, 384 pp., 157 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-14070-5 Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series A Bradford Book -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jud Wolfskill 617.253.2079 phone Associate Publicist 617.253.1709 fax MIT Press wolfskil@mit.edu 5 Cambridge Center http://mitpress.mit.edu Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Lev Manovich and his essays on New Media including his Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:18:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1023 (1023) new book Dear Humanists, Hi -I would like to introduce 'a Russsian artist' and his works in short. Lev Manovich is an artist, a theorist and a critic of new media. He is the author of _The Language of New Media_ (The MIT Press, 2001). Little Movies: Prolegomena for Digital Cinema http://www-apparitions.ucsd.edu/~manovich/little-movies/ About "Little Movies" http://www-apparitions.ucsd.edu/~manovich/little-movies/statement-new3.html To Lie and To Act: Potemkin's Villages, Cinema and Telepresence http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/~manovich/text/Checkpoint.html Cinema as a Cultural Interface http://jupiter.ucsd.edu/~manovich/text/cinema-cultural.html The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds -Lev Manovich 1/2 http://nettime.khm.de/nettime.w3archive/199602/msg00001.html The Aesthetics of Virtual Worlds -Lev Manovich 2/2 http://nettime.khm.de/nettime.w3archive/199602/msg00000.html The Death of Computer Art -by Lev Manovich http://www.thenetnet.com/schmeb/schmeb12.html In the book, _The Language of New Media_ Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. For more details, please visit.. http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262133741 Thank you. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Tasini et al v The New York Times et al Subject: Landmark Supreme Court Internet Case Alert Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:34:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1024 (1024) <http://www.nwu.org/tvt/tvthome.htm>http://www.nwu.org/tvt/tvthome.htm Introduction to Tasini v NY Times Tasini et al vs The New York Times et al is the landmark lawsuit brought by members of the National Writers Union against The New York Times Company, Newsday Inc., Time Inc., Lexis/Nexis, and University Microfilms Inc., charging copyright violation regarding the electronic reuse of work produced and sold on a freelance basis. For decades, when freelance writers sold stories to American publications it was understood by all concerned that they were selling only First North American Serial rights which allowed the newspaper or magazine to publish the story in print one time. For freelance authors, retention of all other copy rights is crucial to their economic survival because a significant additional source of income comes from their ability to sell secondary rights such as syndication, translations, anthologies, and so forth, to other publications. With the advent of electronic media including databases like Nexis, publishers such as Time/Warner and the Times/Mirror Company, the parent companies of Time and Newsday, have been selling freelance-authored material to electronic databases such as Nexis/Lexis without any additional payment or purchase of electronic rights from the original authors. They claim, without justification, that by purchasing First North American Serial rights they automatically gain electronic re- publication rights. Tasini et al vs The New York Times et al is going to establish that they are violating the copy rights of writers. Copyright 2000 by National Writers Union. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:33:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1025 (1025) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism in the Digital Environment ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION UMUC is hosting an asynchronous online workshop entitled Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism in the Digital Environment from April 2, 2001 to April 13, 2001. The noted scholar Rebecca Moore Howard, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Director and Chair of The Writing Program at Syracuse University will moderate this workshop series. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop moderator. This dynamic workshop series will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of plagiarism issues facing higher education in today's rapidly changing digital environment. Rebecca Moore Howard (http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/) chairs and directs the Writing Program at Syracuse University and has written extensively on issues concerning plagiarism including, Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators (1999); co-author of The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines (1995); coeditor of Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (2000); and author of a variety of chapters and articles about plagiarism, pedagogy, and composition theory. Please register early since space is limited. Early registration before March 26, 2001 is $125.00. Registration after March 26, 2001 is $150.00. You may register online or you may register by phone by calling 301-985-7579. 10% discount given for UMUC participants. For additional information visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_4-01/workshop.html or call 301-985-7579. From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP: The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:17:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1026 (1026) Curriculum in the Humanities Call For Papers (corrected, with apologies) * The Humanities Computing Curriculum / * * The Computing Curriculum in the Humanities * A session at the annual meeting of the Canadian Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines (COCH/COSH), at the 2001 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Universit Laval, Qubec, 24-25 May 2001. < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/proj/HCCurr/HCCurr.htm > Is there a humanities computing curriculum? For the purpose of our teaching, is there an accepted set of tools and techniques, and a unique and related collection of theories having a commonly-understood application, that are associated with the (inter)discipline of humanities computing? What must be considered when designing and implementing courses in humanities computing? Can humanities computing courses discover and survey the influence of computing technology, broadly construed, in the arts? Must courses in humanities computing reflect the tradition of the computing humanist? Should they embrace all current applications of computing in the humanities? Can textual description and markup, cybercultural studies, text analysis, and (multi)media theory and practice, &c., co-exist? Paper proposals treating these and any other issues relating to the humanities computing curriculum are invited by COCH/COSH to be considered for presentation at our upcoming annual conference. One page proposals (accompanied by a brief CV) may be sent before March 31 to Ray Siemens, at siemensr@mala.bc.ca or at the contact points listed below. * Information about COCH/COSH is available via its website: http://purl.oclc.org/net/cochcosh * Details relating to the 2001 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities -- including information about registration, travel, and accommodation -- is available at this URL: http://www.hssfc.ca/Cong/CongressInfoEng.html * Inquiries about the larger COCH/COSH-sponsored conference on the Humanities Computing Curriculum, planned to take place later this year, are also welcome. ___________ R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 741-2667. RaySiemens@home.com http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm siemensr@mala.bc.ca From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 4th Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:20:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1027 (1027) [deleted quotation] The Fourth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Borjomi, Georgia September 23-28, 2001 www.illc.uva.nl/borjomi The fourth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be=20 held in the mountain resort Likani, situated in the Borjomi Canyon, from=20 23 to 28 September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for=20 Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University in conjunction=20 with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the=20 University of Amsterdam. The 2001 forum is the fourth instalment of a=20 series of biannual Symposia. The preceding ones took place in the=20 Georgian mountain resort Gudauri (1995), at the capital of Georgia Tbilisi (1997) and in the Black sea cost resort Chakvi (1999). The success=20 of this triad encourages us to continue this series. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of=20 Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive and modal logic [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools & Rescources Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:23:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1028 (1028) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, http://registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/, http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech. [material deleted] PROVISIONAL WEBSITE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/toulouse From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 5th Workshop on Interlinguas-Call for Papers Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:23:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1029 (1029) [deleted quotation] Fifth Workshop on Interlinguas : Call for Papers The call for papers for the Fifth Workshop on Interlinguas is available at http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/FifthWorskhop/ The goal of this workshop is to bring together specialists to work out a practical, cross-language system of semantic relations for use in representing events and states of affairs including, but not limited to, participant relations (e.g., agent, patient, recipient, benefactee, instrument, etc.), spatial relations (e.g., anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, interior, etc.) and temporal relations (e.g., prior-to, following, concurrent, etc.). [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 5th Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:24:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1030 (1030) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS CoNLL-2001 Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop Toulouse, France, July 6-7, 2001 http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/ BACKGROUND CoNLL is the yearly workshop organized by SIGNLL, the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (http://www.aclweb.org/signll/). Previous CoNLL meetings were held in Madrid (1997), Sydney (1998), Bergen (1999) and Lisbon (2000). The 2001 event will be held as a two-days workshop at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July 6-11, 2001 in Toulouse, France. This year, a special theme will be the focus of the workshop: Interaction and Automation in Language Learning Resources [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: NAACL-2001 Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:26:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1031 (1031) Resources [deleted quotation] WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/mwnw/ NAACL 2001 Workshop Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 3 and 4 June, 2001 Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the Lexicon. Previously announced as two different workshops: - WordNet: Extensions and NLP Applications - Customizing Lexical Resources Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of explicit linguistic information presented in different formats and at various levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries generally contains genus, encyclopaedic and usage information. The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended for computational uses. For instance, MRDs are a by-product of the dictionary publishing industry, and WordNet was an experiment in modelling the mental lexicon. In particular, WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology and artificial intelligence. Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example, in Europe, WordNet has been used as the starting point for the development of a multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project). Other resources such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Roget's Thesaurus have also been used for various NLP tasks. The topic of this workshop is the exploitation of existing resources for particular computational tasks such as Word Sense Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering and Summarization. We invite paper submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: - Resource usage in NLP and AI - Resource extension in order to reflect the lexical coverage within a particular domain; - Resource augmentation by e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information associated with the existing entries. For instance, recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that models pragmatic information not always present in the texts but required by document processing; - Improvement of the consistency or quality of resources by e.g. homogenizing lexical descriptions, making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering word senses; - Merging resources, i.e. combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by producing a mapping between their senses. For instance, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYC); - Corpus-based acquisition of knowledge; - Mining common sense knowledge from resources; - Multilingual WordNets and applications; [material deleted] From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: CFP: Computer Games, Hypertext, and Special Effects Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:32:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1032 (1032) Call for Papers and Proposals for a proposed MLA special session Playing with Interactive Narrative: Computer Games, Hypertext, and Special Effects Deadline: 15 March 2001 Since the rise of hypertext theory in the early 1990s, it has become commonplace to situate digitally mediated, interactive narrative within the general context of participatory reading. As the field of interactive narrative widens to include computer games, the premises of hypertext theory continue to echo loudly through the field even though many narrative-based computer games seem to have little to do with reading verbal text. Like hypertext fiction, computer games can provide open and flexible narrative spaces in which players must exercise participatory, directional influence over narrative potentialities. Yet, while hypertext fiction and narrative-based computer games may both provide environments for variable, user-driven narrative trajectories, they are often very different forms of digital culture. Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story and Bioware's Balder's Gate both require users to participate in the unfolding of their narrative potentialities, but Baldur's Gate relies much more heavily upon non- or extra-literary elements, such as sound and image. In many computer games, visual and auditory special effects can interrupt narrative development so strikingly that they might be thought of as anti-narrative elements. At the same time, special effects are integral to what makes playing computer games fun for most game players. I seek papers that theorize the intersection between narrative and anti-narrative in computer games. I am especially interested in interdisciplinary papers that engage with frameworks for thinking about narrative in computer games, such as hypertext theory, narrative theory, and/or special effects film theory. What can and can't hypertext theory tell us about computer games? What can and can't computer games tell us about hypertext theory? Most articulations of hypertext theory rely heavily upon linguistics-based theories of meaning. Can a linguistics-based approach to computer games explain the non-linguistic elements of visual and auditory effects? Are computer games interactive narratives? Or is narrative a secondary prop upon which to arrange interactivity and special effect? Submit by e-mail or snail mail a full paper or 500 abstract. plus CV by 12 March 2001 to: Andrew Mactavish McMaster University School of the Arts 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario CANADA L8S 4M2 mactavis@mcmaster.ca See http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/mla_games/index.html for more information From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2001, Brown University Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:35:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1033 (1033) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 22, 2001 DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2001 (DAC '01) April 26-28, 2001: Providence, RI <http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/program.html>http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/program.html Keynote speakers: Stuart Moulthrop and Ted Nelson [deleted quotation] It is my great pleasure to announce that the program for DIGITAL ARTS & CULTURE 2001 (DAC '01) Providence, Rhode Island, USA April 26-28, 2001 (NB: Thu.-Sat.) is now available: <http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/program.html>http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/program.html Please distribute this to anyone who might be interested. Keynote speakers : Stuart Moulthrop and Ted Nelson Also: paper presentations, an art gallery, two hours daily plenary reading/performance sessions, and two evening cabaret events. Jointly sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and the Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway The fourth international Digital Arts & Culture Conference will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, April 26-28, 2001. This conference aims to embrace and explore the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and practice of contemporary digital arts and culture. Seeking to foster greater understanding about digital arts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary, and professional practices, the conference cultivates an eclectic and collaborative forum. To this end, we cordially invite scholars, researchers, artists, computer professionals, and others who are working within the broadly defined areas of digital arts and culture to join in the DAC discourse community by attending DAC2001. Register before april 2nd for lowest rates Registration is available at <http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/register/register.shtml>http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/DAC/register/register.shtml Early registration (before April 2.): $75, students $30 ________________________________________________ Special post-conference event, Sun. 29. - Mon. 30.: PiggyDAC --- Digital Literature Workshop --- <http://wordcircuits.com/htww/dac01.html>http://wordcircuits.com/htww/dac01.html ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: A collational Comet Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:20:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1034 (1034) In late 1999, the University of Virginia bibliographical community had what may have been a unique chance to see four different mechanical text collators in action in the same room: the Hinman Collator, the Lindstrand Comparator, the McLeod Portable Collator, and Hailey's Comet. Astoundingly, this event was covered by the local press: see http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/1999/37/collator.html Here is further news on the local collational front: Carter Hailey announces that, in response to a request from the Oxford Spenser edition, he will be building a run of his COMET portable optical collators in March 2001. Employing a system of dual bookshelves and a pair of flexibly mounted mirrors, the collator permits the side-by-side comparison of two copies of a book or other document in order to detect variation. The COMET is small, lightweight (with the smaller stand about 20 lbs., a bit more for the large stand), and easy to adjust once you get the hang of it. It has been used successfully in dozens of institutions in both the US and the UK including the Folger, Huntington, Bodleian, and Cambridge University Libraries. It is currently being used by the Cambridge Jonson edition, and the Oslo Ibsen edition. The COMET is available with the smaller bookstands (14" x 10") at $750, with the larger stands (19" x 10") at $825, and with both for $975, plus shipping. Detailed illustrations and instructions for assembly and use are included. For further information, telephone or write Mr Carter Hailey 2110 Rivermont Avenue Lynchburg, VA 24503 Phone 804/528-1564; email quarto1550@aol.com ________________________________________________________________________ David L. Gants **** c/o The Newberry Library **** Research and Education Division *** 60 West Walton Street **** Chicago, Illinois *** 60610-3305 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0688 function follows form into argument Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:15:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1035 (1035) Adrian, I stand by my statement on the essence of interruption. [deleted quotation] made by [deleted quotation] The use of a meta element in the header of an html document to send an http refresh or redirect instruction does not per se force a new page to appear. Try viewing such a document in a browser such as Lynx which does not support automatic refresh. Quite a part from the technology used to access the html (you can read html in a text editor), there is the question of reading the ephemeral. Film and video can be reviewed. A theatrical production poses the same problems as the historical event. It is reviewed through a documentary record. In phenomenological terms, reviewing a film or video is like rereading a document and the historical event in its ephemerality corresponds to the aesthetic experience of reading a document, film or video. This formulation is indeed open to charges of circularity but only if one wants to overcome the impossibility of providing more than a provisional space for metadiscourse. Access to the aesthetic experience or to the historical event is always mediated. Such access is recreated through acts of rereading. I stress that even in the case of self-destructing artefacts (files that erase themselves upon being accessed), the memory of the experience can be transcribed and the transcription can enter into a discursive and critical economy. [deleted quotation] True, the particular model maintains that the best way to learn to read is to transcribe (or translate) and that the best way to learn how to write is to read (i.e. parse). [deleted quotation] remove some choices from some readers some of the time.... And this was true even before the rise of the printing press, let alone digital technologies. Not all readers possess the same fluency in all natural languages. Even the most monological, unilingual verbal artefact will be received differently at different times in a multilingual world. Even within one linguistic community some readers will be more attuned to the graphic element and others sensitive to sonority. Culture counts. Adrian, have your or your students done experiements with "voicing" a hypertext? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "gerda" Subject: Re: 14.0688 function follows form into argument Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:35:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1036 (1036) Excuse my ignorance, or I must have missed something. But what is a "meta refresh tag?" Gerda Professor Gerda Elata-Alster Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel 84105 Tel: 972-7-6416128, Fax: 972-7-6472907 Home: 78 Shemaryahu Levinstreet, Jerusalem 96664 Tel: 972-2-6416855, Fax: 072-2-6416293 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Howard Rheingold on _The Virtual Community_ a revised edition Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:05:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1037 (1037) Dear Humanist Readers, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (revised edition) by Howard Rheingold For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/RHEVPF00. Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community--one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others. At the same time that he tells moving stories about people who have received online emotional support during devastating illnesses, he acknowledges a darker side to people's behavior in cyberspace. Indeed, contends Rheingold, people relate to each other online much the same as they do in physical communities. Originally published in 1993, The Virtual Community is more timely than ever. This edition contains a new chapter, in which the author revisits his ideas about online social communication now that so much more of the world's population is wired. It also contains an extended bibliography. Howard Rheingold's numerous books include Tools for Thought (MIT Press, 2000), Virtual Reality, and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. 6 x 9, 360 pp., paperback ISBN 0-262-68121-8 For more details, please contact, Jud Wolfskill, Associate Publicist, MIT Press at Thank you. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conference: Cultural Dynamics, Princeton, March 30-31 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:55:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1038 (1038) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 23, 2001 Cultural Dynamics <http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/dynconf.html>http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/dynconf.html March 30-31: Princeton University The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and the Department of Sociology at Princeton University will host a conference on Cultural Dynamics on March 30 and 31st, 2001 on the Princeton University Campus. The Conference will look broadly at the topic of cultural change -- from long-term historical transformations through short-term change in small groups and everything in between. It will feature talks on globalization, public opinion, technology, commemorations, literature and regionalism, racial and ethnic identity and other areas relevant to the sociology of culture. Keynote speakers include Diana Crane, Wendy Griswold, W. Russell Neuman and David Zaret. Registration for the conference is free but is required in order to reserve a seat and a conference program. For program schedule: <http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/prgschdl.html>http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/prgschdl.html To register: <http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/confreg.html>http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/confreg.html For conference poster: <http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/POSTERpg1.pdf>http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/POSTERpg1.pdf ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "B. Tommie Usdin" Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2001 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:00:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1039 (1039) Call for Participation for Extreme Markup Languages 2001 NOTE - CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION HAVE CHANGED! Highlights: - highly technical peer-reviewed 3.7-day conference preceded by 2 days of tutorials - SGML, XML, Topic Maps, query languages, linking, schemas, transformations, inference engines, formatting and behavior, and more - Submissions due by March 31, 2001 - For more information visit www.gca.org Extreme Markup Languages 2001 There's Nothing so Practical as a Good Theory From GCA (Alexandria, Va.) - Extreme Markup Languages brings [deleted quotation] There will be four types of presentations at Extreme: peer reviewed technical papers, late breaking news, posters, and invited keynotes. All will be new material, address some aspect of information management from a theoretical or practical standpoint, and be detailed and rigorous. Come join us to discuss information alchemy: making documents into information and data into gold. WHEN: August 12-17, 2001 WHERE: Le Centre Sheraton, Montral, Canada SPONSOR: Graphic Communications Association (GCA) Chairs: Steven R. Newcomb B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Co-Chairs: Deborah A. Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium/MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences WHAT: Call for Papers, Peer Reviewers, Posters, and Tutorials HOW: Submit full papers or paper proposals to the conference secretariat in SGML or XML according to one of the submission DTDs and sent via email to: extreme@mulberrytech.com. Guidelines for Submission and the DTDs are available by email: extreme@mulberrytech.com or at http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme Apply to the Peer Review panel using the form at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Peer/ Submit tutorial proposals according to the instructions at: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Tutorial SCHEDULE: Peer Review Applications Due. . March 2, 2001 Tutorial Proposals Due . . . . March 16, 2001 Paper Submission Deadline . . . March 31, 2001 Speakers Notified . . . . . . . May 14, 2001 Revised Papers Due. . . . . . . June 18, 2001 Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . August 12-13, 2001 Conference . . . . . . . . . . August 14-17, 2001 QUESTIONS: Email to Extreme@mulberrytech.com or call Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631 MORE INFORMATION: For updated information on the program and plans for the conference as they develop, see http://www2.gca.org/extreme/ -- ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: Julian Morgan Subject: 2001 Classics & ICT Conference in Oxford Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:00:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1040 (1040) Julian@j-progs.com http://www.j-progs.com 81 High St, Pitsford, Northants, NN6 9AD, United Kingdom Tel/Fax (01604) 880119 From: acm-mem2 Subject: ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace Conference,March 12-14, 2001 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:28:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1041 (1041) [--] We would like to invite you to attend The ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace Conference, March 12-14, 2001, in San Jose, California. Because you have registered with the ACM Digital Library, we know you are someone who is very interested in the latest developments and trends in IT, and ACM1 will be a landmark convergence of some of the greatest IT & Scientific Leaders and Visionaries in the world! Register for ACM1 now at: http://www.acm.org/acm1 View the newly-posted ACM1 Conference Schedule at: http://www.acm.org/acm1/conference/conf_sked.html The ACM1 Conference brings together an exceptional collection of speakers that will grapple with the most pressing global questions facing life as we know it. Topics addressed will include: "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet" "Why We Will Spend Most of Our Time in Virtual Reality in the 21st Century?" "Beyond Jules Verne: Ocean Exploration for the 21st Century," "Flesh and Machines," etc. Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet Inventor, founder of 3Com, and Director, International Data Group, serves as Master of Ceremonies for these unique, exploratory three days! You'll have an opportunity to see and hear an amazing collection of IT leaders and scientific visionaries, such as: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft; Rodney Brooks, MIT; Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation; Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence, National Geographic Society; Alan Kay, Disney; Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies; Neil de Grasse Tyson, Rose Center for Earth & Science, Hayden Planetarium; and Dean Kamen, DEKA Research & Development Corp. ACM1 will also host a free, interactive Exposition (March 10-13) that is expected to draw over 100,000 visitors including children, educators, and the general public. Hundreds of leading high-tech firms, schools, and research labs worldwide will exhibit hands-on technologies that would otherwise be unavailable to the public for years! Don't miss-out on this "must-attend" event! Register for ACM1 today at http://www.acm.org/acm1 ---------------------------------------- From: David William Bates Subject: Jessica Riskin on the _history of artificial intelligence_ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:20:40 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1042 (1042) {--} The Department of Rhetoric presents Jessica Riskin Assistant Professor of the History and Culture of Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT "The Defecating Duck, or, the very early history of artificial intelligence" Monday, March 5 4 - 6 pm 130 Wheeler Hall Reception to follow talk ................................................................ David Bates Assistant Professor Department of Rhetoric University of California 7408 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2670 (510) 642-2172 -------------------------------------------------------------- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: European Metadata Engine Project Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:09:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1043 (1043) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 27, 2001 The Metadata Engine Project (METAe) <http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/>http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/ METAe Newsletter Now Available <http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/newsletter/news.htm>http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/newsletter/news.htm A promising European project, The METADATA ENGINE, is described below, along with the first issue of the project's newsletter. Essentially, the project is working on developing software that will automatically generate metadata during the digitization of printed material and hopefully making "large scale digitisation of printed material, such as books and journals, more reliable in terms of digital preservation, more cost-effective in terms of automation, and more user-oriented in terms of future applications." David Green =========== [deleted quotation] *** Apologies for cross-postings *** The Metadata Engine Project (METAe) - Newsletter now available. The first issue of the METAe Newsletter is now available from: <http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/newsletter/news.htm>http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/newsletter/news.htm (for an introduction to METAe see the base of this email) In this first issue we introduce our project and tell you some information about progress to date. Our next issue due out in April 2001 will have even more detail and information. The METAe homepage has further information and of course the METAe team welcome contact at any time: <http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/>http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/. The METAe Project is funded under the European Union IST Programme. In this issue, Gnter Mhlberger, from the Project Co-ordination team at University of Innsbruck explains the genesis of the idea that led to the Metadata Engine Project. Also, the influence of the METAe project is already being felt on the international scene and Alexander Eggar explains why METAe have been invited to attend the next MOA2 DTD meeting in New York. We also introduce the 14 partners that make up the Metadata Engine project. In future issues two partners per issue will showcase their expertise and involvement in METAe. This will give a good opportunity to find out more about the backgrounds to our various partners. We will endeavour to keep you up to date with the METAe project progress and to give details of forthcoming events that METAe organises or will be presenting information at. The newsletter may also include reports on meetings attended by METAe partners - as this issue does, with an article by Gerd Prasthofer on the SCHEMAS-workshop held in Bonn during November 2000. We hope you will find this newsletter useful and informative. Any feedback can be directed to Simon Tanner, Editor of the METAe Newsletter at mailto:s.g.tanner@herts.ac.uk Best regards, Simon Tanner Senior Digitisation Consultant (HEDS) Higher Education Digitisation Service Web: <http://heds.herts.ac.uk>http://heds.herts.ac.uk Some further information about METAe: The METADATA ENGINE Project "Metadata" are playing a significant role in "digital preservation": Firstly, they are, in conjunction with emerging standards (such as XML, EAD, Dublin Core or RDF ), among the most promising ways to keep digital material "alive" over the years and decades. Secondly, metadata are needed for all kinds of resource discovery, i. e. using and accessing digital collections in a user-friendly way. The METADATA ENGINE project picks up these considerations and will develop software modules in order to automate metadata capturing by introducing layout and document analysis as a key technology for digitisation software. METAe will enhance dramatically the quality of creating and maintaining digital collections of printed material such as books and journals. Objectives The METAe project will address the need for an automated generation of metadata during the conversion of printed documents and thus be able to make large scale digitisation of printed material, such as books and journals, more reliable in terms of digital preservation, more cost-effective in terms of automation, and more user-oriented in terms of future applications. In order to achieve these aims the METADATA ENGINE project will (1) introduce layout and document analysis to be employed as a key technology in future digitisation software, (2) develop capturing and conversion tools for the automated recording and generation of administrative and descriptive metadata, (3) develop an omnifont OCR-engine specialising in processing old European typefaces of the 19th century, (4) strictly obey emerging standards in the fields of digital preservation and resource description, such as XML, EAD, TEI, or ISO 12083, (5) develop a XML search engine capable for retrieving the tagged full text and the images. Description of work The METAe project will develop a software package which extensively automates and improves the generation of metadata by applying new technologies for character, layout and document recognition, and converts the captured information into XML documents. These XML files will serve as a basis for a variety of applications, such as new XML search engines, navigation tools, electronic books, audio books, or the automated production of HTML, XHTML, PDF or PS files. The METAe package consists of (1) an input module for scanning printed material and importing existing bibliographic metadata, (2) an omnifont character recognition module (OCR-engine) specialising in typefaces of the 19th century, (3) a document analysis module capable of classifying pages according to their physical and logical structure (items such as title pages, table of contents pages, etc., will be recognised automatically), (4) a page layout analysis module capable of analysing and segmenting page elements such as page numbers, headings, captions, footnotes, pictures, highlighted phrases, or graphical separators, (5) a knowledge base providing a controlled vocabulary and rules for the recognition process (the table of contents is, in most cases, called "contents"), (6) a conversion module assembling an XML document containing all recognised metadata, and (7) an export module for the XML enriched document and the scanned image. The XML documents will be generated according to emerging standards for digital preservation and the electronic interchange of information such as RDF, DC, EAD, TEI, or ISO 12083. In order to introduce a wide public to the new features of accessing and browsing images and XML-marked full texts, a METAe search engine and web application will be developed as well. ============================================================ Simon Tanner Senior Digitisation Consultant (HEDS) Higher Education Digitisation Service University of Hertfordshire Phone: +44 (0) 1707 286078 Fax: +44 (0) 1707 286079 Web: <http://heds.herts.ac.uk>http://heds.herts.ac.uk METAe Project: <http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/>http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/ ****************************************************************** Sun Microsystems, Inc. has published the second edition of its popular "Digital Library Toolkit", a valuable resource for anyone planning a digital collection. To download a free copy, go to: <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html>http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html ****************************************************************** ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: more than defecating ducks Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:01:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1044 (1044) Jessica Riskin's talk at Berkeley, "The Defecating Duck", advertised in Humanist 14.0698, refers I suspect to the famous automaton built by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82) in Paris sometime after he moved there from Grenoble in the mid 1730s. A lengthy quotation about de Vaucanson's duck from Sigvar Strandh: The history of the Machine (Dorset Press, New York, 1979) is to be found at <http://music.calarts.edu/~sroberts/articles/DeVaucanson.duck.html>. The history of automata ("self-actuating things") begins with Homer's description of the wheeled "tripods" built by Hephaistos, "that of themselves they might enter the gathering of the gods at his wish and again return to his house, a wonder to behold" (Il 18.373-7). Is there a study that surveys this history in detail and demonstrates its continuity with the computer? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: ESSLLI 2001 (Helsinki, Finland) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:04:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1045 (1045) [deleted quotation] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALL FOR REGISTRATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!= 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 University of Helsinki FINLAND August 13-24, 2001 http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli ** Early registration deadline: 30 April 2001 ** GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'01) will take place at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, during two weeks in August, from August 13 until 24. The ESSLLI Summer Schools are organised under the auspices of FoLLI (http://www.folli.uva.nl), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TSD 2001 Second Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:05:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1046 (1046) [deleted quotation] An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001) September 10 - 13, 2001 Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic TSD 2001 will be organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Plzen (Pilsen), and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia. [material deleted] To obtain more information please visit the TSD 2001 Web site: http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Interactivist Summer Institute, Lehigh University Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:09:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1047 (1047) [deleted quotation] The Interactivist Summer Institute 2001 July 23-27, 2001 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA GENERAL INFORMATION (This Call for Participation, along with related information, can also be viewed at http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2001.html). It's happening: research threads in multiple fields scattered across the mind-sciences seem to be converging towards a point where the classical treatment of representation within the encodingist framework is felt as an impasse. A rethinking of the methods, concepts, arguments, facts, etc. is needed and, so it seems, is being found in the interactivist approach. From research in human cognition, motivation, and development, through consciousness, sociality, and language, to artificial intelligence, post-behaviorist cognitive robotics, and interface design, we are witnessing the appearance of projects where the assumptions of interactivism are embraced. More often then not, this is in an implicit manner, so that at a superficial level those projects (the problems they deal with, the methods they use) seem to be incommensurable. However, underneath, one can feel their interactivist gist. The time is right (and ripe) we felt, to articulate this "irrational" (in Feyerabendian sense) pressure for change at a programmatic level, and this is what we want to accomplish with the present workshop. The workshop will be preceded by a Summer School in Interactivism featuring several tutorials which are meant to provide the needed theoretical background, based mainly on Mark Bickhard and his collaborators' work. The intention is for this Institute to become a traditional annual meeting where those sharing the core ideas of interactivism will meet and discuss their work, try to reconstruct its historical roots, put forward current research in different fields that fits the interactivist framework, and define research topics for prospective graduate students. People working in philosophy of mind, linguistics, social sciences, artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and other fields related to the sciences of mind are invited to send their statement of interest for participation to the organizers (see details below). [material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: The evolution of encoding Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:00:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1048 (1048) Willard, Francois Compton-Roberts recently bemoaned the treatment of a cedilla as it passed through many a networked machine. For those readers of Humanist with an interest in such matters, Mike Brown's introduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding gives a detailed explanation of some of the technical details.... http://skew.org/xml/tutorial Maybe some other resourceful soul can locate a how to check and change the default encodings of one's favourite platform. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: "Robert E. Wright" Subject: Humanities IT Specialist at NHC Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:02:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1049 (1049) NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER Job Title: Humanities Information Technology Specialist (new position) Anticipated Starting Date: July 1, 2001 Application: Resume, letter explaining qualifications for position and fit with organization, minimum 3 professional references. Submit to: . Further Information: See www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080. Deadline: March 31, 2001. General Position Description: Working with other key members of the administration, the Center's Humanities Information Technology Specialist will guide the Center's technological capabilities and enhance its ability to use electronic media to support advanced scholarship, strengthen teaching, and raise the profile of the Center. Duties include: (1) responsibility for the design and functioning of the network; (2) managing outsourced support, connecting Fellows and staff to the network, and advising on individual, end-user technical issues; (3) serving as a resource person to Fellows and staff for the appropriate use of Web, multimedia, commercial software, and other technological applications; (4) supporting specialized applications, following software and hardware trends and determining which developing technologies will best serve the Center; (5) developing annual budgets and long-range plans for technology at the Center; (6) responsibility for the Center's Web portal and related communications functions, including Webcasting, teleconferencing, etc. Education, Training, and Experience: Thorough knowledge of hardware, software, local area networks, Internet. Minimum 3-5 years related experience. Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in an area of the humanities or closely related social sciences preferred. From: Beryl Graham Subject: New Website for Media Art Curators Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:00:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1050 (1050) CRUMB - Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss <http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/> A new website for those who exhibit, organise, archive or make new media art (including Internet art, interactive installations, CD-ROMs, digital video, etc.) The site includes: Exclusive CRUMB INTERVIEWS on the issues faced by curators when dealing with new media: Matthew Gansallo on the Tate (London) web commissions. Kathy Rae Huffman and Julie Lazar on The Problem With Museums Today. Natalie Bookchin and Brendan Jackson on community art and 'hacktivism'. LINKS to rare new media curating material. DISCUSSION LIST active from 1st March 2001. <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/new-media-curating.html> This site is run by new media curators who have worked independently, and with institutions of all sizes. It aims to help meet the challenges of new art-forms in interesting times. Visit often ... leave crumbs. -- _________________________________________________________ Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/ Co-Editors: Telephone: +44 191 515 2896 Beryl Graham: beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk Sarah Cook: sarah.e.cook@sunderland.ac.uk From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Webcast IP conference: Copyright & the Dead Sea Scrolls Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:01:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1051 (1051) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 27, 2001 COPYRIGHT & THE DEAD-SEA SCROLLS Monday March 5: Live Webcast <http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/dss/>http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/dss/ "Recently, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that a scholar who deciphered an ancient text (one of the Dead Sea Scrolls) owns the copyright of the text. This ruling exemplifies the problems raised by the propertization of academic research and raises intriguing questions about the ownership of cultural information." The conference on issues surrounding this decision will be webcast live Monday march 5, featuring the following speakers in Haifa, Washington, DC and Los Angeles. * Justice Dalia Dorner, Israeli Supreme Court * Professor Devorah Dimant, leading scholar of the Scrolls * Mr. David Nimmer, Irell & Manella LLP * Professor Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law * Dr. Niva Elkin-Koren, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa * Dr. Michael Birnhack, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa David Green =========== [deleted quotation]============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: more than defecating ducks Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:41:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1052 (1052) There's a classic work on Vaucanson and computers (and also on Buster Keaton, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, the Royal Society, Wyndham Lewis, Alan Turing, Alexander Pope, and many other subjects): The Counterfeiters by Hugh Kenner, originally published in 1968. You may or may not agree with the ideas in the book (about satire and simulation and forgery and pretending to be something other than what you are: pretending to be human, for example) but it's unquestionably a wonderful museum full of fascinating exhibits. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Ambroise BARRAS Subject: Re: 14.0700 automata Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:41:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1053 (1053) would recommand those two entries in the extensive bibliography about history of automata. COHEN, John (1966). Human robots in Myth and Science. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. BRETON, Philippe (1995). l'image de l'Homme. Du Golem aux cratures virtuelles. Paris: Seuil|Science ouverte Yours, kindly Ambroise Barras From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0700 automata Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:44:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1054 (1054) WIllard, in 1968 a show was mounted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York titled "The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age" which traced the development of the machine including 'self-destroying artifacts', and a bewildering variety of 'real'; machines, automata (both artistic and otherwise) and their involvement with the arts. Almost the last item in the exhibit was a very crude -- by today's standards -- reproduction of a photograph (it looks to have been done by some variation of the Dither method), with a quote from Jascha Reichardt, from an exhibit in London (see below), "...one cannot deny that the computer demonstrates a radical extension in art media and techniques. The possibilities inherent in the computer as a creative tool will do little to change those idioms of art which rely primarily on the dialogue between the artist, his ideas, and the canvas. They will, however, increase the scope of art and contribute to its diversity." The MOMA exhibit is memorialized in the Catalog, published by MOMA under the name of the exhibit and was written by K. G. Pontus Hulten. I have a copy, which I bought at the exhibit...it is now somewhat of a rarity, but copies are found listed for sale in places like www.bibliofind.com. It is a fine piece of work, with metal covers, and is itself perhaps an item in its own exhibit. THe London exhibit was titled _Cybernetic Serendipity_, was held at the Institute of Contemporary aRts in the Fall of 1968, and the catalog was published as a special issue of "Studio International", in London, 1968. It is probably easier to find over there than here in mid-USA. From: Steven Robinson Subject: Vaucanson's Duck Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:45:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1055 (1055) Hello Willard, .. .... Forgive me if you're already familiar with what I am about to tell you. I use La Mettrie's *Man a Machine* in my intro philosophy course as a follow-up to Descartes and a nice contrast to Leibniz. Interestingly, they both lend themselves very well to present-day computing phenomena: for Leibniz it's virtual reality and the Internet (monad-to-monad, with God as the 'server'); for La Mettrie it is machine intelligence. Anyway, I just thought I'd quote you a few lines from La Mettrie, where he makes a connection you'd be interested in: "Man is to apes and the most intelligent animals what Huygen's planetary pendulum is to a watch of Julien le Roy. If more instruments, wheelwork, and springs are required to show the movements of the planets than to mark and repeat the hours, if Vaucanson needed more art to make his *flute-player* than his *duck*, he would need even more to make a *talker*, which can no longer be regarded as impossible, particularly in the hands of a new Prometheus." It is his suggestion of the "talker" of course, that is so striking and ahead of his time. Of course, as he is says, it just follows automatically from the materialist thesis he is putting forward. If minds are machines then there is no reason in principle why we couldn't build one out of raw materials, like Vaucanson's Duck. I quoted that from the Hackett edition, tr. Watson & Rybalka, 1994. Cheers, Steve Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Steven Robinson Assistant Professor Philosophy Department Brandon University Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9 CANADA (204)727-9718 FAX: (204) 726-0473 From: aimeefreak Subject: net == AOL Time Warner? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:40:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1056 (1056) hello humanists; yesterday's internet law news digest delivered this little tidbit to me: OLD MEDIA IS NEW MEDIA? "For all the talk of the limitless possibilities of the Web, a report today suggests that AOL Time Warner web sites accounted for one-third of all time spent online in January in the United States. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/065875.htm " it strikes me that there is an ever-widening split between the *rhetoric* of how the internet/the web functions, and the cold-hard-capitalist-facts of the same. so, as much as we might all discursively relive the halcyon days of a purely academic and cooperative net, or bask in the remembrance of the mid-90s, where pet-rat pages outnumbered corporate sites, it would seem that although the countless bazillions of net documents are still primarily private and self-published in the much-trumpeted democratic manner, **nobody is really looking at these**. if my academic (anarchic, ungovernable, democratic, self-published, and free-speeching) web site falls in the forest, and no one is there to hit it, does it make a sound? :-) i wonder, for example, what's to be gained by continuing to call the internet anarchic, ungovernable, unknowable, when it seems that a really high percentage of users are employing it in much the same way as traditional media. so: if **one-third** of all surfers never leave the AOL-enframed space, what does that mean for computing humanists? especially those who do work on the web, etc? does this shed any new light on how we should be teaching the net (research, writing, surfing, etc)? is the net shifting from a library to a tv station? or is it both? how to tell? that the number was this high shocked me. i'm not sure what it means, but i thought it might interest you. in other news: marni jackson, writing in the books section of the _globe and mail_ (national canadian newspaper), made glowing reference to the blake archive a couple of weekends ago. another columnist also recently wrote about project gutenberg. holy crossover, batman! :-) cheers, aimee +++++++++++++++++++++++ Aimee Morrison "I love deadlines. I like the PhD Program, Dept. of English whooshing sound they make as University of Alberta they fly by." -- Douglas Adams From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: "New Media, New Links" conference Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:39:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1057 (1057) **Conference Announcement** New Media, New Links An International Conference on Interdisciplinary Collaboration 27 March 2001 New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark http://womenscenter.njit.edu/newmedia "New Media, New Links" will explore cross-disciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and humanists/artists. The Keynote Presentation, "Experiments in the Future of Reading: An Exhibit Report" , will be given by Dr Anne Balsamo, Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox), author of "Technologies of the Gendered Body ". Other featured speakers include: Dr Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin) and Dr Susan Schreibman (NJIT) "Computation meets the Humanities: Progressing from Pidgin to Creole"; Dr Nancy Coppola (NJIT), Dr Naomi Rotter (NJIT) and Dr Starr Roxanne Hiltz (NJIT) "Becoming a Virtual Professor"; a lunchtime performance, "LATUS" by Nicole Peyrafitte, New Media Performance Artist (see http://nicolepeyrafitte.com/projectdescription.htm for more details); a Panel Discussion moderated by Dr Nancy Steffen-Fluhr (NJIT), "Gender Socialisation and New Media Collaboration". "New Media, New Links" is being hosted by The Murray Center for Women in Technology as part of Women's History Month. For further information, please visit <http://womenscenter.njit.edu/newmedia>, or phone Talina Knox at 973-642-4671. From: World Transhumanist Association Subject: The Fourth European transhumanist conference Berlin, June Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:38:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1058 (1058) {--} WTA Update 27 February 2001 Dear WTA member, The WTA continues its steady growth and is working quietly but (we hope) usefully to serve its mission (see below). Here are some updates on recent and upcoming developments: We have the fourth European transhumanist conference coming up this summer in Berlin, June 22-24. TransVision 2001 will be organized my the German group De:Trans. In addition to talks about various topics related to transhumanism, the organizers promise that there will be plenty of time for the informal get-togethers that have made the previous Transvisions so enjoyable. For more information, see the website http://www.transhumanismus.de/TV2001/berlin.html If you are interested in giving a presentation, you should submit an abstract by mid-March. The Extropy Insitute is gearing up for Extro5 this summer, probably to take place in San Jose, California, June 15-17. More details on this will soon be available on their website http://www.extropy.org Dr. Mark Walker has been appointed new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transhumanism. Mark says he will aim especially to promote the JTH in the relevant academic communities. Although there have been many submissions in the last year, they have all failed the peer-review. Recently one paper has accepted, however, and will be published shortly. There are many new entries on the Local Groups page http://www.transhumanism.com/groups.htm -- people who want to get in touch with other transhumanists in order to start organizations or discussion groups in areas where there currently are none. If you are interested, check out this page to see if there is somebody in your neighborhood. The World Transhumanist Association is, as you know, a volunteer network and we accomplish neither more nor less than what our members do. Our aims are to encourage research into transhumanism (the issues raised by anticipated future technologies, very broadly conceived), to promote informed media coverage and constructive debate, and to improve networking within the transhumanist community. If you want to take part, don't hesitate to suggest your own initiative. Anything from putting up a link to the WTA from your own website (or suggesting to relevant sites on the web that they do so) to volunteering to help out with running the WTA can be very valuable. In particular, we are now looking for one or two individuals who have the capability of taking independent initiatives to take on prominent roles in the WTA, for example as projects leader or membership officer. The scope of these positions would depend on the interests and skills of the interested person; a time commitment of maybe an hour or two a week would probably be sufficient. If you are interested, please do get in touch! Nick Bostrom and David Pearce Co-ordinators --------------------------------- From: "Joseph Jones (UBC Library)" Subject: the boundaries of the corporate Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:38:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1059 (1059) Re: "my academic (anarchic, ungovernable, democratic, self-published, and free-speeching) web site" Aimee Morrison's posting generated these thoughts. How many print readers (and how many are there?) ever get beyond the most common corporate productions -- books, magazines, newspapers? How many academics ever get beyond their specialization or their social circle or their one-iversity? I think of Baudelaire: True travellers are those alone Who leave for the sake of leaving Joseph Jones University of British Columbia Library jjones@interchange.ubc.ca http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones From: Laura Blanchard Subject: Re: 14.0706 the Net = AOL Time Warner? Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:38:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1060 (1060) Aimee writes: [deleted quotation] Etc. I wonder just how they're counting things. I'm an AOL subscriber in my other life. If I'm reading Usenet, e.g., via AOL, how do they count me? If I connect to the web using the AOL browser and via their proxy server, how is that counted? AOL also has the largest share of market in terms of internet connectivity, as well -- probably pretty close to 1/3 of U.S. internet users, so the figure doesn't surprise me at all. (And, there are a *lot* of pet-rat pages with URLs that start members.aol.com or home.aol.com, so we have to remember the pet-rat factor when looking at the AOL numbers.) But, even if the numbers are as stunning as Aimee suggests, we're still left with a good chunk of internet time that is *not* spent on AOL. I run a "pet rat" site of my own in my spare time. My pet rat happens to be Richard III. I get upwards of 1,000 hits a day some days, and I'm sure that Richard III would not get that kind of attention without the World Wide Web. I remember some handwringing back in the mid 90s about the commercialization of the web. I also remember Jim O'Donnell saying, in essence, let it get commercialized. It will drive a demand for bandwidth, and that will benefit all of us. Regards, Laura Blanchard lblancha@pobox.upenn.edu http://www.pacscl.org/ (or see my pet rat at http://www.r3.org/) From: Randall Pierce Subject: Automata, robots and "thinking machines" Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:13:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1061 (1061) In light of the vast amounts of material that are being made available by members of the Humanist List, it is interesting that someone brought up the subject of "thinking machines.". As a long-time observer of Science Fiction,I am aware that writers of "fantastic fiction" have written about "sentient" machines as long as there has been history. I think that the vast amounts of information being made available to cybernetic circuitry brings up certain "philosophical" questions, first among which is "What is sentience?" Just how much "input" can complicated circuitry accomodate before certain critical associations are made? This is really not as fantastic as it sounds. I would recommend to the readers of this list two science fiction novels by reputable scientists: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", by Robert A. Heinlein, and "When Harlie Was One," by David Gerrold. Each raises interesting philosophical and ethical questions. Dr. Isaac Asimov wrote extensively on robots(kudos to Karl Capek), both as a writer of fiction and as an editor of popular scientific works. I know that the movie "Short Circuit" is largely slapstick comedy, but think of its implications, especially the mention of the "Turing Test" by the roboticist. These are just some thoughts some might appreciate. I hope they will be well received. Randall From: Willard McCarty Subject: bionic chip Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:37:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1062 (1062) In light of the discussion on automata, Humanists may be interested in the research of Boris Rubinsky and others at Berkeley "to mate human cells with circuitry in a 'bionic chip' that could play a key role in medicine and genetic engineering", <http://www.grg.org/UCBcellsChip.htm>. Apparently the problem they have solved is the electrical communication between artificial microcircuitry and biological cells. The research was originally published as "Micro-Electroporation: Improving the Efficiency and Understanding of Electrical Permeabilization of Cells", Biomedical Microdevices 2.2 (March 1999): 145-50, <http://www.wkap.nl/oasis.htm/251412>. Some of you will be familiar with the microphotograph of a brain cell growing on a Motorola chip, done by John Stevens and Judy Trogadis in Toronto more than 15 years ago; see <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/concepts/brain-cell-on-a-chip.jpg>. At the time this was a visual metaphor and remains powerfully so. Now, it seems, the two juxtaposed entities can talk to each other -- to stretch a point slightly. But, again, what I find fascinating is the continuity with the dream of automata that goes back to Homer in the written record. Along the way, thanks to particular instantiations such as the Golem, it (if we may speak of a singular dream) is shown to be messily hard to distinguish from making entities like us in the usual way. Padre Busa's humorous remark, that he thinks God regards computers as a grandfather his grandchildren, is very, very old wisdom. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Beryl Graham Subject: New Discussion List for Media Art Curators Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:10:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1063 (1063) CRUMB - Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss Are pleased to announce the launch today of a new discussion list about curating new media art <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/new-media-curating.html>. The discussion aims to help curators deal with the challenges of new media art, and will add to the materials on the CRUMB web site. As well as general discussion, each month there will be a theme, with invited respondents. The theme for March is: BIG MEDIA ART: NEW MEDIA ART IN LARGE INSTITUTIONS. Invited respondents include: Matthew Gansallo (Tate/Independent), Sandy Nairne (Tate), Barbara London (NYMOMA), Julie Lazar (ex LA MOCA), and Jennifer Crowe (Rhizome). April's theme will be 'Independent New Media, Small Organisations, and Activist Art', and May's will concern 'Audience, Aesthetics and Archiving' (this intersects with the Baltic Seminar on New Media Curating 10-12th May <http://www.balticmill.com/>) Join now ... leave crumbs of wisdom. yours, Beryl P.S. Join on the web site, or send an email to: with the two-line command: join new-media-curating -- (The second command line is two minus signs - this stops JISCmail trying to process any signature information.) -- _________________________________________________________ Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/ Co-Editors: Telephone: +44 191 515 2896 Beryl Graham: beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk Sarah Cook: sarah.e.cook@sunderland.ac.uk From: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:12:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1064 (1064) GOING GLOBAL We must not only meet the needs of readers all over the world, we also must meet the needs of our authors and our customers, and of the medium in which we are working. In this issue our authors reflect on past experience and offer new theories across the borders of space and time. So here is the March 2001 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/ Hypertext http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/McAdams/pages/ Mindy McAdams, who holds the Knight Chair in journalism technologies and the democratic process at the University of Florida, and graduate student Stephanie Berger bring us their take on how hypertext should be presented -- suiting their action to their words. The two not only wrote the article, they designed the presentation. This seminal piece had JEP's editors questioning all our own approaches. The authors and the editors welcome your comments, which we will post as we receive them. Policy Making: A European Policy for Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/vitiello.html Giuseppe Vitiello, program advisor on electronic publishing, books, and archives for the Council of Europe offers insights to the thorny issues of protecting culturally important publications in a world of increasing globalization. He reviews the history of policies to support educational and cultural publication, and suggests possibilities for the European Union and the nations involved. Publishing Online-Only Peer-Reviewed Biomedical Literature: Three Years of Citation, Author Perception, and Usage Experience http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/anderson.html Kent Anderson, publishing director of the New England Journal of Medicine, with co-authors John Sack, Lisa Krauss, and Lori O'Keefe from HighWire Press, analyzed the citation frequency, online access statistics, and author perceptions of online-only publication of peer-reviewed articles and compared them with print articles. The results indicate that perception and reality are sometimes at odds. White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/luther.html Judy Luther, president of the consulting firm Informed Strategies, examines why it has been difficult to obtain statistics on electronic-journal usage. The report looks at the particular concerns of publishers about producing those statistics. Q.A.: Breaking News http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/lieb0603.html Contributing editor Thom Lieb is not as interested in who wins an Oscar for a motion picture as in how we learn about it. And if you want your thoughts about electronic publishing to count, 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: Gutenberg ASCII to be XMLized Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:36:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1065 (1065) Subscribers to Humanist, especially those who devote much time and energy to questions of text encoding, might be interested in an item reported in [deleted quotation] This development raises for me a question: what is to be the relation of the academy to the extra muros "amateur" (there being apparently few "amateurs" left within its walls), let alone to the extra muros "professional"? I'm puzzling over a wallless enclave as a model for networks connected to networks. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Democratic Visions and Computer-Mediated Communication Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:37:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1066 (1066) Humanists-at-large, I would like to recommend an article appearing in philTech. Linkname: We are the Borg: The Web as Agent of Assimilation or Cultural Renaissance, by Charles Ess URL: http://www.ephilosopher.com/120100/philtech/philtech.htm Some of you will recognized Charles as a frequent and intelligent contributor to Humanist. In this article he takes up the image or icon of the "global village" and suggests a long American tradition of similar utopian manifestations similar to Jeffersonian plans for "academical villages". He calls for cross-cultural fluency. He also sketches out the very useful distinction between technological instrumentalism and technological determinism. Well worth consulting in light of the questions of cultural appropriation/assimilation that have been raised by Aimee Morrison in recent postings. Well worth consulting in its own right. Happy reading and responding. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Prof I Butterworth Subject: A conference announcement Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:34:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1067 (1067) Humanist Members may find the following conference of interest: International Conference on Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy (CODE) 4 - 6 April 2001 At: Queen's College, Cambridge, England Theme: Intellectual property rights in the digital era - is the digital revolution a legal as well as a cultural watershed? How can we balance public responsibility against private reward? Practitioners and thinkers spanning the arts, sciences,technology and the law will address these issues at CODE. Join them in the debate on whether collaboration and ownership can co-exist in the digital economy. Programme, Registration details etc. at the Web site: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/CODE/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: old players in new locations Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:33:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1068 (1068) Willard, You and the subscribers to Humanist might wish to join me in congratulating the University of Alberta for launching the MA in Humanities Computing and in expressing best wishes to Stephan Sinclair and Sean Gouglas who have been hired to lead the program. http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/huco/instructors.html It is, as you have previously remarked, an important development for the discipline, the field and the community. I would also like to take the occasion to signal the great contribution of Susan Hockey who in her perigrinations manages to leave behind projects of lasting value and motivated teams to continue the tradition. Stephen and Sean can be proud to succeed her at the University of Alberta, Faculty of the Humanities. A round of applause to all. ****************************** [I've noticed that unlike big business the academy doesn't take out advertisements to announce appointments. Well at least in North America they don't. They should: inquiring minds want to know.] -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large From: Scott Jaschik Subject: online discussion on new model for journal publishing Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:28:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1069 (1069) The Chronicle of Higher Education is sponsoring a live, online discussion with Manfredi La Manna, the founder of the Electronic Society for Social Scientists, about his plan to challenge the dominant model in the publishing of scholarly journals, on Wednesday, March 7, at noon U.S. Eastern time. Mr. La Manna, an economist at St. Andrews University in Scotland, argues that his model will make it possible for libraries to subscribe to scholarly journals at much lower prices than those charged by companies today. And at the same time, Mr. La Manna says that his model will allow authors and peer reviewers to be paid. While these plans are attracting considerable support from scholars, some of the major publishers of scholarly journals question the viability of the project and its assumptions. Mr. La Manna will respond to comments and questions about his organization's plans and the state of journal publishing in the chat. The Chronicle invites members of this list to read an article about his effort and to join the live discussion at: http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/03/journal/chat.php3 Advance questions are encouraged, and may be posted now. After the discussion is over, a transcript will be posted at that address. Scott Jaschik Editor The Chronicle of Higher Education From: scaife@pop.uky.edu Subject: [STOA] A Revolutionary Idea in Publishing Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:32:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1070 (1070) This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: scaife@pop.uky.edu _________________________________________________________________ The following message was enclosed: Yet another new model... _________________________________________________________________ From the issue dated March 9, 2001 A Revolutionary Idea in Publishing By DOUG PAYNE More than a thousand scholars have lined up behind an economist from St. Andrews University, in Scotland, who plans on using the Internet and a new online-publishing model to challenge the dominance of some of the world's largest academic publishers. The economist, Manfredi La Manna, says that the plan will produce peer-reviewed journals at half the price of their commercial counterparts. An organization that he proposed in November, the Electronic Society for Social Scientists (http://www.elsss.org.uk), is already making headlines, and he says it will produce "a definite change in the academic-journal market within three months." ELSSS, according to Mr. La Manna, is not a single publication; it is a concept, or template, for academics worldwide to use to free themselves from the clutches of what Theodore C. Bergstrom, an economics professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, calls "the gougers." ELSSS has put forward a list of intended publications -- initially in economics -- that will operate according to strict criteria and be produced by existing publishers willing to subscribe to ELSSS principles. Mr. La Manna's model envisions publishers drastically reducing the amount of profit they seek to make from journals -- with those savings passed on to institutions in the form of lower subscription prices. But the man at the helm of Elsevier Science says ELSSS has already missed the boat with its "somewhat amateur" approach. Derk Haank, the company's chief executive officer, also says Mr. La Manna and his supporters are wasting their time: "They are talking old economy. They're attacking a perceived enemy that left the camp three years ago." Mr. La Manna, though, is convinced that it's Elsevier and other major journal publishers, such as Springer-Verlag, that have misread the appetite among academics for a system in which the intellectual and economic benefits of their work "will accrue to authors, referees, editors, and the academic community at large." Elsevier Science is part of Reed Elsevier, a multinational publishing company; Springer-Verlag is part of Bertelsmann A. G., the German media conglomerate. St. Andrews has already set up a nonprofit company to develop ELSSS, and Mr. La Manna has attracted endorsements and support from an international pool of researchers and scholarly groups willing to help him bring about what he says will be "a definite change in the academic-journal market within three months." In ELSSS, authors and referees will be paid -- which they generally are not in the traditional scholarly publishing model. Authors would be paid $500, and referees $200 to $250, depending on the journal. Editors will be appointed by ELSSS on the basis of nominations by scholars. The process of submitting, refereeing, and editing papers, and delivering electronic and print versions, Mr. La Manna says, will be similar to what academics are used to, "only much better." Each publication will be peer reviewed, will set high standards for quality, and will grant copyright to its authors. Electronic versions of print titles will offer "interactivity, full searchability, and criteria tracking." ELSSS publications must also allow full, free access to libraries and research centers in developing countries. All ELSSS publications must make available information on circulation, pricing, remuneration, expenses, and staffing. "In the longer term," Mr. La Manna says, "I envisage making the ELSSS template available to any discipline that subscribes to the ELSSS principles of fair publishing and respect for authorship." The ELSSS economics journals would be substantially less expensive than Elsevier's. For example, a college in North America could subscribe to ELSSS's Review of Banking & Finance for one year for $500, while the ELSSS Web site says that a subscription to Elsevier's Journal of Banking & Finance costs $1,066. A European institution could subscribe to ELSSS's Review of Monetary Economics for $500, while Elsevier's Journal of Monetary Economics would cost such an institution $1,154, according to the ELSSS Web site. Mr. La Manna says ELSSS has "reached and passed critical mass, and I am actively involved in the next stage" -- raising about $140,000, which he says will get the project under way. As a nonprofit organization, ELSSS must rely on philanthropy, "but the early signs are very positive," he says. "The ELSSS initiative," Santa Barbara's Mr. Bergstrom says in an e-mail interview, "seems to be on the right track, and I think its chances are good. The overpriced journals have already lost our goodwill. As new markets open up for publishing our work, I think the overpriced journals are also likely to lose the free labor that we have given them as authors and referees." Mr. La Manna says he worried about journal prices for years before he decided to start ELSSS. As an economist, he says, he could no longer stand by and watch libraries slash subscriptions to journals "in the ultimately vain attempt to accommodate the extortionate journal prices being charged by some commercial publishers." "I felt frankly ashamed that a profession devoted to the principles of efficiency and fairness had allowed this disgraceful state of affairs to persist," he says. The opportunity to put theory into practice came serendipitously last year, when the University of St. Andrews -- jointly with Scottish Enterprise Fife, a government agency focused on economic development -- introduced a program offering grants for projects that support innovative ideas in business and academe. Mr. La Manna won a special six-month sabbatical, and a small budget, to develop his idea. The university was "extremely supportive, indeed indispensable," he says. Colleagues elsewhere, he says, are proving to be equally helpful. Through a survey on the ELSSS Web site, he has been able to stockpile offers from academics to serve as authors, referees, and editorial-board members for various new journals. ELSSS has also been receiving favorable comment from organizations such as the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC is a worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries, and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market. Rick Johnson, the group's enterprise director, says in an e-mail interview: "The citizenry is taking up arms. ELSSS provides more evidence that scholars are ready to take charge of scholarly communication. "When scholars and scientists realize how commercial interests have benefited from their labor, and how little say they have about the matter, they can't help but ask, 'Isn't there a better way?' The answer is yes." In addition to ELSSS, he cites as an example the online Economics Bulletin created by John P. Conley, an associate professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as an alternative to Elsevier's Economics. Economics Bulletin started in January and has published only one paper so far. A directory on its Web site lists 80 registered users around the world. Another example cited by Mr. Johnson is the Berkeley Electronic Press, which started publishing eight online journals in business and economics in December. Access is free. Greg Tananbaum, the company's vice president for marketing, says that the press does not keep track of the number of different readers. "Each of these new ventures demonstrates a promising new model," says Mr. Johnson. "They get the wheels of change turning." But academic support is not without reservation. Andrew Oswald, a professor of economics at Warwick University, says in an e-mail interview that "competition in life is good." "In this area, publishers have been profiting at the expense of researchers," Mr. Oswald says. But, he cautions, "we already have hundreds of scholarly journals in economics: My subject, like so many others, is simply being swept away in a tsunami of them. "The flow of clear information is now swamped by the muddy water from new journals that no one reads. Journals are too plentiful; new ideas are as rare as ever," says Mr. Oswald. His recommendation? "Every person who wants to start an academic journal has first to find two that are willing to shut down. That goes for electronic journals, too. The best would then survive." Mr. La Manna, though, insists that sound theory underlies ELSSS and its attack on the inefficiencies built into the current system of scholarly publishing. "Economists especially," the scholar says, "have pointed to the cause of the inefficiency as a coordination problem. Provided everybody else does the same, it is optimal for each researcher to boycott high-priced journals and switch to more efficient alternatives. "But as everyone expects everyone else to make the first move, the current inefficient system is not dislodged. My idea was to use the Web to solve this market failure." Mr. La Manna maintains that the Web provides not only the opportunity of contacting thousands of research economists simultaneously, by e-mail, but also the means -- a Web-based registration mechanism -- to break the vicious circle. "By registering their interest in a whole range of journals to be produced according to fairer and more efficient criteria," Mr. La Manna says, "respondents were put in a win-win situation: If not enough people of high caliber replied positively, nothing would be lost. But if the response was large, this would create immediately the reputation and the base of successful journals. "Personally, I believed that the dislike of inefficiency is so ingrained in the economist's mind, that the scheme had a fair chance of success. And, as they say, the rest is history." But at his bete noire -- Elsevier Science -- Mr. Haank disagrees. He says Mr. La Manna and others have their history wrong. "The higher prices they're talking about are the result of a paper system that's already well on the way to being replaced by electronic publishing," Mr. Haank says. "We are actually widening the customer base. In the new economy customers are paying [the equivalent of] only a dollar an article, in many cases. We want an open system, worldwide." He adds: "We enter into license agreements with libraries at a fixed annual rate. For the end-user, this can mean free unlimited usage." Reed Elsevier publishes more than a thousand journals in all major disciplines. A subsidiary called Elsevier Electronic Subscriptions sells access to an online database, Elsevier ScienceDirect, that offers the texts of both Elsevier Science's journals and those of some other publishers. Arguing that the approach of many of Elsevier's critics smacks of "religious warfare," Mr. Haank says that economists "would be better served buying more of our journals, which would help to bring the price down." "It's ironic that the latest initiative is coming from economists," he says. In figuring up the costs of ELSSS, he adds, economists aren't adding in the time they contribute to the project, "much of it paid for by the taxpayers." "How long can they keep it up? Many of the results are half the price, true -- but they are also half the size. The cost of the articles to the subscriber ends up the same. By publishing themselves, the academic community is only saving our profits, not our costs." Mr. Haank adds: "One should remember that the total cost of literature for most universities is about 1 percent of budget. Even allowing for a profit margin of anything up to 25 percent for us, the real savings might therefore end up being as little as 0.2 percent of budget. I'm not trying to plead poverty here, just trying to put this argument into perspective." Mr. La Manna, for his part, says he remains sanguine about ELSSS's chances for success. He's surprised at the speed of events, he says, adding that "signs are looking good." "I'm absolutely certain it is going to happen. Too many people are now seriously involved. All you need is the will to put all the pieces together." _________________________________________________________________ [material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0709 on the Net & AOL Time Warner Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:33:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1071 (1071) a trio of questions.... Willard, Interesting to see the shift in subject fields as the question raised by Aimee gets localized into a discussion of the nature of the AOL niche. It was as I read it a question about an equation and implicity a question about cultural environments and sustainable intellectual activity. 14.0706 the Net = AOL Time Warner? 14.0709 on the Net & AOL Time Warner Aimee's subject line seems to recognize a plurality of nets. That subject field has the value : "net == AOL Time Warner?" Plural not only in number but also in character. The string could be parsed as "is AOL Time Warner a net?" especially if one considers that Cyperspace is bigger than the Internet and that is bigger than the Web. I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on the apparent shift from refering to the "Internet" to the "net" tout court. Aimee, I wonder if you had any thoughts on cyberculture and the "deep reading" habits that Gregory Crane focuses upon (see a recent posting by Arun Tripathi). Are they antithetical as so much commentary seems to imply? I did a quick search to see if any one may have applied culture theory as developed by Mary Douglas to the Web or to the Internet and came across... Bruce Jones http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/usenet.orals.html An Ethnography of the Usenet Computer Network Unfortunately as Jones reports: The working title (and ostensible topic) of my dissertation was A Social Constructivist History of Usenet. While I maintain an interest in the history of communication technologies and the specific history of Usenet, I have a real job and therefore no time nor interest in finishing a PhD that would not take me anywhere. http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/present.html Laura, You recall [deleted quotation] Do you recall anyone reasoning out the "more is better" connection between bandwidth and benefit? For the rest of us, Worth remembering the source of the information on AOL-Time Warner reach of market: Jupiter Media Metrix provides audience measurement products and services to media companies, Internet advertisers and advertising agencies, Internet properties, technology companies and financial institutions. For the fiscal year ended 12/31/00, revenues totaled $77.8 million, up from $20.5 million. Net loss applicable to Common rose from $22 million to $63.3 million. Revenues reflect an increase in the number of customers. Higher loss reflects increased amortization of intangibles. http://in.us.biz.yahoo.com/p/j/jmxi.html Jupiter Media Metrix collects Internet audience data by measuring Internet usage from representative samples, or panels, of personal computer users with its proprietary tracking technology. http://yahoo.marketguide.com/mgi/busidesc.asp?rt=busidesc&rn=A1E67 a blackbox indeed! Thanks Aimee for provoking a bit of cross-reference checking. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance Member of the Evelyn Letters Project http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dchamber/evelyn/evtoc.htm From: Charles Ess Subject: Indexing sorrows and joys Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:35:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1072 (1072) Humanists may remember that early this year I issued a panicked plea for help with indexing software. Several helpful replies resulted, including recommendations for software as follows - == Marc Wilhelm Kster for TUSTEP You can consult the homepage: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/tustep_eng.html (in English) http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/ (in German) There you will also find a list of indices produced with TUSTEP. As you will see from this list, TUSTEP is a highly versatile tool for constructing indices from structured data. It does need a moment to get used to, however. As to obtaining TUSTEP, you can contact Mr. Fuchs (harald.fuchs@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) for details on how it could be shipped to you (a shipping charge applies). == [deleted quotation] ..... I wrote a program called BITZER. You can download the program and a copy of an article that I wrote about my program from the web: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/sno.html BITZER may or may not be what you are looking for -- but the (free) price is right. -- Eric == [deleted quotation] In my book on UNIX nroff/troff from 1986 there is a chapter on doing just the sort of indexing you describe, in fairly straightforward steps. UNIX, unlike DOS, lives, and I think even Linux should be able to handle it. The book is UNIX nroff/troff: A User's Guide. New York: CBS College Publishing [Holt, Rinehart and Winston], 1986. == One lead, from Brian Nielsen, didn't work when I tried it: http://www.indexres.com/cindex.html == Adrien Miles recommended: I use Endnote, it is mac and windows, not perfect but good. its available via http://www.niles.com/ == Finally, one good correspondent suggested several good programming languages I might use to write my own program... In what was perhaps hasty misjudgment on my part, I decided, however, that I did not have the time to write my own program, wait on software from Germany and/or to learn a new program (especially as a Linux novice). Nor did I have the spare change for Endnote. At least one Humanist (Francois Lachance) has kindly asked [deleted quotation] Briefly - the hard way. Using a standard wordprocessor, I simply started entering entries, alphabetizing "by hand" (i.e., without help from the computer) as I went along. One trick perhaps worth passing along. My introduction to the volume, as one would hope, already identified several key themes and figures. I indexed this section first, followed by entering additional terms and concepts I had jotted down by hand from a previous read for copyediting purposes. Between the two a good portion of index terms and categories were established and entered, providing a substantial skeleton for the rest of the work. Francois Lachance further asks: [deleted quotation] Again, briefly: no. I had toyed with the idea of embedding bookmarks, for example, to speed finding various places in the index. But this seemed to only add overhead, both in terms of time for creating the bookmarks, and in terms of cognitive demands - the bookmarks would have been a second layer on top of the original alphabetical armature. In the end, between my (not especially good) memory and simple global searches through the wordprocessor, I got to be fairly adept at remembering and finding what I was looking for. Finally, [deleted quotation] Yes. Here again, the global search capability helped considerably - as it also did in subsequent searches for the odd phrase, name, term, etc., that I knew was in the document but couldn't find by eye. After that, the wordprocessor was useful for rearranging entries that were not properly alphabetized the first time, and for checking for stylistic errors (e.g., no periods at the end of an entry). Perhaps if I'd only bought Endnote? And/or: does it seem odd, now nearly two decades after the PC revolution began; after mind-boggling advances in computing and storage technologies (e.g., this now somewhat dusty G3 is still nearly a thousand times faster than the first Macintoshes, and my pocket Visor is the computational equivalent of a 1985 desktop PC); after thousands of ambitious and sometimes remarkably successful humanities computing projects - the admittedly mundane but important process of indexing (where an index is, after all, an important form of hypertext) - a process, moreover, that lends itself rather well to computation - we find ourselves faced with: a) strong advice _not_ to use indexing software bundled with even the "best" wordprocessors, and b) something of a lag, shall we say , between an important humanities process and standalone software (at least for those of us not ready to write our own programs and/or missing the spare change for a commercial product)? I don't know if this disparity between need and computational possibility, on the one hand, and software reality on the other, means anything other than indexing is something only a very few souls concern themselves with, and hence fail to constitute a robust market that would make software development commercially worthwhile. If this disparity goes beyond that - I wonder if it would inspire a listing by HUMANISTS of similar tasks important to our teaching, research, and publication that, however important they may be and however well-suited they may be to computational algorithms, likewise remain under- or non-supported in the midst of the computer revolution? Cheerfully, Charles Ess 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/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_ From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: markup in old greek/roman manuscripts Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:37:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1073 (1073) Hello, for a visual demonstration of the concept of markup I am searching online for images of old greek / roman texts where 1) words are not seperated by blanks 2) sentences are not seperated by blanks 3) beginning of a new topic is marked by a horizontal line (paragraphos) under the test Thanks in advance, Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie Ludwig-Maximilan-Universitaet Muenchen Schellingstr. 3/RG, 80799 Muenchen, Germany http://www.germanistik.uni-muenchen.de/ndl/personen.html#Jannidis From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2001 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:24:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1074 (1074) CIT INFOBITS February 2001 No. 32 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. ....................................................................... Costs of Online Education Technology and the Biological Process of Learning Guidelines for Distance Education Released Preparing Tomorrow's Presenters Web Tools for Detecting Student Plagiarism Articles on Distance Education and Copyright [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: "James L Morrison" Subject: Technology Source, March/April 2001 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:27:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1075 (1075) Below my signature bloc is a description of the March/April 2001 issue of The Technology Source, a free, refereed e-Journal available at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/. Noel Fiser, the webmaster that SCT provides as part of their sponsorship of The Technology Source, has revamped TS to enhance its value to the educational community. The new look includes a smoother, icon-based contents page for every issue, making navigation easier and giving an immediate overview of that issue's articles. Abstracts of each article are provided below the table of contents. Also featured are a series of options near the end of each article. You may print a printer-friendly version of the article, email the article to a colleague, take part in an online discussion about the article (and get a note if someone responds to your post), or see related articles, grouped by subject matter or section of TS. You may also search for any article in the TS archives. In addition, at the very end of each article, we provide the copyright information to be used when distributing an article. This makes it explicit that our articles can be distributed freely for educational purposes. We are excited about making TS a more interactive and useful communication tool as educators face the challenge of using information technology tools to enhance teaching, learning, and management. Please take a look at the new and improved version and let me know what we can do further to improve its utility in your work. Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, The Technology Source UNC-Chapel Hill http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Editor Emeritus, On the Horizon Phone: 919 962-2517 http://www.camfordpublishing.com Fax: 919 962-1693 [material deleted] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1076 (1076) [deleted quotation]At the risk of shameless self-advertising - my web pages on this, while basic and crude, often receive kudos from various folk as useful: A Database of Informal Fallacies <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/Logic/Informal/Overview.html> Flush Rush?: or, how to make moral decisions in the face of uncertainty (an exercise in critical thinking and values analysis) <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/convo1.html> The last time I did a Google search on logic and critical thinking, I was surprised - though perhaps shouldn't have been - by how few sites (ca. 75) turned up; even fewer were of any substance - though some are quite good, e.g., Critical Thinking Resources: An Annotated Bibliography < http://www.montclair.edu/Pages/CRC/Bibliographies/CriticalThinking.html> Laura Bardroff Zieger Curriculum Resource Center Office of Teacher Education Center of Pedagogy College of Education and Human Services Montclair State University Upper Montclair, New Jersey Fall 1998 An amazingly rich annotated bibliography AltaVista maintains a page of sites devoted to critical thinking: http://dir.altavista.com/Science/53335/37438/135847.shtml In addition to the sites for "The Critical Thinking Community" (Richard Pauls company <http://www.sonoma.edu/cthink/>) among them are the following - See: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/tour/tourfrm3.html An overview of elements of critical thinking, as focused on argument analysis, questions of validity and soundness, and informal fallacies. Part of the "Mission:Critical" web site one of the best Ive seen on critical thinking: <http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html> Fallacies - Stephen Downes - A guide to arguing and logical fallacies. http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.htm A logic instructors site very nice, including a list of fallacies with definitions and examples, as well as a resource list. An experiment in group learning technology: evaluating critical thinking in face-to-face and computer-supported seminars http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/papers/ccvsem/contents.html Details the analysis of CT in face-to-face seminars vs. conferencing systems. (Small sample, somewhat dated.) Interestingly enough, while CT appears to have been somewhat greater in conferencing systems, the level of participation dropped (perhaps because of difficulty in using the system, etc.) Evaluating Web Resources, by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm An effort to provide guidelines for evaluating web-based materials. Applying critical thinking to strategic decision-making in business: http://members.xoom.com/cooperate/!critthi.htm Beware! The authors have a product to sell! With all best wishes, Charles Ess 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/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_ [deleted quotation] From: "John Humphrey" Subject: Voice Recognition Software for humanists with handicaps Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:06:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1077 (1077) Dear Professor Willard McCarty, I have been diagnosed with the beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome. Do you or anyone on the humanist list know anything about software that allows one to talk to one's computer? Thank you for your consideration in this matter, J. F. Humphrey Xavier University of Louisiana From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: GrantsNet Launches New Online Database -important for Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:06:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1078 (1078) science programs --for students Dear Humanist Scholars, [Hello, I would like to forward the following press release on the behalf of _Amanda Franks for Howard Hughes Medical Institute_ For more details, please contact Amanda Franks at Thank you. Best.-Arun] ---- GrantsNet Launches New Online Database To Assist Undergraduate Science Programs Free site, with more than 80,000 registered users, also adds personalization features San Francisco, February 19, 2001--GrantsNet, the free Web site at http://www.grantsnet.org that provides information on grants and fellowships for young biomedical researchers, today introduced a new database on undergraduate-level programs. Professors and administrators who seek to provide undergraduates with research experience and other opportunities will find hundreds of programs that offer support. GrantsNet also unveiled several new features, such as a My GrantsNet option that allows users to keep abreast of new funding opportunities through e-mail alerts, and to save searches or update registration information quickly. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which sponsor GrantsNet, announced the changes during a career fair at the AAAS annual meeting here. Since its launch in 1998, GrantsNet has grown to become one of the Web's most widely used sources of information for future scientists. More than 80,000 users have registered to use its extensive database of fellowships and grants, links to the Web sites and online applications of funders and tips on applying for grants. The new database will extend GrantsNet's audience to include professors, deans and others who seek support for undergraduate science education and research programs. All GrantsNet users will also be able to use the new "personalization features" to save their searches and customize the site for their preferences. "GrantsNet has established itself as a one-stop shopping site for graduate students, postdocs, medical students and junior faculty who are trying to gather information about grants and fellowships," said Crispin Taylor, manager editor of Science's Next Wave, which hosts GrantsNet. "It's also provided funders with a single place to pool their information and bring their programs to the attention of potential applicants. Now we're using this same approach to improve the 'fit' between funders and applicants for undergraduate science programs." The AAAS Career Fair, which runs from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., will feature an information booth where interested users can try out GrantsNet's new features. GrantsNet staff will be available to answer questions. *** The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is a medical research organization whose scientists carry out research at more than 70 locations nationwide. Through its complementary grants program, HHMI supports science education in the United States and a select group of researchers abroad. Its Web site is http://www.hhmi.org. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest federation of scientists, with more than 138,000 individual members and nearly 300 affiliated scientific and engineering societies. AAAS conducts a variety of programs in science policy, science education and career development, and international cooperation. Its Web site is http://www.aaas.org. ---- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [MIT new book]Melamed on _Empirical Methods for Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:04:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1079 (1079) Exploiting Parallel Texts_ Dear Humanists, Hello, the new publication by MIT on _Parallel Texts_ might be interested to most of the Humanist scholars. It is a good book for linguistics. Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts I. Dan Melamed For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MELEHF00. Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of linguistic knowledge, because the translation of a text into another language can be viewed as a detailed annotation of what that text means. Knowledge about translational equivalence, which can be gleaned from bitexts, is of central importance for applications such as manual and machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, and corpus linguistics. The availability of bitexts has increased dramatically since the advent of the Web, making their study an exciting new area of research in natural language processing. This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying translational equivalence at the lexical level. It is a start-to-finish guide to designing and evaluating many translingual applications. I. Dan Melamed is a research scientist in the Computer Science Research Department of West Group, Minnesota. 6 x 9, 198pp., 75 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13380-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more details regarding the book, please contact -Jud Wolfskill, Associate Publicist of MIT Press at Thanking you, Sincerely yours Arun Kumar Tripathi From: Alan Burk Subject: Announcement - Summer Institute 2001 - Creating Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:04:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1080 (1080) Electronic Texts and Images This announcement has been cross-posted; please excuse any duplication. Alan Burk Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries ******************************************************************** Announcing the Fifth Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2001/ ************************************************************* 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 19 - 24, 2001 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/XML tagging and conversion Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines Ebooks (This will be an expanded component for this years institute) The basics of archival imaging The form and implications of XML Publishing SGML/XML 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 learn how to create TEI encoded XML files from a selection of manuscripts from UNBs Archives and Special Collections; and, then, how to turn these XML files automatically into multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, and EBook. Participants will also have the opportunity to tag an EAD finding aid and explore issues in creating digital images. The work of the class will be made available on the Internet through the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries Web Page. 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 ($850 Canadian dollars) will include all course fees for the Institute, some events, nutritional breaks, and lunches. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. SPECIAL EVENTS: 1. A reception and tour of Old Government House and dinner at the Sheraton - Sunday, August 19 A reception and tour of the recently renovated Old Government House will give participants a chance to explore and to be introduced to one of the oldest and most historic sites in Fredericton. Old Government House is located on the bank of the St. John River in one of the most picturesque sections in downtown Fredericton. This will be followed by dinner at the Sheraton. Cost of reception, tour and dinner are included in the Institute's tuition. 2. A barbeque - Wednesday, August 22 There will be an informal barbeque (beef and lobster). Time and location yet to be decided. There will be a small charge for those requesting lobster. 3. Friday Farewell Dinner - Friday, August 24 A farewell dinner (for those still in Fredericton) in a relaxed setting with beer, wine and Maritime hospitality. Details will be provided before Friday. This dinner will be at one's own expense. The first event, the tour of Old Government House and dinner at the Sheraton, is subject to change. Check our Web site for the most up-to-date information: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2001/ The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at: $87.