From: Willard McCarty Subject: 14 Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:08:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1 (1) Dear colleagues: A recurrent complaint on Humanist used to be visited upon newcomers who would ask questions the older members thought had already been delt with. At some point in a discussion following upon such a complaint, one of us observed that repetition is a device characteristic of oral cultures, a means of maintaining group memory, and that online discussion groups behave in several respects like them. Whether that is good anthropology, repetition seems necessary here, since people come and go, and for those of us who stay much happens in a year and we are apt to forget. Thus my apology comes with the sunrise over London. Every year at this time custom is, some will remember independently, for me to celebrate the birthday of Humanist (b. 7 May 1987) by writing whatever comes to mind of a corporately self-reflective nature. We're 14 years old now, a venerable age in this medium, like everything else somewhere between coming into being and going out of it, "like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter's day with your thegns and counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came." Thus a councillor to Edwin, King of Northumbria, in 627, encouraging him to convert to Christianity while he can (Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation II.13). So, let us pass the mead and tell some more stories! I do listen to the stories we tell and think we have every reason to be cheered when looking up from our plates and cups to take account of the feasting. A fair bit of what happens here is of course reporting on the newsy bits -- jobs, conferences, publications, project updates -- as a scan through vol 14 will show. My impression is of a steady-state, but there are changes. The number of adverts for jobs more or less in humanities computing has, for example, increased steadily: by my rough count of messages, some advertising more than one job, in the 5 years since 1996 (when I got mine here) from 14 to 28, 30, then 40 for the last 2 years. Others, major academic appointments, are cooking, as yet unadvertised. Diversification outside the academy is a very interesting phenomenon. See Humanist 14.0832, "job-seeker help at ACH/ALLC", our upcoming professional conference at NYU in June, <http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/>. (Be there or be square.) Indeed, we are rapidly reaching the point at which there are not enough qualified applicants for advertised jobs in the field -- which suggests more than a little urgency to our efforts in (post)graduate training. But that, too, is happening. I note with great interest the amount of attention being paid to MA programmes at ACH/ALLC (<http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/program.html>), sessions 4A on 14/6, "MA Programmes for Humanities Computing and Digital Media", and 9A on 16/6, "A Masters Degree in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia". Mazel tov! But of course much more is needed, including discussion here about what we want to go into our programmes, which I suspect remains too narrowly conceived. (Like philosophy or history I think we can lay claim to a piece of *everything* :-) Evident on Humanist and at ACH/ALLC is the rapid increase in attention to computing the visual. Some of us are now making our way professionally, even in traditionally word-only disciplines, with primary attention to the visual -- or should we say, the artefactual? Is the buzz coming from seeing as such, or from a more complete realisation of the physically embodied nature of knowledge? We simply cannot get away from the need to cast our interdisciplinary net as widely as the mind will stretch -- in this case to the mind/body problem in the philosophy of mind and the soul/body problem in the history of religion, as well as the form/content problem in lots of different places. Then there's my very own flavour of the month, the ongoing hypertext debate, e.g. continuing in this first batch of postings for vol. 15 from a thread running in recent days in Humanist 14.0817, 822, 827 by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Patrick Durusau, Fotis Janidis, Adrian Miles and myself. The question is, what's new about hypertext? This, it turns out, is a hard question, and thanks to Patrick's relentless nothing-moreism assertions in principle won't wash. Of course there's a fair bit of rubbish-removal needed around a topic so vexed by the evangelistic groupies, but beyond the clearing of throats it does seem to me that we're getting down once again to the intellectual nitty-gritty that I cannot help but think lies at our centre. My recent attempt to wrap my mind around hypertext research (see the of course always out-of-date <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/achallc2000/hyperbib.html>) tells me we have a great deal of interdisciplinary bibliographic trawling and synthesising to do, but also that we're onto a vein of rich intellectual ore. One of course hopes for eye-opening insights in discussions like this one, but even if particular sets of eyes aren't opened by it, at least the vigorous debate serves as memorable caution that there's more to the matter than we've realised so far. "What is required", Alan Kay wrote in 1991, "is a kind of guerilla warfare, not to stamp out new media (or old) but to create a parallel consciousness about media -- one that gently whispers the debits and credits of any representation and points the way to the 'food'" ("Computers, Networks and Education." Scientific American 265.3, p. 141). We shall not cease from mental fight &c. -- which late one Monday night months ago I heard some old men, very far into their cups, singing in my local. To paraphrase a famous haiku in the Anglo-Saxon mode, "Slowly, o sparrow, fly through through the mead-hall!" Enough. The day progresses. I must check on the progress of a particular debate in my inner hall, at some point attend to a rosemary bush that is really getting out of hand and see to the removal of a wine-stain on my carpet. So, allow me leave to wish you all well and to extend hearty gratitude for your part in this wonderful, long conversation. Happy birthday! Yours, WM From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 14.0837 methodological response: hypertext Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:09:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 2 (2) [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] It certainly depends on your definition of 'meaningful'. I wanted to start with a more basic description of the differences between footnotes and hyperlinks to have a sound basis for further discussion. 'more accessible' is just one aspect of this. The fact that links are machine readable is probably more important, because it is the fundament for totally new approaches to knowledge management. All internet search engines mainly rely on hyperlinks to create their map of the internet and the same applies to new approaches like Tim Berners-Lee idea of the semantic web ("The Semantic Web is a vision: the idea of having data on the Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications." http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Activity) or the topic maps. All these developments are based on features of hyperlink which are marginalized, if you focus the discussion on the mind of the reader. [deleted quotation] Actually I don't know, but I would have chosen the comparison with the development of punctuation marks and I do think that a wider spread of changes like using space between words or clearly seperating sentences or paragraphs indicates a change in reading practice and also further stimulates change. [deleted quotation] Empirical studies like the one collected by Jean-Franois Rouet u.a. (Hg.): Hypertext and Cognition. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum 1996, do indicate that there are differences in the use of hypertexts, p.e. the 'lost in hypertext' symptom and the possibility to overcome it with training. The authors very decidedly denounce the parallel between hypertext reading and the working of the human mind. The mere amount of links in larger hypertexts, especially the internet, creates a qualitative difference (at some point quantitative changes become a qualitative one). [deleted quotation] In a short text of the young Goethe there are lots of footnotes and in the footnotes are references to the special verses of the bible. Every professional reader will probably follow all footnote reference to the bottom of the page, but only a very few will go on and follow the reference to the bible - there seems to be a stable economic trait in humans. With a hypertext edition containing the Goethe text and the bible you can read all reference in a few minutes and it seems to me to be sound guess that more people will do this. Just a quantitative difference, but at some point ... Best regards, Fotis Jannidis From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sunday May 6, 2001 10:18AM Subject: Stylometrics Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:09:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 3 (3) I urge stylometrics advocates to please explain even very, very approximately what their theories say on Humanist@lists. If I like their explanation, I will explore the possibility of purchasing their book(s) or looking for alternative additional information. Cheers, Osher Doctorow Ph.D. Ventura College, Doctorow Consultants, etc. From: "Deepak Shah" Subject: Discussion group. Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:10:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 4 (4) Hello list members. Can any one suggest discussion group for computers h/w and s/w? Deepak Shah From: "Deepak Shah" Subject: MOVIE CONTROL HELP Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:11:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 5 (5) Dear list members. I am running an technical software, like Video EEG through an Exe. I want to distribute to different computers. Is it possible to convert, what ever is going on on the screen as a movie clip and can be stored on a CD ? Please advise. Thanks in advance Deepak Shah VISIT US AT <http://www.biotechindia.net>www.biotechindia.net From: Willard McCarty [mailto:willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk] Subject: RE: humanities computing books Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:09:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 6 (6) Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:15 AM To: PEEL, Alison Dear Ms Peel: I have been sent a copy of your enquiry to Lorna Hughes about circulating publicity information for books on humanities computing to members of the ACH. I am editor of the electronic seminar Humanist, for which see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>. If you were to send me factual, bibliographic notices of new books on humanities computing from OUP I'd be pleased to circulate these to the membership. We don't circulate adverts as such, but I see no problem with informing people about new publications. 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: Lloyd Davidson Subject: Subj: Clifford Lynch to speak - ALA Preconference on Ebooks Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:11:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 7 (7) Clifford Lynch will make a key note address at an ALA Preconference on Ebooks on June 15th 2001 in San Francisco. Other speakers include Dennis McNannay, Sandra K. Paul of SKP Associates, and Susan Gibbons of the Ebook Evaluation Project in NY. Denise Troll, Associate University Librarian at Carnegie Mellon will moderate the day's sessions. This all-day preconference will provide understandable background in ebook standards, businessness models and how these activities affect libraries and what libraries need to provide ebook services to their clientele. Attendees will leave with clear guidelines for evaluating potential ebook services for their situations. The full description of the preconference is at: http://www.lita.org/ac2001/ebooks.htm From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.002 methodological response: hypertext Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:13:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 8 (8) A message pointed to no particular anchor.... I was wondering if it would be possible to approach the footnote/hyperlink similarity/difference exploration from a content modeling point of view. The apparatus of a link contains a pointer and an anchor. Actually this container model is inaccurate. A link begins with a pointer and may be resolved by an anchor. The apparatus of a footnote contains the apparatus of links and possibly some commentary. A footnote can both be an anchor and a pointer. The apparent complexity or lack of complexity of an apparatus has very little to do with how it might be processed either by a human reader or a machine. Tolerance for flaws in well-formedness affect the flow of processing. I would venture to state that in the history of reading neither links nor notes are all that novel. What is perhaps new to some people is the ability to make pictures (generate maps) of webs. We have always been able to point to a link (which is itself a pairing of pointer and anchor). A metacommentary has always been able to point to a particular density of features in a particular portion of the space of an object of knowledge. Those features could be notes in a critical edition, marginalia or underscoring in a library copy, spread and number of references identified by an index. Even at the level of groups of notes or groups of links -- the Hegelian argument that sheer quantative increase leads to a qualitative change does not hold if one were to taken into account the variety of reading practices. The economy of reading may have much more to do with the distribution of leisure time and access to library (online, digital or traditional) than with the intrisic nature of the note or the hyperlink and with habits. Because time and access without habit are no guarantors that a reader will either follow a reference trail or click on a link. .... a message become anchor for no particular pointer. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.003 movie control? Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:13:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 9 (9) At 9:15 +0100 7/5/2001, Deepak Shah wrote: [deleted quotation] Hello Deepak not sure exactly what you're after but videoscript <http://www.videoscript.com/> allows you to script live video content that is being received by a computer and to do lots of things on the basis of this feed. it also lets you do things with the feed. as long as the EEG has some sort of standard video out then it ought to be trivial to capture that and then you could archive it however you want. should put the following caveats though, i only use video, either sourced from VHS, S-VHS, or DV, recorded or live, and these days only capture via FireWire so my expertise is extremely limited. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: Willard McCarty Subject: how the old is carried into the new? Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:33:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 10 (10) I would be most grateful for pointers to articles and books on software design that focus on analysis of pre-existing artefacts. A very fine example of this is Darrell R. Raymond and Frank Wm. Tompa. 1988. "Hypertext and the Oxford English Dictionary", Communications of the ACM 37.7 (1988): 871-9. This of course is focused on a particular artefact but makes broader statements about the process, e.g. about getting at knowledge implicit in the object by considering how that object is used. As I recall the authors do not deal with tacit knowledge as such. I'd be grateful to know how designers deal with that kind. I would also appreciate any references to discussions in other disciplines about what I suppose could be called the problem of objectivity -- to pick an example not exactly at random, the problem of understanding the past in as close to its own terms as one can get. In The Use and Abuse of History, M. I. Finley writes about the struggle of history to separate from and keep separate from poetic myth -- as one might say, the contest of "what actually happened" and "what is always happening". In translation studies, there's Umberto Eco's recent definition, the interpretation of a text in two languages and their cultures (Experiences in Translation). Or, to switch to anthropology, Clifford Geertz's comment in The Interpretation of Culture: "I have never been impressed", he wrote, "by the argument that, as complete objectivity is impossible one might as well let one's sentiments run loose. As Robert Solow has remarked, that is like saying that as a perfectly aseptic environment is impossible, one might was well conduct surgery in a sewer." Yes, there is a link between the above two paragraphs other than "also". I'm thinking that when some like Raymond or Tompa looks at an artefact like the OED, ideally he or she has to be able at least some of the time to do what Finley and Geertz (and Eco by implication) are talking about: see that artefact in as close to its own terms as possible. What they say they actually did do was listen to users of the thing, and that's a good idea of course, but the cognitive point is that those guys not only listened, they also heard and understood. Now has any software designer talked about that cognitive part? Save me (and my patient) from the sewer please. 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: For historians et al. -- New online guide Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:34:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 11 (11) Willard, Passing this along. I don't recall having seen it pass through Humanist. [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEW BOOK: Coordination of Internet Agent Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:52:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 12 (12) [deleted quotation] COORDINATION OF INTERNET AGENTS: MODELS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND APPLICATIONS A. Omicini, F. Zambonelli, M. Klusch, R. Tolksdorf (Eds.) 2001, 523 pp., 89 figs, Hardcover, ISBN 3-540-41613-7, DM 98 http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-41613-7 **************************************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: Agents and the Internet M.P. Singh Preface: Coordination of Internet Agents - An Introduction by Editors PART I: COORDINATION MODELS AND LANGUAGES: STATE OF THE ART Chapter 1: Coordination Models: a Guided Tour N. Busi, P. Ciancarini, R. Gorrieri, G. Zavattaro Chapter 2: Models and Technologies for the Coordination of Internet Agents: A Survey G. A. Papadopoulos PART II: BASIC ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 3: Run-Time Systems for Coordination A. Rowstron Chapter 4: Tuple-Based Technologies for Coordination D. Rossi, E. Denti, G. Cabri Chapter 5: Middleware Technologies: CORBA and Mobile Agents T. Magedanz, P. Bellavista Chapter 6: Agent Coordination via Scripting Languages J-G. Schneider, O. Nierstrasz PART III: HIGH-LEVEL ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 7: Coordinating Agents Using Communication Languages Conversations T. Finin, Y. Labrou, R. Scott Cost Chapter 8: Brokering and Matchmaking for Coordination of Agent Societies: A Survey M. Klusch, K. Sycara Chapter 9: Agent Naming and Coordination: Actor Based Models and Infrastructures G. Agha, N. Jamali, C. Varela PART IV: EMERGING ISSUES OF COORDINATION Chapter 10: Coordination and Mobility A. L. Murphy, G. C. Roman, G. P. Picco Chapter 11: Coordination and Security on the Internet C. Bryce, M. Cremonini Chapter 12: Scalability in Linda-like Coordination Systems R. Tolksdorf, A. Wood, R. Menezes PART V: APPLICATIONS OF COORDINATION TECHNOLOGY Chapter 13: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for Internet Applications F. Zambonelli, N. Jennings, A. Omicini, M. Wooldridge Chapter 14: Reusable Agent Patterns for Agent Coordination D. Deugo, M. Sewell, E. Kendall Chpater 15: Inter-organizational Workflows for Enterprise Coordination M. Divitini, C. Hanachi, C. Silbertin-Blanc Chapter 16: Constraints Solving as the Coordination of Inference Engines E. Monfroy, F. Arbab PART VI: VISIONS Chapter 17: A Market-Based Model for Resource Allocation in Agent Systems J. Bredin, D. Rus, D. Kotz, R.T. Maheswaran, C. Imer, T. Basar Chapter 18: Coordination and Control in Computational Ecosystems: A Vision of the Future R. Gustavsson, M. Fredriksson ===================================================================== __________________________________________________________________________ Franco Zambonelli - Associate Professor Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegneria Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia Via Vignolese 905 - 41100 Modena - ITALY Phone: +39-0592056133 - Fax: +39-0592056126 E-Mail: franco.zambonelli@unimo.it Homepage: http://www.dsi.unimo.it/Zambonelli ___________________________________________________________________________ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: [MIT New Book] The Language of New Media Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:52:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 13 (13) The Language of New Media Lev Manovich For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MANGHF00. In this book 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. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media. Lev Manovich has been working with computer media for almost twenty years as an artist, designer, animator, computer programmer, and teacher. He teaches new media art, theory, and criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. 7 x 9, 352 pp., 55 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13374-1 A Leonardo Book From: Willard McCarty Subject: birthday presents Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:57:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 14 (14) Dear colleagues: Many thanks on behalf of everyone for the birthday messages. Only one person I know actually orchestrates birthday presents for herself, but the strategy seems to work, so I thought I'd follow her example here. May I suggest, then, that you send to Humanist a birthday present in the form of a question or statement of a problem concerning humanities computing that bothers you most? Some piece of mental grit that gives you tsores every time you go on your mental way. Wonderful gift for Humanist. 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: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP: The Humanities Computing Curriculum / Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:45:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 15 (15) The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities [La version franaise de cette annonce suit la version anglaise dans ce message] *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities November 9-10, 2001 Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/ > Conference Host: Arts and Humanities, Malaspina University-College Conference Sponsors: Arts and Humanities, MFA PD Ctte, Malaspina Research Fund, Malaspina U-C Humanities Computing and Media Centre, U Victoria Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, MA Program in Humanities Computing, U Alberta Humanities Computing Centre, School of the Arts, Humanities, McMaster U Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines Conference Description 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? In other words, is there a humanities computing curriculum, a curriculum that appropriately treats the role of the computer, today, in the context of the centuries-old tradition of the arts and humanities? What must be considered when designing and implementing courses that bring the computer to the arts and humanities, courses in humanities computing? Can such 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? What are others in the field bringing to their classrooms and to their programs that have humanities computing components? Such are the questions that many face as they and their institutions formulate, for the first time, new academic courses and programs that seek to apply computing to established arts and humanities curricula. Led by expert practitioners in the field of humanities computing, through a number of papers, sessions, poster presentations, and seminars this conference will address the broad range of issues involved in integrating computing practice in the teaching of the arts and humanities -- from developing a single course in a particular discipline to the development of an entire curriculum. Invited Speakers Invited speakers include * Willard McCarty (King's College, London) * John Unsworth (U Virginia) * Susan Hockey (University College, London) * Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Paper, Session, and Seminar Proposals Paper, session, poster, and seminar proposals that treat issues relating to the humanities computing curriculum, describe existing courses and programs, and/or document experiences relating to implementing such curricula are invited to be considered for presentation at this conference. One page paper or poster proposals, accompanied by a brief CV, may be sent before June 15 to Ray Siemens, at siemensr@mala.bc.ca or at the contact points listed below. Session or seminar proposals are also very welcome. These should consist of a description of the session or seminar topic and a one page proposal and brief CV for each participant. [material deleted] ************************************************************************* Programmes de sciences humaines assistes par l'informatique / Programmes d'informatique assiste par les sciences humaines 9-10 novembre 2001 Nanaimo, Colombie-Britannique, Canada < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/ > sous les auspices de: La Facult des arts et des humanits, Collge universitaire Malaspina parraine par: Arts et Humanits, MFA PD Ctte, Fonds de recherche Malaspina, Collge universitaire Malaspina, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, U de Victoria, Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, MA Program in Humanities Computing, U d'Alberta Humanities Computing Centre, Facult des Arts, Humanits, U de McMaster Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines Description de la confrence Dans le domaine des sciences humaines assistes par ordinateur existe-t-il un consensus suffisant sur ses techniques, ses outils, et ses thories pour fonder notre enseignement et, du mme coup, fonder le domaine en tant qu'(inter)discipline distincte? Autrement dit, dans le domaine des sciences humaines assistes par ordinateur est-il possible de concevoir un programme d'tudes centr sur le rle actuel des ordinateurs et nanmoins situ au sein des tudes traditionnelles et sculaires des arts et des sciences humaines? Quelles considrations s'imposent lors de la conception et de la ralisation des cours visant appliquer l'informatique aux domaines des arts et des sciences humaines? De tels cours peuvent-ils dcouvrir quels effets a l'informatique, au sens large, sur le domaine des arts et sciences humaines? Peuvent-ils en dresser l'inventaire? Ces cours en informatique applique doivent-ils tenir compte des traditions tablies par des chercheurs en sciences humaines dj acquis l'approche informatique? Doivent-ils promouvoir toutes les applications qui appartiennent au domaine? Les approches diffrentes, telles que la textologie et l'tiquetage, les tudes de la cyberculture, l'analyse textuelle, la thorie et pratique des (multi)mdia, etc., peuvent-elles co-exister dans un domaine unique? Qu'est-ce que d'autres chercheurs amnent au domaine dans la pratique de leurs cours ou de leurs programmes ayant une dimension informatique? Telles sont les questions que se posent les chercheurs et leurs institutions quand ils veulent crer pour la premire fois des cours dans lesquels on applique la technologie aux programmes dj tablis en arts et sciences humaines. Dans ces communications, sances, prsentations poster et tables rondes, toutes animes par des chercheurs experts du domaine des sciences humaines assistes par ordinateur, nous traiterons l'ventail des problmatiques associes l'intgration de la pratique informatise et de l'enseignement des arts et des sciences humaines -- de la cration d'un simple cours dans un domaine donn jusqu' la cration d'un programme d'tudes complet. Confrenciers invits Les confrenciers invits incluent: * Willard McCarty (King's College, London) * John Unsworth (U Virginia) * Susan Hockey (University College, London) * Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Propositions de communications, sances et tables rondes Nous sollicitons des propositions de communications, de sances, de posters ou de tables rondes dans l'un (ou plusieurs) des domaines suivants: des problmatiques centres sur le programme en sciences humaines assistes par ordinateur, des cours ou des programmes dj tablis ou toute exprience pratique autour de la ralisation de tels programmes. Pour les communications ou les posters veuillez envoyer une proposition d'une page et un court CV avant 15 juin au comit indiqu ci-dessous, ou Ray Siemens siemensr@mala.bc.ca. Pour les sances ou les tables rondes veuillez envoyer un court CV de chaque participant, leur proposition d'une page et une description du sujet de la sance ou de la table ronde. [material deleted] ___________ 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: Call for Papers: EMCSR 2002 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:47:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 16 (16) [deleted quotation] * * * * * SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING * * ON * * CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH * * (EMCSR 2002) * April 2 - 5, 2002 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna and International Federation for Systems Research * * * * * An electronic version of this CfP (and further information whenever it becomes available) can be found at http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/ * * * * * The international support of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research held in Austria in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 (when 500 scientists from more than 40 countries from all continents, except the Antarctica, met to present, hear and discuss 134 papers) encouraged the Council of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (VSGK) to organize a similar meeting in 2002 to keep pace with continued rapid developments in related fields. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: RANLP'2001: Final Call for Papers Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:50:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 17 (17) [deleted quotation] Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT=A0 vol.136 and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conference to be held this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. [material deleted] TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial speakers. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: auto/biographical webs Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:51:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 18 (18) [deleted quotation] I'm looking for examples of innovative autobiographical and biographical texts designed for the Web, including diaries / journals, memoirs, letters, travelogs, self-portraits, tributes, memorials, creative self-representations, and hybrid forms. The texts may be fictional or 'real.' I'm particularly interested in hypertextual / hypermedia approaches. To recommend Web sites, please send URLs with brief descriptions to elaynez@beyondwriting.com (subject: project). Links to selected sites will be added to the Webliography that I'm constructing at http://www.beyondwriting.com (Autobiographical / Biographical Webs). Regards, Elayne Zalis From: Book Arts Press Subject: Computing Courses of interest at Virginia Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:44:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 19 (19) RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Summer Sessions 2001, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special collections to be held at the University of Virginia from 4 June - 8 June, 16 July - 20 July, 23 July - 27 July, 30 July - 3 August, and 6 August - 10 August 2000. THE EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL prerequisites for RBS courses vary. Some courses are primarily directed toward research librarians and archivists. Others are intended for academics, persons working in the antiquarian book trade, bookbinders and conservators, professional and avocational students of the history of books and printing, book collectors, and others with an interest in the subjects being treated. THE TUITION FOR EACH FIVE-DAY COURSE is $745. Air-conditioned dormitory housing (about $35/night) will be offered on the historic Central Grounds of the University, and nearby hotel accommodations are readily available. FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions (ECDs), providing additional details about the courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our Web site at: http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks Or write Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498; fax 804/924-8824; email oldbooks@virginia.edu; or telephone 804/924-8851. Subscribers to the Humanist list may find the following Rare Book School courses to be of particular interest: 55. ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 23-27) A practical exploration of the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images, for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival Description guide. Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of XML; publishing on the World Wide Web; and the management and use of online texts. For details about last year's version of this course, see <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/99>. Some experience with HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the course. Instructor: David Seaman. DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the internationally-known Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of electronic texts in the humanities. 45, 65. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (SESSION I, MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 16-20; SESSION II, MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 30-AUG 3). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed at archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using examples selected from among their own institution's finding aids. Topics: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of SGML authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of existing finding aids to EAD. Instructor: Daniel Pitti. DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative. 43. PRINTING DESGIN AND PUBLICATION. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 16-20) In today's cultural institutions, the texts for announcements, newsletters -- even full-dress catalogs -- are composed on computers, often by staff members with scant graphic design background. By precept and critical examination of work, the course pinpoints how available software can generate appropriate design from laser-printed posters and leaflets through complex projects involving commercial printers. Prime concerns are suitability, client expectations and institutional authority. GREER ALLEN has designed publications for Colonial Williamsburg, the Houghton, the Beinecke, the Metropolitan, Yale's art museums, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rosenbach, the Art Institute of Chicago, Storm King Art Center, and many other libraries and museums. Formerly Yale University Printer, he now serves as Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. He has been designated Honorary Printer to the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City. He has taught this course annually since 1994. Book Arts Press Phone: 804/924-8851 114 Alderman Library Fax: 804/924-8824 University of Virginia Email: oldbooks@virginia.edu Charlottesville, VA 22903 http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.008 old into new: how? Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:45:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 20 (20) At 7:40 +0100 9/5/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] not sure if it is what you're asking for but something that springs to mind here is Cathy Marshall's work on reader's 'real' annotation practices to develop a software product that does something similar: Marshall, Catherine C. "Toward an Ecology of Hypertext Annotation." 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. 40-49. this is available via the ACM digital library but if you're not a member let me know and I'll send the pdf (which is legal under the ACM's copyright notice). cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Birthday Present: Concurrent Markup Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:40:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 21 (21) Happy Birthday! Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] A rather practical problem is the continuing inability to record and query concurrent hierarchies in texts of interest to humanists. Such hierarchies abound, particularly after analysis is added to such materials. Yet, there is only one commercial application (MarkIt, Sema, http://be.sema.com/mtc/products/index.html) that supports concurrent markup in SGML encoded documents and such markup is excluded by definition from XML encoded materials. Stand-off markup is a partial solution to this problem since one can point into a text to impose varying hierarchies (separately) on the materials but at best it is not an elegant solution. Not to mention that it leaves one unable to query elements for their position within another hierarchy in the text. While I support and applaud the success of XML and related technologies, it is with a awareness that it does not address the fundamental need of humanists (not to mention computing humanists) to deal with very complex textual structures and hierarchies. I don't want to flatten complex texts or to abandon the benefits of XML. Any projects implementing concurrent markup (or concurrent markup like features) that would be good sources for ideas of how to implement such features in XML? (Post or not mentioned in Sperberg-McQueen & Huitfeldt, _Concurrent Document Hierarchies in MECS and SGML_, Literary and Linguistic Computing, volume 14, number 1, pp. 29-42.) Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Happy Birthday Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:40:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 22 (22) Dear Humanist, Since we have a birth date for HUMANIST the list, I would like to ask what the birth date of humanities computing is? Is it when Father Busa started the Index Thomisticus project? Is it the first ACH conference? Is it the release of affordable personal computers? Is it the release of usable concordance software for a personal computer? Is it the first course in humanities computing, the first centre, or the first programme? Once we have a date or dates we can celebrate more often. Yours with best wishes to HUMANIST and its editor, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 15.012 birthday presents please! Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:41:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 23 (23) Dear Humanist, I am sorry that I didn't congratulate. This state of affaires is symptomatic of finding less and less time. It seems that our field is particularly problematic in this respect and full of dangers of trying to do too much, following up develop- ment and trying to establish computing in the humanities as an accademic field. How should humanists cope? How do others cope? All my best wishes to this wounderful list and thank you, Willard, for keeping it going. Elisabeth Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr Universitaet Bremen / FB 10 - Romanistik D - 28334 Bremen eburr@uni-bremen.de / Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/Burr/ From: "Friedrich Michael Dimpel" Subject: Statistical test procedures in quantitative stylistic Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:43:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 24 (24) analysis Dear list-members, I am working on a doctoral thesis in German Medieval Studies and I am turning to you with a question concerning statistical test procedures in computer-aided quantitative stylistic analysis. The aim of my study is to develop a body of programs designed to examine Medieval German epics or passages of them with respect to statistical differences. In the second part of my paper I want to demonstrate some applications of these programs. The overall aim - as in most projects in the area of literary criticism using quantitative stylistic analysis - is to find statistical evidence in addition to the arguments of scholarly criticism. The programs cover a multitude of distinguishing features: simple quantitative data such as length of words or verses, frequencies of vowels and consonants, some stylistic devices which can be easily captured, function words, words and combinations of words which are particularly frequent, as well as some syntactical and metrical parameters. I hope that my programs will contribute arguments for the following questions: - In general: Are there significant differences between the texts examined? - Are there variations within the work of one author with respect to his/her style, e.g. if there is a literary model that the author draws on for parts of his/her text? - Can texts or passages of a text of one author be assigned to the same or different periods of his/her literary production? - Can texts the authorship of which is uncertain be assigned to one or several authors? For an investigation of the last two questions, several texts will certainly have to be examined for comparison. The programs are intended to be designed not for my use only. I intend to give them a structure and documentation which makes it possible for any medievalist to apply them even if he or she has no knowledge of programming languages. The user shall be able to segment a given text, to adapt the lists of function words and to determine the scope of the intended analysis. My question concerns the statistical test procedure which is used to determine if the differences found between two texts or samples which were compared are statistically significant or not. Up to now I have been using the Wilcoxon-White-Test (also called Man-Whitney-Test) as a test of statistical significance. For this purpose, the program segments the texts to be examined into paragraphs which are each 100 verses long. For each paragraph, the frequency of the respective stylistic feature is recorded so that the text segments can be put in an order according to the frequency of the respective stylistic feature. I chose this test since Adam Kilgarriff (among others) recommended it. ("Which words are particularly characteristic of a text? A survey of statistical approaches", http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/publications.html#199 6). I preferred the Wilcoxon-White-Test over the Log-Likelihood- Test, which is also recommended there, because I expect medium to high frequencies for the stylistic features I want to examine in the rather long texts or text passages (at least 1000 verses). I have now been made a little unsure by the essay by David I. Holmes'. In view of the many studies based on multivariate methods in the last few years, Holmes states: "Principal Component Analysis is a standard technique in multivariate statistical data analysis. [...] The trend towards usage of multivariate statistical methods is now so established in stylometry that it is unusual to find papers which do not use them." (The Evolution of Stylometry in Humanities Scholarship, LLC 13, 1998, S. 113f.) I have now become unsure about the question how efficient the Wilcoxon-White-Test is, respectively if 'unusual' here is to say 'wrong' or 'anachronistic'. I should be extremely grateful for any ideas or suggestions on this topic. On the one hand I want to apply an adequate test procedure, on the other hand I cannot claim to fully understand PCA. PCA would furthermore clash with my intention to make the programs accessible to a mulititude of Medievalist colleagues, because for all I can see, some knowledge about statistics is required not only for the implementation of the test procedure but also for the evaluation. It seems to me that the Wilcoxon-White-Test is considerably easier to handle, requiring only the judgement if two texts differ with respect to a certain feature significantly, that is at a probability of more than 95%, or not significantly. I would be grateful for any comments. Friedrich Michael Dimpel Friedrich Michael Dimpel M.A. Institut fr Germanistik Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen Tel./Fax: 09131-85 22186 (10-12 Uhr) fhdimpel@phil.uni-erlangen.de From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.013 auto/biographical webs? Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:45:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 25 (25) At 7:12 +0100 10/5/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Jill Walker (University of Bergen) has a blog that partly deals with some of this stuff, and any of the major blog sites will reveal oodles. urls jill: http://cmc.uib.no/jill/ blogger http://www.blogger.com/ and for an intro. article on blogs: http://www.feedmag.com/feature/cx329lofi.html adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH2001 - Open for Registration Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:52:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 26 (26) DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES 2001 Registration now open http://drh2001.soas.ac.uk/ A conference that brings together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the Humanities. 8th - 10th July, 2001 School of Oriental and African Studies, London 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 conference brings together scholars, teachers, publishers and broadcasters, librarians, curators and archivists, and computer and information specialists, providing an opportunity to consider the latest ideas in the creation and use of digital resources in all aspects of work in the humanities. This year the conference will be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As well as concentrating on the creation of digital resources, providing access to digital projects, and digital preservation, this conference will consider the challenges of building communities within a diverse and global context, with papers on the following themes: * Visualisation of data * A managed digital environment * Diversity and multi-culturalism * World wide access * Convergence As well as the formal academic programme of papers, panel discussions, exhibitions and presentations, the conference will provide an enjoyable range of social activities where delegates can meet and informal discussion can flourish. The conference fee of 235 pounds sterling (inc VAT) includes full conference programme and all the social activities. Further details of the conference and an online booking form are available from the web site at http://drh2001.soas.ac.uk/ DRH 2001 School of Oriental and African Studies The Library Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Email: nw18@soas.ac.uk Tel: 020 7898 4165 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford seminars on humanities computing Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:53:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 27 (27) [deleted quotation] Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit 23rd - 27th July 2001 Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/summer/ Booking deadline: 25th June 2001 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 23rd to 27th July 2001. The seminars cover a range of topics on humanities computing, in particular: * Introduction to humanities computing * Creating and using digital texts, video, sound and still images * Managing digital projects * Documenting and cataloguing digital resources * Working with XML and the TEI * Putting databases on the Web. 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 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.=20 How Much Will It Cost? Each seminar costs =A365 (=A335 for students). 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: LACL 2001 Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:54:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 28 (28) [deleted quotation] Call for Participation - Program LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France Deadline for early registration: June 1st http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 *************************************************************************= * *** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration: http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001 [material deleted] From: George Whitesel Subject: Re: 15.008 old into new: how? Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:53:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 29 (29) Willard: See: Alexander, Harriet. "Off the Shelf & Onto the Web" in Reference & User Services Quarterly (Karen R. Diaz, Editor): vol. 40, #3, Spring '01. Electronic databases are in large part based on print indexes and bibliograqphies that may or may not translate well into electronic format. Historical changes in the structure of the Modern Language Associ9ation (MLS) International Bibliography and present and past editorial practices make its electronic form a difficult one from which to retrieve the specialized topics frequently assigned . . . ." George whitesel@jsucc.jsu.edu From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" Subject: RE: 15.017 auto/biographical webs Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 07:55:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 30 (30) See: Lorie Novak's Collected Visions http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/ Anne Basting's Time Slips http://www.timeslips.org/go.html Susan Meisel's akaKurdistan http://www.akakurdistan.com/ -- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA news Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:26:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 31 (31) [deleted quotation] *************************************************************************** ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News **************************************************************************** We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: ELRA S0106 Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 A description of this database is given below. The Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 comprises 250 Dutch speakers (125 males, 125 females) recorded over the Dutch mobile telephone network. The recordings were made at SPEX, the Netherlands, and the recording application was developed and run with Show 'N Tel. This database is partitioned into 5 CDs The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications. Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. The following items were recorded: 8 application words (2 optional); 2 isolated digits; 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits; 3 connected digits: 1 telephone number (1-10 digits), 1 credit card number (1-16 digits), 1 digit PIN code (6 digits); 3 dates: 1 spontaneous date, 1 date, 1 relative date expression; 1 embedded application word; 3 spelled words: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1 city name, 1 word; 1 currency money amount; 1 natural number; 6 directory assistance names: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1 city of birth, 1 most frequent city, 1 city name, 1 company name, 1 forename surname; 2 yes/no questions: 1 predominantly "yes" question, 1 predominantly "no" question; 9 phonetically rich sentences; 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase; 4 phonetically rich words. The following age distribution has been obtained: 5 speakers are under 16, 90 are between 16 and 30, 89 between 31 and 45, 56 between 46 and 60, and 10 are over 60. The lexicon was created following the guidelines in SD1.3.1 v4.3. ===================================== 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 ===================================== From: Lorna Hughes Subject: conference reminder: ACH/ALLC 2001 at New York University Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:24:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 32 (32) 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. A detailed program is available on our conference website, at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/detailed_program.html A very small number of spaces are still available for this event, so please book soon if you plan to attend! You can register online through our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/index.html best, Lorna ACH-ALLC 2001 local organizer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:26:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 33 (33) [deleted quotation] First Call for Papers LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001) A workshop to be held at the occasion of the Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea Leuven, 29 August 2001 http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/sle2001/ [material deleted] TOPIC AND MOTIVATION: Large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora are urgently needed in an increasing number of projects in the field of computational linguistics. Many groups are currently creating corpus resources for a variety of languages. These corpora are used for a broad range of different applications and theoretical investigations. We aim to bring together these activities in order to promote and facilitate first of all advanced and efficient exploitation of annotated corpora. The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results in the field of corpus annotation, taking into account different types of information. The Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora focuses on - exploitation of annotated corpora - tools & techniques for syntactic annotation and browsing in corpora - tagging and parsing methods that aim at semi-automatic annotation, - error detection and correction, - inter-annotator-agreement, - representation formats and standards, [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CyberForum Events for Summer 2001 "Lost Worlds of the Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:27:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 34 (34) Internet" [deleted quotation]CyberForum@ArtCenter is trimming the mailing list for the Summer 2001 series. If you wish to attend a Forum event in the next 3 months - events are free and open to the public - please click the link below and press "Send" to receive details for each event. mailto:cyberforum@artcenter.edu?Subject=SummerCyberForumSubscribe Theme of the Summer 2001 CyberForum "Lost Worlds of the Internet: Stalking the Ruins of Virtual Reality" Nearly a decade ago, in the first rush of enthusiasm for Virtual Reality, hundreds of 3D worlds were launched on the Internet. As commercial exploitation began to dominate the Web, public attention never quite reached these islands of 3D experimentation - some of which are unremarkable and some of which are exquisite gems of low-bandwidth VR. These virtual art works fell into obscurity even their authors abandoned them for Web commerce and mainstream activities. The Summer 2001 CyberForum will conduct biweekly expeditions into these "lost worlds of the Internet." We will put on avatars and visit these worlds in real time as we chat with the author-artists who conceived them and with critics who are interested in the 3D Web. Past Forum logs: http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/archive.html 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: Hilary Attfield Subject: Inserting Greek characters into PageMaker Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:24:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 35 (35) I hope you'll forgive me a technical question here! I'm having great difficulty in inserting an unaccented alpha into one word in Greek in an English text in PageMaker 6.5. I can't paste the original (In WordPerfect 6.0) in, even after adjusting for the Panose substitution, and the three Greek fonts available to me in Pagemaker (GK. Century, Courier, and Helvetica) all seem to call for the keyboard character used for double quotes. However, on my Dell "Quiet Key" I continue to get quote marks with that key, no matter what I try to do. I'd be glad to try any suggestions! 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.001 HAPPY now we are 14 BIRTHDAY Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:25:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 36 (36) Willard, Couldn't help noticing that numbers-wise the list of subscribers you circulated recently had a paucity of addresses relating to these two categories : * asian countries of the pacific rim * central asian and south asian countries And it appears that most subscribers posses an institutional address. This brings me to a birthday-minded set of questions: the role of the non-euro in humanities computing; the role of the independent scholar, or itinerant scholar (i.e. people not holding full-time secure faculty positions) in humanities computing, the challenge of coordinating online meeting across time zones or within time zones. pondering across the pond, Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 15.012 birthday presents please! Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 07:28:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 37 (37) I am still looking for (relatively) easy-to-use and (relatively) inexpensive software for the creation of machine-readable TEI-conformant texts, software that could be used by scholars for projects that do not have any kind of grant funding and who do not work at institutions that can provide consulting support. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: AMICO Library to be distributed by Scottish Cultural Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:20:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 38 (38) Resources Access Network NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 16, 2001 SCRAN and AMICO to Collaborate: Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network To Distribute The AMICO Library <http://www.amico.org>http://www.amico.org http://www.scran.ac.uk [deleted quotation] AMICO Press Release May 16, 2001 SCRAN and AMICO to Collaborate: The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network Agrees to Distribute The AMICO Library TM AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) has entered into a broad collaborative agreement with the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN). The two organizations will share knowledge and expertise in the networked delivery of cultural heritage. SCRAN plans to add The AMICO Library to the existing SCRAN services available to primary and secondary schools throughout the United Kingdom beginning in the fall of 2001, and may also distribute to Further and/or Higher Educational institutions and public libraries in the U.K. AMICO and SCRAN will share specifications and tools, explore issues of cross-resource access, and look to make SCRAN resources available in North America to educational subscribers. As AMICO's Executive Director, Jennifer Trant, notes, "SCRAN has created a rich array of educational materials centered on Scottish cultural heritage. We hope that SCRAN subscribers will see The AMICO Library as a complementary addition to those materials, allowing for connections to be made across our two collections. We are excited to see our Members' collections available to U.K. primary and secondary school teachers and students. It broadens the educational reach of the museums we represent, and integrates nicely with our North American efforts to make The AMICO Library widely available to school users this fall." Bruce Royan, Executive Director of SCRAN, concurs, "The AMICO Library will be a welcome addition to the current resources we deliver. The diverse connections to be made between collections, educators, and students should be a natural and vibrant outgrowth of this agreement." SCRAN was founded by a partnership of the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), the Scottish Museums Council (SMC) and the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). Also on the SCRAN Board are representatives of the British Computer Society (BCS), the Conference of Scottish Higher Education Principals (COSHEP) and the Learning and Teaching Scotland (LT Scotland), under the Chairmanship of Lady Balfour of Burleigh. SCRAN is available at a wide range of community information points, including schools, libraries, museums, community centres and tourist information centers. A central co-ordinating body signs a licence agreement form and SCRAN provides a site licence, password and username for each participating institution. This allows them to access and download large sized images and fully operational video and audio files. These, together with a range of tools and CD-ROMs may be used copyright cleared for teaching and learning. Personal licenses are also available for home use. SCRAN is accessible via the World Wide Web and its resources will also be available on CD-ROM and other multimedia formats as they develop. Today, SCRAN contains 700,000 text records of historic monuments and of artefacts held in Scottish museums, galleries and archives, plus 120,000 related multimedia resources. In addition, SCRAN will have commissioned 70 multimedia essays, based on these resources, for educational use. The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an independent non-profit corporation with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS. Founded in 1997 with 23 Members, the Consortium today is made up of over 30 major museums in the United States and Canada. Its an innovative collaboration not seen before in museums that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. AMICO Members make annual contributions of multimedia documentation of works in their museums collections. This is regularly compiled and made available as The AMICO Library to universities, colleges, schools, and public libraries. The 2001-2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 75,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. More than simply an image database, works in The AMICO Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources, states Ms. Trant. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to institutional subscribers including universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums, and is now licensed to over 2 million users, including faculty, students, teachers, staff, and researchers. Educational institutions may subscribe to The AMICO Library by contacting one of its distributors. These include the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), and now SCRAN. A subscription to the AMICO Library provides a license to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at <http://www.amico.org>http://www.amico.org. Contact Information: AMICO SCRAN Jennifer Trant, Executive Director Prof. Bruce Royan, CEO Art Museum Image Consortium Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Phone: +44 131 662 1211 Email: jtrant@amico.org Email: brucer@scran.ac.uk Web: <http://www.amico.org>http://www.amico.org Web: <http://www.scran.ac.uk>http://www.scran.ac.uk ------------------------- Kelly Richmond Communications Director Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA phone: +1 412 422 8533 fax: +1 412 422 8594 <http://www.amico.org>http://www.amico.org kelly@amico.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. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Hague Convention Draft Treaty Discussions Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:21:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 39 (39) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 16, 2001 Reports on Recent Hague Convention Draft Treaty Discussions Issues of Legal Jurisdiction & Enforceability of Copyright in Global Economy Ten years in the making, and now in draft form, the Hague Convention "could make major changes in the way intellectual property and copyright laws are handled on an international scale" by allowing enforcement of one nation's IP laws in another. Intellectual property is only one component of the draft treaty; many argue for its removal. Below are links provided by James Love, through the Digital Future Coalition, to three reports on the roundtable discussion held at the Library of Congress yesterday. 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: "Patrick T. Rourke" Subject: Greek->PageMaker? Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:19:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 40 (40) I've often had problems with the WordPerfect Greek fonts in Adobe products; the embedding permissions are not set in WordPerfect's fonts, and I know that many Adobe products (for example, Acrobat 4) will not allow one to embed fonts that do not have the the embedding permissions set. You might want to try one of the various GreekKeys-compatible fonts. (The WP Greek fonts simply assign different glyphs to the Latin-1 character codes). But since you say that you're simply looking for an *unaccented* alpha, I should think that the letter "a" in Symbol font would do, unless PageMaker has problems with Symbol font as well. Though the Symbol font char set is really intended for use in mathematics, it does contain the unaccented forms of all the letters in the 24-character classical Greek alphabet, in both cases. Assuming that you're using Windows, of course. Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net [deleted quotation] From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re TEI software? Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:22:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 41 (41) On Wed, 16 May 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: |I am still looking for (relatively) easy-to-use and (relatively) |inexpensive software for the creation of machine-readable TEI-conformant |texts, software that could be used by scholars for projects that do not |have any kind of grant funding and who do not work at institutions that |can provide consulting support. Check out http://www.tei-c.org/Software for some suggestions to get you started. I particularly recommend tei-emacs -- does everything, runs on everything, lots of free tutorials out there, and costs precisely zero. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: "John Unsworth" Subject: RE: 15.023 Greek->PageMaker? centre & margin? TEI software? Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:22:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 42 (42) Charles Faulhaber writes: [deleted quotation] There is a listing of generic and TEI-specific software at: http://www.tei-c.org/Software/index.html the new TEI customization of emacs, available for download there, is worth a look, but if you want something that's more menu-driven and more fool-proof, you probably need to consider commercial software: the cheapest of these is still probably Xmetal (http://www.softquad.com/top_frame.sq), available free for evaluation, $295 for a single license, educational price. John Unsworth From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Designing a Common Format for Many Visions... Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:20:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 43 (43) Willard, Just a quick note on a new collaborative effort between the American Bible Society and the Society of Biblical Literature to create a common markup format for biblical and related materials. Working groups are already forming and the entire effort is being headed by Steve DeRose (TEI North American Editor, Chief Research Scientist, Brown University, and editor of too many W3C standards to list). Please visit www.bibletechnologies.net for further information. Designing a Common Format for Many Visions... The Society of Biblical Literature and the American Bible Society jointly hosted the Bible Technologies Conference to explore the formation of a group to address the need for common markup standards for biblical and related materials. The goal of the conference and working group is to develop markup standards that will empower users, publishers and software vendors around the world to use XML in their study and publication of and development of software for biblical and related texts. The participants in this process have many different agendas, missions and interests, all of which would be served by a common markup standard. What we share in common is an interest in biblical texts and related materials, each from their own perspective. This effort does not seek to promote any particular agenda, mission or interest, but leaves that to the good offices of its participants, relying upon the results of our common effort together. The need for organization in any such effort is a fact of life in our increasingly complex society. Due to the diversity of interests represented at the conference and our varying experience with the process of developing standards, the BTG will be using an adaptation of the OASIS Technical Committee policy to guide its work until the next meeting. This is a "trial-run" or "goodness of fit" period will help the group decide on the strengths or weakness of that process and guide its choice of a more permanent structure. It also allows us to decide on work items to pursue during this interim period to test the process set forth. For the full text of the release see: http://www.sbl-site.org/Newsletter/05_2001/CommonFormat.htm For additional information, please contact: Patrick Durusau of SBL at: pdurusau@emory.edu (404) 727-2337 or John Walter of ABSinteractive at: jwalter@absinteractive.com (703) 621-2000 or go to: www.bibletechnologies.net Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CALL FOR INFORMATION ON COMMERCAL EXPERTISE ON DIGITAL Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:21:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 44 (44) PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 17, 2001 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL FOR INFORMATION ON COMMERCAL EXPERTISE IN BORN-DIGITAL PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS Replies to be directed to As part of the start-up work of the new "National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program" at the Library of Congress, here is an important call for leads to commercial and industrial solutions to preservation problems of "born-digital" materials. Replies to Henry Gladney by June 8. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] This is being passed on for my colleague Henry Gladney. He and I are both members of the Audio Engineering Society Technical Committee on Archives Restoration and Digital Libraries. Henry has been asked by the Library of Congress to research the commercial sector to make sure that all items of interest have been uncovered. The last thing that the Library of Congress wishes to do is to reinvent the wheel with their $100,000,000 appropriation for digital archives. The goal of this Congressional Appropriation is to develop a national program to preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital information, especially materials that are created only in digital formats, to ensure their accessibility for current and future generations. As I read the attached information the Library of Congress has been given the lead in this project and is to work in conjunction with other agencies and libraries. The document appended at the bottom provides the appropriation legislation wording and some other background information. If you are aware of a commercial solution or are a provider of a commercial solution, please contact Dr. Gladney (see below). If you are aware of a large-scale project planned or undertaken undertaken by a corporation for archiving their own assets, please contact Dr. Gladney. This project will benefit us all as it will provide advancement for a unified framework to all of us under which we will be able to archive our own projects. Please respond to Dr. Gladney by close of business June 8th and please feel free to pass this on. Thank you very much. Richard L. Hess Principal Consultant National TeleConsultants Glendale, CA Personal: richard@richardhess.com www.richardhess.com ==============original message==================== On behalf of an advisory committee convened by the Library of Congress, I am writing to ask for your help. Deanna Marcum, president of the Council on Information and Library Resources and a member of the advisory committee, has asked for a quick survey of technology and projects that would inform the Library in establishing a preservation program for "born digital" content. In case your associates are not aware of the project that stimulates this inquiry, I am attaching an article from the New York Times and a summary of the Congressional appropriation statement. For a comprehensive view of the underlying challenge, I recommend LC 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress, published by the National Academy Press about a year ago. Among the questions identified in the report is what relationships should exist between the Library's digital initiative and similar activities in other institutions. In setting priorities for the digital preservation program, I expect that the advisory committee will seek outside views about this and will be particularly interested in comments from organizations that have considered their own versions of that question. The committee is well informed about related activities in the federal government and universities. However, it is missing insight into the commercial and industrial sectors. The scope of the eventual archive is all kinds of "born digital" materials: books, papers, images, audio, and video. I believe that the Library's biggest challenge will be the immense amount of content available. The advisory committee will grapple with an initial selection policy, but collection policy is likely to be a perpetual question. To help the advisory committee achieve a quick start, I would be grateful for your help in identifying a few people who could lead us to understand in broad terms what is going on and what pools of expertise might be consulted. Please contact me at the address below. Regards, Henry Henry Gladney (408)867-5454 20044 Glen Brae Drive, Saratoga CA 95070 <http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/>http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ P.S. Please feel free to forward this request. ========================================================================== Here are the documents referred to as "attached" MAKING OMNIBUS CONSOLIDATED AND EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001 (Public Law 106554) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the Library of Congress, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary salaries and expenses of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program; and an additional $75,000,000 to remain available until expended, for such purposes: Provided, That the portion of such additional $75,000,000, which may be expended shall not exceed an amount equal to the matching contributions (including contributions other than money) for such purposes that (1) are received by the Librarian of Congress for the program from non-Federal sources, and (2) are received before March 31, 2003: Provided further, That such program shall be carried out in accordance with a plan or plans approved by the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate: Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated, $5,000,000 may be expended before the approval of a plan to develop such a plan, and to collect or preserve essential digital information which otherwise would be uncollectible: Provided further, That the balance in excess of such $5,000,000 shall not be expended without approval in advance by the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate: Provided further, That the plan under this heading shall be developed by the Librarian of Congress jointly with entities of the Federal government with expertise in telecommunications technology and electronic commerce policy (including the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) and the National Archives and Records Administration, and with the participation of representatives of other Federal, research, and private libraries and institutions with expertise in the collection and maintenance of archives of digital materials (including the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural Library, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Research Libraries Group, the Online Computer Library Center, and the Council on Library and Information Resources) and representatives of private business organizations which are involved in efforts to preserve, collect, and disseminate information in digital formats (including the Open eBook Forum): Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective with the One Hundred Seventh Congress and each succeeding Congress the chair of the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall serve as a member of the Joint Committee on the Library with respect to the Library's financial management, organization, budget development and implementation, and program development and administration, as well as any other element of the mission of the Library of Congress which is subject to the requirements of Federal law. MAKING OMNIBUS CONSOLIDATED AND EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001 (Public Law 106554) Statement of Managers Language from the Conference Report (House Report 1061033) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SALARIES AND EXPENSES The agreement provides $100,000,000 to the Library of Congress to establish a national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. Of this amount, $25,000,000 is provided immediately and remains available until expended. An additional amount up to $75,000,000 is provided to match dollar-for-dollar any nonfederal contributions to this program, including in-kind contributions, that are received before March 31, 2003. The information and technology industry that has created this new medium should be a contributing partner in addressing digital access and preservation issues inherent in the new digital information environment. This program is a major undertaking to develop standards and a nationwide collecting strategy to build a national repository of digital materials. The Library is directed to develop a phased implementation plan for this program jointly with Federal entities with expertise in telecommunications technology and electronic commerce policy and with participation of other Federal and non-Federal entities. After consultation with the Joint Committee on the Library, membership of which is changed to include the chair of the Legislative Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, the Library shall seek approval of the program plan from the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Library of Congress is authorized to expend up to $5,000,000, before approval of the plan, for the development of the plan and for collecting or preserving digital information that may otherwise vanish during the plan development and approval cycle. The overall plan should set forth a strategy for the Library of Congress, in collaboration with other Federal and non-Federal entities, to identify a national network of libraries and other organizations with responsibilities for collecting digital materials that will provide access to and maintain those materials. In addition to developing this strategy, the plan shall set forth, in concert with the Copyright Office, the policies, protocols, and strategies for the long-term preservation of such materials, including the technological infrastructure required at the Library of Congress. In developing the plan, the Library should be mindful of the conclusions drawn in a recent National Academy of Sciences report concerning the Library's trend toward insularity and isolation from its clients and peers in the transition toward digital content. Library to Lead National Effort to Develop Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program: U.S. Congress Provides $100 Million Special Appropriation in Support of Project The Library of Congress has been empowered by the U. S. Congress to develop a national program to preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital information, especially materials that are created only in digital formats, to ensure their accessibility for current and future generations. The Library of Congress began in 1998 to develop a digital strategy with a group of senior managers assessing the roles and responsibilities of the Library in the electronic environment. At the same time, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington commissioned the National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to evaluate the Library's readiness to meet the challenges of the rapidly evolving digital world. The NAS report, LC 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress, recommended that the Library, working with other federal and non-federal institutions, take the lead in a national, cooperative effort to archive and preserve digital information. "This collaborative strategy will permit the long-term acquisition, storage and preservation of digital materials, that will assure access to the growing electronic historical and cultural record of our nation," said Dr. Billington. "Just as the Congress enabled the Library of Congress to begin the last century by making its printed catalog cards widely available, the Congress has enabled its Library to begin this century by building a digital record and making it available in the information age." In December 2000, the 106th Congress appropriated $100 million for this effort, which instructs the Library to spend an initial $25 million to develop and execute a congressionally approved strategic plan for a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Congress specified that, of this amount, $5 million may be spent during the initial phase for planning as well as the acquisition and preservation of digital information that may otherwise vanish. The legislation authorizes as much as $75 million of federal funding to be made available as this amount is matched by nonfederal donations, including in-kind contributions, through March 31, 2003. The effect of a government-wide recission of .22 percent in late December was to reduce this special appropriation to $99.8 million. The Library will consult with federal partners to assess joint planning considerations for shared responsibilities. The Library will also seek participation from the nonfederal sector and will execute its overall strategy in cooperation with the library, creative, publishing, technology and copyright communities in this country and abroad. The legislation calls for the Library to work jointly with the Secretary of Commerce, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Archives and Records Administration. The legislation also directs the Library to seek the participation of "other federal, research and private libraries and institutions with expertise in the collection and maintenance of archives of digital materials," including the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural Library, the Research Libraries Group, the Online Computer Library Center and the Council on Library and Information Resources. Laura Campbell, the Library's recently appointed Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, will oversee these efforts. She noted that, "as the national library and home of the U.S. Copyright Office, the Library of Congress must lead this effort, which poses enormous challenges and exciting opportunities. To succeed, we must have broad participation from the public and private sectors." New York Times, January 12, 2001, Contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217 Richard L. Hess richard@richardhess.com Glendale, CA USA <http://www.richardhess.com/>http://www.richardhess.com/ Web page: folk and church music, photography, and broadcast engineering ============================================================== 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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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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: The Hague Convention Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:28:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 46 (46) Willard and subscribers interested in international coypright law, Being situated in a work environment where I am surrounded by lawyers, some of whom do policy development in the area of private international law, I have the benefit of drawing upon collegial good favour for the explication of some finer points that sometimes get glossed over in the discoursive twitching practiced by _Wired_. I pass on, with permission, the following intervention that may or may not get circulated by _Wired_. *************** Here is a note I sent to Wired yesterday in response to its article on this issue. Much of the concern is harebrained, and much of the rest is ill-informed. There may be the nucleus of some potential problems, but it's far from apocalyptic. ..................... Four comments about the apparent concerns about the Hague work on enforcement of judgements: 1. Please say which Hague Convention you mean, at least the first time out. There are a lot of them, most of them not controversial. If you say "the proposed Hague Convention on enforcement of judgments", then we can situate it better. For the first several paragraphs of the article it sounded as if you meant some new convention on copyright. WIPO does copyright conventions, not The Hague. 2. The proposed Convention deals with the enforcement of civil judgments. This means that member countries do not have to ban things that other member governments ban. It means that if someone gets a judgment in one member country for infringement of copyright, then other member countries would have to enforce it, if the country of the original judgment properly took jurisdiction over the case. The grounds for taking jurisdiction are the subject of continuing debate (with the U.S. arguing for broad jurisdiction and Europe arguing for more limited jurisdiction, interestingly enough.) 3. The remedies a country can impose to enforce a foreign judgment are those available in the enforcing country, not those that the originating country might have had available. If a U.S. court would not in a U.S. case impose a duty on an ISP to filter content to prevent further infringement, then it won't do that under the Convention either. If it might do that in a domestic case, then it might do it under the Convention too. 4. The obligation on any member country to enforce a judgment from another member country is subject to an override based on public policy of the enforcing country. So if it is totally reprehensible in the U.S. to enforce some foreign judgment because of, say, First Amendment principles, the Convention will give a way out. This is however a narrow exemption, not a discretionary one. The text of the draft Convention and supporting documents can be found at the Hague Conference on Private International Law's web site, http://www.hcch.net/e/workprog/jdgm.html . ------------------------------------------------- As has cropped up in the past in repostings of information : consider the source. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: play game program Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:27:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 47 (47) Willard, Goldfarb, Pepper and Ensign write in their introduction to the _SGML Buyer's Guide_ (1998) suggest that, in the emerging publishing context, "content is becoming increasingly interactive" and that people "expect electronic documents to be part reference, part expert system, part computer game" (xxxi). This reminds me of Peter Shillingsburg who in his contribution to _The Literary Text in the Digital Age_ writes: The software design [of an electronic edition] should incorporate the ideal that interaction with the material is desirable. Display of materials to a passive observer is not the only goal. The user must have liberty to navigate the materials at will. The user should have the option of entering parts of the program that are "tutorial" and that promote the user to react to challenges and suggestions. (p. 33) Two questions, one of corpra, the other of curricula: 1. Are there any Humanities Computing projects that incorporate game elements? If so, is there a listing of such projects? 2. Does the anthropology of games feature in any of the MA programs currently offered or being developed in the field of Humanities Computing? Of course, one can think of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and other pedagogical software making great use of games to make drill engaging. One can think of popular commercial offerings such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. In terms of curricula addressing this area, one can think of the training that pedagogues receive in faculties of education. I may have the mistaken impression, that given the disciplinary boundaries of many an academic institution and given reward systems that differentially value teaching and research, such considerations have not been duly examined by the practitioners and planners of Humanities Computing. It seems to me that the skills relating to programming and to multimedia authoring dovetail nicely with formal aspects of games (rule following and manipulation). My perception of the status quo may no doubt be influenced by the position occupied by composition and rhetoric as well as language learning in North American colleges and universities and therefore myopic or tone deaf. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/portfolio/24doz/stroby.htm From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: SGML authoring solutions Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:29:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 48 (48) Kirk Lowery sent me this privately. I forward it to HUMANIST, along with my comments, because I think it is an admirable example of what a single scholar working alone can accomplish and also of the obstacles that still need to be overcome. ----------------------------------------- Many thanks! I've worked with EMACS on Windows, and I'm afraid that I didn't like it at all. I think that once you get the hang of it, it does everything that you say it will do; but it is absolutely counter-intuitive for anyone who has never used UNIX. I think that what you describe is precisely the situation that we need to get away from. It should _not_ be necessary for scholars to become computer experts in order to do the work for which we have been trained. You should not have had to spend uncounted hours to get to this level; and I think that it is a real indictment of humanities computing as a discipline that you have had to do so. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu On Wed, 16 May 2001, Kirk Lowery wrote: [deleted quotation] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New list on the EU's Information Society Technologies Program Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:22:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 49 (49) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 17, 2001 New Discussion list on the European Union's Cultural Heritage & Information Technologies Program <http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/home.html>http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/home.html [deleted quotation] Working for the museums, archives or libraries sector? Want to know more about the EU's Information Society Technologies Programme? cultivate-list is an email discussion list for anyone in the cultural heritage sector interested in the information society technologies and the Commission's initiatives and programmes. 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Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) has launched its new web site, www.imappreserve.org to help independent producers and arts and cultural organizations catalog their media works. Dedicated to the preservation of independent electronic media, IMAP is concerned that the history of non-commercial production is being lost, ranging from video art, audio art, and technology-based installation art to independent documentary and narratives, community media, and documentation of arts and culture. The web site features an easy-to-use, standardized template for cataloging video or film collections as part of IMAP's Cataloging Project. The template is designed specifically for independent producers and non-profit organizations who have little experience with cataloging, but is useful for any archive with media holdings. In addition to the template, the web site provides sample cataloging entries, template instructions and preservation information. Users of the template may also access technical assistance via email. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium Report Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:24:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 51 (51) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 18, 2001 Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium Website <http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fhcc/>http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fhcc/ New Report from the Council on Library & Information Resources <http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub96abst.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub96abst.html Recommendations <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/conclusion.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/conclusion.html A report on an important symposium on the future of folklife collections is now available as a publication of the Council on Library & Information Resources. Material is also available on the symposium's website, hosted by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] <> [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/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Lorna Hughes Subject: graduate student activities at ACH-ALLC2001 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:59:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 52 (52) 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, Lorna Hughes and Geoffrey Rockwell. 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 send e-mail 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: "Patrick Wagner" Subject: Seventh Sloan-C International Conference on OnLine Learning Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:58:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 53 (53) The 7th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: Emerging Standards of Excellence in Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) will be held on November 16-18,2001 in Orlando, Florida. The Conference is being hosted by the University of Central Florida in cooperation with The Sloan Center for OnLine Education (SCOLE) at Olin and Babson Colleges and The Pennsylvania State University. The Rosen Centre Hotel, one of Orlando's premier conference centers, is this year's conference site. The Rosen Centre is just 15 minutes from the Orlando International Airport, and convenient to many Orlando-area attractions. Last year's conference attracted over 500 people to more than 100 sessions as well as exhibits, pre-conference workshops, and a variety of other special events. 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. For further information and/or to register for the 7th Sloan International Conference on Online Learning, November 16-18, 2001 please visit: http://dce.ucf.edu/aln If you have any questions about the program, feel free to contact: Gary Miller, Program Chair The Pennsylvania State University 211 Mitchell Bldg. University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 863-3248 Fax: (814) 865-3290 Gem7@psu.edu 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: "John Unsworth" Subject: RE: 15.031 obstacles to humanities computing: SGML authoring Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:59:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 54 (54) Charles, In re: your comments on Kirk Lowery's email about Emacs+PSGML: [deleted quotation] As I pointed out in an earlier email on this subject, there is software out there that does not require you to become a computer expert in order to produce SGML--it costs less than $300, which is about what a good word-processing program cost two or three years ago. If the time it takes to learn emacs is worth more than $300, then one should buy the commercial software package; if the time it takes is worth less, or if one values the greater speed, flexibility, and customization that emacs offers, then one should spend the time and acquire the skills. In any case, if producing SGML or XML is a central part of one's scholarly activity, neither course (spending some money or spending some time) seems unreasonable, to me at least. John Unsworth From: Willard McCarty Subject: indictment of whom, on what grounds? Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:56:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 55 (55) Charles Faulhaber's note in Humanist 15.031 about the trials and tribulations suffered by Kirk Lowery got me to thinking about several of my experiences as a besieger of disciplines and sacker of subjects. To keep nostalgia at a minimum, however, let me recount only one very recent experience. In pursuit of a question about what computing might do to commentary practice, I recently wandered once again into E. R. Dodds' famous (and truly great) commentary on Euripides Bacchae. Looking for a comment particularly rich in intertextual variety I stumbled upon Dodds' long paragraph on lines 661-2, about snow falling on Citheron. (Dodds remarks parenthetically that "I found none when I climbed the mountain in April" -- charming to think of the scholar climbing the mountain to be *there*, where it happened.) In any case, the point of the story occurs much later in the paragraph, in a note about metre, where Dodds quotes two words of Greek and comments: "-- aneisan chionos L. Dindorf, to avoid the tribrach composed of a single word..." and so on. Now for my purposes I thought this a very interesting bit of work, very precise. Dodds' sense of audience is so keen (someone who knows this stuff correct me if I am wrong) that, for example, he spells out "Seneca... Thyestes" to accommodate experts in Greek drama who are insufficiently familiar with the Latin tradition to know a Roman author and his work from abbreviations, though such are used for all references to Greek authors and works. He also does not use forenames or initials unless he thinks he has to. So why "L."? Some research revealed to me that there were two Dindorfs in the field, brothers in fact, so Dodds is addressing quite precisely those who will of course know the surname but just might not know that Ludwig August is the one to go for. But which work? Ludwig published on historical texts mostly, Xenophon as I recall. Where does the outsider to this field look? I spent not countless but some hours investigating, then gave up. In frustration, I can tell you. Less troublesome was "Verrall's notion that 662 is interpolated..."; there's really only one possible work Dodds could be referring to, although there's no way of telling from a library catalogue, as Verrall did not write a commentary in the usual sense, rather an essay. So one has to know the book. But the Dindorf question still has me stumped. Of course those who know the gatekeeper well and greet him or her every morning on their way into ancient Greek drama studies will think my experience utterly unremarkable, just what one would expect for an ignorant person who wanders in off the street looking for a place to crash. To be fair, those who love the commentary genre worry about situations like this one -- some call it an endangered species and worry out loud about how to make it more approachable to a wider audience. (We have something for them, don't we?) My point: that we also have a lot of work to do in humanities computing to minimise this sort of situation. Especially in humanities computing, since so many different kinds of people with so many different backgrounds are wandering in and wanting to do something they recognise as valuable with their time. I beg to differ (as I have delightfully and profitably before) with my colleague Charles, but I don't see the regrettable situation he describes as the basis for an indictment -- as if by some kind of law we were obligated to make sure that everyone has the nicest possible experience -- rather as the basis for a realisation of how far we have to go in some areas. It is indeed *very* easy for people far into a subject, like the Oxonian professor deep into his classical Greek, to forget that not everyone will know exactly what to reach for when L. Dindorf pops up. To be fair, Dodds was writing in the early 1940s, when "schoolboys" could be expected to use his edition (he says just that in his preface, o tempora, o mores) -- though the reference to Dindorf is bracketed away to indicate "for the professional scholar only". We *could* act that way too, build ourselves a disciplinary wall (put glass fragments on the top, as the Oxford colleges and some of my East End neighbours do) to keep out all but properly trained experts. But that seems not such a good idea to me. On the other hand, the argument that difficult subjects are made easy only by diluting their essence, that education is all about becoming more able to jump higher, not about lowering the bar, is hard to put aside. How does one know what difficulties are needless? In any case, back to work. 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: Re: 15.030 interactive content Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:00:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 56 (56) We have included interactivity in some of the Experience Rich Anthropology project For example, you can draw your own genealogical tree era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kinship or (my particular hobby horse) play with a simulation of Mambila spider divination era.anthropology.ac.uk/spider.html (read about the background at era.anthropology.ac.uk/Divination) I hope this helps and is fun! 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: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.030 interactive content Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:00:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 57 (57) At 6:35 +0100 21/5/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]I believe that Espen Aarseth of the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen is in the process of developing some pedagogical material around such themes. I also believe Stuart Moulthrop of the University of Baltimore has been working and teaching around the computer game recently, but I'm unsure of the extent to which this is formalised in their program (and they are not Humanities Computing). Andrew Stuarts url is: http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/ Espen's is: http://www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/ but I think you'll find it's very out of date. I'd be surprised if Andrew Mactavish (McMaster - a colleague of Geoffrey Rockwell's) isn't teaching something on games in their excellent Multimedia undergrad. program. http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/ for those not up to date games are very much a new field being rapidly colonised, from memory there are 3 international conferences on games this year. There's already been in in Denmark, one is coming up in Bristol, and I believe there's a third but I may be mistaken (and I don't remember where...). cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: Willard McCarty Subject: keep it clean! (of software) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:58:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 58 (58) In Humanist 15.030 Francois Lachance quotes Goldfarb et al (1998) and Peter Shillingsburg, Literary Text in the Digital Age, on the desirability of "interactive content", which I take as support for an argument that "content" -- nevermind the philosophical problem in this weasel-word -- should have software intermixed. This, it seems to me, pushes us toward dangerous ground. Our great model for aggregated but loosely organised knowledge, the library, achieves much of its long-term utility from keeping books and their uses quite separate. Do we really want to encode uses, ways of reading, into our sources? Would this not be in many if not most cases to limit these sources to current ideas about how they should be read? I am aware that declarative encoding does somewhat of the same thing, e.g. a "this is a chapter" tag is much more specific than a page starting with some extra blank space with a number in the middle of that space. Nevertheless, as I understand good markup practice -- comments here please -- one tries VERY hard not to tell the reader how to navigate through a text &c. For the above reasons I wonder seriously about the object-orientated approach to computational life. I can see that perhaps the question is a matter of fine tuning -- some primitive operations might not be so restrictive as I fear. Comments from those who know about this stuff? 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: NLP book series Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:04:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 59 (59) [deleted quotation] ************************************************ BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ************************************************* As previously announced, John Benjamins Publishers launched a new book series on Natural Language Processing as a timely response to the growing demand for NLP literature. The first book of the series which covers Computational Pragmatics and is edited by H. Bunt and B. Black (see below) came out several months ago; a volume on Computational Terminology edited by D. Bourigault, C. Jacquemin and M.C. L=92Homme as well as a monograph on automatic summarisation by I. Mani will appear soon. The editor of the book series is Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk); managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes (kees.vaes@benjamins.nl). See http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm for more details. Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue. Studies in computational pragmatics.=20 BUNT, Harry and William BLACK (eds.)=20 Natural Language Processing 1 Table of contents The ABC of Computational Pragmatics Harry Bunt and Bill Black The activity-based approach to pragmatics Jens Allwood Dialogue pragmatics and context specification Harry Bunt Pragmatics in language understanding and cognitively motivated architectures Gerard Sabah Dialogue analysis using layered protocols Martin Taylor and David Waugh Coherence and structure in text and discourse Gisela Redeker Discourse focus tracking David Carter Speech act theory and epistemic planning Allan Ramsay Context and form: declarative or interrogative, that is the question Robert-Jan Beun The doxastic-epistemic force of declarative utterance Elias Thijsse A conceptual modelling approach to the implementation of beliefs and inte= ntions Ralph Meyer Abduction or induction: a real distinction? Philip Neal Laconic discourses and total eclipses: abduction in DICE Jon Oberlander and Alex Lascarides Abductive reasoning with knowledge bases or context modelling Ahmed Guessoum and John Gallagher Abductive speech act recognition, corporate agents and the COSMA system Elizabeth Hinkelman and Stephen Spackman;=20 \\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD=20 /// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering=20 \\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences=20 /// University of Wolverhampton=20 \\\ Stafford St.=20 /// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB=20 \\\ United Kingdom=20 /// Telephone (44-1902) 322471=20 \\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739=20 /// Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk \\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/=20 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.034 online learning conference Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:59:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 60 (60) Willard, Am I alone in finding it ironic that a conference about online learning does _not_ meet online? Does not even have a hybrid component? I ask because of the politics of access. How international is an international conference when there still exist serious barriers to full participation in academic conferences, trade fairs, and meetings of learned societies? If you check out the "Tracks at a Glance" page of the Seventh Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: Emerging Standards of Excellence in Asynchronous Learning Networks, you will fail to find the term "access" in the descriptions of the various emerging standards. Odd, since the first track listed is "Emerging Standards of Excellence for Faculty Development and Participation". This is but a single case of a more general condition. Online components pre and post conference are important considerations for any meeting of scholars engaged in Humanities Computing. How many of us, pre post papers and abstracts to the Web? How many of us report back on panels, papers, conferences and symposia? Is there a prejudice against prepublication? A bias against academic journalism? How difficult is it to remember that not everyone who is interested can be there or that contingencies do not arise and those that plan to be there cannot attend? Will any one carry through and report back to Humanist about the proceedings of the ACH/ALLC in New York City this June? There are some wonderful papers and discussion that even people attending the meeting will miss --- parallel sessions make it impossible for a person to be everywhere at the same time. Of course, steps have been made: the publication of the abstracts on the Web with contact information does make it possible to follow up with authors. I am not making a case against in the flesh encounters. I am making the case for spreading the joy, enthusiasm and cognitive flashes that those encounters engender. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: "David L. Gants" Subject: logic and computational linguistics Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:59:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 61 (61) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************************* Call for Participation - Program LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France Deadline for early registration: June 1st http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ************************************************************************** *** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration: http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IWPT'01, Beijing Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:01:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 62 (62) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 17-19 October, 2001 Beijing, China http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html ~~~~ The Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Beijing, China, will host the 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'01) from 17 to 19 October, 2001. IWPT'01 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; and Trento (Italy) in 2000. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001) (2nd CFP) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:01:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 63 (63) [deleted quotation] Second Call for Papers LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001) A workshop to be held at the occasion of the Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea Leuven, 29 August 2001 http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/sle2001/ **** DEADLINE MAY 30, 2001 **** [material deleted] TOPIC AND MOTIVATION: Large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora are urgently needed in an increasing number of projects in the field of computational linguistics. Many groups are currently creating corpus resources for a variety of languages. These corpora are used for a broad range of different applications and theoretical investigations. We aim to bring together these activities in order to promote and facilitate first of all advanced and efficient exploitation of annotated corpora. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: LACL 2001: 2nd Call for Participation Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:02:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 64 (64) [deleted quotation] *** The deadline for early registration is approaching: June 1st *** Second Call for Participation - Program LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: cast01: Living in Mixed Realities / Submission Deadline Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:03:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 65 (65) May 31, 2001 [deleted quotation] CALL FOR ENTRIES / deadline for submission: May 31, 2001 We invite you to participate in the cast01 conference on intersections of artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of: LIVING IN MIXED REALITIES cast01 Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology September 21-22, 2001 / GMD - Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin / Bonn, Germany cast01 invites submissions of innovative research, media art practise and theory. We are looking for ground breaking media art and inspiring research projects on topics like: Semantic Web, Mixed Reality, Advanced Interfaces and Future Media Spaces that symbolise the influence of information technology on patterns of life and work in a networked society. Proposed contributions (english or german) may be in the form of research papers or artistic presentations as well as blueprints and posters of developing concepts. Researchers, artists, theorists, practitioners and entrepreneurs are encouraged to submit interdisciplinary projects and critical reflections on the merging of the virtual and the real. Topics: * Agents and Narrative Intelligence * Artistic Productions / Mixed Reality Architecture * Awareness, Memory Space and Knowledge Discovery * Cultural Archives * Distributed Systems and Parallel Architectures for the Web * Hypermedia Formats (XML, VRML, MPEG-4, MPEG-7) * Interactive TV * Mixed Reality Environments * Performative Interfaces * Tracking, Tracing, Vision Systems DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 31, 2001 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001 Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2001 Early registration deadline: July 31, 2001 (reduced price) PROCEEDINGS: Accepted papers and blueprints will be published in the Conference proceedings. A special issue of netzspannung.org journal of Art, Design and Innovation Research will be published with cast01 conference best papers. BEST PAPER AWARD: The best paper, artistic presentation, blueprint / poster and student presentation will be honored with the cast01 award. http://netzspannung.org/cast01 e-mail: cast01@netzspannung.org 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. It is hosted by MARS Exploratory Media Lab: http://imk.gmd.de/mars From: "J. Randolph Radney" Subject: 15.036 interactive content Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:58:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 66 (66) Most interesting comments, Willard, and, as usual, "right on". For reader interested in exploring some further interesting ideas relating to the nature of human perception of objects, might I recommend a book by Brian Cantwell Smith (trust this is not "old news"!): _On the origin of objects_ a relevant URL is http://www.ageofsig.org/people/bcsmith/book.html, and the book may be ordered from MIT Pr. radney From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.036 interactive content Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:59:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 67 (67) O Willard, the purist, Just to clarify. I was not suggesting that game software replace access to a machine readable source text. I have very much in mind a layered model and very much in mind a suite or archive which can be shared and built upon/around. I recognize that juxtaposing Goldfarb et al. with Peter Shillingsburg may have led one to believe I was endorsing "interactive content" as author-driven and imposing restrictions on the reader (shades and echoes of the hypertext discussion about the freedom to navigate at will where the degree of freedom depends upon the degree of knowledge about the artefact and the interface software [i.e. browser]). Initiation into the use of the library, I might add is facilitated by the search-and-document exercies that one finds in a good introductory course the social reproduction of researchers. The struggle for legitimacy that a field such a humanities computing faces is in part due to the envy of those that would dismiss it on the grounds that: it's too much fun, it's too hard I look forward to reading reactions to your question about the place of object-oriented programming in humanities computing. I'm sure it will be fun and if it's too too hard, there is always the chance to trot off and learn something. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 68 (68) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 69 (69) [deleted quotation]currently [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 70 (70) [deleted quotation] From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 15.031 obstacles to humanities computing: SGML authoring Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:57:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 71 (71) Charles Faulhaber comments: [deleted quotation] If you want to get trained in something and then never learn anything else, scholarship is the wrong line of work for you. I recommend something like plumbing. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 15.031 obstacles to humanities computing: SGML authoring Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:05:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 72 (72) [deleted quotation] On 21 May 2001, at 6:36, by way of Charles Faulhaber wrote: [deleted quotation] I certainly don't want to start any religious war over the One True Editor(TM). But for those who *must* do markup and cannot afford the very expensive commercial solutions, Emacs+Psgml+XAE is a practical alternative. Why do I say "practical?" Because all the essential functions of markup can be accessed via a menu. By menu one can: o create and save a file o create the XML/SGML declarations for DTDs. o parse the DTD o insert tags without having to remember what they are (Emacs "knows" all about each element and entity, the element's content model) o invalid markup is not allowed by Emacs based upon the DTD (Really helpful if one is just getting to know a complex DTD) o mark up pre-existing text by selecting a span of text (Emacs will insert the start and end tags appropriately o apply the associated XSL stylesheet which passes converted HTML to a browser for viewing No command lines. No arcane key-bindings to learn. The syntax highlighting alone is worth the cost of learning it. To see some excellent examples of colorized SGML/XML/XSL markup in Emacs, see <http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/screenshots/index.html> I admit the installation takes some skill. However, I can take someone who understands about markup, and have them successfully doing markup in Emacs in a half-hour or less. This assumes that they've had previous experience with word processors of some kind. And because the system is in their familiar Windoze environment, they won't have to get used to Unix's stability and they'll have their familiar "Blue Screen of Death"! :-) [deleted quotation] Computational skills are on a par, in my opinion, with communication skills: we expect scholars to be able to effectively articulate their ideas orally and in writing. They should be able to handle a computer with equal facility. Otherwise, they don't know how to utilize the full power of information technology, and will be left in the dust by those who do. [deleted quotation] I thank you for your sympathetic concern. I don't resent the time. It's what pioneers and "early adopters" must do. As a discipline, the humanities have a long way to go to catch up with the natural sciences in adapting to the Information Age. "Humanities computing" cannot be a separate discipline, the business of only the "propeller-heads" among us. Until it becomes the concern of every professor in the humanities, your "indictment" will stand. Do you know what I find encouraging? The Information Age has freed us. The ivory tower is no longer a symbol of isolation: a satellite dish is sitting on top of it. We don't have to wait for everyone to "get it." We can just go out and *do*. Best wishes, Kirk ________________________________________________________________________ Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D. Associate Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute General Editor, Project "eL", The XML Leningrad Codex Chair, Computer Assisted Research Group, Society of Biblical Literature From: Anne Mahoney Subject: Re: 15.035 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:06:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 73 (73) Willard asks about "L. Dindorf" in Dodds's Bacchae commentary, on ll. 661-662. I presume the reference is to Dindorf's edition of the plays of Euripides, published when he (Dindorf, not Euripides!) was only 20. You would have expected a reference to "Dindorf" to mean William, who wrote a lot on tragedy (and Greek poetry generally). Were they brothers? How does one find this out? I went to the OPAC of my favorite big library. I don't expect the average graduate student in classics knows anything about either Dindorf, but I would like to be able to assume such a student would understand the metrical point on which Dodds disagrees with his predecessor. Ideally, there would be a search tool that would allow the curious reader to find all the instances of "tribrachs composed of a single word coinciding with the foot" (to quote Dodds's slightly antiquated language); that's a tool that would greatly facilitate work that's very tedious with print editions. --Anne Mahoney Stoa Consortium From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: LC American Memory Fellows Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:21:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 74 (74) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 23, 2001 50 Educators Named as LC American Memory Fellows 2001 Bringing Primary Documents into Nation's Schools [deleted quotation] May 16, 2001 Contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217 50 EDUCATORS TO PARTICIPATE IN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AMERICAN MEMORY FELLOWS PROGRAM FOR 2001 Fifth Annual Educators Institute to Aid Participants in Use of Electronic Primary Sources The National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress has announced the selection of 50 educators to participate in the 2001 American Memory Fellows Program. The program is an opportunity for outstanding elementary, middle and high school humanities teachers and library-media specialists to learn more about the use of digitized primary sources from the Library in the teaching of American history and culture in their schools. "The American Memory Fellows Program is a chance for the Library to partner with educators across the nation in exploring the value and use of electronic primary sources," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "The 50 educators who will come here this summer, and the 200 who preceded them, are enthusiastic online ambassadors who spread the word to other teachers about our National Digital Library Program's importance to education." The American Memory Fellows will gather in Washington for two sessions of a National Digital Library Educators Institute. The first session, July 15-20, is for elementary and middle school educators, grades 5-8; the second session July 22-27, is for middle and high school educators. Fellows will learn about the Library of Congress's digitized American Memory collections of photographs, documents, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings and motion pictures available at www.loc.gov. During the Educators Institute, the Fellows will share in a professional development experience that will shape the way that the Library's unique American Memory collections are used in schools across the country. The 2001 Fellows join 200 graduates of the Educators Institutes that began in 1997. Like their predecessors, the 2001 Fellows will create teaching units based on the nearly 7.5 million American Memory materials now online. Then, in the school year 2001-2002, Fellows will test their teaching units in the classroom and will revise them for eventual dissemination to the education community through both the Library's World Wide Web site and at professional education forums nationwide. Interactive teaching unit ideas proposed by the selected American Memory Fellows include projects on local history through architecture, the role of the African American soldier in the Civil War, the songs that "built" Kansas, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and women's identity at the turn of the 20th century. The Educators Institute "has been the most stimulating experience of my professional life," said Jane Garvin, of St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Mo. Another Fellow said: "I think the most important thing that I discovered this week was almost a complete paradigm shift in how I access and use information. ... Now, I can't imagine not using primary resources." Twenty-five, two-person American Memory Fellows teams, selected by an independent review panel from 150 teams of applicants, comprise teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators, media specialists and other educational professionals from across the nation. The American Memory Fellows are frequent users of technology in the classroom, and they are experienced in using primary sources to motivate students, promote critical thinking and help students connect history to their lives. All the Fellows are active leaders in the field of education and have the ability to disseminate their expertise to educators in their region. American Memory Fellows will also cooperate throughout the school year in an online National Digital Library Teacher Network. Through this forum, they will exchange ideas and learn from each other through organized online discussion groups. 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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: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: eHumanities: Computers & Science Fiction on June 5 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:22:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 75 (75) You are invited to a free lecture! Please pass on to your colleagues! NEH EHUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES Professor Eric Rabkin "Using Computers to Discover Cultural Truths: The Genre Evolution Project Studies Science Fiction." Tuesday, June 5, Noon, Room M-09 Old Post Office, Washington, DC To register, please see: http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html Technology has changed the way many scholars do their work. In many fields of science, like genetics, the computer has opened up new worlds of research that were previously impossible. Can computers also enable humanities scholars to make the same kind of leap? Please join us for the third eHumanities lecture to find out how scholars at the University of Michigan are using computers to help them study how literature evolves over time, using science fiction as their test case. Please join us on June 5 at Noon at the Old Post Office to hear Professor Eric Rabkin from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Professor Rabkin has lectured widely, to both general and academic audiences, on fantasy, science fiction, fairy tales, humor, American literature, literary theory, culture studies, pedagogy, composition, administration, and information technology. His talk at the NEH is entitled "Using Computers to Discover Cultural Truths: The Genre Evolution Project Studies Science Fiction." The Genre Evolution Project (GEP) 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. To register and get more details about the lecture, please see: http://www.neh.gov/online/ehumanities.html From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Obstacles & Paths Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:20:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 76 (76) Willard, A recent posting bordering on rant which you kindly deemed worthy of publication has garnered a bit of off-list reaction in the form of appreciation for the idiom of irony. Below is a snippet of my response to one person who tied my comments about making greater use of online communication with a general question about renewal which knot gets spliced to the purpose of Humanist... You do raise the twin issues of the quality of the scholary products in which we invest and the calibre of mentoring we give and receive. I wonder if the spate of upcoming discussions on MA curricula will address their imbrication. As to Humanist being a pref-Ref cathedral. a rant about digitial preservation as work parrallel to the development of content encoding schemes might not be out of place. Imagine if Luther had used sticky notes instead of hammer and nails... Not looking for an Alexander, Delighted to delight in loops, Cuz the Gordian knot tugs Keeping Aeolian strings taut -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 15.041 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:13:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 77 (77) [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] Humanities computing is still far removed from what one might call the "traditional" humanities. To be sure, the thought of a humanities scholar without some rudimentary knowledge of computers is about as quaint as using a typewriter to prepare manuscripts. But technology is supposed to get easier, scholars do not have the time to learn a whole new discipline and still keep up with the one they're already in. Charles Faulhaber's comments suggest that humanities computing, specifically encoding, is something more akin to library science than humanities research. I agree with James O'Donnell who, in his book Avatars of the Word, has nothing but glowing praises for librarians who have blazed paths for us in applying information technology to humanities research. Humanities scholars need to learn how to use the library's resources in order to do their research, but they are not expected to become librarians. Likewise, I may want to put a database together to facilitate my research, but the database is supposed to be a means to an end, I do not necessarily want it to make encoding it the goal of my research. It's a question of jurisdiction: if I build a database of, say, 19th-century popular French literature, who are my peers? Folks who encode texts in other languages and from other periods, or folks who study 19th-century France who only know how to use a word processor and send email? You could say both, and in fact I'm trying to do that personally, but the research agendas of both contituencies are still so far removed from each other that even if I wrote the killer paper that made siginificant contributions to both fields, each group would only get half the message. So we have to make choices. Do I finish that database project that makes use of XML in a new and interesting way, or do I publish that article on canon formation? Who do I want to court, and what will I gain from impressing them? 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: Willard McCarty Subject: truly a quest worth the effort Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:18:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 78 (78) Does anyone know where one can find a cap with a propeller on it? I had not until this morning ever conceived a desire for such a thing, but now I find life a gray and dull thing without one, even life in London on such a glorious Spring morning. I assure you I am quite serious, though in a deeply humorous way. If someone should feel moved to send me one, be informed that my hat size (in N American measure) is 7 3/4. I will of course reimburse. I cannot promise to wear it immediately. The occasion (an inaugural, perhaps?) will have to be just right, but when it is, it will be. For those who have not read their Humanist postings carefully enough, I am referring to Kirk Lowery's statement in 15.041 that, [deleted quotation]Indeed, every professor in the humanities should be paying attention! But there are many questions packed into this brief "rant", as he characterises it. Allow me to list them with brief comment, inviting further from everyone else: (1) The question of "discipline". The argument about whether some field of study is or is not a discipline begins in the unexamined assumption that we know what a discipline is. The wise, in my experience, give up on the question and decide to do something about it, such as establish a position, found a department or research centre or ask better questions at least. The unwise, well... for them things usually go seriously downhill from there. Trouble is that the term "discipline" seems to suggest some higher authority than the term "department" or "tenured position", but it proves exceedingly difficult to establish what that authority might be. Some "disciplines" have been around for a long time, like philosophy, others are relatively recent, like English or anthropology, some prove flashes in the institutional pan. What makes all of these "disciplines"? (2) Propeller-headedness. Lots here, that's for sure: the ancient rivalry between those who make and those who think, to put the matter crudely but politely; or, to speak to their integration in terms with which we should be very intimate, the problem of what equipment has to do with and in the humanities. A question that begins with or at least deeply involves the history and philosophy and sociology of science and technology, in order that we may see the computer in a broadly cultural context. Once that happens, we can calm down, look around the disciplinary terrain, see that there's plenty of help about -- but that no one is doing the job that has fallen into our lap to do. (3) The withering away of the humanities computing state, with the final establishment of a professorial people's democracy of computational awareness. Disciplinarity (I mean, of course, departmentalism) causes many problems, as those who write about interdisciplinarity are always saying -- and they're right up to a point. But the division into sometimes not so intellectual fiefdoms serves an important purpose in the real world of budgets and monstrous social pressures; behind these walls perhaps, sometimes, we can have a little peace and time in which to think. Given departmental life, how is, say, a professor of French going to do his or her job in the subject AND keep up with computing? This just might seem possible if one were to trivialise what computing is about. Even if one chooses a tiny corner of computing, such as hypertext research, one is quickly overwhelmed with what is going on in it, intellectually, I mean. Besides which, who will there be in our socialist paradise to notice that methodologically we have alot in common? (4) Indictment -- but of whom? Shall we all swear out warrants against each other? Against "the system"? Perhaps we should put certain attitudes and mistaken ideas in the dock, finding fault with whatever sins are involved, certainly not the sinners, among whom we must all count ourselves, no? Besides, as Stan Katz observed in a meeting some years back (referring, actually, to the death of Paul Evan Peters), our activity here and elsewhere, in humanities computing, is so terribly fragile, depends on so few hearts continuing to beat, that we cannot afford to lose anyone. So, let's get down to substantive matters, like finding that propeller-topped cap.... Yours, WM From: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: RE: 15.041 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:19:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 79 (79) We seem to be coming perilously close to a "flame war" on the subject of what one does or does not need to know about computing to be a productive scholar. The dirty little secret in the field of computing is that many programs are designed by techno-geeks with little attention paid to the human interface and to the usability of the software by people who are not initiates into the priestly class of computer scientists. Computer scientists themselves will be the first to tell you this. Example: I was trying to number pages printed from a file on a UNIX operating system. After trying every source of help on UNIX (the syntax is MAN (whatever) where MAN is short for "manual"), I asked a colleague how to do this. Without breaking stride, he replied, "MAN enscript," where "enscript" is the name of the utility I needed. Computer scientists say, "UNIX is the only operating system taught by word-of-mouth." There are comparable horror stories about other operating systems and most application software. In short, those who think computing technology is supposed to be the servant rather than the master are in for a rude awakening. The problem is incompetence on the part of those who write operating systems and applications software, not the readers of HUMANIST and other who try to use such software as scholarly tools. _______________________________________________________________ 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Counting hours Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 07:21:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 80 (80) Willard, How could I resist a little parse magic? [deleted quotation]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [deleted quotation]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The billable hours model for humanities computing. Good training for our students who do have to earn a living as consultants. Time is precious. So is a functional and ecologically-friendly sewer system. Scholarship is not a line of work. Teaching, research, publishing are lines of work. A person engaged in scholarship need not teach, need not publish and need not conduct research except in the most minimal sense of consuming products of scholarship. To flush out a piping conceit: some of us are pumps, some of us are filters, some of us are elbow joints, and to drain it further --- some of us are high-powered water heaters rigged to solar energy converters. I stress the point. Even when I do not teach, I am a scholar. Even when I do not publish, I am a scholar. Even when I am not engaged in research, I am a scholar. Scholarship is the cultural bagage that permits me to tinker with rhetoric and explore the parallels between a skilled trade and a learned activity. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large WOULD-BE PLUMBER in the Era of Reparation From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.044 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:10:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 81 (81) Hello Willard, and HUMANIST, At 07:28 AM 5/24/01, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Yea, verily, Willard. Not being able to resolve this rivalry, which so many of us experience in our very persons. Yet we are at a fascinating moment of self-consciousness, when we realize that our apparatus of thought, as we have learned to use it -- whether that be pencil and paper, discursive prose as composed on a typewriter, or search/sort operations performed on a text base -- have always conditioned our thinking itself. And that understanding this relation is part of understanding our own partiality (that shadow of our thinking that is so hard to see, being usually behind us as we gaze into the light cast by our instruments). Not long ago I read an interesting passage in a book by a mathematician who remarks on how pleased he is to have a job in which he can lie down flat on his back, shut his eyes, and be doing serious work. Having internalized his discipline, yet he would be unable to do this if he had not spent uncounted hours with pencil and yellow pad, or with stick and sand. Isn't the stylus and the tablet, though now so "virtual" he can shut his eyes and start scrawling, part of his means of thinking? Likewise, isn't the architecture of a sentence, the organization of an argument, or the carriage of a metaphor, the very stuff of the Humanities? And could we learn to use (could we even have discovered) these instruments if we had no way of externalizing them? "The ancient rivalry between those who make and those who think." Yet what do we ever think, but ways of making; what do we ever make, but ways of thinking? 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: Merrilee Proffitt Subject: Propeller heads unite! Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:10:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 82 (82) I've been following the recent exchange with much amusement. I am perfectly happy with emacs. I tried at one point to show Charles how to use it, which he's been grumbling about ever since. I've failed humanities computing! For those who want a propeller hat of their very own... (Willard, yours is in the mail) I particularly like the star and what appears to be a armadillo perched on top. http://www.computergear.com/propellerhat.html Merrilee From: "Kirk Lowery" Subject: RE: 15.041 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:11:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 83 (83) On 24 May 2001, at 7:28, by way of Dr. Donald J. Weinshank wrote: [deleted quotation] I hope my remarks are not seen as any kind of rebuke of Charles Faulhaber! I completely sympathize with his position: computers ought to be easy to use. But they aren't. My own philosophy has always been, "learn what I must to accomplish my goals." I learned to program in the late 1970s, because no one was writing software to meet my needs. I learned about desktop publishing (and fonts!) in the 1980s because in my field we have to deal with many different writing systems and orthographies. That's what first attracted me to TeX and Metafont. I learned about networking because I wanted to connect and collaborate with other scholars around the world. In both cases economics drove me: I didn't have a lot of money available to me, especially for doing the travel to conferences, etc., that was needful. Technology isn't the only knowledge domain I was forced to learn in order to reach my goals. In the mid-1970s while doing my grad work at UCLA, the marvelous library at Tel el-Mardik (Ebla) was discovered and escavated. Think of it! The only new Semitic language to have been discovered since Ugaritic in the 1920s and the only one in my lifetime. It was exciting-- until I learned that the archaeological expedition was from Italy: all the site and epigraphy reports were in Italian. "How am I going to read this stuff?" I wondered out loud. My professor handed me an Italian dictionary and grammar. "With these," he replied. Eventually, of course, there was publication in English. But even today, the serious Semiticist should consult the Italian literature. I've been an interested bystander, watching developments in the biological disciplines as they have strugged to adapt to information technology. (Who better than they to know the consequence of not adapting to a changing enviroment! :-) As a group of related "disciplines", in the past ten years they have embraced IT and made it their own. (Cf. <http://www.bioinformatics.org/>. They have created large, public databases. They have collected and adapted programs and algorithms and created their own (non-commercial) software for everyday tasks. And they have created communities where the information flows freely--essential for the advancement of any "discipline." And now, a very interesting book has just been published by O'Reilly, _Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills_ (<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/>). The table of contents is very instructive. It is clear that a consensus is emerging among those scientists as to what a minimum and optimum skill-set is to be expected of every practitioner. Now, I'm not advocating the humanities use bioinformatics as a template to follow, although I think there are many close parallel developments in computational linguistics that are of interest to many of us. But by analogy, most of us deal with "text," however that is defined or in whatever form. Our work tends to be in three parts: (1) the target of study or "raw data," e.g., manuscripts or literary works; (2) our analysis of that target; (3) our own literary productions about our analysis. Humanities computing has addressed all these already with varying degrees of success. I am going to present a minimum "skill-set" that, in an ideal world, grad students should be expected to have before they set out in their profession. I only tentatively offer these; I know not everyone will agree. I won't lengthen this posting further with detailed reasoning, but I assure you I can defend each suggestion aggressively. Ideally, then, a brand, spanking new humanities PhD *minimally* ought to: 1. Be able to write programs to manipulate text, and to be able to create and manage databases. This implies knowledge of: a. the Perl programming language b. Regular expressions c. How programs can be "hacked" together from pieces of code lying about the net 2. Be able to collaborate with others. This implies knowledge of: a. Web authoring (and HTML/XML) and markup c. "Groupware" allowing networked collaboration I'm oversimplifying, and glossing over many questions and issues. This list is suggestive, not a departmental memo for a curriculum proposal. And this list only conceives the computer as a manipulator of static information. The computer could dynamically simulate and model textual worlds or linguistic analysis. But that requires a much, much higher level of skill. A matter for 22nd century humanities scholars. Well, time to get back to planning this weekend's tutoring of my 14 year old son. He enters high school in the autumn, and C/C++ programming is a 5 hr/wk class all four years. He wants to get a "jump" on his classmates. Right now it's an elective, but there's talk of making it required for all students... Kirk ________________________________________________________________________ Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D. Associate Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute General Editor, Project "eL", The XML Leningrad Codex Chair, Computer Assisted Research Group, Society of Biblical Literature From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 84 (84) [deleted quotation] authoring [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 85 (85) [deleted quotation] authoring [deleted quotation] it at [deleted quotation] that you [deleted quotation] who has [deleted quotation] trained. [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 86 (86) [deleted quotation] From: "Kirk Lowery" Subject: fsconcordance? Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:07:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 87 (87) Apparently, the UPenn server no longer has Meng Weng Wong's Perl concordancer "fsconcordance.pl". I've looked *everywhere*. If someone could send me a copy, or point me to a working URL, I'd be grateful. TIA. Kirk ________________________________________________________________________ Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D. Associate Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute General Editor, Project "eL", The XML Leningrad Codex Chair, Computer Assisted Research Group, Society of Biblical Literature From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Internet researcher"? Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 06:09:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 88 (88) Recently I was asked to look at something that referred to the designation "Internet researcher". I immediately felt puzzled and have subsequently been attempting to figure out why I find this designation odd. Of course feelings are notoriously unreliable and difficult to share, but those that persist do nag as to source, and being bothered by words can point to significant connotations. One does run into dodgy contexts, such as sent to me recently by quiteironic@netwow.com, an advert for Internet Investigator, which promises to allow you the user access to information about "neighbors, enemies, friends, debtors, employees, your boss, yourself, relatives, former school or military buddies, even a new love interest!" Net-wow indeed (but with no detectable irony). But I don't think that such contexts are responsible for my puzzlement. Any ideas? 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[deleted quotation] Citing the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today lifted the injunction on publication of Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone": "It is manifest that the entry of a preliminary injunction in this copyright case was an abuse of discretion in that it represents an unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment." The order frees Randall to publish her novel, alternately described as a parody of or sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind." The Eleventh Circuit's order is in direct conflict with the D.C. Circuit's statement in Eldred v. Reno, that "copyrights are categorically immune from challenges under the First Amendment." Rather than follow the D.C. Circuit's limited First Amendment scrutiny of copyright's restrictions, the Eleventh Circuit declared the copyright-based injunction to be an "unlawful prior restraint." Mitchell's estate won the earlier injunction from an Atlanta district court on the claim that Randall's novel was an unauthorized sequel copied from "Gone With the Wind." Randall argued that her work, told from the perspective of Scarlett O'Hara's slave-born half-sister, was permissible artistic comedy or parody, making fair use of Mitchell's work. Under the 56-year copyright term in effect when Mitchell wrote "Gone With the Wind," the entire world of Tara should have become public domain in 1993. A copy of the order is online at <<http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvreno/wind_done_gone.html>http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvreno/wind_done_gone.html>. The Eleventh Circuit says an expanded opinion will follow. Links to earlier commentary on the case may be found at the Openlaw/Eldred v. 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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: Jack Lynch Subject: Re: 15.046 fsconcordance? "Internet researcher"? Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:33:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 91 (91) Kirk Lowery writes: Apparently, the UPenn server no longer has Meng Weng Wong's Perl concordancer "fsconcordance.pl". I've looked *everywhere*. If someone could send me a copy, or point me to a working URL, I'd be grateful. I saved a copy when I worked with Meng, and have just put it on-line. There are two files, and to be honest I can't recall the difference between the two versions. One is considerably longer than the other, so perhaps it represents a later stage of development. I was just able to get the shorter one, fsc.pl, to work, but fsc refused to cooperate -- but then, I put little time into it. In any case: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/fsc http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/fsc.pl For those who don't know it, fsconcordance was written by Meng Weng Wong (then an undergraduate) in '94 or '95. It takes a text file and generates an HTML file from it, with each word marked with a tag. It then creates a series of HTML concordances: one for each word, then one for each two-word phrase, another for each three-word phrase, and so on; the concordances are hyperlinked to the complete text, so you can jump to the place each phrase appears. It can also work on more than one text file at once, allowing you to spot shared collocations in several files. Very handy. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 15.044 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:30:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 92 (92) Willard, Charles Faulhaber's response to the comments so far: [deleted quotation] raises an important issue about the work of computing humanists. Yes, let's call a plague down on the heads of the computer scientists who practice master/disciple relationships, but also on the humanities where they stole the idea. But criticizing someone for acting like ourselves does not answer Faulhaber's request. Nor am I persuaded by Kirk Lowery's suggestion that new Ph.D students should know things like Perl (a programming language) and regular expressions (crudely put a syntax for searching texts). Both of those are things that I have and continue to devote time to but that does not mean that they are essential components for a PhD in the humanities. (I note that Glendon Schubert, _The judicial mind revisited : psychometric analysis of Supreme Court ideology_, Oxford, 1974, taught himself multivariant factor analysis on a Friden rotary calculator. I don't think anyone would contend that mastery of the rotary calculator is relevant for humanities computing today.) Humanities computing is still a very young discipline and many of us work very "close to the metal" as it were in developing tools and applications. I hear Faulhaber's request as a call to create tools that allow humanities scholars to use the results of our labors without serving as apprentices in areas removed from their main subject matter interests. I don't have to be able to create a text editor to use one, why should I be able to create a heavily encoded text to use the fruits of such an effort? Understanding the markup will make me a better user, but shouldn't that come after I have found the tool a useful one? For example (this does not exist, yet!), consider an electronic version of the Hebrew bible that displays a standard base text. By choosing menu options, scholars can display other versions (read manuscript witnesses) either as the main text or as a critical apparatus. On choosing other menu options, scholars can record structures they see in the text, which is immediately formatted to display that structure (menu driven display options) and after marking several such structures, they can be compared against each other or sent to other scholars. Morphological, syntactic information and comparative materials are available through other menu options. The program dynamically updates the information that can be the subject of searches or analysis based upon the information provided by the scholar. Statistical analysis is also available through a set of menu options. Working very close to the metal to build such an application, one would need to know all manner of technology not strictly relevant to mastery of the subject matter material. But the non-computing humanist Hebrew scholar should not have to care whether I can used SGML's concur, TexMECS or some other markup technology to encode the textual variants. That knowledge is useful to help add to the construction of such tools but it should not be a green card to access the fruits of our labors. I think Faulhaber is correct in thinking that spreading the use (and perceived relevance) of computers in the humanities depends upon us making applications that are easy to use by non-computing humanists. (Witness the spread of the PC if you require a historical demonstration of this strategy.) Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.045 obstacles (and propellers) to humanities computing Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:31:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 93 (93) At 6:15 +0100 25/5/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]to enter into the spirit of Charles' comments and what the above, for me, completely assumes: that computing humanities apparently has little or nothing that it wants to say about: painting sound still image moving image digital images the cinematic the televisual new media i think my very general question, as someone in cinema studies with computers, is why are these major cultural forms of the last 100 years largely invisible *to* computing humanities? Is computing humanities primary concern with the static and stable textual object (manuscript, etc)? Why doesn't it seem to have much to say about these things? how does this relate to Charles' comments? I'm not actually sure :-) except I think i do humanities computing because i use computers to do things in the humanities that can't be done without computers. but i don't see how that statement implies I *must* know Perl or even a formal programming language. I think what you all do and describe is a pragmatics of computing where you know how to pragmatically assemble what you need to get to where you need or want to try and get to. (emacs or not, who cares?). this is the skill that humanists (great creative lateral thinkers all) bring to computers (great think linear dumb machines) to apply to their object of study. its about this is a process, not what brands have to fit in that process. just .05 cents worth (we got rid of the 1's and 2's in our currency here a few years back....) cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Words in the Mouth Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:32:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 94 (94) Willard, Nice to see your request for gift (a propeller-enhanced beanie) sandwiched between other messages. Very astute placement --- not too forward by being the first and a nice break with tradition of moderator privilege of last spot in the list of messages. It is by chance that I had read of Merrilee Proffitt's success in locating a supplier of the soon to be cherished item before I read the bundle of messages containing your request and so it probably influenced how I read Dr. Donald J. Weinshank's anecdote of the Unix MAN search. [deleted quotation]Is that "taught" in the present tense? or the past? The anecdote doesn't say if at any point the searcher considered to eavesdrop on the conversational traces offered by the World Wide Web. A simple Boolean search on the string "Unix NEAR printing NEAR page" matches a number of pages which then can provide the vocabulary for a MAN search or for further refined searches of the WWW. I am very grateful for the anecdote since I have done some work on the pedagogy of reiterative searching Reading and Searching: Tools and Skills http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/tcon2000.htm but never quite made the connection of usings the search results from one domain (e.g. the WWW) to glean keywords for the search of another domain (a manual, a library catalogue). I have had students share and comment on each other's search strings. I am also aware that document management systems such as PCDocs (recently bought by Hummingbird) allow users to save queries and use them to (re)search repositories and to swap queries with other users. The informing metaphor is moving away from a folder system to a constellation or kniting one's own utterance (a question) form the bits and pieces of stardust conversation one has collected. Is it now wonder that pollination and cross-pollination follow from browsing or as, I believe, has been pointed out on Humanist before, what the French call "butiner". Hum with your MAN -- wonder the Web. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Igor Kramberger Subject: use of software Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 95 (95) Hi to all: Willard McCarty wrot on May 9th: [deleted quotation]and Kirk Lowery wrote on May 25th: [deleted quotation]I think that we should narrow what a humanist should be doing with his/her computer -- computer is a tool and I do not produce first a hammer to be able to use it later. Comments: 1.a. I think that Perl is fine, but that general implication could be that we need some knowledge about scripting languages: Python, UserTalk (for Frontier), Tcl (look at Alpha and AlphaTk editors) -- which is not comparable with the C/C++ programming. 1.b. Yes, GREP is fine -- but only as long as you have to deal with texts in English. Or: how would you use GREP for a document written in Hebrew? 1.c. I do not think that there is a real difference between 1.a and 1.c -- as every (La)TeX user knows, who is editing the configuration files. What is more important, is, how to use all the options in an application you use every day. Here is my story. For the bibliography of the first 50 issues of the review "Otrok in knjiga " (Child and book) we used Nisus Writer as a word processor. This allowed us to use very free form for every bibliographical entry which is divided into three parts. Later we added at the end of each entry the number variable. We marked every entry for several indices -- for a short time we turned every entry into a page, so we had the same number as the last number variable and as pages. We produced indices which relate to the entry number and returned to the full page of entries (entries divided by two returns). Using GREP and some markup we could transform the huge source file, in which all articles were described from the first issue until the last, in 12 minutes into a bibliography with different sections according to the markup. Bibliography is now printed -- but every interested person could get a file for find / search purposes using strings of literal characters or GREP. Finally, some years ago two persons in Australia developed Palimpsest -- an application which supports creation of hyperlinked documents from an array of text pieces. The user defines the windows for the text input. Every window can be hyperlinked with every other window -- in one direction or in both directions. Links can be annotated -- and you can browse through this annotations. The initial idea came from experience with the law and procedures at court. After the second version the development was more or less abandoned, because there were not enough users, who would be prepared to use such approach for their research (collecting pieces of text) and writing which would start from the hyperlinks. <http://www.westciv.com/> Respectfully, -- Igor ----- kramberger@uni-mb.si From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Noun Researcher Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 06:36:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 96 (96) Willard Internet Researcher It's the Noun-as-descriptive construction that may be a source of some of the puzzlement. One is left wondering if the noun in question is a object of study. In this case, is the researcher researching the Internet? As well as wondering if the noun in question is a tool. In this case, is the research conduct by means of the Internet? I suppose this is compounded by the usuage in some quarters that collapses the distinctions between Cyberspace, Internet and World Wide Web. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 15.050 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 06:36:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 97 (97) Kudos to Adrian Miles, who in response to a proposed list of what every PhD needs to know, points out: [deleted quotation] say about: [deleted quotation] The answer here is, I suspect, primarily historical; that is, humanities computing traces its roots back to a time when computers were (comparatively) good at manipulating words, and much less good (and efficient) at manipulating images, particularly raster images. (There are sessions readily recognizable as "humanities computing" from the MLA programs of the early 1970s, for example.) Thus the foundation of the field, historically and technologically, has been textual. In my own opinion, it's high time we collectively acknowledged this and thought through the ramifications, not least because from a computational standpoint images and text remain very different entities. Both images and text are computable, but they are not computable by means of the same algorithms, the same software, or even (and especially) the same intellectual assumptions. Using SGML at the Blake Archive we have, perhaps, managed something akin to a keyword in context search for images, but even that analogy quickly breaks down once one begins thinking about how the visual images are being linguistically encoded (I gesture here to Kari Kraus's upcoming ACH/ALLC paper on the subject of image description). But there is also another set of issues at stake. In my editor's introdution to a forthcoming issue of Computers and the Humanities on the subject of image-based humanities computing, I write: "In my experience, image-based humanities computing serves as a powerful demonstration to the humanities at large that the computer is something more than an instrument for computation---that it is also a venue for representation. This is clearly evident from the technical procedures that major image-based projects have helped cultivate [ . . .] But it is also evident in a more visceral sense, one we ought not to be bashful about acknowledging: the genuine excitement of seeing a high-resolution, 24-bit color image wash across the display screen. Many mainstream humanities scholars have long been skeptical of quantitative research methodswitness, for example, the sinister Centre for Computational Stylistics depicted in David Lodge's academic satire Small World. This skepticism has in turn lead to apathy towards computers, apathy which in my view was not entirely misplaced so long as the computer's primary role in the humanities was, ostensibly, to compute. But show colleagues a painting from the Rossetti Archive, or a digital image of one of Emily Dickinson's turbulent manuscripts and that skepticism vanishes, or is at least replaced with more to-the-point questions about image acquisition and editorial fidelity, not to mention scholarly and pedagogical potential. These are questions of representation, and they are eminently relevant to the work of the humanities." Several years back, I posted to Humanist my own list of what every computing humanist ought to know. I just had another look and still stand by it; here it is, lightly edited: * text-encoding/theory and practice of markup; * digital image creation and manipulation; * fundamentals of library science and information retrieval; * theory and practice of textual editing, both electronic and print; * principals of graphic design; * interface theory and design; * electronic poetry and fiction; * cyberpunk and the history of science fiction; * digital music and the digital arts; digital culture; * the history of writing; * the history of the book; * the history of other media; * the history of computing, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications networks; * chaos theory and fuzzy logic; * practical introduction to Javascript, VRML [now largely defunct], Shockwave [Flash], and other networked multimedia formats; * current issues in electronic publishing, in both commercial and academic settings; * exposure to a programming/scripting language; * fundamentals of linguistics and symbolic logic; * project management skills; * introduction to intellectual property and copyright issues; * computer-assisted pedagogies Of course finding (and funding) the time to do/read/learn all that is another matter. Best, Matt From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 15.050 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 06:37:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 98 (98) Some comments on the thread about software design and its "indictment" of humanities computing. I sympathize with those who don't much sympathize with those who are unwilling to invest time and energy (and even money) in learning new tools. A Blake scholar wishing to do research of any sophistication can't get far without coming to grips with Bentley's Blake Books, a reference tome I suspect few Blakeans would describe as user-friendly. It takes a little time and a little energy to learn to use it, and money too if one doesn't have access to a library that already owns the volume or is willing to acquire it. I also think that the notion that humanities computing has somehow failed its mandate if it has not provided sufficient quantities of user-friendly software tools misses the point, for that line of thinking relegages humanities computing to the academic service sector . . . and that's a job I'm not much interested in. I am, however, currently engaged in a software project of my own, one that is designing an environment for comparing, and remotely sharing, image sets. Of course I hope that our tool will be widely useful and used. But I wouldn't be involved in the project if it wasn't fun. By "fun," though, I don't mean fun in the same sense that a vacation is fun. Here's what I do mean by "fun": yesterday I was designing some icons for our toolbar interface; that was fun because it appealed to my instincts for graphic design, a kind of hobby. A week earlier, I was writing a longish email to my collaborators detailing some shortcomings in the behavior of our GUI; that also appealed to my design instincts, and was fun because I had never built a GUI from the ground up before. Prior to that, thinking through some problems in authority control (how to keep multiple participants in a session with the software from initiating mutually exclusive actions) was fun because it was a kind of analytical thinking different from the literary critical thinking in which I was officially trained. The truth is that if I did _not_ find these activities fun, I would not be working at them no matter how important or vital I thought the tool we were building really was. Instead I would be teaching nineteenth century American literature, the field I originally enterred graduate school to pursue (or perhaps, given the job market in that field, I would now be plumbing). My broader point ( belabored though it might be), is that software design in the humanities is almost certainly even more contingent than we already acknowledge: it depends on one or more individuals with the requisite skill sets who are also predisposed to derive the kinds of personal satisfaction I have been describing above, simultaneously occupying a time and a place where there are sufficient material/institutional resources to pursue the work at hand. There are only a few places around the world where the stars are right for that on anything like a regular basis, and even in those places it's sometimes hard to keep the constellations fixed. That may change as humanities computing comes more and more into its own (witness the emerging degree programs and growing numbers of jobs in the field), but not if we browbeat people with the notion that what they really should be doing is building tools for the AOL generation. (BTW, by my unscientific estimate the average number of times the word "easy" appears in a 30-second AOL spot is 5.5---count for yourself.) Best, Matt From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 15.050 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 06:38:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 99 (99) on 5/26/01 Adrian Miles wrote: [deleted quotation] Let me chime in to totally agree with Adrian. If we're going about setting requirements for new humanities PhDs, I'd consider figuring out the ins-and-outs of Photoshop and vector-based animation or maybe a 3D program just as valid and commendable as having to tackle regEx and the O'Reilly Camel. There's no reason to needlessly scare people away especially when the possibilities of what they can do are simply so much more expansive than what is suggested above. If they want to do databases or text manipulation -- hey, that's okay too -- only I'd let them choose their own solution whatever that implied. LEO P.S. I'd have them do a little plumbing along the way. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein Library Web Coordinator home ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://patachon.com office ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: obstacles and fertility Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 07:00:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 100 (100) In his very important essay, "Farewell to the Information Age" (in the collection of essays, The Future of the Book, which he edited) Geoffrey Nunberg comments that the forms of discourse emerging in this post-informational age "tend to mirror those of the preinformation age". He points, as one might guess, to the professional discussion groups, such as this one. He notes "the opening up of the right to speak", which reverses "the effects of nineteenth-century immurement and professionalization of the disciplines... a transition from the republic of letters to the bureaucracy of letters", where a writer must continually declare style and department and submit to an examination of purpose and credentials at the frontier to every field. Discussion groups, Nunberg says, don't just permit the participation of interested amateurs, "they also remove the burden of professionalism that was imposed in the nineteenth century to limit the published discourse of the sciences to descriptions of its 'subject matter' and purge it of critical self-consideration. The amateur epistemologizing and sociologizing, the pedagogical and technical lore, the gossip and the professional politics, the anecdotal observations about curiosities that lie outside the realm of current theory -- all these come bubbling back into public view from the orality where they have been repressed for the past two hundred years...." (pp. 130f). Do we need to be told that what's happening here is important -- that it's more important than simply the constant building of a community centre? Perhaps we do. "Of course it can be a risky matter to read all this informationally, " Nunberg comments -- which leads me to my second point, in aid of a great deal, though perhaps not obviously. By now, I expect, the thorn-bush words that have announced the death of "the impression of information" (as Nunberg brilliantly says) and put it into an historical context will have pricked a few readers. Better than anyone I know, Nunberg has looked very closely at "information", this "uniform and morselised substance indifferent not just to the medium that it resides in but also to the kind of representation it embodies" (philosophical alert!), and shown it to be a particular "mode of reading", an artefact of a certain way of doing things that so-called "information technology" is, he argues, bringing to an end. I never was particularly happy with the word "information", but now it's hard to say without it triggering a great deal of conscious mental activity. I keenly appreciate Mark Wolff's comment, in Humanist 15.041, that academics quite understandably get annoyed at the extra-territorial demands which humanities computing can place on their attention. These can be from trivial causes, such as the rebarbative interface I must face when using fsconcordance. I'm quite prepared to be told, o grow up, you've mastered and re-mastered more difficult stuff before &c. (And the person who tells me this should be prepared for me to reply that I really do have better things to do with my time, and the DOS-prompt interface is not what we want to promote &c.) But Wolff's point is more serious than that. The fact is that the humanities computing components of research projects which are primarily in other fields do make sometimes unsupportable intellectual demands on those in the other fields, who are forced by practical circumstances to ignore many fascinating problems along the way. And the difficulties only get worse. I am looking (almost) as I write at a quite long shelf and a half of books I had to read and understand on the way to writing an article, for a collection in classical studies, that took me nearly a year to produce. (Let us say for the purposes of argument that this is a very fine article; I cannot tell, but the point doesn't turn on its quality.) This shelf and a half doesn't contain the dozens of articles, mostly printed out from the ACM Digital Library, which are piled elsewhere, nor the still electronic ones piled virtually on my hard disk. None of this stuff is in either of my conventional fields. And then, through the kindness of Matt Kirschenbaum, I have encountered the brilliant new book (picking up on a point by Adrian Miles, about the narrow-mindedness of humanities computing....), The Language of New Media, by Lev Manovich (MIT Press, 2001), which is beginning to change the way I see a number of things. Someone's got to put a STOP to this! :-) Or introduce me to one of those Star Trek creatures who moves and lives so fast that all ordinary people hear is a buzz. Yes, I do remember what happens to those who are thus introduced. Suggestion withdrawn. It's clearly no good to push item upon item into the bulging curriculum; only mental indigestion and other forms of polymathic stress will result. We need to think more subtly about a broad survey of many fields followed by specialisations here or there. I think if I were a philosopher or historian or sociologist I'd be mightily intrigued by the possibility of constructing a survey course or courses in which my discipline had to fit in along side several others. Perhaps this is not so different a vision from the one responsible for the humanities programme at my alma mater, Reed College, and like things elsewhere. The late Don Fowler wrote, in "Criticism as commentary and commentary as criticism in the age of electronic media", of the potential which our field offers: that "the commentary becomes fluid, an emblem not of monumental solution but of the continuing fertility of problematisation" (Most, ed., Commentaries, p. 441). And so this gardener's lament is a celebration. L'chaim! Yours, WM From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: COCH/COSH Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 07:02:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 101 (101) Willard, I was briefly in Quebec City for part of the COCH/COSH annual meeting. I think you would have enjoyed the proceedings which were held in a building which is used primarily for continuing education. I can report on some of the presentations. Other subscribers may be able to fill you in from their own perspective both on what I report here and on what I fail to report. Bill Winder sparked some thinking into questions of expertise. He provided a very provoking paradox with all sorts of wonderful prickly ethical spines. He invited us to take the case of the researcher/teacher who builds an automatic grammar corrector by using data collected from student samples which at first blush looks like putting the pedagoge out of a job. Stefan Sinclair offered an elegant use case of the KIS (keep it simple) principle in action and a wonderful exemplification of refurbishing a system that had evolved in a pre-Web distribution environment. He gave a quick overview of SATORBASE which is suite of tools for searching and updating a database of literary topoi. After this cogent presentation, I would very much like to hear Stefan speak about Perl and learning curves as well as the pros and cons of storing data in plain text, XML or a relational database. There is very much the basis of a three-part "memoire" in his experience which could weave together the autobiographical (how a research acquires and stretches a skill set), the topical (how a specific project carries and transcends its histories) and the technical (the trade off between performance and maintenace). Martine Cardin presented an overview of an ethnological project involving some 800 hours of taped interviews. The archival aspect was most intriguing. The classificatory scheme was developed according to a taxonomy of cultural practices versus one centred on objects. The project exemplifies the fruitful intersection of discourse analysis and archive organisation. Ron Tetrault presented a tour through the products of an electronic text centre where each of the products is a marker of the centre's history of developing institutional support. It was priceless to see his expression when he reinvoked in mimetic fashion his own reactions to business plan that had been developed by business school students for the centre. Even more priceless to see the appreciative audience reaction to this evocation of nitty-gritty of administration. Maybe some future session could focus on a fuller telling of this tale. Maite Taboada reminded us that business applications of computational linguistics do provide intellectual stimulation. Her analysis of the genre structure of bulletin board messages certainly leads one to wonder about the rhetoric of invective and that of argumentation. It would be interesting to explore further what constitutes the markers of structure that can be recognized by a machine. Greg Polly offered another take at the verbal/visual distinction by attempting to apply reader reception theory (Wolfgang Iser) to video games and interactive narrative. The discussion after this presentation was lively. Ian Lancashire reminded the assembled that recent research in physiology suggests that the same brain centres which deal with oral/aural language forms also deal with sign language. The visual/verbal as modes of the same cognitive competencies was also a theme in the presentation prepared by John Bonnet which drew upon the historical economist Harold Innis. A pedagogical exercise in which students construct 3D models from archival photographs and fire insurance maps is designed to lead them to an appreciation of the documentary evidence. It is a fine example of the re-emphasis on the trivium of construction-collaboration-communication which is shaping many online courses. And there were the conversations "en coulisse". It struck me that the visual/verbal parti pris (very much rooted in an undertheorizing of the image/word traditions engrained in some of the institutional arrangements of our establishments of higher learning) is bleeding over into pre-judgements about how best to mount a humanities computing pedagogical program: multi-media versus the verbal document. In the end there appears to be a wish for diversity. But I suspect the expression of any wish that is a mere concession and is not grounded in a fuller understanding of cultural artefacts and the sensory modalities of their apprehension. On that front (yes, it deserves a trope of engagement), very glad to learn that Johanna Drucker (author of _The Visible Word_) is a keynote speaker at ACH/ACCL in New York City. I hope to hear reports. Program and abstracts available by consulting http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/cochcosh/ -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Dorito Syndrome" and other useful terms Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 06:34:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 102 (102) Some of us will be amused and our terminological hordes enriched by the Cyberspace Glossary, <http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/smittys_place/html/cyberspace-glossary.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: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.052 obstacles (and propulsion) to humanities computing Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:06:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 103 (103) I'm always amused and sometimes a bit angry at the same time whenever I see lists of "what a Humanities Computing Person should know". They are so time-bound and changeable -- I recall when people said "Pascal", for instance...and I remember an earlier time when it was said that no one needed to write software -- what humanists needed to know was computer architecture, etc. There is no standard curriculum or agreed upon set of information (or even worse "behaviors") for a Ph.D. in English, and if we're lucky, there never will be. I hope the same is true for "humanities computing"....do what you need to do, or what you're curious about, and ignore the folks who are trying to tell you what's important. From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 15.050 obstacles to humanities computing Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:06:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 104 (104) Let me take another stab at this (the question of whether humanities scholars who want to use computers in their research must become computing humanists) with the following analogy. For much of my career--going on 25 years now--I have been working on the problem of improving access to primary sources of interest to students of medieval Spain. These are primarily manuscripts and early printed books. It was and is my view that it shouldn't be necessary for scholars interested in a text, a particular set of texts, or any other kind of problem, to spend two or three years simply locating the materials they were interested in, becoming experts in the arcana of manuscript description and the admittedly obscure byways into which it leads those of us fortunate or unfortunate enough to be interested in it. What this has meant is that in addition to spending a lot of time in libraries looking at medieval manuscripts (that was fun, in the Kirschenbaum sense), I've also spent a lot of time working with database technology, working with colleagues, writing grants, and hiring programmers to implement the collective vision of what improved access means. The database thus created (PhiloBiblon) is now about ten times as large as the initial version, which was first released in print form in 1975, then on CD-ROM in 1992 with a DOS-based interface, now on the web (sunsite.berkeley/edu/PhiloBiblon), and soon (God willing and my programmer isn't hit by a truck), on CD-ROM again with a Windows interface). Now a group (mostly librarians) is trying to provide much the same kind of access to medieval MSS in general, with a web-based visual union catalog (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/). This started as a collaboration between Berkeley and Columbia and involves ongoing discussions with colleagues in this country and Europe. In other words, my colleagues and I have been trying to solve a general problem that will benefit the discipline as a whole. We're saying, in effect: "Here it is, the sum total of dozens of person/years of work. We hope that it will enable you to get started working on the scholarly projects that really interest you. We're going to provide you with as much information as we can; and we're going to try to make it as easy as possible for you to get access to that information." Is the analogy between this effort and my view of what humanities computing ought to be doing for our colleagues who are not particularly interested in computers? Probably not, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.052 obstacles (and propulsion) to humanities computing Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:07:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 105 (105) At 7:12 +0100 27/5/2001, Matt K wrote: [deleted quotation] hi Matt, just interested in joining this to what you also said about images in the Blake Archive, etc. There is a pleasure in using computers to do these things that is visceral and, I suspect, carnal (make of that what you will). After all, each of us here could work on manuscripts, languages, images, etc without the necessity of the computer. I use a computer because there is something in the 'creative instrumentality' (an oxymoron perhaps) of this that engages me, makes sense to me. Why 'creative instrumentality'?, because it isn't just about the instrumental, there's an excess to my use of the computer where I can spend forever 'playing' with it. You know, fiddling with this, fussing over that, spending hours trying to trouble shoot something where others don't see a problem or don't see the need. I suspect all on this list do this all the time. For me it is a particular set of things (digital video, hypermedia as a critical academic practice), for others something else. But i suspect that for most of us there is a pleasure in the machine that lies alongside our more 'proper' disciplinary pleasures. (Just like there are people who stand around with the bonnets of their cars up, apparently experiencing the sublime in the design of a classic V8, go figure.) Perhaps computing humanities (but here I'm offering the views of a distant and naive observer of this discipline) is actually constituted at the intersection of these two things, an interest (passion, love, whatever) in some set of texts (i'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to name any of the texts or discourses that you all study) and an interest (passion, love, whatever) in that part of computing which is past or not merely instrumental. I imagine my question would be simply to what extent do people here think their use of computers is *only* instrumental, and to what extent there is a pleasure in the machine? And is there any relation between this pleasure (out on a big rather flimsy limb :-) ) and your 'work'. "I like studying rare difficult to interpret and rather arcane manuscripts and UNIX is cool". I'm just really interested in Matt's comments and the appearance of pleasure in both posts, the pleasure of seeing the image as an image on your screen, and the pleasure of working *with* the computer. cheers from an obviously too idle Australian. adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 106 (106) [deleted quotation]a [deleted quotation]continue to [deleted quotation]find [deleted quotation]to [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 107 (107) [deleted quotation]computing [deleted quotation]to: [deleted quotation]create [deleted quotation]to [deleted quotation]except [deleted quotation]you [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 108 (108) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 109 (109) [deleted quotation]software [deleted quotation]to: [deleted quotation]create [deleted quotation]entry [deleted quotation]markup. [deleted quotation]file [deleted quotation]an [deleted quotation]in [deleted quotation] From: Michael John Gorman Subject: OCR for 17th century Latin texts? Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 06:58:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 110 (110) I am searching for an OCR program that can deal with works in Latin printed in the seventeenth century. I would also be interested in any systematic tests that have been done to rate the success different OCR programs on comparable materials. Best wishes, Michael John Gorman -- Michael John Gorman Program in Science, Technology and Society Building 370, Room 211 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2120 Phone: 650-723-6817 Fax: 650-725-5389 From: "Fotis Jannidis" Subject: Re: 15.055 obstacles, apprenticeship, service and fun Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 06:59:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 111 (111) [deleted quotation] that applies to all scientific knowledge, but is no reason not to have standards for a particular point in time [deleted quotation] Is this really true? I believe the test is not, what should the person know, but rather: Imagine talking to somebody having a Ph.D. in English. What kind of ignorance would surprise you? p.e. "Shakespeare who?" or: "I collect the relevant literature for my topic by asking my bookseller" or: "I wrote down what I felt when I read this poem and believe this to be a valuable contribution to literary criticism" [deleted quotation] If we want to change the status of humanities computing from an ad hoc tool to something like a subject by its own, it is necessary to think about what should be included. here is my wish list: 1. Be able to use electronic text, that implies a thorough understanding of: a) character encodings and the basic principles of markup languages b) xml as the most important m.l. c) different search techniques (String, boolean, tree context, ..) d) the basic notions of statistic 2. Be able to manipulate electronic texts a) some scripting language which supports regular expressions b) Regular expressions c) a transformation language like xslt 3. Be able to create electronic text they should have a good knowledge of a) the actual standards of electronic editions; what has been released in the last 2-3 years, how does it work and what does it look like b) some authoring tool for xml c) standards like unicode and tiff, especially where are the limits and problems d) basic design principles for human computer interfaces, especially of the problems how to create useful links e) the digitization process at least for text and images 4. Be able to understand the main changes of the new media as part of the history of media a) some hypertext theory b) some media theory and history c) knowledge of new forms of art in the new media like hyperfiction and computergames Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Forum Computerphilologie http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de From: Willard McCarty Subject: service Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 07:09:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 112 (112) Charles Faulhaber's nth stab (at "the question of whether humanities scholars who want to use computers in their research must become computing humanists") comes very close to my own idea of scholarship. My Ovid project really began when I realised that the best response I could give to the poet was to produce something that by making certain kinds of work easier would help others respond. I chose to do this rather than write THE (I am now convinced) unwriteable book on the Metamorphoses when I saw how intellectually challenging my service-work would be. There's much to be said, I suppose, about exactly how we define "easier"; I think what it means is that we construe certain problems as trivial to get them out of the way so that the ones we think important get the attention. In this case "easier" is relative: the work a conventional literary critic would likely not want to do and so would wish could be treated as if it were trivial, this work I found more to my liking than the conventional essay. In any case, PhiloBiblion, the Onomasticon and other things like it are acts of service to the scholarly community -- not abusing that last word, rather giving it meaning through those acts. I think we have a still serious social problem with our notion of service: it's one thing (a) to serve the community and one's field through work one has chosen to do and has the direction of, quite another thing (b) to be called preemptorily to fix someone's printer or install the latest version of whatever. The problem, I know, doesn't inhere in either of those kinds of service, rather it occurs when someone who should be and wants to be doing (a) has to be doing (b). Such mis-employment is something with which many computing humanists are intimately familiar; the passion to fix this problem fueled the creation of Humanist, some of you will recall. One response, to which I would guess Charles is reacting as I react, is to put walls up around humanities computing, raise the disciplinary flag and start military training. And, more to the point, make sure that anyone who wants to get through the gate knows how to solve the puzzle of the month. Big mistake. At the same time, I hear others say, how do we get enough land to raise the crops that we KNOW will benefit everyone in this fertile valley? How do we persuade the older inhabitants that if they give up small bits of their own resources the return will be all out of proportion to the loss? We continue to do what we are doing, I suppose, but extend the work, focus it better by figuring out exactly what it is we want to make easier, what in fact more problematic. 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: educating the imagination Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:06:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 113 (113) I'd say that the Norman Hinton's English PhD who does what he or she needs to do or is curious about, ignoring the folks who are trying to define what's important, is exactly right -- as long as that person has what Northrop Frye called an "educated imagination". I suppose this is what Fotis Jannidis is saying too. My first experience teaching English literature taught me that the students did not know how to read literature, or anything really beyond the level of newspapers and magazines. They had no idea what to do mentally with love sonnets other than to talk about how this or that image reminded them of what happened last summer. (The author at the time was John Donne :-) The conventional way of handling this is, I suppose, to force the students to read lots of the stuff, rewarding certain kinds of responses, discouraging others. That approach eventually worked on me. My experience suggests now that my imagination couldn't begin to function until I understood how to read the stuff, i.e. until I internalised all the simplistic rules about literary conventions, genres, the theories floating about at the time etc., along with a huge amount of literature. That last bit proved exceedingly important -- literature by the dump-truck load, read non-stop without time for any reflection at all, in preparation for my Toronto PhD qualifying exams. Sometimes I get rather discouraged about PhD training now -- not what my colleagues do, really; mostly they seem very good scholars and teachers, doing what they do with the best of intentions. But (if I may resort to a notoriously vague term) the academic cultures I know appear tacitly to be telling the newly-minted ones that unless they learn to walk the walk and talk the talk they have no chance of ever getting paid to do what presumably they undertook the long years of training to do. Curiosity hasn't a chance, is forgotten. The goal appears so often to be to establish the right profile; the work (which I think is the point) simply isn't mentioned. We *certainly* don't want that sort of thing for humanities computing, if we can avoid it, and I'd guess that Norman's anger may be due to such perversions. But at the same time, we cannot have newly minted computing humanists thinking that the social sciences are all bunk, or that literary criticism is all about reading stuff "in" to literature, or that artificially understanding 90% or even 99.99% of text is good enough -- especially that understanding can be quantified at all in that way; we cannot have them ignorant of history or philosophy etc. They have to have some idea of languages other than their native one. And so forth and so on. Otherwise their imaginations won't have the basic stuff with which to be curious. They won't be able to *desire* to do scholarship with a ferocity of intelligence which will not be stopped by anything or anyone. 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: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.056 obstacles &c to humanities computing Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:07:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 114 (114) The question and answer relevant to what I said about the doctorate in English is not "do you know who Shakespeare is?", but "Did you have a Shakespeare course while studying for your doctorate?" In my case, the answer is "no". Since I was not specializing in the Renaissance, there was no reason for me to take one. (Our requirements (University of Wisconsin, in the 1950's) were to take a seminar in every field in which we did not take a comprehensive exam -- and a seminar was not a comprehensive course, but a special topic that interested the teacher.. I chose to write a doctoral exam on Shakespeare rather than take any coursework.[ p.s. I got the highest grade of the 24 candidates]) In the 1960's the U.S. Government began talking about possible nationwide standards for the Ph.D. in English. This was so vigorously opposed by the graduate departments of the country that the plan was withdrawn. Again, I feel the same way about "humanities computing". Learn what you need and let the rest go hang. And don't let anyone tell you what it is you need if you don't agree. From: "Miller, Wayne" Subject: Foreign Language Specialist Sought Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:08:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 115 (115) Hi, Please redistribute this job announcement as appropriate. Thanks! The foreign language technology coordinator, a new position in UCLA's Centerfor Digital Humanities, provides support and leadership to languageprogram coordinators and instructors of the sixty-plus languages taught at UCLA in the evaluation, development, and use of instructional technology,especially Web-based instructional tools. Candidates must have broad skills in the use, creation and evaluation ofinstructional technologies; be conversant in foreign- and second-languageacquisition theory and practice; and have experience with at least onenon-alphabetic or non-Roman writing system. Candidates must have outstanding interpersonal skills, initiative, and imagination. Actual salary will becommensurate with experience and skills, but we tentatively expect to hirein the range of $36,000 to $45,000. Review of applications will begin onJune 15. Inquiries are welcome via email at the address below. To apply,send a letter of application, curriculum vitae and the names of three references to Wayne Miller: waynem@humnet.ucla.edu; PO Box 951499, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90095-1499; fax: 310-825-7428. http://www.cdh.ucla.edu Wayne Miller Interim Assistant Director Center for Digital Humanities (Humanities Computing Facility) Assistant Adjunct Professor Germanic Languages UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave Los Angeles, CA 90095-1499 (310) 206-2004 Fax (310) 825-7428 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Seeking E-Lit Designers Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:09:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 116 (116) [deleted quotation] I am looking for digital artists who are interested in collaborating on an e-literature project. A preliminary version of the project, 'VisitationRites2000,' is online now at http://www.beyondwriting.com/riteshome.htm. It is the introduction to 'Virtual Excursions: Miami / L.A. (An Imaginary Travelog),' at http://www.beyondwriting.com. If you are interested in collaborating, I suggest that you look at 'VisitationRites2000' in its current form, and then let me know how you would redesign the Web site. Contact: Elayne Zalis, elaynez@beyondwriting.com From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: 15.057 OCR for 17C Latin texts? Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:10:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 117 (117) We have had no success using OCR on hand-printed texts. The error rate is so great that it is in fact cheaper and far more accurate to re-key them. If you will give me a ring at the number below (we're neighbors!), I can give you more details. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu On Tue, 29 May 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: list serving software Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:09:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 118 (118) Listserv, listproc, majordomo: each has significant weaknesses. Is there anything good out there, freeware or commercial, that lets you manage a large interactive list like Humanist? Features would have to include open subscription/unsubscription, option for completely open list, moderated list, or owner-only-posts list. Am I alone in feeling that we're still living with 80s technology here? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Eurolan 2001 - last call Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:43:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 119 (119) [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Last call ----------------------------------------------------------------- EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 5th in the series of Eurolan Schools 30 July - 11 August 2001 Iasi, Romania Once upon a time, there was a series of summer schools and its name was Eurolan. It would happen in the far away land of Romania, during its long hot summer days. And among the schools of this series, the most famous of all was Eurolan 2001. Never before had the ancient city of Iasi seen such a gathering of kings and queens, of princes and princesses with only one thing in mind: to talk about the state-of-the art in the theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated language resources for language engineering. For two long weeks, they kept talking and talking. Princesses and princes from all over the world came to meet the wise invited queens and kings and learn from their wisdom. The kings would speak during mornings while in the afternoons they would help princes to put into practice their teachings. And, as if all these hadn't been enough, more meetings were organized for the young princes (workshops on Multi-layer Corpus Based Analysis: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html and on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/workshop.html) and for all the people in Iasi at that time (round tables on Linguistic Data Consortia and on Industrial Applications in Response to Market Requirements). What happened during those days can be briefly presented as follows: Monday - 30 July Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA) Laurent Romary (Loria Laboratories, Nancy, France) Tuesday - 31 July Qualitative and quantitative methods in corpora (tokenisation, part of speech tagging, measuring similarity and homogeneity) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy - RACAI) Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK) Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus Based Analysis Wednesday - 1 August Sub-syntactic and syntactic annotation (shallow-parsing, tree banks) Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarbrucken, Germany) Round table on Linguistic Data Consortia Thursday - 2 August Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK) Friday - 3 August Annotation of semantics, meaning relationships, linguistic chains, semantic roles of verbs Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) Chuck Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Birds-of-a-feather meeting Saturday - 4 August Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA) Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California, USA) Sunday - 5 August Trip to Bucovina Monasteries Monday - 6 August Exploitation of corpora for anaphora resolution Catalina Barbu (Universities of Wolverhampton, UK and Iasi, Romania) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing (I) Tuesday - 7 August Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo, Japan) Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing (II) Wednesday - 8 August Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California, USA) Round table on Industrial Applications in Response to Market Requirements Thursday - 9 August Exploitation for machine translation Ulf Hermjakob (University of Southern California, USA) Friday - 10 August Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual applications Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK) Valentin Tablan (Universities of Sheffield, UK and Iasi, Romania) Farewell Evening All these chats and exciting quarrels happened in the large bright palaces of the "Al. I. Cuza" University, in the very heart of the organisers' realm. A huge fortress was chosen as dwelling place for most of the guests (student hostel - double room: 10 USD/night or single room: 18 USD/night), who could rest for few hours in its welcoming rooms. Other guests preferred special lodging in a castle in the city (hotel ** - double room: 16 USD/night or single room: 22 USD/night). And tables were set for all those who came to Iasi and there was plenty of food and drinks (for 10-15 USD per day) and parties and marry people. And, as good hosts usually do, the Eurolan organizers arranged a trip through their land and showed their guests the marvels of northern Romania (Bucovina Monasteries - UNESCO Cultural Heritage). At the end of the school everybody returned to their realms where they lived happily ever after. Have you enjoyed the story? You can be part of it!!! You can still register before 7 June at: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html (by the way, the registration fee - USD 350 - shall be sent to: ... Bank name: BCR Iasi (Romanian Commercial Bank, Iasi branch) ... Bank address: Str. Palat 11, Iasi 6600 - ROMANIA ... Swift code: RNCBROBUIS ... Account number: 2511.31-418.94 ... Owner: "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi - please specify: "for EUROLAN" Bank transfer costs should be paid in addition to the tuition fee) We'll make sure that you have a place in our story and enjoy living it with us!!! Organising Royalties Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Laurent ROMARY - LORIA Laboratories, Nancy Daniel MARCU - ISI, University of Southern California From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2001: Denver, June 28: Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:08:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 120 (120) Registration deadline June 1. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 29, 2001 PLEASE FORWARD NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2001 SERIES * * DENVER * * June 28 - Driscoll Center, University of Denver 9:00am-1:00pm Western States Digitization Pre-Conference "Copyright & Primary Source Materials" Featuring: Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law Bernard Reilly, Chicago Historical Society <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/denver.html>http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/denver.html Open to the Public - Free of Charge REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY JUNE 1 Register Online: <http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/chcpreform.html>http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/chcpreform.html * * * * INTRODUCTION: REGISTRATION DEADLINE A reminder that the third in the current series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS is taking place on Thursday June 28 at the University of Denver. The Town Meeting is free of charge, but registration closes this Friday, June 1. Register online at the local web page for the town meeting <http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/chcpreform.html>http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/chcpreform.html Entitled "Copyright & Primary Source Materials," this four-hour meeting will bring together national experts in the field and local practitioners working in museums, libraries and archives to examine the copyright policy issues and practical copyright-related problems of mounting primary source materials online. THEMES * What are the current intellectual property issues inhibiting the networking of primary documents of cultural heritage online? * What is the current law and what are the key legislative developments affecting our work in this area? * What are current practical solutions to current copyright problems? * How are things changing and what new pro-active strategies do we need to adopt in order to achieve the future? SPEAKERS The above themes will be the subjects of two keynote addresses by national experts in the field: Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) and Bernard Reilly (Head of Research and Access, Chicago Historical Society). After questions and comments on the issues addressed by the two main speakers, participants will hear reports from the field in a panel comprising: * Tom Folsom, Legal Counsel, Denver Museum of Nature and Science * Jim Williams, Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder * Kevin Anderson, archivist and historian, Casper College, Wyoming A hallmark of the NINCH Copyright Town Meetings is the time allotted to the discussion among participants of both specific problems and broad issues. CONFERENCE The Denver Copyright Town Meeting serves as the pre-conference for "Cultural Heritage Collaboration in the Digital Age: A Conference for Library and Museum Leaders," designed to introduce key archive, historical society, museum and library leaders in 23 Western states to the issues associated with developing a statewide or regionally based collaborative digitization initiative. THE NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS SERIES A report and resource materials from this and other town meetings will be made available at the NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WEBSITE: <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html>http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html Other Copyright Town Meetings planned for this year are as follows: September 24 - New York Public Library: "Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age" October 27 - Museum Computer Network Conference, Cincinnati: "New Strategies, New Contexts" November 19 - University of Oregon, Eugene: "Creating Policy" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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.. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Nancy Allen, Dean and Director of Libraries, University of Denver Liz Bishoff, Project Director, Colorado Digitization Project James Williams, Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP: Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association Robert Baron, Independent Scholar Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries Kenneth Crews, Indiana University Georgia Harper, University of Texas Christine Sundt, University of Oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD Marta Teegen, College Art Association Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of American University Presses Peter Walsh, Wellesley College, College Art Association Martha Winnacker, University of California. THE NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS ARE MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH A GENEROUS GRANT FROM THE SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ============================================================== 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: Lindsay Tuck Subject: Re: CALL Conference Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:44:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 121 (121) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS EXETER CALL 2001 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER September 1- 3 2001 Conference on CALL - The Challenge of Change http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/announcements/CALL.html 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.... 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. DRAFT PROGRAMME 1 'New Techniques for New Students : Adapting Language Instruction to Technology' Monique Adriaen, Roberta Sinyor York University, Canada 2 'Extensions to Computer-Assisted Oral Reading to Help Children Learn Vocabulary' Gregory Aist Carnegie Mellon University, USA 3 'Applying HCI Principles to CALL design' Paul Allum Japan 4 'Investigating Syntax Priming in an E-mail Tandem Language Learning Environment' Christine Appel, Carl Vogel Dublin City University, Ireland 5 'Utilising ICT Resources for ELT in Technical Institutions : a case study of India' K M Baharul Islam Kigali, Ruanda 6 'Integrating IT in English Language Curriculae' Inas Barsoum Ain Shams University, Cairo 7 'Reading Comprehension : CALL and NLP' Caroline Barriere, Lise Duquette University of Ottawa, Canada 8 'The Chronicle of ATLAS or Keeping Pace with Change' Ilse Bockstael, Jozef Colpaert, Wilfried Decoo, Linde Van Ishoven Belgium 9 'Conversation Classes Across Europe: A Challenge For Video Conferencing' John Buckett, Naciketa Datta, Derek Lewis, Hartmut Plehn, Peter Ruff, Gary Stringer, Peter Tscherner, Werner Wegstein University of Exeter, England and University of Wuerzburg, Germany 10 'Shared Electronic Spaces for Constructing Written Russian' Lydia Buravova, Jane Hughes University College London, England 11 'An Experiment In Computerised Teaching of English as a Second Language' Evelyne Cauvin France 12 'Web Server Based Architectures for Language Learning: LARFLAST Agents generating CALL Dialogues'. Stefano Cerri, Svetlana Dikareva, Daniele Maraschi, Stefan Trausan Matu Montpellier (F), Bucharest (RO), Simferopol (UK) 13 'British Higher Education and the 21st Century' Catherine Chabert Cardiff University, Wales 14 'Language Learning with Native Speakers in a MOO Community : Real or Virtual?' Lien Goedeme University of Antwerp, Belgium 15 'Using CALL to Change Student Learning' Randall P Donaldson, Margaret Haggstrom US Embassy, Paris and USA 16 'EFL Acquisition Through Computer Support : A Practical Proposal' Patricia Edwards, Mercedes Rico University of Extremadura and University of Merida, Spain 17 'Guidance and Autonomy: A Web-Coordinated Course for Students in Difficulty' Faina Furman, Isabella Kreindler University of Haifa, Israel 18 'What Factors Affect The Use Of Computers In The EFL/EAP Setting?' Rehab Ghazal American University in Cairo, Egypt 19 'CALL Material for Engineering' M. Perera Goma, Miguel Mora, Asuncion Pastor 20 'What Constitutes a Good Internet Research Project' Hideto Harashima Maebashi I.T., Japan 21 'User-Centred Sound Authoring on the Web : New Scopes to Meet the Interactive Challenge' Dominique Hemard London Guildhall University, England 22 'Can We Have More Customised CD-Roms Please?' Martin Herles, Ruth Trinder Vienna University of Economics, Austria 23 'Change Management and Implementation : Empowering the Tutor Through Informed Choice' Sue Hewer, Lesley Shield The Open University, England 24 'Web-Based Learning System for Sociolinguistic Skills in Japanese' Naoya Hirata, Yasuschi Inoguchi, Hiroshi Kamiyama, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Yoshiro Ogawara, Izumi Saita Tohoku University, Japan 25 'Learning Foreign Languages Together With Others Across the Internet' Shirley Holst, Jutta Maria Fleschutz Darmstadt, Germany 26 'CALL Labs : Have They Run Their Course?' Lawrie Hunter Kochi University of Technology, Japan 27 'Effective Use of 'Web CALL' in TEFL Jun Iwata Matsue N. C. T., Japan 28 'Implementing a Web-Based Course for Ab Initio Students of German' Paul Joyce, Derek Lewis University of Exeter, England 30 'Word Processors in an English as a Foreign Language : Context Writing Strategies in a Revised Text : A Qualitative Analysis' Olga Kehagia University of Thessaly, Greece 31 'Music, Language and the Foreign Language Learner: Creating Learning Space with CALL Software' Charles King Colorado, USA 32 'Teaching Students to Find Internet Resources Related to Culture' Kenji & Kathleen Kitao Doshisha University, Japan 33 'Online Lessons - Using the Internet to Help the Coursebook' Jarek Krajka Lublin, Poland 34 'Teacher Belief Systems Towards Computer-Mediated Language Learning: College ESL Instruction' Geoff Lawrence University of Toronto, Canada 35 Electronic Role-Play as a Means for Collaborative Construction of Knowledge On-Line Christine Leahy Nottingham Trent University, England 36 'Integration of CD-Roms Produced by the Language Instructor into the Language Curriculum - A Canterbury Innovation' Vera Leier University of Canterbury, New Zealand 37 'From Symptoms to Diagnosis' Geoff Lessard, Michael Levison Queen's University, Canada 38 'Bridging the Gulf Between Language Teachers and Computers - How to Expend Understanding and Promote Competent and Successful Use of CALL In Your Institution' Sarah Levi Walworth Barbour American School, Israel 39 'Coherence and Direction in CALL Research' Michael Levy University of Queensland, Australia 40 'Innovations in CALL: Are Teachers Managing It? Jamaluddin Mohaidin, Norhisham Mohamad University Sains, Malaysia 41 'EASE: A Multi-Media Materials Development Project' Hilary Nesi University of Warwick, England 42 'Network-Based Language Learning At Coventry University: Managing Change Via WebCT' Marina Orsini-Jones Coventry University, England 43 'Human Instructor/Virtual Tutor : Replacement or Replication?' Timothy F Pope University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 44 'The Cloud Around Development and Exploiting CALL Material' Christine Sabieh Notre Dame University, Lebanon 45 'Online Filmography' Michael Shawback, Mitch Terhune Ritsumeikan University, Japan 46 'Orality in MOO: Rehearsing Speech in Text' Lesley Shield, Markus Weininger The Open University, England 47 'Graded Reading System on Line' Tadashi Shiozawa Chubu University, Japan 48 'CALL - A Way to Solve Some of the Language Learning / Teaching Problems in Tertiary Education in South Africa' Michelle Sprackett 49 'Using Electronic Dictionaries as CALL Material' Cornelia Tschichold University of Neuchtel, Switzerland 50 'Designing a Multimedia Feedback Tool for Developing Oral Skills' Michio Tsutsui, Masashi Kato, University of Washington, USA 51 'The Future, Electronic English Learner's Dictionary' Birgit Winkler The Open University, England 52 'Change Management In Moving Towards On-Line Learning In Higher Education' Masoud Yazdani University of the West of England 53 'Web-Based Instruction for Interactive Learning in Reading Class' Helen Shu-Chin Yen 54 'Real Media-Based Language Instruction for CALL Environments' Yuichiro Yoshinari Tokyo, Japan 55 'Short and Long-Term Memory Feedback in CALL' George Ypsilandis University of Macedonia, Greece SHORT PROPOSALS 56 'Teaching and Learning Danish in a Virtual Department' Jane Hughes, Claire McAvinia, Jannie Roed University College London, England ARABIC WORKSHOP 57 'Internet-Based Teaching of Arabic as a Second Language' Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed International Islamic University, Malaysia 58 'Changing Teacher Roles and Input-Feedback Medium: Authorware and Web-Based-Assisted Learning of Arabic as a Foreign Language' Mohammed T. Alhawary American University, Washington, USA 59 'Arabic CALL: Lessons from the Past, Opportunities for the Future' R. Kirk Belap Brigham Young, Provo, USA 60 'The Use of Java Programming Language in Solving Problems Associated with Producing CALL Material in Arabic' Steve Cushion, Dominique Hemard London Guildhall University, England 61 'CALL and Students' Motivation: A Case Study at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at IIUM-Malaysia' Ibtisam.M.H.Naji IIUM, Malaysia 62 'Arabic Grammar on the Internet' Helle Nielsen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 63 'Developing a Website for Teaching Arabic: Technical Issues' Iman Saad, Heba Salem American University in Cairo, Egypt Thank you L.C.Tuck@exeter.ac.uk From: Susan Hockey Subject: Job at UCL - Systems and Web Development Manager Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:45:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 122 (122) Systems and Web Development Manager The School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL is embarking on a vigorous expansion of the computer systems that underpin our teaching and research. The School offers teaching programmes in Information Management, Library and Information Studies, Information Science, Archives and Records Management, and Electronic Communication and Publishing. Computer-based research focuses on Internet technologies, user interface design, XML, EAD, digital library technologies for the humanities, and artificial intelligence applications. Our development plans include a series of short courses and new IT-based research projects, particularly in the humanities. We are looking for an enthusiastic and versatile individual who will be responsible for the management of our computer systems and the development of our Web presence. The successful candidate will have knowledge of Windows 2000/NT4 system administration, Microsoft Office, HTML, and Web server technologies, and some programming experience. S/he will enjoy helping users at all levels from undergraduate students to senior staff, and be able to represent the School at computing events. Some knowledge of XML, EAD, Unix, and library systems would be useful, as would an interest in the humanities, but this position provides an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to gain a broad base of experience in this fast-developing area. The position is available for one-year in the first instance with a salary of up to 25,213 plus London allowance of 2134. To apply please submit a CV detailing relevant experience and covering letter to Kerstin Michaels, Administrator, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, e-mail o.manager@ucl.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Susan Hockey, s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk, phone 020 7679 2477. Further information about the School can be found on our Web site at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais **************************************************** Susan Hockey Director of the School and 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: "Jean G Anderson" Subject: Scots Corpus jobs Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:45:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 123 (123) University of Glasgow Department of English Language & STELLA Two posts are available from an early date on an EPSRC-funded project to create a Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) 1. Postgraduate Research Assistant with research experience in English or Scots Language or Linguistics 2. Postgraduate Computing Officer with experience of text encoding, Web server and Unix system administration Closing date: 22/6/01 Salary in the range 16,775 18,731 For further details, see http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/SCOTS/ ____________________________________________ Jean Anderson STELLA, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/ http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ From: pmidgley Subject: RE: 15.061 OCR on hand-printed texts Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:47:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 124 (124) I have a similar problem to that of Michael John Gorman: I am looking for OCR software that will recognize old manuscripts that contain large sections of Greek. The manuscripts not hand-written--they have been typeset, but the fonts and letter shapes used by the early typesetters do not always correspond to modern typesetting characters. Consequently, existing OCR software has trouble recognising many of the characters. I suspect that Michael's problem is similar to mine, in that he, too is dealing with early typeset material (not hand-written) that is not recognised by computer software. (I hope I understand you correctly, Michael.) If there are any suggestions, I'd welcome them. Peter Midgley From: Willard McCarty Subject: Richard Weyhrauch Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:52:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 125 (125) Some years ago one Richard Weyhrauch, a semi-retired computer scientist in California, had a business (Ibuki, it was called) based on an OCR system he designed and built for scanning unusually difficult material. His equipment (hardware and software) could handle 17C printed books, perhaps even more difficult material. I certainly saw proof of this. Richard turned up at a few humanities computing conferences, but I haven't seen him in years. Does anyone know of what happened to him and his OCR equipment? 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: "Fay Sudweeks" Subject: Next CATAC Conference in Montreal - CFP Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:03:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 126 (126) CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02) 12-15 July 2002 Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ Conference theme: The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology The powers of the Nets can be construed in many ways - political, economic, and social. Power can also be construed in terms of Foucault's "positive power" and Bourdieu's notion of "cultural capital" - decentered forms of power that encourage "voluntary" submission, such as English as a _lingua franca_ on the Net. Similarly, Hofstede's category of "power distance" points to the role of status in encouraging technology diffusion, as low-status persons seek to emulate high-status persons. Through these diverse forms of power, the language(s) and media of the Net may reshape the cultural assumptions of its globally-distributed users - thus raising the dangers of "computer-mediated colonisation" ("Disneyfication" - a la Cees Hamelink). 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 (ICT). "Cultural attitudes" here includes cultural values and communicative preferences that may be embedded in both the content and form of ICT - thus threatening to make ICT less the agent of a promised democratic global village and more an agent of cultural homogenisation and imperialism. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/). For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98, see http://wwwit.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. The second conference in the series was held in Perth in 2000 (http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/). Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Papers should articulate the connections between specific cultural values as well as current and/or possible future communicative practices involving information and communication technologies. We seek papers which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems. Topics of particular interested include but are not limited to: - Impact of information and communication technologies on local and indigenous languages and cultures. - Politics of the electronic global village in democratising or preserving hierarchy. - Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialised and industrialising countries. - Role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate communicative behaviours. - Ethical issues related to information and communication technologies, and the impact on culture and communication behaviours. - Issues of social justice raised by the dual problems of "the digital divide" and "computer-mediated colonisation," including theoretical and practical ways of overcoming these problems. [material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Vitruvius & Social Reproduction Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:11:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 127 (127) Willard, I've been bemused by the my-list-your-list (word-image debate) turn in the discussion about mounting graduate programs in humanities computing. Most human resource management plans now look towards assessing competencies when organisations are defining recruitment strategies. Few, if any, of the gradutes of current or proposed programs in humanities computing will be offered academic positions. It might be worth a peek at what management thinking is coming out of business schools. For a two reasons: 1) to prepare students for life long learning 2) to understand that life long learning opens up institutions and programs to students who may not choose full time attendence or a one-window source to meet their interests and needs Comptencies are exercised. It may well be worth thinking about students coming into programs, be they full time students or students taking courses are part of professional development, as bringing skills and knowledge to exchange with other students and with faculty. It is a pedagogical view that does not easily lend itself to the take-student-fill-'em-up school of pedagogy or the gene-pool image of knowledge transfers. It is a bit more humbling to think of the academic role as that of an enabler rather than that of the voice that always speaks ex cathedra. What to do with students who have their own shopping & laundry lists? Their own ways of further developing their competencies? I am reminded that humanist culture is not immured. Yuri Rubinsky and Murray Maloney in the preface to _SGML on the Web: Small Steps Beyond HTML_ (1997) wonderfully evoke the Vitruvian values of Firmness, Commodity and Delight in such a way that one could move the metaphor from architecture through document representation to the character of a humanist scolar. Firmness: the ability to resist inclemency; Commodity: the ability to move with ease; Delight: the ability to provide and take joy. Whether it is coding, scripting, digitalizing, programing, do we not scolars to be aware of the issues of longivity when they build environments and projects? Do we not want them to be able to have the time to master the offerings of existing envirnoments and projects to be become adept navigators (does it really matter if it's the Telnet interface to the Dartmouth Dante Database or the VRML worlds of an archeological reconstruction, words or pictures?) I know, that I always like the company of scholars who can provide delight. It is worth quoting Rubinsky and Maloney(**) quoting Douglas MacLeod, architect, addressing the 1989 North American SGML conference: Delight is what makes the building more than just a shelter. It may be an intellectual delight, a visual delight or even a delight to be in to listen to music, but it brings something more to the building than just functionality. I would suggest that one way of building delight into humanities computing programs is to enhance the opportunities for exchange between programs, projects and pockets at various institutions, take advantage of a wired world to find peers and to find translators. ** Yuri Rubinsky was instrumental in developing SGML markup for the visually disabled. ** Murray Maloney is a member of the International Committee for Accessible Document Design. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Eve Trager Subject: The Next Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing... Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:03:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 128 (128) ....will be August 1, 2001. Beginning with the next volume, Number 7, The Journal of Electronic Publishing <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/> will be published three times a year: August 1, December 1, and April 1. This represents a coming of age for JEP, a recognition that we were always meant to be a three-times-a-year publication. It was the timidity of the current editor, who wanted to be in the mainstream, that held us back. "JEP is a quarterly" seemed somehow more acceptable than "JEP is a thirdly." Now, however, JEP's reputation is well established, and owning up to being a thirdly is not going to dim its luster. For you, our loyal subscribers, the move to being a thirdly means that you will have more time to digest the fewer, fatter issues. We think you will enjoy it! -- Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 [material deleted] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- May 2001 Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:10:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 129 (129) CIT INFOBITS May 2001 No. 35 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. ....................................................................... Articles on E-Books in Academe Tutorials on Using the Web for Scholarly Study Models of Online Education Financing Technology Infrastructure in Higher Education Report on Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms The Semantic Web ERICnews Changes Format Recommended Reading Editor's Note ....................................................................... ARTICLES ON E-BOOKS IN ACADEME "A University That Reveres Tradition Experiments With E-Books" (by Jeffrey R. Young, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, May 18, 2001, p. A39) describes an experimental University of Virginia seminar in which students use hand-held computers loaded with all the course materials. The seminar is part of a pilot project to see if e-book technologies could allow entire courses to go "bookless." The article is available online at http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03901.htm Related articles from the same issue: "Publishers Promote E-Textbooks, but Many Students and Professors Are Skeptical" http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03502.htm "Companies Find Academic Libraries a Key Target and a Tough Sell" http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03701.htm "Academic E-Publishing: Some Key Players" http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a03702.htm "Author Says Libraries Shouldn't Abandon Paper" http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i36/36a04001.htm The Chronicle of Higher Education [ISSN 0009-5982] is published weekly by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 1255 Twenty-third Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA; tel: 202-466-1000; fax: 202-452-1033; Web: http://chronicle.com/ To subscribe contact Circulation Department, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1255 23rd Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037 USA; tel: 800-728-2803 or 740-382-3322 (outside U.S.); email: circulation@chronicle.com; Web: http://chronicle.com/about-help.dir/subscrib.htm For another perspective on the future of books, read "The Premature Obituary of the Book: Why Literature?" (THE NEW REPUBLIC, May 14). Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and professor of literature at Georgetown University, reviews the challenges facing literature and books. The article is available online at http://www.thenewrepublic.com/051401/llosa051401.html The New Republic [ISSN 0028-6583] is published 48 times a year. For more information, contact The New Republic, 1220 19th St. NW Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-331-7494; fax: 202-331-0275; Web: http://www.tnr.com/index.html ....................................................................... TUTORIALS ON USING THE WEB FOR SCHOLARLY STUDY The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) launched the Virtual Training Suite, a collaboration between 30 universities providing 40 tutorials to help people learn more about using the Internet as a source of scholarly information. Tutorial topics cover the categories of engineering and mathematics, humanities, social sciences, business and law, health and life sciences, and physical sciences. The tutorials offer self-directed learning with the help of an expert "tour guide" commissioned from universities, libraries, museums, and research institutes across the United Kingdom. The Virtual Training Suite is on the Web at http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/ The RDN is a national Internet service for academics and professionals funded by the Higher and Further Education Funding Bodies via the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and by Research Councils such as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). It is coordinated by the Resource Discovery Network Centre (RDNC), a center run jointly by staff from UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking at the University of Bath) and King's College London. For more information about the RDN, contact: RDNC, Kings College London, 3rd Floor, Strand Bridge House, 138-142 The Strand, London WC2R 1HH UK; email: info@rdn.ac.uk; Web: http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ....................................................................... MODELS OF ONLINE EDUCATION In "The Work of Education in the Age of E-College" (FIRST MONDAY, vol. 6, no. 5, May 2001) Chris Werry "outlines some of the main players and positions involved in debates about online education, and suggests some strategies that academic groups ought to explore." Werry argues for an "open source movement for academic resources . . . [that] would give teachers greater control of their resources, and better enable them to share materials with other teachers and with the public." The paper is available online at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_5/werry/ Chris Werry is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University and co-editor of ONLINE COMMUNITIES: COMMERCE, COMMUNITY ACTION & THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY (Prentice Hall, 2001). Contact Werry at Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, 230 Nasatir Hall, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4452 USA; email: cwerry@mail.sdsu.edu; Web: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/drwswebb/werry.html First Monday [ISSN: 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor, PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv@uic.edu; Web: http://firstmonday.dk/ ....................................................................... FINANCING TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE IN HIGHER EDUCATION The Lumina Foundation for Education, a private, independent foundation, addresses issues surrounding financial access, educational attainment, and opportunities for nontraditional learners. The foundation recently published "Funding the 'Infostructure': A Guide to Financing Technology Infrastructure in Higher Education" by Ronald A. Phipps and Jane V. Wellman. The report "makes recommendations that can help campus officials and state and federal policymakers develop regular funding policies for information technology . . . identifies a range of options for funding information technology, examining the advantages and drawbacks of each... [and] urges state and federal policy-makers to address the disparities in institutions' ability to pay for technology." The report is available online at http://www.luminafoundation.org/Publications/New%20Agenda%20Series/infostructofc+title.htm For more information about the foundation and its other publications, contact: Lumina Foundation for Education, 30 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204-3503 USA; tel: 317-951-5704; fax: 317-951-5063; Web: http://www.luminafoundation.org/index.htm ....................................................................... REPORT ON INTERNET ACCESS IN U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS Since 1994, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has conducted a survey of public schools' connectivity to the Internet. An annual report, "Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classroom," provides "trend analysis on the progress of public schools and classrooms in connecting to the Internet, the ratio of students to instructional computers and to instructional computers with Internet access, and the types of Internet connections used." The full text of the latest report, with data from 1994-2000, is available (in PDF format) on the Web at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001071 NCES is the primary U.S. agency for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other countries. For more information about NCES and their other reports, link to http://nces.ed.gov/ ....................................................................... THE SEMANTIC WEB The article "The Semantic Web" (by Tim Berners-Lee [inventor of the World Wide Web], James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, May 2001) describes how the World Wide Web will evolve into the Semantic Web which "will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for user. . . . The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. The first steps in weaving the Semantic Web into the structure of the existing Web are already under way. In the near future, these developments will usher in significant new functionality as machines become much better able to process and 'understand' the data that they merely display at present." The entire article is available online at http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html Scientific American [ISSN 0036-8733] is published monthly by Scientific American, Inc., 415 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-1111 USA; tel: 212-754-0550; Web: http://www.sciam.com/ ....................................................................... ERICNEWS CHANGES FORMAT ERICNEWS, the U.S. Department of Education ERIC system's bimonthly electronic newsletter, will no longer be published in email format. Starting with the June 2001 issue, each month ERICNews will be published and archived on the ERIC website. Weekly ERIC announcements will continue to be published in the "New From ERIC" section at http://www.accesseric.org/ ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is a national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. Established in 1966, ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and is administered by the National Library of Education. The ERIC system is made up of sixteen subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components which provide a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. ERIC also maintains a database of more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. For more information, contact ACCESS ERIC, 2277 Research Blvd., MS 4M, Rockville, MD 20850 USA; tel: 800-538-3742; email: accesseric@accesseric.org; Web: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ ....................................................................... RECOMMENDED READING "Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or useful, including books published by Infobits subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu for possible inclusion in this column. "Practical Strategies for Teaching Computer-Mediated Classes" by Brent Muirhead focuses on "strategies and principles that will help online teachers to be creative and effective teachers." The paper is available at http://www.usdla.org/ED_magazine/illuminactive/MAY01_Issue/article02.html ....................................................................... 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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: Michael Fraser Subject: Humbul Information & Publications Officer Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:02:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 130 (130) (As advertised in the THES, 2001-06-01 and The Guardian, 2001-06-04) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Computing services Humbul Humanities Hub Information and Publications Officer Grade RS1A: 16,775 to 25,213 p.a. (under review) Two-year post initially The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/) is seeking an Information and Publications Officer. Humbul is part of the national Resource Discovery Network (http://www.rdn.ac.uk/) and is based at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk). This new post will be dedicated to actively promoting the services and resources offered by Humbul within the higher and further education humanities communities. This post, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, will be responsible for all aspects of marketing and awareness-raising, including the development of printed and online materials and establishing contacts throughout the humanities community. The postholder will also have significant involvement in the development of an online humanities portal. A degree in a relevant subject is required, together with knowledge of recent developments in online access to scholarly resources. A high level of IT literacy is also essential. The postholder should be enthusiastic about the use of digital resources within humanities teaching and research, communicate well at all levels, and be able to work independently to prioritise a varied workload. Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, tel. (01865) 273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk Further details and application form are also available online via http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Completed applications must be received by 4.00pm on 22nd June 2001. Interviews will be held at the beginning of July. The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer. --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: International Conference of AHC Subject: AHC-2001 Conference - programme and registration Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:29:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 131 (131) Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------------------------------------------------- ************ NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION ****************** AHC-2001 Conference Programme available ************************************************************* XVth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing (AHC) "New Methodologies for the New Millennium" Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland 28-31 August 2001 http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~ahc2001 ************************************************************* The International Association for History and Computing invites all historians interested in using computer methods as well as computer specialists interested in history to take part in the conference in Poznan, Poland. It will be the 15th international conference organized by the AHC and the second one taking place in Central-Eastern Europe. [material deleted] The contact for all matters connected with the Conference is: ahc2001@amu.edu.pl or (if really necessary) via standard mail: AHC 2001 Instytut Historii UAM sw. Marcin 78 61-809 Poznan POLAND From: Stuart Lee Subject: Bibliographies and Technology Day: Oxford Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:29:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 132 (132) [deleted quotation] [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Content-Based Image Retrieval: UK Seminar and Web Portal Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:34:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 133 (133) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 30, 2001 U.K. Seminar on Content-Based Image Retrieval July 6, 2001: University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne July 20, 2001 University of Manchester <http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/>http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/ This announcement for a two-part seminar on Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) serves as a reminder of the UK's JISC project on CBIR and the associated web portal on CBIR established jointly by the Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria, and the Manchester Visualization Centre, at the University of Manchester. <http://www.cbir.org.uk/>http://www.cbir.org.uk/ Retrieving images through features automatically extracted (such as color, texture and shape) is a technology that is moving out of the laboratory and into commercial products (Excalibur, QBIC and Virage). However, the CBIR Portal indicates, there are still many unanswered questions: "such as whether CBIR techniques can bring about worthwhile improvements in performance with real-life image retrieval systems, and where such techniques can most profitably be used." Designed as an online resource on content-based image retrieval, resources on the CBIR site "will provide links to current research and development activities, algorithms and techniques, research groups and projects, faq's, mailing lists, newsgroups, software and application demos as well as related research papers, books, journals, and conferences." David Green =========== [deleted quotation] [Message forwarded on behalf of Margaret Graham of the Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle] --- Begin Forwarded Message --- With apologies for cross posting Joint seminar by Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria and Manchester Visualization Centre, University of Manchester Seminar on Content-Based Image Retrieval Friday 6 July, 2001, at University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne 10.00 - 16.30 hrs Friday 20 July, 2001, at University of Manchester, Manchester 10.00 - 16.30 hrs As part of a JISC funded project in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), IIDR and MVC are pleased to announce that they will be running two free one-day seminars on CBIR, in order to disseminate information about the technology to the UK HE/FE communities. The seminars are being arranged two weeks apart, to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to attend at whichever venue and date suits them. The seminars will bring together key representatives from the field to discuss how leading edge technology can be used to extend digital image collections as an information resource. These seminars will be of interest to individuals and organisations who have existing digital image collections or are in the process of creating a digital image collection and who may want to consider extending the search capabilities of their database with content-based image retrieval matching features. The general programme is given below and the specific programme for each seminar date is available at <http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/>http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/ <http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/> . Both seminars begin with an overview of content-based image retrieval followed by two presentations on the subject of content-based image retrieval software and its implementation. After lunch attendees will have the opportunity to play with several demonstration systems. Guest speakers have been invited for the afternoon session to talk on the theme of content-based image retrieval from their perspective as a user of image data, a developer and a researcher of the technology. Guest speakers will differ at each venue. The seminars will close with a questions & answers session. The conference is FREE to delegates from Higher and Further Education. The number of places is strictly limited and early booking is advised. To register for either seminar, complete the online booking form at <http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/register.html>http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/register.html <http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/register.html> Please circulate this message to interested colleagues. [material deleted] From: Hugh Nicoll Subject: Re: 15.062 good list-serving software? Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:26:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 134 (134) [deleted quotation] Greetings from Japan, I use LetterRip Pro, a Mac listserv program. I don't host any particularly high volume lists, but the server software can handle quite large lists. The only major weakness for LetterRip seems to be the lack of automated bounce handling, but it's easy to use, reasonably priced and will run just fine for months/years with nary a crash on a dedicated machine. An older machine (PPC 6100 or 7100 for example) will run it just fine, especially if you have a reasonably good full time internet account and domain name. For further info, check out the Fog City Software home page: http://www.fogcity.com/ Hugh -- Hugh Nicoll, Miyazaki Municipal University http://www.miyazaki-mu.ac.jp/~hnicoll/ From: Angela Mattiacci Subject: Re: 15.062 good list-serving software? Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:27:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 135 (135) Hi, I use something called Listbot to manage my discussion lists. It is a free service with advertisements in the messages, offered by http://www.listbot.com. I like it because it can do everything that you mention in your message (open subscription/unsubscription, option for completely open list, moderated list, or owner-only-posts list. ) and because list management is web-based. One draw-back is that the free service does have advertisements but to upgrade to listbot Gold, it does not cost too much (around 100$ US per year). -- ================================================================== Angela Mattiacci, PhD, MCSE Coordonnatrice - Nouvelles technologies / Co-ordinator - Information Technologies Institute of Canadian Studies / Institut d'tudes canadiennes University of Ottawa / Universit d'Ottawa 562-5800 x 3179 http://www.canada.uottawa.ca amattiac@uottawa.ca ================================================================== "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 15.062 good list-serving software? Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:27:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 136 (136) [deleted quotation]The nicest one I've ever used is a free package called Mailman. It's written in Python and has all the features you describe. It also has an outstanding web-based account management and archiving system. http://www.list.org/ -- 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://busa.village.virginia.edu/ "By ratiocination, I mean computation" -- Hobbes From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: obstacles, fun and confessions Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:32:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 137 (137) Willard, A little confession-style question with the intention to dissipate some free-floating guilt that lingers 'round lists of disiderata: how many subscribers who do or have done work in activities touching upon computing in the humanities can lay claim to possessing the basic skill set outlined in any or all of the lists that have been proposed recently for the trouseau of accomplishments to be possessed by a graduate of a degree program in humanities computing? I, for one, do not. Nor am I in a position to acquire them soon. I am in a position to point out that any approach to the social reproduction of a discipline or field that does not take into account the changing nature of the workplace will miss opportunities to tap into the dynamics of life-long learning. I used the "trouseau" metaphor above. I urge people designing (and implementing) educational programs not to consider their lists as items for the wedding chest for some cryto-marriage, i.e. not to gear a program for preparing its graduates for a life "out there". Or to switch metaphors (barely), graduate school is _not_ a boot camp. Is it possible to imagine Humanities Computing operating across centres, institutions, programs, that are flexible and are designed to link students and allow them the possibilities of maintaining links? I recall that CETH mounted intensive summer sessions that operated with both plenaries and parallel tracks. It is a model that might serve planners well in terms of thinking not of individual students but of cohorts. If the expert on digital images is at institution A and the expert on hypermedia is at institution B, what arrangements are there so that students and experts at institutions A & B can benefit? Note that the expert may not be a member of faculty but a student and that such an expert-student may find much to be learnt from being mentored while teaching. In short, there are other gate-keeping models that need not reflect a bias for family formation narratives (parent institution bonds with student child to prepare child-student for marriage-like couplings). They begin with thinking of modes of alliance which consider what the student brings to a program, what the student has to offer, what the student gives, and what synergies are possible with a whole set of student-donors. It becomes easier to think in such terms if the activities of a program take not only the form of a two or one year time table but also including intensive seminars, workshops and meetings of shorter duration either online or in the flesh. Being true to the spread of pleasure may mean considering a life of alternating intensities. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Re: 15.061 OCR on hand-printed texts Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:32:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 138 (138) Your question as to OCRing 17th century printed texts is right on, given the discussion on the difficulty of humanities computing. The answer is: it can be done, and I have done it, but it may not be worth the candle. NB that we are talking of printed, not manuscript texts. First problem: The condition of the book itself, how much foxing, splotching and other sorts of things. How many abbreviations and ligatures. 2d problem: How to get the text into the computer (I leave aside the problem of platforms, etc.). Nowadays, according to the shape of the text, I would suggest using a digital camera, which makes it possible to avoid all that skewing you get when you scan on a flatbed. 3d problem: You will need to have an OCR program which can be trained. I would suggest OmniPage Pro from Caere. Do not overtrain. Note that you need as good a copy as possible, so you may have to use a graphics program to remove gray levels, spots (use de- speckling), etc. This sounds tedious, but can be fairly routine once you get into it. I have scanned the old Du Cange, a Lapide, and the 18th C. Oxford Cicero with good success. BTW, there used to be a letter in the Humanist archives on an attempt to use the Kurzweil 4000; it is a perfect example of a semi- luddite trying to use new technology. Anecdote 2: I remember a colleague when I was in Germany in 1988 pointing out to me the uselessness of these computers, since he had tried to scan 18th C. texts. I was able to make a training set for the Kurzweil 2000 (splendid machine; I hated to see them go) which performed his task satisfactorily. We luddites (Maschinenstuermer) have our problems with these machines. How do you convert a .pcx to a .gif? Why would you want to? From: Miran Hladnik Subject: Clickable foreign language phrases online Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:30:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 139 (139) Dear fellows Humanists, I have decided to htmlize the whole phrasebook Slovene for Travelers, written by Toussaint Hoevar and me years ago, and make it freely available on the web. You'll can access the text with 1800 and more clickable Slovene phrases at the address http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/sft/. I am very much interested in your comments on the linking done and I am looking forward to your proposals for its improvement. Miran Hladnik http://www.ijs.si/lit/hladnik.html From: John Unsworth Subject: texts and contexts Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:31:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 140 (140) Published recently: http://bodoni.village.virginia.edu/text-context Texts and Contexts The Department of English Faculty Conference March 30-31, 2001 [Best viewed with Internet Explorer 5 or higher] Michael Levenson, Opening Remarks Stephen Arata, Close Reading Context Gregory Orr, Incarnating Eros Jennifer Wicke, Great-Enough Great Books Peter Baker, Silicon Texts for Old English Instruction John Unsworth, Knowledge Representation in Humanities Computing Victor Luftig, Poetry and an Irish Ceasefire Stephen Railton, tExts and contExts Alan Howard, Texts and Contexts in the Classroom? Stephen Cushman, John Reuben Thompson, Confederate in London Clare Kinney, Slacker Shakespeare?: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) Alison Booth, Who's Who in the History Months: Prosopographies of Race and Gender Lisa Woolfork, 'Sankofa' and the Question of Film as Slave Narrative A.C. Spearing, 'The Cloud of Unknowing': Absolute Truth and Historical Context James Nohrnberg, Paradigm Reclaimed: The Scriptural, Literary, Archaeological, and Theological Context for the Veneration of the Divine Image in Paradise Lost, or Glorious Crown: A Brief Adamology for Miltons Diffuse Epic Patricia Meyer Spacks, 'The Morals of a Whore': Reading Lord Chesterfield Johanna Drucker, The Ivanhoe Game John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/.plan From: Willard McCarty Subject: history of software Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:31:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 141 (141) Humanists may be interested to know about the "Software History Project Bibliography" maintained by the Center for the History of Information Processing, Charles Babbage Institute (Univ of Minnesota), "an archives and research center dedicated to promoting study of the history of information processing and its impact on society". The bibliography is quite current and is to be found at <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/shp/bibliography.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: Willard McCarty Subject: mea culpa Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:51:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 142 (142) Dear colleagues: Apparently I sent a batch of Humanist postings off into the wrong aether, i.e. Humanist 15.063-067. Discovering my error this morning, I immediately sent the sidetracked messages to the proper one, hence (I trust) to you. My apologies. Nothing to blame but early morning drowsiness, or perhaps it was the brilliance of an all-too-rarely unclouded sunrise. 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: Michael Fraser Subject: Humbul records to go, 27 July 2001 Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:40:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 143 (143) Records to go: cataloguing and using humanities online resources in the Humbul Humanities Hub University of Oxford, 27 July 2001, 0915-1700 This one-day workshop, part of a series of summer workshops, will introduce participants to the Humbul Humanities Hub, both for the cataloguing of online resources and for re-using resource descriptions from the Hub. Presentations will include: * An introduction to Humbul and the Resource Discovery Network * A practical session relating to the evaluation of web resources * A presentation on the description of Web resources using metadata schemes such as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set The workshop will have two distinct strands around which will be built hands-on tutorials. The first strand is aimed at participants wishing to collect and make available annotated links to Web resources from their own web page (whether a gateway, a course page or a personal home page). The tutorial will demonstrate how one can search for, store, and export records from Humbul, including ways of dynamically including resource descriptions within one's own web page. The second strand is aimed at participants who either wish to contribute to Humbul within a given subject area or wish to know more about the issues involved in the cataloguing of Web resources. The tutorial will allow participants to describe and edit a resource using Humbul's cataloguing system. The workshop costs 65 pounds including materials and refreshments (35 pounds for students). An online booking form, and details of other workshops in the series, is available via http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/summer/programme.html Please contact me with any enquiries. Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP for the 13th Int'l Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:54:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 144 (144) [deleted quotation] The 13th International Congress of Slavists will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 15-21, 2003. The deadline for submitting proposals for papers is October 1, 2001. You will find the list of themes (covering linguistics, literary history, cultural studies, folklore studies and the history of Slavic studies), the thematic block submission form, and other useful information at the temporary congress site http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/slovjez/kongres_eng.html miran.hladnik@uni-lj.si From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP Esslli 2002 (Trento, Italy) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:57:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 145 (145) [deleted quotation] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Fourteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2001 August 13-24, 2002, Trento, Italy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% PRELIMINARY CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------------------- The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-2002 is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2002 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 14th annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields: [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the web site for ESSLLI-2002 <http://www.esslli.org/2002/esslli-2002.html>. For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2001 <http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli>. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: PhD Studentship in corpus linguistics Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:53:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 146 (146) [deleted quotation] The University of Sheffield has PhD funding available (starting September 2001) for a project involving the British National Corpus. The studentship is jointly held by the departments of English Language and Linguistics and Information Studies. A suitable candidate would have a project in mind involving the BNC and be able to draw on expertise from both of these departments. We welcome proposals in the following areas of corpus linguistics: lexical statistics, word frequency, lexical innovation, lexicography text type/register/genre analysis stylistics discourse analysis variation and change text retrieval, text processing text markup computing in the humanities Please note that this is a university studentship and so fees are paid at the home rate only. If the candidate is not from the EU, funding must be available to make up the difference between home and overseas fees. Arrangements for supervision: The successful candidate will be a member of the Department of English Language and Linguistics which forms part of the School of English. The project will be jointly supervised by Dr Claire Cowie and Dr Claire Warwick from the department of Information Studies. Dr Cowie works on word-formation and lexical innovation in historical corpora, with particular reference to register differences. Dr Warwick works on humanities computing, with a particular interest in the application of computers to the study of English literature and language. She was previously part of the BNC project team. More information about the departments may be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/index.html and http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is. Application forms and further details can be obtained from: Fozia Yasmin, Graduate Research Office Graduate Research Office 156 Broomspring Lane Sheffield S10 2FE Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 1404 Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 1420 Email : grad.school@sheffield.ac.uk To discuss the project informally, please contact Claire Cowie (0114 2220217- c.s.cowie@sheffield.ac.uk) or Claire Warwick (0114 222 2632 - c.warwick@sheffield.ac.uk). From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 15.070 OCR on hand-printed texts Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:39:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 147 (147) I once went to see OCR software demonstrated in Holland, which was able to "read" Greek as long as one took the time to "train" it (30-60 hours was the estimate on fairly regular type like Oxford Classical Texts). It was very expensive though (3,000 in 1994) and I am not sure I remember the name correctly (ProLector), or that the company still exists. But it was impressive I have to say. yours HB From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Robustness in Language and Speech Technology Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:56:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 148 (148) [deleted quotation] **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 17 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY edited by Jean-Claude Junqua Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Gertjan van Noord University of Groningen, The Netherlands In this book we address robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and natural language understanding. This book attempts to give a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. It also brings together speech and language technologies often considered separately. [material deleted] http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Copyright Search Method at Copyright Office; Articles Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 07:01:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 149 (149) on Semantic Web & E-Books in Academe NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 4, 2001 NEWSNOTES: COPYRIGHT OFFICE LAUNCHES PILOT SEARCH METHOD <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search>http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search May Issue of CIT INFOBITS <http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/>http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ Includes: "Articles on E-Books in Academe" Article on "The Semantic Web" by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, in May SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN <http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html>http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html A few collected news notes from two sources: the U.S. Copyright Office announcing an experimental method for searching for copyrighted works online and the May issue of CIT Infobits (from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Instructional Technology) pointing us to a "Scientific American" article on the Semantic Web by Tim Berners Lee and others, and a collection of articles on the E-Book in the University. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Guide: Managing Web Resources for persistent access; Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 07:02:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 150 (150) Conference: Managing Digital Video Content NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community GUIDELINES: Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access <http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html>http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html CONFERENCE: Managing Digital Video Content Workshop August 15-16, 2001: Atlanta, Georgia <http://www.vide.net/conferences/>http://www.vide.net/conferences/ Two sets of resources to assist in managing digital assets: a new Guide from The National Library of Australia on managing a web site and its resources to provide the maximum level of persistent access; and a conference in Atlanta this August on the issues of managing digital video content. David Green =========== * * * * GUIDELINES: Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access <http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html>http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html [deleted quotation] Managing web resources for persistent access ******************************************************* The persistence of links to online resources is essential to ensure long-term public access to web-based materials. The National Library of Australia has just produced a set of guidelines called "Managing web resources for persistent access" <http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html>http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html designed to assist those responsible for the management of online materials to ensure that links made to those resources continue to work. The guidelines provide advice on determining the categories of resources that require persistent access and systems for managing persistence such as redirects, resolver databases or persistent identifier services. The guidelines also provide information on how to organise a web site to reduce the need to move material around, and to keep older material accessible. A printed version of the guidelines is also available and may be obtained by contacting the Electronic Unit, National Library of Australia by email at elecunit@nla.gov.au or by phone at (02) 62621140 Julie Whiting ********************************************************* Julie Whiting Electronic Unit, National Library of Australia Ph: 61 2 6262 1140 jwhiting@nla.gov.au ********************************************************* CONFERENCE: Managing Digital Video Content Workshop August 15-16, 2001: Atlanta, Georgia <http://www.vide.net/conferences/>http://www.vide.net/conferences/ [deleted quotation] CNI is a co-sponsor of this workshop and Clifford Lynch will be a keynoter. ----------------------------------------------- Managing Digital Video Content Workshop August 15-16, 2001 Atlanta, Georgia <http://www.vide.net/conferences/>http://www.vide.net/conferences/ The workshop will focus on practical applications of current and emerging standards --Dublin Core, ODRL, XrML, and MPEG7-- for describing and managing video assets for any digital video collection, as well as for sharing collection information in the global environment using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol. Who should attend: Anyone with an interest in managing digital resources (campus video departments, IT departments, librarians and archivists) Registration Fee: $80.00 Registration Deadline: July 1, 2001 Keynote speeches: Globally Sharing Information Assets Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information: MPEG7: Transforming Digital Video Asset Description Jane Hunter, Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), Australia Presentations: --ViDe Dublin Core Application Profile for Digital Video --OAI Implementation for Dublin Core --XML rights metadata for digital video Putting the pieces together: --Practical experiences digital video and moving image archives --Digital asset management vendor panel --What to look for in a digital asset management system. --Hands-on breakout workshops for applying the standards, with databases and programming provided to attendees Exhibit area showcasing digital asset management system vendors will be available throughout the conference Conference sponsors: Coalition for Networked Information Internet2 Southeastern Universities Research Association ViDe Registration: The conference sponsors require a minimum advance registration of 50; the facilities can hold a maximum of 180. Therefore, please register as soon as possible. Conference web site contains registration, agenda, hotel &transportation info: <http://www.vide.net/conferences/>http://www.vide.net/conferences/ ============================================================== 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. 15 Num. 151 (151) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 82. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> Dear Humanists, I am asking again for help. Last night I got the ministerial decree saying that Italian Studies at Duisburg University will be closed definitively. This is not only a drama for the presence of Italian Lan- guage, Literature and Culture in accademic education in general, for the more than 150 students already enroled and the school leavers who had wanted to take up these studies (Italian Studies this semester is the fastest growing department inside Romance Studies with up to 16% of incre- ment in student enrollment), but also for humanities compu- ting. In fact, it is precisely the Italian department which since the beginnings of the 90s has tried to introduce the new media in its studies (corpus linguistics, textual analysis, Markup, the study of authentic materials on the Internet ecc.). Furthermore, the Italian department last year has organised the very successful international congress SILFI2000, where un- der the motto "Tradition & Innovation. Italian linguistics and philology at the start of a new Millennium" for the first time the wealth of knowledge gained by using traditional resour- ces and methodolgy was brought together with projects which try to exploit the possibilities offered by the electronic media for research and teaching. It has, thus, successfully combined approaches up to then separated from each other and mostly present in congresses devoted either exclusively to the traditio- nal perspective or exclusively to media and tecnology (cf. www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI2000/) The Italian department is, furthermore, organising CLiP2001 to take place from the 06-09.12.2001 at Duisburg University where under the motto "Philologies and Informationtechnologies. Theo- ries, modells, methods of a new discipline" eminent European and US-scholars will come together, discuss the state of the art and work towards a European multilingual BA/MA-Programme PHIL*IT. Some information can already be found at www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/CLiP2001. Invitations will go out as soon as possible and there will be more information, soon. We are only too aware that traditional Italian Studies are having a hard time when money and student numbers are the only criteria for judging the value of a subject and the work which has been done in the past, we cannot accept, however, that the innovative path we have taken in order to qualify our students for a professional life in a multilingual and multicultural Information society are nullified and we are not given the chance to create new programms which allow us and our students to teach and study languages, literature and cul- ture from a perspective which gives them the possibility to gain exac- tly these qualifications which in Germany and in Europe are so very much requested. In fact, technologically qualified content workers and knowledge managers which are proficient in more than one lan- guage and culture are more than rare. I hope I can bank on your help again as about 2 years ago when lots and lots of messages from all over the world reached our Rector. Even if he hadn't then the time to read them all and reply to them as he had wanted, the idea he had of the Italian department has changed very much, in the meantime. Now, however, the situation is not any longer in his hands. It is the mi- nistry who decreets the shut downs. Therefore, I ask you to send a mail of protest to Ministerin fuer Schule, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nord- rhein-Westfalen, Frau Behler peter.marx@mswf.nrw.de Please, make clear to her that Italian Studies at Duisburg and the work it is doing is internationally known, that some of its members belong to the most important organisations of Humanities Computing/with Computing (ACH, ALLC, ACO*HUM) and ask her to give us a chance to develop the new pro- gramme PHIL*IT, which absolutely needs Italian language, literature and cul- ture to be part of it if it wants to be a real European programme. What is Europe woth if its great languages and cultures are not respected. I would be happy if you sent me a copy of your mail. Please do not expect me to respond, however, I just won't be able to respond. Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr FB10/Romanistik / Universitaet Bremen eburr@uni-bremen.de / Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/ http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/Burr/ From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.062 good list-serving software? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:18:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 152 (152) At 7:17 +0100 30/5/2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] i use letterrip pro (macintosh only) and i currently run 80 or so lists, 10 of these for state or national cultural organisations. one crash in nearly 5 years. fast but probably only scalable to lists of up to 4 or 5,000 members. takes me on average 3 minutes to set up a list and has all the above features. but the product appears to have had little development the last 2 years so i suspect is one of those wonderful things that work but has become superseded by silly proprietary systems that corporations use. http://www.fogcity.com is the url. very elegant. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: Matthew Zimmerman Subject: ACH-ALLC conference announcement Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:17:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 153 (153) Announcing a pre-conference workshop on XML We are please to announce that Roger Sperberg will lead a pre-conference workshop on XML next week. This will take place on Tuesday, June 12th from 1-5pm. If you wish to register for this event, please do so by replying to this message. Include your name and affiliation. There will be a $40 charge for this event, which you can pay when you register for the conference. How to Understand XML In this four-hour introduction to XML, the essence of XML will be explored to better understand its structure and its use. If you have wondered what XML is, where it came from, where it will take you, and why does everyone make such a big deal about being well-formed and valid - questions that tutorials cover sketchily - this seminar will get you off to a good start. Roger Sperberg is an XML and e-book consultant. -- Matthew Zimmerman Humanities Computing Specialist New York University tel: 212-998-3038 fax: 212-998-4120 matthew.zimmerman@nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/ From: Elli Mylonas Subject: June 8: Fagerjord on convergence of digital media Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:17:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 154 (154) The Computing in the Humanities User's Group Presents The Convergence of Digital Media Rhetoric. Anders Fagerjord University of Oslo Friday June 8, 3pm STG Conference Room, Grad Center, Tower E A popular expectation is that all media will converge onto one Web-like broadband medium. In his Ph.D. project, Anders Fagerjord addresses this view with a list of questions. If media do melt together, what will the result look like? What forms of writing, of sound and video editing, and of interactivity will work in such a medium? He compares Web versions of radio, magazines, and television with their parent versions, noting how the forms of the older media influence forms in the Web versions, and what forms the Web medium seems to add. In the talk, he will outline the project and present some preliminary results. Anders Fagerjord is a Research Fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. January-August 2001, he is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. Anders holds a Candidatus Philologiae in Media and Communication from the University of Oslo (1997). Outside of academia, he has worked as a radio host and as a Web designer. From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 15.065 obstacles &c to humanities computing Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:16:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 155 (155) Francois Lachance: [deleted quotation] Good lists are heuristic devices, not policing devices. The lists posted here were shorthand representations of various views of what humanities computing is, and thus useful provocations. One of the lists, for example, exposed a blind spot with regard to visual and aural media---and so a discussion ensued. I don't think there were any higher (or lower) motives in play. That said, I don't think anyone here ought to be ashamed of putting out on the table what they think a computing humanist ought to know; given the various degree programs (and curricula) that are beginning to emerge, this is an important and timely conversation to be having. And to say that humanities computing is so utterly fluid and multifaceted as to resist every attempt at curricula codification is not helpful in my view, as it only serves to mystify what we do and what we have to teach. (Francois did not say this, but I have heard the notion aired in other venues.) Best, Matt -- Please note: I will be moving to the University of Maryland, College Park, in July. I cannot guarantee delivery of mail sent to this Kentucky address after June 30, nor do I yet know what my email address at Maryland will be. Therefore, please send mail (particularly important mail) to my account at , which will remain active during the transition. Thank you. From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: 15.079 OCR on hand-printed texts Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:19:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 156 (156) "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote: [deleted quotation] You might also consider enquiring by contacting the company IRIS who produce a multinlingual (56 languages!) OCR software of the same name. See http://www.irislink.com Best regards, tvs -- __________________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe Bruxelles / Belgium mailto:100342.254@compuserve.com __________________________________ From: Steven C. Perkins Subject: Proof reading standards/methods (fwd) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:45:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 157 (157) To: cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu Mr. Faulhaber: I found your name and e-address on the Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions page. I have a double-keying project where I expect to be receiving materials at a rate of 200,000 pages per month. Do you know of any materials that discuss the method of doing proof reading for that quantity of pages ? How many readers, sampling rate, etc. The vendor is guaranteeing a 99.995 accuracy rate and I need to check it within 30 days for rejection or approval. Any pointers you can provide will be most appreciated. Sincerely, Steven C. Perkins From: John Unsworth Subject: FW: PMC 11.3 available Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:18:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 158 (158) P.O.S.T.M.O.D.E.R.N C.U.L.T.U.R.E A journal of critical thought on contemporary cultures published by Johns Hopkins University Press with support from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and from Vassar College Volume 11, Number 3 (May 2001) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/toc/pmc11.3.html a.r.t.i.c.l.e.s Sara L. Knox, The Productive Power of Confessions of Cruelty Hanjo Berressem, Serres Reads Pynchon / Pynchon Reads Serres David Herman, Sciences of the Text Lee Spinks, Genesis and Structure and the Object of Postmodernism Mark Mossman, Acts of Becoming: Autobiography, Frankenstein, and the Postmodern Body r.e.v.i.e.w e.s.s.a.y Joel Nickels, Post-Avant-Gardism: Bob Perelman and the Dialectic of Futural Memory . A review of Bob Perelman, _The Future of Memory_. New York: Roof Books, 1998. r.e.v.i.e.w.s Brian Finney, Will Self's Transgressive Fictions. A review of Will Self, _Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys_. London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Robert S. Oventile, Paul de Man, Now More than Ever? A review of Tom Cohen, et al., eds., _Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. Rebecca Rauve, The Novel: Awash in Media Flows. A review of John Johnston, _Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. Lasse Thomassen, The Politics of Lack. A review of Slavoj Zizek, _The Ticklish Verso, 1999. ..................................................... This issue is available free of charge until the release of the next issue. For complete access to back issues and search utilities, you or your institution may subscribe to Project Muse, the on-line journals project of the Johns Hopkins University Press. A text-only archive of the journal is available free of charge at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/ From: Nicola Cotton Subject: New Technologies Conference advertising Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:46:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 159 (159) NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CONFERENCE Thursday 20 and Friday 21 September 2001 Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON, UK. Organisers Professor Michael Worton (UCL) and Professor Sandra Kemp (Royal College of Art) Conference website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/ About the conference This conference aims to explore the implications of the 'new technologies' in terms of both teaching and research and, crucially, in broader social and ethical terms. The conference will focus not on technical aspects, but on the wider issues of ethics, gender, cognition, and ideologies and, indeed, theologies of the object in the new virtual world. Major keynote speakers will present their latest thinking and there will also be workshop sessions led by eminent specialists on archiving, exhibiting and online teaching. The conference will provide an opportunity for the sharing of perspectives on the use and the implications of new technologies in research and teaching in the arts and humanities. It will also be an occasion for active participation in workshops and the sharing of good practice. Exhibition of new technologies An exhibition accompanying the conference will take place at University College London from 20-22 September. This will enable all conference participants to have hands-on experience of some successful projects in research, teaching and online exhibiting. The exhibition will also be open to students and members of the public. Contact Dr Nicola Cotton Research Assistant Department of French University College London Gower Street LONDON WC1E 6BT email: n.cotton@ucl.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1374 fax: +44 (0)20 7916 8505 From: Lloyd Davidson Subject: Digital Rights Management session at ALA Annual Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:46:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 160 (160) At the Annual ALA conference in San Francisco, on Sunday, June 17, 2001, 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM , Marriott Hotel, Salon 7, The Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals IG of LITA will present: Digital Rights Management Systems: How They Will Affect Intellectual Property Rights, Information Access and Libraries Digital rights management systems control access and usage of digital material and their successful deployment is essential for the economic survival of any company that wishes to profitably publish any type of material on the Internet. They are also on the verge of becoming a major operational component of library services and are already having an impact in controlling access to electronic books and journals. However, besides simply limiting access, they can further be used to protect against copyright violations while providing many of the fair use rights and other privileges scholarly communities consider essential. This session will attempt to begin defining a set of solutions that fits the needs of intellectual property creators, owners and users. Speakers will include, in this order: Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI and one of the library community's best synthesizers of information about technology's impact on libraries. Mark Stefik, Author of "The Internet Edge: Social Legal, and Technological Challenges for a Networked World" (MIT Press, 2000) and the original developer of the software that became ContentGuard, one of the major digital rights management systems. He is currently a research fellow at Xerox PARC and manager of the Human-Document Interaction Area in the Information Sciences and Technology Laboratory. Dennis McNannay, Recently Vice President at InterTrust Technologies, currently one of the most successful digital rights management companies, and a recognized expert on digital rights management systems. Prasad Ram, Previously General Manager of ContentGuard when it was at Xerox, and now co-founder, with Carol Risher (recently of AAP), of Savantech, a company developing digital media distribution solutions in support of digital commerce. James Neal, Dean of University Libraries & the Sheridan Director, Johns Hopkins University and nationally known speaker on digital issues and electronic publishing. Lloyd Davidson, Northwestern University, Moderator From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: What can we be? Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:47:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 161 (161) Willard, Very interesting reframing 15.084 what computing humanists should know of the subject line It picks up nicely Matt's suggestion that "policing" in the narrow sense is not the same activity as the granting and verification of credentials. Indeed, as law and medicine exemplify, the policing function is invoked post facto when some person misrepresents themself as being able to practice law or diagnose illness and dispense medications. Currently, pretending to be a scholar is not freighted with the sanctions applied to would-be lawyers or physicians. I do agree with Matt that there is no shame in putting one's favourite lists "on the table". I do want to draw attention to the metaphor of trumping that is implied (by analogy with a card game)in putting something on the table which is different from "bringing something to the table" in the scene of negotiation. I do thank Matt for citing a snippet of the post I sent suggesting that "marrigeability" is not the only outcome around which to construct programs or desiderata. In rejecting bride production, it seems that I leave the door open for whore mongering. I use gendered terms advisdedly. The word-image debates have been [from Lessing to McLuhan], explicitly and implicitly, and continue to be, explicitly and implicitly, highly gendered discourses cast in the most resolute of moralising. The lyrics from a song by Stephen Stills come to mind: "Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now". Is it possible to design inter-institutional cooperative programs that draw upon strengths to create a cadre of scholars who are engaged? Setting aside the rather Marxist sound of "cadre of scholars" and the Existentialist ring of "engage", what I mean to ask is if it is possible to do the work of design taking cohorts and not individuals as units? At the top of my list of the desiderata for the individual scholar would be the demonstrated ability to participate in team work in a networked environment. I think that the benefit of thinking in terms of linking people (and not just in terms of producing graduates) is that questions of accessibility come to the fore and the vision emerges that allows scholars and pedagogues engaged in humanities computing to think about how graduate students could animate summer camp for pre-postsecondary students. Whether for whores or brides, humanities computing is robbing craddles to teach folks how to dig among the graves and dream about the stars. Some grooms never ride horses; me, I ambulate with the sisters. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.086 proof-reading standards/methods? Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:48:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 162 (162) ..005 of 200,000 is 1000 -- if you can live with 1000 pages of errors..... From: "David L. Gants" Subject: netzspannung.org/journal/issue0 (english - deutsch) Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:51:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 163 (163) [deleted quotation] // die Netzspannung steigt Welcome to the first edition of netzspannung.org/ journal, the magazine for media production and inter-media research. netzspannung.org/journal is an editorial module of the netzspannung.org Internet platform, which goes online in September 2001. netzspannung.org is a project by MARS - Exploratory Media Lab (GMD) and was initiated by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss. netzspannung.org/journal projects a map of media activity. Different formats for print and online are created from a collection of texts and images which evolve gradually to a digital knowledge landscape. Telematically collaborative workspaces offer new opportunities but also create new areas of conflict in using electronic space. In this edition, we reflect on conditions for collaborative workspaces and touch on related areas relevant to the set-up of netzspannung.org. The contributions are grouped into the following clusters: medialaboratories, awareness, online archives, copyright and intellectual property, distributed systems, experimental media spaces, and cultural exchange in the network. Enjoy! netzspannung.org/journal editors // Gabriele Blome / Andrea Helbach You can find the English version of the e-journal at http://netzspannung.org/journal/issue0/index_en.html ---------------------------------------------------- netzspannung.org/journal - magazine for media production and inter-media research Contact: redaktion@netzspannung.org Please subscribe at http://netzspannung.org/journal/registrieren_en.html ---------------------------------------------------- ***************** DEUTSCHE VERSION ***************** // die Netzspannung steigt Willkommen zur ersten Ausgabe von netzspannung.org/ journal - dem Magazin f=FCr mediale Inszenierung und intermediale Forschung.=20 netzspannung.org/journal ist ein redaktionelles Modul der Internet-Plattform netzspannung.org, die im September 2001 online geht. netzspannung.org ist ein Projekt vom MARS - Exploratory Media Lab (GMD) und wurde von Monika Fleischmann und Wolfgang Strauss initiiert. netzspannung.org/journal zeigt eine Landkarte des medialen Geschehens. Aus einer Datenbasis werden unterschiedliche Formate f=FCr Print- und Online generiert, die sich sukzessive zu einer digitalen Wissenslandschaft ausweiten.=20 Telematisch kollaborative Arbeitsumgebungen bieten neue Chancen, verweisen jedoch zugleich auch auf neue Konfliktsituationen im Umgang mit dem elektronischen Raum. Das Journal von netzspannung.org reflektiert in dieser Ausgabe die Bedingungen kollaborativer Arbeitsr=E4ume und ber=FChrt jene verwandten Diskurse, die beim Aufbau von netzspannung.org relevant sind. Die Beitr=E4ge sind zusammengefasst in die folgenden Cluster: Medienlabore, Awareness, Online-Archive, Copyright und Intellectual Property, Verteilte Systeme, Experimentelle Medienr=E4ume, und Kulturvermittlung im vernetzten Raum. Wir w=FCnschen viel Anregung und Vergn=FCgen beim Lesen! Redaktion netzspannung.org/journal // Gabriele Blome, Andrea Helbach Die deutsche Version des e-Journals finden Sie unter http://netzspannung.org/journal/issue0 ---------------------------------------------------- netzspannung.org/journal - Magazin f=FCr mediale Inszenierung und intermediale Forschung Kontakt: redaktion@netzspannung.org Registrieren Sie sich unter: http://netzspannung.org/journal/registrieren.html ---------------------------------------------------- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Reuters & Art Museum Network's Arts News Service Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 12:09:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 164 (164) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN REUTERS AND ART MUSEUM NETWORK TO CREATE MAJOR FINE ARTS NEWS SERVICE http://www.artmuseumnetwork.org A little late, but I thought readers might be interested in this alliance between the Art Museum Network and Reuters to provide two forms of arts news service via the Art Museum Network. 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Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 37, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 12:08:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 165 (165) Version 37 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,350 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 350 KB and the Word file is over 410 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: "J. Randolph Radney" Subject: RE: 15.086 proof-reading standards/methods? Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 12:08:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 166 (166) I believe the accuracy rates reported elsewhere, to the effect that .005 error rate gives 1000 pages of errors per 200K pages is inaccurate to the actual rate reported to be guaranteed by the vendor. A rate of 99.995% would allow only 5 pages of errors per 100K pages of text, or 10 pages of errors per month. The error seems to be that a rate of .005 is actually only 99.5% accurate, whereas the 99.995% rate would actually represent an error of .00005 (or 5/100,000). It would be interesting to know how this rate compares with any existing publication standards (for example, this seems remarkably low compared to the editorial standards for most newsprint--though I would hardly advocate that as a standard for archival accuracy!). My impression, though, is that such a standard is probably acceptable for a wide range of scholarly journals in the humanities. Cheers, radney From: Willard McCarty Subject: discovering what we need to know Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 11:05:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 167 (167) I would suppose that in our compilations toward a curriculum we are still at the shopping-list stage and that what follows on from this is a boiling down into a practical survey-course or two at the masters or doctoral level. I've likely pointed before in other contexts to the "great books" approach of the required survey course in the humanities that I encountered as an undergraduate at Reed College -- everything, as I recall, from Homer to the 17th century in one very busy year. For whatever it may be worth, the rapid survey of so much served me well, planting seeds that sprouted many years later when my interests verged on classical studies. I at least knew that something was there to be learned. I would think, then, that a survey course of the disciplines whose basics we need to pursue our field would be foundational to a humanities computing curriculum. One would be entirely safe to list every discipline in the catalogue, but I think a more organic approach is preferable -- not because it arrives at any different result but because in growing it from our current situation we discover the intellectual genealogy, as it were. My own experience (again for what it is worth) suggests that the grocery-list grows best from encounters with specific problems in which in some desparation one looks around the disciplinary terrain for help from the longer established fields. Thus we ask: who has thought about tricking commonalities out of human actions? (social scientists) About experimental knowledge-making? (philosophers, historians, sociologists of science) About understanding something across a divide of time or space? (historiographers, ethnographers) And so on. In each case, one tends to discover that the problems are deeper and richer than expected -- this is after all a pushing down of roots into the humanities. I am not suggesting that we only take, certainly not that all we have to give to our colleagues is greater convenience, rather we bring fascinating new inflections on the old problems with which we connect. Let me put forward an example. In what we simplistically think of as the migration of data from one medium (like print) to another (like the electronic), the question of continuity arises. What, exactly, is the relationship between e.g. Joyce's Dubliners in book-form and the "same" novel on CD with various multimedia adjuncts, say? Are we further ahead to think in terms of a Pythagorean model, in which an eternal soul (the verbal data) migrates unchanging from one body (printed book) to another (CD-ROM) essentially unchanged? (Perhaps more fairly one might call this the "there's-aunt-Matilda-again" doctrine of reincarnation.) Or do we get further by considering a philosophy of mind in which the relationship between soul and body is considerably more complex than that? In other words, is not the form/content problem that we face a resurfacing of the mind/body problem that has been bothering philosophers since Plato? To get back to the curriculum, if we regard this line of thinking as consequential for us (as we should!), do we not need at minimum to teach the next generation of computing humanists enough philosophy to recognise that a significant problem, with significant resources behind it, lies here? We might not expect them all to be submitting articles to the journal Mind, or even reading it, but it seems to me they should know that these waters are deep. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: OCR research Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:18:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 168 (168) Those interested in following the current thread on OCR of hand-printed texts might look at the following: 1. Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition <http://www.cedar.Buffalo.EDU/>, a research centre "concerned with the science of recognition, analysis and interpretation of digital documents". 2. The Document Understanding and Character Recognition WWW Server (Maryland) <http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/>, which "serves as a repository for Document Image Understanding and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) information and resources"; see esp the page on commercial character recognition resources, <http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/resources/products/>. 3. Information Science Research Institute (Nevada) <http://www.isri.unlv.edu/>. This institute once published yearly results from its "OCR Technology Assessment" programme but does not appear to do so any longer. 4. OCR and Text Recognition: Academic Research Projects <http://hera.itc.it:3003/~messelod/OCR/ResearchProjects.html>. A bibliography of academic research projects in the area. Other recommendations 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: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Re: 15.093 accuracy rates for proof-reading Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:18:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 169 (169) The final check of the Canterbury Tales Project publications should have "less than one correction for every four thousand characters." (Cf. p. 45, Robinson and Solopova, "Transcription Guidelines" in Blake and Robinson, eds., _The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers Volume I, Oxford: OHC, 1993). I have the idea that this translated on one mistake per hundred lines of transcription. Of course, the CDs include digitized images of the manuscripts which be compared with the transcriptions. Barbara Bordalejo From: Julia Flanders Subject: Nominations for TEI Council and Board Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:19:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 170 (170) The TEI Consortium will shortly be holding its first-ever elections for the TEI Council. The Council is the body responsible for guiding the TEI's research, overseeing its workgroups, and reviewing their results. It consists of twelve members, including the TEI editors who serve on the council ex officio. Members of the Council serve for two years. In order to assure a staggered turnover of Council members, six positions on the Council will be open for election this year, with the remaining four positions appointed to one-year terms and open for election the following year. Elections will also be held for two additional members of the TEI Board of Directors. The Board is responsible for the TEI Consortium's financial planning, governance, and strategic planning. Members of this board serve for two years. The nominating committee is now soliciting nominations for possible candidates in these elections. Candidates need not be members of the TEI Consortium, but they must indicate in writing that if elected they are willing to serve. Please send all nominations to the chair of the nominating committee, Julia Flanders (Julia_Flanders@brown.edu), no later than June 21, 2001. Thank you for your assistance. -- ________________________________ Julia Flanders Director,Women Writers Project Associate Director, Scholarly Technology Group Box 1841, Brown University Providence RI 02912 Julia_Flanders@brown.edu (401) 863-2135 http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/julia.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: explanation Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:38:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 171 (171) Dear Colleagues: While I was attending ACH/ALLC in New York I was unable to attend to Humanist as usual, for which I offer first an apology, then a great many messages. What can I say? The conference was compellingly good. 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: International Bullet Course on Speech and Language Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:44:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 172 (172) Engineering Evaluation in Paris [deleted quotation] *********************************************************************************** European Language Resources Association Announcement *********************************************************************************** ELRA is happy to announce the following event: The CLASS and ELSNET projects organize an International Bullet Course on Speech and Language Engineering Evaluation in Paris at the CNRS headquarters, on Monday July 02nd (afternoon) and Tuesday July 03rd (full day). contact: Patrick Paroubek at pap@limsi.fr, Registration is NOW OPEN at: http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eval_course_reg_form.