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room $97.00 + tax (Canadian) Double Room Course participants will be responsible for making their own reservations. Lord Beaverbrook Hotel: Tel. 506-455-3371 or 1-800-561-7666. When booking rooms, please ask for block reserved under Harriet Irving Library to receive special rates. RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY JULY 17 TO ENSURE AVAILABILITY AND SPECIAL RATE. All blocked rooms will be released after this date. Information about other accommodations is available at the City of Fredericton tourism Web page: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/visitors/index.asp FURTHER INFORMATION: You may also obtain further information by contacting Karen Kilfillen (klk@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on prior institutes, including comments from participants, is available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2000/ ***************************************************** Registration Form Use our Web Registration Form located at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2001/register_2001.htm or fill out our email version: Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 19th to 24th, 2001 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ In the space below, briefly outline your reasons for taking this course and describe projects which will utilize the skills you learn in this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home) ______________________(Business) Business address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email:________________________ I am paying for: Registration fee $850 _____ Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 29, 2001. Refunds will not be honoured after July 13, 2001. PLEASE EMAIL COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM TO: Karen Kilfillen, Library Administrative Officer klk@unb.ca or mail or fax to: Karen Kilfillen UNB Libraries, PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 PHONE: (506) 453-4740 FAX: (506) 453-4595 Confirmation of registration will be sent to you after processing. ****************************************************************** From: Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of the Electronic Text Centre Phone: 506-453-4740 Fax: 506-453-4595 http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/ From: Eric Johnson Subject: Computer Graphic Design faculty position Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:06:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1081 (1081) Computer Graphic Design Faculty Position Dakota State University invites applications for a newly created tenure-track faculty position, beginning August, 2001. Duties may include teaching two-dimensional graphics (both draw and paint programs), three-dimensional graphics, computer animation, and visual design. Education and experience: Ph.D., DA or MFA in art, computer graphics, or a closely related area. University teaching experience is desirable. Dakota State University is located in Madison, South Dakota, approximately 50 miles northwest of Sioux Falls in the southern lakes region of the state. DSU offers a baccalaureate major in Multimedia/Web Development, and a minor in Computer Graphics. The University has been recognized by Yahoo!/Internet Life rankings of 12th or better among the 100 most wired colleges in the nation for the last three years. For information about DSU, see http://www.dsu.edu Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Rank and salary based on qualifications. To apply, send letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts, and current phone numbers of at least three references to Chair, Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799. For more information contact: eric.johnson@dsu.edu Applicants with disabilities are invited to identify any necessary accommodations required in the application process. EOE --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder: DIALOGUE'2001 CFP Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:20:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1082 (1082) [deleted quotation] DIALOGUE'2001 International workshop May 30 - June 4, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS The DIALOGUE Workshop is a major annual national event which brings together researchers and experts (linguists, computer and cognitive scientists, psychologists, researchers in the artificial intelligence and speech processing, etc.) from the former USSR as well as other countries for a dialogue in a broad spectrum of fields concerning human languages computational models and technologies. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) : - theoretical and computational linguistics - syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interaction - natural language processing - knowledge representation and processing - text, dialogue and speech act in the computational framework - speech understanding and synthesis - machine translation - corpus linguistics - natural language processing and Internet - semantic modeling of full-text documents [material deleted] Please visit the Workshop website http://www.dialog-21.ru/English/default.htm for updates. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001: 8th European Workshop on NL Generation CFP Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:23:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1083 (1083) [deleted quotation] ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Museums and the Web 2001: Papers Available On-line Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:21:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1084 (1084) [deleted quotation] Museums and the Web 2001 The international conference about museums on-line March 14-17, 2001 Seattle, Washington, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/ MW2001 PAPERS NOW ON-LINE http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/speakers/ [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CFP for EUROLAN'01 Workshop on Modular Programming Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:23:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1085 (1085) applied to NLP [deleted quotation] ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Workshop on Evaluation for Language & Dialogue Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:25:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1086 (1086) Systems CFP [deleted quotation] Call for Papers Workshop on Evaluation for Language and Dialogue Systems ACL/EACL 2001 Toulouse, France July 6-7, 2001 WORKSHOP GOALS The aim of this two day workshop is to identify and to synthesize current needs for language-technology evaluation. The first day of the workshop will focus on one of the most challenging current issues in language engineering: the evaluation of dialogue systems and models. The second day will extend the discussion to address the problem of evaluation in language engineering more broadly and on more theoretical grounds. The space of possible dialogues is enormous, even for limited domains like travel information servers. The generalization of evaluation methodologies across different application domains and languages is an open problem. Review of published evaluations of dialogue models and systems suggests that usability techniques are the standard method. Dialogue-based system are often evaluated in terms of standard, objective usability metrics, such as task-completion time and number of user actions. In the past, researchers have proposed and debated theory-based methods for modifying and testing the underlying dialogue model, but the most widely used method of evaluation is usability testing, although more precise and empirical methods for evaluating the effectiveness of dialogue models have been proposed. For task-based interaction, typical measures of effectiveness are time-to-completion and task outcome, but the evaluation should focus on user satisfaction rather than on arbitrary effectiveness measurements.Indeed, the problems faced in current approaches to measurement of effectiveness dialogue models and systems include: Direct measures are unhelpful because efficient performance on the nominal task may not represent the most effective interaction Indirect measures usually rely on judgment and are vulnerable to weak relationships between the inputs and outputs Subjective measures are unreliable and domain-specific For its first day, the workshop organizers solicit papers on these issues, with particular emphasis on methods that go beyond usability testing to address the underlying dialogue model. Representative questions to be addressed include: o How do we deal with the combinatorial explosion of dialogue states? o How can satisfaction be measured with respect to underlying dialogue models? o Are there useful direct measures of dialogue properties that do not depend on task efficiency? o What is the role of agent-based simulation in evaluation of dialogue models? Of course, the problems faced in evaluating dialogue and system models are found in other domains of language engineering, even for non-interactive processes such as part-of-speech tagging, parsing, semantic disambiguation, information extration, speech transcription, and audio document indexing. So the issue of evaluation can be viewed at a more generic level, raising fundamental, theoretical questions such as: o What are the interest and benefits of evaluation for language engineering? o Do we really need these specific methodologies, since a form of evaluation sould always be present in any scientific investigation? o If evaluation is needed in language engineering, is it the case for all domains? o What form should it take? Technology evaluation (task-oriented in laboratory environment) or field/user Evaluation (complete systems in real-life conditions)? We have seen before that the the evaluation of dialogue models is still unsolved, but for domains where metrics already exists, are they satisfactory and sufficient? How can we take into account or abstract from the subjective factor introduced by human operators in the process? Do similarity measures and standards offer appropriate answers to this problem? Most of the efforts focus on evaluating process, but what about the issue of language resources evaluation? For its second day of work, the workshop organizers solicit papers on these issues, with the intent to address the problem of evaluation both from a broader perspective (including novel applications domains for evaluation, new metrics for known tasks and resource evaluation) and a more theoretical point of view (including formal theory of evaluation and infrastructural needs of language engineering). [material deteted] ------------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Additional information on the workshop, including accepted papers and the workshop schedule, will be made available as needed at http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eacl01.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: cast01: Symposium on Communication of Art, Science and Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:26:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1087 (1087) Technology [deleted quotation] call for participation / submission deadline 31.05.2001 / Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin (Bonn), 21-22.09.2001 cast01: Symposium on Communication of Art, Science and Technology We invite you to participate in the cast01 symposium on intersections of artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of: Living in Mixed Realities What does it mean to live, play and work in a world shaped and perceived through digital media, networks and architectures of real-virtual space? The development of complex communication spaces, life environments and economic models is an interplay of technical, social, and artistic forces - Mixed Realities of Art, Science and Technology. The design of a Mixed Reality Architecture, which connects processes in virtual space to the social environments and cultural practices of real places, presents challenges to technologists, scientists and artists alike. In such an architecture the basic design elements are networked structures for new forms of collaborative work and knowledge discovery, human-centred interaction and awareness, media spaces and advanced interfaces. At cast01 scientists will present technologies and infrastructures that address these challenges. Artists will present aesthetic concepts of digital culture and new interactive media formats. cast01 is an invitation for a discussion between artistic practices and the forefront of research and development of information technologies. cast01 is organised by netzspannung.org and by the GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology. It is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (bmb+f) and by the European Commission. http://netzspannung.org/cast01 e-mail: cast01@netzspannung.org [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 3rd Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:27:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1088 (1088) (ICoS-3) CFP [deleted quotation] * THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 Siena, Italy, June 18-20, 2001 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ (Submission deadline: March 15, 2001) 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 Logic together, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NAACL-2001 Preliminary Call for Participation Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:28:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1089 (1089) [deleted quotation] ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, June 2-7, 2001. We have a diverse selection of tutorials, workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening picnic and a banquet in the grand and elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural History. We will be joined by EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop on Language Modelling and Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1). The conference also features CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access throughout the CMU campus (please register your WaveLAN device in advance), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops. While you are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June 1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free performances. WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 ARABIC Language Processing: Status & Prospects Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:28:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1090 (1090) Workshop CFP [deleted quotation] ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001 Co-organized by: ELSNET NAPLUS WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The objective of the workshop is threefold. * First of all we want to bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing. * Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc. * Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic NLP community and the NLP community at large. The workshop program will include the following components: * Introduction * Overview talks * Scientific papers * Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products * A panel session and/or a round table discussion * Conclusions [material deleted] WORKSHOP URL: http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html CONTACT INFO: Steven Krauwer email: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org ELSNET / UiL OTS www: http://www.elsnet.org Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050 3512 JK Utrecht, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Sharing Tools and Resources Workshop Call for Papers Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:29:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1091 (1091) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. [material deleted] WORKSHOP URL http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-tools.html FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Michael Rosner mros@cs.um.edu.mt Thierry Declerck declerck@dfki.de From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 Human Language Technology & Knowledge Management Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:30:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1092 (1092) Workshop [deleted quotation] WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACL/EACL 2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 6-7, 2001 Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management. Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription, extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how. This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring our progress towards our goals. [material deleted] WEBSITE A Workshop web site has been set up at http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-2001 CoNLL-2001 Workshop Call for Papers Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:31:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1093 (1093) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS CoNLL-2001 Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop Toulouse, France, July 6-7, 2001 http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/ BACKGROUND CoNLL is the yearly workshop organized by SIGNLL, the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (http://www.aclweb.org/signll/). Previous CoNLL meetings were held in Madrid (1997), Sydney (1998), Bergen (1999) and Lisbon (2000). The 2001 event will be held as a two-days workshop at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July 6-11, 2001 in Toulouse, France. This year, a special theme will be the focus of the workshop: Interaction and Automation in Language Learning Resources Apart from this special theme, the workshop will accept contributions about language learning topics, including, but not limited to: - Computational models of human language acquisition - Computational models of the origins and evolution of language - Machine learning methods applied to natural language processing tasks (speech processing, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse processing, language engineering applications) - Symbolic learning methods (Rule Induction and Decision Tree Learning, Lazy Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, Analytical Learning, Transformation-based Error-driven Learning) - Biologically-inspired methods (Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing) - Statistical methods (Bayesian Learning, HMM, maximum entropy, SNoW, Support Vector Machines) - Reinforcement Learning - Active learning, ensemble methods, meta-learning - Computational Learning Theory analyses of language learning - Empirical and theoretical comparisons of language learning methods - Models of induction and analogy in Linguistics [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CFP for EMNLP-2001 (preceding NAACL-2001) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:31:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1094 (1094) [deleted quotation] *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** (includes submission instructions; note notification deadline) 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Sponsored by SIGDAT and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI). SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to: * information extraction * information retrieval * language and dialog modeling * lexical acquisition * machine translation * multilingual technologies * question answering * statistical parsing * summarization * tagging * term and named-entity extraction * word sense disambiguation * word, term, and text segmentation [material deleted] CONFERENCE URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CfP (ext. DL) IEEE WETICE WS on Web-Based Infrastr. and Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:33:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1095 (1095) Coordination Archs [deleted quotation] Call For Papers WITH SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 23, 2001: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3rd International Workshop on: WEB-BASED INFRASTRUCTURES AND COORDINATION ARCHITECTURES FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES http://www.dsi.unimo.it/wetice2001 at the 10th IEEE WETICE Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/WETICE/WETICE2001/ June 20-22 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The workshop addresses the question of how Web techniques can be used to achieve or to improve collaboration within or between organizations, and which coordination mechanisms could be used in such an architecture. This problem area addresses both technical and organizational issues. The involved organizations are typically enterprises in different spheres of power such that it is not reasonable to require a common structure, or to align the structure for a certain collaboration purpose. But how can a system enable the participants for flexible and effective collaboration? [material deleted] Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. Detailed format instructions can be found at http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm [material deleted] From: "Hope A. Greenberg" Subject: Re: 14.0711 Gutenberg -> XML; Ess, "We are the Borg" Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:36:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1096 (1096) Francois Lachance quoted then wrote: [deleted quotation] In my more depressed moments I wonder: if the majority of the academy chooses to abdicate its responsibility by not embracing the challenges posed by the digital, what possible right can it have to complain about those who do? To invoke the ad campaign for that late 20th century icon, Lee Iococco, the number of leaders and followers is far smaller than the number who just want to "get out of the way." It's sad to get run over by a lousy Chrysler mini-van when what we wanted to do was build and drive something elegant, powerful and energy efficient. Perhaps there is comfort in the knowledge that "this too shall pass" and that the web is a big place with room for lots of mistakes and much beauty. - Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont (enjoying 14 inches of snow with more coming) From: Eduardo Mendieta Subject: The NEH Symposium on _The Future of Hope, End of Utopia II_ Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 10:47:24 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1097 (1097) {--} The NEH Symposium: The Future of Hope, End of Utopia II March 27th, 6-9 pm. Lone Mountain 140 University of San Francisco William Blake:The Presence of Hope, The Ends of Utopia Robert Catterall Newcastle, England Robert Catterall is Visiting Senior Fellow (urban studies) at Newcastle University.He is the editor of the journal 'City:analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action', co-author with Manuel Castells of The Making of the Network Society: A dialogue (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2001) and is working on a book about the emerging geo-cultural order. He devised and co-organized a conference at the Tate Gallery on William Blake and the Regeneration of London. Utopian Bodies: How we became Borgs Eduardo Mendieta University of San Francisco Eduardo Mendieta is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, and the NEH Chair for 2000-1 Academic Year. He has edited several books, and is the author of From Hermeneutics to Semiotics: Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield, Forthcoming). He is at work on a book on utopia. Response Tracy Seeley University of San Francisco Tracy Seeley is an Associate Professor of English at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches Victorian and 20th-century British literature, and Post-colonial studies. She has published several essays on Virginia Woolf, as well as essays on Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, Victorian Women's non-fiction prose, and poet and essayist Alice Meynell. She is currently at work on a project which combines spatial theory and poetics, an interest which informed the Davies Seminar she co-taught, on Space and American Cultural Values in Literature and Film. She is also co-author of two screenplays and several works of creative non-fiction. PRESIDING Yoko Arisaka University of San Francisco Eduardo Mendieta Assistant Professor Philosophy Department University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 Tel: (415) 422-6313 Fax: (415) 422-2346 From: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Re: voice recognition software? Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:34:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1098 (1098) I've worked a bit with Dragon Systems Naturally Speaking for Windows 9x. It requires a lot of training (of the software by the user, not of the user) and somewhat clear, relatively accentless pronunciation, and is not 100% keyboard free, but (the preferred version) can be trained to learn nearly any word so long as it is in the Latin alphabet and the pronunciation isn't too far from English (I trained it to recognize a number of transliterated words). It integrates with Microsoft Word as well as the operating system, and I believe it still integrates with WordPerfect. [deleted quotation] syndrome. Do you [deleted quotation] From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 14.0721 voice recognition software? Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:34:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1099 (1099) there is a software package by IBM, now also in a Mac version called ViaVoice. HB From: Willard McCarty Subject: voice-recognition software Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:35:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1100 (1100) A Google search (www.google.com) on "voice recognition software" turns up a fair bit of stuff. An interesting review may be found at ; this seems to be a presentation by someone named David A. McMurrey to medical office administrators. It concludes with a list of 15 links to various reviews. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: 14.0721 voice recognition software? Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:36:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1101 (1101) Hi there, At 07:09 AM 06/03/2001 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Slightly off-topic, but this is what I've done in the last couple of years to overcome these problems: 1. Use the mouse on one side at work, and the other side at home. Getting competent with the mouse on the wrong side is quicker than you think. 2. Get a mouse with lots of buttons and a wheel, and set one button to the double-click. 3. Get a good chair -- your institution will probably have workplace safety guys who can tell you the best options. 4. Get an ergonomic keyboard -- again, there's some adjustment time but it's worth it. 5. Get a mousepad with one of those little jelly wrist supports. For anyone doing a lot of work on the computer, talking to it isn't really a serious option yet, as far as I can tell. It's painfully slow compared with typing or mousing. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes@uvic.ca mholmes2@compuserve.com mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: More on Prof. Hayles --her forthcoming spectacular ventures Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:22:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1102 (1102) Dear humanist scholars, Hello, to those researchers and scholars, who would like to read Katherine Hayles --forthcoming journey..of _Posthumanism_ --here is some updates on Hayles..ON "Virtual Bodies: Evolving Materiality in Cybernetics, Literature, and Information" --Book-length manuscript tracing history of cybernetics from 1945-present and relating it to poststructural critical theory and contemporary literature AND "Riding the Cusp: The Interplay between Narrative and Formalisms", under contract to Routledge Press --An essay collection focused on showing the importance of narrative in a series of scientific sites, from game theory to sociobiology and artificial life. Thank you. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Into the Future Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:20:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1103 (1103) Dear all, Some time ago I enquried about the availibility of the Terry Sanders documentary "Into the Future. On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age." I got some useful suggestions which led to the site of the American Film Foundation, <http://www.americanfilmfoundation.com/> from which the film can be ordered in two versions: the 33 min version at USD 39.95, and the 58 min version at USD 59.95). Hope this is useful for members of this list. Edward Vanhoutte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edward Vanhoutte Co-ordinator CTB - Centre for Textual Criticism and Document Studies Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium tel: +32 9 265.93.51 / fax: 032 9 265.93.49 email: evanhoutte@kantl.be / evanhout@uia.ua.ac.be From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: OEB 1.0 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:21:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1104 (1104) Dear all, One of my students is currently writing her MA thesis on eBooks, and would want to have texts marked up in OEB 1.0 so she can access the markup. At the moment she uses Adobe eBook Reader and MS Reader for viewing purposes, but they don't let her see the markup. Any suggestions? Edward Vanhoutte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edward Vanhoutte Co-ordinator Centre for Textual Criticism and Document Studies Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium tel: +32 9 265.93.51 / fax: 032 9 265.93.49 email: evanhoutte@kantl.be / evanhout@uia.ua.ac.be From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: textural and textual Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:23:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1105 (1105) Willard, I have come across a description of a musical piece which might also serve for describing such phenomena as richly encoded electronci text, tightly woven hypertextual webs and the buzz of meeting of humanists involved in computing. I quote it here and append a question. James Pritchett on John Cage's _Music for Changes_ "During phrases of low density, the listener attends to the contours of individual events; during periods of high density, the ears are overloaded, the events become unfocussed, and the impression is predominantly textural." James Pritchett _The Music of John Cage (Cambridge University Press, 1993 rpt 1996) p. 88 I wonder if any musicologists or linguists could elaborate on how the term "textural" has been invoked in descriptions of music (when does it appear and to what end). Supplemental question: would re-reading (or "deep reading" a la Gregory Crane) be a paradoxically a mechanism for reducing aesthetic overload as well as inducing such a condition. It would perhaps be worth considering distinguishing two types of reading modes: the one, a parsing that slows down the reader's interaction with the textual artefact; the other, a romp through the possible intertexual relations a textual artefact might entertain with others. And of course on wonders if digital technology doesn't make any association between the speed of reading and the intra/intertextual space to be traversed very contingent. I am sure our musicological friends can help us better understand how the speed of traversal of a given field of elements or events has a tremendous impact on the phenomenological space consturcted out of the union of the traversal and the topology. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 14.0732 Terry Sanders, "Into the Future" Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:20:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1106 (1106) [deleted quotation] From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Plagiarism Workshop Reminder Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:23:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1107 (1107) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] The Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment at University of Maryland University College would like to remind everyone that the early registration deadline is March 26th for the online workshop on Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism. http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_4-01/workshop.html The workshop will be moderated by Rebecca Moore Howard, Chair of The Writing Program at Syracuse University, and runs from April 2, 2001 to April 13, 2001. Sign up to participate in a workshop on one of the hottest topics in distance education- online plagiarism. You may register online or you may register by phone by calling 301-985-7579 or 1-800-283-6832, extension 7579. For additional information, please call or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_4-01/workshop.html From: Joan B Fiscella Subject: AIS call for papers, due date March 30 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:23:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1108 (1108) Call For Proposals Association for Integrative Studies Annual Conference Oct 4-7, 2001 Hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech At the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia Proposal Due Date: March 30, 2001 Faculty are increasingly challenged to recognize the changing nature of society by incorporating global issues into teaching and research. The purpose of this conference is to build an interdisciplinary international perspective by exploring pivotal issues related to globalization, especially in the areas of social justice, global change, and scholarly activism. Submissions are invited of papers, case studies, narratives, and research reviews that will enrich the interdisciplinary character of this conference as well as promote active participation. For complete text of the call and proposal submission guidelines, please see the conference website: http://www.conted.vt.edu/ais.htm Notification of acceptance by May 10, 2001 AIS website: http://muohio.edu/ais/ Joan B. Fiscella Bibliographer for Professional Studies and Associate Prof. University of Illinois at Chicago Library 312-996-2730 jbf@uic.edu From: Rene Audet Subject: Online Conference: "L'effet de fiction" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:25:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1109 (1109) Dear Humanists, We are pleased to invite those of you who read French to our online conference on the question of fictionality. Twenty communications have been published in the last days on the subject. Your participation to this special event is sollicited: you can read and comment each text, with the possibility to exchange with the author. We will read with interest all your comments about the texts of the conference as well as those on the technical side of the online conference. Yours, Ren Audet and Alexandre Gefen Groupe Fabula fabula@fabula.org LANCEMENT DU COLLOQUE "L'EFFET DE FICTION" Le site Internet Fabula, consacre a la recherche en matiere de theorie litteraire, est heureux de vous annoncer le lancement officiel du colloque "L'effet de fiction", consacre a la mecanique du texte fictionnel, de "l'effet de fiction" a "l'effet des fictions". Une vingtaine d'interventions sont disponibles et il vous est aise de discuter les propositions des intervenants, qui seront invites a vous repondre : nous comptons sur votre participation, qui permettra de nouer en ligne des debats aussi interessants que lors de nos precedentes manifestations. Rendez-vous donc a l'adresse : http://www.fabula.org/effet/ Notez egalement que des versions destinees a impression ou a lecture hors-ligne vous sont egalement proposees, ainsi que, et c'est une premiere, au format "ebook". PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE - Presentation - Toute ressemblance... (Bernard Magne) - La fiction de l'Histoire chez D. Kis (Katarina Melic) - Quand la fiction se manifeste : essais sur l'art et production de la fiction (Dominique Vaugeois) - L'effet de non-fiction: fragments d'une enquete (Richard Saint-Gelais) - L'ecriture-fiction de Robert Pinget (David Ruffel) - L'aventure du fictif (Ricard Ripoll Villanueva) - Un certain gout de l'archive (Alexandre Prstojevic) - La fiction comme supercherie divine (Stephane Pillet) - La fiction ou l'experimentation des possibles (Nancy Murzilli) - Les manuscrits retrouves dans de vieilles malles (Odile Gannier) - Irrealisation du reel et et fictionnalisation de l'Histoire (Mohamed Lakhdar Maougal) - Roman noir et fictionalite (Natacha Levet) - Artefact(e)s (Jean-Francois Jeandillou - Les dialogues fictionnels de Speroni devant l'Inquisition (Anne Godard) - L'effet de reel-fiction (Francois Freby) - Dispositifs fictionnels dans l'oeuvre fragmentaire de Julien Gracq (Mar Garcia) - Aux limites de la fiction, Rimbaud et l'objet de l'incredulite (Pierre Campion) - La photographie a l'epreuve du roman simonien (Olivier Bernard) - Faits de langue, de texte ... effets de fiction (Guy Achard-Bayle) LE SITE INTERNET FABULA - Pour un regard d'ensemble sur l'actualite scientifique : http://www.fabula.org/actualite.php - Pour un regard d'ensemble sur le calendrier des evenements scientifiques : http://www.fabula.org/calendrier.php ________________________________________________________ Veuillez nous pardonner si ce message vous parvient en plusieurs exemplaires. From: "Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga" Subject: Re: 14.0733 Open eBook & seeing the markup? Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:28:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1110 (1110) We would like to send out an invitation to participate in the discussion for the Human Markup Language. This is an open non-proprietary endeavor, open to the contributions of all parties interested in helping define human XML standards. These standards define various aspects of *human* communication process through markup, including 'gestures', 'intentions', 'emotions', and 'attitudes'. The ultimate aim is to reduce human miscommunication. An OASIS Discussion List and Technical Committee (www.oasis-open.org) is on target to begin in the near future. All OASIS members interested in formally discuss participating in this discussion, contact me directly. We have created a Yahoo Group which precedes, and will work in conjunction with, the OASIS Committee. All parties interested in contributing to the process may want to join the group. The link is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanmarkup. Our initial support proposal is located at our website: http://www.humanmarkup.org/proposal/oasisprop.htm. If there are any concerns as to what is done, and what needs to be done, contact me directly. My role is to ensure proper coordination of contributions, at this initial stage. We will be working with different organizations which span the field of human communications and XML. There would be much value in contributions of ideas and directions from experts (or self-proclaimed experts ;)) in various areas of XML and human expression/communication, in the establishment of human standards. Please contact me directly for more information. Your insight may be of great benefit to many. Regards, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga rkthunga@humanmarkup.org From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 14.0732 Terry Sanders, "Into the Future" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:25:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1111 (1111) If anyone wants to go further with what is being done for the archival preservation of digital objects, a good reference site is: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ Pat Galloway UT-Austin From: Adrian Miles Subject: the violence of the multiple posting Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:30:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1112 (1112) apologies for cross postings: this list might help lessen this... regards adrian miles A digest only announcement list has been set up for all material relevant to new media people in Australia. It's to distribute announcements... details are at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/lists/newmedia.html charter: An email list has been established to distribute any announcements relating to new media. This is to help counter the complaint that there are too many cross postings to existing lists for conferences, exhibitions, competitions, journals, etc. The list is digest only, and distributed with breakfast each morning. it is unmoderated, and so any thing posted to it will be distributed - with the caveat that only those subscribed can post, and attachments are automatically excluded. Anything relating to 'new media' or 'new media studies' is relevant in terms of general announcements. This includes exhibitions, call for papers, conferences, articles, web sites, email lists, meetings, magazines, etc. It is not limited to Australian content, locations, journals, etc. If you think anyone else in Australia might want to know about your event, essay, exhibition, exchange, etc then it is fit to distribute. to subscribe send email to lists@post.rmit.edu.au leave the subject blank, in the body: subscribe digest newmedia ought to do it. From: Willard McCarty Subject: multiple perspectives? Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:28:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1113 (1113) Certainly one of the primary contributions of computational design to the rethinking of our scholarly tools is the ease with which different perspectives on a body of material may be implemented. I am thinking, for example, of a remark originating from someone (forgive the forgetting) in the Perseus Project, that a lexicon whose citations of text become links to the full texts is not so different from a commentary. I'm also thinking of the desirability, argued by Simon Goldhill (Classics, Cambridge), that we take some account of the modern idea of the plural text in our making of editions and commentaries, and the perhaps obvious approaches which computing has to offer. Finally I'm thinking of what the worldwide digital library (crucially in the singular) may do to scholarship. So much for the context. Now my question. Who has written most clearly and persuasively on the relevant paradox of interpretation, which takes control of and to a varying degree remakes its object in the very act of its own subservience? Since we can actually do away with the necessity of physically subordinating commentary and other sorts of interpretative notes, and thus give leash to their heretofore suppressed primacy, will we not (also paradoxically) be increasing the importance of interpretation -- rather than minimising it, as some have dreamed computing would do? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 14.0740 multiple perspectives? Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 06:44:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1114 (1114) Hi Willard, At 01:47 PM 3/14/01, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Funny how threads intertwine. This reminds me of the work of Harold Bloom, from the mid-seventies through the mid-eighties, whose work I've been reviewing for another purpose. "Clearly and persuasively" may be arguable in his case (the stuff was nothing if not controversial: some readers found it by turns over-audacious and obscure). But works like *The Anxiety of Influence*, *A Map of Misreading*, *The Breaking of the Vessels* all examine this theme. [deleted quotation] Yes. It is a good lesson to assimilate, that our very acts of "clarifying, for all time, the truth of the matter" really amount to adding interpretations (new or not so new) to the stack. I have been looking at *The Breaking of the Vessels*, which transcribes lectures Bloom gave in 1981. One of the fascinating things about this little volume is that no typographic distinction is made between quotes and commentary. Just to give you a taste (I open the book at random): having quoted Wilde's *The Critic As Artist*, Bloom writes: Are [Wilde's characters] Vivian and Gilbert not speaking the language of poetry and the language of criticism? Wilde is one of the pioneers at insisting upon the identity of the two languages. Yet he has persuaded only a few critics and poets after him. What is or isn't criticism always has been problematic, and perhaps readers ought to be less certain than they have been as to what is or isn't poetry. What is most problematic here is the notion of language, since increasingly we all trope upon the word "language" whether we are conscious or not of our turning of the term. Wilde was far enough ahead of his time so that most of us still lag behind him. Yet any memorable criticism, from Longinus to our moment, has had very little to do with the modest handmaiden's role prescribed by the modern Anglo-American academy.... 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0740 multiple perspectives? Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 06:45:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1115 (1115) Willard, The beast described below is closer to the creatures of digital imaging than those of text encoding but it perhaps captures the long tradition in bibliography of being aware fo the "remaking of its objects". [deleted quotation] /snip [deleted quotation] D.F. McKenzie, drawing upon the work of Peter de Voogd on the marbled pages of Laurence Sterne's _Tristam Shandy_ Each hand-marbled page is necessarily different yet integral with the text. As an assortment of coloured shapes which are completely non-representational, a marbled page as distinct from a lettered one might even be said to have no meaning at all. Most modern editions, if they do attempt to include them, and do not merely settle for a note of their original presence, will print a black-and-white image of them which is uniform in every copy of the edition. By doing that, of course, subvert Sterne's intention to embody an emblem of non-specific intention, of difference, of undetermined meaning, of the very instablility of text from copy to copy. One can of course imagine an electronic edition where the image of the marbled page is produced by a program that more or less randomly generates a marbled page on the fly. One can also image an electronic edition that provides a gallery of extant marbled pages from earlier editions. Or a combination of both so that future readers can compare images of extant physical copies with computer-generated "facsimile simulations". Think of Ovid on an electronic billboard --- the physicality of the inscription matters. Paul Monette in the preface to a collection of elegies in honour of his dead lover recalls the importance of the setting to the reading experience: In the summer of 1984 Roger and I were in Greece together, and for both of us it was a peak experience that left us dazed and slightly giddy. We'd been together for ten years, and life was very sweet. On the high bluff of ancient Thera, looking out across the southern Aegean toward Africa, my hand grazed a white marble block covered edge to edge with Greek characters, line after precise line. The marble was tilted face up to the weather, its message slowly eroding in the rain. "I hope somebody's recorded all this," I said, realizing with a dull thrill of helplessness that this _was_ the record, right her on this stone. Of course the allusion to "peak experience" brings to mind Timothy Leary would have added "set" to my mention of "setting" above. Mind set of the readers. It is perhaps worth quoting Leary just to illustrate how close psychedelic experience is to reading: The specific reaction has little to do with the chemical and is chiefly a function of _set_ and _setting_; preparation and environment. The better the preparation, the more ecstatic and revelatory the session. In initial sessions and with unprepared persons, setting -- particularly the actions of others -- is most important. With persons who have prepared thoughtfully and seriously, the setting is less important. from _The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead_ No doubt this in not quite what you had uppermost in your mind but these selections are not so distant from any consideration of what D.F. McKenzie calls the sociology of texts. And quoted here they serve to emphasize whenever we ponder the complexities of computing and its fungible artefacts, we remember that we are dealing with humans and machines and very much like musical instruments both are prepared. But half the fun is being surprised in one's unpreparedness -- it leaves room for improvisation in the face of instability. Is that not the moral of many and Ovidian tale? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: framing and nesting Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 06:46:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1116 (1116) Willard, I have had the opportunity recently to participate in an exchange regarding the development of a content model. The exchange occurred in a language other than English. I found myself reaching for a term that roughly translates back into English as "framing" while I was trying to explain the concept of "nesting" elements. I now wonder if you or others might care to comment on the shift in metaphor or contribute other cross-linguistic examples of such shifts. There is an other term that has intrigued me: "looping". -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Randall Pierce Subject: Bloom Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:51:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1117 (1117) I'm not sure, but I think it was Buckminster Fuller who said, "The more you know, the more you know." I'm sure that the inestimable Mr. Fuller would be delighted by the hyper-text endeavors of the Humanist network. As a matter of fact, he in some ways anticipated it. The accumulation of knowledge is, in and of itself, an admirable goal. We have just scratched the surface in the benefits that the mass of date will provide present and future investigators. BUT-- The ultimate goal is the creation of new concepts, not just the assimilation of known ones. There are new insights possible in every field. That leads to the subject of Bloom: not Harold Bloom of vast literary accomplishments, but Benjamin Bloom the educational psychologist. His Bloom's Taxonomy could provide an end goal for the art of hyper-text technology. So far, we are dependent on the human mind for the skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. I am hoping for the creation of a cybernetic aid to this higher cognitive skills. Perhaps the concept of cross-cultural and cross-language exchanges promises progress in the creation of new concepts and insights. I would like to hear more. From my my historical researches into comparative cultural studies, I am aware that certain concepts common to some cultures are alien or even antagonistic to others. Randall From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: Valery quote Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:52:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1118 (1118) There is a widely circulated (on the net) quotation from Paul Valery, Englished as "Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees" -- used as title of a marvelous book by Lawrence Weschler, inter alia. Could anyone supply the French original? Is it famous among Valerians, or is Weschler responsible for its propagation? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: TEI News Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:52:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1119 (1119) As most of this list's readers will know, the Text Encoding Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary standards project, established in 1987 to develop, maintain, and promulgate hardware- and software-independent methods for encoding humanities data in electronic form. In 2001, the TEI DTD is widely used in library electronic text collections, electronic scholarly editions, and linguistic text-encoding projects. The TEI Consortium, a new non-profit membership organization formed in December of 2000 to represent, coordinate, and support the user community of the Text Encoding Initiative, is pleased to announce the appointment of an executive director, Tone Merete Bruvik, Senior Executive Officer and Terminologist at the Humanities Information Technologies Center at the University of Bergen. Ms. Bruvik has been an active member of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) community in the Malvine (Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe) project (see http://www.malvine.org) and she will also be involved in the upcoming LEAF (Linking and Exploring Authority Files) project at the HIT Centre, to develop a model architecture for a distributed search system harvesting existing name authority information (persons and corporate bodies). She will also be involved in producing a new historical-critical edition, with commentary, of all of Henrik Ibsen's writings, printed and unprinted: plays, poems, articles, lectures, letters, drafts and notes. TEI is being used for encoding this edition (see http://www.hit.uib.no/english/hi-skrifter-pro-e.htm). Ms. Bruvik will report to the new TEI Board of Directors: Chair and Host Representative for the University of Virginia: John Unsworth Vice-Chair and Representative for the ALLC: Antonio Zampolli Secretary and Representative for the ACH: David Chesnutt Treasurer and Host Representative for the University of Bergen: Claus Huitfeldt Representative for the ACL: Jan Hajic Host Representative for Brown University: Julia Flanders Host Representative for Oxford University: Sebastian Rahtz The editorial work of the TEI will be guided by two individuals well known to the TEI, SGML and XML community, Lou Burnard (European Editor) and Steven DeRose (North American Editor), and by a twelve-member TEI Council, to be elected by members. Service on the Council is not limited to members, and if you would like to nominate yourself or someone else to stand for election to the Council, please send nominations to John Unsworth . Elections will be held later this year. The central task of the Board and the Executive Director, at this point in the development of the TEI Consortium, is to recruit members. We are pleased to announce that the University of Georgia, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pisa have already joined the new Consortium, and we actively solicit the assistance of Humanist's readers in recruiting additional membership from educational and cultural institutions, or units within them. Individual subscribers and corporate sponsors are also welcome. Full information on the terms and benefits of participation can be found at: http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/memship.html and a printed (or printable) membership prospectus (including financial projections) is available on request from John Unsworth or Tone Merete Bruvik . We will also be happy to present this prospectus and discuss the reasons for belonging to the TEI Consortium with librarians, provosts, and other institutional decision-makers to whom you direct us. Please join us in building a membership base to sustain the important work of the TEI, and please nominate those you think would be effective as members of the TEI Council. For general enquiries: info@tei-c.org Membership enquiries: membership@tei-c.org Queries or suggestions about the website: web@tei-c.org Membership queries may also be addressed by telephone to the TEI Executive Offices at +47 55 58 29 54 or +47 55 58 42 22. John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/.plan From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1120 (1120) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1121 (1121) [deleted quotation] clearly and [deleted quotation] will we [deleted quotation] -- Brian A. Bremen, editor William Carlos Williams Review Department of English The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1164 bremen@curly.cc.utexas.edu Phone: 512-471-7842 Fax: 512-471-4909 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: user agents Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 06:56:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1122 (1122) Willard, Charles Ess has recently devoted much thought to the people part of the human-computer nexus in his essay "We are the Borg: The Web as Agent of Assimilation or Cultural Renaissance". I remind readers of the URL: http://www.ephilosopher.com/120100/philtech/philtech.htm in Note # 15 speculates about the term "user" and I quote : 15. I would argue that "user" is itself a term already shaped broadly by a culture of commodification and consumerism, and more specifically by a "cyber-gnosticism" (my term) that radically disassociates "the user" as a mind in cyberspace from his/her body, and thereby his/her connection with the larger communities, traditions, and cultures that shape his/her identity/identities. I tried to pursue this meditation and found myself coming back to the term user : [deleted quotation] little [deleted quotation] Technologies of transportation speak of drivers and passengers (rarely hitchhikers). Architecture speaks of builders and, I believe, users. "Technological agents" seems to be a term at home travelling through the discourses of political and computer sciences. The "human component" of the human-computer interface just doesn't quite sound apt for humanities computing. Plus it is rather convoluted and inelegant. Is "user" the word? Will "readers" in a broad sense do? Does "user" bring to mind a reader-writer agent of a cultural renaissance open to the dangers of assimilation? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Lorna Hughes Subject: ACH/ALLC 2001 at New York University Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:13:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1123 (1123) ACH/ALLC 2001 at New York University New York University is to be the host this year of the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing: ACH-ALLC2001. The conference will take place from June 13-16 at New York University in Greenwich Village, New York City. This conference is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. This year's academic program will build on this strong tradition of excellence, and will consist of a selection of papers presented in parallel sessions as well as posters and demonstrations of projects. The theme for the 2001 conference is "Digital Media and Humanities Research", and it will feature plenary addresses by two leading scholars: Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. New York is well known for a number of world-famous arts and cultural institutions and events. Delegates at ACH/ALLC 2001 will have ample opportunity to explore the city and to take advantage of New York's wonderful restaurants, shopping, theaters, and museums. The conference will also offer organized social events, including receptions, walking tours of Greenwich Village, and a banquet. Registration is open now, and the full program will be announced soon. You can register online through our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/index.html -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ACH/ALLC 2001 conference at NYU: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1124 (1124) [deleted quotation] and [deleted quotation] control [deleted quotation] own [deleted quotation] Bloom, [deleted quotation] arguable [deleted quotation] found [deleted quotation] we [deleted quotation] interpretation -- [deleted quotation] "clarifying, [deleted quotation] and [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1125 (1125) [deleted quotation] in [deleted quotation] own [deleted quotation] interpretative [deleted quotation] might [deleted quotation] generates [deleted quotation] setting [deleted quotation] of [deleted quotation] of [deleted quotation] the [deleted quotation] a [deleted quotation] initial [deleted quotation] actions [deleted quotation] McKenzie [deleted quotation] From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Memory lane: early digitisation project Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 06:43:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1126 (1126) Dear Humanists I wonder if you can help me track down one of the relatively early projects in the digitisation/retrieval of images: In the early 1990s I heard a paper in a seminar series at Jesus College Oxford. I think the speaker came from London and was discussing a database made from scanning a collection of several thousand b/w photos of fine art paintings. One of the interesting claims was that by reducing the image to a very small grid (?? 8*8 ??) you could search for similiar grids and get work by the same artist... I can remember no more. As far as I can tell it was neither the Kings College, Daidalos Project nor the Courtauld Vasari project. Any suggestions as to candidate pioneers gratefully recieved best wishes david Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS, UK. Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: two questions on method Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:10:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1127 (1127) 1. transferrable skills tranferring what? In the recently published proceedings of the annual conference of The Humanities and Arts higher education Network (HAN), "Subject Knowledge and Professional Practice in the arts and humanities", Dr Paul Standish (Dundee) addresses the problems attendant upon the current range for "quality assessment". He sees in assessment methods an unhealthy reliance on procedures rather than the substance of learning. He writes, "There is here... more than a suggestion that emphasis is deflected from the substance of what is taught and learned and onto the procedures that are involved. So also, from the student's point of view there is an emphasis on procedural values rather than on content: the student will gain information technology skills, enterprise skills, interpersonal skills, and above all transferrable skills. For all the air of practicality this is a move in the direction of abstraction from the real. It is no coincidence that ICT [Information and Commmunication Technology] dovetails so nicely with higher education understood in terms of banks of data and skills of information access (a reductive conception of learning how to learn). As content is surreptitiously downgraded, with consequences of which the student can scarcely be aware, the vacuum at the heart of higher education is progressively increased." (p. 4) Among other things, Standish's criticism of skills-training offers us an insight into objections raised by our colleagues to humanities computing -- not a field because it does not have any content, so they say. There is in other corners of the academy considerable resistance to the teaching of method. I certainly share with Standish a deep unease about the marketing of "transferrable skills", but at the same time I cannot so easily vest all the intellectual value in "content" opposed to the methods one employs to work with, transform and understand whatever it is that one works on. 2. method's not the thing In the Times Literary Supplement for 16 Match 2001, issue 5111, the historian Michael Bentley (St Andrews) writes in "Revive the Croaker" (rev of William Thomas, The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker), "But 'method' is a second-order thing; it derives from deeper assumptions and forms a visible outcome of intuitions obliquely stated." This suggests to me that method should be taught with a kind of humility, a product of respect for the deep and oblique which we cannot perhaps get to in any other way. It suggests one reason behind resistance to methodology as a proper subject -- that it become an unqualified one and not a gateway to something else. It suggests a major intellectual peril to us, whose domain is methodological. Of course a variant of this peril simply comes with the intellectual life, yes? when a scholar takes the object of study, let us say the ipsissima verba as the place where meaning lies rather than, again, a gateway to something else, in a language of the unsayable. But we have it worse, because any givem method is an abstraction, and methodology is an abstraction of that. Philosophers handle the problem by rigorous, unrelenting discussion. But we are apt to flee from the method to the software were it is implemented, which from the intellectual point of view is all too likely a distraction, and worse yet if the application is a success. Hard to live, one might say, never reaching the horizon. Especially when one has to make a living by selling plots of land beyond it :-). Comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. osher@ix.netcom.com, Fri. March 16, 2001 9:09 PM Subject: Why Science Fiction Is Ahead of Its Time Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:13:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1128 (1128) Science fiction crosses categories in an interdisciplinary manner. As I indicated in my previous contribution, objects and their relationships which cross interdisciplinary categories or fields (especially with laws that cut across fields) appear to be among the most fundamental in both humanities and science. Category theory was developed by Saunders MacLane of the University of Illinois at Chicago and by S. Eilenberg in the 1940s and especially extended by K. Morita of Tokyo in the late 1950s, but remained for most of the time until the present limited to cross-subdiscipline work within a single discipline such as finite set theory or ring theory in algebra. Science fiction, from its inception by Jules Verne around the turn of the 19th century, dared to go beyond subdisciplines and cross whole disciplines of science - oceanographic, atmospheric, space, cosmological, etc. They had to translate mathematics into English, French, etc., and in the process their creative genius was stimulated both by the translation and by the inter-disciplinary fundamental relationships and objects. My wife Marleen J. Doctorow, Ph.D. taught psychology at California State University Long Beach for approximately eight years using among other texts a combined science fiction-psychology text by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction authors whose former editor John W. Campbell, Jr. anticipated the atom bomb and who himself (Asimov) anticipated much of modern robotics and wove stories relating medieval scenarios and galactic space travel and psychology/psychiatry and robotics and detective investigation and sociocultural/historical studies. Asimov's marriage to Dr. Janet Jeppson, M.D., a psychiatrist, played an important role in his inter-disciplinary orientation. After his death, she continued his Foundation Series of science fiction in collaboration with the authors Brin, Benford, and Bear. (My own interdisciplinary orientation also derives from my over 32 year marriage to Dr. Marleen J. Doctorow, Ph.D., licensed psychologist.) Osher Doctorow Ventura College, Doctorow Consultants, etc. From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: 14.0725 voice-recognition software Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:12:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1129 (1129) In line with Martin Holmes comments, I would also suggest to avoid having to talk to your computer, or I'm afraid it will have to learn many dirty words... ;-) Instead, providing the machine is a Windows PC, I would suggest to try a less known feature of Windows Accessibility options: MouseKeys. It consists in using the keys of the (often underused) numerical keypad to emulate the mouse. Not only can you move the pointer with (higher) precision, using the keys around the [5], but you can also produce left clicks using the [5]. The [-] key will set the [5] to a right click, and [*] will set a left&right click, while the [/] will restore the left click. [0] is used to click and hold, while [.] drops and restores the simple click. Of course, this is maybe more demanding from hands than voice commands, but it's both more efficient and less tiring than moving a mouse around. To check whether MouseKeys is available on your machine, go to the Control Panel and choose Accessibility Options. Click the Mouse tab and give it a try. To install it, if it's not yet there, choose Add/Remove Programmes, click the Windows Installation tab and select Accessibility, then click Details. Check the box besides Accessibility Options, then OK until you get out. You can now go to Accessibility Options again and click the Mouse tab to adjust the parameters, and be sure to check the Shortcut to be able to toggle the feature on and off at will. This feature is also useful for users of portable machines without an external mouse, specially those with the horrible touchpad. I hope this helps. Thierry -- __________________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe Bruxelles / Belgium mailto:100342.254@compuserve.com __________________________________ From: MARTHA KREISEL Subject: Re: 14.0721 voice recognition software? Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:11:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1130 (1130) I have purchased Naturally Speaking for my daughter who just doesn;t like to type. It works quite well, but you do need to spend a fair amount of time training the computer to your voice. It works even better if you read the manual. Hope that helps. From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: eHumanities: Lectures on Technology & the Humanities Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:23:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1131 (1131) *Mark your Calendars* *Please pass on to your colleagues* eHumanities An NEH Lecture Series on Technology & the Humanities Registration is free. To register, please see: http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Endowment for the Humanities is proud to announce a series of lectures on eHumanities, which will bring leading scholars to Washington, DC, to discuss digital technology and its importance to the humanities. Lecture I Professor John Unsworth Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia "Knowledge Representation and the Humanities" Tuesday, April 3, Noon - 1:00 pm Washington, DC For background information on knowledge representation see: John F. Sowa, Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., Pacific Grove, CA, 2000 (http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/krbook/index.htm) Other lectures to be announced soon! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- What is eHumanities all about? How does technology affect traditional humanities disciplines? Some scholars and educators have argued that in just a few short years, advances in information technology and the development of the Internet have had a more dramatic affect on the way people read, write, and exchange information than any invention since the printing press. In the long term, what will its impact be on our notions of literature? On our culture and society? What are some of the philosophical ramifications of these advances? The goal of this series is to highlight some of the important work being done by scholars who are studying digital technology from various perspectives in the humanities. The lectures will take place at the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20506 in Room M-09. Attendance is free, but please register in advance Feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. Registration is free. To register, please see: http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html (If you don't wish to be contacted about this lecture series, please respond and I'll remove you from this list.) From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: 2nd CFP: Multi-layer Corpus-based Analysis Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:26:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1132 (1132) *********************************************************************** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources 30 July - 11 August 2001 Iasi, Romania *********************************** WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS *********************************** JULY 30 - AUGUST 1, 2001 - IASI, ROMANIA Organizers Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: - Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; - Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; - Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; - Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Papers should report on original work not previously presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore, papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable. Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to ide@cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text formats are acceptable. DATES: Deadline for receipt of submissions April 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2001 Final Paper due June 15, 2001 Workshop date July 30 - August 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative): Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr|cken Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Medieval Manuscript Transcription program and guidelines Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:25:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1133 (1133) Some of you may know that the Digital Scriptorium project at Berkeley and Columbia has been working on guidelines and a Document Type Definition (DTD) for the transcription of medieval manuscripts. A beta version written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen was presented at a workshop at Berkeley in the summer of 1999. We now have another version with more complete guidelines, which are designed to work with a text editor called NoteTab. We are very grateful to David Seamn (U. of Virginia) for this version. If you are interested in helping us test these material, or if you would like to try them out for use in your own projects, they are now available at the Digital Scriptorium address given below: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/transcription.html This can also be accessed directly from the Digital Scriptorium home page as well. Please feel to forward this message to any other relevant lists. Questions we are interested in: (1) Do the Guide and DTD "work" for practicing medievalists? Specifically, is the Guide good enough to be more-or-less self-explanatory? If you are _not_ familiar with the Text Encoding Initiative, HTML, or XML encoding, you should probably read through the introduction to the Guide fairly carefully, particularly with regard to the information to be supplied in the Header tag. (2) Is the Notetab program user-friendly enough so that transcribers can get started with a minimum of outside help and training? (Please note that NoteTab is Windows-based software). When you download the NoteTab program you should be able to extract it by clicking on the zip file and then on the setup.exe file in order to install it. Once it is installed save the ds2.clb file as indicated on the web page. I have gone through this basic process and it works. When you open NoteTab, you will find a set of captions at the bottom of the screen. When you click on "ds2" a menu opens on the left of the screen. To insert any tag or set of tags into your document, simply click on them. If there are parameters, a popup window will allow you to add them. E.g., if your text is divided into chapters, the you should call the tag type "chapter" and the tag number "1", "2", "3", etc. We will put some sample transcriptions on the web site so that you can see what they look like. One is already included as an Appendix to the Guide. David Seaman is working on an XML style sheet (see attached message). Please address any questions to me at cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu or (preferably) at cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu. On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Merrilee Proffitt wrote: [deleted quotation] David M. Seaman [deleted quotation] Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" Subject: Re: 14.0751 digitisation project? Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:24:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1134 (1134) [deleted quotation] Try Will Vaughan at Birkbeck College (University of London). I heard him describe exactly this project--it must have been in the late 1980's. His home page describing his current research interests is at <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hafvm/staff_research/wvaughan.html> and his email address is Francois C-R From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Canterbury Tales Project Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:27:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1135 (1135) ***X-POSTED*** [deleted quotation] From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0751 digitisation project? method? Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:26:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1136 (1136) Willlard's note on learning methods versus content/substance/etc/ really struck a sympathetic chord. For years now, our University has told its outside Boards (not only Trustees, but State Board of Higher Education and even more important State Board of Higher Ed *staff*) all the old clich's about what good an education is -- Liberal Arts teach judgment and assessment, critical thinking, etc. I have long felt that while there is some truth to this, it's mostly baloney. I never wanted to teach my Chaucer students "critical thinking" -- I wanted to teach them _Chaucer_. (and before we get entangled in postmodern theory, I wanted to teach them Chaucer as I saw him, while giving fair hearing to other notions of Chaucer that I thought had something to recommend them). I didn't want to make beginning medievalists out of them -- unless they were graduate students -- but I wanted them to appreciate the Canterbury Tales and hopefully look back on them with pleasure -- and maybe even pick one up and read it some time. Is this bad ? I cannot imagine that spending the time teaching methods of critically judging Chaucer would have been a good substitute. Should anyone care, I didn't go to college to get a job and make money, I went to college to learn stuff. From: John Lavagnino Subject: Decorum; or, Kids these days! Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:36:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1137 (1137) Ian Ayres, a law professor at Yale, has an opinion piece in the New York Times for March 20, 2001, under the title "Lectures vs. Laptops"; it's about the scourge of students using their laptops during classes for things other than note-taking (e-mail, games, web surfing). ... I was surprised at how brazenly my own students resisted my laptop restrictions, both in class discussion and in a virtual chat room (which, perversely, they could post to during their other classes). They argued that they were multitasking, staying productive during dead or badly taught portions of class. They said classroom surfing reduces sleepiness, increases their willingness to attend class, allows them to research legal questions being discussed, and so on. They said the professor has an incentive to teach more effectively when he or she must compete against other more interesting claims on students' attention. Their arguments could apply equally well to the opera hall, the jury box or the church pew. Will the lure of technological stimulation someday overwhelm current mores about paying attention in those places, too? At least, we should try to stem the tide in the classroom. ... Curiously enough, there was an article in the Times within the last few years about how Americans now assume they can also eat anywhere they like, and are having to be told that (for example) you shouldn't bring snacks to church. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: method... Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:37:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1138 (1138) Willard, The little bit you quoted from Paul Standish nicely sets up the aura of mystery surrounding method in the second quotation you offer: In the Times Literary Supplement for 16 Match 2001, issue 5111, the historian Michael Bentley (St Andrews) writes in "Revive the Croaker" (rev of William Thomas, The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker), "But 'method' is a second-order thing; it derives from deeper assumptions and forms a visible outcome of intuitions obliquely stated." If I am able for an instant to abstract Standish's pride in content as well as your invitation to profess humility in the teaching of "method", I seem to enter into a country where the inhabitants are engaged in the discursive game of trying to place value on sets of activities by differently valuing which of two questions to apply: what to do and how to do it. I apologize for the verbose formulation. There are two skills at stake. The skill of manipulating acquired information appers to be the skill that Standish places under the rubric of "content". The other skill is that of acquired novel content would be what Standish seems to mock under the appellation of "transferable skills". I've recast the terms in a fashion that may bring to the fore the implicit "defense of tradition" line of the argument. The sad and tired tune of the "demise of mandarin culture" is not the best of work songs to help rebuild a dynamic and active academy. Life long learners be they preparing for entry into the work force or be they refreshing themselves by returing to the leisure of intense intellectual work after a number of years in position of paid labourers want quality in both substantive content and meaningful ocassions to hone their skills. I have ridden this hobby horse before and no doubt will again (with a bit of Erasmian grace, I hope, so that I do not repeat too many of the same phrases over and over again). While the horse is stabbled for the moment, I thought I would invite you to contemplate a passage from Alan Pasch, _Experience and the Analytic: A Reconsideration of Empiricism_. In the opening chapter of his book, Pasch struggles with the analytic-synthetic distinction (a distinction not far from your ruminations on method and those of Standish on skill/content). At the conclusion of that chapter he points to Carnap and the terms _internal_ and _external_. He writes: [...] a question of degree is an external question; once a decision about a convention has been made and a context determined, then -- and within that context -- any question about the context is an internal question. Furthermore, the answer to an internal question will have the form of a definite ("yes-no") assertion, and this answer is determined by the nature of the context which gives the question significance. The answer to an external question, however, will be a statement of degree, or a proposal about establishing a convention. To some subscribers of Humanist this just might suggest a semiotic square (degree, context, internal, external, each taking a corner). Of course, why one might indulge in such an excerise depends upon one's knowledge of semiotic squares and skill in operating such machines. The range of reasons encompasses sheer intellectual curiousity and pecuniary-motivated sophistry. As Norman Hinton can attest, Chaucer will send up an interest that claims to be disinterested and any interest that is a little too focussed. I wonder if Standish would count Chaucer in his his personal stock of lore. I wonder if he (Standish) would have the skill to gloss Michael Bentley: depth is to content as visibilty is to skill?! I hear the hobby horse neighing about Marx and the nature of worth.... Thank you once again, inestimable comrade, for provoking a little wee bit of thinking in this poor soul with so little skill and such meagre content and yet ever grateful for the gleanings from the TLS. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "David L. Gants" Subject: BNC World Edition now available Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:49:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1139 (1139) [deleted quotation] BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION After many delays (a postal strike being the latest) Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit is now shipping the revised second edition of the British National Corpus, which we are calling BNC-WORLD to indicate that the corpus is now available under licence world wide. For background information on the BNC, a one-hundred million word snapshot of the English language at the end of the 20th century, please visit our website at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc A licence to use BNC World is available in two flavours: under the single user licence (cost 50 pounds) you can install the whole corpus and the SARA software on a single machine for personal use; alternatively, for 250 pounds you can set up the corpus for networked access by up to 50 people. Alternatively, for the same prices, you can install just the corpus itself and use whatever software you like. The corpus is supplied in compressed format as a single tar archive containing over 4000 files of SGML data. Full documentation of the linguistic and structural tagging is included. The part-of-speech tagging in the new edition has been extensively revised at Lancaster University. Large numbers of errors and inconsistencies in the tagging and markup have been removed, and the encoding has been brought into conformance with recent standards. Several enhancements and corrections have been made in the metadata attached to each text. The SARA software now includes facilities for lemmatized searching, improved handling of collocation searching, and the ability to build and use arbitrary subcorpora. For ordering information, please visit http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/ordering.html Lou Burnard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Book: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:51:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1140 (1140) [deleted quotation] KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 15 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis INTONATION Analysis, Modelling and Technology edited by Antonis Botinis University of Sk=F6vde, Sweden, and University of Athens, Greece The volume Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology covers the main=20 aspects of intonation, written by international researchers in the field.=20 Following the Introduction, fourteen chapters are organised into five=20 thematic sections: Overview of Intonation, Prominence and Focus, Boundaries= =20 and Discourse, Intonation Modelling and Intonation Technology. Each chapter is basically autonomous within a thematic section, but the=20 subject of several chapters extends over more than one thematic section.=20 The combination of a wide range of research areas, as well as=20 interdisciplinary approaches in the study of intonation, makes this volume= =20 a unique contribution to the international scientific community. Basic knowledge of Intonation and Prosody is assumed in the context of=20 linguistic and computational backgrounds. Readers may range from students=20 of advanced undergraduate to postgraduate and research levels as well as=20 individual researchers within a variety of disciplines such as Experimental= =20 Phonetics, General and Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and=20 SpeechLanguage Engineering. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0 October 2000, 408 pp. NLG 320.00 / USD 156.00 / GBP 99.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5 October 2000, 408 pp. NLG 110.00 / USD 54.00 / GBP 34.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction; A. Botinis. SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF INTONATION. 2. Intonation: Past, Present, Future; M. Rossi. SECTION II: PROMINENCE AND FOCUS. 3. Acoustic-phonetic Analysis of Prominence in Swedish; G. Fant, et al. 4. Prosodic Disambiguation in English and Italian; J. Hirschberg, C.= Avesani. 5. Contrastive Tonal Analysis of Focus Perception in Greek and Swedish; A.= =20 Botinis, et al. SECTION III: BOUNDARIES AND DISCOURSE. 6. Phonetic Correlates of Statement versus Question Intonation in Dutch;=20 V.J. van Heuven, J. Haan. 7. Pitch Movements and Information Structure in Spontaneous Dutch=20 Discourse; M. van Donzel, F. Koopmans-van Beinum. 8. Discourse Constraints on F0 Peak Timing in English; A. Wichmann, et al. SECTION IV: INTONATION MODELLING. 9. Automatic Stylisation and Modelling of French and Italian Intonation; E. Campione, et al. 10. A Phonological Model of French Intonation; S.-A. Jun, C. Fougeron. 11. A Declination Model of Mandarin Chinese; C. Shih. 12. A Quantitative Model of F0 Generation and Alignment; J.P.H. van Santen,= B. M=F6bius. SECTION V: INTONATION TECHNOLOGY. 13. Modelling of Swedish Text and Discourse Intonation in a Speech=20 Synthesis Framework; G. Bruce, et al. 14. A Prosodic Model for Text-to-speech Synthesis in French; A. Di Cristo, et al. 15. Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System; K. Bartkova. Subject index. Index of names. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) 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 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 Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) 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 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean V=E9ronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment Studies Presented to G=F6sta Bruce Merle Horne (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB From: "David L. Gants" Subject: workshop on temporal and spatial processing Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:44:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1141 (1141) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING http://epsilon3.georgetown.edu/~discours/spacetime.html ACL-2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 7, 2001 Temporal and spatial information is ubiquitous in natural language, yet many challenging computational issues are relatively unexplored. This workshop will bring together researchers working on a variety of tasks that depend on representing spatial and temporal information in natural language. We invite papers on any topic dealing with automatic processing of spatial or temporal information in natural language. We welcome papers describing theoretical or practical work addressing issues in this area. As a special theme of this workshop, we would also like to encourage the discussion of common issues across spatial and temporal domains. For example, systems that process temporal or spatial information need to deal with *absolute* references ("November 18, 1999", "Toulouse"), as well as relative references ("now", "here", "two weeks ago", "thirty miles north of Paris"), and vague references ("some time in June", "a town in Provence", "nearly a year ago", "near Dusseldorf", "Tuesday morning", "southern England"). There are also many parallels between the way events are characterized in time and objects are characterized in space. For example, events can be described relative to some point or interval in time (e.g., "I met John yesterday", "he was crossing the street") while objects in space can be described in relation to some place, object, or in terms of movement (e.g., "the cup was on top of that", "it fell off"). Topics The topics covered will include corpus-based, knowledge-based, and hybrid approaches to: * resolution of temporal and spatial references, especially discourse-dependent ones * standards for encoding the values of temporal and spatial expressions in natural language * temporal and spatial characterization of events * establishing coreference, ordering and inclusion relations in spatial or temporal information * computational analysis of tense and aspect * semantics of indeterminate or vague temporal and spatial references * semantics and pragmatics of spatial and temporal prepositions * leveraging of ontologies for spatial and temporal information * reasoning about modals, i.e., possible events, necessary events, counterfactual events, etc. * application of logics for spatial and temporal reasoning * analysis of temporal and spatial aspects of narrative structure * generation of temporal and spatial references * linguistic and graphical representations [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FINAL CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:45:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1142 (1142) [deleted quotation] **** FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS **** WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACL/EACL 2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 6-7, 2001 Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management. Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription, extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how. This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring our progress towards our goals. [material deleted] WEBSITE A Workshop web site has been set up at http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Beyond the Museum: Working with Collections in the Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:48:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1143 (1143) Digital Age [deleted quotation] Beyond the Museum: Working with Collections in the Digital Age Friday 20 April 2001 The Oxford Union Debating Chamber Organised jointly by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, and the MDA Cultural Heritage, Museums, Libraries, Archives, Collections, Dumbing Down ****DRAFT PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE**** Speakers include: Lynne Brindley, British Library; Christopher Brown, Ashmolean Museum; Stephen Hepple, Ultralab; Chris Yapp, ICL Fellow; Mike Houlihan, Ulster Museum; Shirley Collier, Imperial War Museum; Josie Appleton, Spiked On-Line; John Wilson, BBC Radio 4; Ross Parry, Leicester University; and Bamber Gascoigne, Broadcaster and HistoryWorld. Is the new digital age the answer to the prayers of museums, archives, and libraries? Does it free up collections allowing unprecedented access facilities for scholars and the public? Or is it all built on a house of cards? Do the new technologies really offer us anything, and are they sidetracking the holders of the nation's heritage into areas that really have unproven benefits? Is funding being diverted away from more needy services? Can the museum, or similar institution, actually survive in such a fast-changing culture? These questions and many more will be answered in the one-day colloquium 'Beyond the Museum'. For the last six years the Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) 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 2000 we brought together a number of illustrious speakers in the Oxford Union to discuss whether the Internet was 'Beyond Control' (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/). This year the HCU is teaming up with the MDA (http://www.mda.org.uk) to present a discussion focusing on the nature of our cultural heritage in the digital age. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Machine Translation Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:50:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1144 (1144) [deleted quotation] WORKSHOP ON DATA-DRIVEN MACHINE TRANSLATION 7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/MT.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With the increased availability of online corpora, data-driven approaches have become central to the NL community. A variety of data-driven approaches have been used to help build Machine Translation systems -- example-based, statistical MT, and other machine learning approaches -- and there are all sorts of possibilities for hybrid systems. We wish to bring together proponents of as many techniques as possible to engage in a discussion of which combinations will yield maximal success in translation. We propose to center the workshop on Data Driven MT, by which we mean all approaches which develop algorithms and programs to exploit data in the development of MT, primarily the use of large bilingual corpora created by human translators, and serving as a source of training data for MT systems. The workshop will focus on the following topics: - statistical machine translation (modeling, training, search) - machine-learning in translation - example-based machine translation - acquisition of multilingual training data - evaluation of data driven methods (also with rule-based methods) - combination of various translation systems; integration of classical rule-based and data driven approaches - word/sentence alignment [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Cataloger position, NYU Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:49:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1145 (1145) [deleted quotation] TITLE: Cataloger DESCRIPTION: Responsible for cataloging and classifying print and microform materials in a wide range of subjects and languages, with emphasis on monographs and serials for the Library's special collections. Additional assignments include assigning call numbers, authority maintenance, and providing subject headings for copy. NYU uses AACR2, LC classification and subject headings, and Geac ADVANCE for cataloging, and is a member of the NACO and BIBCO programs. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 50,000 students and faculty and contain more than 4 million volumes. New York University is a member of the Research Libraries Group and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium which includes three academic institutions in Greenwich Village. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: ALA accredited MLS, subject master's degree required for tenure; working knowledge of at least two European languages [Italian or German preferred]; knowledge of current and emerging cataloging rules and standards; familiarity with automated systems and MARC formats; strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills; flexible, creative approach to problem solving; ability to work comfortably and productively in a complex, dynamic work environment; demonstrated interest in new cataloging trends and technologies. Preference will be given to candidates with at least two years experience cataloging and classifying materials using AACR2, LCC, and LCSH in an automated cataloging system using MARC formats. SALARY/BENEFITS: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Send resume with salary requirements to: Janet Koztowski, Director of Human Resources, NYU, Bobst Library, 70 Washington SQ South, New York, NY 10012. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS. __________________________________________ Will Marcotte * Sr. Human Resources Asst. New York University, Division of Libraries Library Administration and Human Resources Phone: (212) 998-2442 Fax: (212) 995-4070 william.marcotte@nyu.edu __________________________________________ From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 14.0759 multitasking; or, the obsolescence of Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:53:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1146 (1146) concentration I personally have experienced student abuse of laptops in a class I teach on cyberspace. I try to make it a teaching moment for them, especially since the class is about how we use computers in today's culture. I ask them to explain how they can "multitask" and what that means to who they are in and out of the classroom. I argue with some psychologists like Sherry Turkle at MIT that cyberspace promotes the development of multiple aspects of the self. The students resist this idea, insisting their identities are constant and whole no matter how many windows are open on their desktop. This critical reflexivity only goes so far, and students eventually return to AOL Instant Messenger and tune me out. I am pretty resigned to this situation. I am sure my students are learning something in my class, it's just that sometimes I think the technology gets in the way of learning. As someone who has committed himself to humanities computing, I feel strange saying that. I think the multitasking afforded by technology is antithetical to the kind of education we promote in American liberal arts colleges. With multitasking you do not think so much as react to stimuli. To think critically in the liberal arts tradition, you have to focus on ideas and dwell on them. You do not process. If a college goes wireless on campus and students can be anywhere in cyberspace, why should they be present on campus, either intellectually or even physically? In her book "How We Became Posthuman," Katherine Hayles talks about distributed cognition. Not only are computers doing some of our thinking for us, but we are "thinking" is discrete yet simultaneous ways through our use of technology. I don't know if we can stop this, but it does not bode well for traditional liberal arts colleges. How do we refashion ourselves to adjust to the new technology? Do we simply give up on the classroom and teach through a window on a desktop? 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: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0759 multitasking; or, the obsolescence of Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:55:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1147 (1147) concentration Students have always ignored their teachers for a decent portion of class time, from time immemorial. . .and this is a decent porttion of the reason that the students went on to do things beyond what teachers taught them. . .they *integrated* the classroom experience into *life* .. . .thus bringing life to what often was the dullest, most boring experience of their entire lives. . . . The students who is off in dreamland may just be dreaming up what the next generations of teachers will be teaching. . . . The people who *created* the subject matter the teachers were teaching were NOT those who sat like rows of "knowledgable cabbages" in their classrooms. [#6] [deleted quotation]"Try to stem the tide in the classroom:?!? Sir! I *beg* to differ. . . the classroom is where the tides start, or at least *should* start! If you stifle ripples in the classroom, where is the new tide? Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 14.0759 multitasking; or, the obsolescence of Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:55:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1148 (1148) concentration I have separated my reply here to the non-classroom portions of the messages to which I am replying: On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]Any children can tell you the church pew is even more repressive than their seats in their various classrooms, even of policed by priests and nuns. Children are not adults, and Christ new that, even commented on the difference, and not negatively. . . . As for the jury box, if the jurors were told what their rights as jurors ARE, they wouldn't have so much trouble in the box. However, jurors are manipulated in a stranglehold at least as great as children at school desks and in church pews. Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 14.0759 multitasking; or, the obsolescence of Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:02:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1149 (1149) concentration Classes can be dull, instructors incompetent, even indifferent to the presence of students. I once had a mathematics instructor, a graduate student, who was so terrified of us students that he stood about an inch from the chalk board and muttered to himself the whole time he wrote out very small equations. Had we possessed laptops then, in the mid 1960s, we would have been at them for sure, and possibly he would have been grateful. But we all have such stories, yes? Let us put them aside for the moment. I think we should be able to recognise simple rudeness when we encounter it, and deal with it as rudeness, not some hypertheorised postmodern state. Nor should we call it "multitasking", which is a degrading computational metaphor. I teach in classrooms filled with computers -- public-access rooms, alas. My first task is to eject the students who are not in the class, and throughout the class period I have to take steps to keep others from sauntering in as if they owned the place. Locking the door works, when you can; placing a rubbish bin and several chairs in front of the door keeps most intruders out when you cannot, though not all of them. Occasionally when I am lecturing I still have to tell my own students not to be reading their e-mail. I can certainly appreciate the constant work that a fragile relationship demands, the anxiety over the contents of the next e-mail message and so forth. But I'm there to teach them, so "the sharp compassion of the healer's art" is sometimes required. If I can give it up for the hour, so can they :-). If all we accomplish is to teach the students what concentration is all about -- in the academic mode, that is -- we've done quite a bit in these late and degenerate times.... Is there any evidence that the fascination exerted by computers is lessening as they become more familiar? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Kathryn Harvey Subject: New e-edition of correspondence Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:56:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1150 (1150) On behalf of members of the committee that made this electronic edition of letters possible, I am pleased to send the Humanist list our official announcement of the completion of the first phase of the project: Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives Project The Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives Project is creating an electronic archive featuring selected significant writings by Thomas Raddall, one of Canada's and Nova Scotia's foremost authors and historians. Dalhousie University Libraries announces the electronic publication of Selected Correspondence of Thomas Raddall, a selection of Raddall's letters dating from 1937 to 1979. Visitors may search the electronic archive for references to people, places, literary works (both Raddall's own and by others), as well as subjects ranging from Guglielmo Marconi to Mi'kmaq history, Rudyard Kipling to Hugh MacLennan, the American Revolution to the history of Halifax, and nautical studies to natural history. The Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives Project is available to users world-wide through the Dalhousie Libraries' website, http://www2.library.dal.ca/archives/trela/trela.htm. Supported by a grant from the Birks Family Foundation and with the assistance of Dalhousie University's Electronic Text Centre, a project team based in the Killam Library designed and edited the electronic version of Raddall's correspondence. The HTML version of each transcribed letter is accompanied by a thumbnail and a full-size image of the original page, a content summary, subject headings and annotations. Letters are marked up in TEI-conformant SGML using Word Perfect SGML. Searches are not performed on the live SGML, but on a database index compiled using sgrep (structured grep), a software application for searching and indexing SGML, XML and HTML files. Dalhousie University Libraries is proud to hold the papers and personal library of Thomas Head Raddall. Considered one of Canada's most successful writers of the 20th century, Raddall wrote such classics as The Nymph and the Lamp and Halifax, Warden of the North. The Libraries also hold the copyright to these and Raddall's other published works, as well as to his papers, research files, correspondence and photographs related to his life and writings. For information on the Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives including the use of works by Thomas Raddall, please contact Holly Melanson, Assistant University Librarian, Collection Development, Organization & Management, Dalhousie University Libraries, Halifax, NS B3H 4C7. ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Kathryn Harvey Assistant Professor, Part-time Department of English; Project Manager, Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project Production Manager, Dalhousie Review E-mail: Kathryn.Harvey@dal.ca or kharvey@iworks.net From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: Conference June Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:07:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1151 (1151) 16-21 (Sydney) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community March 22, 2001 Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative <http://www.ecai.org/>http://www.ecai.org/ Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas: E-Publishing and data interoperability in the Humanities -------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference June 12-16 2001: University of Sydney, Australia <http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/>http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/ [deleted quotation] Hello - I am sending some information which might be of interest to you, your members and departments and to the people who visit your site. The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a collaborative project which will combine global mapping, imagery, and texts. ECAI provides scholars and other users with a research resource based on digital technology which can present complex combinations of data from multiple disciplines visually and immediately. The ECAI Conference at the University of Sydney in June 2001 will be an exciting forum for leading-edge cross-disciplinary discussions and we welcome participation either as presenters or attendees. To get an idea of the range and diversity of ECAI'sprojects, you can visit their site at <http://www.ecai.org/>http://www.ecai.org/ I would appreciate it if you could forward this message to departments, colleagues, students or members who may be interested in this interchange between technology and the humanities, and post it to any lists which may be related, such as archaeology, cultural studies, heritage management, geography and spatial information. Many thanks, and please accept my apologies if I have cross-posted or if this reaches you in error. I have attached an .html file if it is more appropriate to your needs than email text. Elizabeth Black Assistant, ECAI 2001 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Towards an Electronic Cultural Atlas: E-Publishing and data interoperability in the Humanities -------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Conference 12 - 16 June 2001, University of Sydney, Australia Online registration, provisional conference program and further information: <http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/>http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/ Abstract deadline 15th April 2001. Acceptance 30th April 2001. Email abstracts to johnson@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au This year's mid-year meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) will emphasise the following themes through six half-day work sessions and a two day public conference: Methodology ----------- O Electronic publishing of data-rich Humanities resources, with a particular emphasis on spatial and temporal data. O Issues of capturing and delivering historic maps, historical data and historic images on the Internet O Building links between large online Humanities data collections through cross-collection search protocols and metadata Thematic and Regional Teams --------------------------- O South Asia regional team (Convenors John McGuire and Maggie Exxon, Curtin University) O Trade routes and exchange thematic team (Convenors Matthew Ciolek, ANU and Jack Owens, Idaho State University) [material deleted] From: "Susan Schreibman" Subject: XML workshop Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:07:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1152 (1152) XML: The Nuts and Bolts Department of Computer Science University College Dublin 23-25 May 2001 This three-day hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the theory and practice of markup languages, with special emphasis on using Extensible Markup Language (XML) for humanities-based research. It is ideal for anyone involved in or planning a digitisation project who would like to understand the philosophy, theory and practicalities of encoding in XML with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (TEI) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Participants have the option of registering for the first day only, or for the entire three days. Day I is ideal for people who are considering a digitisation project and want to have an understanding of the theory and practice of text encoding using TEI or EAD. Days II and III are ideal for individuals who wish to gain more in-depth knowledge of both XML and text encoding. Schedule Day I Introduction to mark-up languages: HTML/SGML/XML Introduction to mark-up following the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines Day II DTDs: The nuts and bolts Reading simple DTDs (elements, attributes, entities, declarations) Writing a DTD Day III Theory of encoding Stylesheets for XML Designing a TEI Header Metainformation Schemas Further information is available on the Computer Science English Initiative Website http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei To register or for additional details, please contact Susan Schreibman Susan.Schreibman@njit.edu Early registration is advised as places are strictly limited From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: UCLA/Getty Summer Institute Announcement Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:08:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1153 (1153) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community March 22, 2001 Museums, Libraries and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing August 6-10, 2001: Los Angeles <<http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si>http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si>http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si [deleted quotation] Announcement UCLA's Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies announces: Museums, Libraries and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing August 6-10, 2001 Los Angeles The UCLA/Getty Summer Institute is a forum for the intensive exploration of new methods for creating, sharing and preserving electronic information in libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. Information specialists, registrars, librarians, archivists, curators, researchers, and educators with responsibility for managing and disseminating information about their institutions' collections are invited to attend this five-day course. Sessions will take place on the UCLA campus and at the Getty Center. The Summer Institute will provide theoretical and practical sessions on: Special collection digitization projects: Implications on the collection, the institution, scholarship, interoperability, and longevity. Organization of and access to digital resources: Models, principles and tools for creating information and imaging systems in museums, libraries, and archives. Collaborating: Improving one's capacity to work and solve problems with others. Funding: Challenges, strategies, and opportunities. 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For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 14.0764 multitasking; or, the obsolescence of Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:06:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1154 (1154) concentration Willard, You asked: [deleted quotation] within the context of: [deleted quotation] In the workplace, a planning retreat is usually wireless and unplugged: no cells phone, no laptops, no personal digital assistants. Or the use of such devices is restricted to breaks in the agenda. Even a normal workday is punctuated by gaps in which the electronic connection is severed. The use of voice mail and email help workers organize their work flow and avoid interruptions thus aiding the much-valued concentration on task. In terms of the classroom, a little urban myth goes a long way towards the adoption of proper etiquette. There is the tale of the executive firing and employee when the latter's cell phone goes off during a board room to board room conference call with an important client. Nicely translated into the prof who fails the student who does whatever. Why not harness the recording and broadcast potential of some of the technology? Another little urban myth: the class that used telephony to keep a classmate who had broken a leg involved with following a lecture and even being able to participate in the question and answer period. The rudeness is not inherent in the technology or even its deployment. An unbridled individualism which manifests itself in the fear of being alone contributes to the problem or indeed is the problem. There may be a cross-cultural as well as historical perspective to bring to bear upon the question. Rene Daumal in a 1931 essay on Hindu music the Nouvelle Revue Francaise is scathing in his condemnation of bourgeois boredom which seeks to kill time. (The essay has been translated by Louise Landes Levi into an English version -- New Directions, 1982 -- and the tone is not lost). Daumal, in what for some readers will sound like phrases from John Cage, dwells upon a music that knits silence with silence and which forces the listener to confront the self. To sit quietly is an art. Many a lecturer needs to incorporate more silence in their lecturing. Then maybe the student will be able to "hear" the rustling of multitasking that surrounds them and then decide if they belong to the din. It is not enough as Mark Wolff suggests to invite students to be self-reflexive about their own practice. There is another step in becoming self-aware and that is becoming group-aware. There are also the tales of success. The concentration in one class reached such a pitch that I had to have the humming lights closed (pardon the gallicism but "turning off lights" just seems odd when speaking about "turning on students"). There is also the delicious irony of imagining your students reading the Humanist archives while your were passionately offering a disquisition on the incursions of technology in early and regenerating times. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: digitisation of manuscripts Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:05:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1155 (1155) A German archive thinks about the digitisation of a collection of manuscripts. The resulting images should be in color and have a resolution, that allows high quality printing in DIN A3 format (ca. 42h x 30w cm). I am looking for input on the following questions: - Outsourcing vs. inhouse. Has anybody made experiences with both ways? - Should they use a scanner or a digital camera? Can you recommend manufactures or products? Can they use off-the- shelves products, if the resolution is high enough, or do they need special equipment? - Are there any special scanners for sensitive materials like old manuscripts? Do you have any experience with the effect of normal scanners on older materials? - The manuscripts are partly written with pencil. Does anybody have recommendations for image enhancement techniques to make the text better readable? - Are there any up-to-date guidelines on the digitisation of manuscripts, i.e. the creation of digital images? (Creating a digital text will probably happen, but is not part of this project). I have already found references to the book Moving Theory Into Practice by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger and I am quite impressed by the Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging (http://www.rlg.org/visguides/) Thanks in advance for any help, Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Forum Computerphilologie http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de From: Trevor Murrells Subject: CONFERENCE: THE COMMERCIALISATION OF ACADEMIC SCIENCE Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:14:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1156 (1156) CORRUPTION OF SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY? - THE COMMERCIALISATION OF ACADEMIC SCIENCE A one day conference organised under the auspices of the Council for Academic Autonomy and the Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards. Universities in a democracy traditionally serve society as providers of research that is independent of market forces, and as a source of expertise that is independent of powerful vested interest. Recent governments have placed heavy emphasis on the "need" for science to serve the economy, and have introduced structures to ensure that "relevance to industry" is a major criterion in the funding of university research. Problems emerging from this increasingly close association of university science with industry call into question whether the ability of universities to fulfil their vital independent role is being compromised. These issues are explored in this Conference. Wednesday 2nd May, 2001 10.15 a.m. to 4.45 p.m. The British Academy, 10, Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. Cost: 15 including coffee and tea. Details from: D.E.Packham@bath.ac.uk Best wishes, David Packham __________________________ David Packham, Materials Research Centre, E.A.S., University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, Somerset, U.K. Tel. +1225-826570 Fax +1225-826098 http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mssdep/home.htm ___________________________________ Trevor Murrells Nursing Research Unit Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery King's College London Room 4.27a James Clerk Maxwell Building 57 Waterloo Road London SE1 8WA Tel: 020 7848 3058 Fax: 020 7848 3069 NRU web page http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ip/gianbrown/2000/projects/nruhome.html From: anthony.picciano@hunter.cuny.edu Subject: Call for proposals: The 7th Sloan-C International Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:27:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1157 (1157) Conference on Online Learning The 7th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: Emerging Standards of Excellence in Asynchronous Learning Networks This Call for Proposals is being sent electronically only. Please share this information with colleagues who may be interested. We invite you to submit a proposal to The 7th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning (last year called the 6th International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), to be held at the Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida, November 16-18, 2001. Last year's conference attracted over 500 people to more than 100 sessions as well as exhibits, pre-conference workshops, a keynote address, and a variety of other special events. Planning is underway to make this year's gathering more comprehensive and dynamic than ever. This year's theme, Emerging Standards of Excellence in Asynchronous Learning Networks, reflects the maturing of online learning from an experimental approach to a rapidly growing and integral component of higher and post-graduate education. Choose one of the links below to learn how you can participate. 1. Submit a Proposal 2. Proposal Selection Criteria 3. Timeline 4. Proceedings 5. Publications 6. General conference Information 1. Submit a Proposal by completing the electronic submission form Step 1: Choose the program track that best fits your topic. - Emerging Standards of Excellence for Faculty Development and Participation. The establishment of clear and commonly held expectations of the faculty member's role in the development an delivery of on-line instruction is a key to the long-term acceptance of on-line learning. This track will provide opportunities to share experiences about the faculty member's role and expectations regarding overall workload, course development processes, interaction with students, and the emergence of standards of practice. Also encouraged are proposals that relate to faculty recognition and reward. This track will explore the varied faculty development projects and programs that have been beneficial to fostering a strong learning environment. - Emerging Standards of Excellence in Online Technology. Technology creates the virtual presence of an online learning environment. How we use technology reflects our basic assumptions about the learning community and the teaching and learning environment. This track will provide opportunities to share innovations in the structure and use of technologies that support online learning. This may include new authoring tools, new features for course management software, effective applications of various technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the learning environment, and measures for evaluating the value of software packages. - Emerging Standards of Excellence for Learning and Pedagogy. What defines an online learning course? As the field moves toward establishing standards, it is important to develop a common understanding of what is and is not an online course. This track will provide opportunities to explore these issues from a variety of perspectives: new approaches to pedagogy, standards and expectations for interaction, content delivery, student learning experiences, particularly powerful mixes of technologies and more. This track also will be useful for those who want to compare and contrast the use of ALNs on campus and off campus. - Emerging Standards of Excellence in Assessment and Evaluation. This track provides opportunities for institutions to share experiences regarding assessment and evaluation of different facets of online learning: course design and pedagogy, faculty and student performance and satisfaction, student services, administrative procedures, cost efficiency and effectiveness, and technology. - Institutional Best Practices. This track provides opportunities to share institutional best practices in the following areas: . Academic/Faculty Policies . Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Online Programs . Accreditation Standards . Student Services . Marketing and Recruitment [material deleted] http://md2000.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/alnconf2001 [material deleted] For additional information about the conference arrangements, contact: J. Patrick Wagner Assistant Vice President Division of Continuing Education University of Central Florida 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 265 Orlando, FL 32826-3269 Phone: (407) 207-4920 Fax: (407) 207-4930 jwagner@mail.ucf.edu From: Alan Morrison Subject: Vacancy: Information Officer (Linguistics) Oxford Text Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:28:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1158 (1158) Archive Title: Information Officer (Linguistics) (Two year post in the first instance) Grade: RS1A Salary: 16,775 - 25,213 UKP Location: 13 Banbury Road, Oxford Post No: Occupant: Reports to: Head of the Oxford Text Archive Other entitlements: 38 days annual leave including public holidays and Christmas closure Membership of the University's Pension Scheme ________________________________________________________________________ Humanities Computing Unit and The Oxford Text Archive The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) is based at Oxford University Computing Services and provides high-level support for all the humanities faculties within the University, as well as housing several national and international projects (e.g. the British National Corpus, the Humbul Humanities Hub of the RDN, and the UK host of the TEI Consortium). The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is a long-established facility supported by Oxford University, and based within the HCU. Since 1996, the OTA has been working as a Service Provider for the national Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) to support academics working in all areas of literary and linguistic studies. In addition to the OTA, there are four other AHDS Service Providers located at institutions throughout the UK (see http://ahds.ac.uk), whilst the AHDS Executive is based at King's College London. The OTA seeks to address three key areas: - Collect, catalogue, preserve, and redistribute digital resources of interest to those working in literary and linguistic studies within the UK's Higher Education and FE communities. - Develop appropriate licensing conditions and technical mechanisms for the effective distribution of such resources. - Promote good practice in the creation and use of such resources in both research and teaching. The Oxford Text Archive develops state-of-the-art online finding aids and browsing facilities, to provide users with direct access to all our services (see http://ota.ahds.ac.uk). It also offers an advisory service to scholars creating digital literary and linguistic resources within the UK HE and FE sectors. Following a study of the OTA's subject coverage and Collections Policy, it was decided that additional support should be offered in the area of Linguistics. To enable this activity, supplementary funding has been awarded to the OTA by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) via the AHDS Executive. This new appointment represents a first step towards improving the OTA's provision for Linguistics and linguisticians, and the post holder will be actively encouraged to raise the profile of the OTA within this sector of the academic community. Duties: - Working in consultation with other OTA staff to identify digital resources produced by, for, or of interest to linguisticians, for potential accessioning by the OTA. - Actively promoting the services offered by the OTA/AHDS in support of Linguistics and linguisticians to appropriate sectors of the academic community. - Sharing advice and expertise with clients of the OTA and other members of staff of the AHDS. - Assisting with the production and development of cataloguing descriptions of digital resources for Linguistics held by the OTA. - Take advantage of appropriate training opportunities as these arise, in order to keep up to date with relevant skills and developments. - Carry out other appropriate duties from time to time as required. Qualifications and experience: Candidates will be judged on the basis of the following criteria and should try to ensure that their application shows how they meet the criteria. Candidates will be expected to give examples of relevant experience which need not be work experience, e.g. they may wish to give examples from college projects, voluntary work or skills gained while bringing up a family. Essential - Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Linguistics or closely-related discipline - Experience of working with digital resources produced by, for, or of interest to linguisticians Desirable - A post degree level qualification in Linguistics, or equivalent - Enthusiasm and willingness to learn about the latest developments in digital resource creation and manipulation. - Demonstrable awareness of the uses of digital resources in research and teaching within the Higher Education sector. - Ability to work independently. In addition to the above, candidates should have a genuine enthusiasm for working with digital resources, and want to join an exciting multidisciplinary team. All necessary training will be provided for the chosen candidate, and s/he should consider this post an excellent step towards a career in humanities computing, computational linguistics, or information management. Feb/01 Please send completed application forms to Mrs Nicky Tomlin, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (tel: 01865 273230, fax:01865 273275, email: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk) Closing date for the submission of applications is 27th April 2001 Interviews will be held during week commencing 8th May 2001 Applicants should note that OUCS will only reimburse full travelling expenses within the British Isles for those candidates selected for interview. From: "Johnson, Wallace S" Subject: a computer program to aid in the study of asian texts. Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:19:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1159 (1159) [The following query was sent with a request for membership. Please reply to the list as a whole. --WM] .....I am starting to develop a computer program for the study of texts written in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (Boolean searches, word counts, textual comparisons and the like) and would be glad to hear from anyone who knows of other efforts in this field. If you can help with making my interest known I would be very grateful to you. Wallace Johnson Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures University of Kansas wjohnson@ukans.edu From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI special issue on Networked Knowledge Organization Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:19:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1160 (1160) Systems Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (Volume 1, issue 8, April 2001) Guest Editor: Traugott Koch, Lund University, Sweden ** NOTE FOR USERS JoDI no longer requires that you need to log-in to view papers. More below. From the special issue editorial "Knowledge Organization Systems can comprise thesauri and other controlled lists of keywords, ontologies, classification systems, clustering approaches, taxonomies, gazetteers, dictionaries, lexical databases, concept maps/spaces, semantic road maps, etc. These schemas enable knowledge structuring and management, knowledge-based data processing and systematic access to knowledge structures in individual collections and digital libraries. Used as interactive information services on the Internet they have an increased potential to support the description, discovery and retrieval of heterogeneous information resources and to contribute to an overall resource discovery infrastructure." http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: S. Cranefield, Networked knowledge representation and exchange using UML and RDF http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Cranefield/ M. Doerr, Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Doerr/ J. Hunter, MetaNet - A Metadata Term Thesaurus to Enable Sematic Interoperability between Metadata Domains http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Hunter/ K. Miller, B. Matthews, Having the right connections: the LIMBER project http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Miller/ D. Tudhope, H. Alani, C. Jones, Augmenting thesaurus relationships: possibilities for retrieval http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Tudhope/ The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only via the Web http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ From this issue JoDI does *not* require users to register and log-in to view papers. It remains vital for the journal to have some contact with its users. New users can sign up for alerts of new issues. If you are already registered, as you are if you are receiving this message, you do not need to sign up again as we will retain your email address for this service. We believe this change will be beneficial to users, and will help us take the journal forward to the next stage of its development. Steve Hitchcock Web Development Editor, Journal of Digital Information IAM Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3256 Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865 ***************************************************** JoDI Web page http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ "Taking electronic journals further" ***************************************************** From: info@speechtechnology.net Subject: Speech Technology Expert Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:20:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1161 (1161) The first issue of the Speech Technology Expert - an email-based bimonthly newsletter from the Speech Technology Network - is coming out on 1 May 2001. The Expert is distributed free of charge to keep professionals updated and informed on the latest speech technology related developments. It offers quality, up-to-date articles on relevant subjects, upcoming events, news items, recommended books, a listing of newly added professionals including their contact details and fields of expertise, and more. If you are not already a subscriber, but are interested in subscribing to this free electronic newsletter, please complete the following information and send it to us by return email: First name: Last name: City: Country: Profession: Specialty: Email: Alternatively, you can visit the following subscription page and subscribe yourself: http://www.qwimail.com/mailinglist/layout/telecom/default.asp?a=Login Please FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO YOUR COLLEAGUES !!! (Note: the downloading time of the Expert will be kept to a minimum. A text-only email provides a link to the HTML eZine.) If you have any questions, please contact me at minna.kanerva@vercomnet.com. Kind regards, Minna Kanerva Speech Technology Network www.speechtechnology.net VercomNet B.V. P.O.Box 917 6200 AX Maastricht The Netherlands e-mail: info@speechtechnology.net [material deleted] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- March 2001 Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:25:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1162 (1162) CIT INFOBITS March 2001 No. 33 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. ....................................................................... A New Discipline: Internet Studies Tutorial For Academic Writers Writing for the Web Higher Education Collaborative Writing and Research Website Evaluating Online Courses Ethical Policies for Distance Education Enhancing Science and Mathematics Education with Technology [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). [material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: electron is to s p a n Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:21:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1163 (1163) Willard, I was pondering the possible ratios that might emerge from your recent musings sprung from Ian Hacking's distinctions between theory and experiment. I found myself spinning with electron : ? :: experiment : theory Of course, you asked what types of mental objects in the humanities act in a parallel fashion to the electron in science. I ask this because I came across a passage in Rawdom Wilson's _In Palamedes Shadow: Exploration in Play, Game and Narrative Theory_ which leads me to question just how the passage from theory to experiment works in the humanities. In the absence of conviction with regard to the sufficiency of language to represent the world (and both authenticity and reference having been demystified), all that remains (though this is already much) is play: "Play's autonomy promises, if faintly, the possibility of creating a necessary order in the midst of absurd fallennes." (p 112) Wilson is quoting from Allen Thiher, _Words in Reflection: Modern Language Theory in Postmodern Fiction (1984 p. 156) Would it be fair to consider the theorizing of humanists as leading less to experiment and more to game? Would those electrons you seek be glass beads? Simple counters in a relay of moves? "span" is a set of such counters (at least two are needed to mark a span-like container). I sense your theme of primitives begins to ressemble the theme of diectics. There is something quite akin to physics in the content modeling and intertextual mappings that humanists produce on quite the gamut of cultural artefacts. Would map creation and content modelling be in the category of "experiment" or do they belong to the domain of theory? The strength of humanities computing may very well be in its ability to engage in collective theorizing via the pragmatic questions of producing, circulating and analyzing digital constructions. And preserving them too! -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: Michael Watson Subject: Re: 14.0787 Asian text processing Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 11:01:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1164 (1164) Wallace Johnson asks about other efforts in the field of the study of texts written in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Perhaps the most significant achievement to date has been the project(s) organized by Charles Muller at Toyo Gakuen University in Japan. A very large CJK corpus in Unicode can now be searched using XML. Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller Two other people in the field known to me are MORO Shigeki (Ph.D. candidate at Toyo University) working on Buddhist CJK canonical texts. http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/i/moro and IYANAGA Nobumi (Otani University), also working on Buddhist material and a great source of technical advice http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~n-iyanag/ Those studying premodern Japanese studies have a keen interest in problems of CJK text processing. The database of the members of the "pmjs" mailing list may be of interest. http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/pmjs-db.html As our selective archive show, we have had several long threads concerning Japanese text processing, electronic resources and the like. http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/archive.html Michael Watson Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan pmjs mailing list and web resources: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Re: 14.0789 Asian text processing Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:47:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1165 (1165) Akiko Takehara is working on a pilot edition of the _Tale of Genji_. She is currently at the Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University. I am not aware of the precise details of her research, so it would be wise to contact her about transcription problems and other similar issues. Barbara Bordalejo From: Terry Butler Subject: Job in Humanities Computing at Alberta Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:41:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1166 (1166) Senior Technical Analyst (Humanities Computing) Full-Time (40 hrs/wk) Initial appointment will be for a one-year term, with the strong possibility of renewal Salary Range $3361 - $4262 per month Description The Office of the Dean of Arts is recruiting a Senior Technical Analyst, to provide front-line technical support for faculty and staff throughout the Faculty and especially for the Humanities Computing program. The Master of Arts in Humanities Computing is a new program in the Faculty of Arts and its instructors and students will make extensive use of high-end computing facilities. The successful candidate will take the lead in developing computing facilities and supporting the teachers and students in this program. H/she will provide front-line computing support for faculty and staff in the Faculty of Arts, installing software, troubleshooting hardware problems, and maintaining and upgrading the network infrastructure, servers, desktop and portable computers, and related equipment for the Humanities Computing program and also throughout the Faculty. We are looking for a energetic and well-organized person who can work effectively without constant supervision and who likes the challenge of dealing with many different kinds of computing tasks and problems. The technical environment includes high-speed switched Ethernet networks. Staff and students in the Faculty use Windows and Macintosh desktop and laptop computers. Support will also be required for Windows and Novell servers. The successful candidate will have experience with trouble-shooting problems on desktop computers, installing software, and performing hardware repairs. Formal training in PC computers from a community college or other technical training program is preferred. The candidate must have very good communication ability and be able to explain technical matters to end-users in a clear manner. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision, and have good inter-personal skills. Familiarity with web development, and programming skills, will also be welcome. A background or familiarity with Arts disciplines (especially the Humanities) will also be of value. Applications Letters of application, a CV and any other supporting materials should be sent to: Mr. Alex Schwarzer Team Lead, Arts TLC Technical Support c/o 5-21 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E5 Fax: (780) 492-7441 E-mail: Alex.Schwarzer@UAlberta.ca Application Deadline: 2001 April 27 Terry Butler, Humanities Computing Coordinator Director, Technologies for Learning Centre Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta www.humanities.ualberta.ca/TLC From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Instructional Technology positions at New York University Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:46:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1167 (1167) 2 Instructional Technology positions at New York University The Instructional Technology Group at NYU is part of Academic Computing at NYU, and serves all departments and programs at the University as part of the central Information Technology Services division. This group works with faculty, staff and graduate students to support the use of new technologies in teaching and learning. The instructional technology Group is based in NYU's brand new Faculty Technology Center, located in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City. The Instructional Technology Group is small, energetic group actively involved in a number of exciting new initiatives supporting the use of advanced technology to support instruction. These include including the development of a large-scale distance learning program for NYU, and piloting several Internet 2 projects, as well as experimentation with new technologies and software. The group will also be actively involved in supporting ACH/ALLC 2001 - the international conference of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, taking place at NYU this June. We are pleased to announce that we have 2 positions available in this group. . These posts are for Instructional Technology Specialists, with responsibility for supporting and developing existing Instructional Technology facilities at NYU, as well as developing new projects which will exercise both content and technology skills. Candidates should be graduates (an advanced degree 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 all academic divisions. You will need sound technological knowledge, particularly knowledge of digital multimedia and instructional technology tools. You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and an ability to train and work with a variety of academic clients. You should also be interested in an opportunity to learn about the creation of academic resources using advanced technologies. These are professional staff positions 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/instruc.nyu For more information, or to apply for this post, please contact Katy Santos Information Technology Services Human Resources Fairchild Building, Room 520B 7 E 12 St New York, NY 10012-8929 katy.santos@nyu.edu Fax: +1 212 995 4106 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Webs & lexicography Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:46:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1168 (1168) Willard, I was wondering if any of the subscribers to Humanist might know of any methodological reflections in lexicography about the status of headwords (lemma) that parallel the discusssions in area of retrieval/searching about full text versus indexed searching. I know there has been much work done on the question of automatic lemma generation with the use case of linking a given segment of text to a given dictionary entry. I was wondering about linking a given segment of text to several entries from different dictionaries. Of course the question aligning variant spellings or even multilingual entries becomes interesting when dictionaries themselves become considered as linkable texts. There are simple markup solutions to this type of situation. The solutions that come to mind involve a "web" of cross-referencing that would allow users to query into a mixed dictionary database to receive results returned with their own query string as the "headword" to the entries. I was wondering how such mechanisms might affect notions of the "lemma" as a discrete word serving an index function. Would a "lemma" come to be considered as any pointer to a "bundle" of grammatical paradigm, lexical definition and other forms? It seems to me that "to lemmatize" has come to mean to match a given occurance with a headword (lemma) in a print dictionary entry (even if this dictionary has been converted to an electronic form). I wonder if "to lemmatize" will not come to also mean, in general terms, "to point towards linguistic resources". The challenge of course in the electronic medium is to create pointers and resources that do not overwhelm the user and to create interfaces that allow users to easily access more of the richly encoded information should they so desire. If we are to avoid the type of interface that replicates the badgering assistant which is either on (and excessively intrusive) or off (and removed from the users mind), we might do well to ponder how mildly sophisticated users read print which does not appear to rely on the "servant" model. Of course, there are many scholarly productions in print filled with abreviations well know to the expert and a mystery to the novice and only unravelled with the help of a patient librarian. Will the promise of the "shapable" electronic text that is gearable to both novice and expert be worth the investment? The larger question is of course "scholarship for whom?" -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ARTSTOR Announced by Mellon Foundation Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:50:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1169 (1169) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 10, 2001 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces ArtSTOR <http://www.mellon.org/artstor%20announcement.html>http://www.mellon.org/artstor%20announcement.html [From the Mellon Foundation Website:] April 5, 2001 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today that it is undertaking a significant new initiative by sponsoring the formation of "ArtSTOR," an independent not-for-profit organization that will develop, "store," and distribute electronically digital images and related scholarly materials for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities. The Foundation also announced that Neil L. Rudenstine will lead an advisory group that is being established to guide the development of the new entity and will chair its board when it is formally established. James L. Shulman will serve as executive director of ArtSTOR. ArtSTOR's mission will be to provide access to high quality digital images and other relevant materials for teachers, students and scholars at educational and cultural institutions. The new organization intends to develop collections of these digital materials and related information that will be broad and deep enough to meet a range of objectives. ArtSTOR also aims to reduce costs for participating institutions by eliminating the need for each entity or institution to create its own core archive. In addition, ArtSTOR will address issues of sustainability. At present, it is often difficult for scholars and institutions that develop valuable digital archives to maintain them and make them available under appropriate safeguards. In negotiating the numerous legal and technical issues it will encounter as it establishes digital collections of images and related materials, ArtSTOR will benefit greatly from the leadership of Mr. Rudenstine, who will assume the duties of chairman, on a half-time basis, after leaving the presidency of Harvard on July 1 of this year. Mr. Rudenstine will work with the Mellon Foundation's president, William G. Bowen, and with Mr. Shulman to develop criteria for determining ArtSTOR's content, the architecture of the database, policies governing intellectual property rights, the method for distributing the content to users in the educational and cultural worlds, and a business plan ensuring sustainability of the project. ArtSTOR is in the process of applying for status as an independent 501(c)(3) public charity; in the interim it is being developed as a project of the Mellon Foundation. "All of us at the Mellon Foundation are simply delighted that President Rudenstine has agreed to make such a substantial commitment of his time and talent to the development of the ArtSTOR concept," said Mr. Bowen. "Having worked closely with Neil Rudenstine over more than 20 years at Princeton and at the Mellon Foundation, I know what an extraordinarily insightful and effective leader he is. I believe that his knowledge of the humanities and of art history, his exceptional organizational skills, and his familiarity with leading scholars in the field qualify him superbly to guide the development of this new scholarly resource that has such potential to enhance and even alter the study of art. He and James Shulman will make a highly effective team, and I look forward with keen anticipation to working with them." In his own statement, Mr. Rudenstine stresses that: "The formation of ArtSTOR represents a significant technological advance that will strengthen our capacity to study the field of art and many neighboring fields. We all recognize that there is no substitute for direct engagement with original works of art or for actual archival study. But the special opportunities presented by digital technologies constitute the most fundamental development in the potential for increased access and flexibility of use since the advent of photographic reproduction. Achieving ArtSTOR's objectives will take considerable time and resources. It will also depend critically upon the advice and collaboration of many individuals and organizations whose experience and knowledge will be invaluable. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is uniquely suited, by its tradition and the interests of its founders, to develop this new initiative. It also has, in William Bowen, an outstanding president with whom I have worked as a close colleague since the late 1960s, and in James Shulman, a person with the executive leadership skills that ArtSTOR will need. I am very enthusiastic about the prospect ahead." One of ArtSTOR's first major projects will be the construction of an image "gallery" that will facilitate the teaching of art history courses, both in the US and abroad. It is anticipated that scholars and students with access to the database via campus networks will be able to use its high-quality images and carefully-documented resources to enrich teaching and learning. The projected breadth of ArtSTOR's collection of digital images is likely to make it useful not only for students and teachers of art, but also for those studying history, anthropology, literature, the classics, American studies, and other disciplines. "We hope that ArtSTOR will make it easier to teach from images in all sorts of classes, not only in art history," Shulman noted. "Moreover, while there are very few ways in which technology-or any innovation-can change the basic process of solitary scholarship in the humanities, I hope that ArtSTOR can introduce some new possibilities. Neil's profound understanding of both the work of the scholar and the workings of institutions will add so much to our being able to realize ArtSTOR's potential." In addition to creating a broadly conceived image gallery, ArtSTOR will build and distribute electronically a number of deep scholarly collections, including projects sponsored by Mellon as well as by others. For example, in an initial pilot project, the Foundation has worked with the Dunhuang Research Academy in China, scholars and visual resource experts from Northwestern University, and a number of leading libraries and museums worldwide to digitize images associated with Buddhist cave grottoes in Dunhuang, China and now dispersed throughout the world. In creating the "Mellon International Dunhuang Archive," the Foundation has learned much about how technology can change the ways in which paintings, manuscripts, sculpture, and other objects can best be recorded, accessed, presented, and archived. One objective of the Dunhuang project is to "re-connect," virtually, the cave paintings with numerous paintings, manuscripts, and textiles once at Dunhuang but now dispersed in museums and libraries all over the world. The Dunhuang project is an important demonstration of one aspect of ArtSTOR's mission: to make accessible that which is either difficult to access or (in many cases) entirely inaccessible. A second pilot project is underway with the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with LUNA Imaging, Inc. based in Venice, California. The digitization of over 6,000 works from the museum's design collection will make these holdings available, for the first time and in unprecedented ways, combining images of the highest resolution and appropriate text with user interfaces and exceptionally flexible search mechanisms. Many of these objects, which are of great interest to scholars, are locked away in storage and thus not normally available for study. The high quality of the Digital Design Collection of MoMA will characterize other ArtSTOR collections, in part as the result of an agreement that the Mellon Foundation has reached to make wide use of LUNA's Insight software which will provide Internet access to collections through its advanced user environment for research and teaching. In this and other ways, ArtSTOR expects to build upon LUNA's accomplishments and the high standing that the company enjoys within the academic and museum communities. Michael Ester, president of LUNA Imaging, commented, "ArtSTOR should be able to ensure that digital resources are available long-term for academic use while also giving the owners of such materials confidence that their interests are protected. It has extremely exciting potential as a safe haven repository of cultural resources for research and education." In working with content providers, the Foundation and ArtSTOR have obtained perpetual, non-exclusive rights to aggregate such materials and distribute them electronically for educational and scholarly purposes. (The Foundation has retained the law firm of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC to help address complex intellectual property issues.) These agreements will allow ArtSTOR to serve as a dependable repository for providing non-commercial access to visual resources. In addition to serving the needs of teachers and scholars, one goal of these projects is to support the mission of institutions that seek to expand access to their own holdings for academic audiences without incurring the financial and administrative burdens of distribution. The Mellon Foundation has long-standing interests in higher education, the humanities, and the arts, and has made numerous grants in these fields. In 2000, the Foundation awarded grants totaling $220 million, with over 65 percent of these funds going to institutions of higher education or to independent cultural institutions (including museums and research libraries). In 1995, the Foundation formed JSTOR, an independent not-for-profit entity whose mission is to create a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to extend access to that archive to as many scholars as possible. JSTOR currently includes the entire runs of 147 journals, and serves over 1,000 institutional subscribers in more than 40 countries. While the initial capital costs of digitizing the journals in JSTOR's database have been supported by grants from Mellon, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, and the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation, the current running costs of updating the database and providing access to it are supported by fees paid by participating institutions. The lessons learned through the development of JSTOR should be of great value in establishing ArtSTOR. Also, the Foundation foresees a number of possible points of intersection between JSTOR and ArtSTOR, including potential linkages between art history journals and other scholarly literature and digitized images in the ArtSTOR database. A scholar of Renaissance literature, with longstanding interests in art and architecture, Neil Rudenstine is the author of Sidney's Poetic Development, the co-editor (with George S. Rousseau) of English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron, and the co-author (with William G. Bowen) of In Pursuit of the PhD. A selection of his speeches and writings as president of Harvard is soon to be published as Pointing Our Thoughts: Reflections on Harvard and Higher Education 1991-2001. Educated at Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard, from which he received his PhD in English, he was provost and professor of English at Princeton University before serving as executive vice president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has served as president of Harvard University and professor of English and American literature and language since 1991. In addition to assisting in the oversight of the Mellon Foundation's endowment as the Foundation's financial and administrative officer, James Shulman has served in research and program-related positions at the Mellon Foundation since 1994. He is the co-author (with William G. Bowen) of The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values, the author of The Pale Cast of Thought: Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic, and a collaborator on The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (co-authored by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok). Shulman received both his BA and his PhD in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. ================================================================================ ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "Digital Promise" project: $18 billion proposal Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:52:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1170 (1170) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 10, 2001 Century Foundation Proposal for Digital Opportunity Investment Trust $18 billion from spectrum auction "An Electronic Land Grant" for the Information Age. <http://www.digitalpromise.org/pressrelease1.asp>http://www.digitalpromise.org/pressrelease1.asp [From Digital Promise website:] For Immediate Release Contact: Mike Collins (202) 383-9700 GROUPS URGE A "DIGITAL GIFT" TO THE NATION Report Calls for an Electronic Land-Grant Act for Our Time WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 5, 2001 - A broad-based coalition of educators, library, museum, science and arts officials, and leaders of top information technology companies today urged the creation of a "Digital Gift" to the nation that would fulfill the broad educational promise of the Internet and other digital technologies. The recommendation was made in a new report, "A Digital Gift to the Nation," a project of The Century Foundation that was sponsored by five major foundations. The report by Newton N. Minow and Lawrence K. Grossman likens the proposal to the Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, which set aside public lands to create a world-class system of 105 universities across the nation. The proposal would create the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), funded with $18 billion from the auction of the publicly owned electromagnetic spectrum, today's equivalent of public land - "an electronic land grant" for the Information Age. "The Trust would serve as a venture capital fund for our nation's nonprofit educational and public service institutions," the report said of the Trust, which would be administered on the model of the National Science Foundation. "It would be dedicated to innovation, experimentation, and research in utilizing new telecommunications technologies across the widest possible range of public purposes." The Trust would spur the development of innovative educational prototypes and models through the digital transformation of archives, training materials, online courses, civic information, and quality arts and cultural programs. "The nooks and crannies of our libraries, museums and other non-profits hold cultural and educational treasures, yet these treasures stay locked tight," said Grossman, former president of NBC News and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). "A Digital Trust would find innovative ways to unlock these treasures for every American. It will make the convergence of the Internet, television and other telecommunications technologies better than any of them individually." Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and PBS, added: "The Trust would spur innovative uses of telecommunications and information technology for education to make available the marvels of our libraries, colleges and museums to every home, school and workplace. It is time to dream big dreams about our digital future and the needs of our knowledge-based economy." Grossman said that the wiring of America is a monumental achievement. "Now is the time to connect those wires to content worthy of the technology," he added. "We have a window of opportunity to put our remarkable Internet, wireless and information technologies to their highest and best use for every American." Among those endorsing the proposal are James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education; Sheila P. Burke, undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Eamon M. Kelly, chair of the National Science Foundation; Henry Kelly, president of the Federation of American Scientists; Dr. Robert N. Butler, president of the International Longevity Center; Robert Lynch, president of Americans for the Arts; and Martn Gmez, executive director of the Brooklyn Public Library. Executives of information technology companies also endorsed the report, including Eric Schmidt, chairman of Novell; Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay and Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks. The Digital Promise Project was supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Century Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The Open Society Institute. The report and 17 background papers are all available on a new Web site, www.digitalpromise.org. # # # For the Report, see <http://www.digitalpromise.org/report.asp>http://www.digitalpromise.org/report.asp For more information about the project contact the Century Foundation at 212/535-4441 or . ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: REMINDER: EUROLAN Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus-based Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:53:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1171 (1171) Analysis *********************************************************** REMINDER SUBMISSIONS DUE APRIL 15 *********************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS July 30 - August 1, 2001 Iasi, Romania ORGANIZERS Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: o Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Papers should report on original work not previously presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore, papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable. Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to ide@cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text formats are acceptable. DATES: Deadline for receipt of submissions April 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2001 Final Paper due June 1, 2001 Workshop date July 30 - August 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbrcken Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield From: Pamela Butler Subject: job at Colorado College Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:49:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1172 (1172) April 4, 2001 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT HUMANITIES: ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST Colorado College invites applications for the position of Humanities Academic Technology Specialist with the Academic Technology Services unit of Information Technology Services. The successful candidate will join the academic technology specialists for the Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, as well as the lab services coordinator, in delivering technology support to the faculty and students of CC. Founded in 1874, Colorado College is a private, four-year, independent coeducational liberal arts and sciences college of 1900 undergraduate students. It is located on a 90-acre campus in downtown Colorado Springs, on the front range of the Rocky Mountains at the foot of Pikes Peak. The College operates an innovative, one-course-at-a-time format known as the Block Plan. The College is committed to increasing the diversity of the college community. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are particularly encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths or experiences in this area. ESSENTIAL DUTIES The Humanities Academic Technology Specialist assists faculty in their teaching, scholarly, and professional activities by coordinating technical, network, and user support services related to information technology. This position involves considerable collaboration with faculty members to integrate technology into the curriculum. This position will: instruct faculty members in the use of desktop computers and applications; develop WWW pages; provide training in presentation software and hardware; supervise student workers or paraprofessionals; and actively seek and communicate technological information to faculty members relevant to their specific interests. Specific duties include but are not limited to: - Provide primary support and single point-of-contact for faculty and other users of information technology services within the departments and programs in the Division of Humanities (art; classics; comparative literature; drama and dance; German, Russian, and East Asian languages; English; music; philosophy; religion; Romance languages). - Provide assistance and information to centers and special purpose laboratories related to the Humanities. - Work as part of a team of divisional computing specialists and other members of ITS staff to develop a shared academic information technology environment. This environment draws upon the general technical as well as the specific academic area of expertise of each specialist, under the direct supervision of the Director of Academic Computing and User Services. - Must be able to support the individual technological needs of faculty in connection with teaching and scholarship and find appropriate technological resources, applications, and/or solutions; occasional programming support for special projects. - Must be committed to achieving excellence in providing service to users. - Regular, timely communication with the Director of Academic Computing and User Services, as well as the Director of Information Technology Services, regarding ongoing services provided to faculty members is critical. - Perform other related duties as assigned or requested. POSITION REQUIREMENTS A Bachelor's degree is required. The degree, or substantial coursework or experience, should be in an appropriate field. A minimum of three years' experience in information technology services and previous experience in an academic setting are also required. Significant experience with multimedia (different peripherals and software packages for presentation and authoring) is required, as well as a detailed understanding of both Macintosh and Windows computing platforms as they interact with a networked environment, and programming skills as evidenced by previous experience with at least one computer language (e.g., C++ or Visual Basic). Additional requirements include strong cooperative work style and ability to work well within a team; dedication to excellence in service and delivery of academic technology support; excellent oral and written communication skills, time-management and problem-solving skills; and a strong willingness to acquire new knowledge and skills using initiative, as required by the technical challenges in this environment. The successful candidate will be committed to the mission of a liberal arts college, will support and contribute to the goal of achieving greater diversity at Colorado College, and will be able to work effectively with the many constituencies in a college environment. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS An advanced degree is preferred. Additional preferred qualifications include familiarity with client/server technology; Microsoft server experience; familiarity with database programs, spreadsheets, and presentation packages; HTML, Java, and web page design; a working knowledge of specialized applications, especially those tools used by faculty members in the Humanities. COMPENSATION Salary will be commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the individual selected; Colorado College offers an excellent benefits package. APPLICATION PROCEDURE Review of applications will begin April 25, 2001, and will continue until the position has been filled. Send a letter of application along with salary requirement, current resume, and the name, address and telephone number of three professional references to: Humanities Technology Specialist Search THE COLORADO COLLEGE Human Resource Office 14 East Cache la Poudre Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER The Colorado College welcomes members of all groups and reaffirms its commitment not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation in its educational programs, activities, and employment practices. Pam Butler Employment Specialist The Colorado College Human Resource Office 14 East Cache la Poudre Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903 (719) 389-6222 fax: (719) 389-6926 From: Charles Ess Subject: Job opening in interdisciplinary studies Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:49:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1173 (1173) Colleagues: Please distribute to interested colleagues and potential candidates. For more information on the Global Perspectives program, please see our website, and the link to GP 21, <http://www.drury.edu/Academics/undergrad/GP21/gp21.html> == Interdisciplinary Studies: One-year appointment as assistant professor to teach in an integrated, interdisciplinary core program. (Successful candidate may apply for tenure-track position to be filled next year.) Ph.D. or A.B.D., teaching experience, especially in interdisciplinary programs, desired. Discipline of Ph.D. open. Salary competitive. 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 beginApril 25, 2001, and will continue until position is filled. Send letter of interest and resume to Ted Vaggalis, director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University, 900 North Benton Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802. 417-873-7379. E-mail applications accepted: . Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Drury University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. == Thanks! Charles Ess 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/ "Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_ From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Semantic Web Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:50:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1174 (1174) Humanists interested in hypertext research and the Web in particular will likely want to read "The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities" by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, in the current issue of Scientific American. The article is available online, at <http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html>. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Re: ArtSTOR: Max Marmor,"Toward User-Centered Digital Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:51:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1175 (1175) Image Libraries" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 10, 2001 Max Marmor,"Toward User-Centered Digital Image Libraries" CLIR Issues, March/April 2000 <http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues20.html#toward>http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues20.html#toward In relation to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's formal announcement of ArtSTOR, <<http://www.mellon.org/artstor%20announcement.html>http://www.mellon.org/artstor%20announcement.html>, readers may be interested in a recent article in the CLIR Issues newsletter on developing "user-centered" digital image libraries. The piece is written by Max Marmor, Director of Yale University's Art and Architecture Library and currently CLIR Distinguished Fellow. Marmor cites examples of digital image libraries created not in an ad hoc manner from materials most readily available but from a process of consultation and cooperation with scholars and other users of such materials. David Green =========== ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:53:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1176 (1176) _ SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online _ I've learned of a most impressive virtual library of full-text Brazilian e-journals called _ SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online _ [ http://www.scielo.br/ ] The colllection includes journals in all subject areas. An alphabetical list, subject list, and search form for the journals in this collection is available, as are author and subject indexes and a search form for author and subject searching. In general, coverage is available for the most recent few years. /Gerry McKiernan Carnaval Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: updates to "Humanities computing units and institutional Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:33:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1177 (1177) resources"? Dear colleagues: This is a general call for updates to "Humanities computing units and institutional resources" <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/hc/>, a listing I compiled with Matt Kirschenbaum. If you know of any relevant entities that you think should be listed, kindly send me notice of them; a brief entry in the format of the list would be most convenient. If any existing entries should be changed or re-classified, please let me know. As far as I am aware "Humanities computing units" is a unique compilation. I began it because it seemed to me that a comprehensive directory in the form of a taxonomy would help us all think about what we are doing institutionally with the field. Thoughts and suggestions about the objective of the listing as well as its taxonomy are most welcome. Many thanks. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Seminar: Using Graphic Arts as Primary Sources Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:46:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1178 (1178) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 11, 2001 [deleted quotation] Seminar: Using Graphic Arts as Primary Sources American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA 01609 Sunday, June 3 through Tuesday, June 5, 2001 <http://www.americanantiquarian.org/artseminar.htm>http://www.americanantiquarian.org/artseminar.htm Under the auspices of the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) will sponsor a hands-on workshop for scholars on the use of graphic arts materials as primary sources in historical research. Topics reflecting two of the strengths of AAS's graphic arts collection have been selected as this year's focus. Visiting scholars will lead sessions on using city views and maps to reconstruct nineteenth-century communities and studying political prints to understand the Jacksonian Era. One session will focus on publications that exemplify the ways in which historians have creatively used images as research documents. Faculty Louis Masur, City College of New York James Newton, Lincoln-Sudbury (Mass.) Regional High School John Reps, Cornell University Georgia Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, and members of the American Antiquarian Society staff Advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to apply. To apply or for further information, contact: Caroline F. Sloat Director of Scholarly Programs American Antiquarian Society 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609 Phone: (508) 363-1130 <http://www.americanantiquarian.org>http://www.americanantiquarian.org ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: OCLC/RLG White Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:47:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1179 (1179) Paper NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 11, 2001 Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art A White Paper by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, 2001 <http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/presmeta_wp.pdf>http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation/presmeta_wp.pdf This is a late announcement, but of an important document reviewing the "state-of-the-art" of preservation metadata from several nations as the first step in building consensus on good practice in implementing metadata in support of digital preservation. I include here the review by Roy Tennant from "Current Cites" and the complete introduction from the publication. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] <> [deleted quotation] =============================================================== I. Introduction Metadata is routinely defined in accordance with its literal interpretation: "data about data". More usefully, Day (1998) observes that "metadata is commonly understood as an amplification of traditional bibliographic cataloguing practices in an electronic environment." In the context of digital information objects, metadata can be assigned to one of three functional categories (Wendler (1999)): Descriptive: facilitating resource discovery and identification Administrative: supporting resource management within a collection Structural: binding together the components of complex information objects Of these three categories, descriptive metadata for electronic resources has received the most attention - most notably through the Dublin Core metadata initiative. However, increasing awareness of the challenges posed by digital preservation - the long-term retention of digital objects - has underscored metadata needs for digital objects beyond resource discovery. Effective management of all but the crudest forms of digital preservation is likely to be facilitated by the creation, maintenance, and evolution of detailed metadata in support of the preservation process. For example, metadata could document the technical processes associated with preservation, specify rights management information, and establish the authenticity of digital content. It can record the chain of custody for a digital object, and uniquely identify it both internally and externally in relation to the archive in which it resides. In short, the creation and deployment of preservation metadata is likely to be a key component of most digital preservation strategies. Several initiatives have addressed the issue of preservation metadata, with the result that a variety of approaches to its use have emerged. These approaches, developed independently of one another and designed largely to meet particular institutional or project requirements, nevertheless share several common themes. However, they also differ on a number of key points. Consequently, the body of current work in preservation metadata does not reflect a consensus on best practices for the use of metadata in support of digital preservation. Initiatives such as the Dublin Core have demonstrated the value of consensus-building on metadata issues. In this spirit, the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata was formed to initiate a consensus-building process in preservation metadata. Comprised of key stakeholders from a variety of institutional and geographic backgrounds, the Working Group is charged with developing a consensus on best practices and common approaches to the use of metadata to facilitate the long-term retention of digital objects. Using existing work as the foundation and starting point for its discussion, the Working Group will develop a comprehensive preservation metadata framework, describe a set of "essential" preservation metadata elements needed to support the framework, examine implementation issues associated with preservation metadata, and create testbed/pilot applications. The Working Group will conclude its work by releasing a set of recommendations reflecting their consensus on best practices and approaches to the use of metadata to support digital preservation strategies. This white paper represents the first step of the Working Group's activity. Its scope includes the following topics: definition and illustration of preservation metadata for digital objects high-level requirements for a broadly applicable, comprehensive preservation metadata framework the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, a potential starting point for developing the preservation metadata framework review and synthesis of existing preservation metadata approaches identification of points of convergence/divergence among existing approaches Collectively, these topics constitute both a summary of the "state of the art" in preservation metadata, and a starting point for the consensus-building process in which the members of the Working Group will participate. ===================================================================== ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES: Special issue on Pattern Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:45:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1180 (1180) Processing in Music COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2001 *********************************************************************** * Special Issue on Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation * *********************************************************************** Table of Contents Preface: The AISB99 Convention and the Focus Workshop Geraint A. Wiggins pp. 1-2 Introduction: Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation Pierre-Yves Rolland pp. 3-8 Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects Emilios Cambouropoulos, Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos pp. 9-21 Perceptual Issues in Music Pattern Recognition: Complexity of Rhythm and Key Finding Ilya Shmulevich, Olli Yli-Harja, Edward Coyle, Dirk-Jan Povel, Kjell Lemstrvm pp. 23-35 Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations Alan Marsden pp. 37-54 Approximate Musical Evolution Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Russel Winder, Haifeng Yu pp. 55-64 Investigating the Influence of Representations and Algorithms in Music Classification Karin Hvthker, Dominik Hvrnel, Christina Anagnostopoulou pp. 65-79 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: CHum Vol 35. No 2 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:45:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1181 (1181) ********************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ********************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2001 Table of Contents Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The Gsearch Corpus Query System Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew W. Crocker, Shari Trewin pp. 81-94 The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition David Bainbridge, Tim Bell pp. 95-121 Archaeological Data Models and Web Publication Using XML J. David Schloen pp. 123-152 Sentential Count Rules for Arabic Language Fawaz S. Al-Anzi pp. 153-166 Change-Point Analysis: Elision in Euripides Orestes Jan G. De Gooijer, Nancy M. Laan pp. 167-191 Computer-Based Authorship Attribution Without Lexical Measures E. Stamatatos, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis pp. 193-214 Integrating Linguistic Resources in TC through WSD L. Alfonso Ureqa-Lspez, Manuel Buenaga, Josi M. Gsmez pp. 215-230 Spanish Word Frequency: A Historical Surprise M.J. Woods pp. 231-236 ---------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: visual pattern recognition? Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:29:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1182 (1182) This is a question about the capability of current software to find patterns in visual images. For a difficult example, see the well-known 3rd century A.D. Tunisian mosaic usually entitled "Diana the Huntress", online at <http://www.tunisiaonline.com/mosaics/mosaic18b.html>, "A mosaic found in Utica in which Diana the Huntress, dressed in a short dress, is stringing her bow to shoot an arrow at a doe. In the middle of the scene stands an olive tree." It seems to me that we are visually invited to identify the goddess, known from the Iliad as "Mistress of Animals" (Potnia Theron, 21.470), with the animal at which she is preparing to shoot. Mythologically the identification is uncontroversial (Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 149-52); does the image insist on it? Consider the space enclosed by Diana's legs, dress and the ground; compare the space similarly enclosed by the doe. Consider the curve formed by the doe's head, antlers and chest; compare the curve suggested by the bow. Note the shape underneath the doe; compare the shape to the right of Diana's right leg. This is a difficult example because the shapes I have asked you to compare are not identical -- only, to me, compellingly similar. Can we concretely imagine software finding such correspondences? testing them out (by some kind of morphing?) once we point them out? Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Georgian Cities" CD-ROM Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:08:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1183 (1183) [The following is being circulated on behalf of the research centre "Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l'Information" to announce its latest product, a CD-ROM entitled "Georgian Cities", and to give an overview of its other activities. --WM] ----- CD-ROM Georgian Cities Authored by the Research Centre "Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l'Information", Universit de Paris-Sorbonne Published by Presses de l'Universit de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001 The CD-ROM 'Georgian Cities' consists of four sections totalling about 1000 frames: London, Bath, Edinburgh and a thematic chapter on architecture, society, culture, religion. It reflects transdisciplinary approaches to urban studies: cartography, architecture, cultural life, and studies in literary and artistic images of these cities, combining documents of various types -- maps and photographs of cityscapes, paintings, literary texts, musical recordings, extracts from films on Georgian life. The documents were prepared by a team of specialists (Jacques Carr: architecture and society; Franoise Deconinck-Brossard: music and religion; Brigitte Mitchell de Soye: social life, Bath ; Marie-Hlne Thvenot-Totems: cultural life, Scottish studies), and the multimedia integration was done by the codirectors of the research centre, Liliane Gallet-Blanchard and Marie-Madeleine Martinet, demonstrating the integration of historical specialisms and computing skills. The hypertext structure allows the user to move from one section to another: The user may for instance enter the section on Edinburgh through the homepage of the section, then moving to its subsection on daily life and furniture, which has hyperlinks to a corresponding subsection in Bath, from which navigation in any chapter on the latter city -- religion, hospitals -- is possible; the correlations between the different disciplines of cultural history is thus emphasised. Navigation can also continue through an index, a sitemap highlighting the user's present position, a chronology, which are accessible from any page, in a navigation bar. The structure of the CD-ROM makes full use of hypermedia, and is meant to explore its potentialities in cultural history. The navigational paths correspond to the various types of contextualisation for each section, articulating social or cultural or architectural approaches : it allows the user to move through links and hot spots from maps to pictures and photographs of Georgian buildings, or from texts about music to audio extracts. The interface options have been selected so as to reproduce eighteenth-century forms of perception: animation effects are used to illustrate a historical process such as the development of the New Town of Edinburgh, the sequential nature of narrative texts by Fielding on London, or to follow the explanation of a process (eg reconstructing the steps in plotting a perspective construction by Turner); windows can be opened by the user to suggest a change of scale in town-planning (eg map/building: from a map of Bath to the Royal Crescent, then to interior views and blown-up details); sets of alternative images can be replaced to suggest options eg of contrasting viewpoints on a cityscape -- views of Somerset House by several artists, in sections which model Georgian representational techniques, so as to enable the user to reproduce (and thus question) the ways in which the Georgian cityscape has been mediated to us in art; similarly, choices are offered between several musical tunes to accompany a picture- a Handel overture or pastoral tunes-; transition effects (eg zoom, or random effect) have been inserted to underline modes of vision -- enlargement of the field of vision in painting, digressive structure of a text by Dr Johnson or the Reverend Penrose narrating their experiences in London or Bath. Georgian Cities is meant primarily to teach undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of eighteenth-century studies or cultural history, humanities computing and the aesthetics of hypermedia, and in interdisciplinary courses on subject-related computing skills. It also proposes an example of epistemological research in the semiotics of hypermedia presentation applied to cultural history: modelling the Georgian urban culture in the information space of electronic documents through the software functions, a topic explored in the editors' contribution to DRH 98: "The hyperspace of the Enlightenment." Systems requirements: Windows 95 or later, 800x600 display with 65000 colours, sound card, 60 Mb of free space. Contact: Marie-Madeleine.Martinet@paris4.sorbonne.fr or Liliane.Gallet@wanadoo.fr The Research Centre "Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l'Information" conducts research in Humanities Computing. It authors multimedia products such as the present CD-ROM, and its research website http://www.cati.paris4.sorbonne.fr. The members of the Centre give presentations on them at international conferences and in research centres. It supports research on the aesthetics and semiotics of multimedia, published in the Centre's own series (Sorbonne University Press) and in international publications. t organises conferences with demonstrations by guest lecturers (King's College London, Oxford, The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, The Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture at Bath, The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network, The Advanced Technology Center at Missouri University, The Digital Image Center at the University of Virginia). Its members direct the methodological courses in electronic documentation methods for the Sorbonne's undergraduate and graduate students, both in general courses and in subject-related workshops. It is currently taking part in the University's project in on-line distance learning. ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: Two More Lectures in NEH eHumanities Series Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:18:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1184 (1184) The NEH is now announcing the next two speakers in our eHumanities lecture series in Washington, DC. Please pass to your colleagues. =========================== eHumanities An NEH Lecture Series on Technology & the Humanities Registration is free via our website: http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html The National Endowment for the Humanities is proud to announce a series of lectures on eHumanities, which will bring leading scholars to Washington, DC to discuss digital technology and its importance to the humanities. * * * * * * * * * * LECTURE II Tuesday, May 1, Noon - 1:00 pm Professor Alan Liu University of California, Santa Barbara TITLE: Historicizing "Information" DESCRIPTION: What is the value of historical knowledge as studied in the humanities in an information age when only the technologically "new," "cutting-edge," and "just-in-time" seem to have real value? In this lecture, Alan Liu will discuss a philosophical and historical approach to information as well as his own pedagogical and research approaches to making history matter in the era of instantaneous knowledge. He will use examples found in in Albert Borgmann's 1999 book, "Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium." * * * * * * * * * * LECTURE III Tuesday, June 5, Noon - 1:00 pm Professor Eric Rabkin University of Michigan in Ann Arbor TITLE: Using Computers to Discover Cultural Truths: The Genre Evolution Project Studies Science Fiction DESCRIPTION: The Genre Evolution Project is testing the hypothesis that cultural materials, like biological organisms in their environments, evolve as complex adaptive systems. In order to test this hypothesis, the GEP has developed new, collaborative, computer-based methods that bridge the usual gap between qualitative and quantitative research. Using the American science fiction short story as its first test subject, the GEP has made discoveries both in critical theory in general and in science fiction in specific. Among the latter discoveries is a new understanding of the evolution of characterization that not only contradicts received literary historical truisms but suggests why critics may have gotten this wrong and what in fact created the literary evolution we now document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- What is eHumanities all about? How does technology affect traditional humanities disciplines? Some scholars and educators have argued that in just a few short years, advances in information technology and the development of the Internet have had a more dramatic affect on the way people read, write, and exchange information than any invention since the printing press. In the long term, what will its impact be on our notions of literature? On our culture and society? What are some of the philosophical ramifications of these advances? The goal of this series is to highlight some of the important work being done by scholars who are studying digital technology from various perspectives in the humanities. The lectures will take place at the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20506 in Room M-09. Attendance is free, but please register in advance (see below). Feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. Registration is free via our website: http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html From: Ken Friedman Subject: Interesting thread beginning on PhD-Design Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:09:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1185 (1185) Dear Colleagues, Those interested in the current status and future of scholarly and scientific communication will be interested in a thread that began this morning on the PhD-Design list. It was launched with an interesting question from Praveen Nahar of the IIT Bombay. I will post a note here later today to give an overview of the issues under consideration. If these issues interest you, I suggest you join PhD-Design. o PHD-DESIGN is a discussion list open for unmoderated discussion on all matters related to the PhD in design. You may subscribe at the following site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html Best regards, Ken Friedman -- ******************************************** Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University Norway +47 22.98.50.00 Telephone +47 22.98.51.11 Telefax Home office Byvaegen 13 S-24012 Torna Haellestad Sweden +46 (46) 53.245 Telephone +46 (46) 53.345 Telefax email: ken.friedman@bi.no ******************************************** From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: BMCR announcement Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:17:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1186 (1186) [Humanists of all disciplinary orientations will be interested in the following, which announces enhancements in the web site of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. BMCR is a pioneering example of electronic publication that does its job far better than a printed semi-equivalent possibly could -- and in a very technologically simple way. --WM] [deleted quotation]The Editors of Bryn Mawr Classical Review are proud to announce that the BMCR web site (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr) has been substantially enhanced and improved. Subscribers will still receive each new review in the mail, but the archive, back to our first issue in the fall of 1990, is now more attractive, easier to navigate, and offers a more transparent way of reading formatted Greek text (starting in 1998). BMCR, now in its eleventh year, has been a pioneer of e-journals, one mark of which is the hotch-potch of formats and technical standards through which we have migrated. (The first issue, e.g., comprised a dozen reviews sent all in a single huge e-mail message to a couple of hundred curious subscribers, many of whose mailboxes crashed under the unaccustomed load of a message so large. We had no online archive until "gopher" arrived in 1992: until then, access to back issues was possible if you wrote to the e-editor and asked for a set, which again probably crashed your mailbox when he sent it to you.) We continue to clean up and standardize that past, but there will always be something of the frontier spirit about those early issues. We are indebted to the collegiality and assistance of Anne Mahoney for her indefatigable labors in the redesign and programming of the new site and to David Chamberlain of Princeton University for the graphics, and we express our thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding. Comments, questions, and suggestions always welcome. (To subscribe, go to the website and click on the appropriate link to fill out our form.) Richard Hamilton James J. O'Donnell rhamilto@brynmawr.edu jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Bryn Mawr College University of Pennsylvania From: "John Unsworth" Subject: RE: 14.0801 visual pattern recognition? Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:17:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1187 (1187) Willard, A couple of pointers in response to your question about software's capability in visual pattern recognition: Blobworld: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/blobworld/ ["Blobworld is a system for content-based image retrieval. By automatically segmenting each image into regions which roughly correspond to objects or parts of objects, we allow users to query for photographs based on the objects they contain."] Photobook: http://www-white.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/photobook/ ["Photobook is a tool for performing queries on image databases based on image content. It works by comparing features associated with images, not the images themselves. These features are in turn the parameter values of particular models fitted to each image. These models are commonly color, texture, and shape, though Photobook will work with features from any model. Features are compared using one out of a library of matching algorithms that Photobook provides. In version 5, these include euclidean, mahalanobis, divergence, vector space angle, histogram, Fourier peak, and wavelet tree distances, as well as any linear combination of these. Version 6 allows user-defined matching algorithms via dynamic code loading."] McGann, "Imagining What You Don't Know" (esp. section IV): http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/chum.html ["There are critical opportunities to be exploited in the random use of these kinds of deformation. For instance: take a given set of paintings and run them through a series of deformations--let us say, a set of Rossetti's paintings, or a set of works chosen from a known corpus of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Symbolist art. Every time an altered image is generated that is judged interesting or revealing in some way, save the settings by which the image was produced. Then use those settings randomly on all the pictures in the chosen set and compare the results."] The bottom line is that software still isn't especially good at shape or pattern recognition, but as the first two examples show, it's sometimes better than you would expect, and as the last example suggests, even software that can't *recognize* visual patterns might be able to *reveal* them, if applied intelligently and systematically by a human being. John Unsworth From: Ken Friedman Subject: Access to scholarly and scientific information Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:39:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1188 (1188) Access to scholarly and scientific information was posted to PhD-Design for a thread proposed by Praveen Nahar. You are invited to follow the thread by joining PhD-Design. You may subscribe at the following site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html ---- Ken Friedman 2001 April 18 ---- Thanks to Praveen Nahar for posting the article on access to journal articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education (Olsen 2001: unpaged) [Reproduced below, exhibit 1]. This debate involves profound issues for scholarly communication in and across all fields. As a subscriber to The Chronicle of Higher Education, I read this piece last month. The online edition links to the original proposal (Roberts et al. 2001: unpaged) [Reproduced below, exhibit 2], and to the response from Science (Editors [Science] 2001: unpaged) [Reproduced below, exhibit 3]. This debate goes back many years in most fields. It involves the development and shape of scholarly communication in general. It involves the high cost of scholarly journals to libraries and the universities and research centers that maintain them. It involves a host of related issues, including: access to scholarly and scientific literature, the development of knowledge; criteria for tenure and promotion; stability of scholarly and scientific information; management and use of scholarly and scientific information; ensuring the validity and reliability of scholarly and scientific information; and more. While I do not have the current costs at hand, the university and research libraries of the world now spend something on the order of five billion US dollars a year on journals and scientific subsections. What is even more significant is that they also pay for the research that creates the content of the journals to which they subscribe. In addition, they pay for the refereeing and editorial work that examines, prepares, organizes, and creates the content. These costs easily equal or surpass the five billion spent on buying in published form the material that scientists and scholars have already created and edited. In the technology of an earlier day, the demands of printing publishing, and distribution were such that it made sense for organizations other than universities to undertake them. Computers and the worldwide web have changed much of this. Today, manuscripts are prepared on computer. This means, for all practical purposes, that authors typeset their own articles, editors proofread, and other kinds of specialists undertake work that would once have been undertaken in a print shop using lock-up type or running hot lead. The new opportunities made possible by the technology of the worldwide web means that universities are essentially buying the right to use material that they have already paid to produce. At the same time, it must be noted that publishing itself - aside from the cost of paper and postage - involves many steps provided by the publishing companies, and not by the universities. These are labor intensive, capital intensive, and they cannot be undertaken without funding. The greatest expense is labor. In the 1970s and 1980s, I was involved in a number of projects that involved different kinds of scholarly documentation and publishing, some of which involved storage and access through the developing electronic media as well as through microfilm and print-on-demand. While there was no worldwide web, there were nascent electronic networks that were part of what then constituted the Internet. I was also deeply involved in reference book development and scholarly or scientific referencing, and it was obvious that meeting the challenges of these fields while making content available required sophisticated and costly solutions. By the 1990s, much of this had changed, but not all. In 1994, I floated a proposal (Friedman 1994) for a web-based university press that in some regards resembled the preprint servers used in physics and other disciplines, but aimed, instead, at rendering accessible completed documents, out of print materials, and other published items. We had no luck developing what I labeled "European University Press." The labor requirements and costs soon came to seem insurmountable: acquisition, editorial, manuscript preparation, and then the continual need for software management and information structuring of the web site itself all ran into vast sums. This seemed so insurmountable to those whom we invited to join in a feasibility study that we were unable to get enough partners even to study the possibility. These issues have continued to interest me in different ways (Friedman 1995, 1996, 1998). At every turn, one central problem becomes apparent: relatively few individual scholars are willing to do the work required for developing and maintaining a long-term access system to the scholarly and scientific literature. In fact, relatively few scholars are willing to undertake on along-term basis the work required for the editorial development of today's scholarly and scientific literature. Editorial positions and referees routinely rotate specifically because people lose interest and energy. There is a complication here. At the start of our new millennium, the presidents, deans, and department heads that decide on hiring, promotion, tenure, sabbaticals, merit increase and all the rest place great faith in the value of journal publication as a measure of scholarly and scientific production. They do so with good reason. The journal system has survived now for four centuries. A proven system, it has served the interests of science and scholarship in important ways. Even though some universities now credit publication in extended media, many academic administrators continue to demonstrate skepticism toward formats other than the traditional paper journal. This, in turn, gives the scholars and scientists who work at universities a powerful incentive to publish in paper journals and a disincentive to publish in other media. Several research-centered design schools are exploring the development of online databases and resource centers that would meet some of the criteria of the proposals in the Science debate. So far, none have launched. All face the same kinds of development, funding and management problems we faced in 1994. The past decade has seen sweeping strides in technology, but time, quality, and funding issues remain much the same. There is much merit in the current proposal (Roberts et al. 2001) and in the response from Science (The Editors 2001). Science makes available an important debate in their online edition, and this debate is available free over the Web. Go to the URL below and follow the instructions. Those who are interested in getting up to speed on this debate will want to read the book Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. In this important contribution, Peek and Newby (1996) present summary views and empirical data to the mid-90s. It is interesting to see how relevant these issues remain, despite the technological progress since this book was completed. This book includes chapters from some of the central figures in the debate, including Rob Kling, Andrew Odlyzko, and Steven Harnad. Four other books will fill in important background issues for those who are deeply interested. Daniel Bell's (1999) 1973 classic, The Coming of Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, sets a background for many of these issues, touching the challenges that will later shape the information society as a whole. The 1999 reprint includes an important new contribution by the author. Olaisen, Munch-Pedersen, and Wilson (1996) present authors who examine many of the problems - and possible solutions -- involved in this challenge. These include structure and classification challenges, search issues, and, mot important, the difficulties of information overload. Compaine and Read (1999) and Lamberton (1996) are anthologies that contain many useful and relevant articles. While these are organized around information policy and information economics respectively, these issues are inextricably linked to the questions in the current debate. It is interesting to note that the first edition of Lamberton's book appeared a quarter century ago - and that many of the issues and challenges remain current enough today that some of the original articles are still relevant. The challenge to journals offered by Roberts et al. (2001) follows on an immense amount of thinking and action during the past twenty-five years. The birth and growth of the worldwide web during the past decade makes these issues especially timely. The state of scholarly and scientific communication in design research is improving, but it often remains fragile. This makes this debate particularly relevant to our field. I'll post my own response to Praveen Nahar's question next week. At this time, I thought it would be helpful to share some of the important background materials, together with the items from Science. References: Bell, Daniel. 1999. The Coming of Post-industrial Society. A Venture in Social Forecasting. New York: Basic Books. Compaine, Benjamin M. and William H. Read. 1999. The Information Resources Policy Handbook. Research for the Information Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. The Editors [Science]. 2001. "Science's Response. Is a Government Archive the Best Option?." Vol. 291, No. 5512, Issue 23 Mar 2001: 2318-2319. [Available online at URL <http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318b>. Accessed 2001 March 27.] Friedman, Ken. 1994. A University Press for the Worldwide Internet. Preliminary Notes. Research proposal of 1994 October 4. Friedman, Ken. 1995. Books in the Age of On-Line Information: Will We Read More or Fewer Books? Statistical Summary and Preliminary Conclusions. American Association for Higher Education Technology Reports. Washington, D.C.: AAHE. Friedman, Ken. 1996. "Individual Knowledge in the Information Society." In Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Johan Olaisen, Erland Munch-Pedersen and Patrick Wilson, editors. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 245-276. Friedman, Ken. 1998. "Cities in the Information Age: A Scandinavian Perspective." In The Virtual Workplace. Magid Igbaria and Margaret Tan, eds. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing, 144-176. Lamberton, Donald M. 1996. The Economics and Communication and Information. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar. Nahar, Praveen. 2001. "Scholars Urge a Boycott of Journals That Won't Release Articles to Free Archives (fwd)." Phd-Design. Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 06:53:19 +0530. Olaisen, Johan, Erland Munch-Pedersen and Patrick Wilson, editors. 1996. Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. Olsen, Florence. 2001. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Online Edition. Monday, March 26, 2001. URL: <http://chronicle.com/free/2001/03/2001032601t.htm>. Accessed 2001 March 27. Peek, Robin P., and Gregory B. Newby. 1996. Scholarly Publishing. The Electronic Frontier. Cambridge: Massachusetts: MIT Press. Roberts, Richard J., Harold E. Varmus, Michael Ashburner, Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Chaitan Khosla, Marc Kirschner, Roel Nusse, Matthew Scott, Barbara Wold. 2001. "Building A 'GenBank' of the Published Literature." Science, Vol. 291, No. 5512, Issue 23 Mar 2001: 2318-2319. [Available online at URL <http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318a>. Accessed 2001 March 27.] The articles: (1) Monday, March 26, 2001 Scholars Urge a Boycott of Journals That Won't Release Articles to Free Archives By FLORENCE OLSEN Several prominent scholars, including Harold E. Varmus, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, are urging a boycott of scientific and scholarly journals that refuse to make articles accessible online -- free -- soon after their publication. The scholars also are making a demand that some publishers say is even more challenging: that the publishers place their content in independent repositories on the Web six months after a journal issue has appeared in print. In an essay in Science, the scholars urge their peers not to submit papers to, write reviews for, or subscribe to journals that ignore the scholars' demand. The scholars argue that it would be relatively simple and inexpensive for journals to participate in open-archives projects, such the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and Stanford University's HighWire Press. HighWire archives more than 230 journals in biology, physics, and other sciences. The PubMed Central archive, which Mr. Varmus promoted while he was at N.I.H., currently has about a dozen biology journals. "As scientists," the scholars argue, "we are particularly dependent on ready and unimpeded access to our published literature, the only permanent record of our ideas, discoveries, and research results, upon which future scientific activity and progress are based." But in an editorial in the same issue, Science's editors say the scholars' proposal would put nonprofit, scholarly publishers at risk because it would "reroute an economically important source of online traffic for journals that offer content and other products on their sites." Science announced, however, that it would go part way toward meeting scholars' desire for a free digital archive of life-science research. The journal has agreed to make its reports and articles available free on its Web site 12 months after the print issues are published. The journal is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a nonprofit group. Partly because of the controversy, The Journal of Cell Biology has made its contents free on its Web site, without password or access controls, six months after each issue's publication. What makes the central-repository idea so distasteful for some journal editors is that articles would have to be converted from each journal's own format to whatever format the repository uses. Reformatting poses technical challenges and usually requires that every article be painstakingly checked for formatting errors. The Science authors propose the GenBank, for DNA sequences, as their model for a centralized repository of life-science literature. But journal publishers who disagree say the GenBank material poses far fewer formatting problems than scientific literature. William Wells, the news editor of The Journal of Cell Biology, notes that HighWire has staff members to handle each journal that it publishes. Those people act as liaisons, fixing the myriad translation problems that come up with each print journal. "One of the questions we have is, Is PubMed Central willing to put in that sort of manpower?" says Mr. Wells. "Are they going to compensate us for the amount of time they'll be calling us up saying, What's this new special character? It's not very interesting stuff to talk about, but it's the practicalities," he says. "Presumably, a lot of this can be overcome," adds Mr. Wells. "But we don't think it's necessary to overcome it because there's a much simpler way to do it, without having this huge centralized apparatus." The Journal of Cell Biology issued a statement by Ira Mellman, the editor in chief, saying that centralized repositories would soon be unnecessary: "The ability to search across thousands of servers, as long as those servers do not have access controls, is the very reason that the Web is such a powerful tool." Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education (2) Building A "GenBank" of the Published Literature Richard J. Roberts,* Harold E. Varmus, Michael Ashburner, Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Chaitan Khosla, Marc Kirschner, Roel Nusse, Matthew Scott, Barbara Wold Since the time of the great library of Alexandria, scholars have recognized the value of central repositories of knowledge. As scientists, we are particularly dependent on ready and unimpeded access to our published literature, the only permanent record of our ideas, discoveries, and research results, upon which future scientific activity and progress are based. The growth of the Internet is changing the way we access this literature, as more scientific journals produce online editions to supplement or replace printed versions. We urge journal publishers, their editors, and all working scientists to join together to create public, electronic archives of the scientific literature, containing complete copies of all published scientific papers. Anyone who has spent time in a library searching for a key paper, result, or method will immediately see one of the benefits of comprehensive repositories. Those gems of information that are often buried within papers, but are not referred to in the abstract or keywords, will become readily retrievable. You will be able to locate descriptions of methods or find the original data that underlie crucial conclusions. You will be able to trace connections between observations originally scattered among many papers in different journals and databases. However, the value of central archives goes well beyond facilitated searching and retrieval. Bringing all of the scientific literature together in a common format will encourage the development of new, more sophisticated, and valuable ways of using this information, much as GenBank has done for DNA sequences. Some have argued that central repositories are of no additional value because many journals already make their online contents freely available after some delay through their own Web sites. However, material that is freely accessible, on a controlled basis, one paper at a time, at a journal's Web site differs from material that is freely accessible in a single comprehensive collection. The latter can be efficiently indexed, searched, and linked to, whereas the former cannot. Imagine how much less useful DNA sequences would be if instead of GenBank and other global repositories, we had dozens of smaller sequence collections that could only be accessed one at a time through a genome center's Web site. Only by creating repositories with uniform, explicitly defined, and structured formats, can a dynamic digital archive of life science research literature become possible. Unimpeded access to these archives and open distribution of their contents will enable researchers to take on the challenge of integrating and interconnecting the fantastically rich, but extremely fragmented and chaotic, scientific literature. To ensure that complete public scientific archives become a fully workable reality, the necessary infrastructure must be constructed. The National Institutes of Health has taken an important step by creating PubMed Central (PMC) (1) with the goal of storing the life sciences literature in digital form and providing free and convenient access, linked to the popular bibliographical database, PubMed. We envision PMC as only the first of many public archives. However, such archives will not realize their potential until they are populated. This requires that journal publishers allow their digital content to be distributed and used through online public archives. Several journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Medical Journal, Nucleic Acids Research, Molecular Biology of the Cell, and the BioMed Central (2) journals, have already agreed to deposit their content with PMC, following, at most, a short delay after print publication. Publishers now have a wonderful opportunity to reinforce their partnership with the scientific community by supporting extant archives like PMC and by allowing archival material to be freely used and distributed, and we strongly urge them to do so. It would be natural and simple for journals that have already decided to make their back issues freely accessible at their own Web sites to make the same content available in electronic archives. The costs of participating in open archives would be minimal and would be more than offset by the benefits their participation would bring to the scientific community. Historically, publishers have left the job of archiving to the libraries. Library archives have become more accessible as we have moved from indexed abstract books to rapidly updated online abstract searching tools. Public online archives should be viewed as the logical continuation of this tradition and, thus, as a complement to the publisher's normal activities. For electronic archives to assume this role fully, decades of volumes that currently exist only in printed form will need to be digitized. We do not expect journals to bear the cost of the digital conversion of their printed archives. Indeed, efforts to raise the necessary funds are under way, so that digital conversion of archival volumes can proceed rapidly. It is important not only that PMC succeed, but also that other institutions be encouraged to provide independent online sites for the distribution and use of the same comprehensive archives. Multiple independent online sites will help ensure ready access for users around the world and will guarantee that no single government or institution can control access to our common scientific heritage. This diversity will also foster innovation in the ways the material in the archives is used. We feel that if journal editors and publishers were to poll their authors and readers, they would find overwhelming support for such archives. The strength of this support is demonstrated by the growing list of scientists who have signed an open letter (3) advocating free and unrestricted distribution of scientific literature 6 months after publication. We urge our colleagues, especially students and the younger members of the scientific community, to make your views heard. If these efforts are successful, in 10 years, everyone's ability to do science will have been greatly enriched, and we will all wonder how it was possible to work without such archives. References and Notes 1. www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov 2. www.biomedcentral.com 3. www.publiclibraryofscience.org -- R. J. Roberts, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA 01915, USA. H. E. Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. M. Ashburner, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK, and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK. P. O. Brown, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. M. B. Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, and University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. C. Khosla, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. M. Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. R. Nusse and M. Scott, Stanford University School of Medicine, B. Wold, Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: roberts@neb.com Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Volume 291, Number 5512, Issue of 23 Mar 2001, pp. 2318-2319. Copyright 2001 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. (3) SCIENCE'S RESPONSE: Is a Government Archive the Best Option? The Editors Rich Roberts and his colleagues have constructed a thoughtful argument for an online archive of published science. A seamless way of getting access to the scientific literature is an objective many scientists have sought, and the version outlined in the Roberts piece is being pursued with vigor and understandable passion by its advocates. We admire the goal, and suspect that evolutionary forces may be moving us toward it. We have decided to make our own back research reports and articles freely available after 12 months--at our own Web site--later this year. The specific proposal of Roberts et al. goes further. It urges our readers to sign a petition that "advocates the free and unrestricted distribution of scientific literature 6 months after publication." Actually, the petition does quite a bit more than that. It urges an economic boycott: signers agree not to submit papers to, review for, or subscribe to journals that do not submit to the petition's proposals. To begin a conversation among scholars with a threat of economic boycott is unfortunate. However, we would rather focus on the qualities that Roberts et al. believe are essential to the archive they advocate. It should include all scientific papers and the content should be in a common format that allows for advanced search capabilities. Content should be free and "open distribution" should be allowed. PubMed Central (PMC) is given as the model of an archive that will meet these criteria. We believe other alternatives exist that can meet most of these goals faster and more effectively without putting nonprofit scholarly publishing at risk. There already are multiple-journal sites--for example, the nonprofit HighWire Press (HWP), which archives over 230 journals, including biological, physical and interdisciplinary papers. More than 200,000 articles are freely available at this site. By comparison, there are only about a dozen journals at PMC, limited currently to biology. Advocates of PMC argue that sites in which each journal is archived separately are insufficiently integrated. But searching across multi-journal, full-text repositories is already possible at sites such as HWP. In addition, 60% of this content is in a common format already. Why not begin with the already populated venue and add the integration, rather than the other way around? Why not use taxpayer dollars to promote innovative search technologies that do not require taking control of services provided by the private sector? The proposition of Roberts et al. raises problems for Science, and for other journals. First, it will reroute an economically important source of online traffic for journals that offer content and other products on their sites. Second, unlimited redistribution of content could lead to misuse of content and loss of quality control. Third, it may expose users to risks historically associated with monopoly suppliers. For example, recently PubMed--on which PMC will depend--unexpectedly failed to process new content for over a month, inconveniencing authors and publishers. We also wonder whether enough attention has been given to some of the economic issues. Experience shows that demand for scientific papers drops to about 1/10th within 4 to 5 months, but then continues at a low level for years. We plan to track our experience with free back issues carefully, but in the meanwhile, we take little comfort from the assurance that "costs of participation in open archives will be minimal." Subscription and advertising revenue will be at some risk and transferring primary access to someone else's site may expose us to further losses. The value we add--through peer review, perspective and context-setting analysis of research, and good news coverage--requires revenue support from advertising. Moreover, Science supports other activities of AAAS--including science and public policy, kindergarten through 12th- grade education, a career-mentoring Web site for young scientists, and innovative "knowledge environments." These benefit scientists from all fields. Posting our back content on a site that primarily serves biomedical scientists would confer a benefit on one group by taking benefits away from another--creating, in effect, a transfer payment from the sciences in general to biology in particular. That bothers us. We worry, too, about another group of journals that will be entering a riskier environment. Our association is an umbrella organization, including many specialized scientific societies as affiliates. Their more focused journals must remain viable to ensure continued publishing options in highly specialized fields and for younger scientists. In most cases, academic library subscriptions provide the economic "floor" that guarantees financial sustainability. If papers from specialized journals were to become available on the PMC site, budget-conscious library directors would be tempted to cancel subscriptions. Some of the signers of the petition are scientists who belong to those very societies. Have they considered that their initiative will put PMC in competition with their own journals? When tax-exempt organizations go into competition with commercial entities they must pay unrelated-business income tax. When tax-supported organizations compete with commercial entities and nonprofits, the public has usually raised strong objections. There are also questions about whether the proposed location for PMC--the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health--is the right one. NIH already sponsors, through its extramural programs, much of the biomedical research PMC will archive. It regulates the conduct of that research, controls much of the training of the next generation of researchers, and archives primary data. It now proposes that the results of the research it funds be given over by publishers and authors to a server subject to its exclusive control. The Congress or the President can eliminate support for certain kinds of science and have done so in the past. Would PMC then be able to archive papers on those subjects? Concentrating this kind of womb-to-tomb control in a single federal agency has risks, and we should ask whether we are entirely comfortable with a state-run, centrally managed economy in biomedicine. Proponents of this plan include scientists of high reputation: Nobel laureates, leaders of institutions, and others whom we all admire. Nonetheless, we think its potential consequences require careful analysis and policy debate. We at Science are determined to participate in a constructive spirit. Volume 291, Number 5512, Issue of 23 Mar 2001, pp. 2318-2319. Copyright 2001 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. -- ******************************************** Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University Norway +47 22.98.50.00 Telephone +47 22.98.51.11 Telefax Home office Byvaegen 13 S-24012 Torna Haellestad Sweden +46 (46) 53.245 Telephone +46 (46) 53.345 Telefax email: ken.friedman@bi.no ******************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: telephone network the world's largest computer? Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:53:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1189 (1189) I would be grateful for any references to the observation that the world-wide telephone network is the world's largest computer. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: reading from computer display Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:40:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1190 (1190) Dear colleagues, Would anyone with knowledge of the research that has gone into reading from screen please reply to the sender of the following note -- and to the group as well? 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Many science fiction writers are highly respected scientists in their fields, and see science fiction as a perfect vehicle to "float" ideas before an audience. And what better audience than those used to and willing to accept "cognitive estrangement" as a normal part of their thinking processes. This term, used by Carl Freeman in his "Critical Theory and Science Fiction", very neatly describes what "sci-fi" is about. No, the world is not like that in the story. Yet. 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Bonnie Wilson Managing Editor D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list <http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers>http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers ============================================================= [deleted quotation] The April, 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from North American, and other world sites) or <http://www.rlg.ac.uk/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.ac.uk/preserv/diginews/ (from UK Janet sites) or <http://www.ohio.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.ohio.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from most European sites) The April 2001 issue includes: Volume 5, Number 2 CONTENTS Feature Articles: * Collecting and Preserving the Web: The Minerva Prototype --by William Y. Arms, Roger Adkins, Cassy Ammen, and Allene Hayes * Collecting and Preserving the Web: Developing and Testing the NEDLIB Harvester --by Juha Hakala Conference Report: * Sound Practice: A Report of the Best Practices for Digital Sound Meeting, 16 January 2001 at the Library of Congress, --by Michael Seadle Highlighted Web Site: Cultivate Interactive FAQ: Andrew W. Mellon Electronic Journal Archiving Project ============================================================= RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly web-based newsletter intended to: * Focus on issues of particular interest and value to managers of digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale. * Provide filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects to improve our awareness of evolving practices in image conversion and digital archiving. * Announce publications (in any form) that will help staff attain a deeper understanding of digital issues. For more information about RLG or PRESERV, RLG's preservation community, please contact Robin Dale (Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org). Robin L. Dale RLG Member Programs & Initiatives 1200 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 Ph: (650) 691-2238 Fax: 650.964.0943 Email: Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org ============================================================= ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. 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Martin Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010418-2.html>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010418-2.html [deleted quotation] ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 10, Number 33 April 20, 2001 In this issue: On Wednesday, April 20, the White House issued a press release announcing its intent to nominate Robert S. Martin as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Robert Martin is a Professor and Interim Director of the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. He served as Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission from 1995 to 1999 and served as a Professor and as Associate Dean of Special Collections at Louisiana State University from 1991 to 1995. We extend our congratulations to Robert Martin on his nomination. 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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: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Natalia Smith Subject: Job announcement: Director of Library Digital Publishing Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:23:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1195 (1195) This position announcement has been cross-posted to multiple lists; my apologies for any duplication. Natalia (Natasha) Smith Digitization Librarian Wilson Library, CB#3918 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 email: natalia_smith@unc.edu tel. (919) 962-9590 http://docsouth.unc.edu/ _______________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL VACANCY POSITION: Director of Library Digital Publishing AVAILABLE: July 1, 2001 DESCRIPTION The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a creative, dynamic, technically competent, and committed professional to serve as the Director of Library Digital Publishing in the Academic Affairs Library. The Director will lead initiatives to expand the library's programs for digital publishing. The Director of Library Digital Publishing will be responsible for articulating a vision for digital publishing to make collections available for the advancement of teaching and research. Working with faculty, curators, and librarians, the Director will develop the intellectual framework for library digital publishing, create policies that realize publishing objectives, and implement programs for the selection and evaluation of resources. The Director will coordinate library-wide digital publishing and oversee library digital publishing projects, including Documenting the American South. The Director of Library Digital Publishing will serve as the digital publishing representative. The Director will promote awareness of library digital publishing, provide consultation to librarians involved in library digital publishing, and will establish collaborative relationships with faculty, students, and professional groups to further the library program. The Director will engage in professional development, scholarship and service to the profession, with a commitment to continuing professional growth and development. The Director will seek external support for digital publishing programs through grants and gifts, working collaboratively with the Library's development officers, administrators, curators, selectors, and other university departments and faculty. The Director of Library Digital Publishing reports to the Associate Provost for University Libraries through the Deputy University Librarian and provides supervision for 2 full time librarians. QUALIFICATIONS Required: ALA-accredited Masters Degree in Library Science or an advanced degree in a relevant subject area and three (3) years of increasing professional responsibility. Leadership skills confirmed by prior success in relevant and complex project management, development of new programs and initiatives, and management of staff and team leadership. Substantial knowledge of digital library technologies, standards and best practices in the digital library, and ability to articulate a vision for library digitization to promote digital library publishing projects in a research library environment. A demonstrated broad knowledge of and experience with academic and research library collection issues and of the trends and issues confronting higher education in today's rapidly changing environment. Proven leadership skills with the ability to manage time, set priorities, manage projects, and work under pressure. Creative problem solving skills, strong analytical skills, and ability to negotiate solutions with diverse groups. Knowledge of how people use information and how its effective organization and appropriate content can facilitate scholarly research. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, a proven service orientation, and a willingness to share expertise. Preferred: A record of significant participation at the national level in organizations addressing digital publishing and/or electronic information issues. Familiarity with library and information standards (XML/SGML/TEI/EAD) and practices, archival imaging and other media standards. Experience in donor relations, grant writing, and in budget management. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LIBRARIES The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the country's oldest state university. UNC-CH has an enrollment of approximately 24,000 students, employs more than 2,200 faculty, offers the Ph.D. in 66 fields; and the Library collections include over 5 million volumes. The Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and SOLINET. The Triangle region is one of the most desirable places to live and work in North America and offers its residents a wide array of recreational, cultural and intellectual activities. The mountains and the seashore are each less than a half day's drive from Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. SALARY AND BENEFITS This is a twelve-month academic librarian appointment with a minimum salary of $50,000. Standard state benefits of annual leave, sick leave, and State or TIAA-CREF retirement plan. Librarians are members of the general faculty. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION Review of applications will begin on May 28, 2001. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. TO APPLY Send a letter of application, a resume and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three professional references to: Director of Library Digital Publishing Mari E. Marsh, Director of Library Personnel The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3900, 206 Davis Library Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 ________________________________________________ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CLIR Seeks Public Comment on Report on the Artifact in Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:22:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1196 (1196) Library Collections NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 20, 2001 Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) Seeks Public Comment on Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections <http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues21.html#task>http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues21.html#task http://www.clir.org/activities/details/artifact-docs.html Comments Sought by June 10, 2001 A compelling draft report on the role of the artifact in scholarly research and related preservation issues is available on the website of the Council on Library and Information Resources. The report is especially interesting for this audience as many of the issues have been framed by the act of digitizing scholarly resources, which has "fundamentally altered the information landscape." Although digital preservation was initially considered to be out of scope, it was perhaps inevitably the subject of a considerable section of the report. Also, as Abby Smith's brief article below states, the report considers "digital surrogacy" at some length, "articulating its advantages and disadvantages and identifying those parts of the information infrastructure that need to be in place to maximize its benefits." David Green =========== From CLIR Issues May-June 2001 Task Force on the Role of the Artifact Seeks Public Comment on Draft Report by Abby Smith FOR 18 MONTHS, a task force of scholars and librarians sponsored by CLIR has been investigating the issues surrounding the preservation of and access to artifactual collections. Artifacts-that is, information recorded on physical media-form the bedrock of evidence upon which scholarship and teaching are built. The task force has produced a draft report, The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections, and is inviting members of the research community to comment on the draft and to help shape the recommendations and outcomes of its work. The task force is hosting five public-review sessions this spring that will engage librarians and scholars in developing recommendations that meet the needs of all who share an interest in this issue. The report is designed to advise academic officers, funders, library administrators, government funding agencies, and scholars on what is at stake as library and archival collections age and as demands to build digital services and collections threaten to eclipse the continuing need for investment in preservation. While preparing the draft report, the task force consulted extensively with experts from libraries and archives. Task force members confirmed what is well-known to many librarians: As the volume of information collected by libraries grows, and with it the demand for electronic resources, so do scholars' demands for access to original, unreformatted resources. Libraries are caught between building digital collections and infrastructures and increasing their efforts to preserve many print and audiovisual resources in dire condition-caught because their preservation budgets are flat and the pressures to "go digital" are great. As long as the claim on preservation resources exceeds the available funds, it will be necessary to choose carefully which materials get treatment. CLIR charged the task force with developing a framework for making or evaluating institutional policies for the preservation and retention of original materials-from printed materials to photographs and sound recordings-and with articulating the value of the artifact for research and teaching. The task force gave special consideration to how a library and its home institution should make sound intellectual and fiscal decisions about what to preserve, when, for whom, and at what price. Given the types of collections that research libraries hold-largely printed matter-and the extensive use of retrospective resources by humanists and social scientists, most task force members were familiar with the problems of print on wood-pulp paper. Librarians and preservationists know how to treat these materials; the problem is that funds are often insufficient. The situation is different for audiovisual materials. There is far less awareness of their vulnerability, and fewer treatments are available to save them. Many audiovisual resources created during the last 150 years-prints, photographs, maps, broadsides, posters, films, and sound recordings-are reaching the limits of their usable life span. The task force identified an urgent need to address this problem. If we do not act now, we risk losing a great deal of material. For example, by the time we understood the cultural and intellectual value of moving images, we had lost more than 80 percent of all silent films and more than half of the films made before World War II. We now face a similar crisis in recorded sound. At risk is everything from ethnographic records of native languages facing extinction to early radio, the "race records" of the pre-World War II era, and speeches by Teddy Roosevelt-the list goes on. Scholars can play an important role in preventing the future loss of valuable resources by articulating clearly the full range of contemporary formats and genres that have and will have potential research value. The report acknowledges that the availability of digital surrogates is changing the way some scholars value access to original, unreformatted materials. While there is an increasing number of items that scholars identify as valuable to preserve for research, there is also a growing preference among scholars for electronic delivery of secondary sources and, in some cases, of primary sources as well. The task force report considers the matter of digital surrogacy at some length, articulating its advantages and disadvantages and identifying those parts of the information infrastructure that need to be in place to maximize its benefits. The draft report is available on the CLIR Web site at www.clir.org/activities/details/artifact-docs.html. CLIR encourages public comment on the draft through June 10. The final report will be available in print and online in July. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Fr. April 20, 2001 8:19AM Subject: Science Fact and Fiction Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:21:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1197 (1197) Randall Pierce has asked in effect why more people do not look into science fiction with their literary criticism and other humanities skills. I have recently been looking at a related question, why more people from humanities do not look into science fact, via the volume Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance by General W. B. Parsons, MIT Press: Cambridge Massachusetts USA 1939/1968. It appears that the questions and answers may be related. The difficulty seems to be Creative Genius. Superstition in Western Civilization often ascribes it to immoral or licentious behavior in which courtesy, respect for oneself and others, promises to oneself and others, concern for the past and the future and the present as well as for humanity and for knowledge and learning are all broken frequently. Nothing could be further from the fact, it would appear. Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the greatest Creative Geniuses of all time, quite explicitly stated his preference for intellectual passion over sensuality. He was of course not only concerned with art but with science and engineering - he worked as a hydraulics engineer for Royalty in Italy. The rebellions of the religious institutions against materialism and sensuality were the major driving social forces of the Renaissance from the Catholic Church through the Reformation through the Counter-Reformation. Science fact and science fiction reach their best achievements in Creative Genius through incorporation of the best of past Civilization and rebellion against the worst of past Civilization and concern for present and future Civilization. We who are taught to think in terms of all or none often find this difficult to understand until our later years. Our political parties even divide the world into the individual versus the plurality, the internal versus the external, even though the past and the present and the future are so much more revealing, as are conformity versus rebellion, learning versus ignorance. Adding 100 people to an individual action does not make it any better or worse in an ethical sense, and yet we have political parties typically winning elections over such issues. Invading foreign nations for good or ill purposes does not free us from responsibility to solve ongoing problems in our own lives at home, and yet it is with us not only in every generation but in almost every year and is in fact decided by our highest political authorities much more frequently than the ordinary problems and decisions at home. We do not teach Renaissance, Nobility, Creative Genius in our classrooms - we teach lack of discrimination, lack of integration, intra-disciplinary episodic processing, infinitesimal details, and even lack of responsibility. We teach rebellion without knowledge, knowledge without rebellion, illusions of the tribe and of the individual, the material of which political nightmares are made and centuries of destruction are born. In this process, we lose Creative Genius and science fact and science fiction. Our society rewards Ingenious Follower Scientist/Engineers/Politicians and not Creative genius Humanists/Scientists. Then along comes a genocidal and power-crazy person like Hitler, and we profess surprise, outrage, moral disgust. Have we done everything in our power and in our responsibilities to prevent the evil before it occurs? Osher Doctorow Ph.D. Ventura College, etc. From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 36, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:24:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1198 (1198) Version 36 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,320 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 Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 100 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 340 KB and the Word file is over 450 KB. The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections 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, Identifiers, 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 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 resources directory includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing Images Legal Preprints Preservation Publishers SGML and Related Standards Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From: Grindstone Island Summer Seminars Subject: Hands-On Seminars in Cultural Multimedia Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:36:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1199 (1199) Announcing the Grindstone Island Summer Seminar Series: a unique opportunity for professional training http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone Archives & Museum Informatics is delighted to announce an exceptional learning opportunity for cultural heritage professionals. On an 11-acre private island, leaders in cultural multimedia development will be offering small-group hands-on seminars this summer. Grindstone Island summer seminars offer a high quality learning environment in a spectacular natural setting. Class size is limited to 12; courses are taught by 1-3 instructors. The island is equipped with a 12 person lab, a wireless network, and a high-speed internet connection. Courses offered this summer cover a range of interests and skill levels. [material deleted] Grindstone Island is owned and operated by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Archives & Museum Informatics __________ Grindstone Island Summer Seminars grindstone@archimuse.com offered by phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone Pittsburgh, PA 15217 In-depth learning opportunities for cultural informatics professionals. __________ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Teaching Online and Release Time Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:37:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1200 (1200) Willard and company May 1 to May 3 TCC 2001 THE INTERNET & LEARNING What Have We Discovered and Where Are We Headed? Sixth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon01/index.html Of interest to Humanist subscribers are many papers of which Eric Johnson ESSENTIAL RELEASE TIME AND ASSISTANCE FOR ONLINE TEACHING The author has taught online courses since 1990 (including Humanities Computing) and has held administrative posts where he was responsible for the development of online programs. Still time to join the conference, read the paper and participate in an online chat with the author. Papers from previous years are available. Anyone care to engage in some academic journalism and report back on their online conference experience to Humanist? That URL once again : http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon01/index.html From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Birdsall on Digital Divide Wed 25th Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:37:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1201 (1201) The Brown Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents William F. Birdsal The Digital Divide: A Policy Paradox in the Liberal State. 5:00 pm Wednesday, April 25, 2001 STG Conference Room, Grad Center, Ground Floor, Tower E The digital divide has become a high profile public policy issue in Canada and the United States. Birdsall examines the nature of the digital divide, North American liberal political culture, and government information highway policy on universal access. He argues that the digital divide is inherent to the unique liberal social welfare structures of both countries. The liberal commitment to universality is undermined by a liberal stratified social structure in both countries, a paradox of public policy. However, there is evidence that Canada remains thus far distinct from the U.S. in its commitment to universality. Birdsall is the Executive Director of Novanet, a consortium of post-secondary Nova Scotia libraries, and the Council of Atlantic University Librarians/Conseil des Directeurs(trices) de Bibliothque des Universits de L'Atlantique. Previously he was University Librarian at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has held senior administrative library position at U.S. and Canadian university libraries. He has published articles on the politics of librarianship, professionalism, information technology, telecommunications, and public policy. His book, The Myth of the Electronic Library (1994) was published in Japan in 1996. He recently co-edited with Karen Adams, Understanding Telecommunications and Public Policy: A Guide for Libraries (1998). Articles have appeared in the Canadian Library Journal, the Library Journal, Library Trends, INET Society Proceedings, First Monday, the Queen's Quarterly, and many other publications. From: Alan Burk Subject: Announcement - Summer Institute 2001 - Creating Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:39:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1202 (1202) Electronic Texts and Images This announcement for Creating Electronic Texts and Images Summer Institute with David Seaman is a re-posting ; please excuse any duplication. Alan Burk Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries ******************************************************************** Announcing the Fifth Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2001/ ************************************************************* 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 19 - 24, 2001 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/XML tagging and conversion Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines Ebooks (This will be an expanded component for this years institute) The basics of archival imaging The form and implications of XML Publishing SGML/XML 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 learn how to create TEI encoded XML files from a selection of manuscripts from UNBs Archives and Special Collections; and, then, how to turn these XML files automatically into multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, and EBook. Participants will also have the opportunity to tag an EAD finding aid and explore issues in creating digital images. The work of the class will be made available on the Internet through the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries Web Page. [material deleted] From: Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of the Electronic Text Centre Phone: 506-453-4740 Fax: 506-453-4595 http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/ From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 14.0813 science fiction, Creative Genius &c Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:35:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1203 (1203) Remarks that literature folks do not look at Science Fiction are very odd---there are dozens, perhaps several hundred courses in SF in U.S. English departments, many books, and too many articles to count. And this has been going on for about 50 years. From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 14.0658 black-box vs glass-box methods Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:59:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1204 (1204) At 2001-02-09 17:55, you wrote: [deleted quotation] The problem is that your example cuts too close to the bone. The application of cladistics to manuscripts, as Peter has reported on it in the past, does in fact involve a number of untenable assumptions (such as that manuscripts never have more than two descendants) which render the work deeply suspect, even though suggestive. Michael From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 14.0676 function follows form? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:01:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1205 (1205) At 2001-02-16 16:27, you wrote: [deleted quotation] That's right. Perhaps it's time to ditch this codex idea -- it's an experiment that didn't work. Back to scrolls! Michael p.s. and then to see Patrick Durusau referring to non-sequential reading as "bad reading practices" ... yikes! From: Frances Condron Subject: news from the Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:58:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1206 (1206) News from the Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ NEW LOOK FOR THE HCU http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ The HCU has redesigned its main Web site, largely to provide more information about our work, and the many projects currently running with the HCU. What do you think of the new site? We'd love to hear your views - please email Frances.Condron@oucs.ox.ac.uk SUMMER SEMINARS ON HUMANITIES COMPUTING 23rd - 27th July 2001 http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/summer/ The Humanities Computing Unit is running a week-long series of seminars on humanities computing, from the 23rd to 27th July 2001. Each seminar lasts a full day, and includes a practical, hands-on element as well as formal presentations. In addition to picking up practical skills and learning how to manage digital projects, you will have the opportunity to consult with staff about your research projects. All teaching will be carried out by members of the Humanities Computing Unit and Oxford University Computing Services, and will take place at Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. The programme The Summer Seminars have two parallel strands - one on creating and working with digital resources, the other covering a broader range of humanities computing issues. You can book on one or more of the seminars in either strand Strand 1: creating and working with digital resources 23/07/01 Digital resource creation: essential factors for a successful project 24/07/01 Putting your database on the Web 25/07/01 Publishing with XML and the TEI (day 1) 26/07/01 Publishing with XML and the TEI (day 2) 27/07/01 Records to go: cataloguing and using online humanities resources in the Humbul Humanities Hub Strand 2: humanities computing and multimedia resources 23/07/01 An introduction to humanities computing 24/07/01 Advanced use of the Internet 25/07/01 Creating and using multimedia resources 26/07/01 Creating and using digital video 27/07/01 Putting your database on the Web (repeat) Who should come? You should come if you work, or plan to work, with digital texts, databases, or multimedia, 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 digitization and resource creation and delivery, and be able to identify those areas where you need to learn more. How much will it cost? Each seminar costs 65 (the fee for students is 35). This includes lunch and refreshments, but not accommodation. There will be a reduction for those attending the full week. Interested? Contact: Jenny Newman, tel: +44 (0)1865 273221; fax: +44 (0)1865 273275; email: Jenny.Newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk THE SHOCK OF THE OLD: A Fresh Look at Innovation and Information Technology in Traditional University Teaching http://www.ox.ac.uk/it/groups/oxtalent/shock/ Two projects in which the HCU is involved - ASTER and OxTALENT - ran a conference on educational technology in Oxford at the end of March 2001. It explored the impact of communication and information technologies on teaching and learning in a traditional setting. Speakers from Oxford and around the UK gave examples of innovative practice, focusing on the contextual factors which determine the success or otherwise of using new technologies in teaching and learning. The conference was an opportunity to find out about developments in a range of subject areas, and to discuss the opportunities available for adapting teaching and learning practices and resources between disciplines. The conference website contains all the abstracts and a growing number of presentations from the conference. The first day of the conference focused on integrating communication and information technologies into teaching and learning. Dr Glenn Black, Pro-Vice Chancellor (academic) opened the conference, outlining the ways in which Oxford is developing resources and support for using new technologies in teaching and learning, while preserving and enhancing traditional practices. Speakers from different institutions spoke about their experiences in using particular tools such as email and computer-aided assessment, and how their use can be both successful and problematic. The second day looked in more detail at strategies for managing change - barriers and opportunities for introducing new practices within a department, comparisons between distance and full-time teaching and learning, meeting disciplinary needs and the potential for adapting practices between disciplines. The conference also saw the first public presentation on the OxTALENT survey of the use of IT in teaching and learning at Oxford. The conference ended with a discussion of the practices and needs of individual disciplines and how information technology can support these. The conference was a successful event, with over 100 delegates from around the UK (and beyond) attending. It would not have been possible without the support of many groups within the University - the Computing Laboratory provided facilities and wonderful help; the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning subsidised members of the university attending the event; the Warden of Rhodes House hosted the conference wine reception; administrative support and general assistance was provided by the HCU. ASTER (Assisting Small-group Teaching through Electronic Resources) is a research project exploring how communication and information technologies support seminar, tutorial, workshop and lab-based teaching and learning in higher education. It is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England through the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (phase 3). OxTALENT (Oxford Teaching And Learning supported by New Technology) promotes the use of communication and information technologies in teaching and learning at the University of Oxford. Frances.Condron@oucs.ox.ac.uk FILMING LITERATURE COMPETITION http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/chc/dv/ The HCU in collaboration with the publishers Chadwyck-Healey ran a competition entitled Filming Literature. This was open to Oxford students only and was based around the students submitting a short digital video (max. length 10 minutes) adapting any piece of literature available in Chadwyck-Healey's LION service (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk). The final films (Macbeth, The Pardoner's Tale, The Monk, and The Waste Land) will be mounted online as part of our website on digital video. Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk THE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES GROUP - a new initiative in the HCU http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/projects.html#ltg The Learning Technologies Group is a new initiative by the HCU which brings together various projects and initiatives within Oxford looking at the use of C&IT in teaching. These are: the Humanities Computing Development Team (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/), Project ASTER (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/projects.html#other), and OxTALENT (http://www.ox.ac.uk/it/groups/oxtalent). The group, therefore, will fill a current gap in local services by providing central support for staff who wish to make effective use of IT in traditional teaching at Oxford (and to a lesser extent in their research). The LTG will be charged with the following: * developing computer-based packages for use in traditional teaching and research at Oxford in collaboration with staff and external bodies as appropriate * investigating and researching into the use of C&IT in traditional University teaching and learning, and the latest developments in the field * disseminating information about the use of C&IT via publications, workshops, and conferences * training academics within Oxford in the appropriate use of C&IT for teaching and learning in association with other services in Oxford The focus of the LTG will be traditional teaching and learning. The concentration on the pedagogical implications of developments in C&IT means that administratively the LTG is located within the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford. However, many of the activities of the LTG have a cross-disciplinary nature and it seeks to investigate the important of C&IT for teaching in all departments in the university. The staff of the LTG are as follows: Dr Stuart Lee (head), Sophie Clarke, Paul Groves, Dr Paul Trafford (development team), Dr Frances Condron (research and dissemination), Jenny Newman (administrative support). A new post of LTG Research Officer will shortly be filled. For further information, contact Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk NEW DIGITAL RESOURCES DEVELOPED AT THE HCU The Forster Collection, Pitt Rivers Museum http://prm.ox.ac.uk/forster/ The Humanities Computing Development Team (HCDT) has recently launched The Forster Collection website, produced in collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum. The focus of the site is a collection of some 150 objects brought back by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George from Captain Cook's Second Great Voyage of Discovery (1772-1775). The two men made detailed observations of the natural history and cultures of the islands they visited, which included Tahiti, Tonga, New Zealand and Vanuatu, and made extensive collections of natural history specimens and ethnographic artefacts, including ornaments, clothing, utensils, weapons and musical instruments. Highlights of the website include an interactive database, written specifically for the site and giving detailed entries for each item in the collection, high quality photographic images, and a complete scan of the Forster's original catalogue with accompanying transcript. Unusually, it also allows users to see the entries for the objects in the Museum's working database. The site will be of particular use to students studying for the University's M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The website makes the collection easily accessible to anyone in the world, and it is hoped that the site will be particularly well used by people who live in the Pacific region. The collection itself is on permanent display in the Pitt Rivers Museum in the Lower Gallery. The Forster Collection website can be seen online at http://prm.ox.ac.uk/forster/ Chinese Multimedia CD-ROM In 1999 the HCDT completed a successful website to allow staff at the Chinese institute to develop effective online learning materials, quickly and without the need for specialist technical expertise. This year we have taken the project further by aiding the Institute in the creation of a CD-ROM edition of the site. The system the HCDT has developed is a full resource kit to allow the Institute to create new, customised copies of the CD-ROM on demand, and easily add new content. The latest release is a supplementary course for elementary to intermediate level students, and the availability of a CD-ROM edition means that high bandwidth material such as audio and video can now be easily delivered to Chinese learners worldwide. The content of the CD-ROM includes video and audio files, interactive character writing exercises, interactive grammar drills, multiple choice vocabulary tests, and indexes for grammar and vocabulary. The CD is currently being tested by students of Chinese across a number of UK universities. Please see the HCDT website at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/ for more information about our current projects, and to visit our completed projects for the departments of Theology, History, English, Archaeology, Chinese, and other. Sophie Clarke, email: hcdt@oucs.ox.ac.uk NEWS FROM THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ The HCU is again running its successful series of Summer Seminars, covering various aspects of humanities computing. The OTA will be hosting its own day on Monday 23 July, entitled 'Digital resource creation: essential factors for a successful project'. This one-day seminar is designed to meet the needs of applicants seeking funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). Places will be limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. Attendance for the day will be free, but preference will be given to AHRB applicants. On a related AHRB matter, the deadline for applications for the AHRB Resource Enhancement Scheme is 31 May 2001. If any applicants require advice with the Technical Appendix portion of the application, they should contact the OTA, or other relevant AHDS Service Provider, for assistance. Potential users and depositors of the OTA and AHDS should be aware that our services are moving away from a purely text based service, to focusing on a more subject orientated service, which includes dealing with all media types in the areas of literary and linguistic studies. Therefore we are actively seeking new deposits in non-textual formats such as images, audio/video, and databases. If you know of any digital resources in the field of literature and linguistics which require a long-term home, or distribution point please get in touch with us. As ever the OTA is continually on the look out for new deposits in the area of literature and linguistics. Recently the OTA has been working closely with staff in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and the University of Michigan on a new project, called the Text Creation Partnership. This project aims to produce online and searchable full-text reproductions of texts from the period 1475-1700, for the Bell and Howell Early English Books Online Project. For further details see http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/ OTA Web site As part of our on-going work to upgrade the holdings of the OTA and the functionality of our website, we have recently provided an option on our website to browse our collection of texts, by author, title, and language. While this initial version still has some minor glitches, we hope to improve the quality of the browsing option once we have completed the retro-conversion of the metadata supplied with each of our texts. Keep an eye on the website for further improvements, including a revised and expanded FAQ. Also due for Web publication is the second in our series of Guides to Good Practice. After the success (and now print publication) of our first guide, the second instalment will focus on Finding and Using Electronic Texts and should be available online later this summer, with a print publication to follow shortly after. New Appointments at the OTA Two new appointments at the OTA are envisaged in the coming months. The first will fill the vacancy for a Resource Development Officer, with duties split between the OTA and the University English Faculty. The second is a new position, Information Officer (linguistics), funded by the AHDS, which will involve the promotion of the linguistic resources already held by the OTA, as well as identifying new linguistics resources, which would benefit from being accessioned with the OTA. The deadline for applications for this second post is the 27th April. If you are interested, visit http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/publications/applicationform.html Alan Morrison, email: info@ota.ahds.ac.uk HUMBUL HUMANITIES HUB http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ We are pleased to announce that the Arts and Humanities Research Board have awarded funding to the Humbul Humanities Hub as part of their support for the Resource Discovery Network. The funding will be used to employ an information officer to implement Humbul's marketing and publications strategy and provide continuation funding for an existing cataloguing officer post. Michael Fraser, email: info@humbul.ac.uk The full-text version of this edition of 'Humanities Computing in Oxford' is available at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/chc/hco.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr Frances Condron, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Email: frances.condron@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 273280 URL: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ ASTER: http://cti-psy.york.ac.uk/aster/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Willard McCarty Subject: electronic products? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:57:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1207 (1207) I would be most grateful for examples of electronic scholarly products under the following headings: (1) those that are completely self-contained, allowing limited or no exporting of source material; (2) those that are self-contained for the purposes envisioned but that allow unlimited exporting of the source material in useful form; (3) those that provide significantly encoded source-material but that depend on 3rd-party or public domain software for the analysis (4) those that consist only of the source-material. Many thanks. Comments on this typology are welcome. Yours, WM ----- Dr Willard McCarty / Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. / +44 (0)20 7848-2784 / ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ From: Francisco Marcos Marín Subject: Re: 14.0819 electronic products? Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:02:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1208 (1208) [deleted quotation] ADMYTE, Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles http://www.admyte.com [deleted quotation] Catálogo de la Colección Foulché-Delbosc de la Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina http://www.lllf.uam.es/~fmarcos/informes/BNArgentina/BN.htm [deleted quotation] Lexical Data bases in Tactweb format (mostly in Spanish, but also including some texts in English) http://mafalda.lllf.uam.es/tactweb [deleted quotation] Corpus de referencia del español oral peninsular, del español de la Argentina y del español de Chile http://www.lllf.uam.es/~fmarcos/informes/corpus/corpusix.html *********************************************************************** Francisco A. Marcos-Marín http://www.lllf.uam.es/~fmarcos fmarcos@library.berkeley.edu Ap. 46348 E-28040 Madrid España From: "Grey, Denham C." Subject: e-learning? Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:02:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1209 (1209) Greetings Willard, I'm hoping you can help me unravel the etymology of e-learning or eLearning or point me to some promising sources please. Have searched Humanist archives but had no success (my ineptitude?). Regards Denham Grey [Please respond directly to Dr Grey and to the group as a whole. Is there anything to be said beyond "electronic learning"? Am I missing something? --WM] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 14.0817 methodological complaints Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:03:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1210 (1210) Michael, (read as a gentle tweak) It would be more helpful if you quoted enough of the prior posts to give readers a context in which to situate your comments. C.M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: [deleted quotation] which [deleted quotation] not at [deleted quotation] In my response to the portion of Willard's post you quote above I said: [deleted quotation] I took it as implied that "changing the order of presentation" was a bad thing, hence the "bad reading practices..." statement. What is "bad" in hypertext can also occur in more sequential presentations. Not that non-sequential reading itself was a bad thing. My disagreement with Willard, however, concerns the question of whether the hypertext medium is something fundamentally different from prior practices such as footnotes: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0597.html [deleted quotation] To which Willard replied (in part) http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0600.html [deleted quotation] Unfortunately I did not followup on this thread with Willard at the time and only have time to sketch a response at the moment. Hypertext links are no more than an unremarkable, seamless, inconsequential retooling of traditional reference mechanisms. (To appropriate some of Willard's language.) Perhaps a little less contentiously and more accurately, hypertext links are expressions of the same mental processes that are evidenced by traditional reference mechanisms, albeit easier to consult than traditional references. Consider my reading "Paradise Lost" along with Stanley Fish. Assuming we are reading the same printed (or online version) we are accessing the same stream of words but his reading, conveyed by voice, print or electronic media, is far more nuanced and textured than mine. Why? Because while reading the text, due to training, reading and years of research, he is forming far more associations (hypertext links as it were in the mind) between other materials and the text at hand than myself. If he were to write an essay in a traditional journal, he could express those associations as footnotes or other references. With hypertext he can put in links that alert the less experienced reader (in this case myself) to some of those associations and actually provide access to those materials without my leaving the comfort of my chair to get another book to track the reference. Who has not had the experience of following a reference in a printed journal or monograph, only to find that following succeeding references has taken the research in paths that were unsuspected at the first reference point? Hyperlinks are physically more convenient than following printed references but I don't see that as changing the underlying process. Despite all the "now I am awake" rhetoric from the W3C crowd, the fact remains that hypertext (even assuming robust implementaitons of XLink/XPointer/XPath) is an impoverished expression of the associations that a skilled reader forms while reading a text. That is not an argument against hypertext, but against the notion that it is qualitatively different from traditional reference practices. Neither can fully reflect the associations made by a reader. Hypertext technology should be supported/promoted for its enormous potential for accessibility, research, and collaboration. It has enough promise in those areas to not need the more questionable "now for something completely different" claim. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: Y.C.Evans@open.ac.uk Subject: Online Conferencing in the Arts and Humanities Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:04:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1211 (1211) HAN HUMANITIES AND ARTS HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK <http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm> One-day conference and exhibition: Saturday 13th October 2001 Online Conferencing in the Arts and Humanities We hear reports of 'flagship' uses of online conferencing in our courses - offering opportunities for reflection and discussion among students, for computer supported co-operative or collaborative learning. *Is online conferencing particularly valuable in the Arts and Humanities? What are the benefits? And are they worth the time invested by teachers and students? *How best can a knowledge community be created online? What are the practical and ethical problems of joint creation and 'ownership' of knowledge? How best can students use such knowledge in their thinking, writing and creative work? *Or, rather, are uses of online discussion, collaboration and web resources just a lot of hype? - a 21st century way of accessing 'photocopied' lecture notes and 'model answers'? Please think about presenting a paper that addresses these or other, related, issues. Or come along to hear your colleagues' views and experiences, and join in the debate. Contact: Yvette Evans HAN Manager The Humanities and Arts higher education Network Institute of Educational Technology, 102 GC, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. MK7 6AA email: y.c.evans@open.ac.uk telephone: (01908) 652577 - direct http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm From: Ross Scaife Subject: [STOA] SciAm: Publish Free or Perish Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:05:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1212 (1212) From Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/explorations/2001/042301publish/ NB: "In the eyes of Michael Eisen, one of the initiators of the Public Library of Science initiative, the work that publishers do, however, does not justify that they then own the copyrights to the articles. 'We think of the publishers as being like a midwife," he says. "They are paid for their role, and at the end of the day, they give the baby back to the parents.'" Here's the whole article: Publish Free or Perish Life scientists are urging publishers to grant free access to archived research articles When a molecular biologist or a biochemist has made a discoveryoften after many months or even years of tedious experimentsthey tell the rest of the world by publishing their results in a scientific journal. So far, these journals have controlled who can read them and who cannotbut maybe not for much longer. E-mail, Internet discussion groups, electronic databases and pre- or e-print servers have already transformed the way scientists openly exchange their results. And in the life sciences, researchers are now demanding that their work be included in at least one free central electronic archive of published literature, challenging the traditional ownership of publishers. The demand has sparked widespread discussions among scientists, publishers, scientific societies and librarians about the future of scientific publishing. The outcome may be nothing short of a revolution in the scientific publishing world. It all started last fall, when an advocacy group called the Public Library of Science distributed an electronic open letter urging scientific publishers to hand over all research articles from their journals to public online archives for free within six months of publication. To add weight to their demands, the authors threatened a boycott starting in September 2001, pledging to "publish in, edit or review for, and personally subscribe to, only those scholarly and scientific journals" that agreed. As of April 21, some 15,817 life scientists from 138 countries had signed the letter, among them several Nobel laureates. The authors of the letter feel they have every right to make these demands. After all, it is the scientists who supply the journals with their productsthe manuscriptsfor free. Scientists also help journals by reviewing and judging the quality of each others work, a process called "peer review," without pay. Publishers, in exchange, edit the articles, organize the review process and provide news items and other content. Finally, they produce, market and distribute a printed or electronic journal. In the eyes of Michael Eisen, one of the initiators of the Public Library of Science initiative, the work that publishers do, however, does not justify that they then own the copyrights to the articles. "We think of the publishers as being like a midwife," he says. "They are paid for their role, and at the end of the day, they give the baby back to the parents." Publishers argue that unless they own the copyright, they cannot protect articles from misuse. And scientific publishing is big business: like other scientific societies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), for example, finances most of its activities with income from its publication, Science magazine. "I think scientists all over would be shocked to realize what a phenomenally lucrative business scientific publishing can be," Nicholas Cozzarelli, editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), says. "There are huge sums of money to be had in this field." Journals Don't Play the Game What urged the authors of the open letter into action was the slow progress of PubMed Central, a free electronic full-text archive of research articles started by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the NIH in early 2000. By storing articles in a common format on a single site, PubMed Central wants to facilitate sophisticated literature searchesfor instance, those restricted to certain parts of a paper, such as the figure legends. Ultimately it also wants to link the literature to other online databases. PubMed Central asks journals to contribute their articles voluntarily as soon as possible after publicationat most after a yeargiving the journals time to offer exclusive access to make a profit (studies have shown that the demand for research papers decreases sharply after only a few months). But so far, only seven journals, including PNAS and a collection of e-journals, are participating, and a few additional journals have signed up. Even though some journals make their back issues freely available at their own Web sites, they are reluctant to give them away elsewhere. "Journals have just not wanted to play the game," Eisen says. In physics, free electronic archives are old hat. Scientists have been submitting their own research papersboth before and after publicationto the Los Alamos e-print archive since 1991, without the participation of publishers, which simply had to accept the practice. Yet the American Physical Society, for example, still sells subscriptions to three journals that publish 14,000 research articles a year. Perhaps not surprisingly, though, many publishers, threatened with either financial losses or a boycott, have been overtly hostile to the open letter. A number of scientific societies depend on the income from their journals to support their activities. But some scientists liken this system to a tax on their papers and think societies should subsidize their activities in other ways. Also, some journals worry that outside archives hosting their articles will introduce errors into the files, lowering the reliability of the information. What if a g (microgram) suddenly becomes a mg (milligram)? PubMed Central actually detected errors in some of the papers they were given, thereby increasing the overall quality. "The more eyes to look at it and fingers trying to work with it, the more things you can find," says David Lipman, director of the NCBI. On another level, some publishers resent a central, NIH-run archive like PubMed Central because they fear that technical failures would affect all users at once, and because the government might impose restrictions in the future, for example, by ruling not to publish certain kinds of research. On the other hand, PubMed, another NIH-managed database that grants free access to references and abstracts from 4,300 biomedical journals and links back to their Web sites, has been extremely successful and popular among both scientists and publishers. Moreover, publishers point out that a commercial electronic archive, managed by HighWirePress and including nearly 250 journals from many scientific disciplines, already exists and that government money is wasted. Unlike access to PubMed Central, however, most of the HighWire Press journals are not free. As a group, commercial publishers appear unsure about the recent developments and do not seem to have formulated their policies yet. Elsevier Science, Nature Publishing Group (a sister company to Scientific American, which is not a peer-reviewed journal), Cell Press and Academic Press declined interview requests, and Springer Verlag, as well as Allen Press, did not return phone calls. In a written statement, Annette Thomas, managing director of the Nature Publishing Group, commented that "many complex issues have been raised, and we are currently soliciting feedback from scientists, librarians, and other interested parties." Charging Authors, Not Readers One of the main questions to come from the current controversy is, Who will pay for publishing original research articles in the future if subscriptions decline? Only a small fraction of the publication costs of a print journalsome estimate as little as 10 percentcovers the editorial and peer review process. Many journals produce a costly print edition and add news, review articles and other valuable information, for which they have to pay. To offset their costs, journals derive income largely from subscriptions, as well as from advertisements, both in print and online, and reprints. But since subscriber numbers may decrease if the access to journal information becomes free elsewhere, various publishers are thinking about changing their business model: instead of billing readers, they plan to bill authors, a practice that is already common in the form of page charges. Overall, these submission charges would amount to only a small fraction of a scientist's total research costs, they say, and could easily be included in research budgets. Libraries, freed from subscription charges, could also chip in on behalf of authors at their institutions. Publishers would make exceptions for researchers from poor countries to ensure that no one is excluded for economic reasons. "We feel it is probably a better system to put the charges on the authors than the other way round," says Peter Newark, editorial director at BioMed Central, a commercial publisher from the U.K. But steep submission charges could steer budget-conscious scientists away from these publications. Many libraries seem to be in favor of open access archives like PubMed Central. "I think these are important efforts, and the library community is very supportive of them," says Joseph Branin, director of the Ohio State University libraries. In recent years, rapidly rising subscription rates for scientific journals have forced libraries to cancel many titles. Most of them now negotiate for electronic access to large sets of journals in consortia, giving them greater bargaining power. If journal articles became freely available after a while, some libraries might stop subscribing to them. But for many scientists, instant access to the literature is crucial to keep up with current developments, so libraries will probably keep subscribing to the most important titles. "Because its available freely over the Internet after the first year of publication does not necessarily mean we are going to cancel our subscriptions to those," Branin remarks. Smaller, specialist journals, however, might be in danger of going out of business. Libraries hope that subscription rates for the first few monthsbefore free access takes holdwill come down. But the opposite might be true: if many libraries opted out, publishers might try to recover their costs from the remaining ones. "And for those institutions, my own surely included, this free information could be very expensive indeed," writes Ann Okerson, a librarian at Yale University, in a contribution to a Nature Web debate. Scientists and libraries in developing countries, which often cannot afford subscriptions, would probably benefit most from free electronic archives. A Possible Compromise on the Horizon Come September, will the scientists who signed the open letter really go through with a boycott? Journals depend on their authors, but equally, researchers in the life sciencesespecially young investigatorsneed to publish in "brand name" journals, such as Cell, Nature and Science, to advance their careers. "I cant afford to boycott these journals because my career is not established yet," says an assistant professor from a New York medical school, who asked to remain unnamed. Nobel Prize winners, on the other hand, may find it easier to divert their papers to less established publications. One of the practical problems of a boycott would be providing enough alternative journals for scientists to publish in. Some are thinking about starting their own journals. In mathematics, for example, some editorial boards in Europe have already left their commercial publishers and created new titles at their own institutions. "They are finding that while it does cost money, the costs are actually quite minimal," notes Mary Case of the Association of Research Libraries. BioMed Central also offers to provide the logistics for scientists who want to start their own journals. That said, a possible compromise has recently appeared on the horizon: only two weeks ago, PubMed Central announced it would allow participating publishers to link back to their own Web sites, rather than insist that they display full-text articles on the NIH server. PubMed Central would still obtain a full-text copy for search purposes, but they would hide it from public view. Many publishers are currently considering this solution. "I think lots of publishers will grant free access after a period of time on the basis proposed in this compromise," says Donald Kennedy, editor-in-chief of Science. He also thinks that "under those circumstances, the threat of a boycott will vanish." But for Eisen and many others, such an arrangement doesn't go far enough. Eisen still wants to see free access to alternative archives as well: "I remain absolutely convinced that the real future of publishing, five years out, is one in which nobody controls the literature." Whatever the outcome, the scientific publishing world is in turmoil. Both Nature and Science have started e-debates on their Web sites, and contributions from many sides are pouring in. "It [the open letter] was not an unreasonable proposal," Kennedy comments. "It has gotten a good conversation started." In the end, it will probably be the authors who decide the issue. As Case puts it, "It is the scientists who are going to have to figure out how they want their work to be available."Julia Karow ------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org To unsubscribe from this list, send the command unsubscribe stoa to majordomo@colleges.org. To send a message to the whole list, send it to stoa@colleges.org If you have any trouble using the list or questions about it, please address them to the list-owner, Ross Scaife, scaife@pop.uky.edu. From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Nature piece on self-archiving today (April 26) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:04:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1213 (1213) Today's (April 26) Nature magazine http://www.nature.com/nature/ contains the following article on the Self-Archiving Initiative: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/naturenew.htm (the above is the preprint: official version is at nature.com). Nature is also currently running an on-line debate on "Future e-access to the primary literature" at: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html This includes the following commentary by me: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/nature3.htm (the above is the preprint: official version is at nature.com). Science is also currently running an on-line debate on the same topic: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318a and http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/291/5512/2318b All interested (and informed) parties are encouraged to participate in both debates. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science harnad@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Busa Award Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:51:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1214 (1214) As many readers of this list will know, the Roberto Busa Award is made every three years by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing to honour outstanding achievement in the application of information technology to humanistic research. It honors Roberto Busa, SJ, one of the founders of the field of humanities computing. We are very pleased to announce that the winner of the Roberto Busa Award for the year 2001 is Emeritus Professor John F Burrows of the University of Newcastle, Australia. Professor Burrows has made a substantial contribution to the development and application of statistical and computing tools for the analysis of literary texts. His seminal work on features of style in Jane Austen's writings spawned a whole new field of textual scholarship and his numerous publications on computational stylistics and authorship attribution have been an inspiration to a generation of scholars. The Award will be made, and Professor Burrows will give the Busa Award Lecture, at ACH/ALLC 2001 in New York City, at which we hope to see many Humanist readers. -The Busa Award Committee for 2001: Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba Randy Jones, Brigham Young University Willard McCarty, Kings College London Lisa-Lena Opas-Haenninen, Joensuu University C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium / MIT (chair) From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Dublin Core 2001, Tokyo, Oct 22-26; Deadline: June 20, 2001 Date: 22 - 26 October 2001 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1215 (1215) Venue: National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Sponsors: National Institute of Informatics (NII, <http://www.nii.ac.jp/)>http://www.nii.ac.jp/) Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI, <http://dublincore.org/)>http://dublincore.org/) Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST, <http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/)>http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/) Providing machine-understandable data on the Web has become a priority not just for publishers and scientific communities, but for a wide range of commercial ventures and services. Resource discovery across a diversity of services on the emerging Semantic Web is facilitated by the use of shared metadata vocabularies such as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. The Dublin Core workshop series has provided a forum for international, cross-disciplinary metadata development since 1995. DC-2001, ninth in this series, will include an international conference for the broader metadata community with three principal missions: -- to provide a forum to discuss further development of the Dublin Core and related metadata standards -- to provide a forum to present and exchange new ideas about metadata and applications, not limited to Dublin Core, and -- to provide tutorials on the creation, management, and use of metadata applications. DC-2001 is the first event in the DC Workshop series to be hosted in Asia and is also the first event to include conference and tutorial tracks in addition to the workshop. The Conference track of DC-2001 (Wednesday-Friday, 24-26 October) invites submissions of papers in the following areas: -- Conceptual models for metadata -- Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications -- Surveys and case studies of metadata applications -- Novel activities based on metadata -- Interoperability among metadata systems -- Relationships among various metadata standards The Workshop track (Monday-Wednesday, 22-24 October), will feature technical meetings of ongoing working groups of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. The agenda for the workshop track is under development in DCMI Working Groups. All active members of working groups, and others who would like to become active, are invited to participate. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "Future of Fair Use" June 15th, 2001, Adelphi MD Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:53:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1216 (1216) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 27, 2001 Future of Fair Use Seminar June 15, 2001: University of Maryland, Adelphi MD <http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_6-01/>http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_6-01/ [deleted quotation] Future of Fair Use Seminar- June 15th, 2001 University of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi MD <http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_6-01/>http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_6-01/ The Center for Intellectual Property is hosting a one-day face to face seminar on June 15, 2001 on the Future of Fair Use. Many wonder whether there is a need for Fair Use in the digital age, or if a Fair Use should also be a free use. This one-day seminar will explore the role of Fair Use in the new Information Society where new technologies make digital rights management possible and may impact whether Fair Use continues to exist. This one-day seminar will provide an in-depth discussion of the copyright legal framework and the role of Fair Use in a digitally-based society. Break-out sessions are included to give participants the opportunity to discuss the application of case law and statutory provisions to particular factual scenarios. The seminar will conclude with a panel discussion on the merits of the fair use doctrine and its proper application in the digital environment. The presenters for the seminar are Kimberly B. Kelley Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College, and Rodney J. Petersen, Director, Policy and Planning and Project NEThics, Office of Information Technology, University of Maryland, College Park. Confirmed panelists and speakers include: - Allan R. Adler, Vice President, Legal and Governmental Affairs, Association of American Publishers - Mathew Altman, Attorney and Faculty Member, UMUC-Asia - Jonathan Band, Partner, Morrison &Foerster LLP - Jon A. Baumgarten, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP - Alec French, Office of Congressman Howard Berman, Minority Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property - Sayuri Rajapakse, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office - Kenneth Salomon, Attorney, Firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson - John C. Vaughn, Executive Vice President, Association of American Universities Please register early since space is limited. Early registration ends June 1, 2001. For additional information visit our web site at <http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_6-01/>http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_6-01/ or call 301-985-7521 or 301-985-6426. ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National 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 appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: <mailto:david@ninch.org> ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0822 methodological response: hypertext Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:35:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1217 (1217) [deleted quotation] It seems to me you mention the main points of difference but I can't follow your argument how to evaluate them. Maybe it is useful to apply the distinction between material text, that is some marks on paper or some structured bits, and mental text, that is the text as it is represented in the mind of an author or a reader. If we use this distinction to look at a hypertext link, it becomes obvious that the mental text is quite similar to that of a footnote or a similar reference whose target is readily available, but the material text is quite different, because the reference mechanism has to be coded in a way which is not only understandable to a human but also to a machine. Another concept can be used to refine this picture: the amount of work to resolve a link. That this is an important factor becomes obvious if you don't look at one link but many. Even in the case of footnotes or endnotes the almost unnoticeable amount of work to move your eyes to the footnote and back to the main text amounts after a while to something noticeable. These becomes even more obvious in the case of links to very different texts. The work to resolve a conventional reference becomes part of your mental map (all people working with books are full of stories about the difficulties to get some of them) and the main consequence is that you only follow references which look promising enough to undergo this work. This really changes with hypertext links. The work to resolve the link is almost null, so only the time to read the target text remains to be taken into consideration. So it is not only a little bit easier, but from this difference a new praxis of reading results. So you could say that hypertexts and conventional references differ on the level of the material text and in the way how you read which leads to very different mental texts. btw, the picture you draw how Stanley Fish reads a text is quite different from the one drawn by reader psychology. One of the main differences could be seen in the fact that - as I understood this - we store conceptual information or mental maps but only in very rare cases the wording of a text, but that is exactly what a hypertext links to: just to the words - a problem known to anybody who has created an electronic edition: you can't just link to something, you must explain what kind of link this is (amplification, explanation, source document proving what you said etc.) Maybe the idea that hypertexts are working as our minds work is misleading. Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Forum Computerphilologie http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0822 methodological response: hypertext [2] Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:36:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1218 (1218) At 7:14 +0100 27/4/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] hi Patrick as a hypertext scholar i guess i'd argue that this seems to confuse hypertext and hermeneutics. hypertext is not wanting to (nor desiring) to reflect, reconstruct or represent the sorts of connections a reader inevitably and necessarily makes when reading. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. lecturer in new media university of bergen. hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ video blog: vog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ newmedia announcement list http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/lists/newmedia.html From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 14.0822 methodological response: hypertext Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:36:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1219 (1219) At 7:14 +0100 27/4/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]no. links are what deleuze and guattari have described elsewhere (_a thousand plateaus_, sorry page references not to hand) as order words. they contain force. i have written about this at length in 'cinematic paradigms for hypertext', reference below. i have also addressed it in part in a more recent essay published in jodi (reference below). the best examples i can give are all analogies - the kuleshov effect in cinema and what scott mccloud in _understanding comics_ explores as the role of the gutter (the space between panels in comics). in both of these the work of what happens 'between' fundamentally alters how we perceive the content of the before and after. the meaning of the before and after can be fundamentally recontextualised simply by placing any part in a different sequence. nothing changes within the frame or panel (and in my claim, the hypertext node) but it becomes a *qualitatively* different thing by virtue of this. just because we don't or can't see this 'in between' doesn't mean that it is in fact something with force. if these panels/shots/nodes can be so dramatically recontextualised (and for a brilliant description of this in hypertext see Jane Douglas, p. 58, reference below) without altering anything *within* them then how is this possible? What makes it possible? the gutter, edit, link. These express a conjunctive force that creates and forces connection. the fact that the gutter, edit, and link are so thoroughly undertheorised (in virtually all disciplines that might study these the gutter, edit, and link is always treated as already domesticated and 'tame' and only ever thought of as something instrumental rather than something with quality (and power) in itself) i would also take as symptomatic of the force of the link. This force is actively disavowed in much theory in hypertext, and the current fascination with usability is a prime example of this. sorry for the passion but the link is something i have been exploring theoretically via Bataille, Deleuze and the open, and Deleuze's theories of cinematic editing. As someone who writes what i problematically essentialise as 'hypertextually' i'm also aware of very different processes in writing 'hypertextually' versus my traditional essays. There is an 'excess' to the link which makes it more than merely connective, more than linguistic or semantic. btw, i'd also strongly recommend a recent essay by shields on this which stresses links as vectors. references Deleuze, Gilles, and Flix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books - or Books without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Kolb, David. "Discourse across Links." Philosophical Perspectives in Computer-Mediated Communication. Ed. Charles Ess. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. 15-26. Kolb, David. Socrates in the Labyrinth. Computer software. Eastgate Systems, 1994, Macintosh Software. McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Miles, Adrian. "Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 13.2 July (1999): 217-26. mirrored via http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/essays.html Miles, Adrian. "Hypertext Syntagmas: Cinematic Narration with Links". Journal of Digital Information. http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Miles/ 2000. Accessed: January 16, 2000. Tosca, Susana Pajares. "The Lyrical Quality of Links." Hypertext '99. Darmstadt: ACM, 1999. 217-8. Tosca, Susana Pajares. "A Pragmatics of Links." Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM on Hypertext and Hypermedia. San Antonio (TX): ACM, 2000. 77-84. regards adrian miles -- lecturer in cinema studies and new media rmit university. lecturer in new media university of bergen. hypertext theory engine http://bowerbird.rmit.edu.au:8080/ video blog: vog http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/ newmedia announcement list http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/lists/newmedia.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: and now for something not completely different Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:50:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1220 (1220) Somewhere in his voluminous writings (someone please tell me where) the art historian Ananda K Coomaraswamy speaks with sharp tongue about what he calls the "nothing-more-ist" response to visionary insights, which it construes as unsupportable claims, "nothing more than X", where X is something unremarkable. Being Coomaraswamy, he gives a precise Sanskrit term (and likely any Patristic equivalents also) for this sort of attiitude to bury it as deep as intensely learned anathema can. But all this is really itself no more than a semi-learned flourish of entertainment to take up once again my argument with Patrick Durusau (with whom I also partially agree). In Humanist 14.0822 he responds in the nothing-more-ist fashion to hypertext: [deleted quotation]..... [deleted quotation]Perhaps I am missing something essential, but it does seem to me on this overcast Sunday morning that one cannot have the matter both ways: hypertext cannot be both "no more than an unremarkable, seamless, inconsequential retooling of traditional reference mechanisms" and "an impoverished expression of the associations that a skilled reader forms while reading a text". We are remarking and will continue to; we feel the bumps right now; and the consequences of that impoverishment are enormous! Which is to say, I certainly agree that *from the perspective of the natural-language devices one has for making references* hypertext of any kind I have experienced or read about or can imagine is indeed a profoundly impoverished metalinguistic set of mechanisms for referentiality. Just as all forms of applied computing, indeed all results of modelling phenomena, are impoverished from the get-go. From a research point of view, bringing such impoverishment into focus is precisely the point of the exercise. Long live such impoverishment: it shows us where the riches are, gets us to look at and try to understand them better. (Yes, from the engineering perspective, which I also treasure, such impoverishment keeps one awake at night and busy through the day.) I also have trouble with the statement that "hypertext links are expressions of the same mental processes that are evidenced by traditional reference mechanisms". Again, wake me if I am asleep, but if you find me awake tell me please how we know what our mental processes are? Is not any statement about these processes a model of something we cannot know directly -- until that day when we see face to face (or after the revolution, as you prefer)? I don't think that people like Steven Pinker, who in books such as Words and Rules make bold to tell us exactly how the mind works, have been vouchsafed a peek; I think they've simply forgotten that all schemes are tentative constructs. No, I am not claiming that now our intellectual sun is dawning on a day never before seen. Hypertextual links are in some respects the same, in some respects different in what I can guess are the mental processes involved -- at least the ones I consciously work with when making reference. Indeed the differences are hard to identify when you get down to looking at the matter carefully. (See, for example, the historically informed arguments of Carla Hesse, James O'Donnell, Paul Duguid, Geoffrey Nunberg et al. in *The Future of the Book*, Univ of California Press, 1996.) My interest is in stimulating that nitty-gritty work of careful analysis, against the techno-evangelists, who really should turn to a religion with some future and leave us to get on with the work. In other words, I think (with Frank Tompa and Darrell Raymond, among others) that we need to do very careful artefactual analyses of the referential works we have inherited, from the perspective of computational hypertext, always asking where the differences lie. Also, as Adrian Miles points out, think up new and interesting ideas (a.k.a. theories) of how to look at referentiality. Yours, WM From: Ross Scaife Subject: Barrington Atlas - invitation to comment Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 07:26:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1221 (1221) From Tom Elliott of the AWMC: Please circulate this notice as widely as possible. In September 2000, the American Philological Association's Classical Atlas Project achieved its goal with the publication of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. This work represents an extraordinary advance in research tools, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the entire spatial spread of Greco-Roman civilization and influence. Even well before it achieved publication, however, there developed widespread awareness that the cartography and historical geography of the ancient world pose a set of research and instructional challenges requiring constant attention and revision. New evidence, methods and technology will open new vistas and constantly create fresh research opportunities. For this reason, the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has established a permanent research facility devoted to promoting cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies: the Ancient World Mapping Center. The Center also enjoys the support of the APA, and holds the research materials assembled by its Classical Atlas Project. The AWMC, under the direction of Tom Elliott, is already engaged in a variety of research and educational projects outlined on its website at http://www.unc.edu/depts/awmc. A vital aspect of the Center's mission is the revision and updating of the Barrington Atlas and its Map-by-Map Directory. Ongoing research and publication are sure to necessitate adjustment of maps and their supporting data. Equally, anyone with relevant expertise may wish to point out slips, or to suggest that note be taken of one or other alternative to interpretations presented in the atlas. In fact for this purpose the Center has already received valuable communications from experts worldwide. In order to facilitate the process for all concerned, the AWMC has created a form and a set of instructions. These are available in several formats from the web site at http://www.unc.edu/depts/awmc/updates. The form can be filled out interactively online, or downloaded and printed for completion and mailing. As Atlas editor and a member of the AWMC's Advisory Board, I am eager to join Director Tom Elliott in inviting you to assist the Center in its ongoing efforts to improve our understanding of the spatial aspects of the ancient past. Naturally, while you will retain full rights over whatever research findings you share, you will be asked to grant the Center permission to disseminate mention of them in the context of its work, with due authorial credit clearly given. Richard TALBERT Editor, Barrington Atlas Tom ELLIOTT Director, Ancient World Mapping Center http://www.unc.edu/depts/awmc CB#8110 5010 Davis Library University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8110 USA ------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org To unsubscribe from this list, send the command unsubscribe stoa to majordomo@colleges.org. To send a message to the whole list, send it to stoa@colleges.org If you have any trouble using the list or questions about it, please address them to the list-owner, Ross Scaife, scaife@pop.uky.edu. From: Gregory Crane Subject: Job at the Perseus Project Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 07:26:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1222 (1222) http://www.tufts.edu/hr/jobs/medford_jobs.htm#M01-551 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, PERSEUS PROJECT- Classics Plays an integral role in this ten-year-old evolving digital library project, the goal of which is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. Serves as a "computational humanist", assuming responsibility for the acquisition and integration of data into the digital library. Confirms viability and functionality of data; manages data in the Perseus version control system, including elementary system maintenance functions; vets and edits primary source materials such as texts or maps; writes publications on work and/or collaborates with other project members on such publications. Requires Bachelor's degree, one to three years' experience, a high level of computational skills, and extensive expertise in at least one area of the humanities, including, but not limited to: classics; early modern studies; the history of science; and 19th century American history. Advanced degree and three to five years' experience preferred. Must demonstrate either substantial programming skills or experience suggesting an aptitude to develop such skills while on the job. Knowledge of Windows or Mac systems required, UNIX/LINUX preferred; HTML skills required, CGI or JAVA preferred; familiarity with SGML a plus. Must possess self-direction, a high level of motivation, and the ability to take initiative and focus on multiple concurrent projects. Send resume to: hr-eresume@tufts.edu From: Prof I Butterworth Subject: Reports of two conferences Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:03:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1223 (1223) Members of the Humanist Discussion Group may be interested in the following two on-line reports of conferences: 1) An international conference CODE, Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy was held at Queens' College, Cambridge, 5 and 6 April, 2001. It was organised by the Collaborative Arts Unit at the Arts Council of England in collaboration with the Academia Europaea, the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and the Intellectual Property Unit at Cambridge University Law Faculty. With the generous support of ACE, East England Arts, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, The Center for the Public Domain and The Rockefeller Foundation. A recording and streaming the speeches and panel discussions at CODE is available at: http://www.artsonline.com/code/index.html The streams can be accessed using RealPlayer and LINUX-based browsers. 2) In October 1999 the Academia Europae organised a Conference on "Virtual University? Educational Environments of the Future" at the Wenner-Gren Centre, Stockholm. The Proceedings, edited by Henk J. van der Molen, have just been published by Portland Press Ltd. The printed version can be purchased but the full proceedings are also available on the Web: http://www.portlandpress.co.uk/books/default.htm and click to "Online Books". ---------------------------------- Ian Butterworth Vice-President Academia Europaea i.butterworth@ic.ac.uk From: Catherine Grout Subject: Digital Asset Management Conference Announcement (fwd) Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 14:22:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1224 (1224) To: E-COLLECTIONS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK **Conference Announcement** Title: Digital Asset Management Conference The digitisation of text, sound and moving image archives within libraries is critical to preservation and re-use. A high-level conference, drawing together commercial and educational users of Digital Asset Management, is taking place on 9 and 10 July this year in London. The event includes a panel session led by the JISC, plus presentations from the BBC, CNN, Tate and Coca-Cola, among others. You can view the agenda and register at: www.henrystewart.co.uk/conferences/july2001/E01104/index.html. Please note that a special 50% discount has been arranged for libraries and museums. Kieron Osmotherly, Conference Director Henry Stewart Conference Studies Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 3040 E-mail: kierono@henrystewart.co.uk ---------------------- Catherine Grout Assistant Director, Development JISC/DNER Office Strand Bridge House 138-142 Strand London WC2R 1HH UK voicemail: (0044) 0207 848 2493 fax: (0044) 0207 848 2939 e-mail: catherine.grout@kcl.ac.uk From: John R. Bourne, Director, The Sloan Center for OnLine Education Subject: Evaluating Course Management Systems - Online Workshop Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:06:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1225 (1225) (SCOLE) at Olin and Babson Colleges Registration is now open for the Evaluating Course Management Systems Online Workshop which starts on Monday June 4, 2001 and runs through Friday June 29, 2001. This workshop provides an opportunity to try out and compare several course management tools (Blackboard, Prometheus, and WebCT). After you've had the opportunity to try out the software, both through specific tasks and also trying out other aspects, there is a trade-off analysis which will help you see how each vendor compares based on the items you feel are most important. You will also be able to compare your results with those of the other participants. If your faculty and staff are investigating this topic for your campus, you may be interested in having several people from your institution attend this upcoming online workshop. If you are interested in having your staff take this workshop, you may register at: http://www.scole.olin-babson.org/cms-registration If you would like more information about this workshop you may send email to marjorie.quinlan@olin.edu. Best Regards, John R. Bourne, Ph.D John.Bourne@Olin.edu Director, The Sloan Center for OnLine Education at Olin and Babson Colleges Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship, Babson College From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 14.0819 electronic products? Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:07:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1226 (1226) Under no. 3, I would suggest any of the CD-ROM editions produced by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (Hispanic Society of American, NYC), which provide encoded texts but no software. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Wendell Piez Subject: Job Seekers' Activities at ACH/ALLC 2001 Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:04:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1227 (1227) To members of the Humanities Computing Community: As part of an effort to make the annual ACH/ALLC meeting an especially useful event for graduate students, the Association for Computers and the Humanities is this year initiating a series of structured activities for job seekers in humanities computing (both academic and industry positions). We will be conducting these at the annual conference, this year at NYU June 13-17 (see the web page at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001). While the conference is in session, we plan to facilitate one-to-one mentoring meetings with prospective job seekers, probably over lunch. Mentors will be members the ACH's ad hoc committee on job seeking activities, all of whom have had first-hand experience with the "market" in this field: Julia Flanders, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Wendell Piez, and Geoffrey Rockwell. (Lorna Hughes also serves as a committee member, but she'll be busy running the conference this year . . . ) In addition, we're putting together a poster display explicating (or deconstructing) a typical humanities computing job ad, and a binder listing currently available positions in the field. Please reply to Wendell Piez if you'd like to chat with a mentor during the conference, and mention whether you're interested in academic or industry work (or both). We'd also be happy to hear from anyone interested in serving as a mentor themselves, or with suggestions for the kind of activities this committee might undertake in the future. Finally, please pass the word about this opportunity to any students or associates who might be interested, encouraging them to take part. Thank you, Julia Flanders Lorna Hughes Matthew Kirschenbaum Wendell Piez Geoffrey Rockwell ====================================================================== 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: Hilary Attfield Subject: Stylometics in the courts Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:07:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1228 (1228) Could anyone point me to documentation of the use of stylometrics for proof of authorship in British, Canadian, or Australian courts? I believe that such evidence is not generally acceptable in US courts but is in the aforementioned countries. Help, anyone? Thanks, Hilary Attfield ______________ Hilary Attfield hattfiel@wvu.edu Technical Editor, Victorian Poetry Interim Co-ordinator of the Center for Literary Computing Dept. of English, PO Box 6296 West Virginia University Morgantown, Wv 26506-6296 From: Y.C.Evans@open.ac.uk Subject: NEW JOURNAL! Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:04:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1229 (1229) [Forwarded from HAN, with thanks. --WM] New journal! For information about 'Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An international journal of Theory, Research and Practice' see <http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/j0396.html>. Includes the Call for Papers. Yvette Evans HAN Manager The Humanities and Arts higher education Network Institute of Educational Technology, 102 GC, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. MK7 6AA email: y.c.evans@open.ac.uk telephone: (01908) 652577 - direct http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/index.htm From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 14.0827 methodological response: hypertext Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 06:53:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1230 (1230) Greetings, I seem to have started a rabbit chase with my reference to the mental processes of a reader who encounters a traditional footnote or a hyperlink. Perhaps the analogy was poorly choosen or inadequately stated. The original point in question (as I understood Willard's earlier posting) was whether or not hyperlinks are something more than traditional methods of referencing other materials. I suggested that hyperlinks, like footnotes, refer the reader to other material but both pale by comparison to the actual associations formed by a reader while reading a text. Perhaps I should have just avoided the mental associations imagery and emphasized the mechanical equivalence without further comment. (I am aware of the convenience of hyperlinking to make material more accessible. That does not answer the question of whether hyperlinks are fundamentally different from traditional references.) In terms of specific responses: Fontis, [deleted quotation] I am contending there is no meaningful difference between footnote and hypertext links. Willard has asserted the contrary to be the case but I remain unconvinced. Hypertext links may be more accessible (assuming no "404 - not found" errors) but that does not strike me as a fundamental distinction between footnotes and links. [deleted quotation] Interesting. I assume you would contend the praxis of reading changed with the transition from scrolls to codex? At least in the current environment we have the opportunity to study reading practices as they develop for hypertext. But it would be from such studies, not simply contending it to be the case, that evidence of "a new praxis of reading" would emerge. Even if such a demonstration exists, it does not address the question of a qualitative difference between hypertext links and footnotes. At the risk of starting another false trail, consider the difference between the quoting of a work under discussion (examples abound in the Church Fathers) versus a reference to such other work in a footnote. The latter presumes the rise of collections of works with some method of reference that can be resolved by the reader (more or less) but serves the same function as the earlier practice. Much like the footnote versus the hypertext link, I don't see a qualitative difference between the two practices, although the demands upon the reader are greater in the latter case than the former. [deleted quotation] Yes, a poorly chosen example. ******* Adrian, I must confess I have not read all 200 pages of your essays cited in your post prior to typing this reply. While I think you advance a number of interesting points, I am not sure any of them address the issue of any essential difference between a hypertext link and a footnote. To illustrate, the matter of "gutter (the space between panels in comics)" is a question of presentation, and I certainly concede that changing a presentation may alter a reader's perception of a work. That does not address the issue of hypertext links versus footnotes. **** Willard, [deleted quotation] take up [deleted quotation] First, I don't consider footnotes to be "unremarkable." Perhaps familiarity has breed contempt for the footnote. Has it fallen to the state of: "It is a footnote, it is not read." ? (Apologies to Victor Hugo) Second, simply proclaiming something a "visionary insight," even if such claims are quite in vogue, does not make an insight visionary. [deleted quotation] Note that in my post I said that both hypertext links and footnotes were pale imitations of the associations a reader forms while reading a text. I could have inserted hypertext links at several points in this post but I doubt that I have the skill to insert (either due to missing resources or the difficulty of catching every association I have made while writing this reply) enough hyperlinks to duplicate. The point I was attempting to make was that all reference mechanisms fall short of fully representing the associations readers form while reading a text. [deleted quotation] Yes, a poorly choosen example. I have noted when (other) authors not only solve the problem of other minds but appear to know what they were thinking while writing replies in scholarly disputes. It was meant simply to convey a richness of associations that exceeds that possible to express with footnotes or hypertext links. [deleted quotation] I did not read your original post as "stimulating that nitty-gritty work of careful analysis" since it appeared to presume the existence of such differences. I should have indicated at the outset that it was that assumption that I found troubling. There may be such differences but I have yet to see any convincing analysis to support that claim. My personal suspicion is that physical texts and reference systems are far more complex than our current fascination with hypertext media is willing to investigate. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: wrong address? Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 06:51:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1231 (1231) Dear colleagues: If you have sent messages to Humanist that you have not subsequently seen, be assured that I have not censored them. I say this occasionally but am occasionally not believed. Will repetition help? I hope so, because here I go again: I NEVER censor, withhold, loose or misdirect a message without contacting the author to let him or her know what I am doing. -- and this *very* rarely, as this is a remarkably well-behaved group. So, if your message does not appear and you haven't been warned, software not wetware is to blame. One possibility is that messages disappear because the sender is not a member of Humanist as far as ListProc at Princeton is concerned, i.e. your e-mail address has changed since you last joined or otherwise changed it, or you are not a member in any sense. May I suggest that you check to see if your address is current? Following is a complete, current list of all members: [deleted quotation] University [deleted quotation] Yours, WM From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 14.0830 electronic products Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 06:53:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1232 (1232) Willard, I think that The Chicago Homer is an instance of #1 in your category. It is currently in beta and will be released by the University of Chicago Press i September 2001 You can find out about it at press-pubs.uchicago.edu/chicagohomer At 07:10 AM 05/03/2001 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- April 2001 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 06:55:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1233 (1233) CIT INFOBITS April 2001 No. 34 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. ....................................................................... 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Because of our publishing schedule, we are not able to announce time-sensitive events such as upcoming conferences and calls for papers or grant applications; however, we do include articles about online conference proceedings that are of interest to our readers. While we often mention commercial products, publications, and Web sites, Infobits does not accept or reprint unsolicited advertising copy. Send your article suggestions to the editor at carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2001, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes. --- You are currently subscribed to infobits as: willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-infobits-240423M@listserv.unc.edu From: "Theodore F. Brunner" Subject: Re: 14.0833 stylometrics in the courts? Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 06:53:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1234 (1234) [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------- I am not so sure about the comment regarding US courts, and what I am about to mention will require considerably more research. In 1974, when Patty Hearst was about to go to trial for her involvement in Symbionese Liberation Army activities, I received a late-night phone call from F. Lee Bailey, her attorney (I was dabbling in computer-aided stylometrics then). Bailey wanted to know whether computers could be used to demonstrate that various written statements addressed by Patty to her parents and to the press were in fact NOT written by her, but by a member of the SLA group. The matter never went anywhere (I ended up telling Bailey that the sum total of relevant written material available was far too small to permit any reasonable conclusions); nevertheless, it seems to me that Bailey would not have pursued this track, had he been certain that any potential evidence resulting from it would be inadmittable in court. Ted Brunner |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Theodore F. Brunner 28802 Top of the World Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Phone (949) 494-8861 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From: Stuart Lee Subject: Vacancy: Oxford Humanities Computing Unit Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 06:34:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1235 (1235) Assistant IT Support Officer RS1A Scale (16,775-25,213 sterling) for Academic Related Staff Fixed-term appointment for 18 months in the first instance The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) is based at Oxford University Computing Services and provides high-level IT support for all the humanities faculties within the University, as well as housing several national and international projects. The HCU is seeking to appoint one member of staff to work in its Centre for Humanities Computing (CHC). The person appointed will take particular responsibility for the CHC's Web site, IBM PC support in its user area, and will be required to teach on the CHC's extensive training programme for staff and postgraduates in the relevant faculties. Applicants should have a degree, and should be able to demonstrate expertise in three or more of the following: Teaching IT; PCs and PC networks; HTML; databases; Computer-aided learning. They must enjoy working in a team and be able to communicate with people from all levels of the University. For further information see http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/. For application details contact: Mrs Lindsey Mills, Tel: +44 (0)1865 273261, Fax: +44 (0)1865 273275, E-mail: lindsey.mills@oucs.ox.ac.uk. Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on Friday 25 May. Interviews will be held during week commencing 4 June 2001. *************************************************************************** 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: Qsums@aol.com Subject: Re: 14.0833 stylometrics in the courts? Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 06:34:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 14 Num. 1236 (1236) A.Q.Morton, B.Niblett, M.D.Baker, and myself (Michael Farringdon) have given evidence in courts in various countries using stylometrics. Much of this is written up, with footnotes, in Part III of Analysing for Authorship, by Jill M. Farringdon, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1996. Part III (Legal and Forensic Applications) contains chapters on Legal Applications, Non-standard English and the Courts, and The Critics Answered. An Introduction and example can be found at http://members.aol.com/qsums Michael Farringdon Ariel Cottage, 8 Hadland Terrace, West Cross, Swansea SA3 5TT U.K.