[ps|pdf] Registration Fee: Regular: 230 Euros, ELSNET: 200 Euros, Projects involved in CLASS: 200 Euros, Student: 100 Euros Some of the organizers of the most famous large scale evaluation programs for Speech and Language Technologies will present an overview of the issue of evaluation for Speech and Language processing. The questions that will be addresssed are: - How does evaluation relates with pre and post activities? - What are the interest and benefits of evaluation for language engineering? - What methodologies exists and how are they deployed? - Relationship with basic research, development and market prospection? - How is it deployed in the different domains (speech and text processing)? - What form should it take? Technology evaluation or field/user Evaluation? - What are the current open issues? - What metric exists? Are they satisfactory and sufficient? - How can we take into account or abstract from the subjective human factors? - What about language resources? Our aim is to reach high-level executive, decision makers, project managers but also developer and scientist who want to have a birds-eye view on Evaluation in Language Engineering presented by people who have been involved in practical deployement of large scale evaluation programs in language engineering in the past 10 years. The course contributors are: J. Mariani (MR/FR), H. Steenecken (TNO/NL), D. Pallett (NIST/USA), P. Paroubek (Limsi-CNRS/FR), P. Resnik (UMIACS/USA), Beth Sundheim (SPAWAR/USA), K. Stibler (LMCo/USA), J. Garofolo (NIST/USA), N. O. Bernsen (NIS/DK), K. Choukri (ELRA/FR). -----Patrick Paroubek / Limsi-CNRS (pap@limsi.fr) ************************************************************************************** ELRA Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 Postal Mail: 55 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris France Home page: http://www.elda.fr/ or http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html LREC news: http://www.lrec-conf.org/ ************************************************************************************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: LACL 2001: Last Call for Participation - Program Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:45:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 173 (173) [deleted quotation] *********************************************************************** *** Last Call for Participation - Program *** LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate among interested people --- ************************************************************************** *** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration: http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Submissions M4M-2 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:46:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 174 (174) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 2 (M4M-1) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam November 29-30, 2001 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m DEADLINE: October 12, 2001 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-2 is the second installment of this bi-anual workshop series. [material deleted] FURTER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Workshop (Virginia): "Introduction to XML;" Conference Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:46:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 175 (175) (London): "New Technologies for the Arts & Humanities." NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 18, 2001 Introduction to XML Workshop August 15-17, 2001 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA $895 http://db.arl.org/xml/ New Technologies for the Arts & Humanities September 20-21: University of London, UK http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/ [deleted quotation] New Technologies for the Arts & Humanities September 20-21: University of London, UK http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/ [deleted quotation] NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CONFERENCE Thursday 20 and Friday 21 September 2001 Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON, UK. Organisers Professor Michael Worton (UCL) and Professor Sandra Kemp (Royal College of Art) Conference website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/ About the conference This conference aims to explore the implications of the 'new technologies' in terms of both teaching and research and, crucially, in broader social and ethical terms. The conference will focus not on technical aspects, but on the wider issues of ethics, gender, cognition, and ideologies and, indeed, theologies of the object in the new virtual world. Major keynote speakers will present their latest thinking and there will also be workshop sessions led by eminent specialists on archiving, exhibiting and online teaching. The conference will provide an opportunity for the sharing of perspectives on the use and the implications of new technologies in research and teaching in the arts and humanities. It will also be an occasion for active participation in workshops and the sharing of good practice. Exhibition of new technologies An exhibition accompanying the conference will take place at University College London from 20-22 September. This will enable all conference participants to have hands-on experience of some successful projects in research, teaching and online exhibiting. The exhibition will also be open to students and members of the public. Contact Dr Nicola Cotton Department of French University College London email:n.cotton@ucl.ac.uk tel: 020 7679 1374 -- ============================================================== 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Markup Languages: Theory & Practice - 2:2 Issued Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:41:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 176 (176) [deleted quotation] Markup Languages: Theory & Practice published by the MIT Press volume 2 number 2 just issued TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Can a team tag consistently? Experiences on the Orlando Project, by Terry Butler, Sue Fisher, Greg Coulombe, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Susan Brown, Jean Wood, Rebecca Cameron Demonstrational interface for XSLT stylesheet generation, by Teruo Koyanagi, Kouichi Ono, and Masahiro Hori From semistructured data to XML, by Ray Goldman, Jason McHugh, and Jennifer Widom A formal semantics of patterns in XSLT and XPath, by Philip Wadler PROJECT REPORT Marked-up programming, by Tuomas J. Lukka SQUIB Regular expressions for checking dates, by Eric Howland and David Niergarth The Consultant's Toolkit, by Arnold M. Slotnik FOR MORE INFORMATION http://mitpress.mit.edu/MLANG Markup Languages: Theory & Practice is a quarterly publication of the MIT Press. Editors: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and B. Tommie Usdin From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New book Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:43:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 177 (177) [deleted quotation] ***************************************************** BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ***************************************************** John Benjamins NLP series (NLP-2) Book series editor Ruslan Mitkov RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme (Eds) Coming out on 25 June 2001 !!! Table of contents Akiko Aizawa and Kyo Kageura - A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters Peter G.Anick - The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval M.Teresa Cabre Castellvi, Rosa Estopa Bagot and Jordi Vivaldi Palatresi - Automatic term detection:A review of current systems Lee-Feng Chien and Chun-Liang Chen Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources James J.Cimino - Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine Anne Condamines and Josette Rebeyrolle - Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB): Method and Results Beatrice Daille - Qualitative terminology extraction: Identifying relational adjectives Eric Gaussier - General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko - Detection of synonymy links between terms:Experiment and results Toru Hisamitsu and Yoshiki Niwa - Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures:A comparative evaluation of bigram statistics David A.Hull - Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons Hongyan Jing and Evelyne Tzoukermann - Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval:An approach based on context distance and morphology Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou - Term extraction using a similarity-based approach Ingrid Meyer - Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography: a conceptual and methodological framework Hiroshi Nakagawa - Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction A.Nazarenko,P.Zweigenbaum,B.Habert and J.Bouaud - Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon Michael P.Oakes and Chris.D.Paice - Term extraction for automatic abstracting From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News 1/2 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:47:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 178 (178) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************* We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 A description of each database is given below. ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 This database is comprised of telephone recordings from 1023 Flemish speakers (461 Males, 562 Females) recorded directly over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 5 times. ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 The Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 comprises 1011 Belgian-French speakers (493 Males, 518 Females) recorded over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 2 times. ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 The Luxembourgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 comprises 614 Luxembourgish-French speakers (246 Males, 368 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 3 times. ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 This database comprises 560 Luxembourgish-German speakers (247 Males, 313 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about one time. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 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 ===================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News 2/2 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:48:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 179 (179) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************** ELRA informs you that the ECI/MCI European Corpus Initiative, resource W0004 in the catalogue, costs 50 =80 (instead of 45 =80). Reminder: this corpus contains over 98 million words, covering most of the major European languages, as well as Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Malay and even more languages. For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 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 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Senate Passes Bill Extending Copyright Exemption to Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:49:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 180 (180) Online Courses NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 18, 2001 SENATE PASSES COPYRIGHT HARMONIZATION ACT Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001, S. 487, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:s.487.rs: [deleted quotation] The bill, known as the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act, S. 487, was approved on Friday. If an identical bill makes it through the House and is signed by President Bush, it would extend the existing copyright exemption for classroom use of "dramatic literary and musical works" -- such as movie clips and popular songs -- to nonprofit distance-education courses. [deleted quotation] ========================================================================== [deleted quotation] NCC WASHINGTON UPDATE, Vol. 7, #24, June 15, 2001 by Bruce Craig of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History ***************** 1. House Appropriation Committee Acts: Flat Funding for Endowments - Greater Scrutiny Over Smithsonian Programs 2. OAH Sends Letter to Smithsonian Regents 3. Senate Passes Copyright Harmonization Act 4. House Passes National Historic Trail Study Acts 5. Legislation Introduced: Mississippi Valley NHP 6. Report: Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress Meeting 7. News Bits and Bytes: Desegregation Theme Study Released <> 3. SENATE PASSES COPYRIGHT HARMONIZATION ACT By voice vote on June 8, 2002, the United States Senate passed legislation (S.487) the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2001. The objective of the bill (along with its House companion legislation - H.R. 2100 introduced by Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA)) is to make it easier to use copyrighted material in online instruction. The bill incorporates the recommendations made by the United States Copyright Office in a 1999 report and suggestions advanced by the Congressional Web-based Education Commission. If approved by the House and signed by the President, the legislation would extend for classroom use "dramatic literary and musical works" - such as movie clips and popular songs to nonprofit distance-education courses. Under current law, copyrighted material used under "fair use" provisions in a classroom often cannot be used in an online course and securing copyright permission can be a lengthy and at times expensive process. The legislation is designed to correct this. Presently, distance educators can only make fair use of complete versions of non-dramatic literary and musical works. This legislation seeks to enable educators to use limited portions of dramatic literary and musical works as well as audiovisual works and sound recordings. The legislation relies on safeguards (such as passwords) to ensure that only students have access to the copyrighted material. On March 13, 2001, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the legislation introduced March 7 by Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chairman of the Committee and co-sponsored by the Committee's then Ranking Democrat, Patrick Leahy (D-VT). With the Democrats now in control of the Senate, the Vermont Senator now sits as Chairman of the Committee. 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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: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: Jobs: Multimedia Technician and Educational Technology Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:39:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 181 (181) Specialist The Educational Technology Centre (ETC) at Malaspina University-College ( http://www.mala.bc.ca ) is looking to fill 2 positions. One is an ongoing regular position as a multimedia technician to support faculty and students in various multimedia technologies. The other is an educational technician to work closely with faculty in supporting the pedagogical use of technology as part of the teaching, learning process. We're looking for people who are enthusiastic, good communicators and know how to use technology effectively to help create learning environments using principles of learning theory. Both positions are posted on the web: http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/job_post/mcfa.htm From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Position Available: Director, Center for Digital Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:39:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 182 (182) Initiatives, University of Virginia NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 18, 2001 Position Available Director of the Center for Digital Initiatives University of Virginia [deleted quotation] THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR DIGITAL INITIATIVES The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia invites applications for the position of Director of the Center for Digital Initiatives. The newly established Center aspires to a position of international leadership in the integration of digital technology into the humanities and social sciences. The Center will encourage multi-disciplinary collaborations and support critical analysis of the cultural impact and transformative potential of information technology. To this end, it will foster a broad range of digitally mediated research, outreach, and teaching initiatives. The Director will have primary responsibility for shaping the Centers development and for overseeing the implementation of its mission. The Director will work with existing programs and entities, including the librarys digital centers, the research centers in humanities computing, and other academic units across the University to coordinate activities and extend capabilities. The Director will also contribute to the development of a larger vision for a planned residential and academic complex designed to integrate digital technology into liberal arts education. Additional duties will include teaching in a new Master of Arts program in Digital Humanities and integrating the activities of the Center and the M.A. with those of the undergraduate program in Media Studies. This is a rank-open faculty appointment. Accommodations for research and teaching agendas will be made according to the candidates individual profile. The ideal candidate will be an accomplished, imaginative scholar or professional working at the intersection of computational methods and humanities research or pedagogy, with interests in the broader implications of information technology as a force for cultural transformation. A Ph.D. or equivalent experience is required. Successful applicants will have a demonstrated record of intellectual distinction and administrative ability, entrepreneurial vision, excellent interpersonal skills, a successful track record of grantsmanship and/or fundraising, and a desire to create an innovative intellectual enterprise. Salary is commensurate with experience. The position is available immediately and will remain open until filled. Review of applications will begin April 1, 2001. Interested candidates should send a letter of application, a list of references, and vita to: Search Committee, Center for Digital Initiatives Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 419 Cabell Hall University of Virginia P.O. Box 400772 Charlottesville, VA 22903 The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. -- ============================================================== 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: AHRB studentship in text summarisation Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:40:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 183 (183) [deleted quotation]AHRB RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for an AHRB-funded research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on the development of a user-friendly environment which will assist different users in the production of abstracts of scholarly papers. In particular, the research of the student will focus on designing and implementing discourse strategies for summarisation. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. Candidates with a background predominantly in linguistics are also encouraged to apply provided they are willing to be involved in programming in the course of the work. The AHRB studentships are subject to residence restrictions in that the candidate must be either a UK citizen or must have been a resident in the UK for at least three years (1 year for EC citizens). Information on eligibility with respect to residence is available at http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/news/page1.htm Applications should be sent to Prof. R. Mitkov School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include - completed application form - a CV - copy of university degree - evidence of postgraduate qualification or experience - proof of nationality or residence status - a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. The application form can be downloaded from http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/AHRB_app_form.doc The closing date for applications is 12 July 2001. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in the week starting 23 July. The AHRB maintenance grant amounts to 7 500 GBP in the first year, 8 200 GBP in the second year and 9 000 GBP in the third year. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship on 1 October 2001, joining the Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton (http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/). For further information/queries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: PhD Positions in Amsterdam Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:40:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 184 (184) [deleted quotation]Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Computational and Applied Logic Group --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Universiteit van Amsterdam The Computational and Applied Logic Group at the University of Amsterdam is searching for highly motivated candidates with a first degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related discipline, for two fully funded four-year PhD positions, one in each of the following research areas: o computational logic (with an emphasis on implementation and evaluation of automated reasoning systems) o natural language processing (with an emphasis on logic-based approaches to information retrieval tasks such as question-answering, navigation, and summarization) Applicants should have a strong interest in experimental evaluation and validation of theoretical findings. Programming skills, preferably in perl, java, C or C++, are essential. Familiarity with current trends in automated reasoning (for the computational logic position) or statistical and symbolic models of natural language processing (for the NLP position) is a distinct advantage. These positions are funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the University of Amsterdam, as part of the `Pionier' project `Computing with Meaning.' This is an interdisciplinary project aimed at identifying and using meaningful information in natural language texts. The project will experiment with computational logic architectures that can handle linguistic information structures at various levels of detail; this involves new systems of flexible logics and algorithms, suitably combined. The project has a generous equipment and travel budget. Please consult http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/ComputingwithMeaning/ for more information about the project. Both positions are four-year positions, and are expected to lead to a PhD degree. Candidates may be asked to assist with courses related to their research areas. The salary will range from 3159 Guilders (during the first year) to 4511 Guilders (during the fourth year), gross per month. Knowledge of Dutch is not a prerequisite, and candidates can be of any nationality. The starting date should be between September 1, 2001 and January 1, 2002. Anyone interested in these positions is invited to contact Maarten de Rijke at mdr@science.uva.nl. Applicants should submit a full resume including a statement of research interests, and the names and email addresses of at least three references to the same address by July 15, 2001. Research interests within the Computational and Applied Logic group range from automated reasoning, constraint programming, satisfability checking, and formal verification to digital libraries, information retrieval, computational semantics, and knowledge engineering. The group is strongly internationally oriented, and currently consists of 15 people; it is expected to grow substantially over the next year. Further details on the group can be found at http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/CALG/. -- Maarten de Rijke | Computational and Applied Logic Group | ILLC U of Amsterdam | Plantage Muidergracht 24 | 1018 TV Amsterdam | NL Phone: +31 20 525 6511 / +31 6 28 194 881 | Fax: +31 20 525 5101 E-mail: mdr@science.uva.nl | URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/ From: "Tim Reuter" Subject: Re: 15.093 accuracy rates for proof-reading Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:39:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 185 (185) I suspect that the real problem lies with the unit being counted. Error rates can often look impressive until you realise that the error is not per word but per character - a typical printed page has about 1700-2500 characters on it, so even an error rate of .005 would imply about 10 errors per page. I'd be sceptical about a claimed error rate of 0.005% (= one error in 10 pages?) because I doubt whether human proof-reading could verify it. Double keying followed by automated byte-for-byte comparison of the two versions and conscientious correction ought in theory to produce virtually error-free results: if accuracy is say 99% for each version, only 1 character in 10000 in the original will be miskeyed in both versions, and if the miskeying is completely random the likelihood that in such cases the error will be identical and so not flagged by automated comparison will be, with a normal size character set, about 1:1000, giving an overall 1 in 1000000 chance of an error going undetected (to which of course one would have to add the chances of a detected error's going uncorrected and of fresh errors being introduced at the correction stage in order to estimate the overall error rate). But miskeying is not random: it is determined by keyboard layout, and also by leaps of the eye and the influence of familiar words and letter sequences in the keyboarder's own language on those in the text being keyed, which mean that the chances of the same error being made at the same point (and so going undetected) are a good deal higher than the guesstimates above. Tim Reuter From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Webcasts of ACH-ALLC next week (fwd) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:49:08 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 186 (186) The organizers of ACH-ALLC 2001 at New York University are pleased to announce that we will be Webcasting all three plenary sessions at this humanities computing conference next week. The details of the webcasts are: Wednesday, June 13th 11:00am - 1:00pm Opening plenary session, featuring Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor in Media Studies, University of Virgina who will be presenting: "Reality Check: Projects and Prospects in Digital Humanities" Thursday, June 14th 4:30 - 6:00pm Busa presentation Plenary session John F Burrows, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia and winner of the 2001 Busa prize: "Questions of Authorship: attribution and beyond" Saturday, June 16th 2:30 - 4:00pm Closing session, featuring Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara who will be presenting "The Tribe of Cool: Information Culture and History" All times are US Eastern time. To watch these events live, point your browser to http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/webcast.html Lorna -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: David Zeitlyn Subject: Online anthropology lectures Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:49:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 187 (187) As part of the continuation of the "Experience Rich Anthropology" (ERA) project a set of lectures on the anthropology of religion have been digitised. The lectures have accompanying notes/suggested readings. They are being made available as mp3, quicktime and real media files (streaming quicktime to follow). The lecture course "Systems of Ritual and Belief" - written and presented by John Kesby - is available via the main ERA web page: era.anthroplogy.ac.uk We have done this as an experiment. We would very much welcome feedback about this material in order to assess whether it is worth doing more, or whether to change the form of presentation. 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 Ess Subject: new book on culture & communication Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:48:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 188 (188) [The following is forwarded from Charles Ess, with thanks. --WM] Charles Ess, ed., with Fay Sudweeks, Foreword by Susan Herring. _Culture, Technology, Communication: towards an Intercultural Global Village_. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Table of contents: I. Steve Jones, Micropolis and Compunity Barbara Becker, Joseph Wehner, Electronic Media and Civil Society Carleen Maitland, Johannes Bauer, Global Diffusion of Interactive Networks: the Impact of Culture II. Theory/Praxis a. Europe Herbert Hrachovec, New Kids on the Net Lucienne Rey, Attitudes towards Technology and Communication across the Multiple Cultures of Switzerland b. Gender/Gender and Muslim World Concetta Stewart, Stella F. Shields, Nandini Sen, Diversity in On-Line Discussions: a Study of Cultural and Gender Differences in Listservs Deborah Wheeler, Women, Islam, and the Internet: Findings in Kuwait c. East-West/East Lorna Heaton, Preserving Communication Context: Virtual Workspace and Interpersonal Space in Japanese CSCW Sunny Yoon, Discourse about the Internet and the Habitus of Young Koreans Robert Fouser, "Culture," Computer Literacy, and the Media in Creating Public Attitudes toward CMC in Japan and Korea III. Case Studies: Obstacles to and Models for "Culturally Mediated Computing" Ken Keniston, Language, Power, and Software Soraj Hongladarom, Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: the Thai Example [material deleted] Charles Ess Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 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/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: House Prepares Floor Vote on Cultural Funding Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:54:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 189 (189) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 19, 2001 HOUSE PREPARES FLOOR VOTE ON CULTURAL AGENCY FUNDING I'm passing along this call from the National Humanities Alliance to support an amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill calling for funding increases for each of the three cultural agencies (NEA, NEH, and IMLS). 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop: digitization of newspapers Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:49:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 190 (190) [deleted quotation] ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SCAN: INCREASING ACCESS TO HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS A one-day workshop to be held at Senate House, University of London, 12 July 2001 10.00am-4.00pm, with a wine reception 5.00-7.00pm The workshop is sponsored by the British Library; the Institute for English Studies; Olive Software; the Office for Humanities Communication, King's College, London; the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Its aim is to present the results of a unique pilot project in the digitization and delivery of historic newspapers to a wider audience, and to discuss the implications of this remarkable system for the preservation and presentation of similar materials in UK HE, archives and public libraries. Since January 2001, the British Library Newspaper Library, the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, OCLC, the Malibu Hybrid Library Project at King's College London, and Olive Software have been working together to produce a prototype system for the digitization, indexing, and presentation of historic newspapers from the British Library Newspaper Library collection. 18 reels of microfilm have been scanned, and some 500,000 newspaper articles indexed. Speakers will demonstrate the pilot project and discuss the practical implications of the various technologies. The workshop is free to all participants, who are also invited to a wine reception afterwards. Visit the Institute for English Studies webs site at http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Conferences/Digitization%20newspapershtm.htm to see the full programme. Bookings should be made through: Ms Joanne Nixon Institute of English Studies Room 308 School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU +44 (0) 207 862 8675 ies@sas.ac.uk From: Miloslav Nepil Subject: LLL'01: deadline reminder Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:50:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 191 (191) of the 3rd Learning Language in Logic (LLL) Workshop is coming soon: 24 June 2001. See the CFP below for details. On the joint session between ILP and LLL, Dan Roth, University of Illinois, will give a plenary talk. Best regards Lubos Popelinsky and Miloslav Nepil 3rd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP http://www.fi.muni.cz/ilpnet2/LLL2001 8th - 9th September 2001, Strasbourg Co-located with ILP 2001 CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS PAPERS -------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Please submit by sending electronically to lll01@fi.muni.cz a full paper (PS or PDF format) up to 12 pages in LNCS/LNAI Springer style. Paper submission deadline: June, 24 Notification of acceptance: July, 9 Final version due: July, 27 Works in progress will be published in working notes (Technical Report of FI MU Brno). [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ISKO-7 "Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:51:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 192 (192) Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 19, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) The Seventh International ISKO Conference "Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries" July 10-13, 2002: Granada, Spain DEADLINE: September 15, 2001 http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/orgs/isko/news.html [deleted quotation] Please excuse cross-posting. Please note revised dates for the conference. The Seventh International ISKO Conference. Granada, Spain, 10-13 July, 2002. "Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries." Call for papers. The need for a worldwide communication system that can retrieve information efficiently, regardless of national and cultural boundaries, has become more and more pressing. New electronic environments (such as the Internet, where the world is at hand, where all cultures coexist, and where quality is low) have created this need. These new environments provide significant challenges for those dedicated to study and research on knowledge representation and organization. Similarly, the digitalization of information is responsible for increasing emphasis on the need for integrating models of knowledge representation and organization. Digitalization allows a huge amount of information to be stored and retrieved, and the challenge is to develop models to improve the management of information in this new framework. Traditional information retrieval systems face similar problems because we lack retrieval tools designed to integrate knowledge. In this situation, an in-depth examination of the integration of knowledge across boundaries is warranted. Study of the integration of knowledge leads to other important topics. One of these is the concept of universality. New insights into universality needs to include topics geared to the revision of the concept, such as how universality was previously understood in knowledge organization, and what problems arose as a consequence of this understanding. Further, we need to move to a consideration of the concept of universality as it should be understood now, in the electronic era. How can universality be represented in conceptual structures? Integration of specialized knowledge across geographic or cultural domains can be a way to address this unsolved problem. Related to the same problem are topics such as how the integration of knowledge affects different subject domains and users, linguistic issues, and applications that support new models. In addition, we need to look at equality in knowledge organization. This is an important aspect for supranational systems, and it means that we need a special focus on minorities so that we can represent them well in knowledge structures. At the same time, professional ethics needs to be reflected within this framework because knowledge organization affects the way people think about and perceive reality, and minorities and other similar groups may become invisible or wrongly conceptualized. Professionals need to be aware of these issues and should be attempting to solve these problems. [material deleted] From: janet.c.moore@vanderbilt.edu Subject: Online seminar: Learning Effectiveness, Faculty Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:53:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 193 (193) Satisfaction and Cost Effectiveness Faculty Satisfaction and Cost Effectiveness You are invited to an online Seminar on Learning Effectiveness, Faculty Satisfaction, and Cost Effectiveness July 20 - August 9. To see details and to register for the seminar, visit Seminar: Learning Effectiveness, Faculty Satisfaction, and Cost Effectiveness at http://www.aln.org/seminar2001registration. The registration fee of $49.95 includes a copy of the book, Online Education, Volume 2: Learning Effectiveness, Faculty Satisfaction and Cost Effectiveness, formal case studies about new directions in online learning and program administration. Pioneers in online education will lead the seminar. The seminar leaders are from leading institutions in higher education, members of the Sloan Consortium for asynchronous learning networks. In September 2000, the Sloan Foundation sponsored an invitation-only workshop at Lake George in upstate New York. Faculty and staff from Sloan-funded projects studied issues affecting the evolution of higher education online, according to the Sloan-C founding principles of effective learning, student and faculty satisfaction, cost effectiveness and increasing accessibility. It became clear that the workshop deserved a wider audience. Now, with the convenience of asynchronous online delivery, you can join an invaluable conversation. Participation in the seminar is limited, so sign up soon. Simply visit the Seminar Registration site (http://www.aln.org/seminar2001registration) to preview the seminar topics and register before July 20, 2001. Please send your questions or comments to: janet.c.moore@vanderbilt.edu We look forward to working with you for higher quality learning online. Best Regards, Janet Moore and John R. Bourne for SCOLE at Olin and Babson Colleges From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: hypertext and cooking Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:52:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 194 (194) Willard, I wonder if in your review of the literature on and about hypertext you have encountered cookery metaphors. I ask because this excerpt from Julia Child echoes some of the concerns raised recently through the postings to Humanist subscribers. For those who prefer analogies other than the culinary, they may think in general terms of textbooks. Ms. Child writes : But what a problem for cookery bookery writers. How are we to know the extent of our reader's experience? I, for one, have solved that riddle by deciding to tell all. And I hope by the clever use of headings in the main text such as "For the sauce veloute," "Beating the egg whites," "Clarifying the stock," and so forth, that the experienced cook will know where to skip along fast through the verbiage. But the full explanations are there for those who need them. Julia Child _From Julia Child's Kitchen_ New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 x-xi It is also evident that Ms. Child's experience with episodic delivery is akin to the lecture series. Her use of such cultural capital is worthy of emulation. She offers alternative ways of exploiting one's performances : " Where _The French Chef Cookbook_ takes all the recipes for the black-and-white shows and sets them forth as they were shown on the air, inorder and without further comment, this book pulls the new color shows apart and sets their subject matter into categories: soups, fish, meats, and so forth. (But it lists the shows and cross references them in the Appendix, thus making their recipes immediately accessible.)" Some one in the publishing world had an eye to releasing a set of video tapes keyed to the book. Has any one working on the archeology of multimedia explored such precursors? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Adrian Miles Subject: postdocs on the book Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:42:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 195 (195) forwarding this.... MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES Penn Humanities Forum University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2002 - 2003 Academic Year Application Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2001 The Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for five (5) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities which are available for the 2002 - 2003 academic year. The fellowships are open to junior (untenured) scholars who received or will receive their Ph.D. between December 1993 and December 2001 (i.e., eligible applicants must be no more than eight years out of their degree). The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration. We have set THE BOOK as the theme for the 2002 - 2003 academic year. Research proposals are invited on this topic in all areas of humanistic study, except educational curriculum-building and the performing arts. Full application details and information on the topic of THE BOOK are available on the Forum's web site: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/ *APPLICATION GUIDELINES* Preference will be given to candidates whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not previously used the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to its intellectual life. The Fellowship carries an annual stipend of $34,000 and is open to international scholars. During their year in residence, PHF Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows will have the opportunity to pursue their own research and study, to meet regularly with other Mellon Fellows and university faculty, and to take part in all aspects of the intellectual life of the University of Pennsylvania community. Mellon Fellows are required to teach one course per semester (fall and spring terms) in an appropriate department, participate in the weekly interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the Penn Humanities Forum (held Tuesdays, 12:00-2:00), and present their research at one of those seminars. Fellows will be accorded such faculty privileges as office space, PC computer, and library borrowing privileges, and are expected to be on the Penn campus during both terms of the fellowship (September - May). *APPLICATION DEADLINE & MAILING ADDRESS* Completed applications and supporting materials must be postmarked no later than OCTOBER 15, 2001. The full application form may be downloaded from the Forum's website: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu Please mail four (4) copies of the completed application form, together with one (1) set of supporting materials (publication sample and referee letters) to: Eugene Narmour Kahn Distinguished Professor Acting Director, Penn Humanities Forum University of Pennsylvania 3619 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213 For any questions, please email Jennifer Conway, Associate Director: conwayj@sas.upenn.edu ======================================= Jennifer Conway * Associate Director Penn Humanities Forum * University of Pennsylvania 3619 Locust Walk * Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213 215.898.8220 ph * http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu From: Prof. Dr. Max Mhlhuser Subject: PhD / Research Assistant Positions at the TU Darmstadt Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:04:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 196 (196) To: um-announce@cs.usask.ca ------------------------------- (Mobile/Ubiquitous Computing) Precedence: bulk RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS in MOBILE/UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, MULTIMEDIA, AND eLEARNING WORKING TOWARDS PhD (DOCTORATE) WHILE BEING FULLY EMPLOYED YOU HAVE: a recognized degree in Computer Science or comparable discipline (equivalent to German University Diploma). YOU ARE: enthusiastic about topics around the convergence of information technology, multimedia, and telecommunications, such as: - distributed and multimedia systems, - mobile / ubiquitous computing and mobile Code (Agents etc.), - Telecooperation, Teleteaching, and - object oriented and Web based software development. YOU SEEK: - to get a doctorate in a reasonable timeframe, - to evaluate and develop your skills w.r.t., e.g., + gaining visibility in the international scientific community, + teaching (Web-based teaching in particular), and + project management and personnel responsibilities. WE OFFER: - an open, democratic team where many have ENJOYED to work - research around topics such as "next generation Internet", "Web and WAP engineering", "Internet appliances", "Internet agents", "nomadic users", "continuous media interaction", "cooperative computing", "Internet as the 4th mass medium", "multimedia kiosks" and "digital lecture halls / digital universities". - introduction to the international scientific community and their venues, as well as - many large and small innovative industrial partners - competitive salary according to German federal regulations (BAT IIa) - one of the most innovative and densest areas of innovation in all technologies of convergence, just south of Frankfurt and close to Heidelberg. ------------------------------------------- NEW NEW NEW NEW: several positions at the new center for ubiquitous learning Cu:L graduate college positions in mCommerce ------------------------------------------- To apply as soon as possible please contact: Prof. Dr. M. Mhlhuser Darmstadt University of Technology, FB 20 Alexanderstr. 6, D-64283 Darmstadt Phone [+49](6151)16-3709, Fax -3052, max@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de http://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ ------------------------------------------ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Post Human? Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:46:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 197 (197) Dear Dr. William McCarty, How various communication and cognitive theories will be utilized in the design of computer interfaces and how computers add a new level of visual representation to social discourse? Any feedback and references are welcome. Thank you. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.104 new on WWW: Webcast of ACH/ALLC Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:53:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 198 (198) Willard, [deleted quotation] Nice to learn of broadcast and archiving in relation to a meeting of researchers and teachers engaged in humanities computing. Couple of questions for present experts and future experts in managing the logistics of technical recordings of proceedings: 1) does audio only present less of a hurdle from the production and reception. I ask because it seems intutive that audio files take up less bandwidth than video plus audio and that it may be easier for the set up to dealon only with microphones and not microphones and cameras 2) what factors influence the choice of format? I ask because some formats are not based on proprietary software and are therefore more easy to clip and embed as citations in electronic papers and more easy to cue with edit lines for retrieval purposes. Of course what may be gained in post-production ease may be lost in streaming capacity. It would be interesting to hear about projects that aim to test streaming technology applications in humanities-related settings. Francois From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Hague Convention Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:30:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 199 (199) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters The subject of the following important report is not easy, but it is an area in which we all need to become familiar. As Richard Stallman has written separately, this current Hague Treaty, while not being about intellectual property, deeply affects it. The treaty is "about jurisdiction, and how one country should treat the court decisions of another country." Basically sound: "If someone hits your car in France or breaks a contract with your French company, you can sue him in France, then bring the judgment to a court in whichever country he lives in (or has assets in) for enforcement." But, says Stallman, "The treaty becomes a problem when it is extended to distribution of information -- because information now travels normally and predictably to all countries. The consequence is that you could be sued about the information you distributed under the laws of *any* Hague country, and the judgment would probably be enforced by your country." See Stallman's "Harm from the Hague," at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/hague.html Below is Jamie Love's report from the current "Hague Convention." The website of the Consumer Project on Technology has some good background on the issue at http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/whatyoushouldknow.html. Look for further discussion of this rising issue. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] As the Hague Conference Diplomatic Conference ends the Internet and the Public Domain are at risk James Love June 20, 2001 INTRODUCTION Today the Hague Conference on Private International Law will end its first diplomatic conference on a new treaty to set the rules for jurisdiction for nearly all commercial and civil litigation. In a world where everyone is struggling to understand how to address jurisdiction issues raised by the Internet, this new proposed treaty imposes a bold set of rules that will profoundly change the Internet, and not only that. As drafted, it will extend the reach of every country's intellectual property laws, including those that have nothing to do with the Internet. What exactly does this new treaty seek to do? In a nutshell, it will strangle the Internet with a suffocating blanket of overlapping jurisdictional claims, expose every web page publisher to liabilities for libel, defamation and other speech offenses from virtually any country, effectively strip Internet Service Providers of protections from litigation over the content they carry, give business who sell or distribute goods and services the right to dictate via contracts the countries where disputes will be resolved and rights defended, and narrow the grounds under which countries can protect individual consumer rights. It provides a mechanism to greatly undermine national policies on the "first sale" doctrine, potentially ending royalty free video rentals for corporate entities with overseas assets, and it opens the door for cross border enforcement of a wide range of intellectual property claims, including new and novel rights that do not have broad international acceptance. It will lead to a great reduction in freedom, shrink the public domain, and diminish national sovereignty. And practically no one knows anything about the treaty. This proposed Hague treaty stands the tradition globalization approach on its head. It does not impose global rules on substantive laws -- countries are free to enact very different national laws on commercial matters. The only treaty obligation is that member countries follow rules on jurisdiction and agree to enforce foreign judgments. Rather than a WTO or WIPO type approach of harmonization of substantive policies, every country can march to its own drummer. The treaty is about enforcing everyone's laws, regardless of their content, and enforcing private contracts on which national courts will resolve disputes. It is a treaty framework that made some sense in a world of trade in pre-internet goods and services that lend themselves to easy interpretation of jurisdiction based upon physical activity. It is a treaty that makes little sense when applied to information published on the Internet, and more generally for intellectual property claims, where one should not leap into cross border enforcement without thinking. THE HAGUE CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW The Hague Conference on Private International Law is a little known organization that held its first meetings in 1893, but did not have a permanent status until 1951, and since then has adopted 34 international conventions, mostly on very narrow and often obscure topics, such as the taking of evidence abroad, the form of testamentary depositions, wills, traffic accidents, and several dealing with children. In 1965, the Hague Conference adopted a Convention on the choice of court for civil litigation, but it only was endorsed by one country -- Israel. The current effort is a renewed effort to deal with that issue, and also the enforcement of judgments and other items, and the scope is extremely wide -- nearly all civil and commercial litigation. It is, without a doubt, the most ambitious project undertaken by Convention, and the Secretariat and the member country delegates are anxious to establish the Conference as a major league actor in the rapidly changing global political economy. Despite its grand ambition, the Hague Conference secretariat is tiny, about a dozen according to a FAQ on its web page. The small size and low profile of the Hague Conference has allowed this treaty, which has enormous significance, to go virtually undetected, even though it is has been in discussions since 1992. POLITICS OF THE CONVENTION The official version of this particular convention on jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments is that in 1992 the US began seeking ways to obtain more equitable treatment of the enforcement of judgments from commercial and civil litigation, and was willing to cut back on some aspects of US "long arm" jurisdiction to do so. In the beginning, none of the negotiators were thinking about the Internet, and the treaty seemed to have limited interest to most persons. By 1996 it was obvious to some that the Internet in general and e-commerce in particular would pose special problems for the Convention. By 1999 there was considerable attention given by business interests on how the Convention could be drafted to resolve a number of jurisdiction problems they faced, and in particular, the Hague Secretariat began suggesting the Convention could be used to replace overlapping national laws on consumer protection and privacy with industry lead alternative dispute resolution systems -- a top priority for the biggest e-commerce firms. Meanwhile, Europe was developing its own rules for jurisdiction that made some sense in an environment where you had entities like the European Parliament and the European Commission to force harmonization of substantive law. Europe was also alarmed and jealous of the US leadership in the development of the Internet. European negotiators pushed hard to impose a treaty based upon the EU's Brussels Convention, not only to preserve the European approach, but to lead, for once, in an important area for the Internet. The European negotiators were also unhappy with the generally free and unruly nature of the Internet, and saw the convention as a mechanism to reign in hate speech, libel and defamatory speech, "piracy" of intellectual property, the publishing of government secrets and documents on the Internet (the David Shayler case), and other unsettling aspects of the Internet. The business community, meanwhile, was unhappy with the EU approach to providing consumer protection, including privacy rights, and fearful that the Convention could expose them to lawsuits from several different countries for violating consumer protection and privacy laws. Meanwhile, Napster had mobilized the music and movie businesses, and they increasing saw the need for stronger cross border enforcement of copyrights, including the need for injunctive relief aimed at ISPs, and the strong long and order (you can run but you can't hide) nature of the Hague convention was very appealing to an industry afraid of losing control over its own business models. A few IPS (Verizon and AT&T) and portals (Yahoo, following its education over the French civil suit over Nazi artifacts) saw this as a repeat of the fights over the digital copyright laws, and lobbied to retain some form of common carrier status, which was greatly undermined by the architecture of the Hague Convention, which was to make everyone's judgments enforceable everywhere, even in countries that had no connection to the tort or delict (greatly undermining the usefulness of national "public policy" exceptions). Within the various member country delegations, you have some that have strong experience in contracts and business to business arbitration, and who see the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards as a successful model to emulate. You have other members who are primarily interested in torts, which come at the issues from a different perspective, and who don't see the convention entirely as strengthening the enforcement of contracts. In 2000 some elements of civil society became aware of the convention, and in particular, BEUC (the European consumer groups), the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), including both US and EU members, the American Library Association, the Free Software movement, and some US free speech groups, such as the ACLU, began to follow the Convention. In 2000 the Consumer Project on Technology made the Hague Convention its top e-commerce priority, and by September 2000 the US government added Manon Ress from Essential Information on the US delegation (which already had several private sector members representing business interests). For the past two years, in a series of meetings leading up to the June Diplomatic Conference (which ends today), there were efforts to sort of the impact of the convention on e-commerce and on intellectual property. The US in particular was quite open in consulting with civil society and the public in general, and Australia asked for public consultations too, but it would appear that no other countries did. However, while civil society concerns were presented at virtually every negotiating meeting over the past year, this month's diplomatic conference was a powerful illustration of the power of the business lobbies. The EU seemed to undertaking a strategy of pushing for a "disconnect" for regional agreements, and in particular, for its own EU directive on Jurisdiction take precedence in EU to EU transactions, leaving intact the stronger EU consumer protection measures for EU to EU transactions, while bowing to US government pressure to gut consumer protection provisions from the 1999 draft of the convention. This was a major victory for the big e-commerce firms. One element of this was to essentially expand the definition of "business to business" transactions, and to greatly strengthen the role of contracts in the convention, making for example, choice of court clauses mandatory in almost everything that does not involve personal or household use (and sometimes even then), even when these are "non-negotiated" contracts, such as shrink wrap or click-on contracts. Despite repeated efforts by civil society to fix this, and to limit the enforcement of such clauses where the contracts had been "obtained by an abuse of economic power or other unfair means." the delegates refused, at least in this draft. So too there was a complete unwillingness to address the importance of speech related torts, despite the fact that the membership in the Hague Conference now includes China, Egypt and many other countries that engage in harassment of dissent, and which can easily create repressive civil actions to stop dissent. The EU delegates would not even consider adding favorable speech language from the European convention on human rights. A major objective of CPT, TACD, the Library community and the free software movement was to take intellectual property out of the convention, a move initially supported by the trademark and patent societies, due to the ham-handed way that patents and trademarks had been addressed in the 1999 secretariat draft of the convention, and also the subject of a WIPO sponsored meeting in Geneva in January 2001. In February 2001, in Ottawa, the US government actually circulated a paper to the delegates that said the US would not sign the convention if intellectual property was included. AOL/Time Warner, Disney, the MPAA, RIAA, publisher groups and other content owners went ballistic, and by the June meeting the US position had changed, and yesterday, intellectual property was included in the convention, in a form stronger than ever. Also noteworthy was the new bracketed language: [In this Article, other registered industrial property rights (but not copyright or neighbouring rights, even when registration or deposit is possible) shall be treated in the same way as patents and marks.] "Other registered industrial property rights" will cover a lot of ground. There are many more details of the negotiations from the URLs given below. It's time for me to end this for now. For more information, and in particular to understand better how the convention works, see: http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/hague.html http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/whatyoushouldknow.html http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/hague-jur-commercial-law/2001-June/000048.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/hague.html http://www.tacd.org/cgi-bin/db.cgi?page=view&config=admin/docs.cfg&id=94 http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/hague-jur-commercial-law/ -- James Love Consumer Project on Technology P.O. 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Tommie Usdin" Subject: Extreme Markup Languages 2001 - Program Available Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:22:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 200 (200) GCA's Extreme Markup Languages conference will be held on August 14 - 17, 2001 in Montreal, Canada. Tutorials will be on August 12 & 13, 2001. PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE The Preliminary Program for Extreme Markup Languages 2001 is now available at: http://www.extrememarkup.com LATE-BREAKING NEWS at EXTREME the deadline for submission of Late-breaking papers is July 4, 2001. For instructions see: http://www.gca.org/attend/2001_conferences/extreme_2001/latebreaking.htm HOTEL ROOMS GOING FAST Make your hotel reservations for Extreme as soon as possible. Montreal in August is beautiful, and the site of several other conferences. Hotels will sell out! -- ====================================================================== Extreme Markup Languages 2001 mailto:extreme@mulberrytech.com August 14-17, 2001 (tutorials 12 & 13) details: http:www.gca.org Montreal, Canada or: http://www.extrememarkup.com ====================================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: SAC 2002 Coordination Track: CfP&R Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:29:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 201 (201) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications March 10-14, 2002 Madrid, SPAIN ( http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2002/ ) SAC 2002 ~~~~~~~~ Over the past sixteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2002 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest Groups. SAC 2002 is hosted by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. There will be a number of special tracks on such issues as Programming Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Agent Systems, Multimedia and Visualization, etc. Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Building on the success of the four previous editions (1998-2001), a special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC 2002. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of models, formalisms and mechanisms to describe concurrent and distributed computations and systems based on the concept of coordination. The purpose of a coordination model is to enable the integration of a number of possibly heterogeneous components (processes, objects, agents) in such a way that the resulting ensemble can execute as a whole, forming a software system with desired characteristics and functionalities which possibly takes advantage of parallel and distributed systems. The coordination paradigm is closely related to other contemporary software engineering approaches such as component-based systems and middleware platforms. Furthermore, the concept of coordination exists in many other Computer Science areas such as Cooperative Information Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and Internet Technologies. The Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications deliberately takes a broad view of what is coordination: this term covers here traditional models and languages (e.g., the ones based on the Shared Dataspace and CHAM metaphors), but also other related notions and formalisms such as configuration and architectural description frameworks, models of multi-agent planning, organization and decision-making, systems modeling abstractions and languages, programming skeletons, etc. Correspondingly, in addition to the traditional areas covering data- driven (such as Linda) and control-driven (such as Manifold) models and languages, this Special Track aims at putting together contributions from all the many areas where the concept of coordination is relevant, such as multi-agent systems, software architectures, middleware platforms, groupware and workflow management, etc, providing them with a common forum where to discuss their different viewpoints and share ideas. On this very subject, it is worth to remind that the last editions of this Track were undoubtedly successful under many points of view, but in particular in attracting relevant and consistent contributions from many different research communities. [material deleted] From: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH2001 - Registration & Programme Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:30:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 202 (202) DRH2001 : 8-10 July 2001, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Draft programme now available. The Digital Resources in the Humanities series of conferences is Britain's premier forum for all aspects of humanities computing. The conferences are well known for the very wide range of high-quality papers and their friendly atmosphere, which make them the perfect occasion to keep up to date with the latest developments in the application of new technologies to humanities teaching, research and publication. The conference topics cover every aspect of humanities computing from the visual arts to text encoding. This year the conference takes place at the School of Oriental and African Studies from July 8-10. Places are still available. Day registration is possible. For further details, see http://drh2001.soas.ac.uk/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: University of Bologna Position Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:27:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 203 (203) [deleted quotation] Hello all, The call for applications for a master degree to become a coordinator of digital online and off-line archives at the University of Bologna is closing on the 28th of June 2001, in a few days from now. That's why, even if it's only in Italian, this could be usefully sent in the list if somebody could be interested to apply. Serge Noiret Institut Universitaire Europ=E9en Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccetini 9 ~ I=AD50016 SAN DOMENICO (FI) TEL.: +39-0554685-348 ~ FAX +39-0554685-283 E-MAIL: [serge.noiret@iue.it] WEB PROJECT: World Wide Web Virtual Library Italian History Index url: [http://www.iue.it/LIB/SISSCO/VL/hist-italy/Index.html] --------------------- FSE - FONDO SOCIALE EUROPEO MINISTERO DEL LAVORO E DELLA PREVIDENZA SOCIALE REGIONE EMILIA-ROMAGNA Progetto cofinanziato dall'Unione Europea M A S T E R I N PROGETTISTA-COORDINATORE DELLA REALIZZAZIONE DI ARCHIVI DIGITALI ON-LINE E OFF-LINE Regione Emilia Romagna, Fondo Sociale Europeo 2000-2001, Obiettivo 3, Misura C.3 Formazione Superiore - Integrazione ai Percorsi Universitari Rif. P.A. 2803 Delibera della Giunta Regionale n. 348 del 22 marzo 2001 A n n o A c c a d e m i c o 2 0 0 0 / 2 0 0 1 P R O F I L O P R O F E S S I O N A L E Il progettista-coordinatore di archivi digitali on-line e off-line =E8 una figura professionale in grado di gestire, in tutte le sue fasi, il processo per la realizzazione di archivi digitali fruibili off-line e on-line passando attraverso i processi di digitalizzazione e catalogazione dei materiali documentali, la progettazione e la realizzazione archivi differenziati in funzione degli utilizzi previsti (file nei diversi formati e risoluzioni ), la realizzazione di prodotti multimediali per la consultazione in locale, la creazione di un sito internet per la consultazione dell'archivio "on-line" S B O C C H I O C C U P A Z I O N A L I Il percorso formativo vuole essere una risposta all'esigenza ormai consolidata di raccolta e conservazione del patrimonio multimediale di interesse storico, nonch=E9 dell'accrescimento dello stesso anche in ragione del passaggio sui nuovi supporti di documenti scritti, visivi, sonori o di qualsiasi natura a rischio di distruzione per effetto di processi chimico-fisici. Non =E8 da sottovalutare infine anche l'emergere, da parte delle imprese pi=F9 strutturate e avanzate, dell'esigenza di creare banche dati interne legate all'archiviazione e alla catalogazione di tutti i materiali, prodotti dai singoli comparti (volantini pubblicitari, manuali tecnici, cataloghi cartacei, audiovisivi documentari e promozionali, servizi fotografici), utilizzabili sia per fini di marketing (un percorso storico multimediale descrittivo della vita dell'impresa) che per fini formativo-motivazionali (informazioni, per neo assunti, sulla realt=E0 nella quale prestano la loro opera). Quella che si intende formare =E8 una professionalit=E0 che opera prevalentemente in maniera autonoma e individuale, ma che deve saper ricorrere al lavoro di gruppo e a competenze esterne. Potr=E0 operare per lo pi=F9 come consulente all'interno di strutture archivistiche, biblioteche, mediateche, discoteche e multimediateche, nel settore ricerca e sviluppo di strutture pubbliche e/o private, nei servizi alle imprese per l'area del marketing digitale on-line e off-line, nei centri meccanografici, presso le strutture di produzione audiovisiva e multimediale. Il progetto =E8 inoltre indirizzato all'inserimento dell'utenza femminile in un ambito professionale e in una qualifica nella quale le donne sono sottorappresentate. I N S E G N A M E N T I * Informatica * Qualit=E0 * Quadro normativo sul lavoro dipendente, l'autoimpresa e la sicurezza sul lavoro * La gestione della commessa di lavoro * Riproduzione e gestione di fonti documentarie in formato digitale * Gestione e coordinamento di un gruppo di lavoro * Gestione e trattamento biblioteconomico del documento iconografico * Sviluppo di prodotti multimediali per la fruizione di archivi digitali off-line e on-line * Strategie di comunicazione D U R A T A Il master si svolger=E0 da luglio 2001 a febbraio 2002, con una pausa durante il periodo estivo, per un ammontare complessivo di 685 ore articolate in lezioni teoriche, esercitazioni, viaggi studio e project work. S E D E Sinform Via Bigari, 3 - 40128 BOLOGNA D E S T I N A T A R I 14 laureati [o laureandi a.a. 2000/2001] in discipline umanistiche, preferibilmente in lettere moderne con buona conoscenza della lingua inglese, competenze informatiche ed eventuali esperienze professionali pertinenti. [occupati e non occupati] A T T E S T A T O F I N A L E La frequenza =E8 obbligatoria a tutte le attivit=E0 didattiche per almeno il 70% delle ore previste. Sar=E0 rilasciato, da parte della Regione Emilia Romagna - Assessorato Scuola, Formazione Professionale, Universit=E0, Lavoro, Pari Opportunit=E0, un Certificato di Competenze Superiori previo superamento di un esame con apposita commissione. M O D A L I T A' D I A M M I S S I O N E Le persone interessate dovranno far pervenire a Sinform, entro e non oltre il 28 giugno 2001 a mezzo posta o fax, la domanda di ammissione, corredata di curriculum vitae, elenco esami sostenuti, titolo della tesi di laurea e relative votazioni. Nel caso le richieste superino il numero di posti disponibili, sar=E0 effettuata una selezione mediante analisi curriculare, una prova scritta a carattere motivazionale, un questionario tematico teso a verificare il livello di possesso dei requisiti preferenziali e un colloquio motivazionale individuale. C O S T I La partecipazione al master =E8 interamente gratuita. Non sono previsti assegni di frequenza, indennit=E0 o rimborsi spese. P E R I N F O R M A Z I O N I SINFORM Via Bigari 3 40128 Bologna - Tel. 051 6311716 Fax 051 379256 e-mail: sinform@sinform.dsnet.it Rif. Simona Monetti (e-mail:monetti@sinform.dsnet.it) A P P U N T A M E N T O Un incontro per la presentazione delle attivit=E0 e l'avvio delle eventuali selezioni previsto per il 2 luglio 2001 alle ore 9:30. I l p r o g e t t o -- r e a l i z z a t o da UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI BOLOGNA Facolt=E0 di Lettere e Filosofia, Corso di laurea in Lettere moderne e SINFORM Sinergie per la formazione i n c o l l a b o r a z i o n e c o n Union Comunicazione e Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: FUNDING: Good House Outcome for the Cultural Agencies Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:54:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 204 (204) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 25, 2001 [deleted quotation] 22 June 2001 MEMORANDUM TO: NHA Member and Friends FR: John Hammer and Jessica Jones RE: Good House Outcome for the Cultural Agencies As reported yesterday, the House agreed 221-193 to New York Democrat Louise Slaughter's amendment to increase funding for the cultural agencies in FY-2002. The amendment co-sponsored by Norm Dicks (D/WA), Steve Horn (R/CA), and Nancy Johnson (R/CT) provides increases for NEH of $3 million; NEA $10 million, and IMLS $2 million. 31 yes voters were Republicans. We want to take this opportunity to thank the members of the humanities community who conveyed constituent support for the agencies to their representatives. This is the first time the agencies have emerged from the House debate with increases. Long-time NEA critic Cliff Stearns (R/FL) offered an amendment to cut the entire $10 million from NEA only. After a brief debate, the Stearns amendment was soundly rejected by a vote of 145 to 264. This was an important vote because it provides even more conclusive evidence that the changes that NEA has undertaken -- some under Congressional direction, some not -- have now garnered a comfortable majority of support in the House. Reportedly, Stearns increased his amendment from $2 million to $10 million at the behest of the House GOP leadership. The overall interior bill, now numbered (H.R. 2217), passed the House last night 376-32. The action on the bill moves now to the newly Democrat-run Senate where Robert Byrd (D-WV) is chair of the Interior and Related Agencies Subcommittee as well as the full Appropriations Committee. The following table summarizes budget steps to date for the agencies: =================================================== Table: Cultural Agency Appropriations, FY 2001-2002 ....... (in millions of dollars) =================================================== ........... FY-2001 ..... FY-2002 ..... FY-2002 ............ Approp ... President ....... House NEH ........ 120.0 ....... 120.5 ....... 123.5 NEA ........ 105.0 ....... 105.2 ....... 115.2 IMLS ........ 24.9 ........ 24.9 ........ 26.9 =================================================== ________________________________________________________________ NHA-ANNOUNCE relays information on national policy, programs, and legislation impacting work in the humanities. To SUBSCRIBE, send an email message to listproc@cni.org according to the following format: "subscribe nha-announce Firstname Lastname". To UNSUBSCRIBE, send the following email message to listproc@cni.org: "unsubscribe nha-announce". NHA-ANNOUNCE is a public news service provided by the National Humanities Alliance, 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 604, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202/296-4994. Fax: 202/872-0884. Subscribers are invited to redistribute these reports. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: European Directive on Harmonization of Copyright Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:54:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 205 (205) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 26, 2001 European Directive on Harmonization of Copyright http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/2001/l_16720010622en.html http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2001/l_167/l_16720010622en00100019.pdf Here is an announcement of surely an important Directive of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on Copyright Harmonization. I trust we will be hearing some commentary on this in the next few months and any implications for U.S. deliberations. I will hazard a few comments on my own on this 9-page document. Key elements appear to be: * the recognition of the need for harmonization of European law for the smooth operation of the European "internal market" * a recognition of the importance of strong copyright enforcement, enabled by "technological measures," yet also strongly recognizing the key importance of exceptions and limitations (see Article 5) * a strong statement on culture -- see item 14 in the Preamble: "This directive should seek to promote learning and culture by protecting works and other subject-matter while permitting exceptions or limitations in the public interest for the purpose of education and teaching" -- also the statement that "Article 151 of the Treaty requires the Community to take cultural aspects into account in its action" * concern over safeguarding "a fair balance of rights and interests between the different categories of rightholders, as well as between the different categories of rightholders and users of protected subject-matter" (Item 31 in preamble) * Under "technological measures" used to protect copyrighted material, there is an interesting statement that it is a responsibility of rightholders who implement technological measures that they "make available to the beneficiary of an exception or limitation provided for in national law...the means of benefiting from that exception or limitation to the extent necessary to benefit from that exception or limitation..." Article 6. I leave it to others to further comment on the implications for US and global thinking on these matters. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] cultivate-list@ukoln.ac.uk, [deleted quotation] Dear all, *********************Apologies for cross-posting************************* The Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society was published on the Official Journal on 22 June 2001 (OJ No 2001/L 167/010 p. 10), available at: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/ Regards, Carmen Carmen Morlon, EU Information Officer EBLIDA PO Box 43300 2504 AH The Hague The Netherlands Tel: +31 70 3090608 Fax: +31 70 3090708 email: morlon@nblc.nl http://www.eblida.org ********************** Lobbying for Libraries -- ============================================================== 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Olga Francois" Subject: IP in Academia Workshop Series, Fall 2001 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:50:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 206 (206) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series: Faculty Ownership and Plagiarism Online Workshops http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_ipacademia/ The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is hosting an asynchronous online workshop series this fall that is of interest to faculty, university counsel, librarians, curricular design and information professionals. The first online workshop in the series will be on Faculty Ownership, August 6, 2001 to August 22, 2001. The second workshop will be Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism, from October 1, 2001 to October 19, 2001. Each workshop will last approximately three weeks, providing the participants with an in-depth understanding of two core intellectual property issues facing higher education in today's rapidly changing digital environment. Faculty Ownership of Course Material in the Online Classroom August 6, 2001 to August 22, 2001 Moderated by Georgia Harper, Esq. One of the most controversial and timely topics facing colleges and universities today is the ownership and control of the scholarly materials created by faculty - particularly those created in connection with Web-based courses. Many campuses across the country have either recently revised their policies or are in the process of studying this issue. When does a professor's creative work belong to the professor and when does it belong to the institution? How are the factors enunciated in CCNV v. Reid to be used in determining ownership? Are some factors more important than others? Can contract provisions alter the ownership question? Georgia Harper, Esq. manages the Intellectual Property Section of The University of Texas System Office of General Counsel. She conducts local, state, regional and national workshops and seminars on copyright issues and has been an advisor to the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the American Council on Education, as well as the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage in connection with its Copyright and Fair Use Town Meetings. Ms. Harper is the author of the frequently referenced online publications, The Copyright Crash Course (http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top) and the Crash Course Tutorial. (http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/copyright/) Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism in the Digital Environment October 1, 2001 to October 19, 2001 Moderated by Rebecca Moore Howard, Ph.D. Is the writer/reader relationship to text profoundly changed online? Can assignments be redesigned to avoid plagiarism in the online and face to face classroom? Are academic policies properly addressing campus plagiarism issues? This dynamic workshop series will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the plagiarism issues facing higher education today. 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. 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. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop moderators. Please register early since space is limited. Early registration is $125.00. Regular is $150.00. Early registration for both workshops is only $200.00! A significant discount is given for full time graduate students until places are filled; please consult the website for details. You may register online or you may register by phone by calling 301-985-7777. For additional information call 301-985-7777 or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_ipacademia/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: an uncertain July Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:50:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 207 (207) Dear colleagues: From 29/6 to 27/7 I will be away from these gardens and pleasant skies, in fact for most of that time away from my natal hemisphere, thanks to a symposium in Newcastle NSW Australia, held by that justly renowned Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing. See <http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/lc/symposium/> for details. During this time, if we can figure out how, David Gants will be attending to Humanist; otherwise, between times and during walkabouts Humanist will be silent. Anything that can wait thus for opportunity is of course welcome. Please use your judgement. Meanwhile allow me to recommend an interesting book: William Kent, Data and Reality, 2nd edn. (Bloomington IN: 1st Books, 2000) -- which would appear to have been published originally in 1978. See <http://www.1stbooks.com/>, from which you can locate it by asking for all books on "Computers / Internet / Technology" -- and read a "free sample". It does not go as far in the direction suggested by the title as I had hoped, but it does make some steps. Recommendations of like efforts would be very welcome and to the point. 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@ninch.org Subject: Publishers Must Seek Authors' Permission for Electronic Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:52:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 208 (208) Reprints, Supreme Court Rules This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: david@ninch.org Tuesday, June 26, 2001 Publishers Must Seek Authors' Permission for Electronic Reprints, Supreme Court Rules By ANDREA L. FOSTER In a decision supported by academic-library groups and some scholars, the Supreme Court ruled overwhelmingly on Monday that media companies may not republish freelance writers' works in electronic form without their prior approval. At issue in the case, The New York Times Company v. Jonathan Tasini, was whether copyright law allows publishers to transfer authors' works into databases and onto CD-ROM's without providing them additional compensation. The court's decision was signed by seven of the nine justices. Major publishers, such as the New York Times Company, the Washington Post Company, and Reed Elsevier Inc., which owns Lexis-Nexis, argued that articles republished electronically were merely "revisions" of the original publications and thus allowable reprints under copyright law. They also said that a ruling in the authors' favor would require deleting freelance articles from online databases and CD-ROM's. But Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers' Union and the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against The New York Times, argued that online versions of articles are entirely new editions that require writers' prior approval. The case not only pitted freelance writers against publishers. It set scholars against scholars and academic libraries against publishers. Mr. Tasini drew support from the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the National Humanities Association. Those groups said that freelance articles, even if they were excluded from CD-ROM's and databases, would still be available in printed versions and microform copies. They said publishers had exaggerated the extent to which electronic databases had replaced the physical library. "It's important to note that this decision recognizes that the true historical record remains available through libraries and archives," said Prudence S. Adler, assistant executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. Added Peter A. Jaszi, a law professor at American University: "This decision seems to be a wonderful reaffirmation of the central importance of the creative individual in our copyright system." Mr. Jaszi helped the library groups prepare their brief for the Supreme Court. He said the case was also significant because it marked the first time the court had ruled on the issue of how copyright law should be applied to digital technology. The court is expected to confront other related issues involving the copying of digital music and video. Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that print publishers and electronic publishers infringed on the copyrights of the freelance authors whose works were disseminated online. Their articles, she wrote, are not reproductions of the originally published articles "because the databases reproduce and distribute articles standing alone" and not as part of a "collective work." Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the dissent and was joined by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, agreed with the publishers that electronic reprints of the freelance writers' works are simply revisions of their original writings. The court left it up to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to decide the appropriate remedy for the authors whose copyrights were infringed. In 1997, that court sided with the publishers, but the decision was reversed in 1999 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The Supreme Court did not express a preference for how authors should be compensated in the future. The library groups favor a collective-licensing system for writers' works, modeled on a system used by the music industry. Under that proposal, publishers would set up a fund to pay freelance writers each time their works were reprinted electronically. The Supreme Court's majority opinion singled out that proposal for mention as one method for compensating writers. The ruling was a blow to some well-known historians who had filed a brief in support of the publishers. Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David M. Kennedy, David McCullough, Jack N. Rakove, and Gordon S. Wood argued that the possibility of erasing articles from electronic databases would harm scholarly research. Another group of historians disagreed and filed a brief in support of Mr. Tasini. They said professional historians rely more on primary sources -- such as diaries, letters, and memoirs -- than on newspapers and magazines. That brief was filed by Ellen Schrecker of Yeshiva University and Stanley N. Katz of Princeton University, among others. _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/free/2001/06/2001062601t.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 _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Supreme Court Rules 7-2 for Writers Union in NYT v Tasini Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:53:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 209 (209) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Writers Union http://www.nwu.org/tvt/vichome.htm High Court Sides With Freelance Writers in Electronic Rights Case New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Free-Lance.html?ex=994485244&ei=1&en=56d5cb000908ea72 [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jonathan Tasini (212)-254-0279 Lindsay Barenz (202)-842-3100 National Writers Union and UAW hail Supreme Court ruling as victory for creators and consumers Leaders of the National Writers Union and the International Union, UAW described today's Supreme Court ruling-which upholds copyright protections for free-lance writers-as a victory for creators and consumers. Union leaders also offered to begin negotiations immediately with the publishing industry to resolve billions of dollars in potential liabilities created by repeat violations of U.S. copyright law. "The Court has upheld the spirit of the Constitutional protection for copyright, which was written for the benefit of individual authors," said Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) and the lead plaintiff in Tasini vs. New York Times. "Now, it's time for the media industry to pay creators their fair share and let's sit down and negotiate over this today." By a 7-2 majority, the Court upheld a September 1999 unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, which found that The New York Times and publishers had committed copyright infringement when they resold freelance newspaper and magazine articles, via electronic databases such as LexisNexis, without asking permission or making additional payments to the original authors. "We're proud to have supported our members in the National Writers Union in their fight to be treated fairly by the publishing industry," said UAW President Stephen P. Yokich. "Today's decision paves the way for writers and other creators to be fairly compensated for their work. That's good news all of us, because we all benefit when the legal protections of copyright encourage the creation of new art, science, and literature." The International Union, UAW, has provided legal and financial support for the groundbreaking litigation, which was filed by nine free-lance members of UAW Local 1981, the National Writers Union, in 1993 "Our message to the publishing industry now is: let's negotiate," said UAW Vice President Elizabeth Bunn, who directs the union's Technical, Office and Professional Department. "The New York Times and other publishers face billions of dollars of potential liability for selling articles to which they hold no copyright. The way to settle these obligations is to meet at the bargaining table, so we can find solutions that are fair to writers, to the industry, and for consumers." The NWU, Tasini said, is already party to a class action lawsuit, which will enforce the copyright protections affirmed today by the Supreme Court. "We want to settle past claims in a reasonable fashion, and establish a mechanism so that free-lancers can be compensated fairly from now on," said Tasini. The Publication Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), said Tasini, established by the NWU in 1993, offers a way for writers and publisher to track the ownership of copyright, and payment for authorized re-sale of copyrighted works. Free-lance writers, whether or not they are NWU members, can use the PRC to license their works by visiting www.nwu.org. Further details regarding the Tasini vs. New York Times litigation can be found at: www.nwu.org/tvt/vichome.htm The National Writers Union has 7,000 members nationwide, including journalists, book authors, technical writers and poets. It is the only union dedicated solely to advancing the interests of freelance writers. The International Union, UAW has more than 1.3 million active and retired members, including more than 100,00 members in its Technical, Office and Professional Department. In addition to free-lance writers, the UAW also represents attorneys, clerical workers, educators, firefighters, graphic designers, health care workers, librarians, museum workers, public employees, and many others. ============================================================================ [deleted quotation] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Supremes decide Tasini in favor of writers High Court Sides With Freelance Writers in Electronic Rights Case By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:57 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ruling against big media companies in an information age dispute Monday, the Supreme Court said free-lance writers may control whether articles they sold for print in a regular newspaper or magazine may be reproduced in electronic form. The court ruled 7-2 that compilation in an electronic database is different from other kinds of archival or library storage of material that once appeared in print. That means that copyright laws require big media companies such as The New York Times to get free-lancers' permission before posting their work online. Justices Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens dissented. At issue was how to treat copyright works when technological advances changed the way information would be available in ways neither the writer nor the publication foresaw. Although seemingly esoteric, the copyright fight goes to the heart of the Internet's basic appeal to researchers and casual users -- how much information is available at the click of a computer mouse. Large publishers argued that if they lost, they would probably remove a lot of material from electronic view rather than fight with writers over permission and fees. The case turned on whether electronic reproduction of a newspaper or periodical constitutes a revision of the original print edition. Under copyright law, publishers do not need authors' permission to produce a revised version of the original edition. The case largely affects articles, photographs and illustrations produced a decade or so ago -- before free-lance contracts provided for the material's electronic use. Six free-lance writers sued The New York Times, Newsday, Time Inc. and other publishers over inclusion of their work in electronic databases. Some databases require the user to pay a fee, such as LEXIS/NEXIS, while others are available free over the Internet. A federal judge first ruled for the publishers, throwing out the writers' suit on grounds that electronic databases are revisions under the copyright law. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed in 1999, finding that copyright law required publishers to seek authors' permission. The case is New York Times v. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Details on Mellon's E-Journal Archiving Program Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:55:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 210 (210) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 26, 2001 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's E-Journal Archiving Program http://www.diglib.org/preserve/ejp.htm Information is now available on the web page of the Digital Library Federation of an E-Journal Archiving Program, funded by the Mellon Foundation, examining a variety of strategies for ensuring the preservation of electronic journals. The web page details the project, links to some key papers presented at an organizational meeting and to five projects that have received Mellon funding. David Green ============ [material deleted] From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: _KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases_ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:52:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 211 (211) _KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases_ For a new registry, I am greatly interested in identifying library-created or library -related Knowledge Bases. A Knowledge Base / Knowledgebase may be defined viewed as a database with a focus on empirical or practical knowledge. In recent years, Knowledge bases have become common components for many businesses and services. The RealNetworks "RealSystem Knowledge Base" [ http://service.real.com/kb/ ] is an excellent example of a technical support knowledge base. I am interested in library-created OR library-related Knowledge Bases. An excellent example of a library-created knowledge base is "VID Knowledge Base 2000-2001" for the Virtual Information Desk of the Pennsylvania Inter-Library Online Library (PILOT) [ http://157.62.21.5/vid/vid-kb.asp ] AND The Collaborative Digital Library, "a database of annotated resources indexed by research group, title, url, keywords, and comments that serves as a virtual bookmark file for teams of researchers working asynchronously and remotely on projects. [ http://www.kie.berkeley.edu/cool_library/library_home.html ] [ http://www.kie.berkeley.edu/cool_library/library_search.html ] AND Perhaps the most sophisticated Knowledge Base is that planned as part of the OPAL Project, "an eighteen month research project which is exploring the development of a fully automated online 24/7 reference service for students." [BTW: OPAL = Online Personal Academic Librarian] [ http://oulib1.open.ac.uk/wh/research/opal/ ]. "The project team is currently developing and testing a prototype automated reference system designed to answer common questions from OU distance learners." [ http://oulib1.open.ac.uk/wh/research/opal/intro.html ] SEE ALSO: "The OPAL Project: Developing An Automated Online Reference System For Distance Learners" in the June 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine. [ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june01/06inbrief.html ] Examples of library-related Knowledge Base could/would include: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews [ http://www.update-software.com/cochrane/product-cochrane.html ] "Cochrane Reviews are full text articles reviewing the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimise bias." AND The AEGIS Clinical Trials Knowledgebase [ http://www.aegis.com/pubs/trials/index.html ] Perhaps the sophisticated Knowledge Base, I've discovered are those offered by Proteome, which provides "a variety of products and services to integrate the accumulated knowledge from the research literature with genomic information and software tools to produce a powerful resource for bioinformatic scientists and biologists of all disciplines." [ http://www.proteome.com/ ] [The Proteome knowledge bases are built upon the review, extraction, and synthesis of information and data from peer-reviewed journals] [WOW!] Over the coming weeks, I will be adding these and other Library Knowledge Bases to a new Web-based registry titled: KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm ] As Always, I Welcome Any and All contributions, queries, comments, nominations, Cosmic Insights, Etc. Etc. Etc. [I am NOT interested in corporate Knowledge Bases per se] Articles, reports, studies, school papers or projects regarding Library Knowledge Bases are also of major interest for a planned General Bibliography [I am NOT interested in literature about Knowledge Bases per se] Gerry McKiernan The Basic, Knowledgeable Librarian Iowa State Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.109 ... logistics of webcasting? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:48:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 212 (212) At 6:59 AM +0100 22/6/01, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] yes in terms of collecting/capturing, but when delivering adding a slide show helps a lot. if done properly it makes small difference to the final file size so complements sound tracks well. [deleted quotation] oodles of things :-) SMIL (Structured Multimedia Instruction Language) is having an impact in this area, and the major three formats for delivery are quicktime, windows media, and real. other ones are things like mpeg2 which require much higher data rates but tend to be used for archival purposes. my preference is quicktime for a large range of reasons, primarily it is robust and offers very substantial scripting, multiple tracks, and supports things like sprites, tween tracks, vector graphics, etc. for real time (live) streaming real does the best job, but in any context where people care about their images, quicktime is the only choice. on the horizon are things like mpeg7 and mpeg21 which are metadata standards more than hardware and software issues, but very relevant to the interests of humanist. i'm happy to talk about this in more detail but its an enormous area so some specific questions would be useful :-) cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" Subject: Re: 15.107 hypertext and cooking? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:49:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 213 (213) [deleted quotation]The use of cookery metaphors in computing is certainly very old. I remember Dr A. Colin Day's video Fortran IV course (remember that language? It looks rather like a high-level assembly code now!) using just that recipe metaphor to explain the difference between a function and a subroutine. That was in the mid-1970's at University College London. I suppose that the sheer visible, down-to-earth practicality of cookery contrasts well with the abstract non-visual nature of computing. And both give tangible results in the end... Francois C-R From: editor@thesuccessfulprofessor.com Subject: The Successful Professor TM (ISSN03087) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:51:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 214 (214) Dear Colleagues, I wish to inform you of a new e-journal for teaching professors of all disciplines. 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Sincerely, Stan Kajs, Ph.D. Editor/Publisher From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: UK's Digital Performance Archive Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:56:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 215 (215) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community June 26, 2001 THE DIGITAL PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE (DPA) http://DPA.ntu.ac.uk/dpa_site/ The British-based Digital Performance Archive is collating an extensive online searchable database of virtual theatre performance and related events 1990-2000, including selected video documentation and statements by creators. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: FGMOL '01 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:16:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 216 (216) [deleted quotation] FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR / MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE Friday morning (9.00) August 10--Sunday afternoon (17.50) August 12, 2001 Helsinki in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI XIII) ************************************************************************* AIMS & SCOPE FGMOL'01 will provide 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. ************************************************************************ PRACTICAL INFORMATION Conference Description and Program: http://sfinx.let.uu.nl/users/fgmol01prog.pdf Registration and Accommodation via ESSLLI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli Registration fee: 50 euros. ************************************************************************ PROGRAM ----- INVITED LECTURES Friday, August 10, 14.00-15.00: Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Some issues concerning strong generative capacity Saturday, August 11, 14.00-15.00: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University) Negation in logic and in natural language ---- Sunday, August 12, 14.00-17.50: SYMPOSIUM Model-Theoretic Syntax Geoffrey Pullum (Santa Cruz) Formal grammar without formal languages: the surprisingly radical implications of model-theoretic syntax Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Why model-theoretic syntax? James Rogers (Earlham) A hierarchy of degrees of constituency Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen) A model-theoretic description of TAGs ---- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Carlos Areces (Amsterdam), Raffaella Bernardi and Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Galois Connections in Categorial Type Logic Gilad Ben-Avi and Yoad Winter (Technion) A Characterization of Monotonicity with Collective Quantifiers Pierre Boullier (INRIA) From Contextual Grammars to Range Concatenation Grammars Lukasz Debowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) A Revision of Coding Theory for Learning from Language Philippe de Groote & Guillaume Bonfante (LORIA) Stochastic Categorial Grammars Denys Duchier (Saarbruecken) Lexicalized Syntax and Topology for Non-projective Dependency Grammar Annie Foret (INRIA) The emptiness of intersection problem for k-valued categorial grammars (classical and Lambek) is undecidable. Sean A. Fulop (Chicago) Learnability of type-logical grammars Kim Gerdes (Paris) TAG and Topology: Problems and Proposals for German Masami Ito (Kyoto), Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona), and Victor Mitrana (Bucharest) Chomsky-Schutzenberger Type Characterizations of Poly-Slender and Parikh Slender Context-Free Languages Stephan Kepser (Tuebingen) On the Complexity of RSRL Matthias Trautner Kromann (Copenhagen) Local optimality parsing in Discontinuous Grammar Yves Lepage (ATR) Analogies and formal languages Arthur Merin (Stuttgart) The Measure of All Things Jens Michaelis (Potsdam) Observations on Strict Derivational Minimalism Stefan Mueller (DFKI) An HPSG Analysis of German Depictive Secondary Predicates Anne Neville and Patrizia Paggio (Copenhagen) Developing a Danish grammar in the GRASP project: A construction-based approach to topology and extraction Rainer Osswald (Hagen) Classifying Classification Adi Palm (Passau) Model-theoretic Syntax and Parsing: An Application to Temporal Logic Gerald Penn (Toronto) A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Polynomial-Time Recognition with the Lambek Calculus Wiebke Petersen (Duesseldorf) A Set-Theoretical Approach for the Induction of Inheritance Hierarchies Carl Pollard (Ohio State) Higher-Order Grammar Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer (Tuebingen) Polish Negation and Lexical Resource Semantics Balder ten Cate (Amsterdam) The dynamics of information exchange dialogues **************************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenborg) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnson (Brown) Gerhard Jaeger (Utrecht) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen) Owen Rambow (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) **************************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbruecken) Larry Moss (Indiana) Dick Oehrle (Oakland) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: TSD 2001 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:19:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 217 (217) [deleted quotation] An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD 2001) September 10-13, 2001 Plzen, Czech Republic _____________________________________________________________________ C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N _____________________________________________________________________ TSD 2001 will be an international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. The TSD2001 Conference continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to the natural language processing (corpora, texts and transcription; speech analysis, recognition and synthesis; their intertwinnig within NL dialogue systems),started by the SQEL Workshop in 1997. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialog systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; speech and motions; dialog systems; development of dialog strategies; assistive technologies based on speech and dialog; applied systems and software. TUTORIALS --------- - E. NOETH and W. ECKERT (University of Erlangen-Nuermberg, Germany): Spoken Dialogue Systems - I. KOPECEK, R.BATUSEK, P.GAURA, P. NYGRYN (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep.) Dialogue systems for Impaired People - T. HARISSIS (Systema Informatics, S.A., Athens, Greece) Force Feedback Haptic Devices - N. BRAUN (ZGDV e. V., Darmstadt, Germany) Modeling of Conversational User Interface INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - FREDERICK JELINEK (Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA): The Spreading USE of Grammer in Language Modeling - HYNEK HERMANSKY (Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA): Recognition of Speech from Temporal Patterns of Frequency Localized Spectral Energy - EVA HAJICOVA et al (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): The Current Status of the Prague Dependency Treebank - FRANTISEK CERMAK (Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.): Language Corpora: The Czech Case - ELMAR NOETH et al (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems Revisited - ENEKO AGIRRE (University of the Basque, Domstia, Spain): Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation - TARAS K. VINTSIUK (NAS Institute of Cybernetics & UNESCO/IIP International Research-Training Centre for Information Technologies and Systems, Kyjiv, Ukraine) Generative Phoneme-Threephone Model for ASR ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------- A complete list of accepted papers is on-line available at: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/program.htm CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------ The conference program will include tutorials, invited papers given by keynote speakers, oral presentations of accepted submissions of several kinds, short poster presentations and poster sessions. The conference will also include social events (welcome reception, conference banquet, bartender show) and trips to some of the most popular places in Sumava Mountains- Sumava National Park, Black and Devil's lake (12km hiking tour), the Laka lake (10 km hiking tour), bus-trip to the city of Klatovy and Klenova castle, and 20km hiking tour to Grosser Osser, Grosser Arber and Arbersee im Bayerischer Wald on the German side of the border. To obtain the more detailed program and to fill registration form check please the web page of the conference at: < http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/ >. Registration deadline: July 31, 2001. Registration fee ---------------- * full participant - $220 * student - $160 The fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to: Komercni banka Plzen-mesto, Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen account number : 4811530257/0100 purchase order : 5204/0003/00 special ID code: your birth date in the form YYMMDD (year - month - day), e.g. 550425 account holder : University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 Plzen stating: TSD 2001 and your name -------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: FREDERICK JELINEK ----------------- Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA Conference Executive: HYNEK HERMANSKY --------------------- Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA: International program committee: -------------------------------- Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair Genevieve Baudoin, France Frantisek Cermak, Czech Rep. Attila Ferencz, Romania, South Korea Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Patrick Hanks, GB, USA Eduard Hovy, USA Adam Kilgariff, GB Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, Netherland Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Rosamund Moon, GB Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Organizing Committee < tsd2001@kiv.zcu.cz > -------------------- Vaclav Matousek (chair), Helena Benesova, Kamil Ekstein, Jana Hesova, Svatava Kindlova, Jana Kleckova, Ivan Kopecek, Jana Krutisova, Josef Masek, Pavel Mautner, Roman Moucek, Jana Ocelikova, Karel Pala, Pavel Slavik, Petr Sojka Karel Tauser From: Ahti Pietarinen Subject: ESSLLI 2001 Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:20:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 218 (218) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **Registration possible until the start of the event** 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 University of Helsinki FINLAND August 13-24, 2001 http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'01) takes 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. The main focus of the Summer School is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses, workshops and special events cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: * Logic * Language * Computation * Logic and Language * Logic and Computation * Language and Computation The number of courses offered is over 50. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. In addition to courses, workshops and evening lectures, there will be a Student Session and a social program. COURSE PROGRAM The full scientific program can be found at our home page =09http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Evening Lectures are given by * Edward L. Keenan "Spinoza Lecture" (UCLA) * Yannis Moschovakis "Vienna Circle Lecture" (UCLA) * Keith Devlin (Saint Mary's College, California) * Jaakko Hintikka (Boston & Helsinki) * Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh) "Twenty Years of Finite-State Methods", special event organised by Lauri Karttunen, Kimmo Koskenniemi and Gertjan van Noord. WORKSHOPS Logic: "Logic and Games" (Gabriel Sandu and Marc Pauly) http://www.cwi.nl/~pauly/GameLogic/esslli-workshop.html Language: "Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics" (Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov=E1 and Mark Steedman) http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~korbay/esslli01-wsh/index.html Computation: "Automata and Finite Model Theory" (Lauri Hella, Juhani Karhum=E4ki and Kerkko Luosto) http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/workshops/AFMT.html Language and Logic: "Choice Functions and Natural Language Semantics" (Klaus von Heusinger, Ruth Kempson and Wilfried Meyer-Viol) http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/heusinger/konf-proj/ESSLLI/ Logic and Computation: "Coordination and Action" (Peter K=FChnlein, Alison Newlands and Hannes Rieser) http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~pkuehnle/HELSINKI/ Language and Computation: "Semantic Knowledge Acquisition and Categorisation" (Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni and Vito Pirrelli) http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/~esslli/ "Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing" (Lauri Karttunen, Kimmo Koskenniemi and Gertjan van Noord) http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/esslli_fsmnlp/ "Mathematics of Language" (Larry Moss and Dick Oehrle) http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/workshops/MoL.html TRAVEL AND LOCAL INFORMATION By plane to Helsinki airport and then a 35-minute nonstop coach or taxi service to the main railway station. From the railway station 5-minute walk to the university. A gateway between East and West, the city of Helsinki (population 1M) is the capital of Finland and one of the nine European Cities of Culture for the millennium. It is located at the south coast of Finland, within an easy reach from the main airports worldwide, or inside Europe by car or regular train services, or using the ferry services operating within the Baltic region. The scientific program of ESSLLI'01 will be held in the University Main Building, located on the University city campus at the centre of Helsinki. ACCOMMODATION The accommodation organised by ESSLLI is fully booked now. Please go to http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli to try alternative options. REGISTRATION Please go to http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli and complete the on-line registration form. GRANTS The ESSLLI'01 grant scheme is closed now. SPEACIAL EVENTS In the weekend preceding ESSLLI, a "Finnish for Foreigners" language course is organised. During ESSLLI, there will be excursions and other social events. Helsinki Summer School (http://summerschool.helsinki.fi) offers special deals for ESSLLI participants who want to choose some of their courses and earn credits. SATELLITE EVENTS The Association for the Mathematics of Language will stage its annual meeting (MoL7) in conjunction with ESSLLI, in the weekend preceding ESSLLI (August 10-12). The Formal Grammar Conference will be held in conjunction with the Mathematics of Language Conference. The registration fee is 50 euros. Conference Description and Program: http://sfinx.let.uu.nl/users/fgmol01prog.pdf PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcus Kracht=09 (Chair) Jouko V=E4=E4n=E4nen=09 (Logic) Bonnie Webber=09 (Language) Claude Kirchner=09 (Computation) Michael Moortgat=09 (Logic and Language) Steffen H=F6lldobler (Computation and Logic) Claire Gardent=09 (Language and Computation) CONTACT ADDRESS Please visit ESSLLI'01 Home Page =09http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli for updated information concerning the scientific program, registration fee= s and procedures, grants, accommodation, satellite events, and other practica= l information. For further enquiries concerning ESSLLI'01, please contact the Organising Committee at , or write to ESSLLI 2001 Secretariat c/o Department of Philosophy P.O. Box 9 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland ESSLLI'01 is organised by the Department of Philosophy (coordinator), the Department of Mathematics, the Department of General Linguistics, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Gabriel Sandu=09(Chair, Philosophy) Jouko V=E4=E4n=E4nen=09(Mathematics) Fred Karlsson=09(General Linguistics) Ilkka Niiniluoto=09(Philosophy) Martti Tienari=09(Computer Science) Ahti Pietarinen=09(Philosophy, secretariat) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Magali Duclaux Subject: LREC2002: First Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:25:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 219 (219) LREC2002 First Announcement and Call for Papers ********************************************************* THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION ********************************************************* Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain Main conference: 29-30-31 MAY 2002 Workshops: 27-28 MAY and 1-2 JUNE 2002 With support of TELEFONICA Foundation (of Spain) and support sought from the Commission of the EU and other institutions. The Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation is organised by ELRA in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, AFNLPA, ALLC, CLASS, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES/ISLE, ELSNET, ENABLER, EURALEX, FRANCIL, ISCA, LDC, ONTOWEB, PAROLE, etc., and with major national and international organisations, including the Commission of the EU Information Society DG, DARPA, NSF, and the Japanese Project for International Co-ordination of East-Asian Spoken Language Resources and Evaluation. Co-operation with other organisations is currently being sought. CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely recognised. Two issues are considered particularly relevant: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies, products and applications. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international cooperation. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used e.g. for: building and evaluating natural language, speech and multimodal algorithms or systems, software localisation industries and language services, language enabled information and communication services, natural interactivity, knowledge management, electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written, spoken and multimodal corpora and lexica, grammars, terminology databases, multimedia databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customisation and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation for Language Technologies is increasingly recognised. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a pro- gramme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and dis- advantages, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of sys- tem usability and user satisfaction. In the recent past, language engineering and research and development in language technologies have led to important advances in various aspects of written, spoken and multimodal language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programmes, including the US DARPA HLT programme, the EU HLT programme under FP5-IST, the Francophone AUF programme and others, particularly in the localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unsolved basic research problems. The European 6th Framework program (FP6), planned for a start in 2003, includes multilingual and multisensorial communication as one of the major R&D issue, and the evaluation of technologies appears as a specific item in the Integrated Project instrument presentation. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the= state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding language resources, their applications, ongoing and planned activities, industrial use and requirements, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources (LR) =B7 Guidelines, standards, specifications, models and best practices= =20 for LR =B7 Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation,= management, access, distribution, use of LR =B7 Organisational issues in the construction, distribution and use of= LR =B7 Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of= LR =B7 Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR =B7 Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g.= terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR =B7 Monolingual and multilingual LR =B7 Multimodal and multimedia LR =B7 Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) =B7 Documentation and archiving of languages, including minority and endangered languages =B7 Ontological aspects of creation and use of LR =B7 LR for psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research in= human-machine communication =B7 Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial=20 interfaces, translation, summarisation, www services, etc.) =B7 Industrial LR requirements and community's response =B7 Industrial production of LR =B7 Industrial use of LR =B7 Analysis of user needs for LR =B7 Internet-accessible metadata descriptions of LR =B7 Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing =B7 Economics of LR Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation =B7 Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR =B7 Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation =B7 Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc.) =B7 Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, spoken translation, etc.) =B7 Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and hand-written character=20 recognition, etc.) =B7 Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems (including detection, indexing, filtering, alert, question answering, etc) =B7 Evaluation of multimodal systems =B7 Qualitative and perceptive evaluation =B7 Evaluation of products and applications, benchmarking =B7 Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems =B7 Situated evaluation of applications =B7 Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures =B7 From evaluation to standardisation of LR General issues =B7 National and international activities and projects =B7 LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry =B7 Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national= and international policies =B7 Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international=20 cooperation =B7 Open architectures for LR PROGRAM The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of oral papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels. A special workshop will be organised on National Projects in LR and evaluation. FORMAT FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and posters presentations should consist of about 800 words. Demonstrations of LR and related tools will be reviewed as well. Please send an outline of about 400 words. If a demo is connected to a paper, please attach the outline to the paper abstract. A limited number of panels and workshops is foreseen. Proposals are welcome and will be reviewed. For panels please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organiser, panel moderator , tentative list of panelists). For workshops, see below. All submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: type of proposal (paper for oral presentation, paper for poster presentation, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the programme of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first= author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities for presentation (overhead projector, data display; other= hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. All submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee that will be announced within the second call. Electronic submission Electronic submission of abstracts should be in ASCII file format. This file should be sent to: lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC chairman Submission in hard copy You may also submit hard copies. Please send five hard copies to: Antonio Zampolli LREC Chairman Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa - ITALY Exhibits: An exhibit area will also be made available at LREC2002. This is open to companies and projects wishing to promote, present and demonstrate their language resources and evaluation products and prototypes to a wide range of experts and representatives from all over the world who will be participating at the conference. Please note that the exhibits of LR are different from system demonstrations. The exhibits will run in parallel with the Conference for 3 days and the exhibit hall will be located near the general conference rooms. For more information, please contact the ELDA office at: choukri@elda.fr LREC98, in Granada, had 197 papers and posters presented, with about 510 registered participants from 38 different countries from all continents. Among these, the largest group came from Spain (81 participants), followed by France (75), USA (73), Germany (47), UK (43) and Italy (41). Registered participants belonged to over 325 different organisations. LREC2000, in Athens, had 129 oral papers and 152 posters presented, with more than 600 participants from 51 different countries from all continents. Among these, the largest group came from Greece (117), followed by USA (70), France (59), Germany (45), UK (43), Japan (35) and Italy (29). Registered participants belonged to 319 different=20 organisations. We anticipate a similar number of participants in LREC2002. We therefore expect the exhibits at LREC2002 to have a large audience. IMPORTANT DATES =B7 Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers, referenced= demos, panels and workshops: 20 NOVEMBER 2001 =B7 Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 10=20 DECEMBER 2001 =B7 Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced=20 demos: 2 FEBRUARY 2002 =B7 Final versions for the Proceedings: 2 APRIL 2002 =B7 Conference: 29-30-31 MAY 2002 =B7 Pre Conference Workshops: 27-28 MAY 2002 =B7 Post Conference Workshops: 1-2 JUNE 2002 Conference Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers. Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities will be available at the Conference site. In addition to referenced demos concerning LR and related tools, it will be possible to run unreferenced demos of language engineering products, systems and tools. Those interested should contact the organiser of the demonstrations (see details on www.lrec-conf.org). WORKSHOPS Pre-Conference Workshops will be organised on the 27 and 28 of May 2002,and post-Conference Workshops on the 1 and 2 of June 2002. Proposals for workshops should be sent to: Antonio Zampolli (see address above), be no longer than three pages and contain: =B7 A brief technical description of the specific technical issues= that the workshop will address. =B7 The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. =B7 The names, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field coming from different institutions. =B7 The name of the member of the Workshop Organising Committee designated as the contact person. =B7 A time schedule of the workshop and a preliminary agenda. =B7 A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation. =B7 A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special= room requirements. The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g. Workshop Call preparation and distribution, review of papers,=20 notification of acceptance, etc.). Further details will be sent to the proposers. Proceedings will be printed for each workshop. CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings, should contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance in arranging meeting facilities. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES Before 28 February 2002 Standard 240EURO Participant from member organisations of ELRA 190=20 EURO Student 100 EURO After 28 February 2002 Standard 280 EURO Participant from member organisations of ELRA 230 EURO Student 120 EURO On site Standard 300 EURO Participant from member organisations of ELRA 250 EURO Student 130 EURO The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, conference dinner, coffee-breaks and refreshments. WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION FEES The duration of a workshop can range from a half day to two full days. The participation fees for each half day will be: 45 EURO for Conference participants 70 EURO for the others The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid,= Spain Daniel Tapias, TELEFONICA I+D, Madrid, Spain Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy=20 (Conference chair) INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Sture Allen, professor, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy,= =20 Sweden Souguil Ann, Seoul National University, Korea Georges Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech processing, Athens,=20 Greece Roberto Cencioni, Commission of the EU, Information Society DG, Luxembourg Zhiwei Feng , The State Language Commission of China, Beijing, China Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, Boston, USA Bernard Quemada, Conseil Sup=E9rieur de la Langue Fran=E7aise, Paris, France Gary Strong, NSF, Washington D.C., USA Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists,= =20 Leiden, The Netherlands Giovanni Battista Varile, Commission of the EU, Information Society DG,=20 Luxembourg Charles Wayne, DARPA, Washington D.C., USA The composition of the Local Committee as well as instructions and addresses for registration and accommodation will be detailed in the www.lrec-conf.org and will be announced in the Second Call for Papers to be issued at the end of July. ELRA For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources Association), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 PARIS, FRANCE Tel: + 33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: + 33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: choukri@elda.fr Web: http://www.elda.fr/ From: Steven Totosy Subject: wordsetter expertise Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:12:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 220 (220) dear colleagues, i would like to find someone who is able to do typesetting with the publishing software wordsetter. what i need is that word files coded for indexing can be typeset with high-end publishing software: as i understand it, in other publishing software (quark, pagemaker, etc.) indexing would need to be done manually after typesetting because the software is unable to carry over the index codes. wordsetter, apparently, can do this and it can also be used to format text for an e-book version and with an index. please contact me at: Steven Totosy Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal Purdue University Press at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ E-mail Phone 781-729-1680 From: Eric Johnson Subject: History Faculty Position Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:22:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 221 (221) History Faculty Position Dakota State University invites applications for a full-time history generalist faculty position. Duties will begin August, 2001, and may include teaching American History, European History, and specialized topics in history such as the History of Modern Asia as well as an introductory course in Political Science. Education and experience: Ph.D. or D.A. (ABD considered) in history or 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 minor in history. The University has been ranked 12th or higher on the Yahoo!/Internet Life list of 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 and email addresses of at least three references to Chair, History Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799; phone 605-256-5270; fax 605-256-5021; email Susan.Langner@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: Nelson Hilton Subject: Eng. dept. tenure-track Humanities Computing Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:23:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 222 (222) In an effort to create a list of existing English department tenure-track appointments (or joint-appointments) specifically for "Humanities Computing," I would be grateful to learn of any such appointments and the designated/expected responsibilities. Off-list responses will be summarized and posted together. Or does such a list exist already? Thanks very much! Nelson __________________________________________________________________________ N. Hilton * Professor & Head * Department of English * 254 Park Hall University of Georgia * Athens, GA 30602 * 706.542.1261 .2181 [fax] nhilton@english.uga.edu * www.english.uga.edu * * * "English, the rough basement. / Los built the stubborn structure of the Language" -Blake From: Dominik Wujastyk Subject: Manuscript catalogues and online databases Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:21:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 223 (223) Senior librarians and library managers increasingly see the Online Public Access Catalogue as the principle finding aid for materials in the library. And for printed materials, this may be valid and true. But most large, or old, or academic libraries have collections of archives and of medieval manuscripts, and these collections are not well served at present by most OPACs. This is because the manuscript cataloguing community has not, by and large, embraced the MARC format and philosophy of cataloguing. = =20 With the advent of the web, and the development of more recent technologies such as the TEI, Unicode, and MASTER, it is getting more feasible to put real quantities of manuscript metadata on the internet. This development, together with management imperatives connected with the high cost of investement represented by OPACs, as well as workforce streamlining, means that printed catalogues of manuscripts may soon cease to be produced at all. I would like to ask a question here mainly of people who actually use manuscripts in their research. Do you want printed catalogues of MS collections, in more or less the traditional form? Or do you want online databases of MS metadata? Or do you want both? In codicology, the principle tool for locating manuscripts has for hundreds of years been the printed catalogue. The manuscript catalogue, especially the catalogue "raisonn=E9e" has also fulfilled a function as a special kind of monograph. It would tell the reader a great deal about the content and intellectual importance of the manuscripts, in some cases going so far as to place the manuscript in a stemmatic relationship with other known copies of the work. I have an anecdotal sense that serious medievalists actually read catalogues, or large parts of them, in order to inform themselves of the nature and content of a particular collection, and to glean various other kinds of information not specific to one manuscript. This is not the same thing as using a catalogue as a tool for locating copies of a particular work, i.e., as a "finding aid". OPACs, at least as we know them today, are very much "finding aids". But although they can be more efficient in finding a manuscript of a work with a title by an author with a name, there are many situations in which the OPAC does not seem an ideal replacement for the printed catalogue of a collection. Is there a strong feeling amongst medievalists that new printed catalogues are wanted in future? Or are scholars happy, by and large, with the move to having libraries only communicate about their holdings through an OPAC? Best, Dominik From: Michael Fraser Subject: Secret Oxford Photographt Project Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:10:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 224 (224) SOX: The Secret Oxford Photography Project Over 5,400 digital images of the parts of Oxford you rarely see! http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/sox/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is SOX? 'SOX' stands for Secret Oxford and it is an archive of over 5,400 pictures of Oxford all taken on the same day. In short, it is a snap-shot of everyday life in the City, and provides a unique record of 14 hours in Oxford (7am to 8pm) on 7th June 2001 - election day. Why call it SOX? The idea was to take pictures of people and places that do not normally get chosen for photographs, i.e. the hidden parts of Oxford that never appear on Inspector Morse or postcards. Rather then showing another 100 pictures of the Radcliffe Camera, SOX has images of people at work and rest, contents of rubbish bins, posters, shops, and cars filled with cement (yes, there is one). What was the point of the project? In part it was to create a record of Oxford as noted above, but it was also an experiment just to see how many photographs it was possible to take in such a short space of time, covering such a distance. SOX was born digital. All the images were taken using digital cameras and then downloaded (on the day) to computers and uploaded to the Web. How did it work? A team of about 25 volunteers were assembled, all giving up an hour or two of their time during the day. Each was given a digital camera, a grid reference of the City, and approximately one hour to take 100 photos of secret Oxford. They then returned to the base and handed in their camera. The images were then downloaded from the cameras onto some computers, deleted from the camera itself, and then a new volunteer was sent out to take another 100 images in an entirely different area. How many photographs did you take? Over 5,400. That averages out at 385 every hour, or over 6 a minute. Whose idea was it? The man behind the project was Peter Robinson, multimedia specialist at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit. He thought up the idea, assembled the volunteers and cameras, and took many of the photographs himself. He also processed the images and built the web site. Who can use SOX? Anyone with an Internet connection can use SOX as long as they comply with the copyright restrictions. How can I use SOX Browse the images by area or by time of day. A page of thumbnail images links to larger images which, in turn, includes information about the time the photograph was taken, the photographer, image size, camera etc. Found interesting ways of using SOX? Let us know! What are the copyright restrictions? Users are allowed to access this site for educational purposes. Without further permission the images or documents may be: * viewed * printed on paper * saved to disk * used by students or staff registered or employed by an educational institution for any non-commercial purpose associated with teaching, learning or research. Credit must be given to the copyright holder and the URL of the SOX Web site should be stated in any materials incorporating images or documents from the SOX Project. All other use requires prior permission. In particular, images or documents may NOT be offered for sale or hire or otherwise disposed of on a commercial basis, or stored in a database or compilation without prior written permission. All queries concerning copyright should be addressed to Peter Robinson at the address below. Who was involved ? All the photographers were amateur volunteers who in the majority of cases had never used a digital camera before. The youngest photographer was aged six. How was the website created? All the photographs were taken as JPEG pictures via digital cameras. They were transferred into folders sorted by geographic area and batch processed to add catalogue information into the jpeg using a standard called IPTC with the program Qpict. They were then renamed to include the sector name and author initials and the original sequential number. A program called iView then generated the web page of thumbnail pics and the final photo pages including all the catalogue information, IPTC information and the electronic EXIF information. Is there a picture of the shark in the roof ? Yes, it's in the Headington section and a montage picture is here http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/sox/images/shark5.jpg Peter Robinson Humanities Computing Unit University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN United Kingdom Email: peter.robinson@oucs.ox.ac.uk 27th June 2001 http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/sox/index.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: seminars on humanities computing Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:15:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 225 (225) [deleted quotation] Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit 23rd - 27th July 2001 Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/summer/ Booking deadline: 6th July 2001 Spaces are still available for some of the seminars on humanities computing, offered by Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit: 23rd July Introduction to Humanities Computing 24th July Putting your database on the Web (only a few spaces available, but please= =20 note that this seminar is repeated on the 27th July) or Advanced use of the Internet 25th July Creating and using multimedia resources 26th July Creating and using digital video 27th July Putting your database on the Web=20 or Records to go: cataloguing and using humanities online resources in the Humbul Humanities Hub How Much Will It Cost? Each seminar costs =A365 (=A335 for students). 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: International Cultural Heritage Inforamtics Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:17:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 226 (226) [deleted quotation] Join us for ichim01 ! The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 2001 "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) About ichim01 ------------- The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) is, traditionally, the best international forum in which to examine the relationship between technology and cultural heritage. ICHIM has been held every two years, alternating between North America and Europe. Following successful meetings at Le Louvre in Paris (97), and Washington D.C. (99) our host for ichim01 is the Politecnico di Milano. We expect at least 500 specialists, from museums, cultural organizations, universities, research institutes, technology companies and organizations. Please join us! The Program ----------- http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/overview.html The ichim01 Program includes a full range of papers, presentations, panel discussions and tutorials, including: * keynote addresses by outstanding experts: - Maxwell L. Anderson (Director of the New York Whitney Museum of American Art, USA) - Sarah Tyacke (Keeper of the Public Records Office, United Kingdom) - Peter Walsh (Chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission, USA) * over 100 papers, by professionals and researchers from 24 countries * panels featuring leading experts from the US and Europe debating issues of culture and technology and offering new visions * over 30 demonstrations of new technologies and applications * 26 pre-conference tutorials (20 in English and 6 in Italian) covering a broad spectrum of approaches and state-of- the-art technologies * engaging social events, held in the most charming places of Milan - the City of Art, Fashion, and Design. Registration ------------ http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/registration.html You can register online, or print out a registration form to return by mail or fax. Organization ------------ http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/organization.html ichim01 is organized by Archives & Museum Informatics and the Politecnico de Milano, with our thanks to the Honorary Committee and a Program Committee of more than 60 respected professionals from throughout the world. Conference Co-Chairs Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics (USA) Program Co-Chairs David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics (USA) Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Sponsors -------- ichim01 is held under the aegis of the Cultural Heritage Ministry of Italy, the European Commission (IST Programme), Fondazione CARIPLO, Camera di Commercio di Milano, Municipality of Milano, the counties of Genova, Milano, Perugia, Roma, Torino, Venezia, the regions Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Puglia, Sicilia, Umbria, Val d'Aosta, Veneto, and the following Milanese museums: Museo alla Scala, Museo Archeologico, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Musei Civici Milanesi, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca di Brera, Poldi Pezzoli, Triennale. -- ________ ichim2001 Milano, Italy Archives & Museum Informatics September 3-7, 2001 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 ichim2001@archimuse.com From: Ruslan Mitkov Subject: New book on text summarisation by Inderjeet Mani (fwd) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:24:38 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 227 (227) ****************************************************** BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ****************************************************** John Benjamins=92 NLP series (NLP-3) http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/JB/series.htm Book series editor Ruslan Mitkov 000000000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO00000000000= 000 0000 AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION Inderjeet Mani John Benjamins Pub Co; ISBN: 1588110591 (hardcover), 1588110605 (pape= rback) =20 000000000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOO00000000000= 000 0000 With the explosion in the quantity of on-line text and multimedia=20 information in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in=20 automatic summarization. This book provides a systematic introduction to=20 the field, explaining basic definitions, the strategies used by human=20 summarizers, and automatic methods that leverage linguistic and=20 statistical knowledge to produce extracts and abstracts. Drawing from a=20 wealth of research in artificial intelligence, natural language=20 processing, and information retrieval, the book also includes detailed=20 assessments of evaluation methods and new topics such as multi-document=20 and multimedia summarization. Previous automatic summarization books have been either collections of=20 specialized papers, or else authored books with only a chapter or two=20 devoted to the field as a whole. This is the first textbook on the=20 subject, based on teaching materials used in two one-semester=20 courses. To further help the student reader, the book includes detailed=20 case studies, accompanied by end-of-chapter reviews and an extensive=20 glossary. The book is intended for students and researchers, as well as=20 information technology managers, librarians, and anyone else interested=20 in the subject. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE=20 I. PRELIMINARIES 1. Introduction=20 2. Basic Notions for Summarization=20 3. Abstract Architecture for Summarization=20 4. Summarization Approaches=20 5. Current Applications=20 6. Conclusion=20 7. Review=20 II. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIZING=20 1. Introduction=20 2. The stages of abstracting=20 3. Abstracting Strategies=20 4. Reading for Abstracting=20 5. Revision=20 6. Psychological Experiments=20 7. Structure of Empirical Abstracts=20 8. Conclusion=20 9. Review=20 III. EXTRACTION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. The Edmundsonian Paradigm=20 3. Corpus Based Sentence Extraction=20 3.1 General Considerations=20 3.2 Aspects of Learning Approaches=20 4. Coherence of Extracts=20 5. Conclusion=20 6. Review=20 IV. REVISION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. Shallow Coherence Smoothing=20 3. Full Revision to Improve Informativeness=20 3.1 Case Study: Full Revision=20 3.2 Related Work=20 3.3 Implications=20 4. Text Compaction=20 5. Conclusion=20 6. Review=20 V. DISCOURSE-LEVEL INFORMATION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. Text Cohesion=20 2.1 Introduction=20 2.2 Cohesion Graph Topology=20 2.3 Topic Characterization=20 3. Text Coherence=20 3.1 Introduction=20 3.2 Coherence Relations=20 3.3 Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)=20 3.4 Rhetorical Structure and Cue Phrases=20 3.5 The Document Scheme, Revisited=20 4. Conclusion=20 5. Review=20 VI. ABSTRACTION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. Abstraction from Templates=20 2.1 Introduction=20 2.2 Case Study: Sketchy Scripts=20 2.3 Modern Information Extraction=20 3. Abstraction by Term Rewriting=20 4. Abstraction using Event Relations=20 5. Abstraction using a Concept Hierarchy=20 5.1. Domain Knowledge Base Activation=20 5.2. Generic Thesaurus Activation=20 6. Synthesis for Abstraction=20 6.1. Pretty printing=20 6.2. Graphical Output=20 6.3. Extraction=20 6.4. Generation for Synthesis=20 7. Conclusion=20 8. Review=20 VII. MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. Types of relationships across documents=20 3. MDS methods=20 3.1 Overview=20 3.2 Specific Approaches=20 4. Case Study: Biographical Summarization=20 4.1 Introduction=20 4.2 Example Architecture=20 4.3 Algorithm Steps=20 4.4 Bio Summarizer Components=20 4.5 Assessment=20 5. Conclusion=20 6. Review=20 VIII. MULTIMEDIA SUMMARIZATION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. Dialog Summarization=20 3. Summarization of Video=20 4. Summarization of Diagrams=20 5. Automatic Multimedia Briefing Generation=20 6. Conclusion=20 7. Review=20 IX. EVALUATION=20 1. Introduction=20 2. Intrinsic Methods=20 2.1 Assessing Agreement Between Subjects=20 2.2 Quality=20 2.3 Informativeness=20 2.4 Component-level tests=20 3. Extrinsic Methods=20 3.1 Relevance Assessment=20 3.2 Reading Comprehension=20 3.3 Presentation Strategies=20 3.4 Mature System Evaluation=20 4. Conclusion=20 5. Review=20 X. POSTSCRIPT=20 REFERENCES=20 INDEX From: Michael Fraser Subject: Workshop: Digitising newspapers Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:26:11 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 228 (228) ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SCAN: INCREASING ACCESS TO HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS A one-day workshop to be held at Senate House, University of London, 12 July 2001 10.00am-4.00pm, with a wine reception 5.00-7.00pm The workshop is sponsored by the British Library; the Institute for English Studies; Olive Software; the Office for Humanities Communication, King's College, London; the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Its aim is to present the results of a unique pilot project in the digitization and delivery of historic newspapers to a wider audience, and to discuss the implications of this remarkable system for the preservation and presentation of similar materials in UK HE, archives and public libraries. Since January 2001, the British Library Newspaper Library, the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, OCLC, the Malibu Hybrid Library Project at King's College London, and Olive Software have been working together to produce a prototype system for the digitization, indexing, and presentation of historic newspapers from the British Library Newspaper Library collection. 18 reels of microfilm have been scanned, and some 500,000 newspaper articles indexed. Speakers will demonstrate the pilot project and discuss the practical implications of the various technologies. The workshop is free to all participants, who are also invited to a wine reception afterwards. See the programme at http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/conference Bookings should be made through: Ms Joanne Nixon Institute of English Studies Room 308 School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU +44 (0) 207 862 8675 ies@sas.ac.uk From: icsm2001 (NESI) Subject: IEEE Conf.on Software Maintenance Italy,Florence, ICSM2001 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:35:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 229 (229) [deleted quotation] Message-Id: <200107110405.GAA22794@dsiI.dsi.unifi.it> To: humanist@BROWNVM.brown.edu Dear Colleague I would like to invite you to attend the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001, and associated workshops: IEEE SCAM, IEEE WESS, IEEE WSE, TABOO. FLORENCE, ITALY, 6-10 November 2001 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001 Sponsored by IEEE Supported bt the: EC-IST, University of Florence, O-Groupi, IBM Italy in collaboration with: TABOO, AICA, AIIA, ERCIM, UNINFO, CESVIT, ... ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and management. Theme: Systems and Software Evolution in the era of the Internet kEYWORDS: software evolution, embedded suystems, program analysis, reengineering, managment, maintenance, lyfe cycle, Internet and distributed systems, Multimedia systems, User interface evolution, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Program comprehension, Formal methods, Empirical studies, Testing and regression testing, Measurement of software, METRICS,etc. Outstanding Keynotes such as: Prof. David Lorge Parnas and Prof. Dieter Rombach. Kent Beck 110 technical presentations, 4 workshops, Industrial papers and experiences, reseach papers and award, tutorials, tool expositions, dissertation forum and award, workshops, panels, and other exciting activities have been planned. Please forward the following to anybody who you think may be interested. The discount for the advanced registration fee will be active for few weeks. Apologies for multiple receptions. If you would like to be removed from our list please send an email to icsm2001@dsi.unifi.it with REMOVE in the subject. Paolo Nesi (ICSM2001 General Chair) From: Jean Veronis Subject: Journal Announcement Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:45:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 230 (230) [deleted quotation] RECHERCHES SUR LE FRANCAIS PARLE No 16 256 Pages ISBN 2-85399-482-1 Publications de l'Universit=E9 de Provence Le pr=E9sent num=E9ro de Recherches sur le fran=E7ais parl=E9 s'inscrit dans= les=20 axes de recherches prioritaires lanc=E9s par le Groupe Aixois de Recherche= en=20 Syntaxe (G.A.R.S.), repris par l'actuelle =E9quipe Description Linguistique= =20 informatis=E9e sur Corpus (DELIC). Une pr=E9occupation commune des auteurs= est=20 d'appuyer leurs articles sur l'examen de donn=E9es authentiques de fran=E7ai= s=20 parl=E9. 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Etude des constructions en comme Paul CAPPEAU & Marie SAVELLI En fait, en fran=E7ais contemporain : proposition d'analyse Marie SAVELLI Grammaticalisation d'un terme de lieu : Quelque part et mis =E0 part Claire BLANCHE-BENVENISTE La notion de construction corr=E9lative en fran=E7ais : typologie et limites Henri-Jos=E9 DEULOFEU Apposition et dislocation : la s=E9quence pronom + lexique + clitique Myl=E8ne BLASCO-DULBECCO & Sandrine CADDEO Sur certains sujets Paul CAPPEAU Retour sur le " futur " dans les corpus du fran=E7ais parl=E9 Mireille BILGER Remarques sur la syntaxe des =E9nonc=E9s r=E9par=E9s en fran=E7ais parl=E9 Bruno MARTINIE La d=E9nomination dans le discours perturb=E9 de type aphasique Marie-No=EBlle ROUBAUD & Claude LOUFRANI Des " fleurs " pour la morphologie utile Eul=E0lia VILAGINES SERRA ORDER ----- Subscription price : 128 FF Final price : 160 FF Order form and details : http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/wpup/ Service des publications Universit=E9 de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1 France t=E9l: +33 (0) 4 42 95 31 91 fax: +33 (0) 4 42 20 28 04 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Humbul - Interoperability Officer Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:30:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 231 (231) [deleted quotation] Oxford University Computing Services Humbul Humanities Hub http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Interoperability Officer Grade: RS1A Salary: 16,775 - 25,213 (under review) Two year post The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/) is seeking an Interoperability Officer to lead the technical development of an online humanities portal. Humbul is part of the national Resource Discovery Network (RDN) and based at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). You will be responsible for implementing and developing technical solutions to cross-search remote databases, control authentication and enable community services. You will be comfortable liaising with data-providers, related services and end-users. We expect you to have a relevant degree or equivalent experience; a working knowledge of languages or tools for developing online information systems (e.g. PHP, XML, JAVA or Perl); and be familiar with emerging technologies for interoperability and resource discovery (e.g. Z39.50, Open Archives Initiative, DOI, OpenURL, RDF, RSS). You should also be enthusiastic about the use of digital resources within humanities subjects, communicate well at all levels, and be comfortable working within a project environment. Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Sue Crowley, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. (tel: 01865-273229, email: sue.crowley@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Details are also available at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 27th July 2001. Interviews will be held in early August. --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: "Alyssa Theodore" Subject: Creator of digital collections has job opening for Production Manager Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:32:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 232 (232) [deleted quotation] Ad Fontes, an Alexandria, VA-based e-publishing company ( <http://www.ad-fontes.com/> www.ad-fontes.com) that develops fully searchable databases for scholars in the field of religious studies, has an opening for a Production Manager. Key responsibilities include developing a DTD (document type definition) for the texts in our lead collection, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts. The manager will also create subject thesauri and controlled vocabularies, manage the flow of mark-up and indexing information from source to server, and advise our technology development partners on search and presentation requirements. Candidates must have prior experience with the electronic text conversion process. Knowledge of the field of religious studies is preferred. For consideration, please email a resume with salary requirements to: pcooper@ad-fontes.com. Please circulate this notice (found also in this past Sunday's Washington Post) to anyone you think might be qualified and interested. Thanks much, Alyssa Theodore Associate Editor Ad Fontes, LLC From: Al Magary Subject: Help needed on organizing etext and other files on a Windows PC Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:41:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 233 (233) I have on my Windows PC a large collection of etexts, resource material, and other files relating to the Middle Ages. Right now I rely on Windows' filenaming, with spaces removed to allow more concise display, and I use Windows Explorer to manage the files. E.g., I have "GestOfRH.txt" in the Robin Hood folder, "Malory-pt1.txt" in the Arthur/MorteDarthur subfolder. Unfortunately, this abbreviation and categorization has led to an abundance of mysterious files and folders. I no longer can grasp what I have and don't have or often can't find things. I've been thinking of undertaking a tedious reorganization, and my thoughts have been along the following: 1. Putting every file in one folder, alphabetized like a card catalog or ordered by LOC classification numbers. Neither of these is appealing, the first because too many files have no author, like the Gest of Robin Hood, and the second because it would be difficult to get all the LOC numbers (even just two letters and four digits). 2. Leaving the files in the array of folders but getting a better grip on them by compiling a better catalog or bibliography. The two options here are: a. Using a bibliographic database, perhaps Nota Bene's Ibidem. I have no experience with Nota Bene and would have to transfer things from Word. Leaving MS Office is unappealing as the rest of my life, as it were, is located there. b. Using a regular database. If I stayed with Office I would use Access. If I switched to Nota Bene I could see if Orbis or Ibid would save me. Access is pretty good, offering both record and table views. Text entry, reorganizing, and sorting are fast. The search functions are good. But I am always disappointed by the various reports (printouts). I'm inclined to stick with Office and use Access to catalog what I have--but that still leaves the problem of where and how the files should be kept in some kind of order in Windows. I have the bibliographic equivalent of writer's block here, and wonder if listmembers can offer some help, perhaps by outlining how they organize similar files. I'd also like some comments on using both MS Office and Nota Bene with the web, especially conversion difficulties. From: Francois Lachance Subject: Accessibility, Design and Funding Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:38:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 234 (234) Willard, Intrigued by the All the News that is Fit to Scan blub, I was accessing: http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/conference/ and got a cannot display message. I truncated the URL and discovered that the problem was due to resolution settings on my system. I can understand working with Microsoft 5.0 because of the XML components of the site as a stop gap measure until such time a server-side solution is in place to transform XML into HTML. But why force a screen resolution? Yes it allows the site designers to control presentation but it does rob users of the chance to tailor the display to their requirements. I am puzzled at to why a British Library site would apparently ignore access issues. The message on the home page http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ makes no mention of Lynx or text-based browsers but promises "a light version of the archive supporting version 4 of Netscape and Explorer is due to be implemented soon." There is at least a mail to link to send comments. I am led to ask Humanist subscribers if they know of funding guidelines that granting agencies use to determine accessibility requirements of the projects and initiatives to which they will contribute. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Francois Lachance Subject: An answer with a bit of digging Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:39:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 235 (235) Willard, With a bit of digging, I've managed to uncover the rationale for screen resolution requirements of the British Library Newspaper site. http://www.olivesoftware.com/product_microfilm.htm With ActivePaper ArchiveTM you don't have to deal with corrupted OCR text. ActivePaper ArchiveTM uses the best OCR technology to read the degraded text - the human brain. This is because newspaper objects are displayed as images, whose text is always readable. The human brain, on the other hand, does not have the searching capabilities of a computer. For this reason, ActivePaper ArchiveTM uses Bitmap IndexingTM technology, which enables full-text search and retrieval of images, based on their word patterns. And I suspect with IATH's suite of handy tools as exemplified in the Blake archive, one could mark up such images further. This raises some interesting perspectives and content modelling issues around the digital imaging versus text encoding debates... or simply re-enforces the view that encoding like reading produces a translation or mapping of the object of that encoding or reading. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Lachance, Francois (JUS) [mailto:Francois.Lachance@jus.gov.on.ca] Subject: screen resolution Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:39:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 236 (236) Dear SHay, I was accessing: http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/conference/ and got a cannot display message. I truncated the URL and discovered that the problem was due to resolution settings on my system. I can understand working with Microsoft 5.0 because of the XML components of the site. But why force a screen resolution? Yes it allows the site designers to control presentation but it does rob users of the chance to tailor the display to their requirements. Thank you Fran?ois Lachance 326-2524 From: Lachance, Francois (JUS) [mailto:Francois.Lachance@jus.gov.on.ca] Subject: screen resolution Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:40:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 237 (237) Dear SHay, I was accessing: http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/conference/ and got a cannot display message. I truncated the URL and discovered that the problem was due to resolution settings on my system. I can understand working with Microsoft 5.0 because of the XML components of the site. But why force a screen resolution? Yes it allows the site designers to control presentation but it does rob users of the chance to tailor the display to their requirements. Thank you Francois Lachance 326-2524 From: David Gants Subject: Silly Season Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:07:19 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 238 (238) Hello all, In US political circles, the summer months are known as the "Silly Season." With Willard gone on vacation, I'm doing my best to start a tradition of a silly season here on Humanist by sending out postings that don't quite fit the expected format. I apologise to those who have been scratching their heads over the look of Humanist the last week or so and promise to renew my efforts to decypher Willard's notes on generating postings. Your patience is appreciated. Yours, Dave Gants _________________________________________________________________________ David L. Gants ** Department of English ** 254 Park Hall ** University of Georgia ** Athens, Georgia ** 30602-6205 ** 706.542.3496 / 542.2181 (FAX) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 239 (239) [deleted quotation] [An HTML version of the Call for Proposals is available via the FoLLI page <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2002/cfp.txt>. Usual apologies apply if you receive multiple copies of this message.] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Fourteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2002 August 4-17, 2002, Trento, Italy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% THIRD CALL FOR PROPOSALS ------------------------ **** Deadline for submission: 22 July 2001 ***** The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-2002 is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2002 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 14th annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields: LANGUAGE & COMPUTATION LANGUAGE & LOGIC LOGIC & COMPUTATION In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form located at <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2002/submission.html> All proposals should be submitted no later than July 22, 2001. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than September 17, 2001. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during ESSLLI-2002, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They typically consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course). Each session lasts 90 minutes. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Jul 22, 2001: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2001: Notification Nov 15, 2001: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s) information, course description and prerequisites Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area. ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some detail. WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. A workshop has a theme. At most one organiser is paid. The organisers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session. They are also responsible for the programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers. Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2001. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten sessions (a two-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 minutes. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Jul 22, 2001: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2001: Notification Nov 15, 2001: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers Dec 1, 2001: Send out Call for Papers Mar 15, 2002: Deadline for Papers (suggested) May 1, 2002: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) May 15, 2002: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop notes Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals is accessible at <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2002/submission.html>. You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (describe the proposed contents in at most 150 words) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. Please note the following: In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and accommodation expenses. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. However, please note that the organisers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organisers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organising Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Trento. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Claire Gardent (chair) Attn: ESSLLI-2002 LORIA BP 239 Campus Scientifique 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France) Tel: +33-3-83-59-2039 Fax: +33-3-83-27-5652 Email: claire.gardent@loria.fr Local co-chair: Paolo Bouquet (bouquet@cs.unitn.it) Language & Computation: Hinrich Schuetze (me@hinrichschuetze.com) Gerry Altmann (g.altmann@psych.york.ac.uk) Language & Logic: Fabio Pianesi (pianesi@irst.itc.it) Steve Pulman (stephen.pulman@somerville.ox.ac.uk) Logic & Computation: Simon Parsons (S.D.Parsons@csc.liv.ac.uk ) Frank Wolter (wolter@informatik.uni-leipzig.de) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Luciano Serafini (chair) Email: serafini@itc.it FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the web site for ESSLLI-2002 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2002/esslli-2002.html>. For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2001 <http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli>. From: Francois Lachance Subject: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:31:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 240 (240) CATaC02 International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, entitled The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology, will be held in Montreal between July 12 and 15, 2002. Conference organizers are seeking original full papers (especially ones that connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (for example, ones describing current research projects and preliminary results). For more information, visit <http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/>. Digital2001 ASCI (Art & Science Collaborations, Inc) is a 12-year old NYC-based non-profit organization producing symposia, exhibitions, and resource tools for nurturing the intersection of art, science, technology, and the humanities. It is currently holding an international open competition for Our Sci-Tech World, a travelling digital print exhibition with three venues that will open at the New York Hall of Science's Technology Gallery in September. The deadline is August 22, 2001. Full details are available at <http://www.asci.org/digital2001/index.html>. Emergence Emergence, the second international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, between December 5 and 7, 2001. Papers are being accepted until August 31, 2001. For full details, visit <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate>. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 241 (241) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 133. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> [deleted quotation] Dear Willard, Because it's relevant to HUMANIST and to humanists (AND we're giving a = discount), I hope you'll permit me to inform the online humanities = computing community of the publication of : OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES GUIDE TO DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE = HUMANITIES in its new, revised first edition by West Virginia University = Press. By Frances Condron, Michael Frazer, and Stuart Sutherland in the Humanities= Computing Unit at Oxford with an introduction by Marilyn Deegan, this is = -- as Roy Johnson said in his review of the first edition in the Mantext = Newsletter -- " . . . a wonderfully rich compilation . . . Much of this software = [described herein] is built on years of research, and will be around for = years to come. . . . If you are in the business of delivering online = resources for study in the humanities, your digital mouth will water when = you see what is on offer here." (April, 2001) I hope humanists will check out the fuller description on the web page at = : http://www.as.wvu.edu/press/ibp_digitalresources.html The date of publication is September 15, 2001, and the pre-publication = discount is good only until then.=20 380 pages, bibliography, index; 9" x 6" paperback.=20 Regularly $35.00=20 Now (until September 15) $28.00 with pre-publication discount (20%) Thanks so much. =20 Pat Conner Patrick W. Conner, Director West Virginia University Press P.O. Box 6295, West Virginia Univ. Morgantown, WV 26506-6295 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Voice: 304.293.3107 x431 Fax: 304.293.5380 Email: pconner@wvu.edu Web page: www.as.wvu.edu/press From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 242 (242) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> [deleted quotation] UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Computing services Oxford Text Archive Computing Officer Grade RS1A: 16,775 to 25,213 p.a. (under review) One year post in the first instance. The Oxford Text Archive (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/) is seeking a Computing Officer. The OTA is part of the UK's national Arts and Humanities Data Service (http://ahds.ac.uk/) and is based at Oxford's internationally renowned Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk). The OTA works on behalf of the AHDS to support the needs of researchers and teachers active in all fields of literary and linguistic studies within the higher and further education community. The Computing Officer is primarily responsible for supporting and developing the OTA's digital resource management, retrieval, and delivery systems, which form the core of our service to users. An enthusiasm to learn about the latest developments in the creation, manipulation, and use of digital resources is a vital aspect of this post. In addition, applicants should ideally have experience of website management, working with Perl and XML-based applications, and of managing a Windows NT server. Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, tel. (01865)273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk Alternatively, you can download these documents from http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/publications/applicationform.html Completed applications must be received by 4.00pm on 20th July 2001. Interviews will be held at the beginning of August. The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer. ================================================= UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Computing services Oxford Text Archive Collections Development Officer Grade RS1A: 16,775 to 25,213 p.a. (under review) The Oxford Text Archive (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/) is seeking a Collections Development Officer. The OTA is part of the UK's national Arts and Humanities Data Service (http://ahds.ac.uk/) and is based at Oxford's internationally renowned Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk). The OTA works on behalf of the AHDS to support the needs of researchers and teachers active in all fields of literary and linguistic studies within the higher and further education community. The Collections Development Officer is primarily responsible for accessioning, cataloguing, and documenting new deposits, as well as improving the metadata for digital resources already held by the OTA. Experience of working with electronic bibliographic sources and information, as well as an enthusiasm to learn about the latest developments in digital resource description, are important for this post. In addition, applicants should also have some experience of working with digital resources, and an awareness of how they are used within the communities that the OTA serves. Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, tel. (01865)273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk Alternatively, you can download these documents from http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/publications/applicationform.html Completed applications must be received by 4.00pm on 27th July 2001. Interviews will be held in the week commencing 6th August. The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer. From: Francois Lachance Subject: Publishing and Institutional Connections Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:35:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 243 (243) An interesting paper by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, "The New Knowledge Management: Online Research and Publishing in the Humanities" (2001) details his experience with online publishing http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb01-1/totosy01.html The paper offers much to consider for those in voleved in publishing and for those benefitting from the fuits of others publishing efforts. In particular, marketing: "the strategy to advertise the use of the journal by sening e-mail notices to univesity libraires -- so that the library lists the journal in its web stie for journals and data bases available online -- has been more successful [than hard copy advertisements to departments]" and the question of funding for electronic publishing. Any other reports from people engaged in 1) publicizing publishing enterprises 2) funding bodies and support to non-profit publishing enterprises whihc are not directly linked to an institution (the ancient extra-muros question) ?? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Kurt Gaertner Subject: Announcement of Colloquium at Trier/Germany Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:43:11 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 244 (244) [deleted quotation]colloquium on "Standards and Methods of Fulltext Digitization" will be taking place at the University of Trier/Germany. In sixteen papers, internationally renowned experts will be discussing various aspects of dealing with digital texts, focussing especially on the application of standards such as SGML/XML. In order to highlight the topic from as many different points of view as possible, lexicographers, linguists, and information scientists as well as archivists, librarians, and publishers will be delivering talks on these issues; conference languages will be German and English. Guenter Hotz (Saarbruecken): Grundlagen der Informationskodierung Gregory Crane (Medford/Massachusetts): The Perseus Project Susan Hockey (London): Digital Resources in the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future Edward Vanhoutte (Gent): Display or Argument: Markup and Digitization for Scholarly Editions David Seaman (Charlottesville): An Electronic Text Archive Based on Standards Anne McDermott, Oliver Mason (Birmingham): Encoding Johnson's Dictionary: Theoretical Issues and Technical Solutions Daniel Pitti (Charlottesville): The George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Papers Angelika Menne-Haritz (Marburg): Eine XML/EAD-Schnittstelle fuer MIDOSA C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C): Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik: Zur aktuellen Situation und zu kuenftigen Aufgaben (OEffentlicher Abendvortrag) Joerg Asmussen (Kopenhagen): Zur geplanten Retrodigitalisierung des Ordbog over det danske Sprog - Konzeption, Vorgehensweise, Perspektiven Eveline Vogt (Wien): Digitale Volltexte als Arbeitsbehelf fuer die Dialektlexikographie am Beispiel des "Woerterbuchs der bairischen Mundarten in Oesterreich" (WBOe) Wolfgang Schibel, Heinz Kredel (Mannheim): Kodierung und Praesentation neulateinischer Dichtung im Text-Bild-Corpus CAMENA auf der Basis von TEI-XML Markus Brantl, Karl Maerker (Muenchen): SGML/XML-Kodierung von Volltexten aus der Konversion von Katalogen und Nachweisinstrumenten Markus Enders (Goettingen): Erstellung und Verarbeitung von Volltext im Goettinger Digitalisierungszentrum Markus Welsch (Saarbruecken): Die synoptische Publikation der Amtsblaetter der Europaeischen Union auf SGML-Basis Ingrid Schmidt, Carolin Mueller (Heidelberg): Die Grosse Kommentierte Frankfurter Ausgabe der Werke Thomas Manns. Ein innovatives verlegerisches Konzept A preliminary program is available on-line at http://www.kompetenzzentrum.uni-trier.de/. The conference is being organized by the "Center of Excellence for Electronic Information Retrieval and Publishing in the Humanities" in cooperation with the University Library Trier, the University Computing Unit Trier, the Center for Scientific Electronic Publication at the University of Trier/Germany, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz/Germany, and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences. It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order of 20 DM per person. Students are not charged. For your accommodation, rooms have been reserved at a special rate at Mercure Hotel Trier An den Kaiserthermen Metzer Allee 6 Tel: +49 0651 9377-0 Fax: +49 0651 9377-333 Within the next few days, an on-line application form will be provided. Applications via e-mail will also be welcome; please write to burch@uni-trier.de fournier@uni-trier.de rappand@uni-trier.de The papers given at the conference shall be published as soon as possible. It is intended that conference attendants may acquire the proceedings at a special rate. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof.Dr. Kurt Gaertner FB II Sprach- und Literaturwiss. office: Tel. 0651-201-2323 Germanistik Fax 0651-201-3909 Universitaet Trier secretary: Tel. 0651-201-2321 D-54286 Trier private: Tel. 06421-35356, Fax 06421-35415 From: Francois Lachance Subject: Newcastle -- after the wine Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:49:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 245 (245) To the attendees of the symposium hosted by Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing The University of Newcastle Australia on the theme of A Practicable Future for Computing in the Humanities Anyone care to venture a report on the session led by Allen Renear? I am intrigued by his contention that humanists don't deserve the illumination thay have gotten. For the most part they remain quite set in their familar ways -- deploying tired (however various) analytical strategies and rhetorical practices, that, when combined a faint-heartedness (or is it diffedence?) about engagement on unfamiliar ground ensures that promising wonderful new lines of research will be mostly fumbled rather than developed. I suspect the attendees were able to construct a knowledge representation that ontologically and operationally made a distinction between "humanitsts" and "computing humanists". Was a similar distinction made between "tired rhetoric" and appeals to novelty (the invocation of the good of the new being by now an old ploy)? All ironic quips aside, I am genuinely interested in learning about the tenor of this session since the individual psychologies of key players can be determining factors in the history of a group's knowledge practices, let alone how that history may affect the future objects and subjects of a sociology of knowledge. The abstracts are available in a proprietary format: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/lc/symposium/pdf/abstracts.pdf -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: "David L. Gants" Subject: cast01 // open for registration Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:40:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 246 (246) [deleted quotation] cast01 // living in mixed realities is open for registration now! http://netzspannung.org/cast01 September 21-22, 2001 // Schloss Birlinghoven // Sankt Augustin near Bonn /= / Germany Dear friends and colleagues! We invite you to participate in the cast01 conference discussing intersecti= ons of artistic, cultural, technological and scientific issues of: Living in Mixed Realities cast01 demonstrates outstanding examples of research, technological development and artistic production in the form of research papers and artistic presentations as well as blueprints and posters about ideas still under development. Internationally well known keynote speakers like Roy Ascott, Bill Buxton, Manfred Fa=DFler, Perry Hoberman, Natalie Jeremijenko will navigate you through the two-days field of inspiring new concepts in the ambience of Birlinghoven castle in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany. Highlights of the conference are the launch of the Internet platform for me= dia art and culture "netzspannung.org" and the initiative >digital sparks< presenting current projects of German media education. The cast01 Conference team wants you to be part of "Living in Mixed Realiti= es". Registration for cast01 has already started. There is a limited number of s= eats. Register online: http://netzspannung.org/cast01=20 Registration by fax: http://netzspannung.org/cast01/cast01_register.pdf Please make use of the early registration deadline (August 15, 2001) to benefit from lower fee. Basis conference fee: Until August 15, 2001 350.- DM (178.95 EURO) [deleted quotation] (Students) Until August 15, 2001 100.- DM (51.13 EURO) [deleted quotation] For more information about the program, the speakers, the registration conditions and the location, please visit the conference website http://netzspannung.org/cast01 or contact us: cast01@netzspannung.org We are looking forward to seeing you at the cast01 conference! Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss cast01 Conference Chairs From: "David L. Gants" http://www.let.rug.nl/%7Evannoord/clin/clin.html or the CLIN 2001 home page: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/clin2001.html From: Francois Lachance Subject: 2001 TOHE Call for Proposals Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:41:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 248 (248) International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education "Synthesizing Online Teaching Strategies" November 12-14, 2001 Preconference Web Site: http://www.ipfw.edu/as/2001tohe/ ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Proposals are due August 20, 2001. From: Steven Totosy Subject: CFP: Michael Ondaatje Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:42:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 249 (249) Call for Papers: Papers on Michael Ondaatje's work are invited for possible publication in a collected volume published by Guernica Editions in its Canadian Writers series. Please send papers of 6,000 words, MLA format with works cited (no footnotes or end notes) by e-mail only to Steven Totosy at totosy@lib.purdue.edu Steven Totosy (list of publications at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html ) Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal Purdue University Press at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ E-mail Phone 781-729-1680 From: Elizabeth Solopova Subject: Re: manuscript catalogues and on-line databases Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:50:36 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 250 (250) Dear Dominik, Thank you for your reply and forwarding the messages. I believe it is difficult to answer your question, of whether the electronic form is suitable for catalogues of medieval MSS, because as you pointed out yourself, such catalogues are often somewhere in between a reference book or a finding aid, and a research monograph. Reference books (such as dictionaries or encyclopedias, for example) are now routinely published in electronic form, or both in printed and electronic forms, whereas academic books are still published in printed form because it is more convenient for reading. A catalogue lends itself to both uses - it is likely to be both searched and read as a book. There is also a problem of authority of a catalogue and making it to conform to what is required from a searchable finding aid: brevity, highly consistent, unambiguous and structured presentation of uptodate information. Where in a traditional library catalogue we find plainly stated 'hard facts', in a catalogue of early MSS there are theories, opinions and discussion of dates, origin, stemmatic relationship, authorship and so on. These theories and opinions are likely to change, but only slowly. They are also likely to preserve their conjectural status, so that even if the 'generally accepted opinion' has changed, it may be still important to know what a respected paleographer who produced a catalogue thought about a manuscript. Because of this we chose a middle way with our electronic catalogue: it will function as a finding aid (with updatable entries for each manuscript containing searchable descriptions), but we will also provide links to scanned page images of existing major printed catalogues, whose integrity we would like to keep, and whose authority we believe will not be entirely superseded by updating. Scholars will be able to read them on-line (or more likely print out and read) and quote exactly even after the electronic searchable catalogue will become our 'official catalogue' with most uptodate information. Electronic format offers numerous advantages of course: the information can be quickly searched and reused, it can be illustrated (without having to worry about space) and linked to other resources. I believe more discussion is necessary of how catalogues can be best presented in electronic form. I was employed by the Bodleian in early May this year to supervise this project. My background is in medieval literature, particularly Chaucer, linguistics and textual criticism. I worked on several projects which involved the use of computers for textual and manuscript research. [...] Best wishes, Elizabeth Dr. Elizabeth Solopova Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian Library Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG Tel.: +44 (0)1865-277073 E-mail: es@bodley.ox.ac.uk Internet: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/ From: Dominik Wujastyk Subject: manuscript catalogues and on-line databases Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:38:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 251 (251) I am most interested by all your comments and observations. The issue of authority and its relationship to conjecture is of course vital, and you are right to raise it. The typical OPAC for printed materials provides no mechanism for either of these scholarly attributes. But for the working scholar they are vital. Another point one might raise is the issue of globalization. It is fine for us, sitting in our industrialized democracies, at tables with high-bandwidth data links, to talk about easy access, interesting links, and so forth. However, the vast majority of people, including the vast majority of scholars, do not have easy access to these highly-developed electronic tools. Print is long-established, cheap, portable, and durable. It can reach the scholar in a provincial town in India, China, or South America. Or even in Malta, Sicily, Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, Slovakia, etc. etc. I think that there may be some arguments about technology and epistemological neo-colonialism or implicit disenfranchisement that are relevant here. We should think very carefully about the ability of our audiences to access our finding aids and cataloguing information. This has always been an issue, of course. The card index was a severe handicap to scholars who could not travel easily to the library. "Publication" is, in a very real sense, an act of making public, and publication in print is unparalleled as a means of reaching a wide audience who may not have access to wealth or technology. Best, Dominik PS, may I forward your last message to HUMANIST? I'm sure others would be interested. From: Ambrogio M. Piazzoni Subject: manuscript catalogues and on-line databases Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:39:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 252 (252) Dear Mr. Wujastyk, Thank you for the Humanist Discussion Group email message requesting input regarding manuscript catalogues and on-line databases. In response to your questions, I would like to underline four points: 1. The electronic systems that give content to (make up the content of) the OPACs are optimal in their function of providing "access" to information,= =20 and an "electronic index" is much better than a printed index. [That is,=20 assuming that the electronic index is well done, that the authority file is= =20 will checked, that cross references exist; otherwise it is easier to find= =20 Augustinus even if I'm looking for Augustine or Agostino flipping through a= =20 printed index] 2. The printed catalogues usually offer more information on a specific manuscript and are, above all, much more convenient for finding information on an entire collection. To read an entire catalogue of manuscripts may be a good opportunity to broaden our minds. 3. Looking to have the advantage of both systems, the Vatican Library made the "political" decision to continue to publish the manuscript catalogues= =20 in printed books (both in detailed catalogue form, and in summary catalogue form) and soon we will begin to put the primary data (author, title, dates, origins, codicologic information, etc.) into electronic form (which will=20 then become available on OPAC) using the DTD worked out by TEI - Working Group for the description of manuscripts. 4. In conclusion, and for the sake of offering the best possible service to scholars we would like to: =B7 Publish new catalogues in printed form; and =B7 Publish "legacy data"(from previous printed catalogues, or card=20 catalogues, or indexes or other sources) in electronic form (OPAC). Thank you for inquiring. With warm regards, Ambrogio M. Piazzoni Ambrogio M. Piazzoni Vice Prefetto Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana V-00120 Citta' del Vaticano tel: +39 06.698.79441 fax: +39 06.698.85327 net: piazzoni@vatlib.it From: "David Weiss" Subject: relation of Art to Mind Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:30:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 253 (253) Symmetry, Causality, Mind The extraordinary book Symmetry, Causality, Mind by Michael Leyton (MIT Press) is now available in paperback. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. He elaborates a system of rules by which the conversion to memory takes place and presents a number of lengthy studies of paintings to support these rules. You can find out more about this remarkable book at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton/SCM.htm David Weiss From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- July 2001 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:29:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 254 (254) CIT INFOBITS July 2001 No. 37 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. ....................................................................... Campus Information Technology Practices and Solutions Database Preparation for Implementing Web-Based Curricula Visible Knowledge Project New Journal on Electronic Publishing in Academe New Journal on Information and Computer Sciences Teaching and Learning Internet2 Update Recommended Reading [for contents see <http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/>] From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:30:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 255 (255) Information The July 1, 2001 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 approx. 1,400 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 *University of Saskatchewan Libraries *E-mail: marian.dworaczek@usask.ca *Phone: (306) 966-6016 *Fax: (306) 966-5919 *Home Page: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze From: Patrick Rourke Subject: [STOA] Suda Classics 2.3 [ou)den pro\s to\n *dio/nuson] Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:31:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 256 (256) (July 2001: Long) (Apologies for Cross Posting) Welcome to this month's entry in Suda Classics, a monthly (theoretically, anyway) message featuring some of the most interesting entries from the Suda as translated by the Suda On Line's volunteer translators. This month, we're featuring the entry on the old saying "Nothing to Do with Dionysos," omicron 806, as translated by Tony Natoli. Tony has provided a very extensive set of annotations, as you will see below. As of this morning, 8,108 of the Suda's ~32,000 entries have been assigned to volunteer translators; 6,968 of these have been translated, and 3,489 of those have been vetted at least once by a volunteer editor. Things are definitely coming along: but we've love to have new translators and editors volunteer to help and accelerate the pace. As you plan your graduate courses for next year, we would like to ask you to consider incorporating the Suda On Line into your course work. Just have your students volunteer as translators and request assignments; you can then grade their work by looking up their drafts in the SOL database. If you're interested, please contact Elizabeth Vandiver at ev23@umail.umd.edu, Bill Hutton at wehutt@wm.edu, Ross Scaife at scaife@pop.uky.edu, or the SOL Managing Committee as a whole at sudatores@lsv.uky.edu . Our future classics feature will return next month. If you'd like to volunteer, please go to the SOL website at http://www.stoa.org/sol/ Without further ado, here's Suda Omicron 806 (Adler), *ou)den pro\s to\n *dio/nuson, translated by Tony Natoli. Note that this is a DRAFT entry. If you notice any problems, please notify the translator or volunteer as an editor and vet it yourself! If you'd like to see it *in situ*, go to the SOL website and search the Headword for Nothing to do with Dionysus or search the Adler number for omicron,806. The hyperlinks at the bottom will wrap and so will not work if you click them; they are included only for completeness's sake. This entry will appear from the "Classics" link at the SOL beginning some time in the next few days. [quote] Headword: *ou)de\n pro\s to\n *dio/nuson Adler number: omicron,806 Translated headword: Nothing to do with Dionysus Vetting Status: draft Translation: Certain people exclaimed this after Epigenes of Sicyon[1] had composed a tragedy in honour of Dionysus; hence the saying. But the following [is] better. Formerly, when writing in honour of Dionysus they competed with these [compositions], which also used to be called satyrika.[2] But later on, having progressed to writing tragedies, they turned gradually to myths and historical subjects, no longer with Dionysus in mind.[3] Hence they also exclaimed this. And Chamaileon[4] in On Thespis relates similar things. Theaitetos,[5] however, in On Sayings says that the painter Parrhasius[6] when competing at Corinth painted the most beautiful Dionysus. Those who viewed both the works of his competitors, which he left far behind, and the Dionysus of Parrhasius exclaimed: What have they to do with Dionysus? [It is an adage] applied to those who speak foolishly, not saying what is appropriate in the circumstances.[7] And again: he said Koroibos[8] was a clever Odysseus[9], even though he provides no instance to substantiate this.[10] You are leading the dog to the manger and to Dionysus you bring nothing.[11] Notes: [1] R.A.S.Seaford, Epigenes in OCD 3rd ed. pp. 534-535. For Epigenes as the first writer of tragedies see Suda theta 282, s.v. Thespis. Herodotus [5.67.5] mentioned choruses performed at Sicyon in honour of Dionysus, which were instituted by the tyrant Cleisthenes. See web address 1 below. [2] ta\ satyrika/ [dra/mata]. Compare ta\ falika/ at Aristotle, Poetics 1449a. See web address 2 below. [3] The distinction, albeit somewhat blurred, is between plots involving mythical or legendary subjects and those based on historical subjects such as Aeschylus Persians. Plutarch [Moralia 615a] attributed the introduction of such themes to Phrynichus and Aeschylus, and in this context quoted the present saying. See also Zenobius 5.40. [4] From Heraclea Pontica (b. c.350). He was a pupil of Aristotle. See C.B.R. Pelling, Chamaeleon in OCD 3rd ed. pp. 317. [5] Not known. [6] Parrhasius of Ephesus. A well-known painter of the fifth century BCE, who also wrote works on painting. See G. Lippold, Parrasios(3), in RE 18.4, cols.1874-1880. Parrhasius painting of Dionysus is discussed in col.1874. See also T.B.L.Webster, Parrhasius, in OCD 3rd ed. p.1116. Xenophon [Memorabilia3.10.1-5] introduced Parrhasius in conversation with Socrates. See web address 3 below. Strabo [8.6.2, quoting Polybius 39.2 Paton] attributed this famous painting to Aristides of Thebes, who was active c.360 BCE. [7] Up to this point the text of the Suda reflects largely what is found in Photius s.v. ou)de\n pro\s to\n Dio/nuson; cf. Zenobius 5.40 and Apostolius s.v. ou)de\n pro\s to\n Dio/nuson. [8] Koroibos was a Phrygian, the son of Mygdon and Anaximene. He arrived at Troy the day before the city fell, intending to marry Cassandra. He boasted that he would repulse the Achaeans but was himself killed by Neoptolemos or Diomedes when the city fell. See Quintus of Smyrna [The fall of Troy13.168-177, who calls him nh/pios; Pausanias 10.27.1. He had a reputation for stupidity and it was said of him that he would count the waves of the sea, hence the proverbial expression "more stupid than Koroibos". See Zenobius 4.58; Diogenian 5.56; Eitrem; Marcovich p.50. [9] This appears to be a quotation; the Suda often introduces them with the formula kai\ au)=qis. There is a contrast between Koroibos, who has a reputation for stupidity, and Odysseus, who is described as clever polu/tropos. Perhaps in English we would say, Oh yes, and Koroibos was a clever Odysseus!. This would signify that a person was talking nonsense, which is what the saying "nothing to do with Dionysus" had come to mean. [10] Literally: and yet in respect of this he does not provide an example. After polu/tropos I have punctuated with a comma rather than, as in Adler, a period. [11] The saying derives from the fable attributed to Aesop of the dog in the manger (Suda eta 187, kappa 2729). For the proverb [no. 74] see B.E. Perry, [Aesopica Urbana: U.Illinois P., 1952, pp.276, 702. See web address 4 below. For other uses of this saying see Lucian Timon 14; Palatine Anthology 12.236. There seem to me to be two separate sayings quoted here, although it is possible that they constitute a single saying. If the latter, the saying would refer to perverse behaviour, and there would be a pun on a)/gw. However, Greek would not normally use the simple conjunction kai/ to make the contrast References: Eitrem, S. Koroibos(3) in RE 11,2 col.1421. Marcovich, M. Aelian, Varia Historia 13.15, Ziva Antika 26(1976), 49-51. Nothing to do with Dionysus? : Athenian drama in its social context. J. Winkler and F. Zeitlin (eds.), Princeton U.P., 1990. Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy, 2nd ed. rev. T.B.L.Webster. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962, pp. 85, 124-126. Pohlenz, M. Das Satyrspiel und Pratinas von Phleius in Kleine Schriften Hildesheim: Olms, 1965, Bd. II, pp.473-496 [=Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Goettingen, philologisch-historische Klasse, 1927, 298-321 Associated internet addresses: [1]http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi- bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0125&layout=&loc=5.67.5 [2] http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi- bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0056%3Asection%3D1449a&.submit=Change+ now [3] http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi- bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0208%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D10%3Asection%3D1& ..submit=Change+now [4] http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/40.html Keywords: aetiology; art history; biography; comedy; definition; epic; mythology; poetry; proverbs; tragedy Translated by: Tony Natoli (tony) on 24 July 2001@18:12:26. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Rourke ptrourke@mediaone.net on behalf of the Suda On Line Managing Committee sudatores@lsv.uky.edu http://www.stoa.org/sol/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message posted using Apple Macintosh OS X Mail ------------------------------------------- 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: "Jean G Anderson" Subject: Job advert, Glasgow, SCOTS project Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:30:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 257 (257) UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE and STELLA PROJECT (in conjunction with the HCRC LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY GROUP, DIVISION OF INFORMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH) 17,278 - 19,293 per annum REF 374/01 The post of Computing Officer is available on an EPSRC- funded project to create a Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS). Applicants should have experience of Unix systems and Web design. Experience of some of the following is desirable: Web server management (e.g. Apache, Cocoon), database/ textbase/ corpus administration, markup languages (e.g. SGML, XML, XSLT), sound digitization and Web interface scripting. For further details, see http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/SCOTS/ Closing date: 17 August 2001. ____________________________________________ Jean Anderson STELLA, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/ http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ From: vogel@wilde.cs.tcd.ie Subject: funding ad for humanist readers Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:31:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 258 (258) Research Funding in Computational Linguistics: Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships in Computing and Language (French or German) The Centre for Computing and Language Studies, at Trinity College, University of Dublin, is pleased to announce the availability of two postgraduate teaching fellowships funded by The Senior Lecturer's Broad Curriculum Initiative. The two three-year positions are open to senior postgraduate research students who will contribute to small group teaching within the Moderatorship in Computer Science, Linguistics and a Language, while pursuing research towards a Ph.D. Therefore, candidates must be of an excellent standard in either French or German, and in computing. Applications from qualified native (and near-native) French and German speakers with an excellent standard of English are quite welcome. Specifically, the postgraduate teaching fellows will contribute to a first year undergraduate module which is an introduction to programming through the programming language, JAVA. This is one strand of the first year computing component of the degree. Within small group settings, second (natural) language skills will be developed at the same time as programming concepts and techniques. The research field is open; however, it should fall within computational linguistics, broadly construed, and within the interests of potential supervisors within Trinity College. It is also possible for suitably qualified candidates to assume one of the positions as a part-time Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow. Similar constraints on research area apply. For an overview of the undergraduate degree involved, use the following URL: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/courses/csll Candidates Applicants for the Postgraduate Teaching Fellowships should either already be enrolled as postgraduate students at Trinity College, University of Dublin, or should provide evidence of a Master's degree in an appropriate discipline and should file an application for supervised postgraduate study at Trinity College via the Graduate Studies Office by August 10, 2001. Refer to the College web pages (http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/index.html) for information on how to apply for postgraduate study. Conditions of Studentships As part of their training in pedagogy, successful applicants will engage in a maximum of six hours per week of undergraduate small group teaching, during teaching terms. The studentship ceases to be tenable when the recipient ceases to be a registered postgraduate student. In the event of this happening, the studentship may be converted to a part-time Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship. Award Period The award period is for a maximum of 3 years. Value of Studentship The value of the Postgraduate Teaching Studentship will be a stipend of 18,000 euros per annum, rising by 1,000 euros per annum in each subsequent year, plus fee remission at the level of EU postgraduate student rate. The difference in fees from EU rates for non-EU candidates will not be supplemented. The stipend is not subject to payroll taxes. Value of (Part-Time) Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship The holder of a part-time Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship will be remunerated at the level of 16,071 euros per annum, rising by 894 euros per annum, and will be subject to income tax and PRSI. Application Process Full consideration for applications to the Postgraduate Teaching Fellowships (or part-time Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship) can be guaranteed only for those applications which arrive by August 24, 2001. Applications for the Fellowships should consist of the following: 0) A research proposal with a nominated supervisor in TCD 1) A curriculum vitae 2) Report of academic progress to date 3) Evidence of expertise in JAVA programming 4) Evidence of fluency in French or German 5) Documentation of teaching experience 6) Details, particularly email addresses, of nominated referees (or, preferably, directly sent letters of reference) Applications should be posted to: Carl Vogel Centre for Computing and Language Studies University of Dublin Trinity College Dublin 2 Informal inquiries can be made via email to vogel@tcd.ie; please do not send attachments. From: Willard McCarty Subject: after the (Australian) wine Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:32:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 259 (259) In a posting to Humanist 15.138 Francois Lachance asked for a report on the symposium at the University of Newcastle, NSW (Australia), "A Practicable Future for Computing in the Humanities: An International Symposium", <http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/lc/symposium/>. He wanted to know, "after the wine", if one of us would enlarge in particular on Allen Renear's talk. I am happy to report that the wine (officially tasted on a scheduled tour of wineries in the Hunter Valley), as some of you will have the experience to suspect, was very good indeed. So, of course, was Allen's talk, but I will leave the reporting on it to him. This note is rather about the format of the Symposium and, following on from it, about related activities in Australia I was fortunate enough to encounter. Allow me then to comment on these things before domestic cares attenuate the afterglow of sustained exposure to humanities computing (and the humanists who engage in our work) in New South Wales and elsewhere Down Under. There were in brief two sessions per day for three days, in each session (except for a special one Tuesday morning, which featured two presentations) one lecture of 30-40 minutes followed by about 90 minutes of discussion. The wise generosity of time allotted to discussion meant in the end that the lectures could function as provocation to deeper and more widely ranging debate -- not as statements to which there is no time to respond. If only all symposia and conferences were thus! I realised afterwards what I had been missing at conferences for so long -- the chance to engage with attendees not just over dinner etc but also in the less distracting environment of a session. Unfortunately I was not able to get down to Melbourne and so had no opportunity to see at first hand the activities at RMIT, esp in hypertext <http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/>, and at the University of Melbourne, esp in multimedia <http://www.meu.unimelb.edu.au/>. Thanks to an invitation from Greg Dening I was able to visit the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University in Canberra <http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/>, where I was shown the almost completed CD for People of the Rivermouth, a project of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia <http://assa.edu.au/projects_peopleriverhtml.htm>. Rivermouth is exemplary for the application of multimedia technology to major ethnographic work on a rich, complex and very old culture of which few of us have any idea. While in Canberra I was also able to visit the National Gallery of Australia, which has produced a multimedia document on a very moving installation at the Gallery, The Aboriginal Memorial, for which see <http://www.nga.gov.au/> (Collections --> Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art --> The Aboriginal Memorial, best viewed with IE). Through lack of coordination on my part I did not get to visit the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre <http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/> at ADFA in Canberra, though the Director of the Centre, Paul Eggert, attended the Symposium in Newcastle. On the work of the Centre, see in particular the Just In Time Markup (JITM) scheme <http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/aueledns.html>, developed by a research team including Graham Barwell (Wallongong), who also was at the Symposium. Further notes on humanities computing work in Australia would be most welcome. Omissions indicate nothing more than the limited scope of my experience. And, in case anyone is wondering, allow me to reassure you that those of us fortunate to arrive before the Symposium began and to remain Down Under afterwards tasted various wines on several other occasions as well. 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: ISPs for the traveller? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:45:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 260 (260) I would greatly appreciate recommendations for cost-effective ISPs who provide a good coverage of local numbers world-wide and a minimum of frills. All I need is the connection, not yet another e-mail account and megabytes of Web space. I intend to use a Palm Vx with a Palm modem for basic e-mail and minimal Web browsing, so high-speed connections are not important. A service that did not demand a subscription, and so a monthly charge, would be best. 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: Susan Schreibman Subject: conference announcement Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:44:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 261 (261) Conference Announcement: Rescheduling of Wiring Memory: Cultural Heritage On-line 13-14 September 2001 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Sponsored by University College Dublin Council of National Cultural Institutions The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaon 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 Peter Flynn, Lee Ellen Friedland, John McDonough and George MacKenzie. In addition, seminars will provide delegates with overviews to four areas critical to successful digitisation of archives: text imaging, databases, and metainformation. 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. For further colloquium details, including registration, please see http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei/wiring.html From: "Jennifer Vinopal" Subject: NINCH Copyright Town Meeting in NYC Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 06:07:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 262 (262) NINCH Copyright Town Meeting: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND MULTIMEDIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE September 24, 2001 The New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. * This all day meeting brings together national experts in the field and practitioners working in a variety of settings to examine the practical implications of Intellectual Property issues. * Two keynote speakers, Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) and Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will explore a number of themes related to non-profit cultural institutions as Intellectual Property users and owners. Each will moderate a panel to hear additional reports from six speakers. * Q&A and an Open Forum are scheduled to allow time for audience participation in addressing broad issues and specific problems. * Seating is limited and early registration is advised. * Please see www.nypl.org/copyright for a fuller description, speaker biographies, and a registration form. * Sponsored by NINCH (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) as part of its year-long Copyright Town Meetings, The Frick Museum, The New York Public Library, New York University Libraries and New York University Information Technology Services. ========================================================== Jennifer Vinopal / jennifer.vinopal@nyu.edu ~ Librarian for French & Italian Language and Literature ~ Coordinator, Studio for Digital Projects and Research http://www.nyu.edu/studio/ Bobst Library, New York University v: 212.998.2522 f: 212.995.4583 ========================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: ISPs for the traveller? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:45:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 263 (263) I would greatly appreciate recommendations for cost-effective ISPs who provide a good coverage of local numbers world-wide and a minimum of frills. All I need is the connection, not yet another e-mail account and megabytes of Web space. I intend to use a Palm Vx with a Palm modem for basic e-mail and minimal Web browsing, so high-speed connections are not important. A service that did not demand a subscription, and so a monthly charge, would be best. 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: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Manager, Digital Publishing Group, U. of California, Berkeley Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 06:06:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 264 (264) The Library of the University of California, Berkeley, is searching for a Manager for the newly created Digital Publishing Group. Although review of applications is scheduled to start 1 August 2001, applications received within a week or so after that date will be considered in the first round. Manager, Digital Publishing Group, the UC Berkeley Library Job First Posted: 7/18/2001 Job Listing Number: 07-934-30 Job Title: Computing Resource Manager II-UCB (Manager, Digital Publishing Group) Department: LIBRARY - Library Systems Office Salary: $63,800.00 - $114,800.00 per year Application Closing Date: Until Filled, Review Begins: 8/1/2001 The Digital Publishing Group (DPG) has the primary responsibility for building the Berkeley Library's digital collections, primarily through the digitization of the Library's analog collection, but increasingly by working with materials "born digital." The DPG supports digital library activities by providing managerial and technical analysis for projects that add content to our digital library. Performing this responsibility requires a number of technical skills: a) understanding library metadata, including catalog records, archival collection descriptions and metadata embedded inside digital objects (i.e., technical, administrative, preservation, descriptive and structural metadata); b) developing processes to encode metadata and digital content using SGML, XML DTDs, XML schemas, etc; c) developing local or evaluating commercial software solutions to create digital materials to these metadata and encoding specifications; and d) implementing and maintaining digital materials in library public and staff access systems. In addition to possessing these technical skills, the Manager is directly responsible for managing all digital publishing projects, including working with subject specialists in designing workflows, schedules, budgets and evaluations for these projects. The Manager is also an integral participant in the Library's pursuit of extramural funding for relevant research and demonstration projects, and will work with a number of Library, campus, and UC organizations engaged in related projects and activities. Responsibilities: The successful candidate for this position will supervise three programmer/analysts and three electronic publishing assistants who are engaged in developing and implementing SGML/XML-based metadata standards; selecting appropriate SGML/XML DTD's and schemas for project use; designing, testing, and refining SGML/XML DTD's and schemas when appropriate; providing related data analysis; designing and implementing support software, including software for converting legacy data to SGML/XML-encoded formats; and training and advising project managers and staff. In addition, he or she will provide leadership in developing and managing publishing projects that convert materials to digital formats; create new "born digital" materials; assist in identifying and obtaining extramural support for such projects; and organize and perform research on new information technologies and technology standards. Required Qualifications: Working knowledge of SGML/XML, including DTD's and schemas, XSL and XSLT. Demonstrated experience as a project manager and supervisor, including project design, budgeting, workflow and scheduling. Experience working with some or all of the following tools and environments: HTML, scripting languages (e.g., Perl, JavaScript), Java, TEI-Lite, database management systems (relational and object oriented), Unix and Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to work with various levels of library staff; manage multiple projects/deadlines Preferred Qualifications: Experience with library metadata systems, archival description standards and digital library trends and technologies; experience in delivering and/or providing access to non-English language documents and numeric data sets in digital formats Please send a Curriculum Vitae with a cover letter to: University of California, Berkeley Employment Services 7G University Hall # 3542 Berkeley, CA 94720-3542 In the cover letter, be sure to cite the specific job title and job listing number: Job Title: Computing Resource Manager II-UCB (Manager, Digital Publishing Group) Job Listing Number: 07-934-30 Applications may be made by e-mail to: applyucb@uclink.berkeley.edu (for further details on e-mail application see: http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/JOBS/jobmail.htm) For further information about the position, contact Bernie Hurley (bhurley@library.berkeley.edu) Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "Nigel Williamson" Subject: Job Advert Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 06:07:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 265 (265) Apologies for cross posting. THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Humanities Research Institute www.shef.ac.uk/~hri TECHNICAL OFFICER Applications are invited from graduates for this post to strengthen the technical infrastructure of this flourishing and exciting Research Institute. The HRI won the Queens Anniversary Prize in 1998 for its innovative and imaginative approach to humanities research and currently supports projects with an overall budget of over 2m. The appointee will assist advanced humanities research projects in their costing, design and delivery and be responsible to the Executive Director of the Institute for interface design work and the establishment of a new humanities on-line press. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a familiarity with HTML, SGML, XML or Javascript and a flair for their use in novel humanities research environments. Preference may be given to graduates with a background in the humanities. The post is tenable from 1 October 2001 and is for one year in the first instance, but with a strong possibility of renewal. Salary: 19,482-27,222 [Academic: Non-clinical academic: computer: grade 2] Closing Date for Applications: 31 August 2001 Ref: RW2394 Yours Nigel Williamson ******************************************* Nigel Williamson Arts and Humanities Liaison Officer Corporate Information & Computing Services, Computer Centre, Hounsfield Road, University of Sheffield, Sheffield. S10 2TN Tel: 0114 222 3099 Fax 0114 222 3130 From: "Max Kaiser" Subject: LEAF User Survey Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 06:13:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 266 (266) *Apologies for cross-posting* [LEAF is a three year project, started in March 2001, co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies Programme and is developing a model architecture for a distributed search system harvesting existing name authority information aiming at automatically establishing a user needs based common name authority file in a specific sector highly relevant to the cultural heritage of Europe.] At present the LEAF project (Linking And Exploring Authority Files, http://www.leaf-eu.org/) is undertaking a status quo analysis regarding Authority Information about person names and corporate bodies. With an online questionnaire we would like to find out what the specific interests of our anticipated user communities are. What kind of information do you expect to get from LEAF? What services would you like to receive? We are very much interested in finding out in which ways other institutions (libraries, archives and museums) are dealing with name authority files. Your specifications are important to us! If you want to find out more about LEAF, please have a look at the LEAF website. You will help us a lot by filling out the online questionnaire which you can access at: http://www.crxnet.com/leaf/survey/english/page1.php (English Version) http://www.crxnet.com/leaf/survey/french/page1.php (French Version) http://www.crxnet.com/leaf/survey/german/page1.php (German Version) http://www.crxnet.com/leaf/survey/spanish/page1.php (Spanish Version) The LEAF Consortium Project co-ordinator: mailto:co-ordinator@sbb.spk-berlin.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Max Kaiser Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek - Oesterreichisches Literaturarchiv Austrian National Library - Austrian Literary Archives Josefsplatz 1, A-1015 Wien T +43-1-53410/370 F +43-1-53410/340 max.kaiser@onb.ac.at www.onb.ac.at www.leaf-eu.org From: Michael Fraser Subject: TEI Guidelines, version 4: review draft released Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:05:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 267 (267) REVIEW DRAFT OF TEI GUIDELINES RELEASED Oxford, 1 August 2001 The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) today announced release of the official review draft of version 4 of Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. The third edition, known as "P3", has been heavily used since its released in April of 1994 for developing richly encoded and highly portable electronic editions of major works in philosophy, linguistics, history, literary studies, and many other disciplines. The fourth edition, "P4" will be fully compatible with XML, as well as remaining compatible with SGML (XML's predecessor and the syntactic basis for P3). XML-compatible versions of the TEI DTDs have been available for some time by means of an automatic generation process using the TEI "pizza chef" on the project's website at http://www.tei-c.org/pizza.html. The first stage in the production of P4 has been to remove the need for this process; accordingly, a preliminary set of dual-capability XML or SGML DTDs was made available for testing at the ACH-ALLC Conference in New York in June (now available from http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD/). The next stage was to apply a series of systematic changes to the associated documentation, which is now complete: the results may be read at http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/index.html (HTML) or http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/reviewdraft.pdf (PDF) Over the summer, it is planned to carry out a complete review of this text, aiming to treat XML equally with SGML throughout. Detailed work is required to revise the treatment of character sets and writing systems, as well as in rewriting the chapter "A Gentle Introduction to SGML", and is already underway. The TEI Consortium solicits assistance in the review of all other parts of the new draft. For information on how you can participate in this review, please go to http://www.tei-c.org/TEI/P4X/Status/ Comments are due to the editors by mid-September, and it is hoped to complete the first publication of the new draft in time for the first TEI Members Meeting scheduled for November of this year. The TEI Consortium is a non-profit membership organisation, set up to maintain and develop the TEI Guidelines. The TEI Guidelines are an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent. The Consortium has executive offices in Bergen, Norway, and hosts at the University of Bergen, Brown University, Oxford University, and the University of Virginia, with Lou Burnard (of Oxford) as European editor, and Steve DeRose (of Brown) as North American Editor. More information is available from info@tei-c.org, or TEI Executive Office, The HIT Centre, Allagaten 27, N-5007 Bergen, Norway, telephone +47 55 58 29 54. http://www.tei-c.org/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.095 what computing humanists need to know, cont. Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:05:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 268 (268) Willard, I do believe that the thread on the development of a humanities computing curriculum was spinning toward what you have called the "shopping-list stage". I was wondering if the survey-course you propose become the core of the curriculum could be fashioned along a research course into the history of humanities computing and related disciplines. I know you suggested that although they may not aim to publish in _Mind_, students be exposed to the great philisophical questions raised by the practice and theory of humanities computing. Might not such a course be constructed out og research assignments such field work in the anthropological genre of the the interview with key figures of humanities computing or archival work in combing the working papers of committees and projects? For example, _Monist_ sponsored some interesting discussions in the mind 1990s and this bit of the historical record deserves to be read agains other bits. This is of course a plea for learning by observation to be valued as much as learning by doing. It is with a certain measure of irony that such a plea is able to call upon the behaviourist B.F. Skinner: There is no reason why methods of discovery must be taught by the discovery method. Learning the techniques of others does not interfere with the discovery of techniques of one's own. One the contrary, the artist who has acquired a variety of techniques from his [sic] predecessors is in the best possible position to make truly original discoveries. from "Creating the Creative Artist" in _On the Future of Art_ New York: Viking Press, 1970 p. 68 In a paraphrase of Edward Fitzgerald's adaptation of Omar Khayam, humanities computing students (and teachers) need a project, a thread and a forum. the project like the loaf of bread is a daily bit of sustenance the jug of wine like the thread leads one out of oneself and the forum and the friend remind us when to bake again and tend to the vine -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 15.150 ISPs for the traveller Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:03:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 269 (269) Willard, Back in the winter 1999-2000 a fellow by the name of Gideon Greenspan wrote a two-part article titled "Working Off the Beaten Track" for TidBITS. It may contain some relevant information for you. ===== Gary W. Shawver gary_shawver@yahoo.com [The paper to which Gary refers is at <http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05686>; Greenspan recommends the Global Roaming service of Atlas Internet Corporate Solutions <http://www.atlas.net.uk/>, based in north London. My enquiry is prompted by recent acquisition of a Palm Vx, which with the attachable modem offers a quite practical on-the-road solution. The Palm, allow me to say, has become my constant companion and, because of weight and size, has me looking on my Sony VAIO (1.3 kg) as my BIG machine that I am at last willing to admit isn't nearly light enough for comfortable travelling. The most significant change that the Palm has brought about, however, is in its role as a note-taking device. For years I have been taking notes on 3x5 slips -- on the tube, on busses, wherever I happen to be with time on my hands. (How else is a scholar to get any reading done these days?) These notes must be exceedingly brief, which has often meant I have had to go back to the book to figure out what I intended, and when taken on jiggly modes of transportation, often illegible -- AND not in electronic form, so requiring an additional transcription phase. No longer. The fold-out keyboard, surely one of the great pieces of engineering, allows me to work close to normally when I have a flat surface, which because of size includes the fold-down trays of economy seats on aircraft. This is not meant to be an advert for the Palm in particular, though I am mightily pleased with it in particular. There are, as many will know, several options. Would anyone care to comment on these? Yours, WM] From: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:04:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 270 (270) TAKING LICENSE The authors who contributed to this issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing wisely recognize that the world has changed, and they examine what some of those changes mean. So here is the August 2001 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing -- the first issue of our first three-times-a-year volume -- for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/ Declaring Independence: Returning Scientific Publishing to Scientists http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/buckholtz.html Alison Buckholtz has been involved with SPARC's "Declaring Independence" project from the beginning, and in her article she shares with us the reason this library organization researched and published a manifesto for scientists who are tired of rising journal prices -- and the reaction to that manifesto in the scientific and publishing communities. The Impact of the Internet on Teaching and Practicing Journalism http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/al-hawamdeh.html Joanne Teoh Khen Yau and Suliman Al-Hawamdeh, who teach journalism in Singapore, look at the influence the Internet has had on print and electronic journalism, and the effect those changes have had on the teaching of journalism. Copyright Endurance and Change http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/harper.html Georgia K. Harper, who is a manager of intellectual property for the University of Texas system, has turned her Copyright Crash Course into a primer on copyright. You'll definitely want to bookmark this article. The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html Michael K. Bergman, whose BrightPlanet company offers a new approach to search engines, examines the wealth of information that is available only on dynamically created Web sites, those that don't exist except as relational databases until someone seeks information from them. As more sites adopt the dynamic approach to pages, they are creating a challenge for standard search engines. This article looks at some alternatives. The More Things Change . . . http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/benson.html Philippa Benson reflects on how this new digital age is really pretty much like previous times -- only moreso. Q.A.: How About a Little Privacy? http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/lieb0701.html Contributing editor Thom Lieb notes that in trying to find out enough about their readers to gear their sites to them, Web publishers may be alienating the very people they are trying to reach. While there are no national or international standards of Internet privacy, there are some commonly accepted elements of a privacy policy: notice, choice, security, and access. Publishers concerned about reassuring readers about Internet privacy will find much to think about in this article. Editor's Gloss: Taking License http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/glos0701.html This new technology has created unanticipated issues that cause us anxiety. And if you want to share your thoughts about these and other JEP articles electronic publishing to count, contribute to 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 You got this message because you signed up to receive notices of JEP issues. You will continue to receive messages quarterly with each new issue. If you do not want to receive further notices, please contact jep-info@umich.edu. If your e-mail system returns an error message, your name will be expunged from the list without further notice." From: Miller, Leo [mailto:leo.miller@YORK.EDU] Subject: The Digitization of Primary Textual Sources Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:54:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 271 (271) Sent: 02 August 2001 22:46 To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA Can someone help to find a copy of this book or 'booklet", "The Digitization of Primary Textual Sources" by Peter Robinson (ISBN 1 897791 05 4) published by the "Office for Humanities Communication". It was first published in August 1993. For the Oxford University Computing Services, UK. Thank you in advance. Leo Miller leo.miller@york.edu "The first key to wisdom, is assiduous and frequent questioning... For by doubting we come to inquiry and by inquiry we arrive at truth." from the age of intellectual revolution....Peter Abelard (1079-1142) [The book in question is published by the Office of Humanities Communication, which has moved to King's College London. See <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/> for details. There are in fact some copies of the book still available, so it can be successfully ordered. Current plans are not to reprint it. --WM] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: the art of electro-shredding Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:55:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 272 (272) Willard, Back to those 3 x 5 slips... whether it's a Palm-held or Laptop machine would the conditions imposed by the past brevity be emmulated by the future volume. I do think that the "going back to the book [source]" is a useful part of sifting and sorting and making artful use of the "forgetting" part of the art of memory. And there is of course no guarantee that the size of the hardware would make the note taking any more or less part of the to and fro between source and annotation. It does make the sharing of the experience even intimate if not more portable. Does make for a very interesting gloss on the activity of "reading a palm". Leads me to ask how many wired classrooms can accommodate docking by palm held devices. And to suggest that in talking with deans, presidents and such-like decision makers that infrared may be the way to go to "connect" the spaces of research and pedagogy. Anyone done a cost analysis? And the best scholars can carry on when the lights go out... -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Image Copyright Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 08:02:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 273 (273) [deleted quotation] Dear colleagues, I wonder if anyone has looked at the implications for us of the copyright case brought by the Bridgeman Art Library against Corel in 1998, and decided against Bridgeman in 1999? The effect of this case seems to be that from now on there is no copyright in medieval manuscript images of any kind (digital, printed, etc.). For example, I could take the images of the Ellesmere color facsimile and digitize them and publish them anywhere I like, and no one could stop me. Corel had used images of paintings in the BAL, and the BAL sued. There was a first ruling in which the judge said that under United States law photographs which represent faithfully a two-dimensional object cannot be subject to copyright because they lack artistic or creative elements. Moreover, in the appeal the court was asked to consider the state of British law, on the grounds (apparently) that the objects might be copyrightable under British law. The court rejected this argument too: it was of the opinion that copyright law in Britain as well as the US would also not protect these images. You can read about the case at http://lawschool.stanford.edu/faculty/merryman/law236/bridgman.html I would really appreciate your opinions on this issue. It seems to me that this ruling has the potential to change completely the state of play between scholars who want to use manuscript images, publishers who want to distribute them, and the librarians who hold the manuscripts. BB From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA news 1/2 Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 08:01:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 274 (274) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************* We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: ELRA S0111 Logotypografia database - Eleftherotypia Journal speech=20 database ELRA S0112 Persian speech database Farsdat ELRA W0027 An-Nahar Newspaper text corpus A description of each database is given below: ELRA S0111 Logotypografia database - Eleftherotypia Journal speech=20 database The Eleftherotypia Journal speech database consists of Greek read material. It includes the recordings of 120 speakers, male and female, for about 72 hours of speech material. ELRA S0112 Persian speech database - Farsdat The Persian Speech Database comprises the recordings of 300 native speakers, from 10 different dialect regions of Iran. 6000 utterances were segmented and labelled, including 386 phonetically balanced sentences. ELRA W0027 An-Nahar Newspaper text corpus The An-Nahar Newspaper Text Corpus comprises articles in Arabic (Lebanon) from 1995 to 2000 (6 years) stored as HTML files on CDRom media. Each year contains 45 000 articles and 24 million words. For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France T=E9l. : +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli@elda.fr or consult our catalogue at the following address: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA news 2/2 Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 08:01:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 275 (275) [deleted quotation] *************************************************************** ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News *************************************************************** We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: ELRA S0034 Verbmobil (new resources added) A description of each database is given below: VM CD 16.1 - VM16.1 (1 CDROM, new edition) Verbmobil II - Japanese, 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 3311 turns. VM CD 17.1 - VM17.1 (1 CDROM, new edition) Verbmobil II - Japanese, 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 2741 turns. VM CD 18.1 - VM18.1 (1 CDROM, new edition) Japanese, 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 2345 turns. VM CD 19.1 - VM19.1 (1 CDROM, new edition) Japanese, 200 dialogues, 200 appointment schedulings - 2911 turns. Verbmobil - VM CD 48.1 - VM48.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - German, 28 spontaneous dialogues (28 close mic, 28 room mic, 27 phone line (GSM) recordings), 4516 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM CD 49.1 - VM49.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - German, 24 spontaneous dialogues (24 close mic, 12 room mic, 12 phone line (GSM) recordings), 2597 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM CD 50.1 - VM50.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - American-English, 8 spontaneous dialogues (8 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings), 679 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM CD 44.1 - VM44.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - Japanese, 19 spontaneous dialogues (19 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings), 920 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM CD 45.1 - VM45.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - Japanese, 21 spontaneous dialogues (21 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings), 1293 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM CD 46.1 - VM46.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - Multilingual Japanese/German, 11 spontaneous dialogues (11 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings), 607 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM CD 47.1 - VM47.1 (BAS edition) Verbmobil II - Multilingual with human interpreter (3 channels) English/German, 18 spontaneous dialogues (18 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings), 902 turns, transliteration (Verbmobil II Format). Verbmobil - VM Bonus CD - VMBONUS (BAS edition) Additional data and documentation that is not included in the regular VM volumes. Verbmobil - VM Lexicon database - VMLEX (BAS edition) Verbmobil lexicon database of the University of Bielefeld. For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France T=E9l. : +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli@elda.fr or consult our catalogue at the following address: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr From: Willard McCarty Subject: annotation Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 08:00:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 276 (276) Francois Lachance, in Humanist 15.158, becomes both serious and playful with my comments on use of the Palm hand-held machine for note-taking. He wonders first, if I read him correctly, what happens once the brevity imposed by pen-and-3x5card note-taking is no longer necessary. I have wondered about that too, as I have noticed myself transcribing the author's words on the Palm rather than summarising them as I once had to, especially the case when I am able to use the fold-out keyboard. A gain or a loss? I'd say a difference for sure, a new set of conditions to adapt to. The only reliable test I know in the short-term is the "don't-look-back" test, which in practice seems a difficult one for new gizmos to pass. (No, this has nothing to do with Lot's wife nor the Bobby Dylan song....) The electronic OED passed it effortlessly -- I have literally not opened the covers of my printed edition since the OED on CD came into my life, except for a brief and frustrating period when some bits of my computer weren't working. Experience suggests that the Palm will pass it too. Certainly going back to the book is the mark of a good book as well as of a careful scholar. During a session of note-taking one tends to "highlight" parts of a book relating to immediate interests, and under the circumstances in which I usually take notes, varying moods and states of attention can profoundly affect what I notice while doing it. So in my more serious bouts of note-taking, I either buy the book in question or photocopy the relevant bits so that going back is as easy as possible. I have tried scanning in these bits, so that I could paste the text into the annotation field of my bibliographic manager, but as you can imagine this really is impractical. When all the techie props are unavailable, I fall back on the note-taking method I was taught during my MA year, in a research methods course that is one of the few (post)-graduate courses I can actually remember the contents of. I think this fact of memory says something about (post)-graduate training, but that's another topic. Although I have great respect for handwritten notes, letters &c., I do find the transcribing of them from the travelling 3x5 slips to be highly problematic and frustrating. Often I am simply unable to understand the necessarily very brief note and/or why I took it -- brevity not allowing for enough explanatory gloss. Very closed behind is the frustration of trying to find the noted text on the page when the note shares no obvious words with it. The liberty to transcribe a bit means that a few ipsissima verba can be put down to aid the finding. Then, too, bouncy vehicles mess up handwriting; the Palm mechanism filters out most unwanted jiggs and joggs. The difficulty of transcribing into the computer in fact means that it usually doesn't happen, so my notes remain scattered, easily lost, very difficult to search etc. Slips also tend to fall out of the book, ending up on the floor of the tube train or wherever, and only sometimes do kind people notice and point to them. It is salutory when thinking about note-taking techniques, especially so the more obsessive one gets, to remember Eric Auerbach in Istanbul during the war, without any of his books. It can indeed be very liberating not to be compelled to furnish references, simply to say what one thinks and perhaps even knows. Public lectures are very useful in that respect. From the reader's perspective, too, notes can be annoying. Both Northrop Frye and Jaroslav Pelikan tried out various alternative devices to avoid the nagging little superscripted pointers-to-more -- though they are hardly worse than the hyperlink. Norbert Hinske, a German philosopher I met a few months ago, infamous for the number and detailed quality of his footnotes, wrote and published a little book entitled Ohne Fussnoten after he retired, he said (as I recall) to mark his liberation from all that. But to return to the notes out of which footnotes are made, or not. One of my favourite devices still is the 3x5 card, whose ease and flexibility of multiple rearrangement simply isn't to be matched in the electronic environment. If only one could have something like Powerpoint for note-taking that would produce 3x5 slips on one's printer. Note-taking software really should have the option to produce slips. Once upon a time I did some amateur interviewing as part of a project to develop note-taking software. My colleagues and I identified a number of people in the University, divided them up, interviewed each about his or her note-taking techniques. I was greatly surprised to discover the extent of variation, all the way from no note-taking whatever to the most detailed kind. So I concluded that when one talks of these things, one should not assume much common understanding of what the practice actually consists of. I suppose the fundamental question is always how to reach one's intended audience in the best way possible with the tools at hand -- or not at hand, if they would get in the way. How not to fall in love with the devices of communication, or to love the act of communication more, which does not necessarily mean giving up handy tools but can. My expressed enthusiasm for the Palm is of course contingent. I do what works for me, and this changes from one project to the next. We might find it useful and stimulating to discuss the technology of annotation, about which precious little work has been done for the kind of note-taking humanists are most familiar with. 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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 38, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 08:01:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 277 (277) Version 38 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,400 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 links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes two sections not found in the Acrobat or Word files: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (related Web sites), and (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (frequently updated list of new resources). http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 100 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 370 KB and the Word file is over 445 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* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources 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: "Jamel Ostwald" Subject: RE: 15.161 annotation Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:40:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 278 (278) I recently joined the Humanist listserv in the hope of finding just such a topic on note-taking ideas as mentioned in Humanist 15.161, and I'm glad to see I've been so quickly accommodated! Personal intro: I'm finishing up my Ph.D. in Early Modern European History at Ohio State University, and am using computers for a note-taking database, my website with an infant Early Modern Military History Website for scholarly collaboration, Minitab for my quantitative research on 17th-18th century siege warfare, AutoCAD for maps (hoping to get ArcView when I'm rich), and in the future Flash for animated maps. Over the past several years I have developed my own note-taking database (based in MS Access) and I thought I would comment on a few of the issues raised thus far, from my neophyte perspective (new both to humanities computing and the academic world). For a longer exposition of my database, its design and features, see Research at www.ostwald.hispeed.com . It falls on the "most detailed" end of the spectrum. I was never raised on notecards (although I did do 3 years of high school debate with notecards, when I could never find exactly what I needed), but from what I understand of it, a well-designed computerized database system is much better in many respects. The focus of my database thus far has been for note-taking on primary sources (original docs) rather than on secondary sources, which are a slightly different animal, but I have found my system quite flexible thus far. In fact I'm convinced that a well-designed system is much more flexible than any notecard system could ever be. -Data entry: I have 50+ volumes of published primary sources which I am slowly OCRing (an hour a day over several years...), then I have to edit the recognized text (using Abbyy's FineReader, averaging perhaps a couple errors per page) and then transfer them into Access. Editing and transferring requires the largest amount of time, but it's still much faster than trying to enter in 1000's of pages manually or the other option of summarizing documents and missing things. I'm hoping to get other like-minded scholars to submit their digitized sources on early modern European military history up on my EMWWeb website. And when we exchange sources with our colleagues, I can give them full quotes while I'm stuck with vague paraphrases. -My "research space" is either archives, rare book collections or the home/office, so I personally don't use a Palm but portability is definitely critical. My laptop allows me to use the rather large Access db I have: 17,000 records or primary documents, 6,000 secondary records slowly being transferred in from EndNote, several lookup tables with hundreds of personalities, towns, etc. The laptop allows me to consult all these wherever I am (less conveniently in mass transit it must be admitted), making all of my notes available wherever I go - conference, work, class, library, etc. -On the matter of transcribing vs. summarizing, when time allows I'd think it would always be preferable to copy docs verbatim rather than just summarize. I'm fortunate to have lots of sources already published and therefore easily OCRed; in contrast, the context from my earliest archive notes (paraphrases only) are woefully vague now that I'm trying to write up my chapters. The choice between transcribing and summarizing doesn't have to be made however, since you can easily create a field in a note-taking database where you can transcribe the source verbatim, make another field which allows you to summarize the contents of the transcription field as briefly or exhaustively as you wish, and have a third field to jot down your impressions/comments on the doc as well. Then of course you can make as many (abstract) keyword fields as you wish. -Searchability: It's almost impossible that even the best notecard system could be more flexible or powerful than a well-designed database. With my database setup, I can sort by any combination of a dozen topical/keyword fields and a couple dozen bibliographic (meta-data) fields, using wildcards, mathematical operators (<,>) and even Boolean operators when needed, with searches taking a matter of seconds. I can't imagine how you could even fit that many fields onto a 3x5 (or even 8x12) notecard, much less sort by multiple fields, not to mention doing searches for text strings within the text of documents. For example, I found all the documents (50 or so, out of 15,000) with the town "Maubeuge" anywhere in the text and sorted them by date and then author in less than 30 seconds - how in the world can you do that with notecards? -Flexibility: With a database that you can design and modify yourself (rather than most commercially packaged ones), you can also create new entry forms as the need arises - a semi-structured source type can be turned into a form of just a few fields very quickly, with lookup tables to further speed up data entry. -As for digital vs. paper, the choice is a false dichotomy, since you can always print off your digital docs as often as you want, in far more formats far more easily than recopying notecards. I've made a dozen or more reports that will search through all the records and pull all the records meeting my specific criteria and then print on paper only the fields I choose. This is simple to do if you have created the system yourself, so the toughest thing about printing off 3x5 slips of paper for me would be limiting myself to the few fields that would fit in a 3x5 area. You can also paste your transcriptions or summaries over to a Word document when you want to quote it, as well as pasting the bibliographic info into the corresponding footnote. I have multiple copies of my digital database in several various locations, including several versions at different stages of the design process, whereas the paper photocopies from the archives not yet entered in are still sitting in my filing cabinets. I need to work out a priority system in case there's a fire for my paper notes. As for the paper-wielding scholar's advantage when the lights out, unless you've got a flashlight, nobody's going to get any work done, and that's what batteries in the laptop/Palm are for - or you could always carry around a few copies of a blank form from your database printed off. At worst, an out-of-service computer means you're back at the same level as the other papyrus-users, you'll miss the machine pretty quickly! I'd appreciate any recommendations or comments anybody might have on my database, particularly if there are important features that are missing. Jamel Ostwald ostwald.1@osu.edu ostwald@copper.net www.ostwald.hispeed.com EMWWeb: A new website for scholarly collaboration in all topics on Early Modern military history, at http://www.ostwald.hispeed.com/EMWWeb/EMWebFrame.htm From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 15.161 annotation Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:41:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 279 (279) Oh, I think our culture's greatest invention is the Post-It: when I was a graduate student my supervisor made a casual comment to me about how useful they were for noting passages of interest when you're reading a book, and since then I have made sure I always have some about me. They can mark exactly what passage you wanted to note, not just the page, and there's space for a word or two on them if necessary; they don't slow down your reading much, either. A subsequent pass for transcription is necessary, of course (these things aren't good for the book if you leave them in too long), but I find that useful anyway, despite the labor involved; the brains of other people may work differently, but I find that a second pass through to think about the material and organize my thoughts is important anyway. Otherwise I just forget about it all... I'm dubious about the Palm for myself because I find that a great deal of my note-taking involves adding to existing sets of notes, rather than creating entirely independent new material; I've tried making notes about changes to make to other notes, but it's a trial. When these devices can store a few dozen megabytes of files then they start to become practical for this. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "Patrik Svensson" Subject: RE: 15.161 annotation Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:41:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 280 (280) Dear Willard, You are definitely right about annotation/note-taking being a stimulating subject. Thanks for bringing this subject up (in Humanist 15.161) and for giving us an interesting starting-point for a discussion. I am particularly interested in how technology changes ways we do things. I guess the topic of annotation brings in word processing as well as note-taking programs, reference managers etc. I think one major risk here is doing the same things as before - only electronically. We might like our 3x5 cards but computer archiving systems that are rely too much on the card metaphor might not be very innovative and might not make creative use of new technology. It's quite interesting to study what happened when electronic word processing was introduced and how word processing software has developed over the years. My interest in word processors, mind-mapping software, visualization has led me to purchase quite a few programs and devices. I don't know if they have actually made me more efficent at note-taking or more organized but at this point, I am quite sure that I need some kind of electronic system to help me. I tend to scribble down important notes just about everywhere and I am sure I lose quite a few important ones. Also, more and more information can be found in the computer anyway and computers are also much better at finding (certain things) than I am. One problem that I have encountered is keeping track of electronic material of different kinds. For instance, when out traveling I might use my IPAQ computer (taking notes), a laptop (writing longer pieces) and a digital camera (taking both still shots and videoclips) and after having come back after a week or two it's quite difficult and time-consuming to get everything together in an organized fashion. I found a program by accident a couple of weeks ago that is interesting (it does not solve the above problem, though). It's called egems collector (www.egems.com) and it lets you grab and store information that you find on the Internet (or elsewhere). It stores material in a database and keeps track of when a piece of information was retrieved and where it was found (web page for instance). Quite nice but not perfect (bad export facility etc.). And as you say we have very individual note-taking styles - a program would have to accomodate for both very textual note-taking and for note-taking with images, sound and maybe mind mapping. One important goal would be to create a piece of software that would not be an obstacle for your creativity (maybe the contrary - software that enhanced creativity and stimulated us to take notes in new ways:). When I use my IPAQ I quite often feel a need to break out of the linear, text-only paradigm (at least that's how I use it). Another thing about small handheld computers is that you tend to lose the overview perspective (because of the size of the display) and context (if you get a printed handout for a lecture or whatever it makes sense to write on that but if you use your IPAQ that's not really possible). My wishlist for a good note-taking program includes: Versatility and convergence: A program that was inherently multimedial and integrative (no problem mixing media, text, graphics, mind maps etc.) that could handle many different kinds of note-taking styles and materials. This is the most important point of course. Integration: Good integration with other tools such as reference managers. Context: Easy to link to other kinds of electronic material and also analogue material - maybe it would be possible to take a digital photo of that handout and use it as an electronic sheet for note-taking. Or why not have electronic tags on documents, books etc. and somehow create a link between the electronic note and the physical artefact (or maybe an electronic version if there is one). In my lab, we're running a project about the real-virtual office (Magic Touch: http://www.cs.umu.se/~top/Magic_Touch/). One of things they do is to create links between physical entities (books, papers etc.) and digital entities (documents, files etc.). If you take a tagged document and put it in a bin on your desk, the appropriate document, web page etc. will come up on your screen. Maybe such a setup could be useful (or maybe not)... Or why not a virtual environment where your notes were organized in a 3D informational space of some kind? Or a digital note-pen that keeps track of everything you write, stores it digitally and uploads it to a computer of your choice. Management and overview: It should be possible to manage a great number of notes in an intelligent way and structure and visualize them in clever ways (according to ideas, projects, media, physical artefacts, a specific day, type of image etc.). Also, the search facility would have to be excellent. Mobility and synchronization: It should be possible to run the software on small devices as well as standard computers and it should be easy to synchronize notes on many computers (not only a handheld computer and a desktop computer) - preferably wirelessly. Just a number of unorganized thoughts... I'm quite sure, however, that implementing such a program is a formidable task. Or maybe there is software out there? Yours, Patrik Patrik Svensson HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden http://www.eng.umu.se/patrik/ (old, new English page in Sept) From: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Re: 15.158 electro-shredding Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 08:42:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 281 (281) [deleted quotation] I cannot resist this opportunity for an anecdote. During my undergraduate days in a zoology department, the power went out in the building one afternoon. All the students emerged from their closet-like and often windowless cubbyholes to wander around and see what was happening. One grad student who had an large windowless closet to himself didn't emerge, and a minute or two later we heard the sound of typying on a manual typewriter coming from behind his closed door. We opened the door to find that he had put on his caving helmet with its built-in headlamp and resumed his work. (Attempting now to relate this somehow to humanities computing...) A science fiction show once defined a "book" as a "non-volatile storage medium." Would those of use who fill the web with our scholarly but volatile material, and do so rightly and beneficially, be wise to periodically print the source code of all our web pages on acid free paper and deposit a copy or two in libraries around the world in case "the power goes out" in one way or another someday? Bob O'Hara -- Dr. Robert J. O'Hara (rjohara@post.harvard.edu - http://rjohara.net) Biology Dept., University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA Residential Colleges and University Reform: http://collegiateway.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: from above, from below Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 09:13:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 282 (282) Recently I had the pleasure of talking over dinner with a senior administrator, dean of a large, quite diverse school, about the nature of scholarly research -- which, alas, he is no longer himself able to do for the obvious reasons. He remarked that it was quite liberating when he first got involved in university-wide reviews of research to realise by reading proposals and other summaries of work across the departments how narrow his own ideas had been of what scholarship is. For me, as I told him, the memorable moment occurred when in a graduate-level seminar I was teaching a guest lecturer, a philosopher who was describing his research in humanities computing, was challenged by an aggressive (post)-grad student, a budding literary critic. "That's not scholarship!" the student said. "Yes it is!" the philosopher replied. The discussion that followed was an eye-opener. Some time ago I wished out loud, on Humanist, that I had a baseball cap with a propeller on top -- in case you don't remember or were not there at the time, someone had mentioned "the propeller-heads among us". Following that a good friend found the item and sent it to me. (It fits.) In the context of the previous paragraph, I am more than a little tempted to wish out loud for a button that reads, "Disciplinarity can be cured!" (thus along the lines of "Monolingualism can be cured!"). It is not insignificant to note that in universities there would seem to be two kinds of jobs that allow the incumbent to cultivate a truly interdisciplinary perspective, understand it and act on what he or she sees -- deanships (& sim.) and appointments in humanities computing. Of course it is not impossible for someone in an ordinary academic department to gain such a perspective, only very difficult because of the demands on his or her attention. Deans have, as it were, the view from above, computing humanists from below. I think it would be very beneficial for us to hear what sorts of arguments deans, heads of school and the like would find most appealing and useful in helping us to advance what we do. 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: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 15.161 annotation Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:08:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 283 (283) At 8:09 +0100 4/8/01, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] On the subject of note taking software I'd recommend those interested to keep an eye on http://www.eastgate.com/Development apart from the note taking and publishing tool being developed there is an ongoing discussion there about note taking and information structures that is relevant and rewarding. cheers adrian miles -- lecturer in new media and cinema studies + media studies. rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + institutt for medievitenskap. university of bergen [http://media.uib.no] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.163 annotation & lights Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:09:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 284 (284) Willard, Just one point to add to Jamel Ostwald's inaugural posting. [deleted quotation]I think it is worth adding an element of time: note finding with the desired speed is different from not finding at all. As well, it is the very nature of shuffling a subset of a larger set that helps the memonomic process. And I added repeated shuffling. The notecards do not have to be on paper. They do have to be reread. The database can have records marked so that such a "shuffling deck" can be produced. I think the metaphors of Nets and Webs might be worth mixing. One has as one's disposal a number of "nets" be they lists, tables or clusters -- one's labour has built these cognitive devices and one's investment may or may not be leverage with repeated use. One casts one's net over the Web to fish.... and one's net includes one's collegial relations. It seems to me that what Jamel is describing in terms of look up tables is analogically equivalent to a fishing net and the database as a whole corresponds to the sea of webbedness. What is lovely here is the recursiveness, in that, look up tables belong to the set of links at ecologically at play in the sea of webbedness or the bay of a database. I'm intrigued as to how my formulation "And the best scholars can carry on when the lights go out..." got glossed as a comment on the use of paper-based products: [deleted quotation]especially given the subject line of the posting "Electro-shredding". I would hope that the place of the destruction or obscured access would play a role in the discussion. Yes, you pointed to Auerbach in Istanbul in the 40s. Is this so much the exception as the exemplification? If humanities work is like gardening, there is a fair bit of composting. (Of course the system viewpoint in this narratological nugget can be shifted from that of head gardener to lowly earthworm.) Is it worthwhile to consider "digital decay" experiments on replicated databases? Have we seen more of the results of Jerome McGann's forays into deformations of the pictorial sort? And of course the multimedia strain in humanities computing would suggest that the performative dimension of electronic artefacts approaches an annotations whether for self or other as a pointing device that orients both the object of study and the apparatus for studying that object. And when the lights do go out and the notecards are shredded, we still have each other. I am wondering if others could comment on Patrik Svensson's contribution to this discussion. It seems to catch the light and dark of metaphors related to gems and mining. Of course, some tingling note strikes and an electronic impulse leads me to believe that the metaphors can be mapped onto Eric S. Raymond's distinction between cathedral and bazar gardening : bazar :: mining : cathedral or mining : bazar :: gardening : cathedral All this to say that the nature of note taking and the software developed to facilitate (frustrate) note taking can be read as conveying presuppositions about the scholarly activity -- its relation to temporality and its relation to the modes of distribution of its products. Can the work be handed off at any point in the cycle? Is note taking preparation for a dialogue or is it a contribution to a dialogue? The question in my universe is moot. Even the most mysterious of notes can provide grist for the mill (ah the millstone from the quary and the grain from the field!). By the way, in your survey, what did the non-note takers do with what they read, saw, heard, touched? Were they re-readers able in their imagination to peruse their readings and extract interesting bits to trigger those flashes in the dark? In summary: 1) the role of accumulation-destruction (recuperable or not) in our computing experiments 2) the role of the metaphors for the production and distribution activities in which we are engaged 3) the connection (or not) between 1 and 3 Looks a bit like a synthesis exam for a (post)graduate program in humanities computing. As ever celebrating and scrambling General Systems Theory, Now where did I put my notes to Ludwig Von Bertalanffy's book? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.163 annotation Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:12:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 285 (285) I rarely take notes in the "field" (the library). Ever since Xeroxes became common I have, preferred to make a copy of the original rather than take chances of haplography , reversing numbers, etc. etc ... to say nothing of getting home and wishing I had transcribed more text. I don't own a laptop, because they are so damn expensive, but even if I had one, I think I would still prefer Xeroxing to typing. I have a friend who brings a digital camera to the library and photographs the page, then downloads it when he is home...I use my scanner if I don't just keep the Xerox. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Registration 4th Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:08:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 286 (286) and Computation [deleted quotation] The preliminary program of the 4th Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, September 23-28 is now available at: www.illc.uva.nl/Borjomi. Those who want to participate are kindly requested to register via that site before August 22. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Universiteit van Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31 (20) 5256519 Fax: +31 (20) 5255206 E-mail: ingrid@science.uva.nl WWW: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.165 perspectives on disciplinarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:10:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 287 (287) Willard! Provocative post. Almost a restatement of Renear's provocative abstract for the Newcastle symposium [See Newcastle After the Wine http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0133.html] On slogans: [deleted quotation] Neither are diseases. Would love to see one that read "HumCom Power". [deleted quotation] Hello. Librarians. Technicians. Translators. Editors with presses. And extra-muros intellectuals. Again. Institutional position is not equivalent to disciplinary practice. I would suspect that "a truly interdisciplinary perspective" can also be cultivated by students before or while they occupy "jobs". One more time. Rigour as exemplified by disciplinary practices is not alien to interdisciplinary work and even less so to an interdisciplinary perspective. Governance. What happens where and when and the quality of that happening is conditioned by the culumative interactions of peers, students, administrators, funders and interested social engineers. Instead of a button, would you settle for a bit of buckwheat honey mixed with some tarragon vinegar to dress your salad and that of your guests or even a nice book, a copy of John Evelyn's _Acetaria_, A Discourse of Sallets? I really shouldn't be allowed to go to auctions. I bought a copy of John Evelyn's book on salad-making, Acetaria, simply because of the aptness of the catalogue description: "A few leaves browned or spotted." -- Eric Korn, "Remainders" TLS 8/8/86 Source: from a cache of notes and quotations http://www.outlawcook.com/Page0412.html worth checking out for the apocryphal story of Edward VII and spinach stains and savouring its metaphoric import Off to turn finger wagging into mayonaise making, Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Mel Wiebe Subject: disciplinarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:11:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 288 (288) Over the years I have gradually developed a simple rule-of-thumb regarding interdisciplinarity: top down = bad; bottom up = good. From my own experience and from watching others in a variety of academic fields, both in the humanities and the sciences, I have come to believe that the only interdisciplinarity that is valid is the kind that develops when people engaged in real problems find that they need to go outside their disciplines and either learn about or consult/interact with people in other fields. Interdisciplinarity that is invented and/or imposed by administrators and grant agencies tends to reflect fashions and is often quite cynically political, although of course there will always be people who jump on the bandwagon and generate a flurry of activity. The real distinction is that the former is driven by actual cutting-edge research and its needs, while the latter is typically devised by people not themselves engaged in research and teaching. One encounters the conflict between the two when, for example, actual interdisciplinary research is deemed by a granting agency to be not eligible for funding under its interdisciplinary program because the interdisciplinarity is not of the "right" kind. We have an example in my university of the kind of thing that can result from top-down interdisciplinary pressures from the administration, a course in "poetry and math". It is the darling of the deans et al, who love to cite it when the topic of interdisciplinarity comes up. What goes on in this course? One half of each class is taken up by an English prof discussing a poem and the other half by a math prof discussing a mathematical concept; despite the possibilities one can think of, no interchange between the two halves takes place. Why? Because the people teaching the respective halves are not engaged in any poetry-and-math scholarship or research. Willard's example of the dean who appreciatively watched interdisciplinarity bubbling up from his faculty is an administrator to be cherished; in my experience, the tendency too often is the other way, with administrators designing and imposing interdisciplinary programs with a Procrustean tendency while paradoxically remaining blind to the true interdisciplinarity evolving all around them. Mel Wiebe From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.165 perspectives on disciplinarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:12:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 289 (289) Willard, when I go to scholarly meetings I rarely go to sessions in my fields....I much prefer to find out what the other folks are doing (and papers in other fields never seem as disheartening). I have acquired some of my best information by wandering through non-lit parts of good libraries, too, just taking books off the shelves as their titles seem interesting --a form of sortilege. From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 15.165 perspectives on disciplinarity Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:13:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 290 (290) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:17 AM [deleted quotation]first [deleted quotation]his [deleted quotation]a [deleted quotation]humanities [deleted quotation]be [deleted quotation]sees [deleted quotation]gain [deleted quotation]most [deleted quotation] From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.168 disciplinarity Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:23:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 291 (291) [deleted quotation] Now this I completely agree with -- I joined a new University in its second year, and the president and Vice Pres. for academic Affairs told us that the entire faculty *would* be "multi-disciplinary" -- one of that year's buzzwords. OF course, nothing came of this except a horrible number of committee meetings and task forces, at the end of which (2 whole years later), things stayed about the same. In recent years the same things have happened with "assessment" and with "diversity", except that some meaningless rules were put in place and a lot of paper shuffling resulted. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Semeia Online Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:24:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 292 (292) Greetings, Students of biblical studies, literary criticism and all points in between! New issues of Semeia are online for your viewing (if you are an SBL member, if not, see: http://www.sbl-site.org/membership/). [deleted quotation] http://www.sbl-site2.org/Publications/Semeia/index.html "Semeia is an experimental journal for biblical criticism using the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines to open new areas and methods in biblical criticism." Issues on the website: Semeia 80: The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles Semeia 85: God the Father in the Gospel of John Semeia 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical Worlds Semeia 87: The Social World of the Hebrew Bible More to follow! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Chronicle Colloquy: "Does the Digital Millennium Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:18:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 293 (293) Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the academic-freedom NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 10, 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/colloquy/ Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violate the First Amendment and the academic-freedom rights of scholars? A key subject for us all is addressed in the latest open forum provided by the Chronicle. Below is the opening question. It is framed by an article by Andrea L. Foster: "2 Scholars Face Off in Copyright Clash: Should we protect intellectual property by limiting the discussion of decryption research?" http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm David Green =========== "Tne provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was designed to update copyright law to encourage electronic commerce, makes it a crime to bypass an encryption device that limits access to copyrighted material, or to distribute decryption technology. Many computer-science professors, especially those who work on encryption issues, believe the provision is being used or could be used to limit their research and their ability to discuss their research with other scholars. They are calling for courts to throw out the law as unconstitutional. Some other scholars, however, say that the law is a necessary way to protect copyright in the digital age. 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David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Join us November 5-7 in Washington, DC for E-Book 2001! If you're wondering how to incorporate E-Book technology into your life, your work, or your organization, you'll find much to think about at the 4th Electronic Book Conference. Sponsored by NISO (http://www.niso.org) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, E-Book 2001 brings together the key players in the E-Book world: the technology experts (hardware, software, DRM), the content providers (publishers and aggregators, authors and agents), and the users (educators, librarians, readers) to examine how this new technology can change the way we think about books. Conference exhibits will feature the top companies supporting E-book technologies. This is a conference that will expand your boundaries. 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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: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Interdisciplinarity Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:17:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 295 (295) Dear all, I find the distinction of top-down and bottom-up interdisciplinarity doesn't quite match my experience. I worry it feeds off an unexamined proposition that all senior administrators are bad (or cynical) and everyone in the ranks is good (or straightforward). The truth about administration is that it can be done well or badly like anything else. Further, administrators in universities have limited tools at their disposal, especially when most of their budget is tied up in tenured staff and governments ask them to cut budgets. At McMaster the administration has been pushing interdisciplinarity and have put real (though limited) resources behind it. Here are some of the ways administrators can support such initiatives: 1. They can keep some of the budget (as opposed to distributing it to the next tier of units) and then award it to projects/initiatives that cross boundaries. 2. They can back grant applications that support interdiscipinary initiatives with things like space, support, and money. 3. They can fund the development of interdisciplinary initiatives (courses, programmes, institutes). 4. They can set up special structures for interdisciplinary initiatives. For example we have had a Theme School model where groups of faculty can propose a undergraduate program that runs for about 6 years on a theme and that crosses disciplinary boundaries. 5. They can insist that new faculty hired into tenure track positions (which entail a 25 year committment on the part of the University) demonstrate interdisciplinary research/teaching potential. In short, there are ways in which senior administrators can support interdisciplinarity and I have worked with such administrators (they do exist!) Such support has a cost and usually comes at the expense of supporting other types of activities. (If you fund theme schools then you have less money to fund other things.) This leads to the question of why senior administrators would put serious funds behind such initiatives. Some of the reasons I have heard here are: 1. It is a way of keeping talented faculty whose research and teaching has taken a direction not supported by the programs/departments they teach in. 2. It is a way of experimenting with and preparing for larger initiatives that might better reflect the interests of faculty and students. Before you create a department of Humanities Computing you fund an interdisciplinary program to see if the student demand is there. 3. An administrative structure based on the traditional disciplines is brittle. There need to be ways to handle the gentle shifts of faculty/student interests over time without having to overhaul the department structure every 10 years. As such, support for interdisciplinarity is actually a way of preserving the traditional divisions by having an escape valve for initiatives that call the traditions into question. Without concrete administrative structures and flexibility we would be forced to either keep things as they are or change them drastically. Either/or administration is inflexible and doesn't work, in my opinion. 4. Senior administrators are looking at long-term trends and worry about being stuck with highly specialized programmes/departments that do something very well that no one is interested in. There seems to be a natural tension between chairs, deans and provosts. The higher up, the more flexibility they want to make large scale changes. The lower down the more administrators want the perfect person for a targeted need now. Deans and Provosts worry about being stuck with specialists that can't meet the changing needs of students. Chairs worry about being stuck with interdisciplinary generalists that can't do the specialized graduate courses. This tension plays itself out in terms of budgets. Each level of administration wants the most flexibility they can get for their level. A provost doesn't want to committ all his/her budget to the faculties. He/she wants to have a budget to do things the faculties won't do - and those things tend to be interdisciplinary in that they cross faculty lines. Deans on the other hand want to do stuff that crosses departmental lines, but are reluctant to help other faculties and so on down the line. My point is that interdisciplinarity can be more than just a trendy word - the word can be used at different levels to protect budgets from the level below for initiatives that would not be supported by any of the units below. Interdisciplinarity can be implemented in concrete ways if administrators are good at what they do. It can also be the site of tension between levels of administration which is why the term itself gets called into question. If you don't like how interdisciplinarity plays out why not label it a trendy term as a way of dismissing it. (This tactic rarely works, the senior administrators just close ranks and dismiss us as people who don't understand the real world - the administrative response to the disregard we can hold administration in.) Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Willard McCarty Subject: gone or flooded out? Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:23:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 296 (296) Dear colleagues: The Humanist account at Virginia has in recent days been flooded with messages from various people at various locations, all containing the following: [deleted quotation] with a (I suspect) deadly attachment. I have therefore been deleting masses of messages without reading them -- anything that looks suspicious. At the same time the contributions to Humanist have slowed to a trickle. This is only to let you know that times are not normal, or even usual, so if you have sent a message but not seen it appear, please submit again. It's also the season of mass disappearances beyond the reach of e-mail, so there may be an entirely ordinary reason for the nearly dry creek bed. Sleep well under the stars! 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: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Re: 15.172 Interdisciplinarity Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:06:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 297 (297) [deleted quotation] In addition to the excellent list Geoff provides, I'd like to suggest another institutional structure that is especially conducive to interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship in the broadest sense: the traditional residential college structure found at Oxford and Cambridge. By bringing together a group of students and teachers from all branches of the university in a _small_ decentralized community, wonderful things can happen. Small size, intellectual diversity, and frequent informal contact are all essential. (In a sense, that is why so many interdisciplinary groups on the net, like Humanist, are also successful.) The Oxbridge residential college model was long confined to those two universities (and then later Durham and some Commonwealth universities in the 19th century), but more recently it has begin to spread widely. The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, has just converted to a collegiate structure; the new International University Bremen will be built on a collegiate structure; Universiteit Utrecht has just created its first residential college of this kind, and so on. In the US, Harvard and Yale established residential colleges in the 1930s, and many universities in the last 10 years have been exploring the model. Even Middlebury College, a liberal arts school, has decided that its 2000 students are too many to form a genuinely cohesive community and it has divided itself into five residential "colleges within the college." If this framework for promoting interdisciplinarity is of interest to you, in invite you to visit my website on the subject, "The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and University Reform" (http://collegiateway.org). Regards, Bob O'Hara -- Robert J. O'Hara (rjohara@post.harvard.edu - http://rjohara.net) Biology Dept., University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 15.172 Interdisciplinarity Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:07:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 298 (298) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 3:22 AM [deleted quotation]has [deleted quotation](courses, [deleted quotation]Some [deleted quotation]you [deleted quotation]more [deleted quotation]He/she [deleted quotation]Deans [deleted quotation]are [deleted quotation]tension [deleted quotation] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Salon des Refuses Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:02:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 299 (299) Willard, Your little foray into annotation software got me to thinking about secretariat software. The tools already exist. I'm surprised they are not used more. They can humanize collegial interactions. More and more venues, events and publications are requesting electronic submission and using Web-based forms and Java applets to do the trick. There is no technological impediment to seeing responses to calls for papers automatically tailored. It is often the mark of a well-organized team if the letter of rejection address the receipient by name and even indicates the title of the proposal and the date it was received. Common bureaucratic procedure. Mail merge. A personalized form letter does much to temper the empty rhetoric of "we received more than X number of submissions". More than is also always less than. It invites invidious comparaison with people with less resources able to deal with higher volumes. Better to simply state non selection. Let the jury be a black box. But secretariat software can enable organizers to post for a meaningful period of time (with the permission of the submitters) a list of contact names, summaries and links to papers or proposals that were not included in the finals. This is especially nice when submissions must take the form of final versions. I'm not suggesting that this mode of information sharing apply to "peer review" journals. I am suggesting that in many venues, events, broadcasts and publication projects of the academic world the inputs may be as interesting as the outputs. Do any of the subscribers to Humanist know if such a practice has ever been implemented even experimentally in the past? Of course, one can imagine invitations to those turned down by a given conference appearing on discussion lists (at the pleasure of moderators) ... and the problem of autheticating the truly refused from the faux wanting to capture a bit of the allure of the club. A whole new genre! All kidding aside, care in communication is vital for any program or institution. Practice makes careful and caring communication easy. No amount of secretariat software will help unless it has one of those annoying agents to suggest rephrasing. Thank you for your indulgence. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Brother Anthony Subject: Re: 15.173 silences Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:00:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 300 (300) For information on the Sircam Worm see http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html In the last couple of weeks the whole world has been flooded with these things (well, I have, at least, and lots of others) What rather surprises me (to put it mildly) is that a major American University's Computer center does not have anti-virus firewalls to filter out such things. Here (in Sogang University, Seoul) every incoming email message (and its attachments) is automatically scanned on arrival for all identified viruses and either cleaned or purged before arriving in our mailboxes with a note informing us of what virus was detected and whether the attached file was cleaned or deleted. I think you (and anyone else in your position) should protest strongly to your server keepers if you ever receive an email still infected with an already identified virus. As for the lack of new messages, I believe it is related to that other plague of the modern world, usually known as "vacations". It seems to have infected all other lists as well. I doubt if there is a cure, except the due passage of time. Brother Anthony Sogang University, Seoul, Korea http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony [Many thanks to several other Humanists who wrote to me about Sircam, which prompted me to acquire anti-viral software, which in turn informed me about some seriously bad online activities, which make arguing for what Milton called "unlicensed printing" rather more challenging. --WM] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NSF ITR 2000 Grant Program announced Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:18:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 301 (301) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 14, 2001 NSF Announces Information Technology Research (ITR) FY 2002 Program http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01149 [deleted quotation] NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Information Technology Research (ITR) Program Solicitation, NSF 01-149 http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01149 PROPOSAL DEADLINES: Large projects: Pre-proposals (mandatory): November 9, 2001 Full proposals (invited): April 4, 2002 Medium projects: Proposals: November 13, 2001 Small projects: Proposals submitted to a directorate other than CISE: February 6, 2002 Proposals submitted to CISE directorate: February 7, 2002 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Information Technology is a broad subject, with applications and effects throughout the sciences, engineering, education, the economy, the humanities, and society in general. IT deals with how we develop and use information, how we make sense of it, how we compute, and how we communicate and make decisions. In many cases, the scale and scope of opportunities and challenges require research approaches that cover many parts of the IT field and other areas. In FY2002, NSF's ITR investments will be focused in three multidisciplinary areas: software and hardware systems; augmenting individuals and transforming society; and advancement of the frontiers of science via information technology. ... NSF understands that proposals may span more than one of these areas and encourages submission of such proposals. Cognizant Program Officer for CISE Directorate: - Michael Lesk, Dr., CISE/IIS, telephone: (703) 292-8930, e-mail: mlesk@nsf.gov. For details see http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf01149 ----- For general information on the previous ITR initiative announcements see http://www.itr.nsf.gov/. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: Digital Resources for Research in the Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:18:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 302 (302) Humanities, Sept 26-28; Sydney NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 14, 2001 COMPUTING ARTS 2001: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES September 26-28, 2001; Sydney, Australia http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss/drrh.html [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conf: Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR2001): Oct 15-17, Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:19:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 303 (303) Bloomington NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 14, 2001 Second Annual International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR2001) October 15-17, 2001: Indiana University, Bloomington http://ismir2001.indiana.edu Student Stipends Available http://mir.isrl.uiuc.edu/~jdownie/cgi-bin/stipend_intro.html [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: Mel Wiebe Subject: interdisciplinarity Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:15:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 304 (304) It seems to me that the discussion so far has largely supported my "top-down=bad, bottom-up=good" rule of thumb for interdisciplinarity; that is, those administrators who facilitate and encourage the kind of ID that is generated by leading-edge scholarship and research fit into the bottom-up category. The administrators and granting-agency officials who design and impose their models of ID derived from their reading of the Zeitgeist or whatever are the ones whom I was trying to make a little more self-conscious and self-questioning. Mel Wiebe From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Managing Digital Video Workshop: Presentations Webcast Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:16:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 305 (305) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 13, 2001 Managing Digital Video Conference Workshop A Two-Day Workshop on Current and Emerging Standards For Managing Digital Video Content http://www.vide.net/conferences/agenda.html PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE VIA WEBCAST FROM WED AUG 15 [deleted quotation] Everyone, Beginning Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 8:00 a.m. EDT, presentations for the Managing Digital Video Conference Workshop will be available via webcast. You will need a RealVideo player, which may be downloaded via the conference website: http://www.vide.net/conferences/agenda.html The webcast is also linked from the above address. Powerpoint presentations will be hyperlinked to the agenda whenever available, so that you may follow along. Managing Digital Video Content is a two-day workshop focusing on current and emerging standards for managing digital video, including the ViDe Dublin Core application profile for digital video, digital rights management, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol and MPEG-7. The keynote speakers are Dr. Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information and Dr. Jane Hunter, Project Manager of the MAENAD Multimedia Asset Management Project at the Distributed Systems Technology Center, University of Queensland, Australia. Clifford Lynch is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He is a co-author of Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure. Dr Lynch will be speaking on "Globally Sharing Information Assets" on Wednesday, August 15, 9:30-10:45 EDT Jane Hunter is a principal investigator on the Harmony International Digital Library Project and is an active member of the MPEG-7 working group, where she has chaired and edited the MPEG-7 Description Definition Language. She is currently managing several projects involving both the filtering of digital video satellite broadcasts and search and retrieval of video archives using MPEG-7. Her presentation is titled: "MPEG-7: Transforming Digital Video Asset Description." She will be speaking on Thursday, August 16, 9:15-10:30 EDT. For other speakers and presentations, please see the conference agenda at the URL above. Apologies for any cross-postings! Grace Agnew -- ============================================================== 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA news 1/2 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:20:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 306 (306) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************* We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: ELRA-W0028 Wolverhampton Business English Corpus ELRA-S0113 Spoken Dutch Corpus A description of these two resources is given below. ELRA-W0028 Wolverhampton Business English Corpus Produced by the Computational Linguistics Group at University of Wolverhampton through a funding from ELRA in the framework of the European Commision project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335), the Business English Corpus consists of 10.186.259 words collected from 23 different Web sites related to business. ELRA-S0113 Spoken Dutch Corpus Intermediate releases of the Spoken Dutch Corpus are made available regularly (approximately every 6 months). The first release came out in March 2000 (3 releases up to the current date), and the complete corpus will be available in June 2003: it will contain 10 million words. The next intermediate release will be published in October 2001. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France T=E9l. : +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli@elda.fr or consult our catalogue at the following address: 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 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA news 2/2 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:20:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 307 (307) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************* We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: ELRA S0034 Verbmobil (new resources added) A description of each database is given below: VM CD 53.1 - VM53.1 (BAS edition) German, 16 spontaneous dialogues (16 close mic, 8 room mic, 8 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 1771 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 60.1 - VM60.1 (BAS-Edition) Japanese - 10 spontaneous dialogues (10 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 501 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 61.1 - VM61.1 (BAS-Edition) Japanese - 19 spontaneous dialogues (19 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 946 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 62.1 - VM62.1 (BAS-Edition) Japanese - 21 spontaneous dialogues (21 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 981 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 51.1 - VM51.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/English with human interpreter (3 channels) - 15 spontaneous dialogues (15 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 873 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 52.1 - VM52.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/English with human interpreter (3 channels) - 13 spontaneous dialogues (13 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 728 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 55.1 - VM55.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/English with human interpreter (3 channels) - 11 spontaneous dialogues (11 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 518 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 56.1 - VM56.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/English with human interpreter (3 channels) - 12 spontaneous dialogues (12 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 620 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 57.1 - VM57.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/Japanese with 2 human interpreters (4 channels) - 11 spontaneous dialogues (11 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 702 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 58.1 - VM58.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/Japanese with 2 human interpreters (4 channels) - 7 spontaneous dialogues (7 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 421 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 59.1 - VM59.1 (BAS-Edition) Multilingual German/Japanese with 2 human interpreters (4 channels) - 7 spontaneous dialogues (7 close mic, 0 room mic, 0 phone line (GSM) recordings) - 354 turns, transliteration (VM II Format). VM CD 63.0 - VM63.0 (original edition) German - 14 WOZ dialogues designed to evoke emotions (mainnly anger) - transliteration, emotion labeling. VM CD 64.0 - VM64.0 (original edition) German - 13 WOZ dialogues designed to evoke emotions (mainnly anger) - transliteration, emotion labeling. VM CD 65.0 - VM65.0 (original edition) German - 13 WOZ dialogues designed to evoke emotions (mainnly anger) - transliteration, emotion labeling. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France T=E9l. : +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli@elda.fr or consult our catalogue at the following address: 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 From: Peter Suber Subject: FOS Newsletter, 8/16/01 (fwd) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:14:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 308 (308) To: suber-fos@topica.com Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter August 16, 2001 Edward Felten speaks Princeton's Edward Felten finally described in public how he bypassed the copy-protection methods created by the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). You probably know the backstory, but here's a brief overview just in case. The SDMI is a consortium of 200+ music and technology companies. Last September it offered a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone who could bypass its experimental copy protection schemes on a music CD in less than a month. Felten and his team broke five of the six in three weeks. They refused the prize money so that they would be free to publish their methods and results. Felten planned to present his team's work at a Pittsburgh conference in April, but cancelled his talk when a lawyer from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wrote him a threatening letter. The RIAA later said that the letter was not a threat to sue. However, since the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits bypassing copy-protection on copyrighted works, even for academic purposes, Felten worried about liability. The recent arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov has proved that Felten's fears were justified. In June, Felten asked a U.S. District Court to declare that he has a First Amendment right to give his presentation, and to overturn the parts of the DMCA that would stop him, but the court has not yet ruled. In its motion to dismiss Felten's lawsuit, the RIAA repeated its insistence that it was not Felten's legal adversary. With that assurance, Felten agreed to give his presentation last night at the Usenix Security Symposium, in Washington, D.C. Felten has said he will continue to press his lawsuit even after he presents his paper. In my view he is right to do so. Sklyarov is being prosecuted even though Adobe has dropped its complaint against him. Even if the RIAA doesn't file a legal complaint against Felten, a zealous prosecutor could still prosecute him. In that sense, he needs a court to defang the DMCA and affirm his First Amendment right to describe his research in public. However, a court disinclined to examine the merits of his claim could decide that it is moot now that he has given his presentation. Lessons from the SDMI Challenge, by Felten and others http://www.technetcast.com/sdmi-challenge.html (Links to PDF text, Ogg Vorbis audio, and RealVideo) Usenix Security Symposium http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/ SDMI home page http://sdmi.org/ The SDMI challenge (September 2000) http://sdmi.org/pr/OL_Sept_6_2000.htm ("So here's the invitation: Attack the proposed technologies. Crack them.") RIAA home page http://www.riaa.org/ The EFF page on Felten v. RIAA http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/ Good pages on the DMCA From the EFF, http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/ From Anti-DMCA, http://www.anti-dmca.org/ ---------- Public Library of Science deadline imminent If you're reading this, then you probably know about the Public Library of Science (PLoS), one of the boldest recent FOS initiatives. It all started with a March 23 letter to the editor of _Science Magazine_ signed by Richard Roberts, Harold Varmus, and eight others. The gist of the letter was to call on biomedical journals to put their contents online, free of charge, in public archives, within six months of print publication. The call has since been widened to all scientific and scholarly journals. Roberts, Varmus, et al. also called on scientists to sign a pledge not to "publish in, edit or review for, or personally subscribe to" journals that do not heed the call. The web list of signers now includes more than 26,000 scientists from 170 countries. Quoting the PLoS FAQ: "No institution that asks for our money and voluntary contributions of work and intellectual property has a right to take these for granted." The deadline for journals to comply and pledgers to act is September 1. If you want to add weight to the PLoS call on journals, there is still time to sign the web pledge. If you want to coordinate your action with research and library colleagues, now is the time to talk to them. If you want to write up this story for a journal covering your discipline, now is a good time to start. Start to watch your favorite news sources and scholarly journals for responses to the pledge, the deadline, and the action of pledgers. I imagine this story will be covered fairly well in the scientific and mainstream press. But I also imagine that there will be many small, telling episodes that never make the bigger news outlets, including individual struggles with conscience by pledgers. If you learn of any details not being covered elsewhere, or if you have thoughts on the PLoS initiative, I hope you'll post them to our discussion forum. Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Original letter to the editor of _Science Magazine_, March 23, 2001 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5512/2318a Web version of PLoS Open Letter (shorter than the _Science Magazine_ version) http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosLetter.htm List of journals meeting PLoS conditions http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosFAQ.htm#faq3 Sign the PLoS petition http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/cgi-bin/plosSign.pl FOS discussion forum http://www.topica.com/lists/fos-forum/read (Anyone may read; only subscribers may post; subscription is free.) ---------- Psychologists adjust In June the American Psychological Association (APA) revised its policy on posting articles to the internet. Authors may post unreviewed preprints to the web provided they label them as unreviewed. The APA warns authors that some journals will regard this as prior publication and will refuse to consider them. It does not condemn or discourage this practice by journals, but at least it has dropped the explicit endorsement contained in previous policy statement. Authors of articles accepted for publication in APA journals may post electronic versions to their personal or institutional websites, but not to third-party repositories, and may do so as soon as the articles are accepted. This is a liberalization of the previous policy, which held that authors could not put reviewed post-prints online until three years after print publication. Authors may not create the digital version of an article by scanning the print version from an APA journal. (Thanks to Christopher Green's 8/12 posting to the September98-Forum for details on the APA's previous policy.) APA policy on posting articles to the internet http://www.apa.org/journals/posting.html * Postscript. What positions do the major professional societies in your discipline take on these questions? If you can find online policy statements and send me the URLs, I'll collect them on a web page. * PPS. Since scholars can have FOS as soon as they decide to have it, it's heartening to see professional associations take steps in the direction of having it. The APA is ahead of most scholars and even more publishers in its willingness to see scholarship free and online in some form. On the other hand, it is still endorsing unnecessary impediments to FOS. This is only a problem if you want to follow the professional associations and not lead them. Bottom line: you needn't wait for publishers and you needn't wait for professional associations. You can make an individual or institutional archive for unreviewed preprints at any time. You and colleagues can create new free online peer-reviewed journals at any time. If you serve on the editorial board for an existing print journal, you and your board colleagues can move the journal to the web at any time, divorcing your current publisher if necessary. (For an inspiring example, see the _Journal of Logic Programming_ story in our May 11 issue.) ---------- Do it yourself * Sun has released the second edition of its Digital Library Tool Kit. This is the first upgrade in the tool kit since 1998. The title may be misleading: this is not software but a document of advice and instruction. It can be downloaded free of charge. http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html * The Scout Report has released the Scout Portal Toolkit. If you want to assemble an online collection of academic content and focus on the content, download this free software. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/SPT/main.html * Make your own e-books from your desktop publisher. New software allows you to export QuarkXPress documents to Microsoft Reader e-book format. The software is free for downloading. http://www.quark.com/support/downloads/details.jsp?idx=443 ---------- Share your thoughts * Mark Jordan of Simon Fraser University and Dave Kisly of the British Columbia Electronic Library Network are conducting a survey on how libraries handle electronic serials. They would like no more than one reply per library. If you represent a library, share your thoughts before the September 30 deadline. http://www.targetinform.com/eserials/ * The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative seeks your comments on the first draft of its library application profile. http://dublincore.org/documents/library-application-profile/ * Gerry McKiernan is looking for examples of Library Knowledge Bases to add to his web-based registry. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm * The Open eBook Forum is calling for all eBook stakeholders (e.g. readers, publishers, librarians, vendors) to contribute "any need, want or wish that a participant determines should be reviewed by others to facilitate an effective and efficient ePublishing industry." http://www.openebook.org/requirements/ * The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) wants your comments on its plan to streamline access to technical reports. It proposes to enhance its search engine hit links with digital object identifiers (DOIs) that resolve to the copies of the reports in the agencies that created them. This will enable users to link directly to free versions of the documents. By contrast, downloading the same documents from NTIS is not free. (So what's the catch?) Comments will be accepted until September 13. http://listserv.nlc-bnc.ca/cgi-bin/ifla-lwgate.pl/DIGLIB/archives/diglib.log0108/date/article-31.html ---------- New on the net * The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) home page has moved from Los Alamos servers to Cornell University. Note the new URL. http://www.openarchives.org/ * Imagine a work of web art which makes your browser window into an abstract map of Dewey Decimal space. As you move your cursor around, you mouse over Dewey numbers embedded in an ever-changing 3D grid of active links to real web pages. If you click, you'll open a new window to the page your mouse is then highlighting, although you will almost always be surprised what this page turns out to be. It's cool and confusing at the same time. You'll hope this not the future of online information cataloging, but you'll hope it influences that future. It's Babel by Simon Biggs. (You'll need Shockwave installed.) http://www.babel.uk.net/ * Cornell's Engineering and Computer Science Library created Sticker Shock, a text and image slide show on the serials crisis. http://www.englib.cornell.edu/displays/stickershock/default.html * The National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council) have launched a web site on intellectual property topics, especially those that arise in the scholarship and research. It contains a library of valuable papers, a discussion forum, and a newsletter. http://ip.nationalacademies.org * Yahoo is now offering free online course management tools, which will make it a competitor with WebCT, Blackboard, and other priced vendors. This is a good deal for academics. But two provisos: (1) you might prefer MIT's free online course management tools, which have the advantage of open source, and (2) Yahoo has recently started charging for services it originally offered free of charge. Yahoo Education http://education.yahoo.com/ MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative http://web.mit.edu/oki/ ---------- In other publications * In their September issue, the editors of _Smart Business_, name Sigma-Aldrich as #20 among the Smart Business 50. These are companies that make exceptional use of the internet. Sigma-Aldrich sells chemicals, but won this distinction because it provides useful, voluminous, and free information about its chemicals. The result is a free online content provider as much as a for-profit chemical vendor. Smart Business story on Sigma-Aldrich (scroll down to #20) http://www.zdnet.com/smartbusinessmag/stories/all/0,6605,2799242-6,00.html Sigma-Aldrich home page http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/saws.nsf * In the August 15 _DigiNews_, Daniel Greenstein and Gerald George describe the Digital Library Federation (DLF) project to develop a standard of minimum digital fidelity when digitizing printed texts. A higher standard will enhance the interoperability of different archives but exclude more legacy data. The DLF will soon post its proposed standard to its web site for discussion and approval. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-4.html#featured * In the same issue of _DigiNews_, David Holdsworth and Paul Wheatley argue for emulation as a method of digital preservation. Emulation goes beyond preserving a data file to recreating the digital environment in which the file can be viewed or executed. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-4.html#feature2 * In the August 14 issue of the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ Goldie Blumenstyk tells how the Cal State University System used its large size to bargain for more advantageous terms with netLibrary. Normally e-books purchased from netLibrary may be read read or "borrowed" by only one library patron at a time. Under the new contract, about half of Cal State's e-books from netLibrary may be borrowed by an unlimited number of readers at once, and Cal State pays no more for this arrangement. The Cal State director of e-book projects who negotiated the deal is named Evan Reader. http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001081401t.htm * In the August 13 _Content Exchange_ Ethan Casey reports on how the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ uses the web to supplement its print publication. http://www.content-exchange.com/cx/html/newsletter/3-6/oe3-6.htm * In the August 10 _Chronicle of Higher Education_, Andrea Foster describes the disagreement between David Touretzky and Michael Shamos, both on the CS faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Touretzky is a leading critic of the DMCA and publicizes source code for bypassing encryption on DVDs and ebooks. Shamos is a computer scientist, former IP lawyer, and former teacher of Touretzky, who believes that Touretzky's actions unlawfully undermine e-commerce. The two were expert witnesses on the opposite sides of the DeCSS case and may face each other again in the Edward Felten case. http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm * In the July 24 issue of _Time Magazine_, Katherine Bonamici asks how libraries will far in the digital age if they must make ongoing payments in order to retain the rights to the e-books they "buy". Both publishers and libraries are waiting for a study by the Copyright Office on just this question --which was due last fall. http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,168798,00.html * The Duke University Digital Library Initiatives Task Group recently put its report online. The group was charged to develop a 3-5 year vision statement for digital library initiatives and to suggest strategies to achieve the vision. http://www.lib.duke.edu/dli/ * Sam Vaknin has posted a review of the DOI-EB to his growing collection of articles on digital content. The DOI-EB is an initiative to apply digital object identifiers (DOIs) to e-books (EB's). His review also functions as a useful introduction to DOIs. http://www.trendsiters.com/article1022.html * Human Rights Watch reports that China has further tightened controls over the internet. It calls on corporate sponsors of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to use their influence to improve freedom of expression in China. Report summary http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/08/china-0801.htm Full report http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/china-bck-0701.htm ---------- Following up * On June 22, the DC Court of Appeals awarded billions of dollars' worth of radio spectrum to NextWave Telecom, Inc. NextWave made the highest bid for them, but when it defaulted on its payments, the FCC took the spectrum licenses back. The court ruled that the licenses still belonged to NextWave, which was going through bankruptcy at the time of the default. On August 6, the FCC decided to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court. This is only FOS-related because if NextWave wins, it will diminish the proceeds from the spectrum auction, and hence undermine the very attractive Digital Promise Project (DPP). The DPP is a proposal to set aside $18 billion from the spectrum auction for digital media and digital content to improve American education. This is a tough one. On the one hand, I want to see fairness for debtors in bankruptcy; on the other, I want to see the DPP fully funded. Christopher Stern, U.S. Govt Will Appeal NextWave Case To Supreme Court http://www.washtech.com/news/telecom/11690-1.html NextWave v. FCC (June 22 decision, U.S. Court of Appeals) http://search.cadc.uscourts.gov/P:/opinions/200106/00%2D1402b.txt The Digital Promise Project http://www.digitalpromise.org/ * Our July 3 issue described the precarious fate of PubScience after the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), a trade association of for-profit publishers, lobbied Congress to stop government subsidies for free online scholarship. The SIIA even persuaded a House appropriations subcommittee to cut funding for PubScience and adopt the SIIA's rationale as its own. Now, however, the Senate has rejected the House measure and restored PubScience funding in its own recent spending bill. Next month the House and Senate must agree on a final version of the bill. 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OUCS (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk) is a key information provider at Oxford University, maintaining a very large and comprehensive set of documentation which is used by students, staff and visitors to the university at all levels. OUCS is also one of four academic sites hosting the international Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (http://www.tei-c.org) and a leading exponent of the TEI encoding scheme, which is increasingly used for our internal documentation. We urgently require a technical author to work half-time for the TEI, and half-time for OUCS. The task is to produce high quality leaflets and publicity materials, as well as to work with technical experts in the production of a range of professional technical documentation. The postholder will share their expertise in markup and encoding with a wide audience by assisting in the development of appropriate training materials and web content. Applicants should have a degree or equivalent and demonstrate expertise in technical documentation and practical experience of a web authoring environment, preferably using XML. The successful applicant will be well organised, able to work unsupervised and as part of a team, and have good communication skills. The post is for one year in the first instance, with funding expected to continue for three years. Please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. (Tel: 01865 273230; E-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Completed applications must be received by 4.00 p.m. on 24 August 2001. Interviews will be held at the beginning of September. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Leyton Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:22:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 310 (310) Willard, On the occasion of its appearance in paperback, David Weiss recently enthused about Michael Leyton's _Symmetry, Causality, Mind_ to which posting he gave the subject line "relation of Art to Mind" and his subject line and his message were distributed under the heading "new book on shape and time". Yes indeed a good deal of this now reprinted book is devoted to the computation of visualization. However, it does contain a chapter on linguistics. I was wondering if any subscribers beyond David and myself are familiar with the book and if they would care to comment on the argument put forward by Leyton that "Representation is Explanation" and of its possible (and actual) impact on humanities computing. More generally, I would be pleased to see a discussion about cognitive psychology, computation and the humanities. I ask because theories of perception impinge on hermeneutics. For David's blurb and Willard's subject line see http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0136.html I take the appearance of "new" in the context of a reprint to be a ghost of memories of Newcastle where old theories appear to have been fitted to new bottles. But who I am I to tell with no reports of the proceedings at hand and only the labels of abstracts. See http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0133.html and http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0139.html Sipping with patience a cool, tall glass of water, Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Martin Holmes Subject: Publishers and XML Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:23:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 311 (311) Hi there, I'm trying to get an idea of the extent to which properly-digitized documents -- XML documents, really, using DTDs based on TEI standards -- are acceptable to academic publishers. Are there many publishers yet who would accept (for example) the text of a book for publication in XML format? How many are still insisting on camera-ready copy, MSWord documents, PDFs etc? How many academic publishers are doing e-publishing, and what document formats are they using? All insights and relevant experiences much appreciated -- please name names if you can. I'll be happy to summarize responses to the list. Best regards, Martin Holmes ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes@uvic.ca mholmes2@compuserve.com mholmes@halfbakedsoftware.com From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: QUESTIA Press Release on Questia 2.0 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:12:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 312 (312) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 17, 2001 Questia's New Version 2.0 Nearly Doubles The Size of Its Collection http://www.questia.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Julia_Flanders@brown.edu Subject: Re:15.176 Sircam & the silence of the vacationers Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:10:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 313 (313) [deleted quotation] One of the nice things about unlicensed printing of *books* is that they stay where you put them; if 17th-century pamphlets had had the capacity to reproduce themselves and crawl into your copy of Paradise Lost (and perhaps eat away the bit where Adam and the angel have dinner) perhaps Milton might have felt differently. Best, Julia -- ____________________________ Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Associate Director, Scholarly Technology Group Box 1841, Brown University Providence, RI 02912 401-863-2135 www.wwp.brown.edu From: Nicholas Finke Subject: Re: 15.160 image copyright: implications for us? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:55:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 314 (314) As someone who used to teach US Copyright law, the decision in Bridgeman seems correct and straightforward. It simply states that there can be no copyright where there is no originality. Since someone who creates a copy of a manuscript page for scholarly use is specifically trying not to add anything to the original, but merely to reproduce it as faithfully as possible, copyright will not apply. This does not mean that there is no protection available. The holder of a manuscript can physically control access so that copies are made only with its permission. In addition, a holder can reinforce this physical control by requiring those who are granted access for the purpose of copying to sign a contract where the rights of the copier in any images are severely limited. In this situation the law applied is contract law, not copyright law, and the restrictions applied are not subject, for example, to copyright concepts such as fair use/fair dealing. This approach is only prospective, it will not get the horses back in the barn if reproductions have already been made, but as a rule for future cases, it can be quite effective. As a frequent user of copyrighted material I am not happy with being given access only under conditions where I have to sign away my fair use rights, but I can certainly see the other side of this particular coin as well. Nick Finke On 8/4/01 3:04 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) at willard@lists.village.virginia.edu wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Eprint Archive User/NonUser Survey Results Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:56:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 315 (315) The Preliminary results of our Survey of Users and NonUsers of Eprint Archives are at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~chh398/results/ (Note that this work is the result of a last-year computer-science project by Cathy Hunt.) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~chh398/results/ Comments welcome! -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ 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 SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM From: John Unsworth Subject: job opening Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:53:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 316 (316) [posted for Brenda Silver; please respond to the email address in the announcement, below] Material Textuality and Digital Media Assistant Professor, English Department We invite applications from candidates who study the history, theory and rhetoric of information technologies and new media. We seek a colleague to develop and teach courses among the following areas: past and present technologies of writing and dissemination; the cultures and aesthetics of digital media; hypertext literature; and virtual cultural production. This tenure-track position will begin Fall, 2002. Phd in hand, or pending. Send letter of application, CV, dossier, and writing sample (25 pages maximum) plus any relevant URL or digital files (by diskette, Zip disk, or CD-Rom) to Professor Brenda Silver, Search Committee Chair, English Department, Dartmouth College, 6032 Sanborn House, Hanover, NH 03755. Also: send letter of application and CV via email to: English.Department@Dartmouth.EDU. Both postmarked no later than Friday, November 2, 2001. AA/EOE. From: Willard McCarty Subject: worms and bookworms Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:58:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 317 (317) Julia Flanders' imagining, about a SirCam-like worm eating bits of Paradise Lost, reminds me of the plot of a Kung-fu movie I saw once. In it an evil landlord provokes the father of a young family into a fight-to-the-death. The landlord', with superior kung-fu, kills the father, who leaves to his young son his only valuable possession, a kung-fu manual showing the moves of his form. Years pass, the son grows up, nurturing deadly hatred for the landlord (who curiously seems not to age at all). When he has reached an age to begin his preparations for the fight obviously to come, he opens up the chest of his father's possessions, takes out the manual -- only to discover that a worm has eaten large sections of the book, completely obliterating some moves. Undeterred, the young man invents new moves to supply the missing ones. In the great fight at the end of the movie, what allows the youth to win over the landlord, a clearly superior opponent, is the fact that the landlord cannot tell what move is coming next. He thinks at various points in the fight he has understood the youth's form when POW! he is hit by an unexpected blow in an unexpected way. (BTW, I have heard it alleged that the Taiwanese secret service trains its people in a top-secret form of kung-fu for precisely this reason....) In reply to Julia, I suppose the question is whether we as readers could do as well as the youth in the story. Surely an application for hypertext poetry -- invent your own 17th-C dialogue between angel and man. 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: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.185 SirCam: why Milton might have thought differently Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:59:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 318 (318) On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Of course, even 16th-century pamphlets "had had the capacity to reproduce themselves and crawl". . . . Otherwise we would never have even heard of Martin Luther's 95 thesese, which basically proliferated in the same manner, totally unbeknownst to Luther. . .thanks to that invidious invention by Johannes Gutenberg. . . which started the first "Information Age." Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Summer Stipends ($5,000) Deadline Announcement Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:20:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 319 (319) [deleted quotation] NEH SUMMER STIPENDS Deadline: October 1, 2001 for awards during the summer of 2002 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the competition for Summer Stipends awards. These awards support two consecutive months of full-time work on projects that will make a significant contribution to the humanities. In most cases, faculty members of colleges and universities in the United States must be nominated by their institutions for the Summer Stipends competition, and each of these institutions may nominate two applicants. Prospective applicants who will require nomination should acquaint themselves with the nomination procedures of their home institutions well before the October 1 application deadline. Individuals employed in non-teaching capacities in colleges and universities and individuals not affiliated with colleges and universities do not require nomination and may apply directly to the program. Adjunct faculty and academic applicants with appointments terminating by the summer of 2002 also may apply without nomination. TENURE: Tenure must cover two full and uninterrupted months and will normally be held between May 1, 2002, and September 30, 2002. STIPEND: $5,000 PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The Summer Stipends program provides opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in disciplines of the humanities during the summer. Projects proposed for support may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities, and they may address broad topics or consist of research and study in a single field. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but neither candidates for degrees nor persons seeking support for work toward a degree are eligible to apply for NEH Summer Stipends. Applicants should be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. SELECTION PROCEDURES: Reviewers consider the significance of the proposed project to the humanities, the quality of the applicant's work, the conception and description of the project, and the likelihood that the proposed work will be accomplished. For further information and application materials, persons -can link to http://www.neh.gov/grants/onebook/fellowships.html or they can write to: NEH Summer Stipends, Room 318, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20506. (Telephone: 202-606-8200) All applications must be postmarked on or before October 1, 2001. Please note that the Endowment does not accept applications submitted by FAX or e-mail. Information on NEH programs is also available at http://ww.neh.gov PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!! From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Beyond Webcams Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:16:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 320 (320) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Hi, after editing the *grand book*, 'The Robot in the Garden': (Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet) [The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influential technologies, the telescope, telephone, and television, were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots, remotely controlled robots, facilitate action at a distance. Specialists use telerobots to explore actively environments such as Mars, the Titanic, and Chernobyl. Military personnel increasingly employ reconnaissance drones and telerobotic missiles. At home, we have remote controls for the garage door, car alarm, and television (the latter a remote for the remote)] ----Professor Ken Goldberg with his close associate Professor Roland Siegwart has written a technical book on the Online Robots, which would be coming in October 2001. Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots, Edited by Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart (MIT, October 2001, ISBN 0-262-07225-4 ) Short description about the forthcoming book: ----------------------------------------------- Remote-controlled robots were first developed in the 1940s to handle radioactive materials. Trained experts now use them to explore deep in sea and space, to defuse bombs, and to clean up hazardous spills. Today robots can be controlled by anyone on the Internet. Such robots include cameras that not only allow us to look, but also go beyond Webcams: they enable us to control the telerobots movements and actions. This book summarizes the state of the art in Internet telerobots. It includes robots that navigate undersea, drive on Mars, visit museums, float in blimps, handle protein crystals, paint pictures, and hold human hands. The book describes eighteen systems, showing how they were designed, how they function online, and the engineering challenges they meet More details, please see at <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=A7DA77B6-36FA-4873-8FA5-B35FE10D0F32&ttype=2&tid=8577> Thank you.. With best regards Arun Kumar Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: The Return of the Real Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:17:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 321 (321) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century by Hal Foster (MIT, October 1996, ISBN 0-262-56107-7) "The Return of the Real is one of the most cogent and theoretically self-aware readings of contemprary art I have seen." --Howard Singerman, Department of Art History, University of Virginia-- In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today. After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s; Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real -- to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites: If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-garde; it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation -- and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics. For more details, see at: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=AB987D13-61AC-4A12-88C1-6502FF0323EC&ttype=2&tid=7585> Thank you.. Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Frances Condron Subject: new humanities computing publication Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:24:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 322 (322) NEW MEDIA AND THE HUMANITIES: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Edited by Domenico Fiormonte and Jonathan Usher. 2001, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford. Further info: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/publications/clip.html This is the latest publication from the Humanities Computing Unit. It is a collection of essays exploring the relationship between literary research and new technology. The essays are drawn from the first Computers, Literature and Philology seminar, held in Edinburgh on the 7th - 9th September 1998. Copies can be purchased for 18.99 from the Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). This book is only available in print. CONTENTS: Jonathan Usher, Domenico Fiormonte 'Introduction: Where Lachmann and Von Neumann meet' Willard L. McCarty 'Poem and algorithm: humanities computing in the life and place of the mind' Francisco A. Marcos Marn 'Where is electronic philology going? The present and future of a discipline' Allen Renear 'Literal transcription - can the text ontologist help?' Lou Burnard 'On the hermeneutic implications of text encoding' Fabio Ciotti 'Text encoding as a theoretical language for text analysis' Claire Warwick ''Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated': scholarly editing in the digital age' Federico Pellizzi 'Hypertext as a critical discourse: from representation to pragmeme' Antonio Zampolli 'Language resources: the current situation and opportunities for co-operation between computational linguistics and humanities computing' Elisabeth Burr 'Romance linguistics and corpora of French, Italian and Spanish newspaper language' Giuseppe Gigliozzi 'Researching and teaching literature in the digital era: the CRILet project' David Robey 'Sounds and their structure in Italian narrative poetry' Massimo Guerrieri 'Per una edizione informatica dei Mottetti di Eugenio Montale: varianti e analisi statistica' Staffan Bjrk, Lars Erik Holmquist 'Exploring the literary Web: the digital variants browser' Licia Calvi 'The postmodern Web: an experimental setting' AVAILABLE: From the Humanities Computing Unit for 18.99 plus postage and packing. Find out more, and print out an order form at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/publications/clip.html Frances Condron, Publications Officer, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: IWPT'01 in Beijing Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:18:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 323 (323) [deleted quotation] C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 17-19 October, 2001 Beijing, China http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001/ ~~~~ Against the backdrop of the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, and many other cultural and natural highlights, the Institute of Computational Linguistics at Peking University, Beijing, China, will host the 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'01) from 17 to 19 October, 2001. (Note that October is the most beautiful and pleasant time of the year in Beijing, with average daytime temperatures of around 20 degrees Centigrade and average nighttime low of 9 degrees C.) IWPT'01 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CFP: LREC 2002 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:19:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 324 (324) [deleted quotation] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************** LREC 2002 ************************************************************** Third Language Resources and Evaluation Conference The detailed second Call for Papers for the Third LREC conference is available on the Internet at the following address: www.lrec-conf.org Dates: Main Conference: 29-30-31 May 2002 Workshops: 27-28 May and 1-2 June 2002 Location: Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Spain) [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: RANLP-2001 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:20:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 325 (325) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ***************************************************** Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP2001) Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 5-7 September 2001 Supported by the European Commission, DGXII, Human Potential Programme,High Level Scientific Conferences, Contract number HPCF-2000-00329 http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001 Main Local Organisers: Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BIS-21 Center of Excellence) and The Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics Co-sponsors: MorphoLogic, Budapest, Hungary and OntoText Lab., Sirma AI Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria The conference will be preceeded by two days tutorials (3-4 September) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp / Tilburg University), Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), Eduard Hovy (ISI, USC), Martin Kay (Xerox Parc), Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University), James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) [material deleted] From: Kevin Brooks Subject: Futures of World Literatures and Literacies Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:26:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 326 (326) CALL FOR PAPERS: Futures of World Literatures and Literacies The Fifth Annual International Red River Conference on World Literature and the Fifth Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing invite proposals for a joint conference, "Futures of World Literatures and Literacies:" April 25-28, 2002 North Dakota State University Fargo ND, USA Deadline for submission of proposals: November 30, 2001. The conference is being sponsored by the Department of English, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND, 58105. Proposals (300 words) for RRCWL should be directed to Kevin Brooks; proposals for GPACW should be directed to Elizabeth Birmingham. Please include your name, complete mailing address, and e-mail address. Proposals for panels must include an abstract for each presenter, as well as names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Email and online submissions are welcome, but please include postal addresses. Send inquiries to: Kevin_Brooks@ndsu.nodak.edu or Elizabeth_Birmingham@ndsu.nodak.edu. The RRCWL and GPACW conferences will run concurrently; sessions within each conference will run consecutively. Featured speakers will be shared by both conferences. While we are particularly interested in proposals that address the conference theme, papers on all aspects of world literature and computers and writing will be considered. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * New writers, new readers, re-readings, and new interests in literary and literacy studies. * Globalization and its impact on literature and literacy. * The future of oral and literate traditions. * The future (of the) human/body/text. * Neocolonialism, postcolonialism, and the shaping of world literatures and literacy practices. * Hybridity, difference, and commonality in global culture and online. * Curricular changes and innovations-world literature and electronic literacy courses in institutional contexts. * Hypertext, film, new media-what will literature and literacy become in the future? * Teaching in the 21st century: pedagogy and practice in world literature and e-literacies. * Access to and accessibility of world literatures and technologies of literacy. Featured Speakers Carolyn Guyer is author of the hypertext Quibbling, essays on writing in the new millennium, co-author with Michael Joyce of Lasting Image, and co-ordinator of the Mother Millennia Project-an online collection of stories about mothers from around the world. Cass Dalglish, Professor of English, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, and author of Nin, a novel which uncovers and recovers the writings of women from Sumerian tablets to the World Wide Web. Geoffrey Sirc, Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor in Composition, University of Minnesota, is author of "Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where's the Sex Pistols" and many other essays. He works in composition, broadly defined, especially where art, technology, voice, and writing intersect. His book, _Composition as a Happening II_, will be published by NCTE. International scholars, including Canadians, are invited to apply for travel funds generously donated by the President of North Dakota State University. Go to http://www.ndsu.edu/RRCWL for further details about the conference. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.183 Leyton's book? publishers and XML? Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:26:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 327 (327) Hi Martin, You ask, At 03:29 AM 8/17/01, you wrote: [deleted quotation] I can't say anything about academic publishers, but I can say that XML is being increasingly used (as SGML has actually long been used, at least in some places) by larger publishers for their own editorial and editorial-to-production processes. Generally they are not at the point where they expect, or even have made provision for, authoring directly in markup. (The exception to this is such things as reference books and other kinds of publication where authoring is very much subordinate to an editorial process. But these folks are *not* accepting arbitrary markup: they'll mandate the DTD themselves.) In the high-tech publishing market, for example such publishers as O'Reilly (I can name names where I don't actually have specific knowledge covered by an NDA :-), support for authors who want to use markup is definitely on the rise: but it is a slow process. Note that publishers are wary of exposing the technologies of their internal processes to outsiders, since this means competitors can get a look. Thus, for example, mandating a DTD (even a public DTD such as DocBook or TEI) might be seen as "exposing" a little more of their business processes than they like. Oddly, a semantically opaque format such as Word is actually a feature to them from this point of view. They expect to change the encoding in any case. (While this may be less true in the academic publishing sector, there is also less money there for the necessary engineering -- both technical and social -- to support markup from authoring through editorial stages.) If a publisher does use XML internally, chances are it's not TEI, which is not sufficiently constraining to be worth a whole lot to them. If their markup is anything like TEI, it'll be a highly constrained subset, probably not validating to P3 but to their own derived version. There are good reasons for this. If I was an editor or production manager for a press, I would be skeptical of any author who wanted me to process TEI -- since I know how much engineering that requires. I would say "hey, markup, great!", but then would want to see the most constrained TEI subset to which they conform. Given that "TEI" might almost as well mean "kitchen sink" in this context, doing the necessary analysis to understand their TEI (out of the universe of possible TEI), then write post-DTD validators, stylesheets etc. to process it into something useful to me, would almost certainly be more expensive than stripping their tagging and starting fresh. (Especially given who I'd have to pay to do these respective jobs. If the volume were high enough, it could be worth it, since economies of scale could kick in. But for one book?) I'd feel better (I'd be celebrating!) if the author said "it's TEI, but tell me what markup to target and I'll write the stylesheets myself" -- which some authors are now able to do. But then they're not giving me TEI, are they? Markup pays for itself very quickly as it scales up. But TEI, in itself, is not sufficiently constrained to scale very well. (DocBook is somewhat better, and as I said I can see some niche publishers like O'Reilly working towards DocBook support.) TEI is excellent for supporting a wide range of scholarly research purposes. But there is a direct tradeoff between the breadth of this range, and the requirements of a production line. [deleted quotation] My guess is that you'll find things all over the map. Academic publishers continue to experiment with e-publishing, but it will almost always be in "bespoke" formats (i.e. custom-engineered markup systems) including varieties of XML (including Open E-book) and even HTML. [deleted quotation] Can't name names 'cause of those NDAs ... but as to academic publishers specifically, I don't speak from firsthand knowledge (haven't worked with any), but rather from my assessment of the current state of the technologies in the context of editorial and production work. I hope the perspective sheds some light, in any case. 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: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" Subject: Re: 15.189 bookworms &al. Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:25:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 328 (328) [deleted quotation] Thomas Chatterton did just that, didn't he? Francois C-R From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Information Arts Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 329 (329) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Hi, forthcoming: Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology Steve Wilson (October 2001, The MIT Press, A Leonardo Book, ISBN 0-262-23209-X) --thought might interest you.. "This book is marvelous in its scope, very important and timely, and very thoroughly researched. The author sets out to map the extremely complex and layered area of intersection between art, science, and technology. He accomplishes this by thinking through the parameters of his topic with much first-hand experience, insight, and care, and by being inclusive with examples." -Nell Tenhaaf, electronic media artist and Professor, York University- A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the direction of research. Years ago, C. P. Snow wrote about the "two cultures" of science and the humanities; these developments may finally help to change the outlook of those who view science and technology as separate from the general culture. In this rich compendium, Wilson offers the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, and experimental digital systems such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. In addition to visual documentation and statements by the artists, Wilson examines relevant art-theoretical writings and explores emerging scientific and technological research likely to be culturally significant in the future. He also provides lists of resources including organizations, publications, conferences, museums, research centers, and Web sites. More details, please visit at: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=6F0A3301-AE77-4739-9AF3-70E01A8FAF28&ttype=2&tid=4244> Thank you.. Best Regards Arun Kumar Tripathi From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: extended call for papers Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:45:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 330 (330) [deleted quotation] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Curriculum & Administration Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:45:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 331 (331) Willard, I want to propose a shift in the top-down discourse that marks Mel's postings and suggest that the relation in-out be explored (which some clever wag might convert into a before and after). Should administrative skills be part of training in humanities computing? After all, most graduates will _not_ be employed in the academy itself and those that are employed in the academy may have to carry significant administrative responsibilities. And just where would the case studies for such training come from? What place should preparation for research, preparation for teaching and preparation for administration hold in the humanities computing programs that are emerging? I ask because "administration" can encompass activities that range from governance to clerking. I also ask because a goodly portion of academic torch-passing involves role-modeling and mentoring -- and a humanist no matter be they located at the top or bottom, the inside or the outside, is expected to act with a historical sensitivity to the before and after, much like an administrator/manager. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Salutations and Addresses Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:45:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 332 (332) Dear fellow subscribers, Epistolary researchers are attentive to the clues that envelopes (or the recto of a sealed missive) might offer. I am wondering if the electronic medium helps us communicate the same sensitivity to students. That is, in getting them to read (& use efficiently and effectively) the headers as well as the salutations. There is of course the evident possibility of filtering messages based on rules relating to distribution information. I am wondering how people's use of group reply and blind copies affects the types of saluations that appear in their message. To what extent does letter writing occur in a "fish-bowl" environment in the sense that the mindful letter writer is composing in a condition of being "overheard". This set of questions stems in part from a discussion of the rhetoric of discussion lists: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/tcc2001/guide.htm which is here offered as a modest token of appreciation for the pleasure I have received in observing the exchanges passing through Humanist these last few years. Thanks, Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Web Preservation: OCLC Spearheads Web Document Digital Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:01:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 333 (333) Archive Project NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community OCLC Spearheads Web Document Digital Archive Project http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20010717b.shtm Project to be informed by OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation With the goal of creating a sustainable service to provide long-term access to web documents, OCLC recently announced the Web Document Digital Archive Project. It will be working with several other institutions in examining user needs, building and evaluating prototype systems and developing policies and best practices. The pilot will use the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model to develop a working digital archive. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] OCLC COLLABORATES TO DEVELOP DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF WEB DOCUMENTS DUBLIN, Ohio, July 17, 2001 - OCLC, with input from several organizations, is developing a digital archive to track and preserve web-based documents that exist solely in electronic format. The goal of the Web Document Digital Archive project is to create a sustainable service to provide long-term access to web documents. The service will fill libraries' basic needs for identification, selection, capture, description, preservation, and access to documents that would not be accessible in the future otherwise. OCLC is seeking direct input on the project from a variety of institutions already focused on the issue: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO); The Connecticut State Library; and the Joint Electronic Records Repository Initiative (JERRI), a partnership of the State Library of Ohio, the Ohio Historical Society's State Archives, the Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services. "Participants will be collaborating with OCLC on system user requirements, evaluating working prototypes through 'hands-on' experience, and developing policies and practices for long-term retention in concert with current best practices established through other digital archive projects internationally," said Taylor Surface, director of OCLC Content Management Services. "Long-term retention and access to documents published on the World Wide Web have universal appeal to libraries and people seeking the information in them." This pilot will be tested in several phases during the next 18 months using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model to develop a working digital archive. Building on this soon-to-be international standard, the Web Document Digital Archive will provide a unique integration of workflow to assist library staff in management of these electronic-only publications. OAIS defines the framework of functions and features of a basic digital archive. "GPO is excited to be part of OCLC's Web Document Digital Archive project to develop a system to provide the same stability of access to digital publications that can be achieved with print publications," said Gil Baldwin, director of the Library Program Service, GPO. "I believe that this metadata and archiving toolkit will help GPO further its mission to provide permanent public access to the electronic government resources in the Federal Depository Library Program." "State government information nowadays is published predominantly, in some cases exclusively, on the web," said Stephen Slovasky, bibliographic services head, Connecticut State Library. "We intend, through the Digital Archive, to capture, preserve, provide access to, and manage the usage rights of electronic state documents. The Connecticut State Library is pleased to collaborate with OCLC, GPO and the Ohio JERRI group on developing this important service." "The JERRI partners have spent considerable time and energy investigating ways to identify, capture and permanently store web publications of enduring historical value created by State of Ohio government agencies," said Jim Buchman, head of public services, State Library of Ohio. "To date we have found no off-the-shelf solution to satisfy our requirements. The JERRI partners are quite pleased that OCLC is now developing such a solution." Work on the Web Document Digital Archive project will be informed by the developments of the Preservation Metadata working group convened by OCLC and RLG. The working group has published an initial white paper of current best practices at <http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation>. "Goals of the project coincide with OCLC's global strategy, which includes establishing metadata, digital collection and preservation management, and providing web-based services for contribution, discovery, exchange, delivery and presentation," said Meg Bellinger, president of OCLC Preservation Resources. The project is part of OCLC's global strategy and the development of Digital Collections Management & Preservation services. The Government Printing Office catalogs items distributed through the federal depository program into WorldCat. GPO makes government publications in all formats freely accessible to the public through more than 1,300 federal depository libraries throughout the United States. Online and print publications cataloged and disseminated by GPO provide information of current and enduring interest on a broad assortment of topics, including congressional documents, federal research, business, science, technology, statistical data, law, medicine and federal regulations. The Connecticut State Library is the principal library for all branches of state government. It provides reference services and specialized collections in law and legislation; public administration and policy; state, federal and local government; Connecticut history and genealogy; newspapers; and archives in support of its mission "to provide high-quality library and information services to state government and the citizens of Connecticut," and "to preserve and make accessible the records of Connecticut's history and heritage." The Joint Electronic Records Repository is a collaborative partnership of the Technology Policy Group of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, the Ohio Historical Society's State Archives, the State Library of Ohio, and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services. Its purpose is to find ways to appraise, preserve and provide access to Ohio's electronic and e-commerce records of enduring historical value, and to position Ohio as a leader in archiving electronic records and publications. Currently, the group is in the planning stage of a pilot electronic records long-term storage and retrieval program for state records. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit organization that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 39,000 libraries in 76 countries and territories. OCLC was founded in 1967 to improve access to the world's information and reduce information costs, and conducts ongoing research to develop technologies to support that mission. Forest Press, a division of OCLC since 1988, publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification, Forest Press, OCLC and WorldCat are registered trademarks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated. Preservation Resources is a trademark of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Nita Dean +1-614-761-5002 nita_dean@oclc.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Call for reviews Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:01:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 334 (334) [See Humanist 15.191(3) for the announcement of the book to be reviewed. --WM] Dear colleagues: anyone interested in reviewing "New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications", the new Oxford HCU book announced yesterday, can contact me at mc9809@mclink.it Humanities computing scholars are the main target of this publication, but I think that Romance philology and modern languages scholars would be equally interested in reading the volume. Please remember to include in your reply the name and address of the periodical, journal, etc. where you intend to submit the review and your academic/research affiliation details (don't forget your complete mailing address!). Thanks in advance for your interest Domenico Fiormonte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte Universit di Bologna Facolt di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali http://www.digitalvariants.org From: scaife@uky.edu Subject: [STOA] Rescue Tenure From the Tyranny of the Monograph Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:46:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 335 (335) This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: scaife@uky.edu From the issue dated April 20, 2001 Rescue Tenure From the Tyranny of the Monograph By LINDSAY WATERS Call the ambulance, the patient is dying! That urgent appeal needs to go out -- and quickly -- to two groups: college administrators and scholars in the humanities. I make the appeal as a publisher, a reader, and a humanist. I hold books sacred and hate to see them losing their value, which is exactly what they are doing today, rapidly. The currency of books is becoming deflated in a way that is reminiscent of the decline of the German deutsche mark in the early 1920's, and the culprit is the same: hyperinflation. Our system of book publishing, which rests on the premise that we promote people who publish, is spiraling out of control. Indeed, the whole system needs to be changed. The problem is that university presses are publishing books that they should be turning down. It is not that the books are unworthy; just that they do not justify the expenditure of time and money that goes into them. So my question to administrators and humanists is the same: Why do any of you -- I mean us -- want this system to go on? The system produces many excellent scholars, but it does so in spite of, not because of, itself. The exaggerated emphasis on the publication of books pushes young scholars to go on record earlier and earlier, with less and less to say. That is not good for colleges and universities, and it is not good for scholarship. Furthermore, overproduction conceals an identity crisis in the humanities that has been developing for the past 30 years, but one that we dare not continue to ignore. I think that the patient is terminally ill. We mislead those in positions of authority, like deans and the heads of tenure committees, who take the books we publish as a stamp of authority, and we delude the young who keep on preparing books to get tenure, if we don't face the current realities of academic publishing. What we should be doing is thinking about ways to prepare for the death of the tenure monograph in the humanities, and to counsel those who will soon be grieving. That could provide us with a great occasion to redirect the efforts of not just the young but also their elders, if they -- I mean we -- dare to reconsider our situation. Some defenders of the monograph dismiss talk of its demise. The obituaries are little more than wishful thinking, they say, stemming more from discomfort with new types of scholarship than with reality. I agree that a fair amount of the bellyaching about ever more esoteric monographs with ever fewer readers has come from people who just wish that the likes of deconstruction, feminism, gay studies, and postcolonial studies would go away. But that doesn't change the fact that we have a crisis. Yes, we academic publishers increased the number of titles we produced throughout the 1990's, according to annual figures prepared for the Association of American University Presses. But the increase could well be seen as a desperate effort to keep dollar income up at a time when per-title sales are flat in scholarly publishing. Dollar income has often increased at presses, but that's because publishers are bringing out more titles at higher prices. I have experience in publishing books in economics, philosophy, literature, anthropology, and law. In economics, a treatise -- a major effort to synthesize knowledge -- might sell 7,500 copies at $50 a copy; major books in literary studies -- books that others use as tools in the classroom or for their research -- can sell 3,000 to 5,000 copies. But, in my experience, monographic studies in the humanities, and I definitely include history here, whether written to win tenure or later in a career by established giants in the field, now usually sell between 275 and 600 copies, no matter how good they are. (Paradoxically, outside of literary and historical studies, the smaller the field, the higher the sales. Most philosophy books sell, in cloth, a minimum of 1,200 copies; books in classics do even better.) At Harvard, we figure we lose about $10,000 on every book that sells only 500 or so copies. So what do we do? We hedge our bets. That produces an untenable situation. On one side, we have university presses that can afford to publish monographs -- particularly in the humanities -- only if they can find respectable "trade" books that sell enough copies to subsidize the books that lose money, or if they find subsidies (in some form or another) from their universities to cover their losses. On the other side, we have an academy that is demanding more and more publications from scholars at a younger and younger age. Today, in most cases, it seems to be a matter of quantity over quality. Quantity is empirical, quality is elusive. The rule -- unspoken at some universities and set out in guidelines at others -- is getting to be two books for tenure. With the decline in tenure-track jobs in many fields, thanks to the use of adjuncts, that has led to frenzied behavior on the part of graduate students now trying to multiply the number of publications on their C.V.'s. (Intimations of a little good news on the job front certainly aren't enough to change such behavior.) In a recent essay in an M.L.A. newsletter, Profession, "No Wine Before Its Time: The Panic Over Early Professionalization," Cary Nelson, a literary critic, reports asking a provost whether the university had any qualms about raising the bar and demanding two books for tenure. "No," the provost replied. "Increasing expectations for tenure only proves how good a school we are." But does sheer quantity really offer conclusive proof that the enterprise is "good"? Above all, the crisis of the monograph is a crisis in leadership. From the desperation of some publishers, madly producing more new books to stay alive, to the increasing use of adjunct professors by universities eager to save money, to the demands of tenure committees, you have a lot of factors -- and a lot of people who should know better -- making a tough situation increasingly intolerable. It was 10 years ago that another literary critic took me up short by coming by our Harvard press booth at a Modern Language Association convention and saying, "Lindsay, you must be a desperate man." Why? Because, he said, it was clear that anything could, by then, be published, and he was wandering the aisles in boredom. Another scholar put it to me more gently. Some five years ago, I asked an anthropologist if his colleagues were reading a book that he had read in manuscript and recommended glowingly several years before. "Oh, Lindsay," he said, "don't you know? No one automatically pays attention to books anymore." Why? Because potential readers no longer assume that, if a publisher went to all the expense of bringing out a book, it had to be worth at least poking into. Once bored, twice shy. The final blow was administered recently by a scholar who said out loud what I was beginning to fear. The refereeing system, this scholar told me, had become a joke. There are many people who take refereeing extremely seriously -- and, from the bottom of my heart, I thank those selfless referees I have had the privilege to work with -- but there are also many who use the opportunity to review a manuscript for a publisher as a chance to promote like-minded individuals and friends; and there are some publishers who choose readers because they can be counted on to provide positive reviews of particular projects. That adds up to a general crisis of judgment: Too many of us seem to subscribe to the sentiment promoted by the Lake Wobegon Chamber of Commerce, assuming that we are all above average and, therefore, that severe criticism of one another is never in order. But as Lester Bangs might have instructed Cameron Crowe well before he was "almost famous," you gotta be ruthless to be a good critic. When things come to such a pass -- all of my sources were at the top of their fields, not one a slouch or a disgruntled malcontent, and I have heard similar complaints from scholars in history and art history -- I think some speculation is indicated, as well as some changes in practice. The crucial point here is that the overproduction of the most endangered species in the preserve, the monograph, is a symptom of bigger problems in the humanities wing of the university. If you will allow me to lapse into the cadence of a preacher: Anxieties about authorship and authority have led to the present profligacy, in a desperate attempt to win back lost legitimacy. But I say unto ye, It is never going to be won this way!The problem of the humanities monograph is, mutatis mutandis, the problem of the university and what counts for knowledge there. Is the university a place where intelligence is made manifest? It is, and always has been, a place where careerism makes itself manifest. But what about intelligence? Just a few years ago, Stanley Fish, then head of the Duke press, challenged humanists to buck up and stand tall. Why should they be second-class citizens, wearing tweed like sackcloth, he asked in an essay on "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos"? But chutzpah won't be enough to save us now. In a university increasingly committed to business values, the humanities have grown to be beside the point. The free fall of the monograph in the humanities is a symptom of the loss of stature of the humanists who write the books. Technology transfer, licensing the fruitsof university research -- that's the game being played now. More and more, the only interesting unit of knowledge is the patent. To many of the people who run universities and to many faculty members, the humanities are at best a source of confusion, and at worst an embarrassment. Can you believe, the woman on the street is justifiably asking herself, there are professors of literature at major universities now writing books for reputable university presses defending sexual harassment of their own students? It is as if Bill Clinton were demented enough to write an essay for The Atlantic Monthly defending his activities with Monica Lewinsky. Scientists, by contrast, are turning their departments into "profit centers." He who cannot cash in has no cachet, and humanists seldom can. The first step we need to take out of this crisis is to recognize that the assumption that a humanist needs a book (or, more likely, two) is based on a bad analogy. That analogy has a history, and we are its prisoners. For more than a century, we humanists have been trying to model our behavior on that of our scientific colleagues. Anglo-American philosophers, for example, have been trying to make their discipline look like mathematical logic and scientific argumentation. By contrast with the misdirection and moral confusion that is spreading self-doubt in the humanities, scientists like Steven Weinberg and E. O. Wilson have a strong sense of agenda. Wilson's line, which goes by the sweet title of "consilience," is that science is the queen of modern thought, and he says that those who live in the university must choose between one of two and only two roads: scientific empiricism -- the road of reason -- or religious transcendentalism, which is no road at all, but a maze where passion is the only compass. The choice is obvious and inevitable. Thus is the social Darwinism of the marketplace received with welcome arms into the university. The monograph fetish is a prime example of the desire of humanists to fit in and be scientists, just like all the rest of the Big Men on Campus. That scientists themselves no longer cling to the fetish seems to matter not a whit. (As any university publisher can tell you, trying to get a book out of a scientist has been impossible for decades.) When the modern research university took hold in the United States toward the end of the 19th century, scientists were writing monographs. Why should not humanists do the same? Well, as the crisis of the monograph makes it absolutely apparent, because the strategy won't work -- and was dangerous all along. No one is ever going to mistake us for junior scientists -- not even if we take to wearing pen protectors in our shirt pockets. Yes, we still consider the book valuable, but too often not because it is well done. Edward Said was right when, in one of his 1999 presidential columns for the M.L.A., he chastised humanists for being so hard to understand. No, in our profit-driven university, the book is valuable because a universitywide committee can understand that it costs a lot of money to produce. Even if committee members can glean nothing about the book's content, they know that it cost somebody a lot of money to publish and, therefore, somebody else a lot of effort to mobilize support to get it published. All that's true. Books also have the distinction of thumping when you drop them on a table, and they stand up in a display case, the way an offprint cannot. Humanists can do better than this. I am afraid we M.L.A. types are a bit like the railwaymen who thought that their job was building and maintaining track, train, and station, and not moving goods and people. They did not keep their eyes on the prize. But just like them, our job in the humanities is moving people and understanding what moves them. Why do we want people to write? Why do we want to see their writing? Because we want authors and readers, alike, to be humanists. An old-fashioned word, "humanist," but not outmoded. A humanism that dares speak its name speaks in a way that is persuasive to humankind. Of course, although we in the United States do have a particular penchant for the fetishization of the narrow and passionless monograph, we have glorious precedent in Europe: I remember the shock I felt when I saw the first German edition of Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama. It was in an antiquarian shop in Vienna. I don't know why I expected it to look like that surrealist publication of his, One-Way Street, but it looked just like a scientific monograph meant for 275 research libraries. In recent years, some people have tried to resuscitate the rhetoricians under the new name of "public intellectual." That is a welcome development, but we should remember that it sounds new and feels urgent only because, for some years now, we have subscribed to the very different ideal for the practice of intelligence that we know and respect under the name "science." Trying to shove our round pegs into science's square holes just doesn't work. We need to highlight the differences between the humanities and the sciences, and we need to get over the vulgar phobia about science that hobbles so much humanistic discourse. We have to insist on the thing we do -- which is not finding a place for ourselves as evolutionary eager beavers in E. O. Wilson's flow chart, and which is not just serving the almighty green-back. Quite simply, unless we recover our sense of overall orientation, we are not going to be able to encourage the young to get Ph.D.'s in the humanities. And the world will be the poorer for that. The reason so many of the book proposals I see from the young today fail is because all of the frameworks that would justify writing a book seem to have collapsed. People pay lip service to interdisciplinary study, but that's about it. (Why else do we need all those interdisciplinary humanities centers?) Professionalism rejects the notion that it is worthwhile to have real expertise in a field of knowledge other than one's own. Stanley Cavell tells me that he is certain that the young man he was some 50 years ago, when he wanted to switch from music (he was being trained as a composer) and was admitted to the University of California at Los Angeles to study philosophy, would now be rejected by his own Harvard philosophy department as too high a risk. I find myself spending an increasing amount of time trying to persuade the talented that it is worth writing a humanities book filled with gusto. I feel bad that some of the really interesting young intellectuals -- like those who edit and write for the journal Hermenaut, kids passionately interested in philosophy, rock 'n' roll, and zine culture -- prefer to drive cabs, think, write, and have zilch to do with the university. I don't share Bob Dylan's dismissive attitude about "the old folks home at the college," because I love the university and think a thousand flowers might grow in its fields. Sales of individual titles are down for university-press publishers not because we are so good and society is so bad, but because we can't convince even ourselves that what we are doing makes a difference. Humanists buy books because books excite them, not out of duty. Our publications need to be more like those of Swift and Voltaire -- proper humanistic emanations that offer persuasive accounts of the world, no matter how much they flaunt their improprieties, rather than empty exercises of scientific competence designed to please two men in New Haven and no one else in this world. The second step we need to take to get out of the crisis of the tenure monograph is to consider what should -- and should not -- be a monograph. Write we must, but why must it be books and not essays? Jerry Green, Harvard's provost in the early 1990's and an economist, recently asked me why the people in many of the disciplines in which I publish want to waste so much of the time of young people in the prime of their lives with such a lot of make-work. In economics, he said, they want to keep the kids working hard to generate new ideas that the rest of the profession can feed off of, because youth is the leading edge. We need to remember that the humanist ideal of publication that flourished for years took the form of books and articles. It was embodied in books like Thomas More's Utopia, Michel de Montaigne's Essais, Erasmus's Adagia, Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction; and in essays like Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal." Think of the people whose best work appeared in essay form: Barbara Johnson, Nina Baym, W. K. Wimsatt, Cleanth Brooks, T. S. Eliot, Kenneth Burke, William Empson, John Freccero, Erich Auerbach, E. R. Curtius, Georg Lukacs, Roland Barthes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul de Man, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, Gianfranco Contini, Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg. I could go on, but won't. You can. Sometimes, to make a group of scholars turn on a dime, we need a publication not as thick as a brick, but as thin as a dime. Something like Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent," Wimsatt's "The Intentional Fallacy," Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?," John Van Engen's "The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem." The third step we need to take is to recognize just whom and what the current system of publishing serves. The benefit of the system is that it allows universities to outsource tenure decisions to university presses. That looks like a win-win situation: Institutions can count on a decentralized decision-making system to legitimate the credentials of their employees, and the people who love books so much that they want to be part of the making of them can get their money for doing what delights them, and can get their books free. But there are hidden costs here that we have not considered, and the bill is coming due. My personal concern is this, and it is very personal and may seem sentimental: I love books, and I love the humanities, and I see anything that undermines their value as a threat. We all worry about electronic publications' putting books out of existence, but I fear that the overreliance on books by bookish people is an equal threat. The sacredness of books is not something that needs to be inflated, least of all by the people of the book. The idea that you can cook up a book fast, the way we used to cook up burgers when I worked at McDonald's as a kid, deeply disturbs me. Books should take years to write (although, even then, deadlines can help). "You can't hurry love," sang the Supremes years ago. Well, you can't hurry scholarship, either. Pushing young scholars to publish books doesn't lead to more better books. It leads to more books -- that is, until the system collapses. W. H. Auden wrote that the sign of promise in a young poet is technical competence, not originality or emotion. The same is true, probably, for young scholars. Their work does not need to be published with the full fanfare of the book of a mature scholar, and there ought to be -- and no doubt are at many institutions -- ways of granting tenure to the young person who reveals such competence. But the imperative given by universities to the untenured to publish promising juvenilia as midlist books, and the proliferation of such publications, has triggered Gresham's Law, creating a situation in which even the best books come to be taken as mere exercises, overproduced term papers, just as bad money drives out good. My economist friend Jerry Green is right: Why should we encourage young humanists to do a lot of Mickey Mouse work, to go through the motions, when what they should be trying to write are moving essays and -- maybe later than sooner -- passionate books like Empson's Milton's God? The scholarly book has become an endangered species, I contend, but not for the reasons most people think of. We have put the cart before the horse. People should not be given tenure because they have written books; people should be given tenure so they have the leisure to develop big projects that make good books. In any case, what a university really needs to know about a young scholar is whether his or her writing is competent and shows promise that the candidate will develop into a person who really has something to say. Seen from that perspective, the turning of a large percentage of academic jobs into adjunct positions is hastening a waning of scholarship that is already taking place. Lastly, we need to rethink who should be evaluating scholars and scholarship. Why leave it to book publishers? Maybe we should consider independent bureaus, financed by the leading professional organization in each discipline, to do the work of judging. Alternatively, and probably preferably, we might actually bring evaluation back into the department. If the system has so evolved -- as I think it has -- that departments can avoid direct appraisal and criticism of a colleague's work by farming out that labor, is that good? If things were to change, scholars might have to learn to be directly critical of a candidate's ideas; the candidate might have to rebut criticism, publicly if possible. (Many departments do ask candidates to give a public lecture, but real discussion there is scarce.) That might lead to a system closer to the one that prevailed in the medieval university, with disputations among scholars; and that, in turn, might have the big payoff of making scholarship more public and evaluation less something that goes on somewhere else -- at the faculty board of a distant university press, or behind closed doors at home. Students might even love it. What I am urging is that publishers get more selective, and also that they help scholars figure out how to write books that will appeal to a broader audience than at present. Surely, scholars ought to at least be able to explain what they are doing in general-enough terms in their introductions that people outside their fields can see what is at stake. I don't tout massive shrinking of lists, but I do long for better books. During the years that we could publish monographs with impunity (and please bear in mind, that was not yesterday), we all became too complacent. If we can salvage anything from the present crisis of the monograph in the humanities, let it be that we humanists see that our lot is with rhetoric and not science; that ideas -- and young people -- need nurturing. If we can do that, we would have much to be grateful for. Lindsay Waters is executive editor for the humanities at the Harvard University Press. His book Against Authoritarian Aesthetics: Towards a Politics of Experience has just been published in Putong Hua by Peking University Press. _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i32/32b00701.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 _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: RLG DigiNews: Digitization Quality Benchmarks; Emulation Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:02:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 336 (336) Test; Metatadata for Digital Archival Collections NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 23, 2001 RLG DigiNews August, 2001 issue is now available http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ Feature Articles: * Digital Reproduction Quality: Benchmark Recommendations, by Daniel Greenstein and Gerald George * Emulation, Preservation, and Abstraction, by David Holdsworth and Paul Wheatley * Metadata for Archival Collections: The University of Toronto's 'Barren Lands' Project, by Marlene van Ballegooie The August RLG DigiNews contains some quite interesting pieces. The Greenstein-George piece summarizes a Digital Library Federation initiative to consider the creation of some quality benchmarks for digitization of books and journals. For further information on the benchmark and background, see the DLF page "Registry of Digital Reproductions of Paper-based Books and Serials" http://www.diglib.org/collections/reg/reg.htm. Holdsworth & Wheatley summarize current work within the Michigan-Leeds CAMILEON project (Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New) that is practically testing the emulation model as a real digital preservation strategy. (Emulation is the re-creation on current hardware of the technical environment required to view and use digital objects from earlier times). The goal of the project the authors write on is to run in emulation a complex preserved digital object of some complexity with sufficient verisimilitude to reproduce the significant properties of the original experience. Marlene van Ballegooie describes the various metadata requirements for a complex Canadian digital archival project and how the metadata enables users to discover and retrieve information from the archive (containing 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and published reports). David Green =========== [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: IP NEWS/OPINION: ABA Reviews UCITA; Editorials on Supreme Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:03:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 337 (337) Court & Term Extension NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 23, 2001 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NEWS/OPINION 1. Editorials on Supreme Court Reviewing the Copyright Term Extension Act http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22911-2001Aug16.html http://www.sptimes.com/News/082101/Opinion/Drawing_a_line_on_cop.shtml AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHES A TASK FORCE TO REVIEW UCITA ============================ 2. Editorials on Supreme Court Reviewing the Copyright Term Extension Act http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22911-2001Aug16.html http://www.sptimes.com/News/082101/Opinion/Drawing_a_line_on_cop.shtml A number of editorials in the press are encouraging the Supreme Court to review the Eldred v Ashcroft case that maintains that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was unconstitutional. In February 2001, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Term Extension Act was constitutional. The plaintiffs plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal. The Washington Post and the St. Petersburg Times are encouraging the review. [material deleted] From: "Tim Reuter" Subject: TACT help request Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:03:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 338 (338) I've started to use TACT to create a database using multiple European languages; but the most comfortable way to create the input involves creating ANSI-character-coded files, and TACT is still in the world of IBMPC extended ASCII. Unfortunately I've lost my TACT manual in my numerous moves in recent years; I know that I can deal with this by manipulating the XLATTABL files, but have forgotten which is which and what the syntax is. If anyone has solved ANSI-input/ASCII-output and has appropriately modified tables I'd be grateful if s/he could send me them as an attachment -- or if there is a TACTxpert out there who could give me a quick couple of screenfuls I'd also be grateful. Tim Reuter ----------------------- Professor Tim Reuter University of Southampton SO17 1BJ Tel. +44 2380 594868/593458(fax) email tr@soton.ac.uk; 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: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.201 the tyranny of the monograph Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:29:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 339 (339) I've been hearing about the death of the monograph, the journal, the scholarly book, et c. for at least 40 years and I still don't believe it. It seems to me that scholarly presses can (and should) do a few things to help: 1. Quit making the books so fancy and hence so expensive. We should have paper-bound books on cheap paper as the French do. 2. (Part of 1) quit trying to win awards for handsome books -- I have been arguing with University Press publishers on this topic since about 1956 -- and market books that graduate students and young faculty can afford. I frankly think that far too many University Press people are trying to impress each other with binding, type faces, dust jackets, etc. 3. Deliver books on time --= I still remember the year I ordered a text book from the University of California Press and it was delivered 18 months later -- and they were upset when I had it sent back. (p.s. i know there are unavoidable delays in publishing -- one might think that if this was the case, the Press might have sent word to its customers, as commercial Presses always have in my experience) 4. Stop trying to find subjects that are esoteric and "classy". I know presses that have stopped trying to publish in various fields which, to tell the truth, had published only on the outer fringes of those subjects -- the sort of book that makes one say "I guess that's an interesting topic, but I'll read it in the library some day, if ever". 5. Don't be afraid to publish boring books on major topics. I know a whole bunch of Press people who are quite proud of the fact that they would never have published some of the most central books in various fields because they were not glitsy. 6. Quit going around being fashionably gloomy. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept 24, 2001 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:30:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 340 (340) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 29, 2001 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY NINCH and The New York Public Library in association with The Frick Collection, New York University Libraries and New York University Information Technology Services present: NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING "Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age" Monday September 24: New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum Fifth Avenue at 42nd St 8:30am-5:00pm http://www.nypl.org/research/copyright/index.html * * * Free of Charge * * * ONLINE REGISTRATION (Sept 10 Deadline): http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation * * * The fourth in the 2001 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS is to be held at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the New York Public Library (Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street) on Monday September 24 from 8:30am until 5pm. Two keynote speakers Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) and Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will explore issues arising for non-profit cultural institutions as they manage and use multimedia digital cultural material in an online environment. Following each of their presentations, Jaszi and Tadic will moderate a panel of experts in the field to discuss issues from the points of view of owners and users of digital assets. The NINCH Copyright 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 program will include plenty of time for audience questions, comments and discussion. Register online at http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm For information on all the NINCH 2001 Copyright Town meetings, see http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html * * * Themes The copyright-related issues of managing and using digital mutimedia online are some of the thorniest that administrators, lawyers, scholars, curators, teachers, artists and others have to face today. The Napster case powerfully demonstrated the need for re-thinking business practices in response to online music listeners. Meanwhile, and a little more quietly, film and dance scholars among others are finding it a nightmare to clear permissions for publishing multimedia CDs or websites. With a specific focus on the multimedia issues presented by music, dance, moving images and sound recordings, this Copyright Town Meeting will bring together copyright lawyers, and representatives from non-profit and for-profit enterprises to clarify the issues and to chart ways forward for those confronted by the practical problems of working on the Internet with cultural heritage materials. Issues to be covered will include: * copyrighting compilation works; * clearing rights and permissions; * limits and possibilities of fair use of multimedia online; * legal protection for encryption; * publicity and privacy rights; * the impact of Napster on for-profit and non-profit enterprises * what non-profits and for-profits can learn from each other in the copyright arena * * * Speakers Two keynote speakers will address the issues of non-profits as rightsholders and as users of digital multimedia material. Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) will speak on "non-profits as rightsholders" while Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will address "non-profits as users." Peter Jaszi teaches at the Washington College of Law of The American University, in Washington, D.C., where he directs the new Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic and the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. Professor Jaszi is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and an experienced copyright litigator who lectures frequently to professional groups in the United States and abroad. Linda Tadic is the Manager of the Digital Library at HBO. Ms. Tadic was the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to this position, she was Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. In 1998-1999, she was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). PANEL ONE Professor Jaszi will moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property Owners in the Digital Environment," with the following speakers: * Ryan Craig, a business development consultant, lawyer and co-founder of Fathom, is currently with Warburg Pincus, the international private equity firm, where he invests in and works with education and training companies. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Craig advised top management in the music, video, cable, telecommunications and Internet industries on strategic and operational projects. * Adam Eisgrau, Principal and Director of The Wexler Group, was Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) (1993-1995) and then the First legislative Counsel for the American Library Association (1995-1999), where he served as principal domestic and international lobbyist on intellectual property issues as the world wrestled with the reform of IP law for the Internet age. Eisgrau also was a primary organizer and media spokesperson for the Digital Future Coalition. * Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), and as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997). In 1995-1996, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission of Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the groundbreaking Task Force Report. PANEL TWO Linda Tadic will then moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property Users in the Digital Environment," with the following speakers: * Hank Barry, interim CEO at Napster (May 2000 to July 2001) is a partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. He serves as a director of Sensoria Corporation and of Napster, Inc. He received his law degree in 1983 from Stanford University, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and currently serves on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. * Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies where he teaches courses and does research on multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, metadata standards, intellectual property, digital longevity,information literacy, and the social and cultural impact of new information technologies. He was a member of the National Academy of Science panel that authored "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age." * Robert Kolker is Chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at The Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech. He is author of "A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman. Third, revised edition, July 2000; Film, Form and Culture. With accompanying CD-ROM. New York: McGraw-Hill, October, Second Edition, August, 2001; The Films of Wim Wenders, with Peter Beicken. Cambridge University Press, December, 1992; Bernardo Bertolucci. London: British Film Institute Books. June, 1985; New York: Oxford University Press. October, 1985. 258 pp.; The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press. January, 1983. 425 pp. Now online at http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rkolker/AlteringEye/. He and colleague Janet Murray have recently been awarded an NEH Grant to do a digital, annotated edition of Casablanca. * * * Registration (Sept 10 DEADLINE) Thanks to support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, participation in the town meetings is free of charge. However, seating is limited and early registration is advised. Please register online at http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm. 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Vanni General Counsel, The New York Public Library Jennifer Vinopal Coordinator, Studio for Digital Projects & Research New York University Libraries Matthew Zimmerman Humanities Computing Specialist, New York University Information Technology Services NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP: Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries Robert Baron, Independent Scholar Kenneth Crews, Indiana University Georgia Harper, University of Texas Christine Sundt, University of Oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD Marta Teegen, College Art Association Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of American University Presses Peter Walsh, College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property Patricia Williams, Americans for the Arts 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Subhash Durlabhji [mailto:durlabhji@NSULA.EDU] Subject: FW: book project invitation Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:26:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 341 (341) Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:35 PM Hello friends: Would you like to be involved in an interesting book project that could be path-breaking and revolutionary? Would you (or interested colleague) be willing to write an essay on the role the concept of POWER plays in your field? For centuries the physical and social sciences have followed the course of differentiation into finer and finer specializations. This division of labor has been phenomenally successful, producing startling insights and breathtaking scientific and social achievements. But many scholars believe that we are now in a new phase of knowledge generation, that this is the century of integration. Interesting parallels and crossover problems and issues are being discovered daily by scientists in different fields. Boundaries between various disciplines are become fuzzier. Scientific progress in the 21st century will come more, and more usefully, from interactions among the separate disciplines than from deeper penetration into narrow specializations. The scholarly effort I am suggesting here is based on this premise. There are a number of concepts -- power, value, hierarchy, energy, to name a few -- that occupy a central place in almost all the physical and social sciences. My proposal is simple: bring together in one volume essays on the subject of POWER by scientists from a range of disciplines -- Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Organization Studies, Anthropology, International Studies. These essays will focus on the role the concept of POWER plays in the central problems of each discipline. Written in simple language with as little technical detail as possible, they would seek to highlight especially the connections and commonalties among the basic sciences. The essays will not be concerned with the latest research and recent citations, but more with the "big picture". My role as editor will be to write the introduction and an integrative narrative, and a concluding chapter, and arrange for publication. If you find this idea interesting and would like to explore it in more depth, please contact me for a more detailed proposal, including some suggestions for style, substance, length, and so on. Please comment on the outline of the proposal given above and your own take on it -- how you would approach the task. Please join me on this venture, or pass on this message to a colleague who may be interested. At the least it will be fun; my hope is that it will be a runaway success and open the path to similar efforts for other concepts. Thank you. durlabhji@nsula.edu Dr. Subhash Durlabhji College of Business Northwestern State University Natchitoches, LA 71497 318-357-5692 Fax: 509-272-2692 From: "Olga Francois" Subject: October 2001! IP in Academia Workshop Series Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:28:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 342 (342) ANNOUNCEMENT Intellectual Property in Academia Workshop Series: Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism in the Digital Environment October 1, 2001 to October 19, 2001 Moderated by Rebecca Moore Howard, Ph.D. http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_ipacademia/ Is the writer/reader relationship to text profoundly changed online? Can assignments be redesigned to avoid plagiarism in the online and face to face classroom? Are academic policies properly addressing campus plagiarism issues? This dynamic workshop series will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the plagiarism issues facing higher education today. The second workshop in this asynchronous online series is an excellent follow-up to the well received workshop covering the ownership of online course material. Participants will receive daily response and feedback from the workshop's moderator. 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. You may register online or you may register by phone by calling 301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832, extension 7777. For additional information, please call or visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/workshop_ipacademia/ From: "Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga" Subject: OASIS HumanMarkup TC Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:29:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 343 (343) We would like to formally annouce the creation and Call for Participation of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee. <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup ----- Mission Statement: The HumanMarkup TC is set forth to develop the HumanML and associated specifications. HumanML is designed to represent human characteristics through XML. The aim is to enhance the fidelity of human communication. HumanML is set forth to be an XML Schema and RDF Schema specification, containing sets of modules which frame and embed contextual human characteristics including physical, cultural, social, kinesic, psychological, and intentional features within conveyed information. Other efforts within the scope of the HumanMarkup TC include messaging, style, alternate schemas, constraint mechanisms, object models, and repository systems, which will address the overall concerns of both representing and amalgamating human information within data. Target Applications: Examples of human characteristics include emotions, physical descriptors, proxemics, kinesics, haptics, intentions, and attitude. Applications of HumanML include agents of various types, AI systems, virtual reality, psychotherapy, online negotiations, facilitations, dialogue, and conflict resolution systems. -------------------------------------- Regards, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga OASIS HumanMarkup TC Chair rkthunga@humanmarkup.org (646) 456-9076 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Mora Campbell on _Cyborg Temporality_ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:27:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 344 (344) Prof. Mora Campbell for THE BROWN BAG RESEARCH SEMINARS:1999-2000 Series presented a paper on 'Cyborg Temporality..' Abstract of the paper is followed:-> -------------------------------------- Albert Borgmann and Donna Haraway are brought into conversation to examine the relationship between technology and temporal ambiguity and, ultimately, the question of the moral efficacy of ambiguity. The examination is guided by examples of virtual reality technology drawn from Borgmann and Katherine Hayles. I argue that both Borgmann's and Haraway's accounts of technology serve to elucidate experiences of temporal ambiguity and to clarify questions of commitment. However, I conclude that, in temporal terms, Haraway's desire, through the metaphor of the cyborg, to imagine a world that can be otherwise, serves, among others things, to consign us to a form of cyborg narcissism which betrays our commitments to ending injustices against humans and other beings. Borgmann, on the other hand, in his proposals for the reform of technology through focal things and practices, does not take questions of gender and cross-cultural difference into account sufficiently, and so fails to go far enough in rethinking social change. Ultimately, Borgmann's and Haraway's accounts serve as correctives to one another, but both would be strengthened by taking questions of individual and collective experiences of temporality more seriously. For more elaborated discussion on 'humans and machines' --see the interview of Prof. Albert Borgmann and Prof. Katherine Hayles at <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html> Thanking you..any feedbacks or criticisms are most welcome. Best Regards Arun Kumar Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= RA at Telecooperation Research Group, FB Informatik, The University of Technology, Darmstadt, Research Scientist and Scholar, ONLINE INTERNET EDUCATOR on the GLOBAL SCALE. Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee (http://www.waoe.org) Arun Tripathi's Global Education Projects <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/index.html> National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network Karen Ellis's The Educational Playground at <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com> The Internet in Education at: <http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/tripathi.htm> E-mail: Moderator for Online-Ed Listserv Internet Search Expert, EdResource Listserv Moderator <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/EdResource.html> On the Internet, Hubert L. Dreyfus: Summary by Arun Kumar Tripathi <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/Internet_Platonism_met_Dreyfus.htm> ============================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ACM files declaration in lawsuit challenging DMCA Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:28:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 345 (345) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 30, 2001 ACM FILES DECLARATION IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE DMCA http://www.acm.org/felten/ ACM SUGGESTS CHANGES TO THE FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS TREATY http://www.acm/usacm The Association for Computing Machinery has submitted an important declaration in the Felten v. RIAA lawsuit to help the court understand the practical effect of the issues at stake. The case challenges the legality of the anti-circumvention portions of the DMCA, arguing "that its broad prohibitions on disseminating information and technology restrict speech protected by the First Amendment." David Green =========== [deleted quotation] FROM: +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE Association for Computing Machinery Office of Public Policy =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ August 30, 2001 Volume 5.5 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ <> POLICY BRIEFS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ACM FILES DECLARATION IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE DMCA On August 13, 2001, ACM submitted a declaration in federal court regarding the legal challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the Felten v. RIAA lawsuit. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey by a number of computing researchers. Led by Princeton University computer scientist Edward Felten, the plaintiffs are asking the court to rule portions of the DMCA unconstitutional, arguing that its broad prohibitions on disseminating information and technology restrict speech protected by the First Amendment. ACM's declaration seeks to help the court understand the practical effect of the issues at stake in this case. "It is imperative for the court to understand that the application of any law that may limit the freedom to publish research on computer technology will impose a cost on the academic community, the process of scientific discourse, and society in general," stated Dr. John R. White, ACM's Executive Director. "We believe the threat of litigation under the DMCA will have a profound chilling effect on analysis, research, and publication." ACM is a leading publisher of scientific information and sponsors over 80 professional computing conferences each year. In addition to harming the progress of research, the risk of legal liability under the DMCA also threatens ACM's publication and sponsorship of professional computing conferences that might include scientific papers assessing the strengths and weaknesses of computer and data security measures. Noting that ACM has earned a respected reputation for choosing strong scientific papers for its conferences and publications without regard to political or commercial pressure, White concluded, "ACM could adopt a policy of steering clear of scientific papers that could subject us to liability under the DMCA, but that could only be done at a risk of sacrificing our mission and damaging our reputation as a scientific society." To review a copy of ACM's declaration, see http://www.acm.org/felten/ To review a copy of Computing Research Association's declaration, see: http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/felten/ USACM has engaged in a number of DMCA related activities which may be found at: http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/#copyright =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ ACM SUGGESTS CHANGES TO THE FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS TREATY The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is a treaty process to establish trade agreements between 34 countries in the Western hemisphere (including the U.S.). As part of the process, participants are negotiating treaty language that would require nation-signatories to pass copyright legislation in each of their national forums that mandates strict anti-circumvention measures similar to (or even expanding) restrictions imposed in the U.S. by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Prior to a recent meeting of the FTAA Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property Rights, ACM sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick urging that any similar provisions be removed from the final FTAA treaty language. ACM expressed concern that the broad restrictions on research contained in the proposed treaty language could unjustly harm the freedom of computer scientists to engage in research fundamental to the progress of innovation. USACM expressed similar concerns. To review the ACM letter, please see the USACM web site at: http://www.acm/usacm To review the proposed FTAA treaty language, please see the web site: http://www.ftaa-alca.org/ftaadraft/eng/draft_e.doc =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ <> The Association for Computing Machinery is an international professional society whose 80,000 members (60,000 in the U.S.) represent a critical mass of computer professionals in education, industry, and government. The USACM provides a means for promoting dialogue on technology policy issues with United States policy makers and the general public. The WASHINGTON UPDATE reports on activities which may be of interest to those in the computing and information policy communities and will highlight USACM's involvement in many of these issues. To subscribe to the ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE send an e-mail to listserv@acm.org with "subscribe WASHINGTON-UPDATE" (no quotes) in the body of the message. Back issues are available at: http://www.acm.org/usacm For information about joining the Association for Computing Machinery, see: http://www.acm.org/membership/join.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: books of interest, with request for comments Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:26:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 346 (346) Members of Humanist may be interested to know of the following, which are perhaps new only to me. Comments and further recommendations would be most welcome. 1. Caroline A Jones and Peter Galison, eds., Picturing Science, Producing Art (London: Routledge, 1998. I encountered this book because of Galison's fine essay, "Judgement Against Objectivity" (pp. 327-59), which is but one in a series of articles coming out of Galison's study of the historicity of the idea of objectivity; see also his paper in the ACLS Occasional Papers 47 volume, The Humanities and the Sciences, <http://www.acls.org/op47-1.htm>, which doubtless I have mentioned before. The editors of Picturing Science comment, "Analytic attempts to distinguish 'art' and 'science' often founder at the boundaries drawn between them' (p. 1). Indeed -- and much is in that past participle "drawn". 2. Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks, eds., Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2001). This volume came out of a conference held in London in 1998, Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication, first in what has become a series. An intellectually exciting event (I was there but only made trouble on the sidelines) that has fortunately survived into print. The essays in the book work out consequences of the fact that, as Susan Herring says in her Foreward, "the world is getting smaller" in part through communication technologies. With our mobile phones, e-mail &c we tend to regard this as a good thing and think no more about it. What these essays do inter alia is to burn away the "good" as an unqualified qualifier. As a friend once said about another matter, "it isn't necessarily a good thing, but it is certainly a thing." 3. Mikael Hard and Andrew Jamison, eds., The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939 (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998). This book examines the social and intellectual responses to technology during the 1st four decades of the last century. It came out of a project at the Department of the Theory of Science at Gothenburg (Goteborg, Sweden) and so a most welcome majority of essays are from Scandinavian scholars. I have not read this book yet; comments from anyone who has would be welcome, of course. 4. Denis Donoghue, The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination (New York: Ecco Press, 1976). This is a literary-critical study of imagination in writers from Shakespeare to the modernists. I'm not sure what to say about it yet; I mention it here to solicit comments from anyone familiar with Donoghue, even more with the topic. I would be most greatful for pointers to studies from any discipline on this topic -- other than Northrop Frye's series of lectures, The Educated Imagination, which I have read. 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: M4M-2: Second Call for Submissions Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:22:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 347 (347) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 2 (M4M-2) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam November 29-30, 2001 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m DEADLINE: October 12, 2001 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-2 is the second installment of this bi-anual workshop series. [material deleted] FURTER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. From: S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk Subject: 2001 HAN (Humanities and Arts higher education Network) Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:21:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 348 (348) Conferenc e programme and abstracts ... APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING Dear All, The programme and abstracts for the 2001 HAN Conference on Saturday, 13th October are now up on the HAN website - http://iet.open.ac.uk/research/herg/han/2001conf.htm Please take a moment to look at the programme and send your booking forms as soon as possible (forms on the pdf flyer). [deleted quotation] queries (k.j.lack@open.ac.uk - 01908 653488). Address: Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA. Many thanks. 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: AMLaP Psycholinguistics Conference Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:23:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 349 (349) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ AMLaP-2001 FINAL Call for Participation AMLaP-2001 ARCHITECTURES AND MECHANISMS FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING AMLaP-2001 SAARBRUECKEN GERMANY 20-22 September 2001 ___________________________________________________________ http://www.amlap.org/2001/ - AMLaP-2001 The 7th annual conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2001), will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany from September 20-22, 2001. The aim of the conference is to bring together psychological, computational, and theoretical perspectives on the cognitive mechanisms which underlie any aspect of human language processing. Integration of experimental psycholinguistic investigations with formal or=20 computational models of psychological processes is especially encouraged. - SPECIAL SESSION This years conference will also include a special session on the theme: "Experience-based Models of Language Processing" - INVITED SPEAKERS: Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego Michael Tomasello, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig [material deleted] - FURTHER DETAILS Full conference and registration details, including registration=20 forms can be found at: http://www.amlap.org/2001/ Queries should be directed to: amlap2001@amlap.org Conference Chairs: Matthew W Crocker Frank Keller Christoph Scheepers From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CICLing-2002 Conf: Comput. Linguistics and Text Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:24:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 350 (350) Processing, Mexico, February [deleted quotation] CICLing-2002 Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 17 to 23, 2002 Mexico City, Mexico SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNAI SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: November 5 INVITED SPEAKERS: (all to be confirmed): Nicoletta Calzolari, Ruslan Mitkov, Ivan Sag, Yorick Wilks, and Antonio Zampolli EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies, great cave and colonial city, City Center, and more URL: http://www.cicling.org/2002 The conference is endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) [material deleted] ===================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Kluge Fellowships Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:26:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 351 (351) [deleted quotation] Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship Competition Deadline for receipt of applications at the Library: September 30, 2001 Kluge Fellowships are for residential research in the collections of the Library of Congress. Fellowships are for period of from six to twelve months with a stipend of $3,500 per month. Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, the social sciences, or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible. Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous academic careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals. Applications: the application form and reference form may be printed from the website www.loc.gov/kluge. Applications must include a three-page single-spaced research proposal, a two-page curriculum vitae indicating major prior scholarship, an indication of the collections at the Library of Congress that will be used for research, and two letters of reference from individuals who know the quality of the applicant's scholarship. All application materials must be written in English. Language certification: For applicants whose native language is not English, there must be evidence that the applicant is fluent in English so as easily to conduct research, discuss work with colleagues and make a public presentation, although the ultimate product of the research may be written in the applicant's native language. For English speakers who seek to do research in the Library's foreign language collections, there must be evidence that they have a command of the relevant language or languages at the level requisite for serious research. Awards: Up to 12 Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually. Awards are announced no later than March 15 of the year following that in which the application was submitted. For further information, contact the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress at: scholarly@loc.gov or 202-707-3302 From: Peter Suber Subject: FOS Newsletter, 8/31/01 Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:25:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 352 (352) Welcome to the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter August 31, 2001 Public Library of Science (PLoS) deadline tomorrow Remember that the PLoS deadline is tomorrow, September 1. That means that starting tomorrow, the 26,000+ worldwide signers of its public letter are committed to avoiding journals which do not put their contents online free of charge within six months of print publication. In a letter sent out today (which I've forwarded to our discussion forum), the original eight signers point out that there are more signers producing research articles than compliant journals to publish them. The number of PLoS-compliant journals is about six. The exact number depends on how strictly one interprets compliance, but now matter how one interprets it, the number is small. Hence it appears that one PLoS strategy for moving forward will be to encourage the development of new (free online) journals. This will be the real breakthrough. We never had to wait for the existing journals to see the light, consent to FOS, or change their policies. We always had the option to create new journals. For journals publishing online, and dispensing with a print edition, the chief obstacle is to find respected and motivated scholars willing to serve on the editorial boards. The PLoS initiative has convened a very large number of them. A related problem is giving scholars an incentive to publish in online journals when print journals have more prestige, and when career pressures mean that increased readership and impact do not offset the loss of prestige. Again, the PLoS has gathered a large number of researchers who not only have the incentive, but who have taken a pledge. The technical problems have long since been solved. For PLoS signers, the significant political problems have also been solved. Let's see what happens. As new FOS journals come online, publishing good articles in good numbers, and charging no subscription fees, I wonder how long it will take for the number of PLoS compliant journals to rise from six to six hundred. Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ ---------- U.S. Copyright Office releases long-awaited study of DMCA On August 29 the U.S. Copyright Office released its long-awaited study of the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), which was required by Section 104 of the DMCA itself. The study recommends that purchasers of digital content be allowed to make personal back-ups, provided these are not shared or sold. This requires that purchasers have the technical means to make back-ups, which requires publishers to drop the absolute copy protection that many are using today. The study does not recommend a "digital first sale" doctrine, which many DMCA critics wanted. This would have given purchasers of digital content the right to distribute the content, just as a purchaser of a physical book has the right to loan or give away the book to others. Because digital works can easily be loaned or given away while the original owner retains a copy, the Copyright Office found the analogy between digital works and physical, printed texts limited. The study sees no violation of user-rights when publishers "tether" a digital work to a particular piece of hardware. Tethering prevents purchasers from taking their purchased works with them when they upgrade machines or switch platforms. Tethering seems to bother the Copyright Office, but it is taking no steps because it believes that tethering is rare "outside the context of electronic books". (So what about inside that context?) Librarians and user-rights groups have already criticized the study. Quoting Rick Weingarten of the American Library Association: "In our view, [the copyright office] still doesn't grasp what technology is doing to the issue of user rights." Quoting Fred Von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Our worst fears about the [DMCA] are coming true." The study is based on public comments and a public hearing, which are faithfully recorded in Volumes Two and Three of the study. Ariana Eunjung Cha, Keep Digital Copyright Law Intact, Agency Says http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16744-2001Aug29.html Andrea Foster, Libraries Criticize Federal Report on Digital-Copyright Law http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001083101t.htm DMCA Report by the U.S. Copyright Office http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html ---------- Another way to pay for FOS In the U.S. consumers once paid a surcharge on blank audio and video cassettes. The money went into a fund which was eventually disbursed among copyright holders of music and video. The theory was that some consumers would make illegal copies, and the surcharge would compensate the rights holders. I cannot tell how successful this system was --my search results are always oddly thin. (If you know what happened to this system in the U.S., please send me an email or post your information to our discussion forum.) But as a consumer, I liked the idea. Even though it made all consumers pay for the copying of some, it legitimated copying. I taped some copies of LPs and slept without guilt. This system is used widely in Europe. The agencies levying the surcharges, however, are stirring controversy by extending their reach to scanners, recordable DVDs, burnable CDs, hard drives, and other computer hardware. Their reasoning is impeccable. Computers and their peripherals are now the ultimate copying machines. I don't know the algorithm for determining the surcharge applied to each hard drive, or the algorithm for distributing money to each copyright holder. But if done fairly, this system has revolutionary potential. Legalize copying of all kinds, but charge for it when consumers buy copying systems and media. Question. Would you prefer that system to what we have now? For most consumers the question will be about music and video. But here let's limit the question to scientific and scholarly literature, both in book and journal forms. Would you pay a little extra for a computer (say, $35) if all the literature you wanted to read was freely accessible and permission to copy was universal? I get the $35 figure from the estimated surcharge on computers to be levied in Germany. (See Juliana Gruenwald's article, cited below.) But this estimate may be based on music and video copying. If so, it would have to rise if the system also covered research literature. But compared to the volume of copied music, the volume of copied research literature must be tiny and would raise the surcharge only slightly. To make the system fair, we would need reasonably accurate measurements of the amount of copying. Otherwise we wouldn't know whether to bump up the price of a computer $35 or $350 or whether to give Elsevier 1% or 10%. Download counters wouldn't catch the peer-to-peer traffic. So would you put up with packet sniffers or other eavesdropping technologies to take random samples of the copy traffic, as long as your identity was not recorded? Is there any reason why this system couldn't be extended from music and video to scientific and scholarly literature? What have we learned from the experience with music and video, or from the wider experience in Europe, that might help here? If you are a publisher, would you be willing to make your literature freely accessible and copyable if you were sufficiently compensated by the surcharge fund? If you feel short-changed by freely shared digital copies, would you rather sue readers for violating your copyright, lobby your national legislature to prohibit the technologies of free copying and sharing, or take your complaint to the surcharge fund distribution board? Juliana Gruenwald, Digital Copyright Tug O' War http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2784806,00.html FOS discussion forum http://www.topica.com/lists/fos-forum/read (Anyone may read; only subscribers may post; subscription is free.) ---------- Developments * On August 29, Texterity launched the TextCafe eBook Logistics Service for translating ebooks from the Open eBook format to all the other major ebook formats. http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=218 * An anonymous U.S. programmer has broken the fifth or highest level of encryption on Microsoft ebooks. The programmer has announced that he or she has no plans to make the program public. The purpose was to make his or her own purchased ebooks readable on more than one platform. Dmitry Sklyarov faces harsh penalties for taking the same steps with Adobe ebooks and making his program public (see next item, below). http://12.108.175.91/ebookweb/stories/storyReader$493 (Thanks to Denise Troll for bringing this to my attention.) * On August 28, Dmitry Sklyarov and his company, ElcomSoft, were indicted on five counts of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This ends speculation that a plea bargain was in the works. Sklyarov faces up to 25 years in prison and a fine of half a million dollars. http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=213 * While Sklyarov faces punishment for presenting his method for bypassing the copy protection on Adobe ebooks, his boss at ElcomSoft, Alexander Katalov, has announced that he will give an updated version of Sklyarov's presentation at a November conference in Amsterdam. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46318,00.html * Harvard's Berkman Center is throwing its weight behind Edward Felten's lawsuit to declare that he has a First Amendment right to present his encryption research and that any part of the DMCA which would prohibit him from doing so must be found unconstitutional. (See FOSN for August 16.) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/felten/pressrelease8-14.html * The Computing Research Association (CRA) is working with the Berkman Center to support Felten. The CRA is a consortium of North American CS departments. http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/felten/ * The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is also supporting Felten. It has written an amicus brief to support his First Amendment and anti-DMCA claims. http://www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/felten_declaration.html/ * Most of the journals published by Nature (except the weekly _Nature_ itself) will adopt Advance Online Publication (AOP), the policy of posting accepted articles to the internet as soon as they are ready. These are the refereed and edited versions of the articles, final in every way except for their pagination. _Nature Genetics_ turned to AOP last month, and the other Nature journals will turn to it in coming months. Nature makes abstracts available on its web site free of charge, but limits full-text to paying subscribers. http://www.nature.com/neuro/aop/ * Questia, which calls itself the World's Largest Online Library, has launched version 2.0 of its service. This is not FOS. Questia charges students $19.95 a month for access to online texts and study aids like text highlighters and footnote and bibliography citation generators. Version 2.0 enlarges the online collection from 35,000 to 60,000 full-text sources. (We last covered Questia in the July 31 issue, when it struck a deal with AOL.) Press release http://library.northernlight.com/FB20010815390000222.html Questia home page http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp ---------- New on the web * BrightPlanet has released version 2 of LexiBot, its software for searching the deep internet, the databases not crawled by standard search engines and by some estimates 500 times larger than the surface internet. Since much online scholarship exists in these databases, a deep internet search engine will be a valuable FOS tool. However, while LexiBot claims it will search 2,200 databases, it doesn't enumerate them anywhere that I could find, so it's hard to know which scholarly databases are within its scope. The software is free for a 30-day trial. http://www.lexibot.com/features/index.asp * Planet eBook has posted to the web summaries of all the presentations from the Open Publish 2001 conference in Sydney, July 30 - August 2. For most presentations, it also offers downloadable full-text. http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=197&nl * The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has updated its "Pizza Chef" software for helping users build a document type definition (DTD) for their work. http://www.tei-c.org/pizza.html * In the last issue I printed a dead link for the preliminary results of the survey conducted by the developers of eprint software (for creating OAI-compliant archives). The link has since been fixed. You can find the survey results here: http://www.eprints.org/results/ * Does progress toward FOS seem to be moving slowly? It may seem that way, day to day, but it helps to remember that the World Wide Web is only 10 years old this month. While FOS was possible on pre-internet computers, and on the pre-web internet (e.g. arXiv), it didn't really ignite widespread passion or imagination until the arrival of the web. If you look at what's been done, and what's on the drawing board, then it's clear that we've come a very long way in only 10 years. The article at the link below is not about this at all, but simply reminds us that this is the web's 10th birthday. http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=46311 ---------- In other publications * In an August 28 contribution to the _Nature_ debate on FOS, Jon Bosak argues that XML can greatly improve the presentation and retrieval of digital scientific literature but, unfortunately, only by increasing the production costs. (Bosak is one of the creators of XML.) http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/bosak.html * In the August 28 _New York Times_ David Kirkpatrick reports that ebooks are not taking off as fast as boosters hoped. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/technology/ebusiness/28EBOO.html?todaysheadlines * Archives should be interoperable. So should information-swapping applications, publishers, and text formats. But digital rights languages? In an August 24 article posted to Planet eBook, Renato Iannella makes the case for the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), an interoperable language allowing a description of rights to accompany digital content. http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=208 * In the August 23 _Wired News_, Kendra Mayfield describes the University of Phoenix's plan to phase out print textbooks in favor of ebooks. The University of Phoenix is a for-profit university specializing in distance education. Even apart from Phoenix's special needs, Mayfield reports that publishers see demand from the education market for customized, interactive electronic textbooks. http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45860,00.html * In the August 17 _NewMedia_, Bob Woods describes the success of the Library of Congress's American Memory site: 100 million hits in the 12 months from April '00 to April '01. American Memory is a huge, free, online collection of Library of Congress materials in many media. It's aimed at students studying American history. If material useful to students deserves the name of scholarship, then American Memory is an FOS success story. http://www.newmedia.com/nm-ie.asp?articleID=2974 * In the August 9 _Chicago Tribune_, David Streitfeld argues that consumers don't see ebooks as solutions to real problems. The article focuses on fiction and trade non-fiction, not scholarly ebooks. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0108090012aug09.story * In the August 3 issue of _The Filter_, Lawrence Lessig shows how the copyright debate has changed since 1995, when it seemed that the thriving of the internet meant the death of copyright. He re-articulates the problems with the DMCA in light of recent defenses of it, and argues that the real issue is not whether copyright is dead but "how many other values get sacrificed in the name of protecting copyright." http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/lessig-sklyarov.html ---------- Share your thoughts * On August 31, the RLG and OCLC want your comments on their draft report on the "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository." The goal is to develop strategies and systems for long-term access and preservation to digital content. http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf ---------- Catching up * In May, Adobe launched eBook U, an initiative to sell ebooks to universities and explore the potential for ebooks for teaaching and learning. Under the plan, Adobe's university partners will get free software and training for making ebooks, and Adobe will study how they used. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200105/20010514ebooku.html ---------- Following up * In the August 7 issue, we explored the problem of the commercial exploitation of FOS. One defense against it is to copyright free online articles, rather than put them into the public domain. This gives the author the right to stop a publisher from making copies which it might use commercially. An August 23 story posted to Cosmiverse reports on an intriguingly analogous problem --with no FOS connection beyond this analogy. If you are a celebrity worried that stalking fans steal might your hair brush or restaurant fork, and have mad scientists clone you, then you may thwart them and sleep soundly at night by copyrighting your DNA. Can you really copyright your DNA? Either you can, or California's DNA Copyright Institute, which secures DNA copyrights at $1,500 a pop for clone-anxious celebrities, is a fraud. (Could clone-worthy celebrities really be gullible?) Copyright your DNA http://www.cosmiverse.com/science08230102.html The DNA Copyright Institute http://www.DNAcopyright.com ---------- I've been receiving a steady stream of helpful suggestions for my Guide to the FOS Movement, launched last week. I've noted all of them an acted on most of them already. Meantime, I have my own backlog of worthy sites to add. If only I didn't have this newsletter to take my time-- http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm ---------- Conferences If you plan to attend one of the following conferences, please share your observations with us through our discussion forum. * The International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting http://www.archimuse.com/ichim2001/index.html Milan, September 3-7 * 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries http://www.ecdl2001.org/guest Darmstadt, September 4-8 * DELOS Workshop on Interoperability in Digital Libraries http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/delite/DelosWorkshop01/frame-delos2001.htm Darmstadt, September 8-9 * Experimental OAI Based Digital Library Systems http://notesmail.cs.odu.edu/faculty/zubair/workshop.nsf/OaiEcdlWorkshop?OpenForm Darmstadt, September 8 * Preserving Online Content for Future Generations http://www.bnf.fr/pages/infopro/dli_ECDL2001.htm Darmstadt, September 8 * International Autumn School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/autumn01/ Geneva, September 9-14 * Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections http://rcdl2001.krc.karelia.ru/ Petrozavodsk, September 11-13 * Intellectual Property and Multimedia in the Digital Age: Copyright Town Meeting http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html New York, September 24; Cincinnati, October 27; Eugene, Oregon, November 19 * Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/rihss/drrh.html Sydney, September 26-28 * EBLIDA Workshop on the Acquisition and Usage of Electronic Resources http://www.eblida.org/conferences/licensing/licensing.htm The Hague, September 28 * Summer School on the Digital Library 2001: Electronic Publishing http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/summer01/course3/ Florence, October 7-12 * IT in the Transformation of the Library http://www.lita.org/forum01/index.htm Milwaukee, October 11-14 * International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/ Tokyo, October 22-26 * Information in a Networked World: Harnessing the Flow http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM01/index.html Washington D.C., November 2-8 * Electronic Book 2001: Authors, Applications, and Accessibility http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/ebook2001/ Washington D.C., November 5-7 ========== This is the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter (ISSN 1535-7848). 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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: DISCUSSION DOCUMENT: RLG-OCLC Preservation Report: Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:28:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 355 (355) "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 31, 2001 RLG-OCLC PRESERVATION DISCUSSION DOCUMENT RELEASED "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources" http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf Comments to by October 12, 2001 [deleted quotation] The second RLG-OCLC report intended to advance long-term retention of digital research materials is now available for review and comment. You can find "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources" at http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf. It is, or will be very shortly, linked to from http://www.oclc.org/digitalpreservation and http://www.oclc.org/presres. On the morning of August 31, both organizations will be announcing the report in news releases at our web sites. This 52-page PDF document is intended to prompt consideration and discussion worldwide. To help achieve an international consensus and shape next steps, we need dialog on the standards, criteria, and mechanisms for certifying digital information repositories. We encourage your input -- please comment to robin.dale@notes.rlg.org by October 12, 2001. While intended primarily for research institutions and specifically for libraries and archives, this report contains guidance and recommendations applicable to any organization interested in long-term maintenance of and continuing access to digital materials. It highlights some key strategic issues as it focuses on practical assistance to administrators and implementers of digital archiving services. 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. 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "First Sale" Report Published by Copyright Office Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:28:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 356 (356) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 31, 2001 "FIRST SALE" REPORT PUBLISHED BY COPYRIGHT OFFICE http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html The Copyright Office has just released its report on "the impact of the DMCA and Electronic Commerce & Associated technologies on Sections 109 and 117 of the Copyright Act." Look for commentaries from many sources over the next week or two, but the upshot is that the Register of Copyrights recommends no change in the law, especially with respect to extending the first sale doctrine into the digital age. Interestingly, the Register does assert at the opening of the Executive Summary that "The enactment of the DMCA was only the beginning of an ongoing evaluation by Congress on the relationship between technological change and U.S. copyright law." So we know there's a long road ahead of us. David Green [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Early press reports on latest DMCA study Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 06:29:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 357 (357) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community Copywrong? By Damien Cave in Salon http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/31/dmca_report/print.html No Need to Alter DMCA -- Yet (Reuters) http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46440,00.html Two early press reports on the latest Copyright Office Study on the DMCA. The first, in Salon, includes interesting responses from: * Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Wisconsin (author of Copyrights & Copywrongs) * Mark Lemley, UC, Berkeley law professor who specializes in copyright law * Eben Moglen, Columbia University law professor, Free Software Foundation * Cary Sherman, Recording Industry Association of America. * Rich Taylor,Motion Picture Association of America * Frederick Weingarten, American Library Association * Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Thanks to: [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Runcibles Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 10:18:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 358 (358) Willard, I was re-reading some material from the Renear-McGann exchange organzied a few years back by Susan Hockey (ACHALLC99 "What is Text?") [Unfortunately, the position statements no longer appear to be accessible on the WWW.] The statements with their nominalist/realist thematics bring to mind an entryfrom Mark Morton's _Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities_ (Winnipeg: Bain and Cox, 1996). runcible spoon In 1971, Edward Lear, a Victorian artist and author, wrote a book of nonsense verse that included this passage from a poem call "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat": "They dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they are with a runcible spoon." Over the next twenty years, other runcible items appeared in Lear's poetry, including a runcible goose, a runcible cat, a runcible hat, a runcible wall, and one more runcible spoon. In all these poems, the meaning of the word _runcible_ is unknown: Lear invented it out of thin air simply because he liked the sound of it. In the early twentieth century, however, someone bestowed the word upon an actual piece of cutlery used to serve appetizers -- a spoon whose bowl ends in three curved prongs, the last of which has a cutting edge." I don't quite agree with Morton's characterization of invention out of thin air -- phonological systems make the air thick. I was wondering if in the history of humanities computing there have not been "runcible spoons". Any candidates for what is a type of ante-grail? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: What is Text? -- URL Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 10:18:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 359 (359) Willard, In a previous message I expressed doubt as to the continuing accessibility of the documentation relating to an important exchange in the field of humanities computing. I have managed to find the set of documents and hope others will consult them. The URL: http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Susan_Hockey/ACHALLC99.htm I am particulary intrigued as to what subscribers to Humanist might think about the claim that appears to be advanced by McGann at the time that markup models text as determinate hierarchy and not as recursive network. The distinction doesn't seem to hold since markup can provide a system of interlocking pointers. Intrigued. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: runcibilities Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:05:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 360 (360) Francois Lachance asked if there were any runcibles in humanities computing (the OED entry follows). (Funny, I would have sworn that a "runcible spoon" was the kind with a serrated edge used for eating grapefruit....) By which I take it that he means to ask, are there any terms invented out of thick air (thanks, Francois, for that observation) in humanities computing? In computing as a whole, I'd think the answer would be to point to The (New) Hacker's Dictionary, a.k.a. The Jargon File, indeed to the characteristic and playful linguistic behaviour of propeller-headed people; for a possible example, see below. I would be delighted to learn that some socio-linguist or other had studied this behaviour, at least to have given us a catalogue with commentary. I hope not to discover that we are more sober types, whose dignity keeps us from being thus playful. Geoffrey Nunberg's observations about online academic exchanges (in "Farewell to the Information Age", The Future of the Book -- read it tonight) give me reason for hope. So, please, let us have some runcibles. I wonder further, about my own "error" in assigning meaning to this term. Is there some truth in Humpty Dumpty's declaration, that "When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less"? Does the demi-mondish world of (academic) e-chatter give a kind of critical mass to the formation of meanings around sequences of sound? Yours, WM P.S., Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898), lists "Runcible Spoon (A)" as "A horn spoon with a bowl at each end, one the size of a table-spoon and the other the size of a tea-spoon. There is a joint midway between the two bowls by which the bowls can be folded over" (http://www.bartleby.com/81/14638.html). Lear's usage predates the publication of this book, but not by much. The Free Online Dictionary of Computing points out that "runcible" was the name given to an early system for mathematics on the IBM 650 (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?RUNCIBLE) -- one of the first machines I had physical contact with -- hence "Fortruncible", "A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE"; see Donald E. Knuth, "Runcible --- Algebraic translation on a limited computer" (CACM 2.11, 1959, pp. 18-21). Unfortunately in the article Knuth does not mention why this name was chosen; perhaps that secret is kept in the Computing Center staff publication he cites, Runcible I (vol. 1, series 5), of the Case Institute of Technology, where he was a student at the time. This was Knuth's second publication, his first was in Mad Magazine (1957), on a system of weights and measures he designed. According to one of Knuth's students, Mad "inexplicably declined" his second article, on Runcible (Mathematical Writings, para. 18, "Excerpts from class, November 4", 1987, Stanford University http://conic.cx/gallery/misc/mathwriting.pdf). ----- RUNCIBLE. A nonsense word used by Edward Lear in runcible cat, hat, etc., and esp. in runcible spoon, in later use applied to a kind of fork used for pickles, etc., curved like a spoon and having three broad prongs of which one has a sharp edge. The illustrations provided by Lear himself for his books of verse give no warrant for this later interpretation. 1871 E. LEAR Owl & Pussy-Cat in Nonsense Songs, They dind on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon. 1872 More Nonsense 235 The Dolomphious Duck, who caught Spotted Frogs for her dinner with a Runcible Spoon. 1877 Laughable Lyrics 24 He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska's Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers! 1888 Nonsense Songs & Stories (ed. 6) 8 His body is perfectly spherical, He weareth a runcible hat. 1895 Ibid. (new ed.) 76 What a runcible goose you are! Ibid. 77 We shall presently all be dead, On this ancient runcible wall. 1926 N. & Q. 11 Dec. 430/2 A runcible spoon is a kind of fork with three broad prongs or tines, one having a sharp edge, curved like a spoon, used with pickles, etc. Its origin is in jocose allusion to the slaughter at the Battle of Roncevaux, because it has a cutting edge. Ibid., Does a runcible hat mean one of the sort called a trilby? In that case a runcible spoon may be one with prongs or teeth. 1949 PARTRIDGE Name into Word 373 He weareth a runcible hat. Thus Edward Lear in Self-Portrait, where the hat is a topper with a sharp rim. Now, a runcible spoon (Lear, 1871) is not a spoon at all but a pickle fork, broadly and triply tined, one tine being sharp-edged and curved like a spoon... The word runcible has been built in the architectural style of fencible; indeed, it may constitute a blend of Roncevaux and fencible (capable of defending). 1969 R. & D. DE SOLA Dict. Cooking 195/2 Runcible spoon, not a spoon but a fork with three broad curved prongs, used for serving appetizers. 1979 Washington Post 25 Mar. N6/2 A runcible spoon..is a large, slotted spoon with three thick, modified fork prongs at the bowl's end, and a cutting edge on the side. ---- 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: Re: Runcible spoon and Boswell Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:06:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 361 (361) Dear seekers of runcible origins, The "runcible" question provides a nice marker of the availability of networked resources. Following Professor Corre's lead, I conducted a WWW search. Found a story outlining the racist origins of the "spork" [an implement meant to displace chopsticks in occupied Japan]. Also found a reference in Brewer's _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_ describing the spoon thus: A horn spoon with a bowl at each end, one the size of a table-spoon and the other the size of a tea-spoon. There is a joint midway between the two bowls by which the bowls can be folded over Of course, the edition of Brewer's dictionary postdates Lear's poem. A trip round to a library catalogue online would be necessary to discover publication history. A commerical site suggests origins beyond Lear... http://www.runciblespoon.com/html/book.html What is a Runcible Spoon? That is the question asked most often by people coming into our kitchen and tableware store. Our name is borrowed from one of our favorite childhood poems, The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear [...] But a Runcible Spoon dates back further in English history to Samuel Johnson. It was noted by his traveling companion, Boswell, that the two shared meals using a utensil fashioned from the horn of an animal. This ancient utensil served as a knife, fork, and spoon and was known as a Runcible Spoon. An online search for Boswell AND Johnson AND spoon does not turn up at present the elusive runcible. 18th century euro-specialists may be of some assistance. The connection to Roncesvalles suggest by Professor Corre may come by way of "pease" http://www.kal69.dial.pipex.com/glossp.htm PEASE. Hannah Glasse refers to Roncival and Winged Pease, 165. The former have been tentatively identified as marrowfat peas by Lovelock (1972), who also cites the probably apocryphal explanation of the name as a corruption of the French name Roncesvalles. Winged peas are not mentioned by the authors of Adams Luxury and Eves Cookery (1744), a full survey of the kitchen garden in which peas are given their due of attention; nor in the chapter on peas in Lisle (1757), although his observations are very precise and he refers to numerous varieties. But they do appear as winged crown or rose pease in the list of 20 varieties given by Switzer (1727), and Rouncivalls had also been mentioned by Cotgrave (1611) as being the same as Pois ramez. Elizabeth David suggests (private communication) that it was the rames or branches which made these peas rouncival, and that the name may be connected with ronce or ronciata (wild, brambly - like the sort of tangle into which pea plants can get). She wonders whether, later, they could have inspired Edward Lear's runcible spoon. (Glasse, 1747) The above is the entry from a glossary prepared by Prospect Books for its facsimile reprints or transcripts of English cookery texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. No electronic edition availible yet, I believe. Glasse's book was frequently attributed to Ben Johnson. However, she was a real person and lived in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury. Of this edition, less than 15 copies are known to exist. A second printing also appeared in 1747, of which there are only about five known copies. Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections at Kansas State University. http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/spec/rarebooks/cookery/glasse1747.html Far from the Apostle's spoons of Professor Corre's suggestive posting but certainly on track for demonstrating how a single lexical unit can open up a world of discourse, a network of possibilities, very much what McGann would call the "recursive interplay of the fields". Whether the referent exists in actuality or merely as a counter-factual, the points pointed to by the signifier string together less as beads for counting "penance" as the sign-ful joy for re-counting words and dates in Spain and beyond. [deleted quotation]What all this might have to do with Humanities Computing is perhaps an example of the the hypertextuality that links communities of interest which criss-cross in interesting ways. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.217 runcible Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 06:16:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 362 (362) Sigh. Runcible seems to be one of those words that just inspires folk etymology (like "posh", but let's don't get started on that!) Etymologists pretty much agree that 'runcible' was a coinage by Lear (as "Kodak" by Eastman), but various suggestions have been made about what inspired him...the number of words made up from absolutely nothing is very small indeed. "Roncesvalles" hs been suggested from time to time, especially in the form of "rouncy", meaning something big and clumsy (cf. the Canterbury Tales, where the Shipman has clearly been given the worst horse in the rent-a-horse shop --"He rode upon a rouncy, as he kouthe" [e.g. he rode about as you'd expect a sailor to ride]) CT, A 390. The term has been applied to clumsy women & horses, large peas, warts, etc.....cf the American Heritage Dictionary. But the application of 'rouncy' to 'runcible' comes with no data at all. It's just a guess, and it's hard to see how the senses large, awkward apply to Lear's spoon. The runcible grapefruit spoon was named from the poem (as "quark" was from Finnegans Wake). ----- 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: Brother Anthony Subject: [Fwd: PROTEST BLOCKAGE OF GAY INTERNET SITES IN REPUBLIC Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:47:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 363 (363) OF KOREA] Willard, It does seem to me that this message received on the Korean Studies List addresses a matter of serious concern to us all in terms of the right to free access and free expression on the Internet. Brother Anthony Sogang Univeristy, Seoul, Korea [For reflection on the kind of thing that follows, I can do no better at the moment than to point again to Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks, eds., Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), and to the CATaC conference series that these worthies oversee, with world-wide participation. (For the 1998 conference from which the book comes, see http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/, for the 2000 conference see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/.) Quite apart (and of course not at all apart) from the specific human activity addressed below, it seems obvious to me that communication is a very complex and difficult matter in the international, multicultural contexts that we now can reach so easily. Discussion of the problem here, once again, would be most welcome. --WM] [deleted quotation] [material deleted] [deleted quotation] From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: "bedside literature" Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:53:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 364 (364) Gazing upon the stack that threatens to topple over and crush me in my sleep, I wonder when the practice of reading in bed became commonplace. My *assumption* is that it requires electric light. OED finds "bedside" of books and literature in a citation from the Cornhill Magazine in 1920. Any good indications earlier? Part of this is idle curiosity, but the deeper question is the commodification of literary consumption -- when did reading become something you did for idle distraction? It was said, when Oxford University was introducing an honors syllabus in English literature in the 1930s, that such a program was unnecessary because the students could read novels in their baths (presumably the tubs set up on the floor in their Oxford rooms and filled by scouts toting buckets of "hot" water to fill them) -- so when did bath-reading become common? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.216 runcibles from love's cupboard Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:54:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 365 (365) Francois: At 05:39 AM 9/2/01, you wrote: [deleted quotation] As you know, this is an issue that interests me, so I looked up the page you cited (thanks). I don't believe that McGann says quite what you attribute to him. The closest thing he does say to your paraphrase "that markup models text as determinate hierarchy and not as recursive network" is: [deleted quotation] This is considerably more carefully stated than your formulation. Perhaps we could emend your paraphrase to say "markup *has modeled* text as determinate hierarchy and not as recursive network", which is something closer to what McGann says. And I think we can agree it is little less than the truth. Markup *can*, as you suggest, go further than than DeRose's and Renear's OHCO (Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects), or its present-day descendant, the XML infoset (or its close sibling, the XPath data model). There is currently quite a bit of interesting work going on in using markup to describe structures that are more than the "acyclic directed graph" (i.e., the tree) described by SGML/XML. For example, work on both Topic Maps (see http://www.topicmaps.org) and RDF (Resource Description Framework) from W3C, suggest directions which Humanists will be profitably investigating for years to come. In fact (as you know) even SGML/XML, via the ID/IDREF mechanism, can imply something more complex than the simple tree structure. But reflecting on that, immediately you can see, there's the rub. In order to take advantage of such a data structure, be it "a recursive network" or "set of interlocking structures", we need an application architecture (objects instantiated in memory? a relational database?) and software that understands the more complex data model. In other words, markup itself is *not enough*. A gap opens up between the *notation* we use to describe and express an information set to our eyes and hands -- usually meaning, in this case, the actual text-and-markup, the lines of characters with all the pointy brackets, etc. -- and the abstract data model which our machine is designed to process. (You can understand this difference in the difference between processing markup with, say, regular expressions, which see only a sequence of characters and which do pattern-matching over that sequence, and something like XSLT, which only works after a parser has converted that character sequence into a tree structure. They work on different data models. Which is "truer" to the text?) We think we're doing something fluid and flexible -- markup -- but actually (like the evil imp in the legend) we're locking ourselves into something rigid and hierarchical, a tree. But -- Felix Culpa! -- we discover this gap is actually fortunate for us, a feature of our systems not a bug, as we discover these data models can be layered. Out of your stream of characters, if it is well-formed, you can render a tree. Out of a tree you can render a set of interlocking structures. Each layer, as a medium, "contains another medium" below it (you remember your McLuhan), but as a more elaborate and featured structure than its more rudimentary basis, can serve to represent something more complex. (So in XPath/XSLT we can say a title is "inside" a chapter. In markup alone, this requires assuming our parser recognizes containment.) Up until this point, markup systems were only being engineered to emulate what print media already did. Now we are poised, as you suggest, for markup-based systems to begin to do much more. Yet this does not contradict anything in what McGann said. In fact, his statements can be taken to suggest (I paraphrase much more freely than you did) that the nature of poetry is such that it will continue to evade comprehensive "understanding" through markup (that is, there is no way we can explain or fully account for a poem, through markup), not because the structures of poetry are so elaborate and "intertwingled" -- that is not the point -- but because the very nature of poetry is to work at several levels at once, between what we are now calling notation and data model (each data model potentially providing a notation for another, higher model). That is, to be rather crudely geekish about it, the poet's work is to invent a notation to express a new data model, or at the very least, to explore the workings of notations ("texts") and data models (abstractions communicated by those texts) with respect to one another. Naturally, McGann (being a scholar of Byron and Rossetti) is inevitably very sensitive towards the complexity of those models: both systems of linguistic and literary-generic conventions, and more overt literary allusion, make for extremely complex, though hardly formalized, "networks" of meaning. But to get caught up in this -- imagining, for example, the way hypertext might represent such a system of knowledge and meaning -- would be to miss the main point: that the poets have done it already, using their own materials -- ink, paper, sound, silence, white space on the page -- and that the nature of their creation can no more be captured in another form, than a cinematic masterpiece, or even a home video, can be explained and comprehended in a movie review (or letter to grandma), however artful. That is, if we look past the tantalizing promises of technology to encapsulate and define, finally, such knowledge and meaning as we have -- to build the system that could, say, "know" what Byron's _Don_Juan_ "knows" -- and recognize that the poets have always been, not merely users of media, but *inventors* of new media out of the old, we'll be closer to what McGann was trying to get at. In that sense, I do not take his remarks to indicate any problem to be solved. The only warning in it is, that although we may have shown we can erect buildings with our Lego set, we might still not have explained away the art of the builder who has learned to work in glass and stone. Best, 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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: LIST OF INTERESTING BOOKS Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 06:54:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 366 (366) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Following are my personal findings regarding the books related to the Cyborgs, Postmodernism, Virtual Reality, Media, Philosophy of Information and Technology, Cybermedia, 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 would also be helping 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! --Arun Tripathi "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES "We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself." --William S. Burroughs What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the over abundance of information sources that might consume it. ---Nobel Laureate, Economist, Herbert A. Simon--- Another important thoughts..Herbert Simon quote.. It is not my aim to surprise or shock you --but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that, there are now machines that can think, that can learn, and that can create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until --in a visible future-- the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.. Telepresence -the remote projection of human abilities into a Machine -the melding of Mind and machine. (Excerpts from an Interview with Semiotics writer, Umberto Eco) Q. What does your take on Marshall McLuhan? You have written that the global village is an overrated metaphor, as "the real problem of an electronic community in solitude." Do you feel that McLuhan's philosophy is too lightweight to justify the cult that has been dedicated to him? A. McLuhan wasn't a philosopher --he was a sociologist with a flair of trend spotting. If he were alive today he would probably be writing books contradicting what he said 30 or 40 years ago. As it was, he came up with the global village prophecy, which has turned out to be at least partly true, the "end of the book" prophecy, which has turned out to be totally false, and a great slogan --"The medium is the message"- which works a lot better for television that it does for the Internet. "The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it." --Vannevar Bush, 1945 (As We May Think)-- --Some excerpts from Michael Benedikt (Ed.) "Cyberspace: First Steps" on Cyberspace Ideology-- "Cyberspace is a completely spatialized visualization of all information in global information processing systems, along pathways provided by present and future communications networks; enabling full copresence and interaction of multiple users, allowing input and output from and to the full human sensorium, permitting simultaneous of real and virtual realities, remote data collection and control through telepresence, and total integration and intercommunication with a full range of intelligent products and environments in real space." REVIEWs of _Cyberspace: First Steps_ can be read at (http://dannyreviews.com/h/Cyberspace_First_Steps.html) (http://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/telecom/telecom-archives/book.reviews/cyberspace.first.steps) Some of the following books, are taking the questions such as, Is cyberspace an inevitable development in the interaction of humans and computers?, What will it look like?, What are the larger narratives that work to shape collective perceptions of e-space? Describing the Internet, Luciano Floridi at Oxford, wrote: A whole population of several million people interacts by means of the global network. It is the most educated, intellectual community that ever appeared on earth, a global academy that, like a unique Leibnizian mind, thinks always. The Internet is a completely new world, about which we seem to know very little....its appearance has found most of us, and especially the intellectual community thoroughly unprepared. ---The Information Society, Vol 12, No.1--- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum auch einmal sprach, "..Fuer den, der weiss, was er sucht ist das Internet eine wunderbare Quelle. Fuer den, der einfach nur rumsurft, gilt das natuerlich nicht. Der Zugang zu viel Wissen bedeutet eben nicht, dass man das Wissen nuzten kann. Das Internet ist ein Schrotthaufen, in dem Geld und Perlen versteckt sind.." He further goes on saying, "..On the Web, there is no informations, only "signals" are present. We, human-beings should try to change the "signals" into "informations" --the use of "signals" is also discussed elsewhere in the latest book of Albert Borgmann, "_Holding On To Reality_" Interview mit Joseph Weizenbaum on _Das Internet ist ein Schrotthaufen mit Perlen drin_ is located at (http://www.oszhdl.be.schule.de/gymnasium/faecher/informatik/internet/weizenbaum.htm) "Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other and we need them all." ---Arthur C. Clarke--- In the book, *The Digital Dialectic* (ed.) Peter Lunenfeld, --several media scholars and philosophers contributed new essays on new media --such as Michael Heim's The cyberspace Dialectic, Carol Gigliotti's The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic, N. Katherine Hayles's The Condition of Virtuality, William Mitchell's Replace Place, George Landow's Hypertext as Collage-Writing, Lev Manovich's What is Digital Cinema?, etc. Details at (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-home.tcl?isbn=0262621371) **** 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) The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence --ed. Margaret A. Boden (OUP) (computing, AI and systems theory) Thomas Flynn & Dalia Judovitz (Eds.), Dialectic and Narrative Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, 1996 Being Human in the Ultimate: Studies in the Thought of John M. Anderson -edited by Michael Heim, N. Georgopoulos (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and Atlanta 1995) The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic by Martin Heidegger, (translation), with translator's introduction, notes, and lexicon, Indiana University Press, 1984 The Universal Turing Machine. A Half-Century Survey,II --ed. Rolf Herken (New York: Springer) (computing, AI and systems theory) Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The fate of Reading in the Electronic Age, NY: Fawcett Columbine, (1994) John H. Holland: Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial intelligence, MIT Press, 1992 John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, 1989 John Haugeland (Ed.), Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, 1997 The Varieties of Reference, Gareth Evans. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982 Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines --by H.M. Collins (MIT Press, 1990) Mark Dery, (Ed.), Flame wars: the discourse of cyberculture, Duke University Press, 1994 Philip Hayward & Tana Wollen, (Eds.), Future visions: new technologies of the screen, London, 1993 David Holmes, (Ed.) Virtual politics: identity and community in cyberspace, London, 1997 Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution, --edited by Peter Droege, (Amsterdam, North Holland, 1997) Understanding Images: Finding Meaning in Digital Imagery, --edited by Frank Marchese (TELOS, The Electronic Libary of Science, Santa Cruz, California) (Telos-springer Press, NY, 1995) Andrew Feenberg, Questioning Technology (London/NY: Routledge, 1999) Andrew Feenberg, Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory (University of California Press, 1995) Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology (OUP, 1991) _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) --books opposing the new techno-eugenics-- Andrew, Lori. _The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology_. NY:Henry Holt, 1999 Appleyard, Bryan. _Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future_. NY:Viking, 1998 ---- --books supporting the new techno-eugenics-- Pence, Gregory E. _Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?_. Lanham, MD:Rowman & Littlefield, 1998 Silver, Lee. _Remaking Eden: How Cloning and Beyond Will Change the Human Family_. NY:avon, 1997 ---- 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 (The first chapter, Unfinished Business is available online at <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/LUNDH/ch01.pdf> ) 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) Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition (Princeton University Press, 1992) Brian S. Turner, The Body and Society (Oxford:Basil Blackwell, 1984) The Body and the Self, edited by J. L. Bermudez, A. Marcel and N. Eilan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books., 1995 Computers as Theatre (Addison-Wesley 1991) by Branda Laurel When Things Start To Think, Neil Gershenfeld, Henry Holt and Company, NY, 1992 (According to the author..we must analyse the computer for irrational and antisocial behaviour. Dr. Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the physics and media group and co-director of the Things That Think (TTT) consortium at MIT's Media Lab, who thinks, that computers and other high-technology devices are too hard to use. He says, "..There is a disconnect between the breathless pronouncements of cybergurus and the experience of ordinary people left perpetually upgrading hardware to meet the demands of new software.." --Good book to read) See details at (http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/books/ba/) and (http://www.media.mit.edu/~neilg/) and read also the vision of TTT at (http://www.media.mit.edu/ttt/vision.htm) The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (1988) Richard Holeton, Composing cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age, NY, McGraw Hill, 1997 Peter Ludlow, High noon on the electronic frontier: conceptual issues in cyberspace, MIT Press, 1996 Rod Shields, Cultures of Internet: virtual spaces, real histories, living bodies, London, 1996 Marc Smith & Peter Kollock, (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace, NY, Routledge, 1998 Susan Leigh Star, The Cultures of Comouting, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 Dale Spencer, Nattering on the net: women, power, and cyberspace, North Melbourne, 1995 Brian Winston, Media technology and society: a hiostory from the telegraph to the Internet, London: Routledge, 1998 Issues in Web-Based Pedagogy: A Critical Primer --ed. by Robert A. Code (Greenwood Press, 2000) (The book poineering approaches to online education. The contribitors to the book, note that Web-based pedagogy is associated with sound instruction when particular strategies are adopted.) 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 (an expert in new media research) Details at (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262133741) (TEXT ONLINE) From the Introduction of _The Language of New Media_ at (http://www.manovich.net/LNM/index.html) and details about author Lev Manovich at (http://www.manovich.net/index.html) (TEXT ONLINE) What is Digital Cinema* at (http://www.manovich.net/text/digital-cinema.html) The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (March 2000, MIT Press) edited by Ken Goldberg Details about the book at (http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/tele) & (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262072033) (TEXT ONLINE) Introduction: The Unique Phenomenon of a Distance, Ken Goldberg at (http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/tele/intro.html) 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) written by Michael Heim with a preface by David Hillel Gelernter (New editon) Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (HarperCollins, 1973) Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Doubleday, 1959) R.L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) S. Harnad, Other bodies, Other minds: A machine incarnation of an old philosophical problem. Minds and Machines 1:43-54 L. Sproull and S. Kiesler, Connections (MIT Press, 1991) Virtual Realism (Oxford U. Press, 1998) by Michael Heim The Illusion of the End, by Jean Baudrillard, Cambridge:Polity Press, 1994 The New Constellation, by Richard, MIT Press, 1995 The Postmodern Explained, by Jean-Francois Lyotard, University of Minneapolis Press, 1993 The End of Modernity, by Gianni Vattimo, CUP, 1992 The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (was published by Oxford U. Press, 1993) by Michael Heim. (Books, Seminars, Conferences on the Philosophy of Virtual Reality and the 3-D Internet can be found at <http://www.mheim.com> ) 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) Thomas Landauer, The Trouble With Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity, MIT Press (1996) (The books tells you why computers suck and it tells you why they have not delivered what they have promised, usability issues) 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) Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (web & interface design) Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman (NY: Random House, 1992) Nicholas Maxwell, The Mind-Body Problem and Explanatory Dualism (Cambridge University Press, 2000) ["An important part of the mind-body problem arises because consciousness seems inherently resistant to scientific explanation. The solution to this dilemma, is to recognize, first that scientific explanation can only render comprehensible, a selected aspect of what there is, and second that there is a mode of explanation, the personalistic, different form; irreducible to, but as viable as, scientific explanation, in terms of which consciousness can be understood."] Ben Schneiderman, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (for web and interface designers) The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial: A Critical Analysis by Margaret Rose, 1991 --Principles of Interactive Design-- understanding software architecture, digital design The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener (NY: Doubleday, 1954) Terry Winograd, Bringing Design To Software, Addison-Wesley (1996) Michael J. Hernandez, Database Design For Mere Mortals, Addison-Wesley (1997) Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture For The World Wide Web, O'Reilly (1998) -- Computers and Thoughts --eds. Edward A. Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman (MIT Press, 1995) Artificial Intelligence in Paradise --ed. Daniel G. Bobron (MIT Press, 1994) George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980)^ --Digital Historiography: Information Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy and the Computer Revolution, John Hopkins University Press, 1998 Paul Levinson, The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution, Routledge, 1997 Douglas S. Robertson, The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization, Oxford University Press, 1998 ---- Ceruzzi, Paul E. History of Modern Computing, MIT Press, 1998 Escape Velocity: Cyber Culture and the End of the Century --by Mark Dery (is a study of core fears and instincts..the author explores the digital future, from hellish pitfalls to the glorious and happy things) Gary Schaprio, (ed.) After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places (The book brings together diverse aspects of postmodernism by philosophers, literary critics, historians of architectures, and sociologists.) Steal This Computer book: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet --by Wally Wang (the book explores the dark underbelly of the Internet..) Computational Theories of Intention and Agency --eds. Philip E. Agre and Stanley Rosenschien (MIT Press, 1996) Affective Computing --Rosalind Picard (MIT Press, 1997) Digital Mantras --by Steven R. Holtzman (MIT Press, 1995) Models of My Life --by Herbert A. Simon (MIT Press, 1996) Misunderstanding Media by Brian Winston in 1986 The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Mind and Human Exprience --by Francisco J. Varela & Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch (MIT Press, 1992) 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. Visual Explanations and Envisioning Information --by Edward Tufte, a Yale Professor and UI Expert The Visual Display of Quantitative Information --by Edward Tufte "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. Libraries of the Future --by J.C.R. Licklider (MIT Press, 1965) "Essays, Critical Voices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory, Commentary by Warren Burt" by Nicholas Zurbrugs Rolf Jensen, The Dream Society 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 On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering --by Kathryn Henderson (MIT Press, 1999) Freeman Dyson, The Sun, The Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions (New York, The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 1998) Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, The Network Nation (MIT Press, 1993) Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart --by Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O'Day (MIT Press, 1999) A Cybersearch: Research Techniques in the Electronic Age --by John A. Butler (Penguin, 1999) Immerse in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments --ed. Mary Anne Mooser (MIT Press, 1996) Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals --ed. Niall Ferguson (New York: Basic Books, 1999) 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 -- James A. Anderson. The History of Portugal (Eurospan 2000) Derek Attridge. Joyce Effects on Language, Theory, and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) Arnaldo Bagnasco, Cities in Contemporary Europe (CUP, 2000) Bruce Baum. Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill (University of Toronto Press, 2000) Philip E. Agre, and Marc Rotenberg, eds, Technology and Privacy: The New Lanscape (MIT Press, 1997) David B. Yoffie, ed, Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997) Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, eds, Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995) Linda M. Harasim, ed, Global Networks: Computers and International Communication (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993) Ronald C. Tobay, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electric Modernization of the American Home (University of California Press, 1996) James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, eds. The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and work of Christopher Isherwood (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) Don Ihde, Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990) Matthew Biro, Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (CUP, 2000) Body Mecanique: Artistic Explorations of Digital Realms (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 1998) Robert B. Brandom Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Harvard UP, 2000) Hugh Benson, Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues, Oxford University Press, 2000 John Brewer. The Pleasure of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century (Chicago UP, 2000) Gary Browning. Lyotard and the End of Grand Narrative (University of Wales Press, 2000) A.L. Porter & W.H. Read(Eds.), The Information revolution: Current and future consequences, Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998 more cyberculture and cybereconomy bibliography - Digital Democracy. Policy and Politics in the Wired World, 1998, edited by Cynthia J. Alexander and Leslie A. Pal, Oxford University Press. They gathered 12 really good essays about economics, politics and social issues related with the Internet. - Information Rules. A strategic guide to the network economy, 1999, by Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, Harvard Business School Press. One of my favorites about information economy. D. M. Armstrong, Belief, Truth, and Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1973) J. Campbell, Past, Space and Self, MIT Press (1994) H. Foster, The Return of the Real, MIT Press (1996) A. Goldman, Epistemology and Cognition, HUP (1986) I. Hacking, Representing and Intervening, Cambridge Press (1983) J. Davis et. al., (Eds.), Cutting edge: Technology, Information capitalism and social revolution, London: Verso, (1997) J. Brook and I. Boal (Eds.), Resisting the virtual life, (1995) Frances Carey, ed. The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to come (University of Toronto Press, 1999) Scott Christianson Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (NYUP, 2000) A. Kroker & M. Kroker, (Eds.) Digital Delirium, NY: St. Martin's Press (1997) Noam Chomsky. New Horizons in the Study of Mind (CUP, 2000) G.A. Cohen If You're an Egalitarian How Come You're so Rich? (Harvard UP, 2000) Sarah R. Cohen Art, Dance and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Regime (CUP, 2000) Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality=94 (Harvard UP, 2000) Lynn Enterline The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (CUP, 2000) Geoffrey Evans. The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context (OUP, 1999) Paul Fairfield. Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of Individuality (Toronto UP, 2000) Alain Finkielkraut, In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the 20th Century (Columbia UP, 2000) Robert William Fogel. The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (Chicago UP, 2000) Paul Gilbert. Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2000) Paul Gilroy Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Harvard UP, 2000) Robert Justin Goldstein, The War for the Public Mind: Political Censorship in 19th Century Europe (Praeger, 2000) Lionel Gossman Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas (Chicago UP, 2000) Peter S. Hawkins. Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press, 2000) Marie-Clotilde Hubert. Construire le Temps, Normes et usages chronologiques du moyen age a L'Epoque contemporaine (Droz, 2000) Christopher Joppke. Immigration and the Nation State: The United States, Germany and Great Britain (OUP, 1999) David Kaiser. Politics and War: European conflict from Philip II to Hitler (Harvard UP, 2000) Alice Kaplan The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (Chicago UP, 2000) Farid el Khazen. The Breakdown of the State of Lebanon, 1967-1976= (Harvard UP, 2000) Friedrich A. Kittler. Essays, Literature Media Information Systems=94 (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association) David. L. Kirp. Almost Home: America=92s Love-Hate Relationship with Community (PUP, 2000) Mary M. Lay Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) Carol D. Lee and Peter Smagorinsky, eds. Vygotskian Perspectives on Literary Research: Contructiong Meaning Through Collaborative Inquiry (CUP, 2000) J. Philip McAleer Rochester Cathedral 605-1540, An Architechtural History (University of Toronto Press, 1999) Montesquieu. Reflexions sur la Monarchie Universelle en Europe (Librairie Droz, 2000) Alexander Nehamas. The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000) Margaret J. Osler, eds. Rethinking Scientific Revolution (CUP, 2000) Ilana Pardes. The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (Calif. UP, 2000) Daniel Pick. Svengali's Web: The Alien Encounter in Modern Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000) Jennifer Jackson Preece. National Minorities and the European Nation-States System (OUP, 1998) Daniel T. Rodgers. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Belknap Press, 2000) Jane Mayo Roos, Early Impressionism and the French State, 1866-1874=94 (CUP, 2000) Derek Sayer. The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History=94 (PUP, 1998) Chandak Sengoopta. Otto Weininger: Sex, Science and Self in Imperial Vienna (Chicago UP, 2000) Michael Shermer and Alex Grubman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why are they Saying it?=94 (California UP, 2000) Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegge (PUP, 2000) Daniel Lord Smail Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Later Medieval Marseille (Cornell UP, 1999) Elizabeth Thompson. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (Columbia UP, 2000) Daniel Tiffany. Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (University of California Press, 2000) Daniel J. Vitkus. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Salimus, A Christian turned Turk, The Renegado (Columbia UP, 2000) Robin Walz. Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth Century Paris (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000) James E. Young. At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture=94 (Yale UP, 2000) Nicholas Zurbrugg. Essays, Critical Voices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory,Commentary Warren Burt (Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association, 2000) THE EUROPEAN LEGACY TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS: Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) Eds. Sascha and Ezra Talmor -- Jean Aitchison The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution (CUP, 2000) Horst Althaus. Hegel: A Biography (Oxford: Polity Press, 2000) Aaron Ben-Zeev. The Subtelty of Emotions (MIT Press, 2000) Harry Berger Jr. Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance (CUP, 2000) Allan Bloom. Shakespeare on Love and Friendship= (Chicago UP, 2000) Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman, eds. Fins de Si=E8cle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000 (Yale UP, 2000) Patrick Coleman, Jayne Lewis and Jill Kowalik. Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to the Romanticism (CUP, 2000) Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, ed. In the Forbidden City: An Anthology of Erotic Fiction by Italian Women (Chicago UP, 2000) Wilfried Dickhoff. After Nihilism: Essays on Contemporary Art (CUP, 2000) Aris Fioretos, ed. The Solid Letter: Readings of Friedrich Holderlen (Stanford UP, 1999) Elke P. Frederiksen and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present (SUNY, 2000) Richard Kieckhefer. Magic in the Middle Ages (CUP, 2000) Mark Munn,93The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates (California UP,2000) Andrea Wilson Nightingale. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (CUP 2000) Terry Prinkard. Hegel: A Biography (CUP, 2000) Omar Pound and Robert Spoo. Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946 (OUP, 1000) Kevin Repp. Reformers, Critics and the paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the search for Alternatives, 1890-1914 (Harvard UP, 2000) John Richards. Altichiero: An Artist and his Patrons in the Italian Trecento (CUP, 2000) Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield, eds. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (CUP, 2000) Ross Shideler. Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zole, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy (Stanford UP, 2000) Giulia Sissa and Marcel Detienne. The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (Stanford UP, 2000) Jennifer Summit. Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589 (Chicago UP, 2000) Helen Thomas. Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testomonies (CUP, 2000) Jeffery Verhey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany (CUP, 2000) Rex A. Wade. The Russian Revolution, 1917 (CUP, 2000) Graeme J. White. 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Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond (MIT Press) Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-tech --by Paulina Borsook Mapping Cyberspace --by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin (http://www.mappingcyberspace.com) Cyberspace: The World in the Wires --by Rob Kitchin Manuel Castells, The Information Age: three volumes; 1996-98 The rise of the network society The power of indentity End of Millennium Bary Wellman, Network in the Global Village Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order Godel Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid --by Prof. Douglas Hofstadter (Vintage Books) The Entrepreneurial Web --by Peter Small (London: FT.com, 2000) Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space --by Annette Markhan (AltaMira Press, 1998) Media Virus --by Douglas Rushkoff Memory Trade: The Prehistory of Cyberculture --by Darren Tofts I. de Sola Pool, Technologies of Freedom, Belknap Press, 1983 L. Sproull and S.B. Kiesler, Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization, Cambridge, Mass.: Mit Press, 1992 Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi Cyberexplorer Research Scholar UNI DO, GERMANY Online Facilitator ---------------- Acknowledgements: Evelyn Beatriz Villanueva, Cyber economist, Assistant Reasearcher, M. S. Candidatem cybersociology egroups From: Dominik Wujastyk Subject: Re: 15.221 bedside and in-tub reading? Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:56:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 367 (367) On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Somewhere along the academic road I picked up the notion that Descartes spent his scholarly life in bed, doing both his reading and writing there. The technologies for non-electric illumination are simple, effective, and very ancient. And still in wide use. Oil lamps, gas lamps, candles, torches, etc. Best, Dominik From: Willard McCarty Subject: being in bed Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:57:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 368 (368) Jim O'Donnell's question about reading in bed in relation to the technology of lighting prompts reflection on the technology of heating and a fair bit of social history as well. During the winter months in poorly heated houses (or palaces) one can suppose that time might be spent in bed simply to keep warm, or that the distinction between being in bed and not (though thoroughly covered up) might be less sharp than it tends to be now. A hundred years ago, in the house where I write this (which would have been quite crowded by modern standards), if I needed privacy to read during winter after about 4 p.m. I'd likely have to be in the bedroom and need artificial light. If one could read, had books, were in a cold climate during winter and in darkness for a significant part of the day, one would read in bed by candle- or lamp-light, no? In other words, the question he asks is a complex and interesting one. I'd think that proximity searching through the various textual databases, for "bed" near to "read" (or equivalents in other languages), would yield something. 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: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: 15.222 runcible markup Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:59:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 369 (369) [deleted quotation] Well said. [deleted quotation] Indeed yes. Not to mention the TEI's work on feature structures which allows one to model far more complex structures. [deleted quotation] This seems to confuse the conceptual representation with its instantiation and processing. A representation of a conceptual network on a piece of paper ought to be isomorphic with an encoding of it, using whatever encoding formalism is flavour of the moment. The network exists as a concept, even if you don't or can't process it. (I think Bishop Berkeley had something to say on this topic) [deleted quotation] No. The gap you are describing (unless I misunderstand you) is between one way of reading the encoding and another, less semantically aware. You *can" read an XML document as if it were a linear string of characters, but that would be analogous to reading this text as a linear string of characters instead of (at the least) a sequence of words, and other linguistic constructs. (You can understand [deleted quotation] The latter. The former is using an inappropriate model, just as I am using an inappropriate model of discourse if I answer the question "How are you today?" with a detailed description of my mental and physical state of being! We think we're doing something fluid and flexible -- markup -- but [deleted quotation] It's not the parser. It's the semiotic system underlying the markup. Up until this point, markup systems were [deleted quotation] This is somewhat sweeping! Plenty of markup systems exist and have existed entirely unconnected with any idea of "going to print": rather they were aimed at representing what the users of the markup text considered important for a range of processing tasks. [deleted quotation] That was the real nub of McGann's presentation, as I remember it. This notion that because a poem can generate multiple interpretations therefore it cannot be marked up frankly gets up my nose. Only a fool would claim that any interpretation of any sort was eternal or all embracing: markup is an interpretation; QED. Are there really still people who subscribe to this view of literature as mystical experience? , not because the [deleted quotation] If you cannot express these nicely stacked up models how do you know they exist? Poetry is *made* to be modelled! When a great critic presents us with their lucubrations on the subject of a great poem, what are they doing if not creating a model? That is, to be rather crudely geekish about it, the poet's work is [deleted quotation] On the contrary, I think that IS the main point. One way of representing the interconnectedness of things is by talking about specific cases thereof. If I write down that talk, I will want to do so in some kind of markup. We now have something a bit more flexible and powerful to use for that job. that the poets have done it already, using their [deleted quotation] Here you seem to confuse the accidents of medium with a mystical concept about "the nature of [a poem]". Give it up! A poem is a written object. It exists to be read. When you mark it up you represent the *reading*, not the poem. As Michael used to say, you can't actually "put" a text into the computer (in the same way as you can for example "put" the output from a deepspace experiment): what you put in is your model of it, expressed with the best language to hand. [deleted quotation] Don Juan don't *know* squat. It dont have anything to know *with*. It expresses (maybe) a set of systems we can analyse though, and then come to know that. [deleted quotation] Well, there I can agree. Poets are indeed adept media-crunchers and re-formers: that's why we like them! The best of them play upon expectation and convention, as do all creative artists. Thus they set new challenges for us, but they don't invalidate our explicatory, hermeneutic activities. Indeed, if they do -- if we cannot extract any meaning at all from their work -- we generally feel they're rotten poets. In that sense, I do not take his remarks to [deleted quotation] To explain is not to explain away! As my favourite disk jockey used to say, "Thanks for listening, if you have been." Lou From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: unruncible paraphrase Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:00:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 370 (370) In defense of a paraphrase... Wendell quotes me as posting in the early morning [deleted quotation] And Wendell suggests, I'm slightly off the mark:> [deleted quotation] network" is: And then suggests that this passage from McGann is close but not quite on the mark for the paraphrase I offered: [deleted quotation] dominated by [deleted quotation] markup. [deleted quotation] cause). And with with finger wagging flare (Wendell always comes at you with an olive branch): [deleted quotation] My defense: Unlike expository text, poetry is not organized in a determinate hierarchy. TEI and SGML markup, therefore, while reasonably adequate vehicles for expository and informational texts, fails to render those features of poetic text that are most salient for its makers and users. Poetical texts are recursive structures built out of complex networks of repetition and variation. No poem can exist without systems of "overlapping structures", and the more developed the poetical text, the more complex are those systems of recursion. So it is that in a poetic field no unit can be assumed to be self-identical. The logic of the poem is only frameable in some kind of paradoxical articulation such as: "a equals a if and only if a does not equal a". Now doesn't this passage from McGann suggest the paraphrase given above? [deleted quotation] Agent = markup (figured by synecdoche TEI & SGML) Verb = fails Object = features So I translated failure as a type of modeling. Must be my sense of a limit conditioned by early encouters with definitions by negation. What I do want to stress is that the pair hierarchy-recursivity are set in opposition. That setting is likely conditioned by a New Critical heritage that is fond of the paradox. What I want to suggest is that such paradoxes are the result of rereading and the "lifting" of that process of rereading into a single temporality. In other words, certain types of readings invite readers to remember or to forget the time element in their traversals of poetic space. I really want to belabour this point. The features picked out to be represented by markup are themselves representations. Overlapping structures can be considered as different representations that entertain relations among themselves. I turn to Willard Espy in _The Garden of Excellence_ offers an example from Voltaire of epanalepsis Common sense is not so common. The structure of the sentence. The structure of the repetition. The strucutre of the first complete syntagmatic unit ("Common sense is not so") The structure of the "m" and "n" alliteration and the assonance of the vowels. My use of "structure" here is of course being stretched into "pattern". The point being that one can consider markup as dealing with patterns by recourse to a structured language. Such a formulation does not exclude the use of markup to deal with structures. I do want to underscore that often in English use of the term "structure" it needs to be accompanied by the adjective "dynamic" in order to bring out its temporal characteristics. "Pattern" is in commonly suggests the repetition of instances and thus more evocative of temporality. If in computing one begins with "repetition of instances" one can arrive at ordered hierarchies along a time line (a sequence is a primitive tree - may the mathematicians forgive me) [...] I guess I am more Cartesian and less of a German Idealist. I am not looking for "understanding". I want to play to play with translations. My hero is the Erasmus of the _De Copia_. A translation is a "passerelle". Markup is a way through a space. [deleted quotation] I expand on your free paraphrase. Markup is a species of poetry *wink* [deleted quotation] Granted the irrudicibility of the artefact. Not granted the unconnectability of an artefact. Translation is about link an source with a target by passing through a space of possibilities. Markup is about translation. Where does the "dream of reproduction" comes from? [deleted quotation] Is Romanticism always to intimately tied up with birthing? Inventio is a trope about finding. Of course, I'm translating a bit here for my own ideological purposes: inventors as techno-breeders. Whatever McGann was trying to get at, I am thankful for Susan Hockey's foresight in having the materials from the Renear-McGann exchange dwell on the web. I am informed that they are also available from the ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES web site by using the following URL: http://www.ach.org/abstracts/1999/hockey-renear2.html And thanks to Wendell for a fine meditation carried on the wings of paraphrase. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.219 recommended books Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:02:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 371 (371) A. McLuhan wasn't a philosopher --he was a sociologist with a flair of trend spotting. If he were alive today he would probably be writing books contradicting what he said 30 or 40 years ago. As it was, he came up with the global village prophecy, which has turned out to be at least partly true, the "end of the book" prophecy, which has turned out to be totally false, and a great slogan --"The medium is the message"- which works a lot better for television that it does for the Internet. *** My copy reads: "The Medium Is The Massage". . . . And what about television does the Internet not include, that would make this quote "work better for television that [sic] it does for the Internet? Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: semiotics online Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:01:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 372 (372) Humanists may be interested to know about the Open Semiotics Resource Centre, the creation of a Toronto colleague and friend, Paul Bouissac, now retired from Victoria College. Its URL is <http://www.semioticon.com/>. The Centre contains the following: --Virtual symposia, which publish conference proceedings and ongoing debates; --Cyber Semiotics Institute, with advanced courses in the form of online lectures; --Semiotic Frontline, an open forum for those engaged in the production of knowledge relevant to semiotic inquiry; --Digital Semiotics Encyclopedia (forthcoming); --The Signpost, bulletin of forthcoming conferences in relevant domains; --Semiotic Review of Books 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: NEW YORK COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: REGISTRATION DEADLINE Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 06:53:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 373 (373) Sept 10 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 6, 2001 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING * * * Free of Charge * * * REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MONDAY SEPT 10 REGISTER ONLINE AT: http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm "Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age" Monday September 24: New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum Fifth Avenue at 42nd St 8:30am-5:00pm http://www.nypl.org/research/copyright/index.html * * * Monday September 10 is the registration deadline for the New York City NINCH Copyright Town Meeting to be held at the New York Public Library on Monday September 24. This meeting is free of charge. If you intend to participate please register online at http://www2.nypl.org/home/copyright/registration.cfm [material deleted] From: Alan D Corre Subject: Re: 15.223 reading in bed Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 06:50:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 374 (374) Winston Churchill is reported to have done most of his reading and other work in bed, while puffing a cigar and sipping his daily bowl of fresh cream. So much for avoiding smoking and cholesterol. Alan D. Corre Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/ From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: bedside reading (more) and Hitler sound systems Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 06:51:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 375 (375) With thanks for the observation on Descartes (which I think is true) and Willard's pendant: the *possibility* of bedside reading goes way back, of course, but candles and oil lamps offer imperfect illumination for the supine reader, so I remain curious: when does the possibility or expectation that books will be taken to bed become common? Were Pope or Pepys doing it? A similar historical question: an article in today's London Times about Gitta Sereny's work on Nazidom quotes her (she saw Hitler perform when a child) on the extraordinary sound system that accompanied Hitler rallies -- "what must have been the most sophisticated sound system there was, even now it seems extremely well done." Is there any record of or research into the actual technology used? Was there a technological advantage that gave those howling Nazi voices power beyond what people could see or hear otherwise? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: "Patrick Rourke" Subject: Re: 15.225 Medium & message: TV vs the Internet? Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 06:51:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 376 (376) [deleted quotation] I believe we've had this discussion before. There is a book entitled *The Medium is the Massage*, but that title is a self-referential joke on his own earlier slogan that "the medium is the message." Patrick Rourke From: "Koster, Jo" Subject: RE: 15.228 reading in bed Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:12:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 377 (377) Jim and all: I would suspect that reading in bed is a function of safe internal lighting: candles and cloth furnishings are, in general, a poor mix. In the Middle Ages and early Modern period, the bed was usually an enclosed structure with curtains, often in a room where other activities were going on; thus the curtains were used to shut out light and sound. Not a likely candidate for bedside reading; I can't remember an example in either period, nor a MS illustration of a reader in bed. In the 17th century, perhaps. But Pepys usually ends his diary entries, including a description of his reading, with a phrase like "And so to bed"--this again suggesting that reading and bed were not synonymous. There is a 17th century feature called the closet--a small room with desk, books, reading chair--this seems to be where more private reading took place. I've been trying to think of period architecture and furnishings, and when the bedside commode begins to hold books and papers instead of just the 'night furniture'; I think it's late-eighteenth or early 19th century. Still, even in Jane Austen's time, people took one single candle upstairs to light their way to bed--again not suggesting that the lighting was conducive to bedside reading. I think a few clandestine letters are read over in bed in Austen--but that's not a book. It's been too long since I read Trollope or Dickens or any of the Victorian household novelists to remember if bedside reading shows up there. The first examples that came to mind when you raised this question were Oscar Wilde and Alice James, actually; so somewhere after 1850? Again, that's where you have gas lighting laid on in middle class homes, allowing better illumination, and also when the "canopy style" of bed goes out of fashion, and the central ceiling light fixture begins to appear in architecture. If the Furness Library is still as good as it was when I was at Penn (late 70s), somewhere in the art and design collections there you might find an answer.... Cheers, Jo --*--*--*--*--*-- Jo Koster (formerly Tarvers), Ph.D. Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 USA phone (803) 323-4557 fax (803) 323-4837 e-mail kosterj@winthrop.edu on the web http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj "I always wanted to be somebody. I guess I should have been more specific." --Lily Tomlin From: Willard McCarty Subject: levels of light Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:29:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 378 (378) I take Jim O'D's point, in the previous dispatch of Humanist, that candles and the like did not put out much light -- by our standards, which is to say, to our eyes. We are so accustomed to what from an historical perspective would be considered quite high (and in some countries astoundingly constant) levels of illumination that we find it difficult to imagine comfortable reading by candle-light. Is there not evidence somewhere that the sensorium has over time adjusted to accommodate what we find necessary or desirable to sense? So I am thinking that levels of light are not the problem. The canopied bed would present a difficulty, though would the drapes necessarily make illumination too dangerous or difficult? Under circumstances in which they would be drawn to keep in whatever warmth, rather than to provide privacy (esp before the invention of corridors to link rooms), they would not necessarily have to be drawn immediately, and might not, I am supposing, in warmer weather. Then there's the relationship between ability to read, social class and sleeping arrangements. To what degree did families sleep in the same bed out of necessity? and so on. I suppose that the historiographical point here is in puzzling out what the world was like without our knowledge of what it was going to be like. I keep thinking of how we reach an understanding, even across such a short and relatively shallow abysm of time, of artefacts and practices that computing has affected. We are, for example, amazed at the number of letters various well-known and presumably busy people, like Jung, were known to have written each day, so completely have other means of communicating affected us. To say nothing of how corrupted out minds have become by the thrill of links, to the degree that when we encounter a footnote or other reference what we tend to see is proto-hypertext struggling to be liberated from its confines in print. Is there any reason to think that to any degree we tend to read in bed for historically contingent reasons, whatever the changes in convenience and safety? 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: _Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online_ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:31:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 379 (379) [deleted quotation] Humanist subscribers may be interested to learn of the publication of my book, _Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online_ (Berg Publishers, Oxford, distributed in the U.S. by NYU Press), now available in stores in the U.S.and U.K., and online. The book presents five studies of playfulness in communication on the Internet. Two studies deal with linguistic and textual aspects, and three focus on visual aspects. Topics include the language of public email, writing as playful performance in a synchronous chat mode, digital greetings, ASCII art and a related form of text-based art on IRC, and "font frenzy," a passion for digital fonts. The book is heavily illustrated with 42 color plates and 91 black and white illustrations. I have also created an extensive Companion Website for it, at URL http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/cyberpl@y/ (don't forget the @!!) More information on the book, including the Table of Contents, an author biography, ordering information, resources and links, etc., as well as a fully illustrated sample chapter, is available on the Website. Brenda Danet Emerita in Sociology & Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Sociology, Yale University brenda.danet@yale.edu msdanet@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il Home page: http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Christine Borgman: Massaging the Message Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:34:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 380 (380) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, I would like to share with Humanist scholars, a short, but informative paper, in which Professor Christine Borgman has mentioned the details of Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Tools.. Some quotes from the text:- "Ultimately, it's not about the technology, it's about behavior" "A mental model is a cognitive construction. How do people think about what's happening inside the machine? The appropriateness of the model has a lot to do with whether you figure out how to use the machine" "You can't just put computers in everybody's hands, give all the students a laptop and access to the Internet and expect them to learn better," insists Christine Borgman, professor of information studies. "It's not a matter of giving people more information, but how to package that information, how to organize and disseminate it." The holder of the Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA, Borgman is UCLA's lead investigator for the national Alexandria Digital Earth ProtoType project, or ADEPT. The project began in 1994 as the Alexandria Digital Library Project, a four-year, $4-million initiative to gather a massive amount of informaiton about the Earth using digital collections of everything from maps and images to text and multimedia diagrams, all referenced by geographical area. The resulting information was used to create a digital model of the planet -- a "Digital Earth," as Vice President Al Gore dubbed it. "Think of the Digital Earth as a metaphor, as a way to organize information," explains Borgman. "You can click on any spot on the globe and access any information that can be referenced geographically, whether it's census data, flood data, crop data, population movements, toxic-waste flows, even historical texts." ADEPT is still at the conceptual level, but the plan is to give geography instructors tools to help students move away from memorizing facts and, instead, concentrate on understanding dynamic processes. "It's more important that the student understand how rivers change over time or how populations move than to memorize facts about how and when they moved," says Borgman. "The more you can understand about the process, the richer the learning experience and the more you can apply in new ways." The ADEPT tools will be known as Information Landscape, or "Iscapes," and will be bulit around scenarios. How do you manage this flood in Topanga Canyon, for instance. Or how do you look at this migration throught Northern California? "You might build a lesson around the flood, then put a series of data sets behind it, using data collected from NASA and local and state authorities. You layer that data and then give students tools so they can say what happens if there is more rain or less rain, good hill-side plantings, dams built, an earthquake. They can manipulate all these different conditions and see what happens." For complete reading, see here <http://www.research.ucla.edu/chal/99/makingsense/article03.htm> Feedbacks, comments or criticisms are welcome! Thanking you. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Nicola Cotton Subject: New Technologies Conference (reminder) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:30:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 381 (381) This is a repeat posting to invite colleagues to attend the conference NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, London, UK 20-21 September 2001 Conference website (with full details and on-line registration) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/newtechnologies/ ________________________________________________________________________ - Dr Nicola Cotton - t: +44 (0) 20 7679 1374 / f: +44 (0) 7916 8505 / e: n.cotton@ucl.ac.uk - p: French dept, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT From: trace@ntu.ac.uk Subject: Call for Proposals Incubation 2002 Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:14:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 382 (382) To: cguertin@ualberta.ca Status: In this email: 1. Call for Proposals Incubation 2002 2. Incubation Archive Now Online 3. Stop Press Talan Memmott 4. September offer continues at the trAce Online Writing School. 1. Call for Proposals for Incubation 2002 to be held on 19-21 July 2002 at The Nottingham Trent University, UK We are pleased to invite proposals for Incubation2, the leading international conference on Writing and the Internet. For our second conference we continue our focus on the role of the internet and telecommunications and particularly invite contributions that address the way new media create new potentials and re-define the acts of writing and reading. We welcome proposals on all aspects of new media and writing, especially by those whose work is based in new media, on or off the internet. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/ 2. Incubation Archive Now Online For three days in July 2000 trAce provided a platform for the most essential voices on the web today. Writers, critics, theorists and web-artists came from around the world to speak at Incubation at The Nottingham Trent University. Incubation Archive is the online record of this dynamic event. It includes audio, text and electronic versions of presentations and performances; information about contributors; a gallery of photographs taken over the three days, and the background of the conference itself. The Incubation Archive website was created by Mary Cavill. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/ 3. Stop Press Talan Memmott talk in Nottingham 17th September _Technontology and the [Ap]proximate Other_ trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Competition winner Talan Memmott is currently visiting the UK and we are delighted he has found time to give a talk on his work at the Clifton Campus of Nottingham Trent University at 2pm on Monday 17th September 2001. The talk is free of charge but please email trace@ntu.ac.uk or call 0115 8486360 to let us know you are coming. For updates watch the trAce front page at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk Talan's offline interpretation of Lexia to Perplexia using three whiteboards was a highlight of Incubation 2000. Nobody else can talk so entertainingly about network life with such a mix of humour, art, and high theory. We do hope you can join us in Nottingham for this unique opportunity. See his award-winning site Lexia to Perplexia at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/comp.cfm. AND FINALLY... It's still 1/3 off at the trAce Online Writing School for the first 50 registrations received for courses starting 8th October. http://tracewritingschool.com trAce Online Writing Centre The Nottingham Trent University Clifton Lane Nottingham NG11 8NS UK Web: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk Email Enquiries: trace@ntu.ac.uk Telephone Enquiries: +44 (0)115 8486360 ___________________________________________________ Carolyn Guertin, Department of English, University of Alberta 3-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton AB T6G 2E5 Canada E-Mail: cguertin@ualberta.ca; Tel/FAX: 780-438-3125 Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/ Assemblage, the Online Women's New Media Gallery, at trAce: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemblage.htm Electronic Literature Organization: http://www.eliterature.org/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: HLT 2002 Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:32:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 383 (383) [deleted quotation] HLT 2002 Human Language Technology Conference March 24-27, 2002 San Diego, California PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Human language technology (HLT) incorporates a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards two closely related goals: to enable computers to interact with humans using natural language capabilities, and to serve as useful adjuncts to humans in language understanding by providing services such as automatic translation, information retrieval and information extraction. The HLT 2001 Conference in March 2001 provided a single unified forum for researchers across this entire spectrum of disciplines to present very recent high-quality, cutting-edge work, to exchange ideas and to explore emerging new research directions. Following the great success of HLT 2001, the Conference and Program Chairs invite submissions for HLT 2002 from researchers in computer science, linguistics, engineering, psychology, etc., who are exploring innovative methods for improving human language technology. Further information will be available at the Conference web site, http://hlt2002.org. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 1st International Wordnet Conference Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 07:33:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 384 (384) [deleted quotation] Call for papers 1st International Wordnet Conference Mysore, India http://www.ciil.org/gwn 21-25 January 2002 The Global Wordnet Association together with CIIL Mysore, IIT Bombay and IIIT Hyderabad are very pleased to announce the first International Conference on Wordnets. The conference will be held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (Karnataka State), India (http://www.ciil.org/gwn). Details about the Association and the full announcement for the conference can be found on the GWA website (http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/gwa.htm). [material deleted] From: "Creagh Cole" Subject: Two weeks to go: Computing ARTS 2001 - Digital Resources Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:27:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 385 (385) for Research in the Humanities Two weeks to go... 26th-28th September 2001 Veterinary Science Conference Centre The University of Sydney Speakers include: John Burrows (Centre for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Newcastle), Lou Burnard (Oxford Humanities Computing Unit), Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguitsica Computazionale diel CNR, Pisa), Morris Eaves (The William Blake Archive), Ian Johnson (Archaeological Computing Laboratory, Sydney), Grace Koch (Interantional Association of Sound & Visual Archives), Mark Kornbluh (MATRIX, University of Michigan), Daniel Pitti (IATH, University of Virginia), Peter Robinson (Simon de Montfort University), Ed Zalta (stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy) and over 60 others from Australia and overseas PLUS: Special workshops 24th & 25th September (register separately) - TEI, EAD, Endangered Cultures Project 3-day registration: $330/$165 concession 1-day: $125/$75.00 (Includes GST, refreshments & lunch.) For full information & registration form, please visit the conference website: <http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss/drrh.html>http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/rihss/drrh.html or contact Melissa McMahon, (02) 9351 5344, melissa.mcmahon@rihss.usyd.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computing Arts 2001 is convened by the Scholarly Electronic Text and Imaging Service (SETIS), The University of Sydney Library and the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), The University of Sydney, and sponsored by ProQuest Information and Learning (formerly Chadwyck & Healey) and SUN Microsystems. <<<< From: John Unsworth Subject: TEI Consortium annual meeting Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:27:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 386 (386) First Annual Meeting of The TEI Consortium Pisa, Italy November 16-17, 2001 The TEI Consortium, a newly formed non-profit membership organization that continues the efforts of the Text Encoding Initiative, will hold its first annual meeting November 16 and 17, 2001, in Pisa, Italy. The keynote address will be provided by former TEI editor Michael Sperberg-McQueen, who is currently domain leader in the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Domain Leader, as well as co-chair (with Dave Hollander) of the W3C XML Coordination Group and the W3C XML Schema Working Group, and co-editor (with B. Tommie Usdin of Mulberry Technologies) of _Markup Languages: Theory & Practice_, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the design and use of markup languages, published by MIT Press. Members and non-members alike are welcome: the first day of this two-day program will be open to all and will include the keynote address, technical briefings, and presentations on a variety of applications of TEI markup (in producing ebooks, web sites, digital library collections, etc.). The second day will be for members and subscribers only: there will be a hands-on workshop and a business meeting that will include a financial report from the Treasurer, two elections (one for Board members, one for the TEI Council), and a discussion of work-items for the Council and its appointed work-groups. Registration: Anyone intending to attend the meeting must register by sending email to membership@tei-c.org. The TEI has both individual subscribers and institutional members, and registration is free for subscribers and member-representatives. When registering, your email should indicate whether you will attend as a member representative (and if so, representing what member) or as a subscriber, or as neither. Individuals who are not member-representatives or subscribers are welcome, but will be charged a $50 registration fee at the door, and upon paying it will become TEI subscribers through 2002. New members who pay their 2002-2003 membership fee between September 15th and November 15th will receive membership for the remainder of 2001 free. Travel: Except for invited speakers, those attending the meeting are responsible for their own travel expenses. Lodging: A block of rooms are available for the night of 15, 16 and 17 November at the Grand Hotel Duomo, in Pisa, where meetings will also be held. The accomodation costs are the following: - single room: 150.000 ITL (about 70 US$) - double room: 240.000 ITL (about 120 US$) - lunch/dinner: 35.000 ITL (about 16 US$) For more information about the TEI Consortium, or to apply for membership, please visit our Web Site: http://www.tei-c.org/ From: UCF Continuing Education Subject: ALN Conference Nov. 16-18; Orlando, Florida Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:28:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 387 (387) ALN Conference Nov. 16-18; Orlando, Florida Greetings! We invite you to The Seventh Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: Emerging Standards of Excellence in Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN), which will be held November 16-18, 2001 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida. This year's conference features: **Keynote Speaker** Jillinda J. Kidwell Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP **Plenary Session Speakers** Keith W. Ross Professor, Institut Eurcom Co-founder of WIMBA Anthony F. Digiovanni CEO, University of Phoenix Online **Two Preconference Workshops (November 16)** Emerging Research Issues in Distributed Learning Dr. Charles Dziuban and Dr. Patsy Moskal Evaluation of the Learning Effectiveness of ALN Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Dr. Murray Turoff and graduate student assistants **Over 90 presentations in six concurrent session (November 17-18)** Exhibitors including: Prometheus Jones Knowledge Blackboard WebCT Tegrity Certified Study of Distance Education (PSU) Smart Thinking McGraw Hill Make your reservations today: Rosen Centre Hotel: 1-800-204-7234 (deadline to receive conference rate is October 23, 2001) (ask for the ALN Conference rate) Conference Registration - http://www.dce.ucf.edu/aln For assistance, please email Martin Malpica: mam46647@mail.ucf.edu From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.231 reading in bed for two Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:29:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 388 (388) Willard, [deleted quotation] You concluded a posting with a question about ther rationale for reading abed: [deleted quotation] May be examples from outside the Euro-sphere may be of interest. For some reason I have an image of Persian miniatures and Japanese prints with lovers bundled in bedding and one reading to the other or showing to the other an illustrated scroll. The images I have in mind could be anachronistic orientalist depictions meant for latter day consumers of written and illustrated material in close to prone positions. It is a work of fiction that sheds a bit of light on some regional factors that may affect cultures of reading: [deleted quotation] It's so bright. Some years ago they measured the light at Siorapaluk in Greenland. From December to Feburary, when the sun is gone. People imagine eternal night. But there are stars and the moon, and now and then the northern lights. And the snow. They registered the same amount of lumens as outside a medium-sized provincial town in Denmark. That's how I remember my childhood, too -- that we always played outside, and that it was always light. Int hose days we took the light for granted. A child takes so many things for granted. With time, you start to ask questions. One can image what McLuhan would have done with a putative relation between beds and books ( he would have turned to hyperbolic statement and claimed that the book gave rise to the bed ) or what latitude mapping he would have invoked (literacy belongs to the poles; orality to the equator). [Aside: Arun Tripathi's citing of Umberto Eco's characterisation of McLuhan as a "sociologist" has been re-cited in other postings to _Humanist_. McLuhan was a literary critic, he was employed in English Departments. Donald Theall makes the case for considering the media guru as a _poet manque_.] The global expansion of electrification notwithstanding, the complicated relations of climate and culture, still affect where and when people read (and what they read at the various wheres and whens) --- Laptops and glare --- reading at the beach huddled under a blanket. Imagine --- being able to read in bed (under the covers) without a flashlight. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.229 TV & Internet Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:30:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 389 (389) [deleted quotation] his own [deleted quotation] It's not only that, but also that "The Medium is the Massage" was censored as a title in some locations [Texas being one, as I recall] and so special editions had to be printed, since, even in Texas, it was required reading for many classes. Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: "Nigel Williamson" Subject: Cistercians in Yorkshire Digitisation Assistant Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:30:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 390 (390) UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD DIGITISATION ASSISTANT Department of History Applications are invited from graduates for this post as part of the exciting and innovative Cistercians in Yorkshire project, funded by the New Opportunities Fund. This project will create an interactive web-based learning package exploring Yorkshires medieval Cistercian abbeys through 3D reconstructions of their buildings and linked text pages. The appointee will create the three-dimensional models; digitise images of the abbeys; and be involved with the other members of the project team in creating the learning package. Applicants must have experience in computer based drawing or modelling and an interest in History is desirable. The post is tenable for three years from 1 November 2001 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary: 17,451 19,486 Closing date for applications: 28 September 2001 Reference Number: RW2426 The post is full-time and based in the Universitys Humanities Research Institute. Details on how to obtain further details and how to apply for the post can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/apply.html Yours Nigel Williamson ****************************************** Nigel Williamson Arts and Humanities Computing Officer, Corporate Information & Computing Services, University of Sheffield, Computer Centre, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, Tel: 0114 222 3099 S3 7RF Fax: 0114 222 1199 From: Simon Horobin Subject: Humanities computing units &institutional resources Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:26:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 391 (391) Please forward/circulate CALL FOR COMMENTS AND UPDATES Humanities Computing Units and Institutional Resources http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/hcu/ This is a call for updates and responses to the list of humanities computing units and institutional resources assembled by Willard McCarty (King's College London) and Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland). This list, which contains links to Web sites and brief descriptions, aims to provoke discussion concerning the kinds of activity currently undertaken by computing humanists. The list is not considered to be complete and omission of a particular unit is not intentional; the purpose of this call is to discover and fill any such gaps or omissions. The list may be found at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/hcu/ and will appear in printed form in Literary and Linguistic Computing, published by Oxford University Press, in Spring 2002. It is the journal's intention to publish an updated list every two years. We and the authors would be very grateful for all additions and comments; substantial contributions will be acknowledged in the printed version. Please send your comments before 15th October 2001 to either of the Reviews Editors at the following email addresses: Edward Vanhoutte Simon Horobin Reviews Editors, Literary and Linguistic Computing Dr S. Horobin Department of English Language 12 University Gardens University of Glasgow GLASGOW G12 8QQ SCOTLAND, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 3918 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3531 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Book: Word frequency dstributions Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:21:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 392 (392) [deleted quotation] KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 18 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis WORD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS by R. Harald Baayen University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands This book is a comprehensive introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions, intended for computational linguists, corpus linguists, psycholinguists, and researchers in the field of quantitative stylistics. Word frequency distributions are characterized by very large numbers of rare words. This property leads to strange phenomena such as mean frequencies that systematically change as the number of observations is increased, relative frequencies that even in large samples are not fully reliable estimators of population probabilities, and model parameters that vary with text or corpus size. Special statistical techniques for the analysis of distributions with large numbers of rare events can be found in various technical journals. The aim of this book is to make these techniques more accessible for non-specialists, both theoretically, by means of a careful introduction to the underlying probabilistic and statistical concepts, and practically, by providing a program library implementing the main models for word frequency distributions (CD-ROM included). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7017-1 June 2001, 356 pp. EUR 117.00 / USD 108.00 / GBP 74.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS 1. Word Frequencies. 2. Non-parametric models. 3. Parametric models. 4. Mixture distributions. 5. The Randomness Assumption. 6. Examples of Applications. A. List of Symbols. B. Solutions of the exercises. C. Software. D. Data sets. Bibliography. Index. CD-ROM Included --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Volume 15: Intonation : Analysis, Modelling and Technology Antonis Botinis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000. Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000. Volume 16: Advances in probabilistic and other parsing technologies Harry Bunt, Anton Nijholt (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6, October 2000. Volume 17: Robustness in language and speech technology Jean-Claude Junqua, Gertjan van Noord (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6790-1, February 2001 Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Special Issue of Machine Translation-Call for Papers Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:23:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 393 (393) [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Machine Translation Journal on Embedded Machine Translation Systems CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 19 October 2001 http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE of MACHINE TRANSLATION Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/ GUEST EDITORS: Carol Van Ess-Dykema, U.S.Department of Defense,cjvanes@afterlife.ncsc.mil Clare R. Voss, Army Research Laboratory, voss@arl.army.mil An "embedded machine translation (MT) system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines embedded among its components. These systems accept various well-formed and degraded types of multilingual and multi-modal input, including * hard-copy pages (original and OCR-ed image), * online files (web pages, word processing files, email), * video (image and text), * speech (natural signal and transcribed). [deleted quotation] original, foreign language information in their own language. Traditionally, the term "MT" has been associated with the task of single document translation. More recently, MT engines within embedded larger systems have been used to facilitate tasks that require processing multilingual information both within and across documents. Several real-world applications have led to the widespread use of embedded MT systems for cross-language tasks, such as: * content extraction * document filtering * information retrieval * question-answering * summarization [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Bids to Host ACL 2004 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:23:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 394 (394) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST ACL 2004 Basic Information In conjunction with its European chapter, the Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals to host the 41st Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL '04). The ACL conferences are usually held during the early summer (June or July). The location of ACL conferences rotates on a three year cycle: in 2004 the ACL conference will be cosponsored with the European chapter of the ACL, and located in Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. Proposals coming from any European country, the Middle East and North Africa are eligible. The conference format will consist of a main conference and up to 10 workshops and tutorials organized just before or after the conference. 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. Draft proposals are due on the 1st December 2001, and will be evaluated by a joint ACL/EACL committee. Selected proposers will be informed at the end of February 2002. Full proposals are due on 15 April 2002. 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 labour, registration handling) Sponsorships Budget estimates Suggestions for a general chair may optionally be included, but the final decision rests with the ACL conference organizing committee. 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 elect, Mark Johnson, at Mark_Johnson@Brown.edu Submission Dates: Draft proposals are due on 1 December 2001; Full proposals are due on 15 April 2002. Useful resources: Submitters are encouraged to view recent previous successful bids, which are archived on http://www.aclweb.org/archive/bids.html, the ACL archive web site. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AHRB studentship in text summarisation Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:18:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 395 (395) [deleted quotation] AHRB RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for an AHRB-funded research studentship in text summarisation. The research of the student will focus on developing discourse strategies for summarisation of scholarly articles. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in either of the following areas: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Information Sciences, Linguistics or Languages. Candidates with background in Computer Science will be expected to be involved in some linguistics research; candidates with a background predominantly in languages/linguistics will be expected to be involved in some programming during the course of the work. The University offers a wide range of courses in Linguistics and Computer Science which can help enhance the background of the successful candidate, if necessary. The AHRB studentships are subject to residence restrictions in that the candidate must either be a UK citizen or have been a resident in the UK for at least three years (1 year for EC citizens). Information on eligibility with respect to residence is available at http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/news/page1.htm Applications should be sent to Prof. R. Mitkov School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include - completed application form - a CV - copy of university degree - evidence of postgraduate qualification or experience (if applicable) - proof of nationality or residence status - a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of any relevant experience/interests The application form can be downloaded from http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/AHRB_app_form.doc The closing date for applications is 30th September 2001. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in the week starting 1st October. The AHRB maintenance grant amounts to 7 500 GBP in the first year, 8 200 GBP in the second year and 9 000 GBP in the third year. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship by the end of October 2001, joining the Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton (http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/). For further information/queries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk or in6093@wlv.ac.uk From: Ken Litkowski Subject: WordNet 1.7 in alphabetic and XML form Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:37:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 396 (396) I am making freely available a complete conversion of WordNet and all its data into alphabetic dictionaries (all relations are preserved and glosses have been taken apart). These dictionaries are viewable only in my PC-only DIMAP software. I have made available a demo version that contains all the functionality necessary for viewing, editing, maintaining, extending, and conversion into user-defined formats. I have included a user-defined template for the complete conversion of WordNet into XML. The dictionaries are 15 MB compressed and 55 MB uncompressed. The XML versions may be up to 300 MB. The template and accompanying DTD and XML Schema can be modified. To obtain the demo, click on the Demos button at my web site. To obtain WordNet, click on the Electronic Dictionaries button. Many errors in conversion may appear in these files, particularly in my treatment of the glosses. Please report any problems to me, not the folks at WordNet. The conversion only takes a few hours (and can in fact be accomplished via the functionality available in the demo), so I can improve and periodically update both the demo and the files. I hope that this small contribution may help our abilities to communicate in these difficult times. (Apologies for cross-posting.) Ken -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-482-0237 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 9208 Gue Road Damascus, MD 20872-1025 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: CLiP 200: "Philology and Information Technology" Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:36:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 397 (397) Call for proposals International Seminar CLiP 2001 "Philology and Information Technology" Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt Duisburg 06-09.12.2001 CLiP 2001 aims at the conceptualisation of a multilingual European study program where students not only acquire solid basic knowledge in philological contents and methods but at the same time qualify for the computational processing of language, text and cultural con- tents in general. The program is to be offered jointly by universities in different European countries and is to be realised with the help of the European mobility programs (Sokrates/Erasmus) already in place, with the help of distance teaching, distance studying, eLearning and internships in European IT-Industries/Media enterprises or academic IT projects. CLiP 2001, therefore, invites contributions above all from researchers and teachers at European universities - who already make use of Information Technology in their research and teaching, - who actively take part in digitalisation projects, - who contribute to the realisation of virtual universities, digital study modules and language courses and from the European IT-Industries / Media enterprises - who need multilingual humanists, - who want to contribute their suggestions regarding relevant key qualifications to the concept of such a program, - who are able and willing to offer internships for students. CLiP 2001 invites contributions to the following sessions 1.State of the Art - Basic theories, models and methods with respect to the computational processing of philological contents; - Main fields of computer based research and of the digitalisation of cultural heritage; - Key qualifications from the perspective of IT-Industries, Media enterprises, Publishers etc. 2.Degree Course "Philology and Information Technology" - Contents and structure - Similar programmes of study 3.Realisation of a multilingual European Degree Course - Virtual Universities, Online-modules; - Exchange, study and research periods in a foreign country, internship in a foreign country; - Computer aided language tuition and language learning (e.g. eLearning), - Technologies of the 3rd generation (e.g. UMST etc.) 30.09.2001 Submission deadline for papers (incl. abstract) 15.10.2001 Notification of acceptance For more information on the seminar see: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/CLiP2001/ Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt Duisburg Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Design 2002; "Digital Promise" Forum Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:38:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 398 (398) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 13, 2001 Design 2002 Conference May 14-17: Dubrovnik http://www.cadlab.fsb.hr/design2002 Call for Papers Deadline: Oct 31, 2001 * * * Carnegie Corporation Hosts Third Forum on DIGITAL PROMISE Project http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/forum03.html http://www.digitalpromise.org/ [deleted quotation] This is the call for papers & participation for the DESIGN 2002 conference, MAY, 2002 DUBROVNIK. ========================================================================= Please, feel free to forward this message to interested people. 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DESIGN 2002 TOPICS - Design research & technology - Supportive technologies - Industrial solutions - Design information systems & knowledge management - Multidisciplinary aspects (&implications on) of design - Design education - Technical systems - Analysis technologies [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: MCN/CIMI Joint Conference Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:38:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 399 (399) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 13, 2001 REAL LIFE: VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES NEW CONNECTIONS FOR MUSEUM VISITORS Museum Computer Network/CIMI Joint Conference October 24-27, 2001; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Early Registration Deadline Sept 15: http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/index.htm [deleted quotation] MCN/CIMI Joint Conference Explores Key Applications that Shape Museum Visitors' Experience REAL LIFE: VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES NEW CONNECTIONS FOR MUSEUM VISITORS October 24-27, 2001 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 15TH Register online http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/index.htm EXPERTS SPEAK MCN and CIMI are pleased to announce the opening and closing plenary speakers. Genevieve Bell Genevieve Bell, is a design ethnographer within the Intel Architecture Labs at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. Her group, Peoples and Practices Research, is responsible for finding new users and new uses for technology using social science research methods. Genevieve has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in households across Western Europe, China and the United States. She is interested in the intersections of emerging technologies and social practice as they occur within domestic and public spaces. Prior to joining Intel in August of 1998, Genevieve taught anthropology and Native American studies at Stanford University. She has conducted fieldwork with indigenous peoples in the US and Australia. Genevieve holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and a combined AB/MA from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. Lise Anne Couture Lise Anne Couture, is an architect and principle of Asymptote Architecture, New York, New York. Asymptote's work ranges from experimental installations and computer generated environments to building design and urban planning. Most recently, Asymptote participated in the exhibit, 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and designed a large scale computer generated environment for the New York Stock Exchange. Future projects include the design and implementation of the Guggenheim Virtual Museum, a fully interactive multi-dimensional digital architecture accessible as both actual building and through the Internet. Second generation hand-held devices...immersive environments....wearable technologies...smart architecture...rich multimedia...user-centered design. Robin Dowden and Angela Spinazze, Conference Co-chairs ----------------------------------- Robin Dowden Director, Integrated Information Resources Walker Art Center 612-375-7541 voice 612-375-7575 fax robin.dowden@walkerart.org http://www.walkerart.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: hosts safe Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:41:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 400 (400) Humanists, particularly those who attended ACH/ALLC at NYU in New York last June, will be relieved to know that our hosts at the conference appear to be safe and sound after the terrible events of this week. The site of the former World Trade Center is about a mile from the NYU campus. 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: writings on imagination? Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:51:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 401 (401) This is a request for suggestions and comments on a research problem I am wrestling with at the moment -- and probably will continue wrestling with until a Jacob's angel administers the touch (and we all know where that is...). The problem is this: what are the powers of mind we most need in humanities computing and how do we learn to cultivate them? I am convinced, for reasons I cannot articulate at the moment to my complete satisfaction, that this question is really about the imagination and how it works. Indeed, I am enough convinced of this that I am now reading around in the subject of the imagination, attempting to locate its disciplinary homes, grasp what their concerns and contributions are and get what I can from them. So, I would greatly appreciate pointers to writings in *any* disipline on the subject of the imagination. I'm already aware of and mostly have read the following: Denis Donoghue, The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in the Imagination Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination Jerome McGann, "Imagining what you don't know" (online) Charles Ravenscroft, "Mental Imagery, Philosophical Issues About", article forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (online); "Imagination", Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind (online) Lisa Samuels, "Introduction" to Poetry and the Problem of Beauty (online) A (great) number of other books & articles touch on the subject, e.g. works in historiography and ethnography, such as in ethnography the writings of Greg Dening and Clifford Geertz; in historiography, R.G. Collingwood's The Idea of History and M.I. Finley's The Use and Abuse of History, and to some degree Richard Evans' In Defense of History; in philosophy Peter Winch's The Idea of a Social Science. I'm interested in those sorts of things as well. What I do not have and would greatly love to find are writings in computer science by anyone close enough to the action to understand how people think about human situations in terms of software BUT who are capable of stepping far enough away to be able to articulate these workings of mind. Edsger Dijkstra, for example, did this from time to time, in little bits and pieces, I know; please tell me about any you particularly value. In a few days I'll be giving a short paper on the topic, "Computing on the 'rough ground' of the humanities", which is online at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/rough/> and is *very* rough indeed. This may do a somewhat better job of clarifying my problem (yes, I mean this in all senses :-) than the above. Constructive comments are more than most welcome, they are the point of my inchoate speaking-out at such an early stage -- one of the things this medium is good for. 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: John Unsworth Subject: healing imagination Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:08:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 402 (402) [forwarded by John Unsworth] Look at the newspapers this morning, and see in cold print the perfunctory representation (in letters to the editor eg, but all over) of the voices of those who strongly dissent from where this wave of anguished fear is bent on carrying us. the radio, tv, and paper media are all mobilizing for "war" -- a long war, we are assured, that wants to bring a fearful terror against terrorism. hardly a whisper of the need to confront the sources of this landscape of terror, only talk of spreading it further. and so we realize, nearly hopelessly, that dissenting from this misguided program will be given no serious space in those media. by chance, in the latest issue of _the nation_, comes edward said's essay on finding a way to speak with effect in this circumstance. i urge everyone to read it. and to use THIS medium, a medium still relatively free of total control, to spread a call to step back from what our government seems determined to do. if "only to connect" (forgive me, foster) ourselves together. "standing together" as a nation without borders and an army without guns, like those firemen in nyc -- one can't get them from one's mind -- who died trying to bring comfort and help and rescue. all those firemen, our model anti-terrorists. (relatively free of control: i write that knowing full well, as all of us should, that these messages are being monitored. we must still speak out.) will we actually send yet another generation of our youth to die in places already populated largely by innocent and suffering people? the terror in nyc was conceived in just such an imagination -- an imagination in pain. we can either try to heal that imagination or let it run on, until we are all "standing together" under its terrible wings. jerry mcgann From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 15.243 our hosts at NYU Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:09:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 403 (403) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:44 AM [deleted quotation] last [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: discussion of the tragedy in the U.S. Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:17:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 404 (404) Dear colleagues: Once upon a time Humanist was (with the exception of Ansaxnet) the only discussion group in the world for people like us, and the medium was so new that any discussion by means of it was arguably a subject for study in humanities computing -- though our field hadn't yet been so named. Now the world is very different in this and many other respects. I think it's worth recalling that it wasn't long after the creation of Humanist that someone said something political that offended others, indeed it imperiled the success of a conference in our subject. Against all my cultural training I was forced to put a stop to the discussion, in particular to silence the offending individual, to protect this seminar, as I call it, from the consequences of a senseless flame-war. It's also worth recalling that the incident that provoked the offending message was military and concerned the suffering of a group of people, though not on the scale of the recent act of terrorism. Milton's Areopagitica was invoked (and then examined more closely), my "censorship" of the discussion was condemned and defended, and so on, as you can imagine. Forgive me for ruminations I am no more qualified to put forth than anyone else here, but as editor I think I must explain what I do. When I posted Jerry McGann's heartfelt and deeply moving message I had a fairly good idea that other messages would follow, and that I would feel I had to write this message and then act accordingly. I posted McGann's because I thought it important to signal that humanities computing is not unrelated to our common humanity (and inhumanity), that as with everything else we do, what we do has a socio-political context. His was just right for the purpose. One of the tragic consequences of war is that it tends to destroy where it does not deepen opportunities for thought, that it co-opts everybody and everything in the fury of destruction Jerry's message asked us to help avoid. I don't want Humanist to be so co-opted. So I would ask everyone while recognising that the events unfolding now are intimately relevant to us as human beings not to discuss them here. The simplistic polarities of black ("#000000") vs white ("#ffffff") would in a discussion immediately resolve into a myriad of shades and colours, because that's the way things are, and many of these being hot would start fires. Let's not have that please. One of you wrote thoughtfully that, [deleted quotation] Part of what I think is involved in preserving this free exchange of ideas here and in our institutions is in identifying how we can best help when, as now, help is crucially needed. Allow me to suggest that we can contribute in ways for which Humanist is centrally qualified: how electronic communications are involved in what's happening, e.g. to provide us with multiple points of view on a very complex situation, as in the "News Sources in Central Asia" Web page at <http://www.superopendirectory.com/directory/4/events/warInCentralAsia> sent to me by Igor Kramberger. The Internet makes organising nasty actions of all sorts much easier, I suppose, but at the same time it gives us access to other perspectives which to understand makes our response as individuals much more difficult -- and potentially much more humane. (Is there historical evidence for such influence from earlier mass-media?) I realise too that my meta-perspective on all this is culturally conditioned or socially constructed, as you prefer, and so can, perhaps should be challenged. Those from other parts of the world than mine (N America and the U.K.) should have some interesting things to say about the cultural conditioning of Humanist as well as my own, I suspect. There are many things relevant to Humanist, to humanities computing, that are just our cup of tea. I would even go so far as to say that we are called upon by the current situation to identify and discuss them. So I ask for your understanding and help in finding a way, if you wish, to apply to the world we call real what this group is best qualified to 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: "Arun Kumar Tripathi" Subject: Qualitative Methods for Reasoning under Uncertainty Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:14:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 405 (405) Here is a new book from MIT desk-top. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262161680 Qualitative Methods for Reasoning under Uncertainty Simon Parsons In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent completely new methods for reasoning under uncertainty but provides the means to create qualitative versions of existing methods. To illustrate this, he develops qualitative versions of probability theory, possibility theory, and the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. According to Parsons, these theories are best considered complementary rather than exclusive. Thus the book supports the contention that rather than search for the one best method to handle all imperfect information, one should use whichever method best fits the problem. This approach leads naturally to the use of several different methods in the solution of a single problem and to the complexity of integrating the results--a problem to which qualitative methods provide a solution. Simon Parsons is a Reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool and the editor of the journal Knowledge Engineering Review. 7 x 9, 514 pp. cloth ISBN 0-262-16168-0 Jud Wolfskill Associate Publicist MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617.253.2079 617.253.1709 fax wolfskil@mit.edu ------------------- From: dwanders@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: "Creating a Critical Edition in Digital Form" talk (fwd) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:18:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 406 (406) Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: townsend@ls.berkeley.edu The Indo-European Languages and Cultures Working Group and The Unicode and Text Encoding Working Group present a lecture and demonstration by Carl-Martin Bunz Institute of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Indo-Iranian Studies University of Saarland, Saarbruecken "Creating a Critical Edition in Digital Form: Reconsidering Traditional Techniques with an Example from Avestan Philology" Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001 5 p.m., 3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley This talk will discuss the impact of computer technology in producing critical editions of texts. A demonstration of an XML project using Avestan manuscript materials will graphically display the new directions that philological work will be able to take in the future. The IE Working Group is funded by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. For further information, please contact Deborah Anderson, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu. -- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept 24, 2001 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:18:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 407 (407) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 17, 2001 EVENT CONFIRMATION The following event will take place as scheduled: NINCH and The New York Public Library in association with The Frick Collection, New York University Libraries and New York University Information Technology Services present: NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING "Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age" Monday September 24: New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum Fifth Avenue at 42nd St 8:30am-5:00pm http://www.nypl.org/research/copyright/index.html This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation -- ============================================================== 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: "Koster, Jo" Subject: RE: 15.244 writings on imagination? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:16:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 408 (408) Willard, I might suggest, with some trepidation, Ray Kurzweil's _The Age of Spiritual Machines_ as a possible complement to your list--some of his ideas are certainly germane to the topic. His chapters on "Of Mind and Machines" and "Building New Brains" certainly do discuss some of the ideas you're wrestling with, though in a highly eclectic way. In a wholly different light, there's an older book by Jenni Boyd called _Musicians in Tune_, which asked about 70 contemporary musicians to describe their creative processes; a number of them talk about how their composing/creating was and is effected by using technology. It might be tangential but I remember the book as being fairly suggestive for a mass-market book (I think it was based on Boyd's master's thesis; she had the distinction of being the sister-in-law of both Eric Clapton and George Harrison, and so had access to some rather high-power contemporary popular musicians to draw on for her analysis of creativity). Cheers, Jo --*--*--*--*--*-- Jo Koster (formerly Tarvers), Ph.D. Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 USA phone (803) 323-4557 fax (803) 323-4837 e-mail kosterj@winthrop.edu on the web http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj "Brother, brother, We don't need to hesitate. War is not the answer, For only love can conquer hate." --Marvin Gaye From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 15.244 writings on imagination? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:16:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 409 (409) At 06:57 AM 9/17/2001 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Didn't Addison and Steele write about the "Pleasures of the Imagination" in one of the Spectator papers? I can't seem to recall them writing much on counting devices so this may turn out to be a bum steer. LEO --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein Library Web Coordinator home ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://patachon.com office ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.244 writings on imagination? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:16:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 410 (410) Willard, not everyone finds this book helpful, but I always used to refer my students to Bachelard, Gaston, _The Psychoanalysis of Fire_ or, if you prefer, Bachelard, GAston, _La psychanalyse du feu_. when they were thinking about the creative imagination. (though it is not about computers) From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Re: 15.244 writings on imagination? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:17:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 411 (411) Dear Willard, A book that comes to my mind is Mary Warnock's _Imagination_. While it is now quite dated, it provides a historical and philosophical groundwork which might be of use in your endeavour. Yours, Soraj Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. (+662) 218-4756; Fax. (+662) 218-4755 Home page: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html Science in Thai Culture Project: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/ From: Stuart Lee Subject: Vacancy: Oxford University: Academic Computing Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:19:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 412 (412) Development Team Development Team Project Officer (Interface Design) Grade: RS1A Salary: GBP17,278 - GBP25,969 - One year post initially. The Humanities Computing Development Team (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/) was established in 1998 to provide IT project development services to support Humanities teaching and research at the University of Oxford. The Team is in the process of expanding to become the Academic Computing Development Team, a multidisciplinary unit that will cover all areas of academic study within the University. As part of this expansion we are looking to recruit an additional person to join our team. The post will initially be for one year. You will work within the team on the development of internet-based applications to support teaching, learning and research at the University. You will specialise in the design of user interfaces for our projects. To do this you will need to be able to communicate successfully with people of differing technical expertise, including your other team members who are involved in the "back-end" technical development of the projects, and also our academic collaborators. As well as having excellent design skills, you will ideally have a good understanding of some of the more technical aspects of developing internet-based applications, and you will be keen to develop your skills further in these areas. Other duties will include application development, consultation with academic collaborators and researching and writing short reports about specific technologies. We expect you to have a degree or equivalent qualification. You will have demonstrable practical experience in most of the following areas: graphic design, interface design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the design and planning of large to medium sized websites. Experience of interfacing databases to the web and XML/XSLT are desirable but not essential skills, and an interest in online learning would be beneficial. The ability to work as part of a small team will be required, together with the organisational ability necessary to undertake and prioritise a variety of duties. For both posts, please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. (tel: 01865 273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 27th September 2001 Informal enquiries should be directed to the Development Team Project Manager, Sophie Clarke (tel: 01865 283428, e-mail: sophie.clarke@oucs.ox.ac.uk). The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Sophie Clarke sophie.clarke@oucs.ox.ac.uk Project Manager, Humanities Computing Development Team www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/ HCDT is part of the Learning Technologies Group www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/ Humanities Computing Unit | OUCS | University of Oxford | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX2 6NN | Tel: 01865 283428 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:23:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 413 (413) [material deleted] [deleted quotation] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "Future of Music Colloquium" Tues Sept 25: Washington DC Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:28:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 414 (414) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 18, 2001 Washington College of Law's Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Presents Future of Music Colloquium http://www.futureofmusic.org/events/falltour.cfm Tuesday, September 25: 5pm Washington College of Law, Room 603, 4801 Massachusetts Ave N.W. Washington D.C. [deleted quotation] [material deleted] From: C Spreizer Subject: Re: 15.246 Humanist and the tragic events in the U.S. Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:24:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 415 (415) Dear Willard, this is my first response to the list, and although I do believe that Humanist should be used for the purposes it was created, I was extremely disappointed in the reaction, or lack of reaction to, the events of September 11. I am sure everyone was relieved to discover that the staff of NYU who hosted the latest conference (which I attended) were safe and sound. Email was the only method of getting out information to loved ones in the immediate aftermath, since phone lines were overburdened, and electronic information did indeed bring great relief to the majority of recipients. But unless I missed something, Humanist neglected to make any kind of general statement expressing sympathy for the tens of thousands of citizens of New York and Washington directly affected by events. Other lists did respond with some kind of general statement expressing sympathy with the victims of the attacks, no matter what the stated purpose of the list was. But not Humanist. I also found the statements of Jerry McGann bizarre on some level -- is he really more paranoid that his message will be read by some secret police force worming its way into an academic discussion rather than the actions of such terrorists who delight in killing for the sake of killing? You write that "I posted McGann's because I thought it important to signal that humanities computing is not unrelated to our common humanity (and inhumanity), that as with everything else we do, what we do has a socio-political context. His was just right for the purpose." But your reactions to the disaster show that you missed the context completely and responded instead on a very limited and selective personal level. There is a difference between the desire to deepen opportunities for thought and having one's head buried in the sand. Sincerely, Christa Spreizer spreizer@qc.edu Queens College/CUNY From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: your action in Humanist Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:25:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 416 (416) Good for you, Willard -- discussion of the terrorist attack has screwed up several other lists, especially Ansax and Mediev-l, where people are going off in all sorts of directions despite pleas from various folk to get back to business. No one, it seems. can withstand the temptation to answer notes on the subject, either with good sense or with flames. (I fell for it a couple of times before I firmly decided to keep out no matter what) It's sort of "thoughts that lie too deep for tears", I fear. Thanks again. From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 15.246 Humanist and the tragic events in the U.S. Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:25:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 417 (417) Willard, Just personally, let me tell you how grateful I am for your hand on the tiller. I had dropped off Humanist in a move, and just rejoined to hear a voice of sanity when I was sorrowfully forced to leave the Archives and Archivist list because of a vicious political flame war that erupted last week. Since there was no moderator, there was no way to stop it. I wasn't the only one who left, and in returning to Humanist I wasn't disappointed. This is my personal support for this forum as it is, since its thoughtful discussions strengthen our whole purpose. Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 15.244 writings on imagination? Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:26:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 418 (418) Dear Willard, A book I recently read (and since recommended to all my friends and some colleagues) is on thinking and intuition, inspirational about how much of our "intuitive" thinking still is rational, just not part of the conscious processes, with lots of empirical evidence of ho wwe can know about it: G. Claxton, *Hair Brain, Tortoise Mind. Why Intelligence Increases When We Think Less* (4th Estate London 1997) (I know that the subtitle looks like one of those self-help books, but it is not!) Quite relevant to imagination I think. best Han -------------------------------------------------- Dr Han Baltussen * Tutor & Temporary Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy * Chief Assistant Editor to the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project (200-600 AD) King's College London Dept. of Philosophy Strand LONDON WC2R 2LS tel. +44-(0)20-7848-2528 fax +44-(0)20-7848-2317 ------------------------------------------------- ** Have a look at the Project's website (currently under development) at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/frames/Research where you'll find what we do, news on forthcoming volumes and a conference in 2002 From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: No Boundaries for the Journeys of the Mind by Arun Tripathi Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:21:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 419 (419) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, This Week in Ubiquity: Volume 2, Issue 27 (September 11-17, 2001) No Boundaries for the Journeys of the Mind By Arun Kumar Tripathi. What makes the Internet more than just the latest in a long chain of technological innovations that have fallen short of inflated expectations in the realm of advanced learning? Please read the entire article/excerpt at <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/a_tripathi_1.html> and contribute in the forums.. The essay on the above website is a preview from a forthcoming anthology on digital education. Thank you and looking forward to reading your comments. With Best Regards Arun Kumar Tripathi WAOE Multilingual Coordinator ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= RA at Telecooperation Research Group, FB Informatik, The University of Technology, Darmstadt, Research Scientist and Scholar, ONLINE INTERNET EDUCATOR on the GLOBAL SCALE. Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee (http://www.waoe.org) Arun Tripathi's Global Education Projects <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/index.html> National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network Karen Ellis's The Educational Playground at <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com> The Internet in Education at: <http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/tripathi.htm> E-mail: Moderator for Online-Ed Listserv Internet Search Expert, EdResource Listserv Moderator <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/EdResource.html> On the Internet, Hubert L. Dreyfus: Summary by Arun Kumar Tripathi <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/Internet_Platonism_met_Dreyfus.htm> ============================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: data and reality Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:55:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 420 (420) In "The Historical Imagination", an epilegomenon to The Idea of History, R. G. Collingwood presents what he calls the common-sense idea of history, as follows: [deleted quotation] As Collingwood notes, "These consequences of the common-sense theory have only to be stated to be repudiated". In general, however, when historians reflect on their work, he notes further, they seem to accept the common-sense theory, softening the contradiction between what they actually do and this doctrine by thinking of their interventions as emergency measures rather than as the ordinary operations of historical research and writing. In other words, the common-sense view remains quite powerful despite the fact that no historian, or no good one, actually carries its doctrine into practice. An exposition of similar problems in graphical representation can be found in Edward Tufte's fine books, as you probably know. My question is this: how do we introduce our students, in humanities computing, to the complex and treacherous domain that lies between data and our representations of reality on the machine? How do we jolt them out of the common-sense view that these representations are purely and simply factual? Comments please. 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: Michael Fraser Subject: Interoperability Officer, University of Oxford Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:55:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 421 (421) Humbul Humanities Hub Interoperability Officer Grade: RS1A Salary: GBP17,451 - GBP26,229 - two year post The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/) is seeking an Interoperability Officer to lead the technical development of an online arts and humanities portal. Humbul is part of the national Resource Discovery Network (RDN) and based at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). You will be responsible for implementing and developing technical solutions to cross-search remote databases, control authentication and enable community services. You will be comfortable liaising with data-providers, related services and end-users. We expect you to have a relevant degree or equivalent experience; a working knowledge of languages or tools for developing online information systems; and be familar with, or keen to learn about, emerging technologies for interoperability and online information discovery. You should also be enthusiastic about the use of digital resources within humanities subjects, communicate well at all levels, and be comfortable working within a project environment. 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). Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Michael Fraser, Head of Humbul (mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Further details and an application form are also available in electronic form at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 27th September 2001. Interviews will be held in October. --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 From: Anne Jacobson Subject: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:40:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 422 (422) {--} [deleted quotation] -- From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Colloquium on Editing Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:04:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 423 (423) X-posted to ANSAX, SHARP, COLLATE and HUMANIST [deleted quotation] Date Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:14 pm To MEDTEXTL@LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU Subject Colloquium on Editing: European Society for Textual Scholarship Dear everyone Announcing: the Inaugural Colloquium for the European Society for Textual Scholarship The European Society for Textual Scholarship is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for the theory and practice of textual scholarship in Europe. It is being established in close collaboration with the Society for Textual Scholarship (North America; http://www.textual.org), and will hold a major conference in each even-numbered year. The Society is sponsored by The Centre for Technology and the Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, and by The Constantijn Huygens Institute for text editions and intellectual history, The Hague. The Inaugural Colloquium for the Society will be held in De Montfort University, Leicester, on Thursday and Friday 22 and 23 November 2001. Speakers will include Peter Shillingsburg, Hans-Walter Gabler, David Parker, Peter Robinson, Dick van Vliet, Bodo Plachta and Andreas Dress. Further information about the colloquium is at http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/ests/initcolloq.html. The Society website is http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/ests/ Peter Robinson ------------------------------------------------- Director, Centre for Technology and the Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 5XY, UK Phone +44 (0)116 250 6495, fax 257 7265. http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/ The Canterbury Tales Project http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/ The MASTER Project http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/master From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final CFP: M4M-2 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:06:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 424 (424) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 2 (M4M-2) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam November 29-30, 2001 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m DEADLINE: October 12, 2001 THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-2 is the second installment of this bi-anual workshop series. [material deleted] From: "David L. Green" Subject: ALTERED PROGRAM: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: NYC, Sept Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:12:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 425 (425) 24, 2001 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 20, 2001 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY * ALTERED PROGRAM * NEW YORK CITY COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING "Intellectual Property & Multimedia in the Digital Age" Monday September 24: New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/research/copyright/index.html * Siva Vaidhyanathan and Jane White added to Program * The New York City NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING will be held Monday September 24 (8:30am-5pm) at the New York Public Library (Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street). Due to the turmoil induced by the attack on New York City last week, two of the advertised speakers will not be able to participate. However, we are very grateful that two new speakers have agreed to contribute to the program: * Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of the new book "Copyrights and Copywrongs," is currently working on a book about Napster and the ways we regulate our information ecosystem. * Jane White, Director of the International Children's Digital Library at The Internet Archive, and formerly of ABC News, will speak about copyright issues faced by The Internet Moving Images Archive As before, the two keynote speakers, Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) and Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will explore issues arising for non-profit cultural institutions as they manage and use multimedia digital cultural material in an online environment. They will then each moderate a panel discussing issues from the points of view of owners and users of digital assets. Registration: A free box lunch will be available only for those 315 people who have registered for the meeting. Although registration has closed, there may be some limited seating available for others. The NINCH Copyright 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 program will include plenty of time for audience questions, comments and discussion. For information on all the NINCH 2001 Copyright Town meetings, see http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings01/2001.html * * * Speakers Two keynote speakers will address the issues of non-profits as rightsholders and as users of digital multimedia material. Professor Peter Jaszi (Washington College of Law, American University) will speak on "non-profits as rightsholders" while Linda Tadic (Manager of the Digital Library, Home Box Office) will address "non-profits as users." Peter Jaszi teaches at the Washington College of Law of The American University, in Washington, D.C., where he directs the new Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic and the Program on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. Professor Jaszi is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and an experienced copyright litigator who lectures frequently to professional groups in the United States and abroad. Linda Tadic is the Manager of the Digital Library at HBO. Ms. Tadic was the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to this position, she was Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. In 1998-1999, she was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). PANEL ONE Professor Jaszi will moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property Owners in the Digital Environment," with the following speakers: * Ryan Craig, a business development consultant, lawyer and co-founder of Fathom, is currently with Warburg Pincus, the international private equity firm, where he invests in and works with education and training companies. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Craig advised top management in the music, video, cable, telecommunications and Internet industries on strategic and operational projects. * Adam Eisgrau, Principal and Director of The Wexler Group, was Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) (1993-1995) and then the First legislative Counsel for the American Library Association (1995-1999), where he served as principal domestic and international lobbyist on intellectual property issues as the world wrestled with the reform of IP law for the Internet age. Eisgrau also was a primary organizer and media spokesperson for the Digital Future Coalition. * Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), and as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997). In 1995-1996, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission of Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the groundbreaking Task Force Report. PANEL TWO Linda Tadic will then moderate a panel on "Intellectual Property Users in the Digital Environment," with the following speakers: * Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies where he teaches courses and does research on multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, metadata standards, intellectual property, digital longevity,information literacy, and the social and cultural impact of new information technologies. He was a member of the National Academy of Science panel that authored "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age." * Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison A cultural historian and media scholar, Professor Vaidhyanathan is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001). He is currently working on a book about Napster and the ways we regulate our information ecosystem. Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, has testified at hearings held by the U.S. Copyright office and has submitted amicus briefs in some high-profile copyright cases. After five years as a professional journalist Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Vaidhyanathan has taught at the University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and New York University. * Jane White is Director of the NSF-funded International Children's Digital Library at The Internet Archive. She has worked as executive vice president and executive producer for Dotcomiz, a performance animation company, as development director at Viacom New Media and executive producer at Paramount Interactive. While at ABC News (1986-1993) she was director of education services, manager of ABC News Archives and co-founder of ABC News Interactive where she produced a series of interactive multimedia materials for the educational community. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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. NYC LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Patricia Barnett Andrew W. Mellon Librarian, The Frick Collection Jacqueline F. Bausch Deputy General Counsel, The New York Public Library Daniel Dex Associate Counsel, The New York Public Library Heike Kordish Deputy Director, The Research Libraries, The New York Public Library Madeleine Nichols Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Robert J. Vanni General Counsel, The New York Public Library Jennifer Vinopal Coordinator, Studio for Digital Projects & Research New York University Libraries Matthew Zimmerman Humanities Computing Specialist, New York University Information Technology Services NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP: Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries Robert Baron, Independent Scholar Kenneth Crews, Indiana University Georgia Harper, University of Texas Christine Sundt, University of Oregon/Visual Resources Association/NINCH BOARD Marta Teegen, College Art Association Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of American University Presses Peter Walsh, College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property Patricia Williams, Americans for the Arts 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 subscribe or un-subscribe, contact the editor: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Position at U. of Georgia, English Dept. Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:04:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 426 (426) Position at U. of Georgia, English Dept. The Department of English at the University of Georgia seeks to hire an assistant professor, tenure-track, in the area of Humanities Computing. Ph.D. required by time of appointment, August 2002. Four course load; salary competitive. Demonstrated accomplishment in and commitments to research and teaching in humanities computing / digital studies and to the application of digital technology to humanities research are required. In particular, candidates must have knowledge of and ability to teach mark-up languages and scripting. Send letter of application and cv including pertinent URLs by November 9 to N. Hilton, Head, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; attn.: Humanities Computing Search. We encourage applications from women and minorities. The University of Georgia is an AA/EEO institution. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: University of Ulster (Magee): 2 Research Studentships Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:05:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 427 (427) [deleted quotation] Research Studentships Magee Awards: Intelligent Digital MultiMedia Interfaces Faculty of Informatics One research studentship is available within the MultiMedia Systems and Artificial Intelligence research group of the Faculty of Informatics. The focus of the research will be to investigate the integration of the computational processing of digital multimedia (e.g. spoken dialogue, natural language and visual advanced interfaces) incorporating the modelling of emotions and automated storytelling with application to e.g. intelligent web-browsing and medical informatics. The studentship will comprise fees at the EU or Home rate and an annual maintenance allowance of =A310,000. Applicants should hold or expect to gain by September 2001 a minimum of an upper second class honours degree and/or Master's degree in intelligent digital multimedia, computer science, cognitive science or a related subject, and have good experience in, and be prepared for, computer programming, scientific experimentation and the use of existing software tools. Further information is available from: Professor Paul Mc Kevitt, http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/staff/p.mckevitt E-mail p.mckevitt@ulst.ac.uk Phone (+44) 28 71375433 Magee Awards: William Flynn Research Studentship Faculty of Informatics One research studentship is available in the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Informatics. There are a number of possible projects available. These include topics on neural networks, hybrid intelligent systems, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, self-organising systems, multiple valued logic, embedded model predictive control, embedded and bio-inspired systems, evolvable hardware, spoken dialogue systems, computer graphics and vision, and distributed systems. A list of available projects, together with some further details, may be found at http://isel.infm.ulst.ac.uk or http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/research/projects All applicants must indicate on their application their first and second choice of project from the list mentioned above. The studentship will comprise fees at the EU or Home rate and an annual maintenance allowance of =A37,500. Students holding a 1st class honours degree or a qualification deemed as equivalent may be entitled to an additional annual allowance of =A32,500. Applicants should hold or expect to gain by September 2001, a minimum of an upper second class honours degree in electronics, computing or closely related discipline. Preference may be given to candidates with first class degrees or a postgraduate qualification. Interested applicants may also contact Professor M. McGinnity, email: tm.mcginnity@ulst.ac.uk or Professor Paul Mc Kevitt, email: p.mckevitt@ulst.ac.uk Successful applicants for the above studentships will enrol, as of 2 January 2002 or earlier by arrangement, on a full-time programme of researc= h studies leading to the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. All studentships are tenable at the Magee campus for three years subject to satisfactory progress. Application materials may be obtained from: Angela Rippey, Research Office, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, telephone (+44) (0)28 7032 4592, email: a.rippey@ulst.ac.uk or website www.ulst.ac.uk/research The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 28 September 2001= =2E Interviews will be held on or around 10 October 2001. also found at: http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/IF676.html & http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/IF677.html LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Professor Paul Mc Kevitt Chair in Digital MultiMedia School of Computing & Electronics Faculty of Informatics University of Ulster, Magee College BT48 7JL, Derry/Londonderry NORTHERN IRELAND E-mail: p.mckevitt@ulst.ac.uk WWW: http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/staff/p.mckevitt FaX: (+44) 28 71375470 =20 Phone: (+44) 28 71375433 (Office MG-221) (+44) 28 71375382 (School Office) LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL =20 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Faculty opening, NYU: Middle East Studies Librarian Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:12:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 428 (428) [deleted quotation] The following is a job announcement from New York University, Division of Libraries. Kindly excuse any cross postings. Librarian for Middle East Studies Description: Librarian in Middle East Studies, assigned to the Technical Services Division, Bobst Library. Librarians are expected to serve as partners in the educational mission of NYU by establishing strong relationships with the faculty and students, building and maintaining appropriate research collections, and providing responsive and innovative information services. The Middle East collection covers a geographic area stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan and Muslim India as well as Muslims and Middle Easterners in the diaspora. Historical coverage spans ancient history to the contemporary period with primary focus on the period following the rise of Islam. The focus for ancient Near East is the Syro- Mesopotamian region and biblical studies. Historically the collection has focused on history, culture, literature and religion (particularly Islam), but in recent years a strong social sciences component has been added emphasizing politics, sociology, anthropology, and indigenous theater and cinema. Major languages collected are Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Turkish (modern and Ottoman) as well as English, French and German. Close cooperation with other specialists, especially Jewish studies, is essential to meet research and teaching needs. The successful candidate will serve as coordinator of library activities in support of the graduate and undergraduate programs in Middle and Near Eastern studies. Collection development responsibilities include selecting and managing research materials in all formats, faculty liaison, providing a variety of research, consultation and instructional services to faculty and students, and participating in the preservation efforts of the library. Technical services responsibilities include original cataloging of monographs, serials, and microforms in Middle Eastern languages (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Ottoman Turkish) following national (NACO and BIBCO) standards; assisting in other cataloging unit duties and projects; working with acquisitions staff on approval and subscription plans and firm orders of materials published in the Middle East, including the invoicing and vendor relations; directing the work of 2 FTE assistants. Qualifications: Required - ALA accredited MLS, subject Master's required for tenure; proficiency in Arabic as well as Persian or Hebrew; some knowledge of French or German desirable. Preference will be given to candidates who have done graduate work in Middle Eastern studies and have substantial experience in either collection development or knowledge of cataloging and classifying materials on a national bibliographic utility using AACR2 and LC classification and subject headings. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, excellent benefits include five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience. 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 that includes three academic institutions in Greenwich Village. To Apply: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address and telephone number of three references to Ms. Janet Koztowski, Library Human Resources Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, (fax) 212-995-4070. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS. From: Michael Fraser Subject: Interoperability Officer, University of Oxford Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:14:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 429 (429) Humbul Humanities Hub Interoperability Officer Grade: RS1A Salary: GBP17,451 - GBP26,229 - two year post The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/) is seeking an Interoperability Officer to lead the technical development of an online arts and humanities portal. Humbul is part of the national Resource Discovery Network (RDN) and based at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). You will be responsible for implementing and developing technical solutions to cross-search remote databases, control authentication and enable community services. You will be comfortable liaising with data-providers, related services and end-users. We expect you to have a relevant degree or equivalent experience; a working knowledge of languages or tools for developing online information systems; and be familar with, or keen to learn about, emerging technologies for interoperability and online information discovery. You should also be enthusiastic about the use of digital resources within humanities subjects, communicate well at all levels, and be comfortable working within a project environment. 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). Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Michael Fraser, Head of Humbul (mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Further details and an application form are also available in electronic form at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/recruit.html Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 27th September 2001. Interviews will be held in October. --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 From: "Koster, Jo" Subject: RE: 15.257 data and reality? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:13:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 430 (430) Willard, Getting students to understand that there can be (let alone that there _is_)a "complex and treacherous domain that lies between data and our representations of reality on the machine" is a problem I find that I have to attack more and more explicitly as my students become more and more members of a generation where the picture is the truth. I have tried doing it with print sources by using varying historical accounts of the same event: the assassination of Malcolm X, the events at Lexington & Concord, the battle in Tianamen Square (see below for references) with some success. But I have not had as much success convincing him that this same standard applies to the web. The best thing I have found to do is to show them convincing "historical representations of fact" that are in fact frauds, and encourage them to see what signals--clearly there--they ignore out of their conditioning to believe what they see. Two good sites I use for this are http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html and http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/writ102/marktwain.htm. These aren't the only ones that work. Some of the best examples are at Susan Beck's site, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalexpl.html. She has a wonderful collection of graphically-impressive yet deceitful web materials. The one that has worked best with my students is the one on little-known facts about women and aids, at http://147.129.1.10/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm, a site that was designed and is maintained by John Henderson. Yet the essential problem remains: students believe something is a truth because they see it and hear it and are comfortable with it--and getting them to question this enculturated position is an activity that takes more and more effort. In the past few days my students have angrily denounced the pictures shown on television of Palestinian women and children celebrating the news of the New York/Pentagon disaster in the refugee camps of Lebanon. I finally had to tape the scene off CNN and show it frame by frame to make them see that there were other Palestinians behind them, walking past without celebrating or shaking their heads in sadness (and I hope disgust), to get them to see that not ALL people of Arabic descent support the terrorist acts. Then I asked them how many of them, as eight- and nine-year old children, had gone to parades and celebrations after the end of the Kuwait war in the early 90s. Almost all of them had. They had all cheered and celebrated because enemies of their country had died. "But that's different," they said. "That was a _war_." I assigned them to go out and discover whether the US Congress had ever actually passed a declaration of war that was signed by the President--whether it was really a _war_ in the historical sense. They came back defeated and frustrated--this is not what they wanted to believe, and I don't think most of them still believe that their historical "truth" of the Gulf War could be in some way inaccurate. I think probably this is a bigger problem than just one for students of humanities computing and has more complexity than just with how we present information in an electronic environment. I think it is a problem for all cultures where we permit people to accept the most comfortable view of events as the truth. Peace-- Jo --*--*--*--*--*-- Jo Koster (formerly Tarvers), Ph.D. Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 USA phone (803) 323-4557 fax (803) 323-4837 e-mail kosterj@winthrop.edu on the web http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj "Brother, brother, / We don't need to hesitate. / War is not the answer, / For only love can conquer hate."---Marvin Gaye Print accounts: 1. Five Accounts of the Assassination of Malcolm X: The New York Times 2/22/1965; Life 3/5/1965; The New York Post 2/22/1965; Associated Press 2/22/1965; The Amsterdam News 2/27/1965. From Chaffee, Thinking Critically 5/e, pp. 169-171. 2. Four Accounts of the Battle of Lexington: from Samuel Steinberg, The United States: Story of a Free People; from Winston Churchill, History of the English Speaking Peoples; from the deposition of Sylvanus Woods, a Minuteman, given 30 years after the event; from the deposition of John Bateman, British militiaman, given while a prisoner of war in Massachusetts. From Chaffee, Thinking Critically 5/e, pp. 213-15, based on an activity from the Critical Thinking in History Project. 3. Seven Accounts of Events at Tiananmen Square, 1989: from The New York Times, 6/4/89; Deng Xiaoping, as reported in The Beijing Review, July 1989; Eyewitness reporter=s account, The New York Times, 6/4/89; official Chinese government accounts; The New York Times, 6/5/89; eyewitness account of Xiao Bin immediately after the event; statement of Xiao Bin while in the custody of Chinese authorities. From Chaffee, Thinking Critically 5/e, pp. 215-220. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.257 data and reality? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:13:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 431 (431) Willard, As your quotation makes clear, Collingwood that likens what he calls the "common-sense" idea of history to a respect for a "sacred text". I noted the absence of editorial intervention in regards to the gender of the hypothetical historian. I am intrigued as to how the gender disappears in your commentary when the discussion moves from of the single historian (in the Collingwood quotation) to historians in the plural (in your commentary). Is that plural yours or Collingwood's? I ask because it has an impact on a possible answer to your question: [deleted quotation] factual? We, and other pedagogues, can create group exercises that model the play of context displacement. One set of exercises is the simple commentary by one group on another groups selection of a snippet from a larger text -- an exercise very familiar to those involved in sources and roots research. An other excercise is rhetorical: parsing the parts of an artefact such as a posting to a discussion list and playing with their recombination in a different order. Finally, I wish to draw your attention to a more concrete example that plays with a plurality of sources to construct a representation as reported to Humanist subscribers May 27, 2001. John Bonnet has drawn upon the historical economist Harold Innis and developed a pedagogical exercise in which students construct 3D models from archival photographs and fire insurance maps is designed to lead them to an appreciation of the documentary evidence. It is a fine example of the re-emphasis on the trivium of construction-collaboration-communication which is shaping many online courses. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0052.html Let me translate the trio construction, collaboration, communication, into other terms. It means planning exercises that involve collective creation and a record of the collective creation. It means fostering opportunities for what Jerome Bruner calls "going meta". [Bruner, Jerome. Acts of Meaning. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. p. 55]. Bruner writes: 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#bruner Before going meta as our parents might, we children like to receive stories. There is the now pop saying "do you know where your children are?" that can be answered with the not so pop phrase "where stories intersect". Having students and teachers tell stories about how they conducted a piece of research is well worth the time. I leave subscribers to Humanist to tell of the reasons why the skill of story telling is vital to their enterprises. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "Humanist Discussion Group Subject: Re: 15.257 data and reality? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:14:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 432 (432) )" To: "Humanist Discussion Group" Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:02 PM [deleted quotation]R. [deleted quotation]remembers [deleted quotation]and, [deleted quotation]actually [deleted quotation]and [deleted quotation]factual? [deleted quotation] From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 15.257 data and reality? Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:15:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 433 (433) There's yet a more direct way in which these issues are not just about how humanists represent reality: the very source material is now harder to critique than it was when it was fixed on a relatively permanent medium. In teaching archivists to preserve the authenticity (and to wrestle with what that is) of electronic records for permanent retention, I make sure that they have actually had experience of seeing the coding that lies behind representations, of knowing what drivers and clients are and how they work, and of actually working out all the issues in migrating files to keep them readable vs attempting to somehow maintain their whole environment over time. Archivists, in short, have a lot more to do in the digital future and a lot more necessity to examine their practices than ever before. People interested in these issues can go to a splendid portal site maintained by the National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ Pat Galloway Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Texas-Austin From: Peter Liddell Subject: statement on the Sept 11th events Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:15:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 434 (434) "The events of 11 September 2001: Statement composed jointly by CALICO, EUROCALL and IALLT The representatives of the professional associations CALICO, EUROCALL and IALLT, and others working together as WorldCALL, wish to express their shock at the unprovoked attack on innocent people in the USA on 11 September 2001. We extend our sympathy to the families, friends and loved ones of those who died, and confirm our commitment to working towards greater human understanding and cross-cultural communication through the teaching and learning of languages." for CALICO: Bob Fischer, President, http://calico.org for EUROCALL: Bernd Rschoff, President, http://www.eurocall.org for IALLT: David Pankratz, President; Peter Liddell, President-Elect http://iallt.org/ for WorldCALL, Graham Davies, http://www.worldcall.org/ =============================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Understanding Intelligence Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:25:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 435 (435) Dear humanist researchers, From Bradford Books Understanding Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier (September 2001, ISBN 0-262-66125-X, MIT Press) "People trained in classical AI will find this book an articulate and thought-provoking challenge to much that they have taken for granted. People new to cognitive science will find it a stimulating introduction to one of the field's most productive controversies. Pfeifer and Scheier deserve our thanks for a thorough, assessible, and courteous contribution in the best tradition of scholarly debate." -- H. Van Dyke, Computing Reviews By the mid-1980s researchers from artificial intelligence, computer science, brain and cognitive science, and psychology realized that the idea of computers as intelligent machines was inappropriate. The brain does not run "programs"; it does something entirely different. But what? Evolutionary theory says that the brain has evolved not to do mathematical proofs but to control our behavior, to ensure our survival. Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior--thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI." This book provides a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking. After discussing concepts and approaches such as subsumption architecture, Braitenberg vehicles, evolutionary robotics, artificial life, self-organization, and learning, the authors derive a set of principles and a coherent framework for the study of naturally and artificially intelligent systems, or autonomous agents. This framework is based on a synthetic methodology whose goal is understanding by designing and building. The book includes all the background material required to understand the principles underlying intelligence, as well as enough detailed information on intelligent robotics and simulated agents so readers can begin experiments and projects on their own. The reader is guided through a series of case studies that illustrate the design principles of embodied cognitive science. More endorsements: "Understanding Intelligence is a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to embodied cognitive science. It will be particularly helpful for people interested in getting involved in the construction of intelligent agents." -- Arthur B. Markman, Science Details about the book is at <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=63B8C5AC-5065-4D5A-956D-53255C23BE95&ttype=2&tid=8566> Thanks again. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Cognitive Modeling Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:26:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 436 (436) Dear humanists, From Bradford Books: Cognitive Modeling Edited by Thad A. Polk and Colleen M. Seifert (November 2001, ISBN 0-262-66116-0, MIT Press) Computational modeling plays a central role in cognitive science. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational models of human cognition. It covers major approaches and architectures, both neural network and symbolic; major theoretical issues; and specific computational models of a variety of cognitive processes, ranging from low-level (e.g., attention and memory) to higher-level (e.g., language and reasoning). The articles included in the book provide original descriptions of developments in the field. The emphasis is on implemented computational models rather than on mathematical or nonformal approaches, and on modeling empirical data from human subjects. Details about the book can be found here <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=63B8C5AC-5065-4D5A-956D-53255C23BE95&ttype=2&tid=8596> Thank you. Best Regards Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: A Critique of Cognitivism -with Review Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:26:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 437 (437) Dear humanists, I thought, this might interest you.. The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism by Vincent Descombes Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz (Princeton University Press) Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind. Beginning with a critical examination of American cognitivism and French structuralism, Descombes launches a more general critique of all philosophies that view the mind in strictly causal terms and suppose that the brain--and not the person--thinks. Providing a broad historical perspective, Descombes draws surprising links between cognitivism and earlier anthropological projects, such as Lvi-Strauss's work on the symbolic status of myths. He identifies as incoherent both the belief that mental states are detached from the world and the idea that states of mind are brain states; these assumptions beg the question of the relation between mind and brain. In place of cognitivism, Descombes offers an anthropologically based theory of mind that emphasizes the mind's collective nature. Drawing on Wittgenstein, he maintains that mental acts are properly attributed to the person, not the brain, and that states of mind, far from being detached from the world, require a historical and cultural context for their very intelligibility. Available in English for the first time, this is the most outstanding work of one of France's finest contemporary philosophers. It provides a much-needed link between the continental and Anglo-American traditions, and its impact will extend beyond philosophy to anthropology, psychology, critical theory, and French studies. Vincent Descombes is the author of Modern French Philosophy, Objects of All Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar, Proust: Philosophy of the Novel, and The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Events. Stephen Adam Schwartz, who teaches in the Department of French, University College Dublin, translated Descombe's The Barometer of Modern Reason. ---- Thank you.. Best Regards Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Important papers of Terry Winograd Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:30:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 438 (438) Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, Below are some interesting papers written by Prof. Terry Winograd --who has also authored books, "Understanding Natural Language, Academic Press, 1972.", "Language as a Cognitive Process: Syntax, Addison-Wesley, 1983." and with 'Dr. Fernando Flores, "Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design Addison-Wesley, 1987" a) Interaction Spaces for 21st Century Computing Terry Winograd, Stanford University, A further edited version of this will appear in John Carroll, Ed., HCI in the New Millennium, Addison Wesley, in press. Version of August, 2000 <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/21st/> b> From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design Terry Winograd Stanford University Published online by permission from Peter Denning and Robert Metcalfe (eds.), Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 149-162. <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/acm97.html> c> Perspectives on Interfaces for Digital Libraries Terry Winograd, Andreas Paepcke, and Steve Cousins Stanford University Version of January 27 DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION, DO NOT CITE OR DISTRIBUTE <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/dig.html> d) Understanding, Orientations, and Objectivity Tery Winograd, Stanford University Pre-final DRAFT of a chapter to appear in a volume on John Searle's Chinese Room argument, edited by John Preston and Mark Bishop, to be published by Oxford University Press <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/searle-prefinal.html> e) Thinking machines: Can there be? Are we? Terry Winograd published in James Sheehan and Morton Sosna, eds., The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 pp. 198-223. Reprinted in D. Partridge and Y. Wilks, The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990, pp. 167-189. <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/papers/thinking-machines.html> I hope, above papers may help many researchers in their academic studies. Thank you.. With best regards, Arun Tripathi Research Assistant Technical University of Darmstadt Germany From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CLiP 2001 - Deadline extension Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:36:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 439 (439) [deleted quotation] 2nd Call for proposals International Seminar CLiP 2001 "Philology and Information Technology" Gerhard-Mercator-Universit=E4t Duisburg 06-09.12.2001 CLiP 2001 aims at the conceptualisation of a multilingual European study program where students not only acquire solid basic knowledge in philological contents and methods but at the same time qualify for the computational processing of language, text and cultural con- tents in general. The program is to be offered jointly by universities in different European countries and is to be realised with the help of the European mobility programs (Sokrates/Erasmus) already in place, with the help of distance teaching, distance studying, eLearning and internships in European IT-Industries/Media enterprises or academic IT projects. CLiP 2001, therefore, invites contributions above all from researchers and teachers at European universities - who already make use of Information Technology in their research and teaching, - who actively take part in digitalisation projects, - who contribute to the realisation of virtual universities, digital study modules and language courses and from the European IT-Industries / Media enterprises - who need multilingual humanists, - who want to contribute their suggestions regarding relevant key qualifications to the concept of such a program, - who are able and willing to offer internships for students. CLiP 2001 invites contributions to the following sessions 1.State of the Art - Basic theories, models and methods with respect to the computational processing of philological contents; - Main fields of computer based research and of the digitalisation of cultural heritage; - Key qualifications from the perspective of IT-Industries, Media enterprises, Publishers etc. 2.Degree Course "Philology and Information Technology" - Contents and structure - Similar programmes of study 3.Realisation of a multilingual European Degree Course - Virtual Universities, Online-modules; - Exchange, study and research periods in a foreign country, internship in a foreign country; - Computer aided language tuition and language learning (e.g. eLearning), - Technologies of the 3rd generation (e.g. UMTS etc.) 15.10.2001 Submission deadline for papers (incl. abstract) 31.10.2001 Notification of acceptance For more information on the seminar see: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/CLiP2001/ Prof'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr Gerhard-Mercator-Universit=E4t Duisburg Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: [NLPRS-2001] 1st Call for Participation Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:37:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 440 (440) [deleted quotation] 1st C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n ***************** * NLPRS-2001 * ***************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by NLPRS Organization, Japan Co-Sponsored by The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan Supported by SIG-NLP of Information Processing Society Japan, Japan 27-30 November, 2001 Tokyo, Japan http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html ~~~~ 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-2001) will be held at National Center of Science located in the central part of Tokyo from 27th to 30th November, 2001. Four excellent invited talks and 45 highly qualified technical papers, etc. will be presented. You can find the newest academic and technological results of natural language processing and its future direction by attending NLPRS-2001. [material deleted] From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Richard Lanham on Ebooks, Rhetoric Oct. 1 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:38:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 441 (441) This may be of interest to all of you who attend CHUG talks: Richard Lanham will be coming to give the Phi Beta Kappa lecture, and will be speaking on Monday, Oct. 1, 8:00pm in Salomon 101. The title of his talk will be: E-Books: Text on a Digital Screen Prof. Lanham has not only written some of the most interesting books on medieval rhetoric, but he has since become an expert in electronic writing and rhetoric. His website is at: www.rhetoricainc.com If you read the journal, Computers and the Humanites, you may remember a very thorough review article of Lanham's book "The Electronic Word" together with jay Bolter's book "Writing Space" written by Allen Renear in 1995!! See you there. From: John Unsworth Subject: First TEI Consortium meeting and election Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:41:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 442 (442) First Annual Meeting of The TEI Consortium First Election to the TEI Council and Board Pisa, Italy November 16-17, 2001 This three-part announcement contains general information about the first annual meeting of the TEI Consortium (including registration, travel, and lodging), information about the programme at that meeting(including keynote, invited speakers, and provisional schedule), and about the first elections to the TEI Consortium Board of Directors and TEI Council (including governing bylaws and candidates). Between now and November 10th, information may be updated or added at the TEI Consortium's web site, http://www.tei-c.org/ I. General Information The TEI Consortium, a newly formed non-profit membership organization that continues the efforts of the Text Encoding Initiative, will hold its first annual meeting November 16 and 17, 2001, in Pisa, Italy. Members and non-members alike are welcome to attend the first day of the meeting, which will include a keynote address from former TEI Editor Michael Sperberg-McQueen and a rich programme of technical briefings and presentations about the full variety of TEI applications. The second day will be for members and subscribers only, and will contain further technical briefings as well as a business meeting. The chief business to be transacted at this Annual General Meeting, aside from financial and editorial reports, will be elections to the Board and to the TEI Council, and a discussion of new work-items for the Council and its appointed work-groups. Registration: Pre-registration is essential! Please register by sending email to membership@tei-c.org. There is no registration fee for existing TEI subscribers, or for persons representing existing TEI member institutions, but anyone interested in the work of the TEI is very welcome to attend. Non-members and non-subscribers will be charged a $50 registration fee at the door, but this fee will give you subscriber benefits up to the end of 2002 as well as admission to the Member's Meeting. Please note that space at the Meeting hotel is limited: you are recommended to register early. New members who pay their 2002-2003 membership fee between September 15th and November 15th will receive membership for the remainder of 2001 free. . To become a TEI member, visit http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/ag-mem.html Travel: Except for invited speakers, those attending the meeting are responsible for their own travel expenses. Lodging: A block of rooms has been reserved for the night of 15, 16 and 17 November at the Grand Hotel Duomo in Pisa (http://www.grandhotelduomo.it/), where meetings will also be held. The accommodation costs are the following: single room: 150.000 ITL (about 70 US$) double room: 240.000 ITL (about 120 US$) lunch/dinner: 35.000 ITL (about 16 US$) There are, of course, many other excellent hotels available in Pisa. II. Programme The first annual meeting of the Members of the TEI Consortium will be held at the Hotel Grand Duomo, Pisa, Italy starting at 0900 on November 16th 2001, and ending by 1900 on November 17th. Keynote: The keynote address will be provided by former TEI editor Michael Sperberg-McQueen, who is currently domain leader in the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Domain Leader, as well as co-chair (with Dave Hollander) of the W3C XML Coordination Group and the W3C XML Schema Working Group, and co-editor (with B. Tommie Usdin of Mulberry Technologies) of Markup Languages: Theory & Practice, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the design and use of markup languages, published by MIT Press. Other invited speakers include: Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK) on Minority Language Engineering; The Pisa Group on Encoding multimedia with ISLE; Merrilee Proffitt (Research Libraries Group) on Encoding manuscript descriptions; Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford University) on Building a TEI Website; David Seaman (University of Virginia) on TEI on your palm; Edward Vanhoutte (University of Antwerp) on Editing modern mss; Giuseppe Gigliozzi (University of Rome) on TEI in the Digital Library; Christian Wittern (University of Kyoto) on TEI meets Unicode; The agenda for the Business Meeting will be posted in the Members Only area of the TEI-C website shortly before the meeting. Members wishing to propose agenda items should please send them by e-mail to membership@tei-c.org before November 7th 2001. The provisional schedule for the event is as follows: November 16 0900 Registration 0945 Welcome (Zampolli) 1000 Keynote: Michael Sperberg-McQueen 1045 Coffee Break 1100 Minority Languages (McEnery) 1130 TEI in your palm (Seaman) 1200 Lunch Break 1330 TEI in the digital library (Gigliozzi) 1400 Web sites from TEI (Rahtz) 1430 Editing modern mss (VanHoutte) 1500 Multimodal and linguistic annotation (Pisa Group) 1530 Coffee Break 1600 Members' Reports and Workshop (chair: tba) 1830 Open discussion: Priorities for the TEI (chair: tba) November 17 0930 Business Meeting (Members only) 1030 Coffee Break 1100 Elections (Members only) 1200 Lunch Break 1330 TEI and W3C standards (Editors) 1430 Charset issues (Wittern) 1530 Coffee Break 1600 Manuscript Description (Proffitt) 1700 New Work Items 1800 Concluding Remarks (Unsworth) III. Elections Bylaws: As provided by Article 2 of the TEI Bylaws, Elections will be held at the annual members' meeting as follows: There are six vacant places on the TEI Council There are two vacant places on the TEI Board For candidates' details, see below Registered electors will be sent voting papers at least 21 days before the members' meeting. Votes can be cast by email, by post, or in person For general background on electoral procedures, see Article 2 of the TEI Bylaws For information on the role and composition of the TEI Board, see Article 4 of the TEI Bylaws For information on the role and composition of the TEI Council, see Article 6 of the TEI Bylaws TEI Bylaws are available on the TEI Consortium web site, at http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/TEIbylaws.html A final agenda for the meeting will be posted on the TEI web site on or before 10 November 2001. Members are requested to note the following timetable: Any proposed amendments to the TEI bylaws must be received at the TEI Secretariat before midnight GMT on October 15th 2001; Any other items for inclusion in the formal Agenda must be received at the TEI Secretariat before midnight GMT on 7 November 2001. Notification of any change to the designated elector for member institution must be received at the TEI Secretariat before 3 November 2001. Candidates: The following persons, having been nominated by the TEI Nominating committee, have agreed to stand for election to the TEI Council and Board. TEI Council Each voting member of the Consortium is requested to select a maximum of SIX names from the following list of candidates: Bird, Steven Birnbaum, David Driscoll, Matthew Durand, David Erjavec, Tomaz Jannidis, Fotis Mueller, Martin Proffitt, Merrilee Rockwell, Geoffrey Romary, Laurent Willett, Perry Wittern, Christian TEI Board Each voting member of the Consortium is requested to select a maximum of TWO names from the following list of candidates: Friedland, LeeEllen Gigliozzi, Giuseppe Kretschmaar, William McEnery, Antony Robinson, Peter Short, Harold Candidates have been asked to provide a brief statement of their career and their views on the TEI: those statements are available to members from the members-only section of the TEI web site, at: http://www.tei-c.org/Members/cc02.html ----------------------END---------------------- From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Computation-enriched Imagination Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:39:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 443 (443) Willard, In reply to your call for writings about fostering the play of imagination, I was initially drawn to point towards the work of Israel Scheffler, the philosopher of education, whose essay "In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions" was reprinted by Routledge in 1991 in a volume of that name. I hestitated. I did not have the volume at hand and I wished not only to mention its title as a reference. I wanted to quote from it. On surprise: Critical inquiry in pursuit of explanation is a constructive outcome of surprise, transforming initial disorientation into motivated search Before this summative statement, Scheffler writes: Surprise may be dissipated and may evaporate into lethargy. It may culminate in confusion or panic. It may be swiftly overcome by a redoubled dogmatism. Or it may be transformed into wonder or curiosity and so become an educative occasion. Curiostiy replaces the impact of surprise with the demand for explanation*; it turns confusion into question. *Scheffler here refers readers to his _Anatomy of Inquiry_ explaining that he uses the term "explanation" in a very broad sense. There is the marvelous passage in an essay about the education of policy-makers which reminds me of the threads spun out this past summer on Humanist regarding the role of the ideal administrator in supporting a humanities computing enterprise or programs. the improvement of policy through learning from experience [...] requires both a continuing audit of past experience and a continuous commitment to act upon the future Of course, Scheffler has written about computers in schools. Perhaps some other subscriber-contributors to Humanist would care to comment upon his three rival metaphors to the problem-solving model which he set against the computer-metaphor based on information is associated. For Scheffler writing in 1986, "The computer has been associated with the recent swing to hard education, with the notion of raising standards, of higher acheivement in academic subjects, of increased efficiency in the teaching of fact, of enhanced problem-solving capacity." Since November is approaching and during that month is scheduled a conference on pedagogical matters in the domain of humanities computing, I ask --- What is the place of the computer as an esthetic instrument in the curricula of humanities computing programs? Just how much was the infrastructure spending of the 1990s a continuation of the the funding regimes that implemented the cuts of the 1980s? How does this past affect visions of the future? ....imaginging the computation of the economic imagination of humanities computing pedagogy... -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: John Unsworth Subject: job opening Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:42:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 444 (444) [Posted for Robert Kolker--JMU] Narrative, Interactivity, Interactive Games Georgia Tech s School of Literature, Communication, and Culture seeks a practitioner-theorist of New Media especially as related to interactive narrative, performance, and computer-based interactive games. (Rank open; appropriate terminal degree preferred.) The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, part of the Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech s liberal arts college, offers an undergraduate major in Science, Technology, and Culture and an M.S. in Information Design and Technology. LCC participates in the university s interdisciplinary program Women, Science, and Technology, and an MS program in Human-Computer Interaction. LCC encourages applications from women and minority candidates. We will begin considering applications on November 1 and continue until the position is filled. Applications to: Search Chair: Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA 30332-0165. Website at www.lcc.gatech.edu From: Michael Popham Subject: Oxford Text Archive, Computing Officer Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:54:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 445 (445) [Apologies for cross-posting] Oxford Text Archive Computing Officer Salary: 17,451 - 26,229 UKP One year post in the first instance The OTA is part of the UK's national Arts and Humanities Data Service and is based at Oxford's internationally renowned Humanities Computing Unit (HCU). The OTA works on behalf of the AHDS to support the needs of researchers and teachers active in all fields of literary and linguistic studies within the higher and further education community. The Computing Officer is primarily responsible for supporting and developing the OTA's digital resource management, retrieval, and delivery systems, which form the core of our service to users. An enthusiasm to learn about the latest developments in the creation, manipulation, and use of digital resources is a vital aspect of this post. In addition, applicants should ideally have experience of website management, working with Perl and XML-based applications, and of managing a Windows NT server. Please obtain further details and an application form by visiting our web site (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk) or by contacting Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. (tel: 01865-273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Alternatively, you can download these documents from (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/publications/applicationform.html) Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 12th October 2001. Interviews will be held at the end of October 2001. The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer. From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: EUI LIbrary: looking for a new Web Librarian Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:45:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 446 (446) The European University Institute's Library (Florence, Italy) [http:/www.iue.it], advertises a new post for his web librarian at: http://www.iue.it/General/avis72001.pdf <http://www.iue.it/General/avis72001.pdf> ------------------------------------------------------------ Serge Noiret Docteur en Histoire contemporaine - Docteur en Philosophie et Lettres (Ph.D.) Bibliothque - Institut Universitaire Europen Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccetini 9 ~ I50016 SAN DOMENICO (FI) TEL.: +39-0554685-348 ~ FAX +39-0554685-283 E-MAIL: [serge.noiret@iue.it] CV: [ http://www.iue.it/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html <http://www.iue.it/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html> ] VL Italian History Index: [ http://vlib.iue.it/hist-italy/Index.html <http://vlib.iue.it/hist-italy/Index.html> ] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- September 2001 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:35:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 447 (447) CIT INFOBITS September 2001 No. 39 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 and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ....................................................................... Online Learning Versus Classroom Learning Is the Classroom a Dirty Word? Report on All-Online MBA Program Higher Education in the Digital Age Online Database of Science and Technology Resources Recommended Reading [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). If you have problems subscribing or want to send suggestions for future issues, contact the editor, Carolyn Kotlas, at carolyn_kotlas@unc.edu [material deleted] From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Anthropological index Online alerting service Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:37:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 448 (448) Hello and greetings. We are pleased to announce a system whereby users can register to receive email notification of updates to the AIO data. Registration can be undertaken via the URL http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/ From here you can save searches and the titles of journals of interest - when new data is added to AIO you will be notified via email. We hope the system works well and is found useful. We plan to add some new data next week. Usually data is added every 6-8 weeks. The Journal Alerting Service has been developed with the help of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. yours sincerely davidz -- Dr David Zeitlyn, Hon. Editor Anthropological Index Online Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS UK. Tel. +44 (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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Ubiquitous Computing and Telecooperation Research Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:33:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 449 (449) [The following is a first draft toward an essay, to which the contributor would appreciate reactions. --WM] -- Challenges to Invisible Computing (Computing as a performance Art in the Invisible Context) By Arun Kumar Tripathi Research Assistant Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany ...We all know that computers are complex beasts. But for all of their internal complexity, computers are just as complicated in their embedding in the outside world. Yet the complexity of this embedding is largely invisible to the people who design computers, and to people who make a living promoting their use.. (Philip Agre, First-World Myopia[1]) ...And it is possible that computers might have the power to change us even when we engage with them unconsciously, as when we relate to a tool through the performance of a skill like driving or typing.. (Peter Lyman, Computing As Performance Art, Educom Review: Volume 30, No.4 [2]) Abstract --------- Recently, I read an article on the Challenges to Invisible Computing in the November 2000 issue of COMPUTER. In this essay, we will try to elaborate the challenges and simplify them, that can be visible in the research of invisible computing. First of all, we will discuss the issue of what invisible computing is and what not? We will try to refine the issues of invisible computing. What are the impacts of this kind of computing in our society? What are the embedded computers and how they are closely affected with human beings? v.Making Computers ubiquitous is not enough; we should also strive to make them invisible. But, in doing so, we will face many research challenges. (Gaetano Borriello, The Challenges to Invisible Computing in COMPUTER, Nov. 2000) What is Ubiquitous Computing (UC)? Computers are everywhere. Information is everywhere, nowhere, immaterial, abstract and ubiquitous. In her forthcoming book, The God in the Machine: Why We Need Computers to Become Human Janet Murray (leading information design specialist) discussed the question of How do we design for digital media so that we can turn an increase in information into an advance in human knowledge? Ubiquitous computing, in the words of inventor, late Mark Weiser (father of Ubiquitous Computing), names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First, were shared mainframe computers, and now in the personal computing era, person and machine starting uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes the era of ubiquitous computing or the age of calm technology (better say, it has already arrived) calm technology meant to be working in the background of a human beings and try to help and support their lives, is also called as Invisible Computing or Invisible Computer at work. Alan C. Kay, Vice President for research and development at the Walt Disney Company calls this as Third Paradigm computing. The first wave of computing from 1940 to about 1980, was dominated by many people serving one computer. The second wave still peaking has one person and one computer in an uneasy symbiosis, staring at each other across the desktop without really inhabiting each others worlds. And, the third wave, just beginning, just coming up, has many computers serving each person everywhere in the world. This is called as Invisible Computing. Some main points related to UC: Not just laptops? 24-hour access to Computer and Internet Infrastructure Mobility: any place/any time Personal Student/Computer relationship Comprehensive e-services Access to quality support UC can also be defined as an art of technology transparency or tangible computing. As, in the words of Bill Buxton (1998)..Rather than turning inward to an artificial world, ubiquitous media encourages us to look outward. It expands our perception and interaction in the physical world.. What Ubiquitous Computing Isnt? Ubiquitous Computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality, Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated three dimensional world, Ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world, make connections with people. VR is primarily a horse power problem: whereas ubiquitous computing is a difficult integration of human factors, components of computer science, engineering, and social sciences. Early work in UC (How comes it?) The initial incarnation of ubiquitous computing was in the form of tabs, pads, and boards, built at Xerox PARC, 1988-1994. Recently, ubiquitous computing kick off the recent boom in the areas of mobile computing research, although it is not the same thing as mobile computing, neither a superset nor a subset. UC has roots in many aspects of computing. The current mode of computing, was articulated by Mark Weiser in 1988 at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC. Mark Weiser described the UC in two forms: a. The social scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists at PARC, have envisioned the computing and networking. Activate the world. b. For past nearly 30 years interface design and computer design has gone through some dramatic development. The only highest ideal of the development is to make computer so interesting, so wonderful, that we have never want to be without it. In b. form, Mark Weiser had seen a less-traveled path he called the invisible, and he called the computers embedded in the background of humans as Ubiquitous Computing. So, he was the first computer scientist to vision the era of UC. Gradually, the people at PARC evolved to action for Ubiquitous Computing research. Weiser also thought and realized that working on technologies that evoke the suspicion of people therefore he defined the Principles of Inventing Socially Dangerous Technology as I. Build it as safe as you can, and build into it all the safeguards to personal values that you can imagine. II. Tell the world at large that you are doing something dangerous. Mobile Computing is a new term which is obtaining a growing Importance in the field of computer science. When someone hear the term, then it is not easy to recall its meaning, because is not obvious. Literally, Mobile Computing combines the two parts, Mobility and Computing. Mobility alone does neither specify who or what is mobile nor what kind of mobility is supplied. Analogously, computing can express different activities involving computers with different levels of complexity ranging from arithmetic calculations to word processing or information retrieval. Telecooperation Research Group --------------------------------- Information are everywhere and nowhere. Computers are the language machines and everywhere. Telecooperation is the new wave of technology an application of information and communication technologies used by individuals and organizations to enhance communications and access to the ubiquitous information. Perceiving the several components of Telecooperation, it needs new computing skills because there is a shortage of computing skills in systemic thinking, problem-solving, communicating, teaming with and assessing schedule, cost, risk, and potential impediments. Telecooperation enhances the works in the organizations, universities and corporate firms. It uses the skills and techniques of Third Wave computing, known as Ubiquitous Computing (UC)the other form of UC could be known as The Invisible Computing, which includes several challenges. Individuals who learn and apply the skills of telecooperation gain new leverage, both by having a wider network of "useful connections" and by having better access to timely information. Organizations that successfully apply telecooperation methodologies can enhance customer requirements and supplier communications, dramatically reduce costs, and increase the standing in the community and their influence with policy makers. Telecooperation is an outstanding example for the power of enabling technologies. It stands for the fusion of computer science, telecommunication and multimedia to carry out a cooperative process among organizations and individuals by having better access to timely information over a distance between two or more locations. This can be achieved by means of information, communication and new-media technologies. It comprises procedural and collaborative modes of task and its focus lies on the cooperation in the broader sense. It is concerned with a series of issues ranging from particular application domains such as the global office, innovative services, telework, telemedicine, telelearning and education, to the tools for communication and cooperation. During the recent times, Electronic Commerce become the main beneficiary of telecooperation methodologies with an exponential progress prompted by the fast spreading of the Web. A book on Telecooperation -------------------------- Reichwald, R.; Mslein, K.; Sachenbacher, H.; Englberger, H.; Oldenburg, S., Telekooperation: Verteilte Arbeits- und Organisationsformen, ISBN 3-540-62013-3, Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1998, 331 Seiten, DM 78,00 Telekooperation bezeichnet nach Aussage der Autoren "die mediengesttzte arbeitsteilige Leistungserstellung zwischen verteilten Aufgabentrgern, Organisationseinheiten und/oder Organisationen." -- Comments are appreciated.. Thank you With kind regards Arun From: Ken Friedman Subject: Two important books on Web design: Content Critical, Web Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:46:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 450 (450) Content Style Guide Dear Colleagues, I want to recommend two new books for whoever is active in designing Web sites and intranet. They are being published this month by the Financial Times. They are Content Critical and the Web Content Style Guide The authors are experts in Web design and communication. One author, Rob Norton, is former executive editor of Fortune Magazine, one of the world's largest and best known business magazines. The other is Gerry McGovern, one of Ireland's leading experts in Web design and interactive media. To learn more about Content Critical, go to: http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/content_critical.htm To learn more about Web Content Style Guide, go to http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/web_content_style_guide.htm I will print selected advance information on these books below. Our universities, schools and departments are spending -- and wasting -- millions of dollars, pounds, kroner, lira, markka, etc., on Web sites that do not work. Far too many organizations mount Web sites loaded with special effects and fancy images, without attending to accessible information, ease of use, or good navigation. Many organizations mount Web sites that must be repeatedly redesigned. If we can develop and retain key knowledge on basic issues, the future investments we make will become a long-term gain. Content Critical is an important place to start in developing better Web sites. I will send a note on the Web Content Style Guide in the next post. I will be reviewing both these books in the December issue of Design Research News. The reason I recommend these books before reading them completely is simple. I've seen a lot of what will be printed in the newsletters of Gerry McGovern and Rob Norton. Their newsletters are a valuable resource, and I've been looking forward to these books. Knowing the quality of Gerry's thinking and Rob's, I'm already recommending these books to different lists. I view this as a public service. Much of our work today world is connected with the Web. Making a better Web means building a better world. If you visit the Web site noted here, you will also have a chance to subscribe to a new elist focusing on these issues. I have been active in Internet research and information design issues since the early 1990s. I view the publication of these books as an important step in bringing the Web to its fullest potential. In December, I will publish my evaluation of these books. In the meantime, you can learn more about them at no cost by visiting the pages listed here. If you want my personal advice, I'd say these books are worth the risk of an advance order. Best regards, Ken Friedman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Technology and Knowledge Management Norwegian School of Management Visiting Professor Advanced Research Institute School of Art and Design Staffordshire University (1) Content Critical http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/content_critical.htm Content Critical Authors: Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall Publication Date: October 2001 Content Critical will change the way you think about the World Wide Web. It is built upon a simple but profound insight: The Web is a medium for publishing content. The Internet was invented as a communications medium and the Web was invented as a publishing solution for content. If part of your job involves writing original content, whether that be a technical paper for a product, or a marketing pitch for that product, you're part of a publishing process. If you find that you're spending increasing time reading in order to help you do your job better, you're directly affected by publishing. The modern world runs on content. We're either publishers or consumers of it. Mostly, we're both. Think of your website as a publication and it all begins to make a lot of sense. Think of the person who visits your website as a reader and your objectives become clearer. Because the Web is not all that different from all those other communication tools: print, phone, fax. Yes, there are differences. Yes, Web publishing has different dynamics and rules than, say, print publishing. But the core objective is still the same: to communicate with other people. Content Critical explains both the theory and practice of the Web as a publishing medium, drawing from the best and most applicable offline publishing practices, and from the best practices of web publishing today. It provides in-depth information about reader and website analysis, cost-benefit models, and content creation, editing and publishing processes. It includes highly detailed, practical advice about what it takes to build a professional, content-oriented website, including classification, navigation, search and content layout. It will show you how to organize your publishing team and how to create a Web publishing strategy. If you work for an organization and part of your job is to write for that organization you should read this book. If part of your job is to edit the written work of others and then publish that work on an intranet or Internet website, then you should read this book. If your job is to help your organization create, edit and publish Web content more efficiently, then you should read this book. If you do any of the above you're involved in publishing whether you know it or not, and Content Critical will help you do your job more effectively. Content Critical: Table of contents Chapter 1: Everything you know about publishing is wrong Chapter 2: The benefits and costs of content Chapter 3: The reader is king Chapter 4: The need for content standards Chapter 5: Creating content Chapter 6: Editing Content Chapter 7: The four pillars of information architecture Chapter 8: Navigation critical Chapter 9: Content layout and design Chapter 10: Special topics in web publishing Chapter 11: The publishing team Chapter 12: Five stage publishing strategy approach (2) Web Content Style Guide http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/web_content_style_guide.htm The Web Content Style Guide Authors: Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton, Catherine O'Dowd Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall Publication Date: October 2001 Good writing is the exception rather than the rule on the Web. One reason for this is simply that good writing is hard to do. Another is that many of the people who've been involved with the Web from the beginning have been slow to realize that writing is a very big part of what the online experience is about. While the Web has important non-textual uses, most people who use it spend an overwhelming amount of their online time reading words on a page. It's not an accident that we call them webpages. It follows that quality content-well written, well edited-is essential for the success of any website. In addition to quality content, the design of websites must facilitate finding and reading that content. Web design is about content design. It's about laying out content so that it can be easily read. It's about organizing content so that it can be easily navigated and searched. The number-one design principle for the Web is simplicity. Quality web design should be all about making life easier for the reader to find content, and then making it easy for them to read that content. The Web Content Style Guide aims to codify the rules and standards that make for effective web writing. It also aims to give nontechnical guidance to all those involved in designing and running a website, from the chief executive officer to the junior writer. It examines topics from accessibility to animations, from fonts to forms, from information architecture to intranets, from navigation to newsgroups, from search to style guides. Every entry is written from the perspective that a website must get the right content to the reader as quickly as possible, in the most readable manner. The fonts entry, for example, discusses the font sizes and types that work best onscreen. The Web Content Style Guide covers some of the same ground as the offline style and usage guides, but is tailored specifically for online managers, writers, and editors. Grammar and style issues of particular relevance to the Web that it focuses on include: the key differences between American and British English; how the Web accentuates plagiarism; what sort of dash looks best onscreen; the difference between data, content, information, and knowledge; and when and how to date documents. If you are involved in a website, whether as a manager, designer, writer, or editor, The Web Content Style Guide is essential for you. It is packed with examples, and is written in a clear, concise, and friendly manner. Based on the authors' 40-plus collective years experience in traditional publishing, and 15 in designing content-rich websites, it is always practical. It champions best-practices in web content writing and design, and is not afraid to kill off a few Internet myths along the way. From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: An Introduction to Language and Communication Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:35:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 451 (451) Dear humanist scholars, Hello, I thought this might interest you --as -- Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication by Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer and Robert M. Harnish (MIT Press, September 2001, ISBN 0-262-51123-1) This popular introductory linguistics text is unique in the way various themes are integrated throughout the book. One primary theme is the question, "How is a speakers communicative intent recognized?" Rather than treat phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics as completely separate fields, the text shows how they interact in principled ways. Similarly, language variation and acquisition are informed by results in these fields. The text provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodology while also revealing why people are intrinsically interested in language--the ultimate puzzle of the human mind. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised. Revisions include, but are not limited to, the addition of "selected readings" sections, updated examples, new discussion on the creative nature of neologisms, and the use of IPA as the primary transcription system throughout. This edition also includes an account of the patterns of occurrence of reduced vowels in English. An understanding of these patterns enables the reader to write a phonemic transcription of any English word. For more details, please see here: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=81609E1E-C28C-4887-B3A5-534FD1982B61&ttype=2&tid=8601> About authors: The late Adrian Akmajian was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona Richard A. Demers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Ann K. Farmer is a Senior Staff Technical Writer in the High Level Verification Group at Synopsys, Sunnyvale, California. Robert M. Harnish is Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. With kind regards, Arun Kumar Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= --eye sees, ear hears and mind believes-- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Finding Consciousness in the Brain Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:35:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 452 (452) Dear scholars, I thought --this might interest to humanists --as -- "Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A neurocognitive approach." GROSSENBACHER, Peter G. (ed.) (Advances in Consciousness Research) How does the brain go about the business of being conscious? Though we cannot yet provide a complete answer, this book explains what is now known about the neural basis of human consciousness. The last decade has witnessed the dawn of an exciting new era of cognitive neuroscience. For example, combination of new imaging technologies and experimental study of attention has linked brain activity to specific psychological functions. The authors are leaders in psychology and neuroscience who have conducted original research on consciousness. They wish to communicate the highlights of this research to both specialists and interested others, and hope that this volume will be read by students concerned with the neuroscientific underpinnings of subjective experience. As a whole, the book progresses from an overview of conscious awareness, through careful explanation of identified neurocognitive systems, and extends to theories which tackle global aspects of consciousness. Contributions by: S. Baron-Cohen; D. Derryberry; P.G. Grossenbacher; J.M. Kelley; S.M. Kosslyn; D. Levitin; P. Luu; M. Posner; M. Price; Y. Rossetti; S. Schliebner; B. Stein; M. Wallace; R. Whitehead. With sincere regards, Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:36:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 453 (453) and Mind Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, Recently, a new book entitled "The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind" written by Professor Sean D. Kelly is being published by Garland publisher (11/2000) The book opens a new discussion in the field of philosophy of language and mind & neuroscience. Through discussion of phenomenological and analytic traditions such as the philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of demonstrative thoughts and the unity of proposition, Kelly explains that these concepts are not as alien to one another as most people believe. His new book is based on his dissertation _The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind_ He finished his PhD under the great philosophical leadership of Prof. Hubert Dreyfus (chair), Prof. John Searle, Prof. Walter Freeman (Neurobiology). _The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind_ Dissertation Abstract by Sean D. Kelly:--> Perceptual experience, according to many contemporary philosophers, is intimately connected with demonstrative thought: if a person can see, hear, touch, or otherwise sensibly discriminate an object then she can, on that basis, demonstratively identify it. If this connection holds, as I believe it does, then any adequate account of demonstrative thought must be based upon an accurate description of the content of perceptual experience. I argue, however, that the dominant views about perceptual content in both analytic philosophy and cognitive science are phenomenologically inaccurate. When we get the phenomenology of perception right, I show, several traditional problems concerning demonstrative thought are either reformulated considerably or dissolved altogether. First among these problems is the question, "How do perceptual demonstrative thoughts identify their object?" Perceptual demonstrative thoughts are those demonstrative thoughts that pick out the object the thinker is currently perceiving. According to Gareth Evanss influential view, perceptual demonstratives identify their object solely by determining its objective location. It follows, on Evanss account, that if we know the objective location of an object, then we can always demonstratively identify it, even if we are radically mistaken about what it is. I argue that this theory is based on a faulty analysis of perceptual content. Drawing on phenomenological analyses developed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty I show that, in the cases Evans considers, the perceptual identification of an object depends essentially upon information about what, in addition to where, the object is. If the perceptual identity of an object is part of the content of a demonstrative thought about it, then we must reformulate considerably Evans's purely locative account of perceptual demonstrative thought. Second, how can perceptual demonstrative propositions unify their subject and predicate terms? Russell, and others following him, have assumed that we perceive objects as sets of independently specifiable properties. On such a view, the problem of how to unify these properties is built into the very perceptual experience of an object. I argue that this account of perception is wrong. Building on the phenomenological work of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, I argue that we primarily perceive the features of an object not as independently identifiable properties, but rather as aspects of a unified whole. This claim forces us to re-evaluate the problem of the unity of demonstrative propositions: if the objects and properties that we identify demonstratively are connected with those that we perceive in experience, then in virtue of the fact that they are not primarily understood as independently specifiable items, the problem of how to unify them is dissolved. About the Author: ------------------ Sean Dorrance Kelly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, a Senior Fellow for the James S. McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, and an Affiliated Investigator at Princeton's Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior. His primary research interests center around the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive neuroscientific aspects of perception. The project his is mostly concerned with these days is a book on perception and perceptual demonstrative thought, which is tentatively entitled Seeing Things: perception in an embodied world. The philosophers most important to this project are the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Oxford philosopher Gareth Evans. He is also very interested in the cognitive neuroscientific work of David Milner and Melvin Goodale. Thanking you. Sincerely Arun Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= --eye sees, ear hears and mind believes-- ============================================================================= From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Gateway to Memory_ with Reviews Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:37:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 454 (454) dear Dr. Willard McCarty, From Bradford Books: Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT Press, August 2001, ISBN 0-262-57152-8) by Mark A. Gluck and Catherine E. Myers "Gateway to Memory is an exciting and badly needed text that integrates computational and neurobiological approaches to memory. Authoritative and clearly written, this book will be valuable for students and researchers alike." -- Daniel L. Schacter, Professor and Chair of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Searching for Memory This book is for students and researchers who have a specific interest in learning and memory and want to understand how computational models can be integrated into experimental research on the hippocampus and learning. It emphasizes the function of brain structures as they give rise to behavior, rather than the molecular or neuronal details. It also emphasizes the process of modeling, rather than the mathematical details of the models themselves. The book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a tutorial introduction to topics in neuroscience, the psychology of learning and memory, and the theory of neural network models. The second part, the core of the book, reviews computational models of how the hippocampus cooperates with other brain structures--including the entorhinal cortex, basal forebrain, cerebellum, and primary sensory and motor cortices--to support learning and memory in both animals and humans. The book assumes no prior knowledge of computational modeling or mathematics. For those who wish to delve more deeply into the formal details of the models, there are optional "mathboxes" and appendices. The book also includes extensive references and suggestions for further readings. More endorsements: "This book is a very user-friendly introduction to the world of computer models of the brain, with an emphasis on how the hippocampus and associated areas mediate memory. The authors take the time to explain in detail the rationale for making models of the brain, and then use their own work, as well as related neurobiological and computational research, to illustrate the emerging successes of this approach to understanding brain function." -- Howard Eichenbaum, Laboratory of Cognitive Neurobiology, University Professor and Professor of Psychology, Boston University "If you purchase only one book at the turn of the new millenium to teach you about the latest computational models of memory and amnesia, let it be Gateway to Memory. Gluck and Myers display their extraordinary ability to simplify difficult concepts so that a broad readership can appreciate the breadth and depth of the rapid advances in the cognitive neuroscience of memory being made by the best and brightest of computational modelers." -- Jordan Grafman, Ph.D., Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke "Gateway to Memory is a valuable addition to the introductory texts describing neural network models of learning and memory. The early chapters present abstract models of brain and learning in an intuitively appealing style that is accessible to lay readers as well as advanced students of network modeling. Later chapters, relevant to experts as well as novices, advance cutting-edge ideas and models that are tested closely by experimental results on learning. A particular virtue is the close interchange the authors maintain throughout between predictions of competing models and experimental results from animal and human learning." -- Gordon H. Bower, Department of Psychology, Stanford University "This delectable book lays out Gluck and Meyers' comprehensive theory of hippocampal function in easily digestible steps. Readers without a computational modeling background will find it accessible and intriguing. Practicing modelers will be inspired." -- David S. Touretzky, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University For more details, see here at: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=81609E1E-C28C-4887-B3A5-534FD1982B61&ttype=2&tid=8565> About authors: Mark A. Gluck is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University-Newark. Catherine E. Myers is Research Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University-Newark. Thank you for your listening With sincere regards, Arun Kumar Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= --eye sees, ear hears and mind believes-- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:43:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 455 (455) Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, A book on Philosophy on Science --Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science by Peter Pesic (MIT Press, October 2001, ISBN 0-262-66126-8) 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 Pesic's enlightening 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 nature's secrets. Pesic's 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 nature's secrets. "In this brief book, Pesic examines the struggle between scientists and nature, from Bacon to Einstein; how the struggle affects "the character of the scientist"; and how this struggle led to the development of symbolic mathematics. Pesic also shows the manifold ways that their sense of spirituality spurred and undergirded these scientists' drive to understand nature." -- Tech Directions For more details, please visit here at: <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=81609E1E-C28C-4887-B3A5-534FD1982B61&ttype=2&tid=8538> AUTHOR: Peter Pesic is a Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. Johns College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. With best regards, Arun Kumar Tripathi ============================================================================= "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -SOCRATES ============================================================================= --eye sees, ear hears and mind believes-- ============================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Preservation/Conservation of Digital Heritage in Europe Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:06:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 456 (456) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 21, 2001 Draft Resolution on Preservation of Digital Heritage Prepared for UNESCO General Conference http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/news.html Calls for Support Issued [deleted quotation] The Committee on Digital Preservation of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) took the initiative to prepare a draft resolution on the preservation of the digital heritage for the 31st session of the General Conference of UNESCO, which will begin on 15 October 2001. The Dutch Government has now agreed to carry the draft resolution (DR.) and has formulated a final version of the text, as an Amendment to the Draft Programme and Budget for 2002-2003 (31 C/5) (of UNESCO), see http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/news.html The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) wishes to encourage institutions to gather support for the draft resolution. All those working in the heritage field are aware of the uncertain life-span of digital materials and the extreme complexities involved in keeping born-digital materials accessible over decades or even centuries. This draft resolution is meant to state, loud and clear, what is really at stake and to encourage governments to take action now. [material deleted] From: Ken Friedman Subject: Best Practices in Ph.D. Education for Design [ CFP: Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:47:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 457 (457) Special Journal Issue ] [deleted quotation] Special issue The journal Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education will publish a special issue on best practices in Ph.D. education for design in November 2002. We seek articles offering examples of best practice and models for what should be done in developing the Ph.D. in design. We invite submissions on topics on all aspects of doctoral education. Suggested themes: Supervision Content of taught courses Management of courses-by-research Admission practice Curriculum development Program planning Staffing needs Resource allocation Thesis requirements Research methods requirements Operational definitions of degree programs. Budgeting Research funding Quality assurance This issue will focus on exclusively the research doctorate. In most cases, this is the degree titled Ph.D. We will not consider the doctorate in professional practice (f.ex., D.Des.), the studio doctorate (DFA, DCA), or the teaching doctorate (DA, Ed.D.) We recognize that doctoral awards differ among nations and across disciplines. We will consider articles on doctoral research degrees with different titles as long as the award is a research degree with a clearly defined research component. The editors of the special issue are David Durling and Ken Friedman. David Durling is director of the Advanced Research Institute at Staffordshire University School of Art and Design. He is also chair of the Design Research Society and editor of Design Research News. Ken Friedman is Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design in the Department of Technology and Knowledge Management, Norwegian School of Management. He is also Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University. Together, Durling and Friedman organized and chaired the international conference on doctoral education in design in La Clusaz, France. Submission Guidelines Aims and Scope Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is a refereed journal which aims to inform, stimulate and promote the development of research with a learning and teaching focus for art, design and communication within higher education. This issue is focused on design. Notes for Contributors We will only consider papers that are not being considered for publication elsewhere. If there is more than one author, please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal. Procedure Submissions will be circulated for double blind peer review. It is the aim of the journal editorial team that authors will normally be informed of the submission's suitability for the journal within eight weeks. Authors of accepted papers will, in due course, receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to the editor. Types of contribution There are three possible types of contribution: Major Papers - suggested length is 5000-6000 words. Material presented will contribute to knowledge in its field and should include original work of a research or developmental nature and/or proposed new methods or ideas which are clearly and thoroughly presented and argued. Shorter Items of length 1,000 - 2,500 words. These could include reports of research in progress, reflections on the research process, research evaluations of funded projects. Reviews Of relevant recent publications, electronic media, software and conference reports. Separate guidelines for reviewers are available, please contact Paul B Clark for details - p.clark@bton.ac.uk Format Each manuscript should contain: i) title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus a short biographical note (150 words) should be supplied on a separate sheet. (ii) abstract of 100-150 words (iii) 3-6 key words (iv) the main text should be clearly organised with a hierarchy of heading and subheadings, with quotations exceeding 40 words displayed, indented, in the text. Main headings should be typed in capitals, secondary headings should be in lower case. (v) the style should be clear and concise, using straightforward language. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, they should be defined when first introduced. UK spellings should be used. (iv) footnotes should be avoided (v) references in the text should be made thus - author's name, year of publication in brackets, relevant page numbers. If reference is made to a number of publications by an author in the same year, these should be distinguished by using suffixes (2001a, 2001b etc) References should be listed alphabetically at the end of paper as the following examples: Cina, C. (1994) TINA's Academy, in De Ville, N and Foster, S (Eds) The Artist and the Academy: Issues in Fine Art Education and the Wider Cultural Context. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery Dudley, E & Mealing, S. (2000) Becoming Designers: Education and Influence. Exeter: Intellect Gregg, P. (1996) Modularisation: what academics think, in Higher Education Quality Council, In Focus: Modular Higher Education in the UK. London: HEQC Higher Education Quality Council (1994) Choosing to change: extending access, choice and mobility in higher education. The report of the HEQC CAT development project (the Robertson report) London: HEQC O'Sullivan, T. (1998) Nostalgia, Revelation and Intimacy. In Geraghty, C. and Lusted, D. (eds) The Television Studies Handbook, London: Arnold Prosser, M. & Trigwell, K. (1999). Understanding learning and teaching: The experience of higher education. Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press. (vi) A total word count, including references should be provided. Tables and figures Tables and figures should be prepared on separate sheets, clearly labelled and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. Tables contain numbers, figures contain diagrams or mainly words. All tables and figures should have short descriptive captions and their source(s) typed below. Illustrations Illustrations should be numbered consecutively and be accompanied by short descriptive captions. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (ie not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet or as scanned images. Photographic images should preferably be submitted as JPEGs scanned full size at 300 dpi and given clear titles (other formats, GIFFs , TIFFs and EPS files can also be accepted). NB Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Copyright: Before publication, authors are requested to assign copyright to the ADC-LTSN subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published at least one year after initial publication in the Journal. Liability: The authors of the Journal warrant that their works, collectively or individually do not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) or violate any laws. The authors shall indemnify the association and hold the association harmless from any damages and liabilities arising from any breach of IPR in connection with their literary or artistic contributions to the Association and its journal. Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as a Word file in the form of an attachment to an e-mail. If the file is large because it contains images it should compressed with StuffIt or ZipIt. Alternatively it may be sent on a Zip disk (Mac compatible). Send to: Kath Bowden, Editorial Assistant: k.m.bowden@bton.ac.uk Review submissions should be sent to Paul B Clark (p.clark@bton.ac.uk). Please consult the Reviewers guidelines for further details. For further information about the journal, contact the Editorial Assistant: Kath Bowden, ADC-LTSN, University of Brighton, 68 Grand Parade, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 2JY. Tel / Fax: 01273 643119 Email: k.m.bowden@bton.ac.uk -- From: DIGICULT@cec.eu.int Subject: DLM-Forum 2002, Barcelona 7-8 May 2002 - First Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:00:03 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 458 (458) Status: Dear colleagues, The third edition of the DLM-Forum on electronic records, with the title "DLM - FORUM 2002: @ccess and preservation of electronic information: best practices and solutions" and its exhibition will take place in Barcelona (Spain) from 7 to 8 May 2002. The DLM-Forum 2002 will be organised by the Secretariat for the Information Society of the Catalan government together with other Catalan institutions and departments of the Spanish central government, and with the support of the European Commission. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: IMLS "21st Century Learner" Conference: Nov 7-9, 2001 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:04:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 459 (459) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 28, 2001 The Institute of Museum and Library Services Presents The 21st Century Learner An Invitation to Explore the Potential for Fostering Community Partnerships for Life Long Learning November 7-9, 2001: Washington, D.C. http://www.imls.gov/conference/index.htm IMLS invites you to explore community partnerships for lifelong learning at its national conference in Washington, DC, November 7-9, 2001. As the Federal agency that provides support for both libraries and museums, IMLS has a primary focus on lifelong learning, partnership, and technology. In FY 2003 IMLS anticipates awarding over $2 million for partnerships that address the needs of 21st century learners. Registration is free. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: School for Scanning Deadline Extended to Oct 23 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:04:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 460 (460) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 27, 2001 School for Scanning: Delray Beach Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center December 3-5,2001: Delray Beach, Florida http://www.nedcc.org/sfsfl1.htm EARLY BIRD DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 23, 2001! The "early bird" registration deadline has been extended for this excellent workshop. David Green [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Cincinnati NINCH/MCN Copyright Town Meeting: Sat Oct 27, 1-4 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:05:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 461 (461) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 26, 2001 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CINCINNATI "New Strategies: New Contexts" http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/27_ninch.html * * * CIMI/Museum Computer Network Conference Westin Cincinnati Hotel Saturday October 27, 1-4pm Free of Charge * Open to All Registration Required: http://www.mcn.edu/2001conference.asp Copyright issues facing the museum community will be at the heart of "NEW STRATEGIES: NEW CONTEXTS," the fifth in the 2001 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS. The meeting is hosted by the Museum Computer Network as part of its annual conference: "MCN/CIMI 2001 - Real Life: Virtual Experiences." [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: HERITAGE: New Gateway to Colorado's Digitization Projects Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:05:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 462 (462) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community September 28, 2001 HERITAGE: New Gateway to Colorado's Digitization Projects http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org Comments Welcome: The Colorado Digitization project announces the release of "Heritage" an online database that "brings to the people of Colorado the special collections and unique resources of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums in digital format. You can access photos, textual materials, artifacts, costumes, diaries, oral history transcripts, manuscripts, and a host of other materials on Colorado's cultural, scientific and historical heritage." David Green =========== [material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Bacon, data and imagination Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:45:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 463 (463) Willard, The thread you initiated on "Data and Reality" has spun into a line which has snagged some bait. Marshall McLuhan, admist his overblown speculations, in an essay entitled "Electronics and the Psychic Drop-Out" which appeared in Vol. 1 Issue 1 (April 1966) issue of the quarterly _This Magazine is about Schools_ reported about Edmond Bacon: Edmund Bacon, for example the head of the Town Planning commission in Philadelphia, a few years ago became world-famous overnight when he enlisted the aid of the elementary schools in solving some of his top problems in Town Planning. He got children in the early grades to study the plans for Philadelphia and to discuss them among themselves and their parents and neighbors, and to study their communities physically and geographically, and they came up with some fo the top solutions to the whole problem. [p. 39] McLuhan goes on with characteristic hyperbolic flare to claim that "It is clear that we are just beginning to recognize that children and adolescents are a kind of backward country of the mind that's been deliberately suppressed for centuries in our Western world". Now, whether or not it is the case that the West has built social systems based upon age segregation the infantilisation of large numbers of people, whether or not under such conditions it is true that pristine play is antithetical to displays of power, one would take from the Bacon example offered by McLuhan the hint that the successful deployment of imaginative acts depends upon communication. The discussion spreads. Communication is the lynch pin of collaboration and construction. Imagination depends upon the collective verification of observation. Now the Edmound Bacon example reminds me that I have reminded subscribers to Humanist that John Bonnet has developed a pedagogical exercise in which students construct 3D models from archival photographs and fire insurance maps. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v15/0052.html I do not recall in the presentation of Bonnet's project a consideration of "exhibition potential". I ask because it is possible to conceive of a "science fair" of humanities computing. With the WWW, it is technically easy to organize inter-institutional exhibits of student work (but who has the time? i.e. who will be rewarded for their effort?). For all its bluster, McLuhan's vision is charming -- it just maybe that the "science fair of humanities computing" will emerge a la Gramsci from the organic intellectuals of a certain age (if the explorer, prober, experimenters are also encouraged to be communicators): This kind of learning, in the end, has nothing to do with an age level: there is nothing to stop small children from becoming very adept experimenters, graduate probers, explorers. It is the orientation of the society that matters, and our whole world, in shifting from the old mechanical forms to the new electronic feed-back forms, has already shifted from data packaging to probing of patterns. [p. 42] I'm not quite so utopian on the putative shift. I am however quite persuaded that life-long learning means learning from everyone regardless of their experience or naivity. Humanities computing programs would do well to consider their links with high schools and open their labs to workshops run by humcom graduate students for pre-post-secondary students. Conversely running such workshops for seniors and for mixed groups (without age segregation) would also be beneficial. Has anyone done this? The benefits are obvious: graduate students gain valuable experience [future employers are delighted]; a capital investment in infrastructure gets a work out [deans like this] and a reserve of goodwill is created [rectors, presidents, chancellors, etc. love this]. Of course, such activities border on continuing education or extension studies and do not garner much points for the tenure-stream. It seems that the occidental university system at least in North America has managed to misalign individual advancement, progress through the ranks, and the public good. Humanities computing has much to contribute to the current debates about the "reinvention of the university". Humanities computing can play a leadership role. The question is not so much "who shall we serve" but "who shall we play with". As a para-academic, I remain hopeful. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.261 data and reality Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:50:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 464 (464) I must add to these tirades that even the most scientific studies often are provably biased, in some cases even double blind studies, which should be invulnerable to the biases of their perpetrators, but yet appear to be biased overall. Our local pyschology dept. is constantly involved in studies that show just how difficult it is to gain unbiased data, even when the researchers and data gatherers are recruited from the outside. The expected results seem to percolate through the system, and two teams handling the same results, but expecting different results, always seem to report what they expected to get. Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: Harold Short Subject: ALLC-ACH 2002 Conference : Call for Papers Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:42:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 465 (465) Call for Papers and Information for Speakers 'New Directions in Humanities Computing' ALLC/ACH 2002 University of Tuebingen, July 23-28 2002 Conference Web site and full CFP: www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002/ Submission deadline: 15 November 2001 ============================================== ALLC/ACH 2002 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. The theme for the 2002 conference is 'New Directions in Humanities Computing'. Hence, while as always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, especially interdisciplinary work, for the 2002 conference we especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and an enormous growth in the use of IT resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What new and distinct methodologies is IT now bringing to the humanities? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the near future as a result of the impact of IT? How are IT-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others? The time is ripe to survey and assess developments to date in humanties computing, and its likely future directions. Suitable subjects for proposals would also include: * new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video * the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering; * 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; * theoretical or speculative treatments of new media; * the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields; * the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops. For the full Call for Papers, see the Conference web-site at http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002/ It includes details on submitting proposals, the timetable for review of submissions and notification of results, description of bursaries available to young presenters, the International Programme Committee membership, an overview of the annual joint Conference and information about the city and University of Tuebingen. ---------------------------------------------------------------- David Robey Chair of the International Programme Committee ALLC-ACH 2002 Conference From: Lisa Lena =?iso-8859-1?Q?Opas-H=E4nninen?= Subject: Busa Award: call for nominations Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:41:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 466 (466) The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) The Roberto Busa Award FIRST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2004 AWARD The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). It is given every three years to honour outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after 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 himself in 1998 and recipient of the second award in 2001 was Emeritus Professor John Burrows, who has helped to shape the application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and has bridged the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided stylistics. The next Busa Award will be given at the ALLC/ACH conference in 2004. The Award Committee (names listed below) invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ALLC or ACH. Nominators should give some account of the nominees work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominees work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Award Committee, Lisa Lena Opas-Hnninen, at the address lisa.lena.opas@joensuu.fi or Department of Foreign Languages, University of Joensuu, PO Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland, no later than September 1, 2002. 2004 Busa Award Committee: John Dawson Willard McCarty Lisa Lena Opas-Hnninen Espen Ore John Unsworth From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AAAI 2002 Workshop Program Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:44:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 467 (467) [deleted quotation] AAAI 2002 Workshops Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence July 28 - August 1, 2001, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Important dates: Proposals received no later than October 12, 2001. Notification of the committee's decision by October 26, 2001. Organizers producing call for participation due November 16, 2001. List of attendees made by organizers due March 15, 2002. Working notes (if produced by AAAI) received by May 24, 2002. Workshop dates July 28 - 29, 2002 For further information about the 2002 Workshop Program, consult the following: http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/2002/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IEEE Conf.on Software Maintenance, Italy,Florence, ICSM2001 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:44:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 468 (468) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleague I would like to invite you to attend the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001, and associated workshops: IEEE SCAM, IEEE WESS, IEEE WSE, TABOO. FLORENCE, ITALY, 6-10 November 2001 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001 ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and management. Theme: Systems and Software Evolution in the era of the Internet kEYWORDS: software evolution, embedded suystems, program analysis, reengineering, managment, maintenance, lyfe cycle, Internet and distributed systems, Multimedia systems, User interface evolution, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Program comprehension, Formal methods, Empirical studies, Testing and regression testing, Measurement of software, METRICS,etc. Please forward the following to anybody you think may be interested. The discount for the advanced registration fee will be active for few days. Apologies for multiple receptions. If you would like to be removed from our list please send an email to icsm2001@dsi.unifi.it with REMOVE in the subject. Paolo Nesi (ICSM2001 General Chair) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: 2001 TOHE Online Conference Announcment Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:45:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 469 (469) [deleted quotation] From: Angela Mattiacci Subject: Job posting Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:43:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 470 (470) Position Available : Full-time six month contract Research Co-ordinator, Canadian Studies Institute of Canadian Studies, University of Ottawa RESEARCH CO-ORDINATOR The Institute of Canadian Studies strives to explore new questions in innovative ways in order to learn more about Canada and contribute to better understandings of key international issues. The Institute of Canadian Studies (University of Ottawa) is seeking a dynamic individual to manage research projects, write newsletter articles about research conducted on campus, help with grant application writing, lead workshops, and collaborate with professors, students and staff on diverse activities related to the study of Canada. The incumbent will have a strong background in academic writing and research in the Social Sciences and Humanities including a good familiarity with databases and related computer software. Experience/Education Interested applicants will possess a Masters or doctorate in the Social Sciences or Humanities, preferably with a research focus on Canada; multi-task project management capabilities; proposal and grant writing experience; strong organizational skills, self-initiating work ethic, flexibility; well developed computer skills (word processing, spread sheets, database software such as SPSS or MS Access); effective communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to exercise initiative and work effectively both independently and within a team environment. Bilingual French / English. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Full-time six month contract position with possibility of long-term renewal. Starting annual salary, $45,000 - $50,OOO. Mail, e-mail or fax resume with covering letter and names of three referees to: Chad Gaffield Director Institute of Canadian Studies University of Ottawa 52 University St. Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Fax: 613-562-5216 E-mail: CANADA@UOTTAWA.CA Deadline: 5 p.m. October 15, 2001 Consult our Web site, http://www.canada.uottawa.ca, for more information about the Institute of Canadian Studies. -- ================================================================== Angela Mattiacci, PhD, MCSE Coordonnatrice - Nouvelles technologies / Co-ordinator - Information Technologies Institute of Canadian Studies / Institut d'tudes canadiennes University of Ottawa / Universit d'Ottawa 562-5800 x 3179 http://www.canada.uottawa.ca amattiac@uottawa.ca ================================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Positions in Language Processing Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:44:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 471 (471) [deleted quotation] Two Research Positions Available in Computational and Experimental Psycholinguistics, Saarbruecken, Germany The Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University is seeking to fill two research positions in the areas of Computational and Experimental Psycholinguistics. Persons taking up the positions will be involved in a newly funded project entitled: "Adaptive Mechanisms for Human Language Processing". The project aims to develop wide-coverage, probabilistic models of human language processing, as informed by evidence obtained from large corpora, and both on-line and off-line psycholinguistic experiments. 1. Computational Linguist: experience in the development of probabilistic models of language processing. In particular, we are interested in developing incremental models of syntactic and semantic processing. Knowledge of one or more of the following is desirable: probabilistic parsing techniques, machine learning of natural language, connectionist language modelling, and experience working with large corpora. 2. Experimental Psycholinguist: experience in designing, running and analysing psycholinguistic experiments, and familiarity with (some of) the following paradigms: self-paced reading, eye-tracking (fixed or head-mounted), language production, and web-based experiments. Candidates should have research experience in a relevant subject area, and ideally will hold a PhD. The position is on the BAT IIa scale (roughly up to DM 80K per annum, depending on age and family status) and is tenable for 3 years with the possibility of renewal. The positions are available from January 1st, 2002. Applications received before November 1, 2001 are assured fullest consideration. Interested persons should send a letter of application giving contact details for three possible referees and a full CV to (e-mail applications are also welcome): Prof. Dr. Matthew W. Crocker Psycholinguistics Group, Gebaeude 17 Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany E-mail: crocker@coli.uni-sb.de The Department offers state of the art research facilities including head-mounted and DPI eye-tracking equipment, powerful Unix servers for statistical modeling, and an extensive corpus infrastructure. Saarland University has an international profile in computational linguistics, cognitive science and computer science. Research is supported by a European Graduate School for "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" (joint with Edinburgh University) and a Centre of Excellence (SFB 378) in the area of "Resource Adaptive Cognitive Processes". The University of Saarland seeks to increase the proportion of women in positions where they are under-represented, and therefore particularly encourages applications from women. In the selection procedure, disabled persons with equivalent qualifications will be favoured. From: Katja Mruck Subject: FQS - "Qualitative Methods in Various Disciplines II: Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:45:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 472 (472) Cultural Sciences" online Apologies for possible cross postings! Dear All, The sixth FQS issue - "Qualitative Methods in Various Disciplines II: Cultural Sciences" - is now available at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm We wish hopefully stimulating readings & discussions! Katja Mruck Main Editor FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) A peer-reviewed, free and interdisciplinary online journal for qualitative research English -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm German -> http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm *********************************************************************** FQS 2(3) QUALITATIVE METHODS IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES II: CULTURAL SCIENCES Edited by Carl Ratner, Juergen Straub & Jaan Valsiner The following contributions are available online F Full text, A Abstract E English, F French G German, S Spanish Carl Ratner, Juergen Straub & Jaan Valsiner: Introduction (FE) Gui-Young Hong, USA: Front-Line Care Providers' Professional Worlds: The Need for Qualitative Approaches to Cultural Interfaces (FE, AG, AS) Carlos Koelbl & Juergen Straub, Germany: Historical Consciousness at Youth Age. Theoretical and Exemplary Empirical Analyses (FG, AE) Hans-Dieter Koenig, Germany: A Neo-Nazi in Auschwitz. A Psychoanalytic Reconstruction of a Documentary Film on Right-Wing Extremism (FG, FE, AS) Neill Korobov, USA: Reconciling Theory with Method: From Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis to Positioning Analysis (FE, AG, AS) Selma Leito, Brasil: Analyzing Changes in View During Argumentation: A Quest for Method (FE, AG, AS) Kyoko Murakami, UK: Talk About Rice: A Discursive Approach to Studying Culture (FE, AG, AS) Andra P.F. Pantoja, USA: A Narrative-Developmental Approach to Early Emotions (FE, AG, AS) Alexander N. Poddiakov, Russia: Counteraction as a Crucial Factor of Learning, Education and Development: Opposition to Help (FE, AG, AS) Ulrike Popp-Baier, the Netherlands: Narrating Embodied Aims. Self-transformation in Conversion Narratives-A Psychological Analysis (FE, AG, AS) Carl Ratner, USA: Analyzing Cultural-Psychological Themes in Narrative Statement (FE, AG, AS) Debra Skinner, Jaan Valsiner & Dorothy Holland, USA: Discerning the Dialogical Self: A Theoretical and Methodological Examination of a Nepali Adolescent's Narrative (FE, AG, AS) Seth Surgan, USA: Is Random Error Useful for Developmental Psychology? (FE, AG, AS) (available online in the beginning of October) Doris Weidemann, Germany: Learning About "Face"-"Subjective Theories" as a Construct in Analysing Intercultural Learning Processes of Germans in Taiwan (FE, AG, AS) SINGLE CONTRIBUTIONS Ali A. Abdi, Canada: Qualitative Methodology, the Historical Sociologist and Oral Societies: Re-assessing the Reliability of Remembered "Facts" (FE, AG, AS) Ian Baptiste, USA: Qualitative Data Analysis: Common Phases, Strategic Differences (FE, AG, AS) Angela Keppler, Germany: Media-Communication-Cultural Orientation. Perspectives on Contemporary Media Studies (FG, AE, AS) Mark C. Williams, Australia: A Self-Study of Teaching Reform in a University Information Systems Course: "... it all went wrong ..." (available online in the beginning of October) FQS DEBATE Franz Breuer & Jo Reichertz, Germany: Discussing Standards of Social Research (FG, AE) FQS REVIEW Lutz Ellrich (1999). Verschriebene Fremdheit. Die Ethnographie kultureller Brche bei Clifford Geertz und Stephen Greenblatt [The Written Other. Ethnography and Cultural Discontinuities in the Work of Clifford Geertz and Stephen Greenblatt]; reviewed by Volker Barth, France (FF, FG, AE) Hans Albrecht Hartmann & Rolf Haubl (Eds.) (2000). Von Dingen und Menschen. Funktion und Bedeutung materieller Kultur; reviewed by Gregor Dobler, Germany (FG) Sonja Utz (1999). Soziale Identifikation mit virtuellen Gemeinschaften - Bedingungen und Konsequenzen [Social Identification in Virtual Communities-Conditions and Consequences] & Gerit Goetzenbrucker (2001). Soziale Netzwerke und Internet-Spielewelten. Eine empirische Analyse der Transformation virtueller in realweltliche Gemeinschaften am Beispiel von MUDs (Multi User Dimensions) [Social Networks and the World of Internet Games. An Empirical Study of the Transformation of Virtual World into Real World Communities, providing MUDs as an Example]; reviewed by Nicola Doering, Germany (FG, AE, AS) Cornelia Behnke & Michael Meuser (1999). Geschlechterforschung und qualitative Methoden [Gender Research and Qualitative Methods]; reviewed by Nicola Doering, Germany (FG, AE, AS) David Silverman (2001). Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction; reviewed by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Israel (FE, AG, AS) Patricia Bazeley & Lyn Richards (2000). The NVivo Qualitative Project Book; reviewed by Marilyn Lichtman, USA (FE, AG, AS) Remi Hess & Christoph Wulf (1999) (Hrsg.) Grenzgaenge. ber den Umgang mit dem Eigenen und dem Fremden [Walking the Border. On the Treatment of Self and Others]; reviewed by Alfons H. Teipen, USA (FG, FE, AS) Henning Bech (1997). When Men Meet. Homosexuality and Modernity; reviewed by Tilmann Walter, Germany (FG, AE, AS) Christiane Hackl (2001). Fernsehen im Lebenslauf - Eine medienbiographische Studie; reviewed by Martin Wysterski, Germany (FG) CONFERENCE REPORT Conference "Kulturraum Internet", Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, 16. and 17. December 2000; reviewed by Susan Bittkau-Schmidt, Germany (FG) From: "George P. Landow, Dean, University Scholars Programme" Subject: postdoctoral fellowships and ABD fellowships at Singapore Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:13:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 473 (473) Postdoctoral Fellowships and Fellowships for ABDs to Work on the Victorian and Postcolonial Websites The Web Initiative at the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, headed by George Landow, who holds a dual appointment at Brown and NUS, is looking for researchers in the humanities to work in Singapore on sites that receive as many as 8.3 million hits/month and which are recommended by the ministries of education in France, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, NEH, BBC, etc etc. We pay a postdoc about US $30,000, which is the equivalent in the USA of maybe $45,000, since (a) living expenses are lower, (b) income taxes are about 15%, (c) the first $75,000/year are US tax free. The term can be anywhere from 6-12 months, and we'd be able to fly someone to the UK or US for a week or two's research. Here is the description: a. We need two postdoctoral fellowx for the Victorian Web and one for the Postcolonial Webs. Their tasks will be some -- not all -- of the following: I. Linking materials across disciplines, including creating crossroads or transition documents; II. Develop new materials by researching, writing, and then integrating them; III. Assist win the proof-reading of links and images as well as the addition of new links; IV. Help conceptualise, create, and manage links among both individual disciplines within a web (e.g. science, literature, and economics) and between major webs (e.g., materials within individual disciplines, say, history in both Singapore and Victorian Webs.) V. Recruit contributors who will both write new materials and grant permission to include major out-of-print materials on which they hold copyright; VI. Carry out major projects such as the integration of complete books into the Victorian Web; VII. Experiment with and formulate rules for sharing relatively advanced scholarly and scientific research topics with materials used by learners at more basic stages, the subsidiary goal of the project being to provide materials, including introductions and study questions, for secondary school and beginning university students. VIII. Create a directory of syllabi world for modules and courses on selected subjects from major universities throughout the, thus making the sites an international "place-to-go" for model syllabi. Those interested, who can base their work in any humanities field, including history of science and technology, should examine the websites before applying; they can be found at www.victorianweb.org and www.postcolonialweb.org or http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/ and http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/ Applicants should contact uspdean@nus.edu.sg. We plan to interview literature candidates at this year's MLA meeting in New Orleans, and other arrangements can be made. George P. Landow Dean, University Scholars Programme Shaw Professor of English and Digital Culture (Computer Science) National University of Singapore Professor of English and Art History Brown University http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/ http://www.landow.com/ From: Susan Hockey Subject: Job: Lecturer in Electronic Communication at UCL Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:15:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 474 (474) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Lecturer in Electronic Communication The School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL is embarking on a vigorous development of IT-related research and teaching. The School offers a highly successful BSc in Information Management and MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing as well as masters' programmes in Library and Information Studies, Archives and Records Management, and Information Science. We are now seeking an additional lecturer in the area of Electronic Communication to strengthen the MA in Electronic Publishing and Communication and the BSc in Information Management. The person appointed will ideally specialize in the social and legal aspects of electronic communication and information management, especially in relation to the Internet. S/he will show strong evidence of research potential and will be able to teach at all levels from first year undergraduate to taught masters, and be able to supervise undergraduate and masters dissertations. This is a new post with opportunity to develop new ideas and new directions within the overall development strategy for the School. Existing IT-based research focuses on Internet technologies, user interface design, XML, digital libraries and artificial intelligence applications. Starting salary up to 27,273 depending on qualifications and experience. London Allowance of 2134 is also payable. To apply please submit a CV, covering letter and the names and addresses of three referees to Professor Susan Hockey, Director, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, e-mail s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk by 18 October 2001. Further information about the School can be found on our Web site at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais or from Kerstin Michaels, email k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk The closing date for applications is Thursday, 18th October 2001. Working Toward Equal Opportunity **************************************************** Susan Hockey Director of the School and 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: "Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga" Subject: OASIS HumanMarkup TC announcement Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:14:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 475 (475) I would like to extend the announcement of our recently formed OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee, to all interested participants and parties. It build upon the previous work done as HumanMarkup.org. Mission Statement: The HumanMarkup TC is set forth to develop the HumanML and associated specifications. HumanML is designed to represent human characteristics through XML. The aim is to enhance the fidelity of human communication. HumanML is set forth to be an XML Schema and RDF Schema specification, containing sets of modules which frame and embed contextual human characteristics including physical, cultural, social, kinesic, psychological, and intentional features within conveyed information. Other efforts within the scope of the HumanMarkup TC include messaging, style, alternate schemas, constraint mechanisms, object models, and repository systems, which will address the overall concerns of both representing and amalgamating human information within data. Examples of human characteristics include emotions, physical descriptors, proxemics, kinesics, haptics, intentions, and attitude. Applications of HumanML include agents of various types, AI systems, virtual reality, psychotherapy, online negotiations, facilitations, dialogue, and conflict resolution systems. Website, and Discussion List Information: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup ----- Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga OASIS HumanMarkup TC Chair rkthunga@humanmarkup.org (646) 456-9076 From: Willard McCarty Subject: heisenbugs & other evidence of wit Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:20:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 476 (476) Should anyone wish to have evidence at hand for the linguistic inventiveness and wit of the propeller-heads among us, I would think there could be no better source than Eric S Raymond, comp., The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edn. (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999). Like many of you, I suppose, I plant various kinds of books in crucial locations throughout my house so that when detained in one of these I can reach for a suitable book. Thus I have spent much time in small bits in the last month or so delighting in the wit of techies, e.g. creationism n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit planning models beloved of "management", they are generally ignored. heavy wizardry n. Code or designs that trade on particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from "deep magic", which trades more on arcane theoretical knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to "X" (sense 2) without a toolkit. Esp. found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare "vodoo programming". heisenbug /hi'zen-buhg/ n. [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment significantly enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) Antonym of "Bohr bug"; see also "mandelbug", "schroedinbug". In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, "fandango on core" phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc "arena") or errors that "smash the stack". sucking mud [Applied Data Research] adj. (also "pumping mud") Crashed or "wedged". Usually said of a machine that provides a service to a network, such as a file server. The Dallas regionalism derives from the East Texan oilfield lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query. "We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready to suck mud?" 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: "Bonnett, John" Subject: Bacon, data and imagination Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:12:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 477 (477) I am grateful to Franois Lachance for his repeated references to my work, which uses 3D Modelling Software as an instrument to teach the discipline of history. Using fire insurance maps and photographs, the 3D Virtual Buildings Project <http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings> strives to expose students to the problems of evidence commonly faced by historians. As students translate the information contained in their source material into information they can use to construct a 3D model, they learn that evidence often has an imprecise meaning, is subject to misinterpretation, and contains gaps. The purpose of our exercises is to visually demonstrate problems common to all forms of historical representation, be it a monograph, be it an article, or be it a 3D model. In so doing, the purpose is also to demonstrate to our students the need to approach all historical forms of representation critically. For subscribers interested in the aims and history of the project, I would invite them to consult our web site's project description at: http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/ProjDesc/Title.html In his posting Francois raised the question of the project's "exhibition potential", namely the possibility of creating a web-site devoted to an inter-institutional display of student work. He and others may be interested to know that this is one of the goals of the 3D Virtual Buildings Project. The project began in 1998, and is a joint initiative of the National Research Council of Canada <http://www.nrc.ca/>, Canada's Digital Collections <http://collections.ic.gc.ca/>, Canada's SchoolNet <http://www.schoolnet.ca/>, and the Institute of Canadian Studies <http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/cdn/> at the University of Ottawa. We have established a web site containing an array of tutorials designed to facilitate 3D Model construction and student historical research in archives. With the assistance of the National Archives of Canada <http://www.archives.ca/>, we have created a on-line version of its tutorial Using Archives <http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/UsingArchives/Title/Title.html>, which provides an introduction to the basics of conducting archival research. The materials at present are suitable for upper-level undergraduate university courses, although in future we will endeavour to generate materials suitable for high school and entry-level college and university courses. We have also provided space on our site for participants to display historic re-constructions of whatever city they choose to represent. We have provided a means to demonstrate both highly detailed CAD models, and more rudimentary representations in VRML. While our materials are on-line, we will not officially inaugurate the site for another two months until we have completed our site prototype of a historic urban environment, the business district of Ottawa, Sparks Street as it existed in 1878. We are also working on improving the navigability of the site. Individuals looking for more information are encouraged to contact me at john.bonnett@nrc.ca, or by phone at 1 (613) 998-3576. Below are links to the various sections of the site. Comments are welcome. Individuals wishing to examine the site's 3D models will need to use a Netscape 4.x browser, and the Cosmo Player VRML plug-in. Viewers will also need QuickTime VR. (Links to obtain the required software can be accessed in the Optimal Viewing <http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/OptView.html> section of our web site.) Unfortunately, it was not possible to create a site that worked for all combinations of browsers and plug-ins. To see the project's various tutorials, including the 3D Modelling Tutorial, please see: http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/Tutorial.html The research tutorial, Using Archives, can be accessed at: http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/Research/Title.html To see the site's 3D models, users will need a DSL connection or higher to the Internet. Users with 56 K modems or lower are encouraged to view graphic and QuickTime VR representations of the site's models at the URL below. Unfortunately, we do not yet have written material associated with the site's models, though material will be provided by the time the site is launched. Our interface has been constructed, however, to enable the posting of written work and digitised primary sources in conjunction with the models via the interface's "Building History" link. Graphic representations of the site's models can be seen at: http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/Frame_Historic.html The site's 3D models can can be accessed at the URL below. On the first page, select "1878", then select the shaded region of the Ottawa city map. Users will then see their screen divided into three sections, with a search engine on the left, a map in the middle, and the site's 3D models on the right. The search engine enables users to locate the various types of shops that were located on the street, everything from tobacconists, to tin smith shops, to barristers. Select a shop, and press the "Go" button. Once the search engine generates a list, select one of the hits, and the site will highlight its locale on the 2D map, and the 3D representation on the right. It will also generate an applet with potential links to essays, historic documents, source photographs, and Quick Time VR representations of the structure. http://cfml.iit.nrc.ca/3DVirtualBuildings/Repository.cfm?ANSWER=Yes Once again, many thanks to Francois Lachance for his interest and commentary on the project. With best wishes, John Bonnett PhD Candidate Department of History, University of Ottawa Visiting Worker National Research Council of Canada Institute for Information Technology Building M-50, Montreal Rd. Ottawa, ON K1A-0R6 (613) 998-3576 fax: (613) 952-7151 e-mail: john.bonnett@nrc.ca From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Cultivate Interactive issue 5 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:13:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 478 (478) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 3, 2001 Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive is now available: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/ The latest issue of "Cultivate Interactive" is now available from the UK Office of Library Networking. Funded by the European Commission's Digital Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT) program, Cultivate Interactive has news and feature articles about he international networking of cultural heritage materials. This issue features articles on internetaional collaboration. David Green ========= [deleted quotation] Welcome to Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive Issue 5 of Cultivate Interactive is now available: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/ The highlights include: Feature Articles ---------------------- T-News: Bridging the Museum Generation Gap: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/telemuseum/ Do you have problems getting teenagers into your Museum? Nils Olander explains how Telemuseum tackled this problem by allowing them to create low budget news programmes using Telemuseum's television studios. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/giants/ Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins report on a recent meeting at which representatives of national and international cultural content creation programmes from around the world were invited to consider scope for greater collaboration. The Israel Museum and the Electronic Surrogate: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/israel/ Susan Hazan, the curator of new media for the Israel Museum based in Jerusalem attempts to answer the q uestion "If the intrinsic experience of a museum is about its material collections, why would a museum even want an electronic surrogate?" CORDIS: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cordis/ Thibault Heuz describes innovation opportunities available for the information community via CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service. A Survey of Virtual Reality in the VIS.I.T. Theatre: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cineca/ The CINECA team (Interuniversity Consortium) talk about their role as a leading player in the visualization field. Regular and Misc. Articles ---------------------- DIGICULT Column http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/digicult/ Concha Fernndez de la Puente writes her last column on the European Commission's initiatives in the field of digital heritage and cultural content. At the Event: 5th European Conference, ECDL 2001: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/ecdl/ The 5th conference in the series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries was held in Darmstadt, Germany between 4 and 9 September 2001. Monica Bonett attended on behalf of the IMesh Toolkit Project, and reports on some of the activities. An Introductory Guide to Audio and Video Encoding: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/jam/ In a follow up to last issue's Streaming Video articles David Johns of Culturejam limited, a company who specialise in optimising video and audio for the Web, introduces the art of encoding. IFAEK: A Vision of Improvements for a More Structured and Personalized World Wide Web: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/ifaek/ Christian Guetl discusses a possible way of providing existing Web content with more structure and context, which may help users to get more relevant information from the Internet. The most Fascinating Library Buildings in the World: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/buildings/ Godfrey Oswald leads the search and introduces 'The Book of Library Records'. A Content Management and Web Publishing Systems Gazetteer http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/cms/ Philip Hunter follows on from a recent Ariadne article with a detailed list of the different Content Management Systems currently available. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL MATERIALS: A Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:36:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 479 (479) HANDBOOK" - publication details NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 3, 2001 UK's PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL MATERIALS: A HANDBOOK Publication Details [deleted quotation] Dear all a number of you had been waiting patiently for the final version of Preservation Management of Digital Materials to appear. A pre-publication consultation draft was made available in October 2000 at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/workbook/workbook.pdf. This draft has now been fully revised for publication in light of the pilot testing between October and March 2001 as part of a BL Collaboration and Partnership funded project and comments received from the consultation process. Excellent design and layout of the final book has also added considerable value and ease of use to the previous draft. The final proof has now gone to the printers and publication by the BL is expected later in October. Publication and advance order details are available below. ======================================================================= PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL MATERIALS: A HANDBOOK Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie Sponsored by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries Published by THE BRITISH LIBRARY October 2001 Price 15.00 (including UK postage, overseas postage extra) Paperback, 145 pages, 297x210mm, ISBN 0 7123 0886 5 Send me copies of Preservation Management of Digital Materials Name Address EITHER I enclose a cheque payable to 'The British Library'. OR my credit card details are Expiry date Number Name on card Signature Customers in the UK should order from: Turpin Distribution Services Ltd, Blackhorse Road, Letchworth, Herts SG6 1HN, UK. Tel: 01462 672555 Fax: 01462 480947 Email: turpin@turpinltd.com Customers in North and South America should order from: University of Toronto Press, 5201 Dufferin Street, Downsview, Ontario, M3H 5T8 Canada. Tel 416 667 7791, Fax 416 667 7832, Email utbooks@utpress.utoronto.ca Customers in Europe and elsewhere worldwide should order from: Turpin Distribution Services Ltd, Blackhorse Road, Letchworth, Herts SG6 1HN, UK. Tel: 01462 672555 Fax: 01462 480947 Email: turpin@turpinltd.com ******************************************************************************** Neil Beagrie Assistant Director JISC Digital Preservation Focus JISC/DNER Office, Tel/Fax/Voicemail :+44 (0)709 2048179 King's College London email: preservation@jisc.ac.uk Strand Bridge House url: www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/ 138 - 142, The Strand, email list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digital-preservation London WC2R 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Digital Preservation: Brief Updates Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:37:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 480 (480) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 3, 2001 "Safe Keeping:" Economist article on Digital Archival Repositories http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=779564 Netherlands Long-Term Preservation Study Documents http://www.kb.nl/kb/ict/dea/ltp/ltp-en.html Two posts I'm forwarding from the UK's JISC Digital Preservation listserv, that may be of interest: a very short piece on Digital Archival Repositories in a recent issue of the Economist magazine, and the announcement of a webpage produced by the National Library of the Netherlands to report on work it has commissioned on long-term digital preservation. David Green =========== [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: The Public Domain: A Conference at Duke Law School - Nov 9-11 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:35:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 481 (481) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 3, 2001 The Public Domain A Conference at Duke Law School November 9-11, 2001: Durham, NC http://www.law.duke.edu/pd [deleted quotation] I am posting this for Jamie Boyle at Duke. CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT [deleted quotation] Domain. A number of well-known IP scholars are speaking, as are prominent theorists of the commons, historians, appropriationist artists, scientists, activists, constitutional law scholars.. the list goes on and on. The conference is nearly full up but there are still a few spaces and all are welcome. Details and a registration form can be found at http://www.law.duke.edu/pd Please feel free to repost to other lists. The Public Domain A Conference at Duke Law School November 9-11, 2001 [material deleted] From: Mary-Louise Craven Subject: Re: 15.280 heisenbugs & other evidence of wit Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:32:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 482 (482) Greetings Willard. While not nearly as convenient to read, Raymond et al.'s work is online at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html This version, of course, is not accessible when you're forced by the technology to "suck mud." regards, Mary-Louise Craven Communication Studies Programme, York University Toronto [And here is the beginning of an old thread. True, the Jargon File, as it's called, is online, and so without immediate cost, as the book is not, but the browsing function of the codex is so poorly implemented in the e-medium that I hardly appreciated the work until I had the former in my hands. If one wishes to *read*, I continue to assert, our new-fangled gadgets are really poor substitutes for the codex.... --WM] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Albert Borgmann and Arun Tripathi on Coping with Innovation Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:40:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 483 (483) Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, Comments are appreciated on the below threads, which later would be developed into an article! Thank you. Best regards.-Arun -------- Coping with Innovation by Professor Albert Borgmann and Arun Tripathi There must be a middle way between radical and universal innovation and clinging to an eternal human essence. I am sure there is continuity in the human condition. But traditional things and practices are also revitalized and rejuvenated by technological innovations. Computing will become more pervasive, but not to the extent its visionaries think. For one thing, as their examples show, the benefits are for the most part crashingly banal. For another, people will want to continue to appropriate their world in a knowing and competent way. Pearl in an oyster is not a satisfying condition for humans. The disappearance of the info highway was, sadly, entirely foreseeable. The phenomenon is the converse of the point above. We have become used to appropriate our world through consumption rather than excellence. Informational citizenship would be a kind of excellence. Consumption is procured by business. We are divided in our relation to reality, aspiring to excellence and finding ourselves to be consumers. The only truly different development in this new century would be the resolution of our ambivalence in favor of excellence. There is certainly new potential. I am not sure we have been equal to it. The future will judge us not by our potentials (theirs will be so much greater), but by what we have made of them--not much so far. ---- 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 acutely 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 optimistic futurists thought that there might be one telephone in every USA village. It was inconceivable that the telephone companies would be advertising "family cellphone." 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. Coping with Innovation There must be a middle way between radical and universal innovation and clinging to an eternal human essence. I am sure there is continuity in the human condition. But traditional things and practices are also revitalized and rejuvenated by technological innovations. Computing will become more pervasive, but not to the extent its visionaries think. For one thing, as their examples show, the benefits are for the most part crashingly banal. For another, people will want to continue to appropriate their world in a knowing and competent way. Pearl in an oyster is not a satisfying condition for humans. The disappearance of the info highway was, sadly, entirely foreseeable. The phenomenon is the converse of the point above. We have become used to appropriate our world through consumption rather than excellence. Informational citizenship would be a kind of excellence. Consumption is procured by business. We are divided in our relation to reality, aspiring to excellence and finding ourselves to be consumers. The only truly different development in this new century would be the resolution of our ambivalence in favor of excellence. There is certainly new potential. I am not sure we have been equal to it. The future will judge us not by our potentials (theirs will be so much greater), but by what we have made of them--not much so far. ---- 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 acutely 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 optimistic futurists thought that there might be one telephone in every USA village. It was inconceivable that the telephone companies would be advertising "family cellphone." 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. ------ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: future of technology & rethinking human-computer interaction Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:41:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 484 (484) dear professor Willard McCarty, i have tried to put several thoughts regarding human values, future of technology & rethinking human-computer interaction.. "we must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature" --John Naisbitt (1982) [Naisbitt, John, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, Warner Books, New York, NY] "we can make a difference in shaping the future by ensuring that computers serve human needs --Mumford (1934) [Technics and Civilzation by Lewis Mumford] "unlike machines, human minds can create ideas. we need ideas to guide us to progress, as well as tools to implement them....computers don't contain "brains" any more than stereos contain musical instruments....machines only manipulate numbers; people connect them to meaning.. --Penzias (1989) [Ideas and Information by Arno Penzias] your comments, criticisms, and ideas are appreciated. thank you. best, arun From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: October Issue of IMLS Newsletter Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:38:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 485 (485) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 3, 2001 October Issue of IMLS Newsletter Primary Source Now Available http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/pscurrent.htm Grant announcements and deadlines and the agenda for the November 21st-Century Learner Conference. 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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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Arun Cyberworld Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:39:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 486 (486) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Arun Cyberworld, philosophy papers with an academic introduction of Arun Tripathi can be found at <http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/Arun_Cyberworld.htm> Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Willard McCarty Subject: special request Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:34:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 487 (487) Dear colleagues: I and the rest of the "management" for the upcoming ALLC/ACH 2002 conference would be enormously grateful if you would forward the following announcement to any relevant discussion group of which you are a member. To those of you who do not belong to any such group, please forward this to potentially interested colleagues, or print it out and post it on the departmental bulletin board &c. Many thanks. Yours, WM -------------------- Call for Papers and Information for Speakers 'New Directions in Humanities Computing' ALLC/ACH 2002 University of Tuebingen, July 23-28 2002 Conference Web site and full CFP: www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002/ Submission deadline: 15 November 2001 ============================================== ALLC/ACH 2002 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. The theme for the 2002 conference is 'New Directions in Humanities Computing'. Hence, while as always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, especially interdisciplinary work, for the 2002 conference we especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Recent years have seen enormous advances in information technologies, and an enormous growth in the use of IT resources for research and teaching in the humanities. How exactly are these developments changing the ways in which humanities scholars work? What new and distinct methodologies is IT now bringing to the humanities? How do we expect methodologies, and the role of the humanities scholar, to change in the near future as a result of the impact of IT? How are IT-related developments in one discipline affecting or likely to affect those in others? The time is ripe to survey and assess developments to date in humanties computing, and its likely future directions. Suitable subjects for proposals would also include: * new approaches to research in humanities disciplines using digital resources dependent on images, audio, or video * the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering; * 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; * theoretical or speculative treatments of new media; * the institutional role of new media within the contemporary academy, including curriculum development and collegial support for activities in these fields; * the broader social role of humanities computing and the resources it develops. For the full Call for Papers, see the Conference web-site at http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002/ It includes details on submitting proposals, the timetable for review of submissions and notification of results, description of bursaries available to young presenters, the International Programme Committee membership, an overview of the annual joint Conference and information about the city and University of Tuebingen. ---------------------------------------------------------------- David Robey Chair of the International Programme Committee ALLC-ACH 2002 Conference ----- 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: browsing functions Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:36:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 488 (488) Willard, It'a an old thread with a new twist. I know that electronic versus print has been discussed in regards to ease of annotation. I'm curious about "browsing". There is a distinction to be made between browsing a single codical volume and several. How often to users toggle between windows which is the equivalent in the electronic medium to a table top or desk littered with open volumes or tiered to toppling with bookmarkers? What is browsing? Is it three operations? One, reading a snippet. Two, searching for related passages (there have been many eloquent messages to Humanist on the value of indices despite the value of full text searching). Three, recording the insightful passage for future reference. And of course four -- reiteration, adjustment and further reiteration of the scan, search, record process? There is also a type of reading that is not browsing. Best characterized as burrowing, this type of reading benefits from the cultural experience of the book form. However, the relationship of speed and contemplation is not built into the hardware of what you call "our new-fangled gadgets". I would suggest that the images of the computer user in popular and mass culture have become more diversified. I recall some very fine advertising by Apple a while ago which played upon the, for me, incredibly resonant image of a male adult teaching a child to read -- the scene begins with a lone user engaged in using the product in a domestic-like setting, the audio delivered as voice over is all about making time to be with a growing child as the camera circles to reveal at the adult male's side a wide-eyed toddler -- permitting viewers to identify with either. It is a page pulled from a literacy campaign. If my recall is correct, we learnt to linger over a particular story, rereading and familiarizing ourselves with it before graduating to the art of browsing. In both activities, there was the magic of sharing. For many of us big kids it continues to be so. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: The Humanities Computing Curriculum / Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:45:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 489 (489) The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities (November 9-10, 2001) [please excuse x-posting] The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities November 9-10, 2001 Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/ > Conference Description 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? In other words, is there a humanities computing curriculum, a curriculum that appropriately treats the role of the computer, today, in the context of the centuries-old tradition of the arts and humanities? What must be considered when designing and implementing courses that bring the computer to the arts and humanities, courses in humanities computing? Can such 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? What are others in the field bringing to their classrooms and to their programs that have humanities computing components? Such are the questions that many face as they and their institutions formulate, for the first time, new academic courses and programs that seek to apply computing to established arts and humanities curricula. Led by expert practitioners in the field of humanities computing, through a number of papers, sessions, poster presentations, and seminars this conference will address the broad range of issues involved in integrating computing practice in the teaching of the arts and humanities -- from developing a single course in a particular discipline to the development of an entire curriculum. Invited Speakers Invited speakers include Willard McCarty (King's College, London), John Unsworth (U Virginia), Susan Hockey (University College London), and Nancy Ide (Vassar College). Conference Program The conference's program is available at http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/program.htm A full list of presenters, and abstracts of their presentations, is available at http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/abstracts.htm Registration, Accommodation, and Travel Conference registration is carried out online, via this link: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/registration1.asp A limited number of rooms are available at discounted rates at the conference hotel, the Coast Bastion; until October 7, these may be booked as part of conference registration. Nanaimo Travel (250-754-1331 or travel@nanaimo.ark.com) is handling travel arrangements for the conference, for those who wish. Please ask for Michelle. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Malaspina University-College is located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the beautiful east coast of Canada's Vancouver Island. It is easily accessible via direct air and sea-ferry service from Vancouver, as well as by connections from Victoria and Seattle. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Advisory Board: * Ray Siemens (Conference Chair) English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. E-mail: siemensr@mala.bc.ca Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 741-2667. * Peter Liddell, Director, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, U Victoria * Terry Butler, Director, Arts Technologies for Learning Centre, U Alberta * Geoffrey Rockwell, Director, Humanities Computing Centre, McMaster U ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Host: Arts and First Nations, Malaspina University-College Sponsors: Arts and First Nations, MFA PD Ctte, Malaspina Research Fund, Malaspina U-C Humanities Computing and Media Centre, U Victoria Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, MA Program in Humanities Computing, U Alberta Humanities Computing Centre, School of the Arts, Humanities, McMaster U Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines ___________ 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: Two positions: Dartmouth College; Univ of Maryland Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:44:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 490 (490) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community TWO POSITIONS Dartmouth College: Asst Prof of English: Material Textuality and Digital Media * * * University of Maryland, College Park: Director, Visual Technologies Center, Department of Art History and Archaeology ========================================================================== Material Textuality and Digital Media Assistant Professor, English Department, Dartmouth College We invite applications from candidates who study the history, theory and rhetoric of information technologies and new media. We seek a colleague to develop and teach courses among the following areas: past and present technologies of writing and dissemination; the cultures and aesthetics of digital media; hypertext literature; and virtual cultural production. This tenure-track position will begin Fall, 2002. Phd in hand, or pending. Send letter of application, CV, dossier, and writing sample (25 pages maximum) plus any relevant URL or digital files (by diskette, Zip disk, or CD-Rom) to Professor Brenda Silver, Search Committee Chair, English Department, Dartmouth College, 6032 Sanborn House, Hanover, NH 03755. Also: send letter of application and CV via email to: English.Department@Dartmouth.EDU. Both postmarked no later than Friday, November 2, 2001. Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. With an even distribution of male and female students and over a quarter of the undergraduate student population members of minority groups, the College is committed to diversity and encourages applications from women and minorities. ========================================================================== The University of Maryland, College Park Department of Art History and Archaeology Position Announcement Position Title: Director, Visual Technologies Center Category: Exempt, Full-time, 12 month position EX-2434 Salary: Salary high 50s to low 60s, commensurate with experience, as well as excellent leave, medical coverage, retirement, and tuition remission benefits Position Description: The Director will oversee the entire operation of the newly created Art History and Archaeology Visual Technologies Center (VTC), which will incorporate the current 275,000-slide collection as well as new electronic media. The VTC will afford developmental support for teachers and scholars by integrating technology with research and teaching and serve as a resource center for implementing new ideas for visual communication. Specific responsibilities will include supervision of all VTC personnel, serving as project manager for the Department=s Web-based activities, working collaboratively with faculty and students to develop electronic teaching materials, participation in grant-writing and fund-raising activities, and oversight of legal and financial matters and the VTC=s strategic plan. This position offers an exceptional opportunity to help design and develop a dynamic teaching facility supported by the resources of a major university committed to integrating electronic technology into the learning process. Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates with a graduate degree in art history or a related field, as well as leadership, management, and supervisory skills proven in an academic or association environment. Preferred candidates will possess expertise in electronic technology, specifically in developing Web-based applications for visual research and teaching. They will also have an understanding of the complexities of cataloging visual images and appreciation for the importance of the support provided by the VTC in faculty research and teaching. Experience in grant writing and fund-raising is also desirable. To Apply: To apply for this position, please send a curriculum vitae or resum, a letter of interest, and three letters of reference to: Prof. Marjorie Venit Department of Art History and Archaeology 1211B Art/Sociology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-1335 Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For best consideration, please submit application material by November 1, 2001. The University of Maryland, College Park is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to reply. -- ============================================================== 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: Michael Barlow Subject: Text visualisation Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:37:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 491 (491) Colleagues: For the past year or so, I have been thinking about creating a very general (Windows) text visualisation tool that would enable myself and others to investigate a text by visually scanning one or more representations or "views" of the corpus to look for interesting patterns. Some related thoughts from a proposal made a year ago are posted at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/csc.htm. It is now time to move on from the fun, doodling in a notebook stage to the writing of specs, and so I welcome any comments on the design/features of such a program, which necessarily involves switching among alternative views of the corpus: from outline or overview to a detailed representation of the text, or from a visual to a numerical (statistical) representation. What I am particularly interested in hearing about is the representation and manipulation of annotation. My idea, for today at least, is that the mark-up will be represented in outline as a kind of tree structure and that it would then be possible to select certain areas of the branching structure in order to obtain a detailed view at the text level. Or alternatively, one might want to select a word or phrase in the text and see the associated annotation structure. Or one might control the annotation that appears in the text by means of selections made in the outline. I could list possibilities all day, but I'd like to hear from list members. I am sure that some on this list have thought deeply about this or have at least come up with ideas expressed in the form "wouldn't it be neat if X". I'd be very interested in hearing about X or in any reactions to my general proposal contained in the link given above. Michael ----------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barlow Dept of Linguistics, Rice University www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow Centre for Corpus Linguistics, Birmingham University Athelstan barlow@athel.com www.athel.com From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Approved Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 06:59:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 492 (492) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 5, 2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Approved http://dublincore.org http://www.niso.org [deleted quotation] Bethesda, Md., USA - (October 5, 2001) NISO, the National Information Standards Organization and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) announce the approval by ANSI of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (Z39.85-2001). DCMI began in 1995 with an invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio that brought together librarians, digital library researchers, content providers, and text-markup experts to improve discovery standards for information resources. The original Dublin Core emerged as a small set of descriptors that quickly drew global interest from a wide variety of information providers in the arts, sciences, education, business, and government sectors. Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use or manage an information resource. The Dublin Core was originally developed to be simple and concise, and to describe Web-based documents. The current standard defines fifteen metadata elements for resource description in a cross-disciplinary information environment. These elements are: title, subject, description, source, language, relation, coverage, creator, publisher, contributor, rights, date, type, format, and identifier. Commenting on the approval, Stuart Weibel, Executive Director of DCMI, said: "The approval of Z39.85 formalizes a long period of consensus building representing the efforts of hundreds of people, and all participants can take pride in what this community has built." The NISO committee was chaired by John Kunze (University of California/National Library of Medicine) and included Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations, Inc.), Clifford Morgan (John Wiley &Sons Ltd.) and John Perkins (CIMI Consortium). The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (http://dublincore.org) is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems. DCMI will act as the maintenance agency for the Dublin Core Metadata Element set standard. This standard is available for free downloading or hardcopy purchase at: http://www.techstreet.com/ About NISO: NISO is the only U.S. group accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop and promote technical standards for use in information delivery services providing voluntary standards for libraries, publishers and related information technology organizations. All NISO standards are developed by consensus under the guidance of experts and practitioners in the field to meet the needs of both the information user and the producer. For information about NISO's current standardization interests and membership possibilities, please visit the NISO website at http://www.niso.org. For additional information contact NISO Headquarters at (301) 654-2512. Email: nisohq@niso.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Wendell Piez Subject: imagination Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 07:14:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 493 (493) Hey Willard, I'm only now (he shamefully admits) catching up on a few old HUMANIST posts. At 01:57 AM 9/17/01, you wrote: [deleted quotation] You really must check out the work of Owen Barfield. (I think I mentioned it to you last June.) You could start with his underground classic, *Poetic Diction*. Even more provocative and far-reaching is *Saving the Appearances*. Steve Talbott, publisher of the NETFUTURE newsletter, has an extended gloss (viz. 'polemic') that riffs from Barfield in his book *The Future Does Not Compute*, an insider's critique of the abstracting mentality (which works side by side and hand in hand with imagination). Talbott can be a bit ponderous and tendentious (although he's always been very nice to me!), but I think this is understandable given the context in which he wrote (mid-90s) and the weight of the topic. Also, you should know, if you don't already, Weizenbaum's *Computer Power and Human Reason*. Remember, he was the developer of ELIZA (and rather taken aback, as he tells the story, by how much trust she met with). In a later post, you ask: [deleted quotation] Isn't that the problem of education itself, all the way back to Socrates and Plato's Dialogues? (Socrates' mission being one essentially of asking his friends to reason based not on the truisms they were told, but on their own powers of observation and logic.) I do know that in my case, the moment of truth was when, in some advanced year of grad study, it became plain that *everything* I was reading -- literature, criticism, critical theory -- was equally rhetoric (though making different kinds of claims). This was well after my Dad had warned me (I think I was about six) that I couldn't believe something just because someone had put it in a book. (I remember being shocked that someone would place something they did not know to be true within the sacred precincts of a book binding.) In any case, I don't think this is a lesson easily learned. And my intuition tells me that there is no formula to guarantee its transmission, only moments of enlightenment and, for the fortunate, the recognition and validation from someone senior that that insight is genuine. Which is not to say it can't be encouraged. As for that, my feeling is that the best way to teach that, for example, the video medium cannot be taken at face value (as every night's news show asks us to), is to give the student a video camera and ask them to produce (and then reflect on that production). Working in an archive is a wonderful antidote, for those not mortally ill, to the disease of historical certainty. 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: "Al Magary" Subject: documentary editing guide? Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 06:56:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 494 (494) [crossposted to Humanist and Mediev-L] I am a serious amateur embarking on a perhaps hazardous voyage: transcribing and preparing an online edition of a popular English Renaissance text. I would like suggestions on the current British-standard guidebook(s) on documentary editing, especially any oriented toward English literature and/or history. Not to further bore everyone generally, but I'll provide details on request. Thanks in advance, Al Magary San Francisco From: grover zinn Subject: Re: 15.290 browsing Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 06:57:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 495 (495) Francois Lachance's posting on reading, browsing, reading a snippet, etc., makes me ask a very simple, somewhat unrelated question: for anyone using a Mac out there, is there a good program for "clipping" passages, making notes, etc. and storing them in an easily searchable, etc. database of some sort. Products come and go (mostly go, it seems). PC users seem to have more. Thanks--on a very mundane question. Reply privately if you wish---grover.zinn@oberlin.edu Grover Zinn Grover A. Zinn Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences William H. Danforth Professor of Religion 101 Cox Building Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 (440) 775-8410 fax (440) 775-6662 From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI: new issue, new volume Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 06:58:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 496 (496) A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION (Volume 2, issue 1, October 2001) In this issue, which sees the start of Volume 2 and "some exciting developments for JoDI", we are pleased to present two papers on usability aspects of digital information systems. From the Editor Editorial, Vol. 2 No. 1 http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sec.php3?content=editors D. Miall and T. Dobson Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i01/Miall/ M. Pagendarm and H. Schaumburg Why Are Users Banner-Blind? The Impact of Navigation Style on the Perception of Web Banners http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i01/Pagendarm/ Forthcoming in the next issue: the best papers from the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 being held in Japan at the end of this month. From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Distinguished philosopher Don Ihde on _Technoscience_ Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 06:55:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 497 (497) Dear humanist scholars, It is a privilege and an exquisite hono(u)r for me to introduce stellar scholarly philosopher works of Don Ihde, who is a distinguished professor in the Department of Philosophy, and is also affiliated with the history of science and women's studies programs, at SUNY, Stony Brook. TECHNOSCIENCE: The study of *technoscience* examines cutting edge work in the fields of the philosophies of science and technology, and science studies. We read only living authors (such as Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Ian Hacking, Andrew Pickering, Sandra Harding, etc.) and occassionally Don Ihde has invited other authors to the seminar on *technoscience* for a "roast" (roastees have included Peter Galison, Hubert Dreyfus, Albert Borgmann, Andrew Feenberg, etc.). The seminar on *technoscience* has already resulted in a number of publications related to its activities and participants regularly present research results at major international conferences (Aarhus, Denmark; Vienna, Austria; CERN, Switzerland, etc.). Don Ihde, who has written several books on philosophy of technoscience and culture from a phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective. (The following books by Ihde will be used: Experimental Phenomenology; and Expanding Hermeneutics plus chapters from his forthcoming book Imaging Technologies: Plato Upside Down). Related perspective and theories from sociology, philosophy and media theory will be included in the reading material. The seminar will emphasize the following topics: 1) Philosophy of science and technology; 2) Sociology of science and technology; 3) Historical development of imaging in science and other professions; 4) Imaging in modern hi-tech professions. Imaging Technologies: Philosophical, Hermeneutic, design and STS Perspectives on Hi-tech Realities:--> Imaging in scientific and other professional culture has radically changed in its history. Today's images range from apparent isomorphic depictions to highly constructed ones, which are often composites created by computer processes. They are neither 'representations' nor 'texts' in the usual senses. But they are 'hermeneutic objects' which call for interpretive activity. Indeed, the richer these images are for showing interesting phenomena to professionals, the more the construction is needed for the 'image'. The contention is that this is no longer a process which works well for 'modernist epistemology'; rather it calls for a much more 'postmodernist hermeneutics' to be understood. WHOLE EARTH MEASUREMENTS by Don Ihde, State University of New York at Stony Brook a) HOW MANY PHENOMENOLOGISTS DOES IT TAKE TO DETECT A "GREENHOUSE EFFECT"? b) ONLY BY BEING PROFOUND CAN HEIDEGGER BE PROFOUNDLY WRONG c) WHOLE EARTH MEASUREMENTS d) SCIENCE PRAXIS AS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL HERMENEUTIC http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v2n2/ihde.html [Theses of Don Ihde is discussed] Synthetic Biology: The Technoscience of Artificial Life John Sullins ABSTRACT: This paper uses the theory of technoscience to shed light on the current criticisms against the emerging science of Artificial Life. We see that the science of Artificial Life is criticized for the synthetic nature of its research and its over reliance on computer simulations which is seen to be contrary to the traditional goals and methods of science. However, if we break down the traditional distinctions between science and technology using the theory of technoscience, then we can begin to see that all science has a synthetic nature and reliance on technology. Artificial Life researchers are not heretical practitioners of some pseudoscience; they are just more open about their reliance on technology to help realize their theories and modeling. Understanding that science and technology are not as disparate as was once thought is an essential step in helping us create a more humane technoscience in the future. Complete article can be read at http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Tech/TechSull.htm Why Not Science Critics? by Don Ihde http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/papers/Scicrit.htm Synthetic Biology: The Technoscience of Artificial Life by John Sullins, Philosophy Computers and Cognitive Science, Binghamton University, Binghamton New York, USA [These of Don Ihde is discussed] Introduction -------------- As soon as the new sciences of Complexity, Chaos Theory, and Artificial Life (hereafter referred to as AL), began to be noticed by the popular science press a kind of "honeymoon" period began. During this time these sciences were seen as the sexy new breakthrough theories that would eventually lead to our ability to solve all the problems of the world, from the cure for AIDS to the complete understanding and synthesis of living systems.[1] Recently a number of attacks have been leveled against the studies of Complexity and Chaos Theory in general and on the study of AL directly. The most damning of these attacks on AL has been launched by John Horgan in his article "From Complexity to Perplexity," printed in Scientific American (Horgan 6/95) and in his book The End of Science. In his article Horgan fiercely criticized the study of AL with the implication that the entire study is some kind of sham. Horgan states that: "Artificial Life--and the entire field of complexity--seems to be based on a seductive syllogism: There are simple sets of mathematical rules that when followed by a computer give rise to extremely complicated patterns. The world also contains many extremely complicated patterns. Conclusion: Simple rules underlie many extremely complicated phenomena in the world. With the help of powerful computers, scientists can root those rules out (Horgan 6/96, Pg. 107)." Complete article can be read at: <http://philosophy.binghamton.edu/robot/lab/Assets/Papers/Synthetic%20Biology.htm> In his very latest book, "Bodies in Technology" Professor Ihde begins with an analysis of embodiment in cyberspace, then moves on to consider ways in which social theorists have interpreted or overlooked these conditions. An astute and sensible judge of these theories, Don Ihde is a uniquely provocative and helpful guide through contemporary thinking about technology and embodiment, drawing on sources and examples as various as video games, popular films, the workings of e-mail, and virtual reality techniques. Thank you for listening! Sincerely Arun Tripathi Research Assistant TUD, Germany From: Willard McCarty Subject: Edna Aphek, Minimizing the digital divide Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 06:46:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 498 (498) Humanists will be interested in an article to which the author has kindly alerted me, "Minimizing the Digital Divide and the Inter-Generation Gap", in Ubiquity: An ACM Magazine and Forum, 2.29 (25/9 - 1/10 2001) at <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_2/issue_29.html>, in which Professor Aphek reports on a project in which "[c]hildren tutor seniors at computer and Internet skills and get a lesson in history". 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: further unsettling thoughts Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 06:51:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 499 (499) The problem, I suppose, with an argument for the unsettled nature of everything -- this in response to Wendell Piez's response to me in Humanist 15.295 -- is that the argument itself becomes settled in the mind as a ring-side view of change everywhere else except where one lives. Northrop Frye used to say that most readings of the biblical book of Revelation are as if we were viewing the fireworks at a safe distance, from comfy chairs. So I suppose the real question should be, how do we continually jolt *ourselves* out of the commonsense view that our representations of reality on the machine are factual? (And so on, spreading outwards, as Wendell rightly says, to all questions of education.) I suppose that if we could figure that one out we'd not have to worry about what we told our students in a humanities computing or any other kind of curriculum -- the best teaching would follow, not automatically, of course, but it would follow. In that spirit, some helpful words from the Oxford philosopher of history, R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (1946), rev. edn., ed. Jan van der Dussen (Oxford, 1993), pp. 8-9: "When a student is in statu pupillari with respect to any subject whatever, he has to believe that things are settled because the text-books and his teachers regard them as settled. When he emerges from that state and goes on studying the subject for himself he finds that nothing is settled. The dogmatism which is an invariable mark of immaturity drops away from him. He looks at so-called facts with a new eye. He says to himself, 'My teacher and text-books told me that such and such was true; but is it true? What reasons had they for thinking it true, and were those reasons adequate? On the other hand, if he emerges from the status of pupil without continuing to pursue the subject he never rids himself of this dogmatic attitude. And this makes him a person peculiarly unfitted to answer the questions I have mentioned [about history].... "Science in general... does not consist in collecting what we already know and arranging it in this or that kind of pattern. It consists in fastening upon something we do not know, and trying to discover it. Playing patience with things we already know may be a useful means toward this end, but it is not the end itself. It is at best only the means. It is scientifically valuable only in so far as the new arrangement gives us the answer to a question we have already decided to ask. That is why all science begins from the knowledge of our own ignorance: not our ignorance of everything, but our ignorance of some definite thing.... Science is finding things out: and in that sense history is a science." 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: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 15.296 documentary editing guide? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:29:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 500 (500) Al Magary writes: [deleted quotation] Mary-Jo Kline's A Guide to Documentary Editing (second edition, 1997) is a good guide to documentary editing generally. Problems and expected practices tend to vary a lot depending on period and genre, though. The Malone Society reprint series has a set of guidelines specifically for doing reprints of English Renaissance texts, though mostly dramatic texts: see the society's Collections, volume 4 (1956), 66-69. John Lavagnino King's College London From: Willard McCarty Subject: Call for Papers: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2002 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:36:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 501 (501) ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Annual Course and Conference: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2002 Dubrovnik, Croatia 23-26 May, 2002 Inter-University Centre Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia. http://www.hr/iuc Course web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida Course email: lida@ffzg.hr. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is an annual course and conference started in 2000 and held at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The general aim is to address the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital age, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems, advances and solutions. Each year a different and 'hot' theme is addressed in two parts - one more theoretical and the other more practical. In addition to invited speakers, papers, tutorials, and workshops for both themes are invited. Deadline: 15 January 2001 [material deleted] GENERAL INFORMATION Rationale Libraries and information systems everywhere are increasingly and greatly affected in all of their functions by the rapid evolution of the digital age. While the growing Global Information Infrastructure (GII), and the Internet in particular, greatly enhances access to a variety of information resources, it also provides for many new and complex challenges and problems for libraries and information systems, as well as for their creators and users. For librarians and information professionals the digital age also brings a need for a constant update of their professional knowledge and competencies. Orientation The course is oriented toward professionals and researchers in librarianship, information science, and informatics, as well as from other disciplines interested in this topic. In particular, the course will be useful for practicing librarians and information scientists, for students of library and information science, and for system administrators, system operators, web page managers, and related personnel in library and information systems. Program The course will bring together well-known experts from around the world for lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and workshops. The details of the program and information about lecturers can be found on the conference web page: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida Interaction The course is intended to be highly interactive. The participants are encouraged to bring their own problems, situations, and solution to involve in discussions. Fees and registration Announcement on the LIDA web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida [material deleted] CORRESPONDENCE AT THE ADDRESS OF Prof. TATJANA APARAC -- Marija Dalbello, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Department of Library and Information Science Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, N.J. 08901-1071 Voice: (732) 932-7500 / 8215 Fax: (732) 932-2644 Internet: dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu http://scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello From: Sean Lawrence Subject: Latest issue of EMLS Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:11:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 502 (502) Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the launch of its September issue, available free online at http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html The table of contents is below. Articles: Greenaway's Books. [1] Steven Marx, Cal Poly University Time for the Plebs in Julius Caesar. [2] Christopher Holmes, McGill University Othello, the Baroque, and Religious Mentalities. [3] Anthony Gilbert, Lancaster University Performance, Subjectivity and Slander in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. [4] Adam Piette, University of Glasgow Note: Ovid's Rivers and the Naming of Milton's Lycidas. [5] Eric C. Brown, Harvard University. Idealist and Materialist Interpretations of BL Harley 7368, the Sir Thomas More Manuscript. [6] Gabriel Egan, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and King's College, London. Reviews Paul Budra. A Mirror for Magistrates and the de casibus Tradition. Toronto, Buffalo, London: U of Toronto P, 2000. [7] Dermot Cavanagh, Northumbria University. John Lee. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and the Controversies of Self. Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000. [8] Roger Starling, University of Warwick. Kenneth Borris. Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. [9] Mary R. Bowman, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Deborah Aldrich Larson. The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society, 2000. [10] Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Galway. Alan Rudrum, Joseph Black, and Holly Faith Nelson, eds. The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2000. [11] Robert Appelbaum, University of San Diego. Lady Mary Wroth. The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts; completed by Suzanne Gossett and Janel Mueller. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. [12]. Bernadette Andrea, University of Texas at San Antonio. Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, and Alison Saunders. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance. Vol. CCCXXXI. Geneva: Droz, 1999. [13] David Graham, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's. Marc Berley. After the Heavenly Song: English Poetry and the Aspiration to Song. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2000. [14] Hannibal Hamlin, The Ohio State University, Mansfield. Jean E. Howard and Scott Cutler Shershow, eds. Marxist Shakespeares. Accents on Shakespeare.  Terry Hawkes, gen. ed. London: Routledge, 2001. [15] Gabriel Egan, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and King's College, London. Theatre Reviews Love's Labour's Lost. [16] Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. AngliaShax Summer 2001. [17] Michael Grosvenor Myer. The Tragedy of Hamlet. [18] Joseph Tate, University of Washington. Dr Lisa Hopkins Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Teaching and research pages: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Articles related to (UC) Ubiquitous Computing Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:14:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 503 (503) Dear Humanists, Hello --following articles on UC has been published in "ERCIM NEWS No 47" having Special Theme: Ambient Intelligence at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/ The articles seems to me important thru' research point of view in the field of UC and Telecooperation, specially the article on "Ubiquitous Computing Infrastructures" by Prof. Friedemann Mattern. a) Ubiquitous Service Environments by Carl Gustaf Jansson and Peter Lnnqvist The FUSE (Future Ubiquitous Service Environments) group focuses on transparently accessible configurations of services made available on assemblies of personal / public / mobile / stationary devices that melt into the periphery. FUSE is affiliated with KTH in Stockholm and funded by both national and EU sources, eg the IST FET Disappearing Computer project FEEL (2001-2003). Details at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw47/jansson.html b) Ubiquitous Computing Infrastructures by Friedemann Mattern Incorporation of computing power into everyday objects gives rise to smart things. To enable communication and cooperation among such smart objects, new information infrastructures are required. The Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich addresses the challenges of designing and implementing such infrastructures. Details at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw47/mattern.html c) Ubiquitous Computing and Embedded Operating Systems Design by Michel Bantre A research activity at INRIA concerns the impact of Ubiquitous Computing on operating system design, particularly the aspects related to Java for appliances, Spontaneous Information Systems and context awareness. Details at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw47/banatre.html d) Contextualisation in Nomadic Computing by Markus Eisenhauer and Roland Klemke Contextualised information presentation and interaction gives Nomadic Computing its backing. At the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), prototypes and services are currently being developed in the framework of the project Situation Awareness in Motion (SAiMotion), a cooperation between FIT and other Fraunhofer Institutes that concentrates on context modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. Details at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw47/eisenhauer.html Thank you! Sincerely Arun Tripathi Research Assistant Telecooperation Research Group Technical University of Darmstadt Germany -- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Comment Period Ends Fri: RLG-OCLC Preservation Report: Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:17:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 504 (504) "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 11, 2001 * * REMINDER: DISCUSSION PERIOD ENDS FRIDAY OCT 12 * * RLG-OCLC PRESERVATION DISCUSSION DOCUMENT RELEASED "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources" http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf Comments to by October 12, 2001 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CICLing-2002 Conf: Comput. Linguistics and Text Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 06:15:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 505 (505) Processing, Mexico, February: Deadline reminder [deleted quotation] Deadline reminder (we apologize for accident multiple messages) CICLing-2002: 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 17 to 23, 2002 Mexico City, Mexico See: http://www.cicling.org Dear colleagues, We have received many excellent submissions for CICLing-2002. In spite of a number of deadline extension requests, we cannot afford extending our full papers deadline, which has PASSED. However, we ***ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT US FOR LATE SUBMISSIONS***. We will do our best to consider them. (Note that you have an option to present a poster by November 5.) Two comments: 1. This is the last CICLing event to be held in Mexico City (from 2003, we will organize it in different places). Please do not miss your last chance for the excellent touristic program we offer in Mexico City (see photos at http://www.cicling.org/2000 and http://www.cicling.org/2001). 2. The Proceedings will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- LNCS (and not in Artificial Intelligence -- LNAI -- as we wrongly stated previously). LNCS has much better impact index than LNAI. Thank you! Alexander Gelbukh Program Chair ===================================== Welcome to CICLing-2002 conf: www.CICLing.org Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 2002, Mexico City, Mexico ===================================== Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh (Alexandre Guelboukh Kahn), Research Professor, head of NLP Lab, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion (CIC), Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN). Address: CIC, IPN, entrada por calle Venus (cerca de Metro Poli), Col. 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Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is an annual course and conference started in 2000 and held at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The general aim is to address the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital age, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems, advances and solutions. Each year a different and 'hot' theme is addressed in two parts - one more theoretical and the other more practical. In addition to invited speakers, papers, tutorials, and workshops for both themes are invited. Deadline: 15 January 2002 [material deleted] From: John Unsworth Subject: new humanities computing MA program Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:14:51 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 507 (507) Please advise appropriate undergraduate students of the existence of a new MA degree in humanities computing (called the MA in Digital Humanities) in the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia. Applications for admission cannot be accepted until the program receives final approval from the State government, which we expect on November 20th; applications will then be due on January 15th. More information about the program, including aims of the degree, course descriptions, faculty information, and the like, is available on the web, at: http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/. Those who need or prefer a flash-free presentation of the same information can find it at: http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/plaintext.html John Unsworth From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CINCINNATI, Oct 27 - Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:15:57 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 508 (508) REGISTRATION DEADLINE OCT 19 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 12, 2001 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY * REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY OCT 19, 2001 * NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: CINCINNATI "New Strategies: New Contexts" http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2001/27_ninch.html * * * CIMI/Museum Computer Network Conference Westin Cincinnati Hotel Saturday October 27, 1-4pm Free of Charge * Open to All Registration Required: http://www.mcn.edu/2001conference.asp or call 877.626.3800. Copyright issues facing the museum community will be at the heart of "NEW STRATEGIES: NEW CONTEXTS," the fifth in the 2001 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS. The meeting is hosted by the Museum Computer Network as part of its annual conference: "MCN/CIMI 2001 - Real Life: Virtual Experiences." The NINCH-MCN Copyright Town Meeting will be held in the Westin Cincinnati Hotel on Saturday October 27, 1-4pm. The meeting is open to all and is free of charge but registration is required. Between them, six speakers will: outline the map of copyright concerns for museums today; discuss recent changes in copyright law and options for museums; and present two new sets of strategies for distributing museum material online - the AMICO and ArtSTOR projects. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: a thought about language and habit Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:16:12 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 509 (509) This is to solicit help in thinking through what at the moment seems to me a productive question about language with respect to computing. This question is as follows. Please forgive my relatively untutored speculations about at least one academic field in which I have no training whatever. In language production we tend to be very conservative if not hide-bound when we imagine what it is possible to say or what a set of rules will generate; thus, as I understand a frequent complaint, the unreliability of intuition, including a linguist's. We tend to be radical, however, in our actual production of new forms, taking delight in breaking rules, doing the supposedly impossible. (I recall once John Sowa declaring that his system would of course admit the sentence "the man is eager to eat the food" but of course exclude as nonsensical the sentence "the food is eager to be eaten by the man". No one would ever say that -- except, prominently, in the Hitchhiker's Guide and by many, many people subsequently.) The question I have comes from reflecting that a language-generation program is thus neither conservative nor radical with respect to language generation. Does this mean that we "follow rules" in a very different sense than the computer, or not really at all, even or especially when we are trying our hardest to do so? One of course can argue that we follow rules but make exceptions and/or are subject to unpredictable deviations. But is this not a *model* of human behaviour rather than the form of it? If so, then our relationship to the machine is very interesting indeed. This morning, before sunrise, I made cappucino as usual, while still half in dreamland. I would have said (and would have said about myself, had I been observing me) that I was operating according to a set of self-established rules, then as close to a mechanical being as I ever get. Granted the rules are complex and do admit some variation, but (again) I would have said that these are not only finite but also small in number. One of these exceptions is that when I empty a milk-bottle I rinse it out, then take it to the front door, placing it just outside for the milkman to collect (yes, this is a very civilised country). I have done this hundreds of times. Yet this morning I looked up into the sky and saw the sharp, brilliant crescent moon, which in a sense changed everything. Was I following a set of rules? Ordinarily one would call my behaviour habit, which is a very different kind of thing, admitting within its strictures perfect freedom, perhaps even establishing the conditions for freedom. Every way I have for thinking about this, in language, surfaces as another model -- or I should say, metaphor. Which prompts me to ask, does "model" model metaphor? Not to get too fuzzed out, I return to the question of rules. If we are not in fact rule-governed but habitual, then is not the silent assumption that we are rule-governed fatal to clear thinking about 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: Andrew Mactavish Subject: CFP: Theorizing Computer Games (COCH-COSH/ACCUTE Joint Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:56:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 510 (510) Session, 2002, U. Toronto) Call for Papers Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH-COSH) Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2002 Annual Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities May 26-28, 2002 University of Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic COCH-COSH/ACCUTE Joint Session Theorizing Computer Games: Do We Need a New Theory? Although late to the scene, scholars have begun defining approaches to computer game scholarship, the most common being rooted in studies of narrative, cinema, and dramatic performance. As promising as these perspectives are, Espen Aarseth cautions against the oft-repeated mistake he finds in many recent approaches to digital media: the race is on to conquer and colonize these new territories for our existing paradigms and theories, often in the form of "the theoretical perspectives of is clearly really a prediction/description of ." (Aarseth, 1999, 31 & 32) This joint session between COCH/COSH and ACCUTE will address the problem--if, in fact, there is a problem--with theorizing computer games from perspectives used to explain narrative, cinema, and dramatic performance. If theoretical perspectives for analyzing non-digitally interactive forms of art and culture potentially represent computer games as something they are not, then what are the new questions we must ask about computer games that require new paradigms and theories? What is there about computer games that make them so different from other forms of culture that they need their own theory? Can computer games be understood in terms of narrative, cinema, or dramatic performance? Or does their use of character, plot, time, space, interactivity, user-initiated sequencing, subject positioning, special effects, and new computer technologies require a new theory of computer games? Proposals for presentations are invited that address these and other questions related to the theorization of computer games. Submit by e-mail or snail mail a full paper or 500 word abstract plus a short bio and CV by December 15 to: Andrew Mactavish McMaster University School of the Arts 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario CANADA L8S 4M2 mactavis@mcmaster.ca From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'02 Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:59:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 511 (511) [deleted quotation] ACL'02 Preliminary Call For Papers 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 7 - 12 July, 2002 Philadelphia, PA, USA http://www.acl02.org General Conference Chair: Pierre Isabelle (XRCE Grenoble, France) Program Co-Chairs: Eugene Charniak (Brown University, USA) Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Canada) Local Organization Chair: Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 40th Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the North American Chapter of the ACL. 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, question answering, and information extraction; language-oriented machine learning; 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: Two PhD positions at ILLC Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:59:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 512 (512) [deleted quotation] The institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, invites applications for two 4-year Ph.D. positions. Vacancy number: 15146 Within the section Logic and Computer Science (ILLC) of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the Universiteit van Amsterdam two 4-year Ph.D. research positions are available in a project on imperfect information games recently granted by the Dutch National Science foundation NWO. Project description ------------ The project aims at the design of a coherent semantic and computational theory for the treatment of games of imperfect information. For games of perfect information there exist well understood representations, analysis methods and complexity analyses for various tasks like determining winners and deriving optimal strategies, but these techniques break down for games of imperfect information. This area represents, aside from a few scattered results, a largely unexplored area in logic and computation theory. At the same time the recent interest in games within computer science and logic to a large extent involves games of imperfect information, as exemplified by agency theory, e-commerce and artificial intelligence. The two Ph.D. researchers should work in tandem on the various problem areas involved in the design of a coherent theory for imperfect information games. One student will concentrate on logic and semantic aspects: modelling target applications, characteristic properties, structural operations and logical languages. The second student will focus on computational and complexity aspects like structure and compositionality, relative succinctness between description formats, process theory and complexity analysis of various decision problems. The project is supervised by dr. Peter van Emde Boas and prof. dr. Johan van Benthem. Candidates will be asked to assist with courses related to their research areas. The salary will range from 3159 Guilders (during the first year) to 4511 Guilders (during the fourth year), gross per month. Knowledge of Dutch is not a prerequisite, and candidates can be of any nationality. Environment ------------ ILLC is an interdisciplinary institute between the Faculties of Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, focussing on the study of Information in Logic, Computer Science, and Language. For further information, see the homepage http://www.illc.uva.nl Requirements ------------ We are looking for applicants with a Master=92s degree (preferrably in mathematics, computer science or artificial intelligence) and a strong background in logic or theoretical computer science. Applicants have skills in semantic and/or algorithmic analysis, and are willing to learn the additional skills needed in a project like this, including a deeper acquaintance with game theory. Enquiries ------- For information and applications please contact Peter van Emde Boas at peter@science.uva.nl, or telephone +31 20 525 6065 between October 21 and October 30 2001. A more detailed project description is available upon request. Applications ------------ Applicants should submit a full resume including a statement of research interests, and the names and email addresses of at least three references. Applications, including the vacancy number, should be sent by ordinary mail=20 before November 5th to: Mrs A. Craje Personnel Office =96 Faculty of Science Valckenierstraat 65 1018 XE Amsterdam From: helmut.bonheim@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: 15.313 language, habit and computation Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:01:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 513 (513) Dear Willard McCarty, I work in an institute that has linguists in it, and over the decades we have remained on speaking terms. I think that they might offer a clear answer to your question about whether food might be eager to be eaten, in that "eager" is marked as a potential quality of the animal world (including man) and (despite Shakespeares "eager and a nipping air" in "Hamlet"). I know nothing about computers, except that I use all three of mine at different times of the day, but surely the very definition of "eager" would include a marker that shows the adjective normally to have an association with sentient beings (that is part of the "model" that each part of speech can be considered to be), so that food -- being hardly sentient, even if it is derived from an animal -- is barred from eagerness, except in a poetic or dadaist context. A while back I had a student to whom I showed an earlier message of yours, which also had a suggestion of model-reference in it, and he wrote quite a nice poem in a creative-writing course on that basis. If I could remember who it was, I would send you a copy, for in poetry, it is of course fashionable to make an impression by means of rule-breaking. Yours, Helmut Bonheim Univ. of Cologne From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.313 language, habit and computation Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:01:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 514 (514) Dear W. Seeing the crescent moon.... an observation grown metphorical (to write "waxing or wanning" would be conceit) in the context of a missive about rules, habits and language. a bit of copy and past / citation habit: AUTHOR: Black, Max, 1909- TITLE: Models and metaphors ; studies in language and philosophy. PUBLISHED: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1962 [i.e. 1963] You seem to be juggling three activities (plus communication about the activities), each with their own set of pragmatics to illuminate (moonlight?) perceptual phenomenon with different ratios of the values new/old or novel/familiar. Sorry for the highly mediated stacking of levels here but the pair action/language gets recursive when we consider speech acts. Rules formation has an impact on rule following. What does it mean to formulate a rule? The three activities I counted: the observation of routines, the following of routines and the communication about observations and the the following of routines. There may be more (I have a habit of distinguishing one set of three fingers raised as a "w" and a set of three others raised as a "3" -- four fingers do not give rise to the same sign play in ASL: a physical habit with computational and cognitive dressing (ever notice the three peaks on the letter W? The letter F seem downright wobbly in comparison. (Johanna Drucker _The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination))). Is the question to what degree is interaction with computers a language game that shifts the degree of novelty ascribed to the activity of interacting with computers? Is this the obverse of the rules for creativity and guidelines for imagination question? The crescent must have been in the shape of a question mark...a parenthesis closing ( ) out of habit-breaking habit ( F, plays with forks L, with broken tines W, plays with mirrors M, reflecting mountains Some folks play with graphic software and typography, other folks play with semanitc applications and typology, some folks play poet )( with or without an electronic device )( -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sat. Oct. 13, 2001 2:40PM Subject: Re: 15.313 language, habit and computation Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:02:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 515 (515) WM has a fascinating question and comment(s) here. I think that WM's remarking and observing the above things in the morning may be an important fact, because the more conscious and/or attentive we are to ourselves in respect to our mental lives and to our environments, the more I think we become rule-bound rather than habit-bound in the intuitive senses. I am not sure that consciousness toward our physical or *materialistic* lives removes us from habit - I can visualize many scenarios in which it does the reverse. We may well be facing the eternal anomaly or paradox of materialism which has led many a philosopher to abandon materialism altogether (Mahatma Gandhi, Socrates, Plato, etc. for starters). The Golden Mean of Ancient Greece and Rome, *moderate materialism*, is logically and empirically a rather poor solution to the anomaly. It is true that some relativity operates here. We can describe rule-bound behavior as largely habitual when we have followed such behavior in the sufficiently long term, and even habitual behavior has some *unusual rules* which tend to resemble the behaviors of apes and *lower dinizens* (except for intuition - my cats are very psychic). It is commonly assumed that fuzzy multivalued logicians are interested in such *unusual rules*, and I know at least one U.S. government funded program which a major Western USA University attempted to research wholeheartedly into such *unusual rules* (the USA, however, may have a conflict of interest in this respect). Vienna and the Czech Republic and Great Britain do much in this respect. Since my life is spent in such research, I must tell members of Humanist that apelike behavior and the thinking of *lower dinizens* (except ones like my psychic cats) do not interest me at all - I have had enough of apes to last me a lifetime. Fuzzy and/or multivalued logics are much more interesting than *idiotic thinking*, and in fact generalize ordinary logics and appear to underlie some of the most remarkable properties of the physical universe (not to mention the conceptual universe). Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever gone beyond Lord Francis Bacon in understanding the disadvantages of habit. The Idols of the Tribe, the Idols of the Marketplace, and all the other Idols, would on a Platonic-Socratic planet lead immediately to a Nobel Prize. On the Earth, they lead to academic courses taken by few, remembered by less even in the sciences and humanities and even on the highest professional levels. It is indeed morning, WM. It is indeed the morning of humanity. Osher Doctorow From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Visions of the Future for museums, libraries & archives? Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:03:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 516 (516) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 15, 2001 Visions of the Future? If you know of any examples of particularly forward-looking museums, libraries and archives, or projects within them that are able to project key elements of the future, then contact Henrietta Hopkins at the UK's Resource, which is compiling a record of such intimations of our future. For further information on Resource, see http://www.resource.gov.uk David Green ===================================================================== [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Ufficio Stampa FOLDOP" Subject: Request of collaboration Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:07:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 517 (517) The following is a request for collaboration in an online philosophical dictionary but serves at the same time as an announcement for its existence, at <http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/>. --WM [deleted quotation] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Katherine Hayles and the relations between literature & Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:57:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 518 (518) science dear humanist scholars, Hello --I thought, this might interest you -- N. Katherine Hayles. "Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media" N. Katherine Hayles writes and teaches on the relations between literature and science in the twentieth century (soon to include the twenty-first century). She is currently at work on two books about electronic literature. The first, entitled Linking Bodies: Hypertext Fiction in Print and New Media, explores hypertext as a literary form and discusses its implications for the media-specific practices of print and computer technology. The second, Coding the Signifier, argues that current models of signification have embedded into their theoretical frameworks presuppositions that are actually about signifiers as they appear on the printed page rather than signifiers in general. Based on several case studies, this book offers new ways for thinking about signification in electronic environments. Her other books include How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999), Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science (1991), and Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (1990). Hayles has won numerous awards for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy. She has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Rochester, the Medal of Honor from the University of Helsinki, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and has won two Distinguished Teaching Awards at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she is a Professor of English. Thanks, I hope researchers in the field of literary criticism would be going to take benefits from my posting. Best Regards, Arun Tripathi aka Posthuman :) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: A web symposium on texts and technology Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:58:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 519 (519) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, [This is a worth "web symposium on the impact of new information and communication technologies on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge." I would like to recommend each member of the Humanist List to participate in the event. Thank you and best.-Arun] ======================================================================== text-e: Screens and networks: towards a new relationship with the written word (October 2001-March 2002) A virtual symposium on the Web, at www.text-e.org Organized by the Bibliothque publique dinformation (BPI) - Centre Pompidou, the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) and EURO-EDU in association with GiantChair.com Sponsored by UNESCO New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) are transforming our world as radically as did the invention of the printing press. How will this affect the written word and its uses in society? There may be no immediate answers to these questions, but we can -and should- investigate the issues involved. In this context, the Bibliothque publique dinformation (BPI), the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS and EHESS), the non-profit organization EURO-EDU and GiantChair, have decided to set up a virtual symposium in French, Italian and English. Launched on October 15th, 2001, it will focus on the impact of NITC on our relationship with information and the written word. This international symposium should contribute to enriching current debates about the emergence of hybrid tools of communication (e-books, Internet and e-mail) and the social changes that accompany them. The contributors papers will be published directly on the symposiums host site, www.text-e.org and will be accessible from the BPIs main site (www.bpi.fr). It will involve theorists and other professionals affected by changes in their professional and personal lives brought about by e-mail and the Internet, and it will examine the impact of these technologies on reading, journalism, scholarship, libraries, archives, literature and so on. The symposium will provide participants with a forum for the discussion of all points of view. Through this program, we aim at once to engage in a collective research project, to enact the new relationship to the written word and to stage a public event using Web-based communication. The result will be published in book as well as in electronic format. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Archiving September 11, 2001 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:04:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 520 (520) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 16, 2001 Archiving September 11, 2001 http://September11.archive.org * * * How the Net Is Documenting a Watershed Moment New York Times, October 15, 2001 By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/arts/15ARTS.html?ex=1004190812&ei=1&en=2ae42345ae5682d6 [deleted quotation] -- ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 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By Robert C. Heterick http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_heterick_4.html Perfect Choice Information age consumers are more interested in perfect choice than perfect competition. They want a wide product selection, choice in how they buy, and customization of products and services to fit their preferences. By Richard T. Watson http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/r_watson_2.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted 2001 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org. For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/> To unsubscribe from the ACM Ubiquity Notification Service: please send an email to LISTSERV@ACM.ORG with the following message: "SIGNOFF UBIQUITY" (no quotes). You may also unsubscribe online, at <https://gosling.acm.org/ubiquity/> . This method allows you to unsubscribe if the address you are subscribed with is a forwarding alias. An email confirming your removal will be sent to you by email. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Collectors, Collections and Scholarly Culture Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:08:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 522 (522) Dear Colleagues: As I've probably said repeatedly and within living memory, publications of the American Council of Learned Societies are always worth the read. The latest in the Occasional Papers series, Collectors, Collections and Scholarly Culture, is no exception. It has three essays, (1) Anthony Grafton , Rare Book Collections in the Age of the Library Without Walls; (2) Deanna Marcum, The Library and the Scholar: A New Imperative for Partnership; (3) Jean Strouse, The Collector J. Pierpont Morgan. The publication is online, at <http://www.acls.org/op48-1.htm>. 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: funding, big science and scholarship Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:08:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 523 (523) Humanists will likely be interested in an article in the latest London Review of Books, Sheven Shapin, "Guests in the President's House", at <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n20/shap2320.htm>. This is a review of Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel Greenberg, on the American love-affair with science. Shapin writes, "...like very many scientists, [Greenberg] is fiercely critical of many aspects of current financial, political and ethical arrangements bearing on the conduct of American science, arrangements which, if unchecked, have the capacity to undermine the integrity and authority of scientific knowledge.... The American scientific community has been lucky to have a critic who believes enough in the traditional 'right values of science' to worry that in its 'single-minded pursuit of more money' it is beginning to go 'down the path to becoming a toady of corporate power'.... "The idea that Government support for science depends on public understanding of scientific knowledge is not one that Greenberg can take seriously: 'the unfortunate, non-democratic truth is that science in the United States, and other nations, too, prospers in a state of disengagement from public understanding of the substance of science.' .... Greenberg suspects that what the 'public understanders' are really interested in increasing is not lay comprehension but lay wonder - a view shared by the occasional critical scientist. So the distinguished cancer researcher Maxine Singer warned in 1996 that 'public information about science is now, to a large extent, in the hands of institutional public-relations departments.' Advancing the cause of your next grant is not the same thing as enhancing public understanding: 'There is too much hype,' Singer said. 'Every gene that is discovered will lead to a cure for cancer.... "Finally, as scientific expertise is increasingly and almost invisibly integrated into a range of political and economic institutions, the independence of that expertise becomes problematic. This is part of what Greenberg means by 'ethical erosion'. Burned by Nixon's hostility, and by the consequences of an earlier foray into electoral politics when they organised publicly against Barry Goldwater, leaders of American science learned the costs of acquiring a political appearance. Presidential science advisers shifted from seeing themselves as free-acting representatives of the scientific community - 'speaking truth to power' - towards acknowledging their role as 'guests in the President's house', doing the bidding of whatever Administration they happened to serve, enlisting the scientific advice the President required to achieve whatever ends were agreed by prior political decision. Their playing the political game meant the effective muting of an independent voice and the neutering of a tradition of independent political activism going back to the postwar years, when large numbers of atomic scientists publicly opposed the arms race, arguing for international control of nuclear weapons, and (successfully) urging a test-ban. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was the major platform for scientific opposition to the arms race, has seen its circulation shrink in recent years from 21,000 to 7000. As Greenberg sees it, everywhere in modern America, cash has compromised conscience. If you want to know the career of morality in contemporary science, just follow the money." Not that in the humanities we have to worry about the consequences of being invited to the President's house or to Number 10 Downing Street. But perhaps the real danger is not in the amount so much as in the desire for funding and the compromises that follow from the attempt to be successful. Big Humanities may be a piker (OED, 3) in comparison to Big Science, but I cannot help feeling uneasy at what happens to the scholarship in a well funded project sold on its merits to those who care nothing for scholarship. 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: John Unsworth Subject: electronic imprint Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:00:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 524 (524) October 22, 2001 UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA APPOINTS MANAGER FOR NEW ELECTRONIC IMPRINT The University Press of Virginia has announced the appointment of Mick Gusinde-Duffy, an editor with wide-ranging experience in print and Internet publishing, to head its new electronic publishing program. The program, supported by a $635,000 grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a matching amount from the University of Virginia, will create the first electronic imprint devoted exclusively to publishing original, peer-reviewed digital scholarship in the humanities. Gusinde-Duffy, formerly director of publishing at netLibrary, a startup Internet business in Boulder, Colo., "brings a wealth of accomplishments and experience as an editor and manager," said Penelope Kaiserlian, director of the Virginia Press. "We look forward to having him join the press Nov. 1 and get the electronic imprint off to a running start. We have already learned of a number of innovative projects that might be considered for publication." The new electronic enterprise will publish large-scale scholarly projects that involve computerized humanities research and are created in digital format, not simply electronic versions of print books. Such digital projects exceed the capabilities of print and are able to include full archives of original source material and images in multimedia formats, offering further avenues of research. A well known example is the award-winning "Valley of the Shadow" Civil War history project directed by U.Va. historian and Arts and Sciences dean Edward L. Ayers and recently published on digital disks by W.W. Norton. In addition to netLibrary, Gusinde-Duffy has worked as an associate acquisitions editor at Westview Press in Boulder, an acquisitions editor at the University of Utah Press and an acquisitions manager at 29th Street Press in Loveland, Colo. He holds an M.A. in English, with a concentration in publication management, from Colorado State University and a B.A. in humanities and American Studies from Middlesex Polytechnic in London. John Unsworth, director of U.Va.'s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and chair of the search committee that recommended Gusinde-Duffy, said that "he will be a great addition to the humanities computing community at the University. The active involvement of the University Press in that community will bring an important new perspective to bear on the digital humanities M.A. program and on the digital library programs here." Consulting with experts from the Darden graduate business school to develop the best business and cost-recovery models for the new enterprise, the press will aim to publish its first electronic work by spring 2003, Kaiserlian said. The press expects to publish several electronic projects a year in American history, American and British literature, archaeology and architecture, all areas it excels in. The electronic publications could be made available either on the Web or digital disks, or both, and could be in conjunction with a print book. Gusinde-Duffy said he will look nationally and internationally for pioneering digital work that emphasizes both creative scholarship and innovative technology. Each project published will be approved by the press's editorial board and will receive extensive peer review just as print publications do. "With the wonderful technology resources within the University, this program offers the opportunity to explore the potential of electronic publishing more fully," Gusinde-Duffy said. "We will learn as we go. The goal is to bring to digital scholarship the imprimatur of quality that a university press represents." ### For additional information, Penelope Kaiserlian and Michael Gusinde-Duffy may be reached at (434) 924-3468 and John Unsworth at (434) 924-3137. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Amazon.com Enables Online Browsing Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:01:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 525 (525) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 17, 2001 Amazon.com Enables Online Browsing http://link.ixs1.net/s/link/click?rc=al&rti=l54986&si=919192124 http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011010/100089_1.html [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Albert Borgmann and "Technology and the Character of Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:03:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 526 (526) Contemporary Life" Dear Humanist scholars, "How can one experience onself as an integral part of nature - not at a conceptual level, but as an actual experience." "How have we lost the experience of our connection with nature." I would encourage every member interested in these questions to get a copy of Albert Borgmann's book "Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry" It's published by University of Chicago Press in paperback. Borgmann's thesis is that as we increasingly take up with the world through our work, leisure activities and family time, in a technological manner, our capacities as human beings atrophy and our experiences of the world are diminished. His analysis is much richer and insightful than I can convey. He welcomes the expansion of technologies that ease human suffering, eradicate disease and lift the drudgery of skillless burdensome labor from workers. He's also interested in technology that sharpens human experiences of the world such as new materials for musical instruments. There's no list of appropriate or inappropriate technologies. Instead, he arms the reader with a set of concepts that give one the eyes to see what is gained and what is lost when one opts to jog on a treadmill in one's living room rather than being a moving body through a landscape; reckoning with the wind, the inclines; the riches and challenges associated with the particular season. Comments, thoughts and criticisms are appreciated!! Thank you! Best Regards Arun Tripathi -- From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: INTERVIEW with Prof. Don Ihde in relation to Matrix Project Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:04:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 527 (527) Dear Humanist Scholars, This is the interview with Don Ihde, November 14, 2000 in relation to Matrix Project. Participants: Don Ihde, Evan Selinger, Srikanth Mallavarapu, Jari Joergensen, Robb Eason, Nikos Plevris, and Jeremy W. Hubbell. OPENING EXCERPT: ----------------- ES: Don, you have a background in Continental philosophy; but if one does a quick survey of works being published in Continental philosophy today, one finds very little on either the topics of science or technology. Even if one finds treatments of these issues, they are often very dystopian, presupposing science, technology, and their advancements are somehow encroaching on the lifeworld, damaging more productive forms of living and styles of existence. Why do think that is the case and how is it that you, coming out of a Continental background, seem to be taking a different path? DI: I think that you are right about it largely or dominantly being the case. There are some people of course who do philosophy of technology out of Continental backgrounds. I suppose the two most prominent would be Andy Feenberg and Albert Borgmann. Andy comes out of critical theory. Albert comes out of a Heideggerian background. I think part of it has to do with a very bad habit. In my estimation this bad habit of Continental philosophy tends to first of all narrowly select some standard set of godfathers, or people who are widely known, and vertically cite them. For example, when it comes to technology, Heidegger and Marcuse are probably still the people who are most talked about in the field. It used to be a wider set, but other people have sort of dropped off. Both of these people tend to be highly dystopian. On the other hand, as you know, the Dutch have been reading American philosophers of technology. They read us as being at least less dystopian than the European forbearers. My own take is that the more I study particulars kinds of technologies, the more dissatisfied I am with traditions that would make vast generalizations about technology, particularly on a dystopian basis. I think technologies can do very bad things; but they can also do very good things. To read the complete interview with Professor Don Ihde, please point your browser to http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/research/ihde_2.html Don Ihde is distinguished professor in the Department of Philosophy, and is also affiliated with the history of science and women's studies programs, at SUNY, Stony Brook. His research tnterests develop around both philosophy of science and technology, with special recent interests in imaging technologies. In addition, work on intercultutral perception and plural cultural patterns form part of the research interest. Comments are appreciated from the members! Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Useful articles & books by Don Ihde, Philosophy, SUNY Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:04:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 528 (528) Stony Brook Dear Humanist scholars, HELLO everyone, it is an exquisite hono(u)r for me to introduce the works of --Don Ihde, who is distinguished professor in the Department of Philosophy, and is also affiliated with the history of science and women's studies programs, at SUNY, Stony Brook. His research tnterests develop around both philosophy of science and technology, with special recent interests in imaging technologies. In addition, work on intercultutral perception and plural cultural patterns form part of the research interest. And, with this message worth sharing a quote--> Technology can no longer be taken for granted. Its impact on and implications for the social, ethical, political, and cultural dimensions of our world must be considered and addressed. --DON IHDE (Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction) In my view --Professor Don Ihde is a pleasure to read and explore. Don Ihde, who can be thought of as one of the 'founding fathers' of the growing field of 'technoscience'. Currently, I am doing research on Don Ihde and exploring his art of philosophizing.. Don Ihde had also written a book on philosophy of technology before Bad Homburg, Technics and Praxis: A Philosophy of Technology (1979), but his case differs from that of Carpenter in two respects: he has written several more books, and he is the editor of a philosophy of technology book series published by Indiana University Press. The first book published in that series, Larry Hickman's John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology (1990), shows that Ihde was not interested, in the series, in pushing his own phenomenological approach to philosophy of technology, but is open to a variety of approaches. Ihde's own approach does show up in his later books, Existential Technics (1983), Consequences of Phenomenology (1986), and Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth (1990),even in his Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction (1993), though that textbook does present other views. In general, one can say that Ihde's development is a matter of greater depth and clarity in his phenomenological analysis, though Technology and the Lifeworld gives more than a passing nod to the centrality of environmental concerns. [FROM : ADVANCES IN PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v4_n1html/DURBIN.html ] Don Ihde (1979, 1983, 1990, 1993), who is perhaps next only to Mitcham - and possibly Albert Borgmann, to be mentioned in a moment -, has been widely praised by SPT members. His appearances at SPT meetings are only a tiny fraction of the appearances Ihde makes and the talks he gives all over the world. About Ihde, Mitcham says: "[He] not only wrote the first monograph on philosophy of technology in English, he has also produced the most extensive corpus devoted to the subject and has established a book series devoted to philosophy of technology" (1994, 78). On the other hand, Mitcham also raises questions about Ihde: "In light of the importance he gives to technology in human experience, his strong sympathies with pragmatism, and his criticisms of the critics of technology, ...it is not clear to what extent his phenomenological philosophy of technology is truly other than a sophisticated and subtle engineering philosophy of technology" - as opposed to the "humanities philosophy of technology" that Mitcham favors. [FROM: SPT AT THE END OF A QUARTER CENTURY: WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED? Paul T. Durbin University of Delaware http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v5n2/durbin.html ] From a hermeneutical perspective, Ihde characterizes the "existential import" of technologies in terms of "world reflexivity," which he describes as follows: "Humans interpret their world in terms of some focused interpretation. . . . But because humans are also existentially and necessarily related to what they perceive as their world, they 'bring it close' so that ultimately they also interpret themselves in terms of their world" (Ihde, 1979, p. 64). As a consequence of world reflexivity,a notion that Ihde later expands (Ihde, 1983) ,and because computing technology becomes prominent in many activities, humans tend to interpret themselves in terms of this technology, leading to notions such as "the brain is a computer," and "human intelligence can be simulated by computing machines." Thus, a noticeable effect of this technology is that through processes of self-interpretation and world-reflexivity it affects the views that human users of technology have of themselves and of the world. [FROM: EXPERIENCING THE WORLD THROUGH INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Agustin A. Araya, San Jose State University http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v3n2/ARAYA.html ] Some useful essays authored by Prof. Don Ihde ----------------------------------------------- "How Could We Ever Believe Science is not Political?" http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/research/ihde_1.html "If Phenomenology is an Albatross, is Postphenomenology Possible?" http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/research/ihde_3.html "Whole Earth Measurements" http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/research/ihde_4.html "Why Not Science Critics?" http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/research/ihde_5.html "Expanding Hermeneutics" http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/research/ihde_6.html PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY, 1975-1995 Don Ihde, State University of New York at Stony Brook http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v1n1n2/ihde.html Thesis of Don Ihde is discussed in the below abstract -------------------------------------------------------- Can we say something more about the relation that constitutes technology? Perhaps we can use some ideas of the American philosopher of technology, Don Ihde, who has read Martin Heidegger as a scholar of phenomenology and who is also under the influence of pragmatism (Ihde, 1979 and 1983). In his book, Technology and the Lifeworld (1990), he focuses on human-technology relations and the cultural embeddedness of technologies. Following a relativistic ontology he draws a distinction between the "direct bodily and perceptual experiences of others and the immediate environment" and "technologically mediated experiences" (Ihde, 1990, pp. 15 ff.). And he suggestsas I proposed abovethat we look for different degrees of mediation in our technologically textured world. The position that conceives of technology as instruments to transform something can be blamed as a Cartesian and subjectivist bias. It is supposed that a self or a subject can use a thing as an instrument to effect something in the outer world. But is it reasonable to speak of a subject, if the technological instruments change the status of subjectivity? Who is the subject in an atomic plant? The clear-cut limits between subject and object become disturbed. "Technics is a symbiosis of artifact and user within a human action" (Ihde, 1990, p. 73). The material relation between humans and the world should be conceived as a symbiotic and mediated relation instead of as a divided and instrumental one. Ihde, Don. 1979. Technics and Praxis: A Philosophy of Technology . Boston: Reidel. Ihde, Don. 1983. Existential Technics . Albany: State University of New York Press. Ihde, Don. 1990. Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [FROM: RELATIONS THAT CONSTITUTE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE: TOWARD A SOCIAL PRAGMATIC THEORY OF TECHNICIZATION Werner Rammert, Free University, Berlin http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v4_n3html/RAMMERT.html ] FOLLOWING ARE SEVERAL BOOKS WRITTEN BY DON IHDE --WHICH IS USEFUL FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS STUDYING THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY; ROLE BODY IN TECHNOLOGY AND SEVERAL ISSUES OF PHENOMENOLOGY----> 1. Postphenomenology : Essays in the Postmodern Context (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Don Ihde, et al (Paperback - August 1995) 2. Expanding Hermeneutics : Visualism in Science (Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy.) by Don Ihde (Paperback - January 1999) 3. Instrumental Realism : Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology (The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology) by Don Ihde (Editor) (Paperback - May 1991) 4. Experimental Phenomenology : An Introduction by Don Ihde (Paperback - September 1986) 5. Bodies in Technology (Electronic Mediations, V. 5) by Don Ihde (Paperback - January 2002) 6. Philosophy of Technology : An Introduction (Paragon Issues in Philosophy) by Don Ihde (Paperback - January 1993) 7. Technology and the Lifeworld : From Garden to Earth (Indiana Series in Philosophy of Technology) by Don Ihde (Paperback - May 1990) 8. Descriptions (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, No 11) by Don Ihde, Hugh J. Silverman (Paperback - November 1985) 9. Experimental Phenemenology by Don Ihde 10. Consequences of Phenomenology by Don Ihde Expanding Hermeneutics" by Don Ihde ((Excerpt)) The late twentieth century seems marked by a deep intellectual discomfort about the ways in which Western thought generally has framed its ways of understanding the World. One symptom of this dis-ease revolves around the current philosophical debates which see either a dramatic end to, or a winding down from 'modernity.' Are we 'postmodern'? 'a-modern'? or, were we, as Bruno Latour claims, never modern to begin with? In this contribution to the closing of the first "Hermeneutics and Science" meeting, I shall be using this context to re-interpret both hermeneutics and science... Details of the book "Instrumental Realism" written by Don Ihde (Publication date: 1991, 174 pages, Indiana Press) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The book discusses --the Interface between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology "Ihde is perhaps uniquely situated to provide authoritative accounts of such diverse philosophical traditions as those involved in current explorations of the technology of scientific instruments. . . . Ihde's book breaks new ground and . . . makes an important debate accessible." ----Robert Ackermann---- Instrumental Realism has three principal aims: to advocate a "praxis-perception" approach to the philosophy of science; to explore ways in which such an approach offers a mutually illuminating overlap with a philosophy of technology; and to examine comparatively and critically the work of some who advocate an "instrumental realist" approach to the philosophy of science. Details about the book, "EXPERIMENTAL PHENOMENOLOGY -An Introduction" written by Don Ihde (155 pages, June 1986, State University of New York Press) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Experimental Phenomenology has already been lauded for the ease with which its author explains and demonstrates the kinds of consciousness by which we come to know the structure of objects and the struct ure of consciousness itself. The format of the book follows the progression of a number of thought experiments which mark out the procedures and directions of phenomenological inquiry. Making use of examples of familiar optical illusions and multi-stable d rawings, Professor Ihde illustrates by way of careful and disciplined step-by-step analyses, how some of the main methodological procedures and epistemological concepts of phenomenology assume concrete relevance. Such formidable fare as epoche, noetic and noematic analysis, apodicticity, adequacy, sedimentation, imaginative variation, field, and fringe are rendered into the currency of familiar examples from the everyday world. "...the unencumbered style of the book and prolific use of concrete examples makes the content accessible both to the beginning student of philosophy and to the intelligent layman." -- Review of Metaphysics "An important and much needed contribution to the field of phenomenological philosophy." -- Choice Details about the book, "EXISTENTIAL TECHNICS" written by Don Ihde (A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy, Robert C. Neville, editor, 190 pages June 1983 , State University of New York Press) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- With Existential Technics, Don Ihde advances his reflections on the role technology plays in human life. Heretofore primarily the province of Continental thinkers, philosophy of technology is a growing preoccupation of Nort h American philosophers. This collection of essays is a philosophical reflection on and critique of human experience from a clearly American perspective guided by phenomenological analysis. This book is divided into three parts. The first, technics, deals with human interaction with technology and its existential effects. The remaining sections on perception and interpretation examine the imaginative use of phenomenology in the visual and auditory realms of art, music, and intercultural perceptions, and are followed by discussions of contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction theory, particularly in the thought of Heidegger and Derrida. If any member/scholar would like to know more on the research of "philosophy of technology" or if any member interested in the philosophy of Don Ihde --then please contact Professor Don Ihde at or people can also send me their e-mail message at Comments and criticisms are always appreciated! Thank you! Enjoy the Embodiment! Warmest regards, Arun Tripathi From: Prof I Butterworth Subject: Workshop on 'Virtuality: the social impacts of virtual Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 08:03:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 529 (529) information' Some time ago the Academia Europaea announced a small targeted workshop on 'Virtuality: the social impacts of virtual information'. I confirm that the workshop will be taking at place at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice ( see http://www.istitutoveneto.it) 16th,17th and 18th November 2001. Participation is by invitation only - but there are a very small number of places still available. Contact should be made by e-mail to the Executive Secretary of the Academia Europaea at: acadeuro@compuserve.com The workshop will start at 14.30 on Friday 16th November and end at lunch time on Sunday 18th November. We are able to provide free hotel accommodation for the two nights of 16-17th and 17-18th and meals at the workshop, but unfortunately our budget will not stretch to paying for air or train fares. We have block booked hotel accommodation. It is intended that the workshop will operate primarily through 'brainstorming' round tables of some 10 people, reporting back to plenary meetings of the full workshop. In this way all participants will be expected to contribute. Each roundtable will be led by a facilitator and a rapporteur will record discussion. Given below is a draft programme with suggestions for the various issues that the Workshop might address. It is unlikely that we can discuss all of them; subjects on which to concentrate will depend on the final list of participants. The announced programme is given below - but we will now obviously also address the role of communications in abetting or fighting terrorism, the balance between law enforcement and free speech and related issues. Draft Programme Friday 16th November 2 p.m. Registration 2.30 Welcome 2.45 Introduction and opening presentation 3.15 First Breakout Session: e-Commerce A.1 Relation of e-commerce to the 'old economy' New businesses and new ways of doing business Lessons from the first dot.coms Business Models Hidden and real costs of e-commerce e-money. Micro-payments. A.2 Perceptions: The Public, Business and Financial Institutions The dangers of 'hype' and of 'complacency' Security in connection with e-commerce. Electronic crime. A.3 The arrival of new service providers, dangers and opportunities: Amazon vs. bookstores Commercial e-universitie 5.00 First Plenary and Agreed Recommendations Dinner Saturday 17th November 9.30 a.m. Introduction 9.45 Second Breakout Session: Economic Issues B.1 Fundamental shifts in economic thinking. How to account knowledge and other intangible assets. ICT is changing boundaries between 'public' and 'private' Open access to formerly closed areas. Virtual technologies seem to be open to abuse to monopolies B. 2 The Quality of virtual material. Standards and who should maintain them. The role of government, academia, media B.3 The skills gap in ICT in Europe Professional ICT workers. Import and export of skilled ICT workers. Lack of ICT skills and understanding in commerce/industry Absence of ICT skills in the general public Need for user-friendly ICT 1. Break 11.30 Second Plenary and Agreed Recommendations 13.00 Lunch 1. Introduction 15.00 Third Breakout Session : Social Impacts C1. The digital divide between social groups The digital divide between regions and countries C2. The dangers (and merits) of communication technologies disturbing social norms Does greater use of the virtual de-humanise social relations? The use of virtuality to enrich the lives of the lonely, isolated or disadvantaged. Use of ICT for community building. e-Government C3. How do we deal with the fact that electronic communications link societies with very different beliefs or norms? Is such linking a good thing or disorientating? The technology can support illegal or anti-social material but can be used to suppress such material. Censorship and Freedom of Speech. The role of national courts and international agreements in controlling global communications 16.30 Break 17.00 Third Plenary and Agreed Recommendations Sunday 18th November 9.30 Introduction 9.45 Fourth Breakout Session: Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy of Virtuality D1. The sociology and psychology of information overflow Have we too much information? How many e-mail messages can we process per day? How many hours surfing? Hundreds of TV channels: Blessing or curse? Improved choice or worsening content? D2. Philosophical issues The distinctions between virtuality and reality Can virtuality act as experimental philosophy The dangers when children and adults have difficulty of distinguishing between the virtul and the real. D3. Ethical issues Privacy. Use of ICT to track a persons's interests and beliefs. Use of such information for commercial use. Availability of medical information about individuals and groups. Electronic gambling. Electronic and networked games which simulate, and possibly stimulate, violent situations. Pornography. (70% of e-commerce ?) Where are the boundaries? 11.15 Break 11. 45 Fourth Plenary and Agreed Recommendations 1. Final Workshop Synthesis 13.00 Workshop ends and lunch =============================================== Professor Ian Butterworth CBE FRS Vice-President Academia Europaea Senior Research Fellow The Blackett Laboratory Imperial College Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BW UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7525 Fax: +44 (0)20 7823 8830 E-Mail: i.butterworth@ic.ac.uk ________________________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 530 (530) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 531 (531) [deleted quotation] Project [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 532 (532) [deleted quotation] From: W Schipper Subject: Preventing copies from CD-ROM Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 06:23:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 533 (533) I want to include a CD with images from a manuscript to accompany a study of the MS, but the library is reluctant to give permission unless I can find some way to prevent images from being copied from the CD, either by printing or saving them to disk. One of my colleagues here suggested ebook, by Adobe, but I cannot find much information about it, other than that it is free to download and is used to read electronic books. I'm assuming that Adobe also sells software that allows one to format materials so that they are protected. As far as I can tell, HTML code in general does not allow this kind of protection. Perhaps a javascript or stylesheets could, but I haven't really explored that yet. Can someone enlighten me or point me in another direction if I'm going down a garden path with Adobe? Thank you. Bill -- Dr. W. Schipper Email: schipper@mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminars 2001-2 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 06:36:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 534 (534) Seminar in Humanities Computing King's College London 2001-2 <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/01-02/> The following talks are scheduled for our Seminar this academic year: 24/10 Vika Zafrin, "Medi[um|a] Mediate the Medieval: The Decameron Web and RolandHT at Brown University" 20/11 Peter Shillingsburg, "Manuscript, Book, and Text: Understanding and a Tolerance for Noise" 7/12 Amy Smith, "The third millennium museum catalogue" 10/12 Ray Siemens, "Electronic Publishing and its Academic Credibility" 25/1 Hazel Gardiner and Harold Short, "The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland" 20/2 Domenico Fiormonte, "The problem of digital philology in between theoretical and political agendas" In addition we are holding a day-long colloquium, "Visualisation in the Humanities", on 8 March. Details of this event will be circulated shortly. All within reach of London are most welcome. Details of time, place and topic are on the Web as above. 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: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 06:24:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 535 (535) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 33, Week of October 22, 2001 In this issue: View -- What is Software Engineering? The name implies scientific rigor, and opens software engineering to the charge that it is a pseudo-science flying under false colors. By Bill Curran http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/b_curran_1.html Review -- Breaking Down the Digital Walls Two teachers chronicle their personal odyssey in finding a fitting role for technology in education. Review by James F. 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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: AMICO and VAGA sign rights agreement: More contemporary Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:28:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 536 (536) art for The AMICO Library NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 24, 2001 Art Museum Image Consortium Announces: AMICO and VAGA Reach Rights Agreement to Further Expand Contemporary and Modern Art in The AMICO Library (TM) http://www.amico.org/docs/press/pr.011024.VAGA.html [deleted quotation] AMICO Press Release October 24, 2001 AMICO and VAGA Reach Rights Agreement to Further Expand Contemporary and Modern Art in The AMICO Library (TM) AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium, Inc. (AMICO) and the Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. (VAGA) have reached a landmark agreement that will expand the coverage of contemporary and modern art in the leading digital library of works of art available for educational use. In this agreement, VAGA has granted AMICO a non-exclusive, worldwide license to include digital images of copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by VAGA and its affiliated rights societies in The AMICO Library where they can be studied along with multimedia documentation of other works of art in the collections of AMICO member museums. In return, AMICO will make royalty payments to the artists through VAGA. "This is an additional cornerstone in the foundation that AMICO is establishing to make The AMICO Library the educational provider of works of art from the 20th century and beyond in digital form," said Jennifer Trant, Executive Director of AMICO. "AMICO members are delighted to now contribute some of the most recognized works in their collections without the added burden of separate rights clearance,". Ms. Trant continued. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, observed, "as the arts community navigates through the uncertain waters of copyright legislation in a wired world, it is very exciting to have brought two critical constituencies together in service of education: our major modern and contemporary artists and our leading art museums." Robert Panzer, Executive Director of VAGA, also considered the agreement noteworthy. "As a representative and advocate for VAGA artists' rights we must balance needs of access and dissemination with protection and copyright," Mr.Panzer noted. "This agreement between VAGA and AMICO heightens availability of our artists' works for educational purposes, while still ensuring their appropriate use under an educational license agreement; that's definitely a win-win from VAGA's perspective.". AMICO Library subscribers will benefit from this agreement as well. Along with the existing AMICO agreement with the Artists Rights Society (ARS), the AMICO/VAGA agreement expands the depth of resources contained in The AMICO Library without any change in subscription fees. Individual teachers and students won't need to obtain additional copyright clearances, often a time-consuming and uncertain process, when using pivotal contemporary works by artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Robert Motherwell, in their educational projects. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an independent non-profit corporation with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS. Founded in 1997 with 23 Members, the Consortium today is made up of over 30 major museums worldwide. Its an innovative collaboration not seen before in museums that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. AMICO members make annual contributions of multimedia documentation of works in their museums collections. This data is compiled by AMICO and made available as The AMICO Library to universities, colleges, schools, and public libraries via distributors. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library and get further information at http://www.amico.org. About VAGA Founded in 1976, VAGA was the first organization in the U.S. to represent visual artists' copyrights on a collective basis. Its membership includes American artists and estates and also foreign artists and estates through reciprocal agreements with sister organizations worldwide. Membership is open to all visual artists ranging from those just starting out to well-known members of the art community such as, Robert Rauschenberg, Stuart Davis, Robert Motherwell, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Joseph Cornell, Ben Shahn, David Smith, Carlos Mrida, Romare Bearden, James Rosenquist, Alexander Rodchenko, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Thomas Hart Benton, Adolph Gottlieb, Tom Wesselmann, Wayne Thiebaud, Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg, David Alfaro Siqueiros, H.C. Westermann, Grant Wood, Ken Noland, Robert Smithson, and Larry Rivers. Contact Information: AMICO Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: (412) 422 8533 Fax: (412) 422 8594 Email: jtrant@amico.org http://www.amico.org VAGA Robert Panzer Executive Director Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. (VAGA) 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6305 New York, NY 10118 Phone: (212) 736 6666 Fax: (212) 736 6767 E-mail: rpanzer@vagarights.com -- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________ -- ============================================================== 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: Lily Diaz Subject: Culture heritage workshop at NIC2001 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:26:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 537 (537) CULTURAL HERITAGE WORKSHOP, NOVEMBER 3, 2001 IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Title: Digital Communication of Cultural Heritage & International Project Cooperation. When: At the NIC2001 conference from 31. October to 3. November. Where: Bella Center - near Copenhagen airport and the city-centre. --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITATION: We are pleased to invite you to a one-day combined workshop and network session at Bella Center in Copenhagen. The workshop will focus on the topics of: * Interactive digital communication of Cultural and Natural Heritage * International project cooperation SPEAKERS: * Professor Robert Stone <http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/speakers.shtml#stone>http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/speakers.shtml#stone * Dr. Kim H. Veltman <http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/bios/veltman.shtml>http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/bios/veltman.shtml OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP: We hope to pull together first class exponents and key actors from various Nordic and international sectors to explore opportunities to collaborate on research and development in this area. For more information about the workshop, please visit our section in the NIC 2001 conference web site: <http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/work1.shtml>http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/work1.shtml. THEMES AND TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION: * Trends and visions in use of VR and multimedia for exploring Heritage-sites. * Digital Heritage as a turning point for cross-disciplinary communication. * The potential of Digital Heritage in the future Media Picture. * Cooperation and identification of common themes or interests. "The Internet has provided us - the society - with an outstanding opportunity and responsibility (!) to communicate Heritage on a cross-cultural and global scale. How far are we? - what can we do better to achieve a more widespread cross-cultural involvement in our cultural and natural heritage?" WHO WE ARE... A network of professionals and idealists in the arts, humanities and sciences, working in the area of digital Cultural / Natural Heritage, from an arts and humanities perspective. The workshop is organised as part of the Nordic Interactive Conference 2001 (<http://www.nic2001.org>http://www.nic2001.org). The workshop (<http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/work1.shtml>http://www.nordic-interactive.org/nic2001/conference/work1.shtml ) will feature presentations by two leading experts from the industry and academia. Lily Daz Researcher Media Lab University of Art and Design Helsinki/UIAH 135C Hmeentie SF 00560 FINLAND + 358 9 75630 338 + 358 9 75630 555 FAX From: Willard McCarty Subject: unexpected results Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:37:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 538 (538) From time to time when I am looking on the Web for the source of a specific sequence of words, I notice in passing, especially when I am unsuccessful, that the misses are actually quite interesting. This leads me to ask if anyone has followed the deviating paths which these misses suggest. I invite you to try the following experiment. Use www.google.com to search for this sequence of words (without the quotation marks): "mind true things by what their mockeries be". Is there a name for the set of things such an operation turns up? An internet intertext? internetext? an echo of the totality of verbal meaning? In my example, it's interesting to look at what causes so many religious texts to surface -- I note St Augustine's City of God and his Confessions, an Amerindian spiritual account, a treatise on theosophy, a passage from Sirach, several personal meditations and so on. It begins to look like whatever this participial phrase means in its original context -- Shakespeare's Henry V -- intertextually it has a strong religious undertone. Again my question is, has anyone carried such experiments further? If so, are there rewards sufficient for the effort? 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: connie.henderson@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca Subject: re: 15.325 preventing copies from CDs? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:24:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 539 (539) Adobe Acrobat files were designed to protect any images contained in the files. But any image that can be pulled up onto your computer screen can be copied with a simple Alt-PrintScrn in Windows. I haven't heard of anything that can prevent that. Connie Henderson Government Online Government of Canada From: "Matthew L. Jockers" Subject: Re: preventing copies from CDs? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:27:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 540 (540) The Adobe ebook reader is a program that allows you to read files that have been created and "encrypted" using Adobe's Content Server (it will also read standard .pdfs). I have attached a .pdf about the content server to this message. Unfortunately, the program has already been hacked (do you recall the big fuss over the Russian software engineer who was arrested at the big hacker's conference--he hacked this new Adobe product). For a few months, I was very excited about what Adobe was offering, but I'm no longer convinced it is as secure as it need to be--my own tests, for example, showed that I could capture screen shots. The level of security you need, of course, depends to a large degree on context. If you wish to deliver materials to students, I think that eBook might be just fine. If the thing you are developing is going to be made available for public consumption then you may run into problems. Good Luck -- Matthew L. Jockers Academic Technology Specialist Department of English Building 460, Room 207 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2087 650/723-4489 (V) 650/725-0755 (F) From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 15.325 preventing copies from CDs? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:28:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 541 (541) You may need to guarantee that the images are useless or clearly marked if copied; check the literature on watermarking. The leading book seems to be: Stefan Katzenbeisser and Fabien A.P. Petitcolas, Information Hiding: Techniques for Steganography and Digital Watermarking (Boston: Artech House) There are many tradeoffs, and many of the methods can be broken with enough determination, but there are methods that can invisibly (or visibly if desired) mark images in such a way that 1) you can use a spider to troll the web and find out if the images are being used, and 2) removal of the marks--which are distributed throughout the image--will so degrade it that it becomes useless. If you want to know how secure Adobe ebook formats are, see: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/ Pat Galloway University of Texas-Austin From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 15.325 preventing copies from CDs? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:30:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 542 (542) Bill, Bill Schipper wrote: [deleted quotation]All copy protection (save denial of all access) is relative to the skills of the intended audience. Some programmer wrote whatever copy protection is used and some other programmer, given enough time and resources, can get around it. The question is whether the skill required to break the copy protection exceeds that of the intended audience and for a highly skilled one, whether the cost of breaking it exceed the cost of acquisition. It is possible to encrypt images for storage on a CD such that particular viewing software is required to see the images. I would suggest that you urge the library to consider the lead of the Hermitage Museum (see Communications of the ACM, Volume 44, Issue 8 (August 2001), Populating the Hermitage Museum's new web site, Fred Mintzer, et. al., Pages: 52 - 60) in the use of digital watermarks, assuming the objection is to commercial reuse. Digital watermarks have been found acceptable for protecting the intellectual property of the Hermitage to the point that they are allowing a large number of images to be posted to the WWW. [deleted quotation]Actually it is possible to protect Adobe Acrobat files with passwords and I assume the same would be true for ebook but I have not really looked. I have heard that ebooks have the capacity for password protection but I don't know if that extends to being able to lock out copying as is the case with Acrobat files. [deleted quotation]down a [deleted quotation]Adobe is certainly one solution but if acceptable, I think the digital watermark solution has significant advantages. First, it protects the economic interest of the library/museum from commercial reproduction. Second, it makes the viewing software a good deal easier for you to author since there is no need for encryption systems. Third, it make production/support easier since there is no user support for lose passwords, damaged or defective licensing software. Fourth, it does make it easier for professors to share your analysis with their students, which I consider to be "fair use," which I would assume is the goal of your work? To be used by other academics? Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: Chair in Technology and Culture Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:25:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 543 (543) Professor of Culture and Technology, Director of MA in Digital Humanities The University of Virginia's newly established Media Studies Program seeks applicants for a senior, chaired Professor of Culture and Technology. We are seeking an energetic, imaginative, dedicated scholar and teacher with a commitment to expanding our understanding of the relations between culture and technology, preferably with an interest in digital media and information technology. Successful candidates should have a distinguished record of publication and teaching. This person will serve as Director of a Master's degree in Digital Humanities (beginning Fall 2002) and develop undergraduate courses in the area of culture, technology, and media from a disciplinary perspective (history, sociology, psychology, history of science, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, information science, philosophy, or other field). Teaching load is three courses per year (one course relief for tenure of Directorship, normal load is 2/2), with other responsibilities normally associated with a faculty appointment. All appointments in Media Studies have a tenure home in a discipline-based department, usually within the College of Arts and Sciences. Immediate review of applications will begin December 15, 2001 and continue until filled. Anticipated start date for the appointment is August 25, 2002. Interested candidates should send a cover letter, resume, indication of teaching interests, list of references, and one representative publication to: Johanna Drucker Chair, Search Committee on Culture and Technology Media Studies, 319 Clemons Library P.O. Box 400710 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 39, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:24:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 544 (544) Version 39 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,450 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. 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 links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat or Word files: (1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography), (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (related Web sites), and (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (frequently updated list of new resources). http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 115 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 380 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, Linking, 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 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, 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: Julia Flanders Subject: New service: ACH Jobs Page Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:29:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 545 (545) The Association for Computers and the Humanities is happy to announce the launch of a new service, the ACH Jobs Page: http://www.ach.org/jobs/ Its goal is to support and advise job-seekers in the field of humanities computing, and to cultivate a thriving job market and successful contact between job-seekers and employers. The Jobs Page currently offers two services: --a jobs database, so that job-seekers can easily find what is currently available --a mentoring service, to offer advice to new job-seekers and those entering the field of humanities computing. If you are an employer with jobs to post, please visit the ACH Jobs page to enter them in the database. Please don't hesitate to contact the jobs editors with questions about this process, or with suggestions for improving it. The editors will be keeping an eye out for job postings and keeping the database up to date by hand for the first few months, but we would like to encourage employers to use the jobs database as one of their primary means of advertisement, and to enter the jobs themselves in the first instance. If you are looking for a job, or interested in knowing more about the current job market, please browse the database and let us know what you think. At present it is quite basic, but we will be adding functionality over the next few months and will be grateful for feedback. If you're interested in being a mentor, please contact Wendell Piez (wapiez@mulberrytech.com). Best wishes, Julia Flanders ACH Jobs Subcommittee -- ________________________________ Julia Flanders Director,Women Writers Project Associate Director, Scholarly Technology Group Box 1841, Brown University Providence RI 02912 Julia_Flanders@brown.edu (401) 863-2135 http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/julia.html From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Digital Rights Management Listserv Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:30:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 546 (546) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 25, 2001 New Digital Rights Management Listserv http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/rights-l.html Although the discussion began within a Managing Digital Video workshop, one of the results is a new discussion list on digital rights management across all genres and formats in building digital collections. If you're interested in joining, details are below, or at the url. David Green =========== [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: .museum Domain Name Progress: ICANN sponsorship agreement Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:33:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 547 (547) signed NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 25, 2001 Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) Signs Sponsorship Agreement to Create .museum Domain Name http://musedoma.org/musedoma.html http://www.icann.org/tlds/ [deleted quotation]On October 17th, the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) signed a Sponsorship Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the creation of the top-level Internet domain, .museum. The full text of this agreement is available at: http://www.icann.org/tlds/ This page provides a useful description of ICANN's present action and the material specific to .museum is located toward the bottom of the page. The current status of MuseDoma's initiation of .museum operation is available at: http://musedoma.org/ Particular attention is called to the material about the preliminary requests for the reservation of subdomain names. These requests have been accepted since June 30th and this phase of the start-up action will terminate on October 31st (seen globally, at noon UTC on November 1st). The requests thus far submitted, together with those that are received during the rest of October, will then be processed to serve as the basis for the first public demonstration of the new domain. If you would like to participate in this, please visit the MuseDoma site without delay. The .museum domain will be operated on a provisional basis for approximately the next three months before the formal registration of subdomain names will be initiated. The inclusion of further names in the demonstration phase will be resumed on November 21st, so there will be ample time for anyone to apply for participation subsequent to the conclusion of the first service at the end of this month. Each step of the start-up phase will be described in detail on the MUSEDOMA-DISCUSS e-mail discussion list. This also serves as a forum for the open discussion of all activity relating to .museum. Futher information about this list, as well as its archives, may be found under the heading "Open Forum" on the MuseDoma Web site. -- ============================================================== 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: Ben Welsh Subject: In response Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:26:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 548 (548) I am very curious as to the nature of Osher Doctorow's response to the ideas presented in Arun Tripathi's email. If we are to premise our discussion on the subject of Borgmann's work, I am fascinated at the nature of the response. I will reprint the introductory questions here for clarity of my conundrum. "How can one experience oneself as an integral part of nature - not at a conceptual level, but as an actual experience?" "How have we lost the experience of our connection with nature?" My initial reaction to Arun Tripathi's email was based primarily on a transcendental philosophical approach, whereby I presumed the phrasing of "actual experience" and "connection with nature" to be of literal meaning. This being the case I could not agree more with Borgmann's idea. There has been a fundamental degradation of the relationship between life and nature ever since the onset of objects and practices that remove human hands to places far from the physicality of a natural existence. Within this framework it is possible to understand technology in the past and present century as removing our connection with nature. However, this being the case, what are the possible solutions open to a society interwoven with the very fabric of what separates us from accessing our physical world on a continuing basis? I would like to suggest the possibility of impossibility, keeping in mind the present technology we are functioning with up until now. Any out of body interface with technology inevitably detracts from the self actualization only possible through the unbroken connection with our natural environment. Until technology begins to move inward, in symbiosis with humanity perhaps in the form of interface technology as suggested by some cyborg theorists, there must be an inherent and inevitable separation between the natural world and its inhabitants. This being said, are we to stop striving for development of greater technological advancement? Is there a response to my presumed inevitability? Osher Doctorrow suggested "to try limited scales of adoption and compare them with similar situations where the technology is not adopted - in effect, make alternative decisions into a benign or benevolent competition, perhaps indefinitely." Is this a worthy venture or simply a means to an end? I had not thought of this possibility and am intrigued by the resultant effects it may have in deciphering some code for understanding sections of the world as affected or disaffected by technology. This being the case, how would perception and reality be balanced out? Where would the impetus for decisions come from? Would the groups be made aware of their status of test subjects and how would the non-technologically tainted group be observed; from within their group and without knowledge of the other, or from without with an arguably skewed viewpoint? This idea is of great interest to me and I welcome any comments and criticisms. Thank you, Ben Welsh _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca From: Michael Fraser Subject: Call to Host DRH 2003 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:29:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 549 (549) Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference http://www.drh.org.uk/ Call to host DRH 2003 The Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) conference is an annual international conference for bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the Humanities. The conference promotes the creation, management, dissemination, use and preservation of high quality humanities digital resources. The term 'humanities' in this context has a wide definition which encompasses the work of the cultural industries, epitomised by museums, galleries, archives, and heritage management; as well as subjects like art, design, architecture, film, radio, television, performance, music, dance, literary and linguistic studies, history, archaeology, religion and classics. The Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) Standing Committee warmly invites proposals from organisations within the British Isles to host the DRH conference in 2003. Previous hosts of DRH have found running the conference very rewarding. Hosts have also found that it can be an opportunity to alert their own institution to the growing range of activity in this area as well as having the potential to raise the international profile of their own institution within the broad communities served by the conference. The document, "Hosting a Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference" available online via <http://www.drh.org.uk/>, provides background information to the conference, answers some of the commonly-asked questions about hosting a DRH conference, and outlines the requirements of a bid. The document should be read together with the DRH Protocol, also online at <http://www.drh.org.uk/>. You are encouraged to discuss the submission of a bid with Michael Fraser, Chair of the Standing Committee or any other member of the Committee (especially members who have been actively involved in the local organisation of a previous DRH conference). Expressions of interest should be submitted by email to Michael Fraser (mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk) by 23 November 2001. --- Dr Michael Fraser Chair, DRH Standing Committee Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 http://www.drh.org.uk/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: Eugene, Nov. 19, 2001 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:31:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 550 (550) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 29, 2001 NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2001: EUGENE "CREATING POLICY" November 19, 2001: Eugene, Oregon 8:00am-5:00pm http://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/vrc/VRCinfo.html Free of Charge REGISTRATION REQUIRED (Nov 9 Deadline): http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/ninch/registration.htm NINCH & the University of Oregon are pleased to announce a Copyright & Fair Use Town Meeting on Creating Policy in Eugene, Oregon, on Monday, November 19, 2001. This is a full-day program (beginning at 8AM and ending at 5PM) that combines lectures, workshops, and ample opportunities for q&a. While there is no registration fee, registration is required to guarantee your place; space is limited. Registration deadline: November 9, 2001. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Giuseppe Gigliozzi Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:32:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 551 (551) Dear colleagues: My sad duty is to inform you of the death of Giuseppe Gigliozzi, 3 o' clock on Sunday morning, after an illness discovered during the summer. Giuseppe was Lecturer in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, Faculty of Letters, La Sapienza University (Rome), well known in modern Italian literary studies, literary theory and humanities computing. He was deeply loved as a teacher and colleague, greatly respected and is missed by all who had the good fortune to have known him. His loss to us is a terrible blow. Giuseppe leaves behind his wife Cristina, his daughter Ginevra and his son Gianandrea. The funeral will take place today, 30 October, at 11 o'clock in Rome, in the church of S. Croce in Via Guido Reni. My thanks to Fabio Ciotti, Lou Burnard and Elisabeth Burr for letting me know. 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: "Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information" with Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:24:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 552 (552) Real Video Dear humanist scholars, Luciano Floridi on "Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information", The Herbert A. Simon Lecture on _Computing and Philosophy_ 2001 on August 10, 2001 Visit the site at http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/CAP/CMU2001/Floridi/index.html Bregards, Arun From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: "The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives" -Ethical Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:25:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 553 (553) Aspects Dear Humanist scholars, Interesting lectures on "The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives" were presented on August 10, 2001 --is now available via Real Video.. PRESENTERS: ----------- Robert Cavalier, Chair (Carnegie Mellon) Terry Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University) James H. Moor (Dartmouth College) Richard Spinello (Boston College) Herman Tavani (River College) Please go to the below site to listen..the..lectures.. http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/CAP/CMU2001/MoralLives/index.html Best regards, Arun From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- October 2001 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:27:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 554 (554) CIT INFOBITS October 2001 No. 40 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 and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ....................................................................... Scholarly Publishing: Costs and Concerns Resources for Scholarly E-Journal Editors Text-E Virtual Symposium Archive of Academic Computing Articles Merlot Conference Presentations Online Gargoyles on the Web Recommended Reading ....................................................................... [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: John Unsworth Subject: Retro Surfing Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:28:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 555 (555) [Forwarded from IATH (Virginia) with thanks. --WM] I recommend to your attention: http://web.archive.org/ "over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present" Have a look at what your favorite web site used to look like-- John From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AMICO and VAGA sign rights agreement Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:55:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 556 (556) [deleted quotation] AMICO Press Release October 24, 2001 AMICO and VAGA Reach Rights Agreement to Further Expand Contemporary and Modern Art in The AMICO Library (TM) AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium, Inc. (AMICO) and the Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. (VAGA) have reached a landmark agreement that will expand the coverage of contemporary and modern art in the leading digital library of works of art available for educational use. In this agreement, VA= GA has granted AMICO a non-exclusive, worldwide license to include digital imag= es of copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by VAGA and i= ts affiliated rights societies in The AMICO Library where they can be studied along with multimedia documentation of other works of art in the collections= of AMICO member museums. In return, AMICO will make royalty payments to the artists through VAGA. "This is an additional cornerstone in the foundation that AMICO is establishing to make The AMICO Library the educational provider of works of = art from the 20th century and beyond in digital form,=94 said Jennifer Trant, Executive Director of AMICO. "AMICO members are delighted to now contribute some of the most recognized works in their collections without the added bur= den of separate rights clearance,". Ms. Trant continued. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, observed, "as the arts community navigates through the uncertain waters of copyright legislation in a wired world, it is very exciting to have brought two critical constituencies toget= her in service of education: our major modern and contemporary artists and our leading art museums." Robert Panzer, Executive Director of VAGA, also considered the agreement noteworthy. "As a representative and advocate for VAGA artists=92 rights we must balance needs of access and dissemination with protection and copyright," Mr= =2E Panzer noted. "This agreement between VAGA and AMICO heightens availability= of our artists=92 works for educational purposes, while still ensuring their appropriate use under an educational license agreement; that's definitely a win-win from VAGA=92s perspective.". AMICO Library subscribers will benefit from this agreement as well. Along w= ith the existing AMICO agreement with the Artists Rights Society (ARS), the AMICO/VAGA agreement expands the depth of resources contained in The AMICO Library without any change in subscription fees. Individual teachers and students won't need to obtain additional copyright clearances, often a time-consuming and uncertain process, when using pivotal contemporary works = by artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Robert Motherwell, i= n their educational projects. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an independent non-profit corporation with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS. Founded in 1997 with 2= 3 Members, the Consortium today is made up of over 30 major museums worldwide. It=92s an innovative collaboration not seen before in museums that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections an= d enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. AMICO members make annual contributions of multimedia documentation of works= in their museums=92 collections. This data is compiled by AMICO and made avail= able as The AMICO Library to universities, colleges, schools, and public librarie= s via distributors. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of = The AMICO Library and get further information at http://www.amico.org. About VAGA =46ounded in 1976, VAGA was the first organization in the U.S. to represent visual artists' copyrights on a collective basis. Its membership includes American artists and estates and also foreign artists and estates through reciprocal agreements with sister organizations worldwide. Membership is op= en to all visual artists ranging from those just starting out to well-known members of the art community such as, Robert Rauschenberg, Stuart Davis, Rob= ert Motherwell, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Joseph Cornell, Ben Shahn, David Smith, Carlos M=E9rida, Romare Bearden, James Rosenquist, Alexander Rodchenk= o, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Thomas Hart Benton, Adolph Gottlieb, Tom Wesselmann, Wayne Thiebaud, Vladimir and Georgi Stenberg, David Alfaro Siqueiros, H.C. Westermann, Grant Wood, Ken Noland, Robert Smithson, and Larry Rivers. Contact Information: AMICO Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone: (412) 422 8533 =46ax: (412) 422 8594 Email: jtrant@amico.org http://www.amico.org VAGA Robert Panzer Executive Director Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc. (VAGA) 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6305 New York, NY 10118 Phone: (212) 736 6666 =46ax: (212) 736 6767 E-mail: rpanzer@vagarights.com -- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Preservation Fellowship at Guggenheim Museum Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:56:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 557 (557) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 30, 2001 Preservation Fellowship at Guggenheim Museum Variable Media Initiative http://www.three.org/z/varia_root/variable_media_initiative.html [deleted quotation] Announcement: Fellowship at the Guggenheim Museum in New York A fellowship is being offered at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for an in-depth study of the issues surrounding the preservation of ephemeral materials and/or electronic media. The fellow would help coordinate a project funded by the Langlois Foundation that supports the advancement of the Variable Media Initiative, a strategy for preserving the artistic integrity of a work through documentation prior to the obsolescence or deterioration of the primary physical materials. Responsibilities of the fellow will include: acting as a liaison between the conservation department, curatorial department, and the archives and documentation programs. The fellow will explore, study and collect standards for best practices and preservation of materials that will include, among others, analog and electronic media formats. Working with the conservators to implement the preservation methods, and assisting documentation and curatorial to record all concerns. The fellow should have an interest in conservation and documentation practices, as well as a good understanding of the current contemporary art environment. Familiarity with materials and processes, including photography, film, magnetic and electronic media formats is preferable. Knowledge of and interest in relational and object-oriented databases is a plus. The fellow will be supervised by representatives from each department: Curatorial, Conservation, and Archives, Library, & Museum Records. The project is for one year, the hours are flexible and a modest stipend offered. Interested candidates should contact Jon Ippolito at IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Ann E. Butler Archivist Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Telephone: 212 360-4241 Telefax: 212 360-4340 abutler@guggenheim.org archives@guggenheim.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: how things have changed Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:51:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 558 (558) Dear colleagues: This morning my pleasure was to receive an application for membership in this group from someone who introduces him- or herself by saying, "I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. My areas of concentration are Rhetoric and Composition, Literary Theory, and Humanities Computing...." We are amazed and delighted, those of us who can remember back to the time when that last area of concentration would have provoked blank incomprehension -- or even back to the time when it would have been comprehended but provoked career-fatal hostility from all but a beleaguered minority. I'm old enough to remember both -- and to be able to quote certain individuals still looking upon the light who declared that humanities computing was not an academic subject because it had no subject matter of its own, and various silly nonsense along those lines. And now we have declarations such as the above, which raise eyebrows because they raise no eyebrows. Thus the curriculum of humanities computing at the undergraduate and (post-)graduate levels becomes an urgent matter at those institutions currently with none, as it is the daily concern at the still too few places with programmes in place or on the desks of senior administrators. In about a week's time various of us will be gathering at Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, British Columbia, to spend two days talking about "The Humanities Computing Curriculum / The Computing Curriculum in the Arts and Humanities" (9-10/11), for which see <http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/>. I hope we will disagree vigorously about all matters of detail, but a fundamental agreement makes the conference possible in the first place, in a time when travel is not quite as carefree as it used to be. In any case we can celebrate fulfilment of the prophecy that, as some of us once hoped, "...the loser now / Will be later to win" -- especially since "to win" means to be given the opportunity to do such intellectually challenging work. Yes, yes -- :-) -- [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: Patrick Durusau Subject: Browse before you Buy! (ASOR books) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:56:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 559 (559) Greetings, Rather than waiting for formal notice that the world of scholarly publishing has changed, the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) has placed three of their most recent titles up for public access. Anyone, a member of ASOR, other scholars, or even a member of the public can view these items before purchasing them. These are not teaser versions but the full texts of these volumes. Desire, Discord and Death: Approaches to Near Eastern Myth, Neal Walls; Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel, Beth Alpert Nakhai; and, East of the Jordan: Territories and Sites of the Hebrew Scriptures, Burton MacDonald, can been seen (and ordered) at: http://www.asor.org/ebooks.htm If you are interested in any of these topics, please visit the site and by all means, order a print copy if after reviewing the work it is something you want to add to your library. Even if you are not particularly interested in these subjects, a note supporting this sort of effort I suspect would be most welcome. The experience that ASOR and other forward looking organizations have with this sort of effort will define the changing shape of scholarly publishing. This is a model that gets information into the hands of scholars, preserves a revenue stream and opens access to scholarly materials to a broader audience. Sounds like a good one to me. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:57:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 560 (560) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 34, Week of October 30, 2001 In this issue: Interview -- Expect the Unexpected Peter G. Neumann talks about out-of-the-box thinking, the events of Sept. 11, and breakfast with Einstein. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/p_neumann_3.html Announcement -- Digital Horizons http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/announcement_1.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Translating and the Computer 23 Conference Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:54:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 561 (561) [deleted quotation] 23rd Annual Conference and Exhibition: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER on 29-30 November 2001 at One Great George Street, London SW1 Presented by Aslib/IMI and supported by: IAMT, EAMT, BCS, IoL and ITI This conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. Once again, this year the conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. The keynote address will be given by Roger Jeanty, recently retired President of Lionbridge Technologies. He will overview the current economic, political, organization and technological "headwinds" facing globalization, at the macro and enterprise level. You will find the full programme (and booking details) on the Aslib/IMI website: http://www.aslib.com/conferences/tc23.html To support those who are full time students or lecturers, Aslib/IMI offers a special conference fee. If you would prefer a copy of the brochure mailed to you, please contact: Barbara Hobbs, Aslib/IMI, Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB or call her on: +44 (0)20 7903 0000. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NLPRS-01: 3rd Call For Participation Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:52:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 562 (562) [deleted quotation] 3rd C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n ***************** * NLPRS-2001 * ***************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by NLPRS Organization, Japan Co-Sponsored by The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan Supported by SIG-NL of Information Processing Society of Japan, Japan 27-30 November, 2001 Tokyo, Japan http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html ~~~~ 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-2001) will be held at National Center of Sciences located in the central part of Tokyo from 27th to 30th November, 2001. Four excellent invited talks and 45 highly qualified technical papers, etc. will be presented. You can find the newest academic and technological results of natural language processing and its future direction by attending NLPRS-2001. [material deleted] -------------------------------------------------- From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Digital Rights Management Standard Under Development by Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:41:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 563 (563) Commercial Consortium NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community October 31, 2001 Commercial Entities Developing Digital Rights Management Standard http://www.doi.org/news/011101-DRM.html#drm We should be prepared for commentary on this fairly important development by a commercial consortium in developing a digital rights management standard. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Washington - Geneva The International DOI Foundation Service Announcement 11-01 MAJOR ORGANIZATIONS TO DEVELOP DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM) STANDARD Founding sponsors EDItEUR and the International DOI Foundation (IDF) will be joined by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Accenture, ContentGuard, Enpia Systems, and Melodies and Memories Global (a subsidiary of Dentsu) in a Consortium formed to develop a Rights Data Dictionary - a common dictionary or vocabulary for intellectual property rights named < indecs >2RDD. < indecs >2RDD will be developed to enable the exchange of key information between content industries and ecommerce trading of intellectual property rights. more--<http://www.doi.org/news/011101-DRM.html#drm> FOURTH DOI REGISTRATION AGENCY APPOINTED Learning Objects Network, Inc. (LON) has been appointed as the fourth DOI Registration Agency this year. LON will register DOIs for use in the management of learning objects and is working with partners including Sun Microsystems and Artesia Technologies to develop an Advanced Distributed Learning project for the U.S. Department of Defense and others. more<http://www.doi.org/news/011101-DRM.html#ra>http://www.doi.org/news/011101-DRM.html#ra COMMERCIAL DOI IMPLEMENTATIONS UNVEILED At the Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany), the publishing industry's largest annual trade show, commercial implementations and demonstrations from initial DOI Registration Agencies were unveiled. The DOI System has the potential for ubiquitous use in digital commerce of content and provides the basis to facilitate the use of digital intellectual property in a legal, controllable, and easy to manage way. To view the presentations and more...<http://www.doi.org/news/011101-DRM.html#commercial>http://www.doi.org/news/011101-DRM.html#commercial CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE DOI FOUNDATION <http://www.doi.org/idf-member-list.html>http://www.doi.org/idf-member-list.html NEW MEMBERS: Adobe - Cambridge University Press - Learning Objects Network ******************************************************************** The DOI is a system for interoperably identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. A DOI assigned to content enhances a content producer's ability to trade electronically. It provides a framework for managing content in any form at any level of granularity, for linking customers with content suppliers, for facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright management for all types of media. The International DOI Foundation, a non-profit organization, manages development, policy and licensing of the DOI to registration agencies and technology providers and advises on usage and development of related services and technologies. The DOI system uses open standards with a standard syntax (ANSI/NISO Z39.84) and is currently used by leading international technology and content organizations. This is a service announcement from the International Digital Object Identifier Foundation and has been prepared to increase your awareness about important developments to enable digital copyright management of intellectual property. For more information, please contact info@doi.org or visit <http://www.doi.org/>http://www.doi.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 ****************************************************************** -- ============================================================== 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: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.342 changes Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:42:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 564 (564) Willard, you reminded me, too, of the Bad Old Days -- I once was asked to apply for a brand-new job at a school I won't name, which would essentially have been to develop Humanities Computing on the campus. I was informed that the job would not come into existence because the Humanities faculty had decided, by an overwhelming vote, that humanists had no business dealing with computers..... Even at the school I finally retired from, and to which I owe my work with computers, I was told that the VPAA did not consider me a candidate for Extra Merit because I was programming instead of making editions of medieval texts. (I kept on doing what I was doing and he eventually left.) From: John Unsworth Subject: TEI members meeting Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:38:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 565 (565) This is a reminder that the first TEI Members meeting will take place in Pisa, November 16 and 17, 2001, and the first TEI Consortium elections (for the council and the board of directors) will be held at that meeting. If you have been considering joining the consortium, either as an institutional member or as an individual subscriber, doing so now will give you the opportunity to vote in those elections. The full announcement can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/Publicity/pisa.html. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Multimedia Archive Preservation: Practical Workshop in Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:40:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 566 (566) London: May 2002 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 1, 2001 Multimedia Archive Preservation: Practical Workshop May 22-24, 2002: London, UK http://presto.joanneum.ac.at/may.asp Project organized by: European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) International Federation of Television Archives (IFTA/FIAT) Information Science and Technology (IST) Preservation Technology (PRESTO) Here is an important and useful European workshop organized chiefly by PRESTO, a preservation technology consortium with the mission to "develop state of the art technology in the preservation of film, video and audio media." David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Multimedia Archive Preservation - a practical workshop Organised by IASA, FIAT, PRESTO, ECPA ... and more! 22-24 May 2002 in London, UK Overview: 80% of audio and video archive content is at risk, according to the results of EC project PRESTO. Unless preservation procedures are funded and implemented - quickly - unique heritage and commercially valuable material will be lost. This workshop will provide, in a concentrated three days, the combined experience of ten major European broadcast archives, and the new technology developed by PRESTO. What we will cover: * Funding: sources of funding; a model business case; benchmark costs * Selection: criteria; prioritisation; life expectancy and condition monitoring * The Preservation Factory: how to process the most material with the least labour; how to control quality; how to manage metadata; what to include and (exclude) during preservation to maximise access and future use * Sustainability: the 'total cost of ownership' of archive material; technology for automation of quality monitoring and data update; media life expectancy; what formats to choose * Online and Internet: how to build new technology into a preservation project - without blowing the budget; * The small archive: how to be efficient on small-scale projects; special funding for private and historical collections; sources of support, advice and resources; out-sourcing options * Commercial resources: information on technology and facility houses specialising in multimedia archive preservation; comparative costs; how to manage quality and cost; do's and don'ts of working with contractor * New technology: advances in mass storage, process automation, automatic quality control, and asset management; what it is, what it really can and cannot do, costs and benefits. Also new technology developed by PRESTO and by related EC projects. [material deleted] From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: IT and University in Asia Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:44:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 567 (567) CALL FOR PAPERS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE UNIVERSITY IN ASIA The Faculty Senate of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, is organizing an international conference on "Information Technology and the University in Asia" from April 3 to 5, 2002, at the campus of the university. The conference will be a place where teachers, researchers, administrators and others who are interested in how best to use ICTs in realizing the missions of the university get together to share ideas, opinions and research findings. Of special interest are papers and presentations that explore the *cultural* aspects of using ICTs in universities, especially Asian cultures. However, though the focus of the conference is on the use of ICTs in Asian universities, participants from all corners of the world are very welcome to share their ideas and expertise. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: 1. Prof. Charas Suwanwela, Former president of Chulalongkorn University. Prof. Charas was instrumental in investing the CUNet, the campus-wide fiber network that led to Chulalongkorn's full fledged entry to the Internet. 2. Prof. Susantha Goonatilake, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and Senior Consultant to the UN. Author of *Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilization Knowledge* and *Merged Evolution: The Long Term Implications of Information Technology and Biotechnology*. Paper proposals are called in three broad areas: 1. Distance Learning 2. ICTs in Classroom Teaching and/or Research 3. ICTs in University Administration Please mail your proposals or abstracts (max. 500 words) to: Soraj Hongladarom Chair of the Academic Committee Faculty Senate Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Tel: +66-2-218-7024; Fax: +66-2-218-7036 Email: hsoraj@chula.ac.th Those who are interested in obtaining further information of the conference through e-mail (whether intending to present or not) are requested to send their e-mail addresses to the address above also. For those who intend to present, please send your abstracts in the body of the email. Please do not send it as an attached file. Deadline of submission: January 15, 2002. Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2002. Plans are being made with notable publishing presses to publish selected papers in a bound volume. Participants whose papers are selected will have the opportunity to revise their papers for the volume after the conference. There is a registration fee of 100 US dollars (120 dollars after Dec. 1), covering the conference material, cocktail dinner reception, lunches and tea/coffee breaks and the conference dinner. Rooms have already been booked at the Vidhayanives House on campus, and the rate is around 14 US dollars a night, which needs to be paid directly to the Housing. There are also numerous hotels and guest houses around campus that participants can avail themselves with. For off campus housing, please contact the hotels directly. Details can be found on the conference website. Further information about the conference, including how to pay for the registration, can be found at: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/IT From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Phenomenology of Digital-Being Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:30:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 568 (568) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Wishing you well, I found an interesting essay on "Phenomenology of Digital-Being" by Joohan Kim, Department of Communication, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in Human Studies, 24 (1/2):87-111, 2001. Kluwer Academic Publishers --thought this essay might interest to humanist scholars.. Abstract of the Essay ---------------------- This paper explores the ontology of digital information or the nature of digital-being. Even though a digital-being is not a physical thing, it has many essential features of physical things such as substantiality, extensions, and thing-totality (via Heidegger). Despite their lack of material bases, digital-beings can provide us with perceivedness or universal passive pregivenness (via Husserl). Still, a digital-being is not exactly a thing, because it does not belong to objective time and space. Due to its perfect duplicability, a digital being can exist at multiple locations simultaneously that is, it defies normal spatiotemporal constraints. With digital beings on the Internet, we can establish intercorporeal relationships. The World Wide Web opens up new possibilities of Daseins being-able-to-be-with-one-another and new modes of Being-with-others (Mitsein). The new modes of communication based on digital-beings compel us to re-read Heideggers basic concepts such as Dasein as Being-in-the-world, since Dasein becomes the Digi-sein as Being-in-the-World-Wide-Web. By exploring the ontological characteristics of digital-being, this paper suggests that we conceive digital-beings as res digitalis a third entity which is located somewhere between res cogitans and res extensa. Thank you! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Re: 15.334 Borgmann and experiential connection to nature Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:30:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 569 (569) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Again, I would like to add creative thoughts regarding the Borgmann's issues by taking the issues of _Holding on to Reality_: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (University of Chicago Press, 1999) written by Prof. Albert Borgmann. Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. Holding On to Reality is underscored by the humanist's fundamental belief in human excellence and by the conviction that excellence is jeopardized unless we achieve a balance of information and "the things and practices that have served us well and we continue to depend on for our material and spiritual well-being--the grandeur of nature, the splendour of cities, competence of work, fidelity to loved ones, and devotion to art or religion." Holding On to Reality is an eloquent call for caution and historical understanding, and everyone concerned with the future of information technologies will find their thinking enlivened and enriched by Borgmann's lucid and impassioned exploration. Thanks very much in advance. Best regards, Arun From: John Lavagnino Subject: Humanities-computing job at UCLA Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:34:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 570 (570) Director, Center for Digital Humanities University of California, Los Angeles Center for Digital Humanities Kinsey Hall B71 Los Angeles, CA 90095 <http://www.cdh.ucla.edu> The University of California, Los Angeles invites applications/nominations for Director of the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) to begin July 1, 2002 at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. The Director of the Center reports directly to the Dean of Humanities. The Director will be appointed to an appropriate academic department in the Humanities and his or her appointment will be split 50% teaching and research and 50% administrative. The Director will provide both academic and administrative leadership for the Center and will be expected to take the lead on developing partnerships for research and teaching emphasizing technological innovation. The Director will also be expected to develop a network of national and international partnerships as a means for reaching the goals of the Center. i. The Center for Digital Humanities The Center is expected to become a national and international leader in the application of and interpretation of technology in the Humanities. As part of its mission, the Center seeks to advance the research, teaching and public service mission of the Humanities Division through the use of computing technology and new media. The Center coordinates and supports faculty research and teaching projects that employ these technologies. It helps focus such projects, locates personnel and funding, discovers partners both inside and outside the university, and manages the projects over time. In addition to project and course development, the Center is also responsible for E-campus, the instructional Web sites that offer on-line enhancements to the 600 undergraduate courses offered each quarter by the Humanities Division. The Center also oversees the IT infrastructure for the Division. ii. Qualifications of Director The successful candidate must currently be in a tenured or tenure-track position and have a record of research and teaching demonstrating national and international prominence in the application of digital technologies ina Humanities discipline. The candidate must have a clear vision as to the academic direction the Center should take. The candidate must also have demonstrated success in securing and administering extramural support (grants and contracts). Significant administrative experience (departmental chair or equivalent) is an advantage. iii. Applications Applications should include a cover letter, vita, statement of research & teaching interests, and selected publications. Applicants should also arrange for at least 3 letters of recommendation to be sent. The address for applications is: Professor Timothy R. Tangherlini, Chair, Center for Digital Humanities Search Committee, Center for Digital Humanities, Kinsey Hall B71, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1499. Review of Applications will begin December 3, 2001 and continue until position is filled. Position subject to final budgetary approval. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. From: Charles Ess Subject: job opening - interdisciplinary studies Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:35:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 571 (571) Colleagues: The following position will be advertised in the States in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Please forward and cross-post as appropriate. Thanks in advance - == Interdisciplinary Studies: Tenure-track appointment as assistant professor to teach in an integrated, interdisciplinary core program. Ph.D. or A.B.D., teaching experience, especially in interdisciplinary programs, desired. Discipline of Ph.D. open. Salary competitive. The core program constitutes a global studies minor and is characterized by an integrated approach to writing and oral communication skills, critical thinking values analysis, scientific and mathematical literacy, creativity, and cultural analysis. Please see <http://www.drury.edu/academics/undergrad/gp21/core.cfm> for more information on the Global Perspectives Program. Application materials should include three letters of recommendation and evidence of teaching ability (student evaluations, etc.), as well as description of interdisciplinary research interests. Screening will begin November 16, 2001, and will continue until position is filled. Send letter of interest and resume to Dr. Charles Ess, Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University, 900 North Benton Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802. E-mail applications accepted:.please send to (Diane Ziegler, Academic Administrative Assistant, ISC). Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Drury University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: For Giuseppe Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:36:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 572 (572) Dear all, I am sending a memory of Giuseppe Gigliozzi written by one of his friend and colleague. Although written by one person, I think this remarkable text expresses the feelings and represents the views of everyone who knew Giuseppe and his story both as a scholar and a man. The letter is dedicated to all the 'italianisti' who had the fortune to meet, at least once, Giuseppe's unforgettable smile. Domenico Fiormonte -------------------------------------------------------------------- Long live the ghost in our machines Giuseppe Gigliozzi died after a short illness on Sunday, 28th October. One month ago, he was appointed associate professor of Italian Literature at Rome "La Sapienza" University. Giuseppe was a pathologically modest man whose reputation rests on his considerable pioneering achievements. In a system where tradition is power, he took on vested interests, persuaded the deciders, created a school based on true Socratic principles, leading by example alone, without flaunting any of the trappings of authority. His pupils, or rather spiritual colleagues, received not just theoretical and practical instruction in a new and exciting intellectual domain, they also absorbed a permanent lesson about devotion, human devotion. Long after local conflicts about TEI Lite and such like have subsided, victims of a quickening pace of change both in techniques and (more importantly) aims, the primary teaching of Giuseppe will be still operative offering us a model of why we should engage in the discipline, and what its fundamental stance is towards intellectual enquiry. Giuseppes early career was as a standard literary critic and historian, specialising in twentieth century Italian literature (Alvaro, Bilenchi, Jovine. Malaparte, Silone, Pirandello). I say standard only in that there is, in that field, a tradition and a recognised cursus honorum. But Giuseppe wasnt really standard at all. Even then, there was a quizzical tone (as far from conventional professorese as could be imagined) and desire to challenge commonplaces, which set him apart form his contemporaries. This independence, innate, and possibly (as I suspect) wryly cultivated, did wonders in securing a consistent lack of support for the advancement of his career as a conventional critic. Luckily, he had other ideas, and they were powerful ones. Like the pioneers Padre Busa and Tito Orlandi, Giuseppe became precociously aware, even when, as in the early days the technical material itself was very crude, that informatics solutions were an extremely promising avenue not just for linguistics but for the much more demanding applications of literary and philological study. With little in the way of institutional or financial support, but with a gift for inspiring intellectually committed students, and wheedling assistance from outside bodies not normally associated with university activity, he set up pilot computing projects which have become models imitated elsewhere. Anybody who has entered his office (the mythical number 10 in the Faculty of Letters) will have seen, improbably compressed into all the available space, a history of hardware from the beginnings of desktop technology to the present day. But the real museum is virtual. It is what he, and particularly the young teams he had a gift for inspiring, were able to do intellectually with the meagre equipment at their disposal. It was this sense of teamwork that put the Rome Faculty of Letters Computing Centre (CISADU), at the forefront of philologically sound, as opposed to technomegalomanic developments. The hallmark was always an economy of means to service academically ambitious enquiry. One of the most characteristic aspects of Giuseppes work has been the perception (earlier than most) that the partners in digital humanities are not necessarily all housed in universities. His own outreach was considerable, in journalism (newspapers, radio and TV), in the exciting environment of software houses, in library science and lexicography, and even in surprisingly responsive government departments. As a result of this outreach, his pupils, unusually for a mandarinesque education system like Italys, had a firm grasp of commercial and public realities, and moved seamlessly between worlds which apparently had little in common. Perhaps the greatest contribution, however, has been his influence in getting the subject (and I hesitate to use the singular) legally recognised as a university discipline. Characteristically, this apparently prosaic, administrative target became, in Giuseppes hands, an exciting and overarching debate about the intellectual construction, or rather de-construction and re-construction of university education in general, combining the historical rigour of the past with the need to equip students as future-proof for the real world outside. Those who want a detailed, English language impression of Giuseppes tireless activity, his wide interests, his outreach and curiosity, would do well to consult his entry in CISADU biographies http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet/personal/gigliozzi/gigliozzi.htm . For those of you who have the good fortune to read Italian, Giuseppes unique style of communication, unaffected, humorous but always to the point, presenting new angles as a matter of principle, can be savoured in an interview about digital archives transcribed for http://www.glocal.org/1999/001/e_forum.htm. His is a ghost which inhabits my machine, and needs no upgrade. From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Please Help Music Information Retrieval Research Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:37:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 573 (573) Dear Colleagues: This email is intended for all those with an interest in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research, development, evaluation, and use. The International Symposium on Music Information Retreival (ISMIR) 2001 "Resolution on the need to create standardized MIR test collections, tasks, and metrics" is ready for your endorsement. For more information about ISMIR 2001, please consult: http://ismir2001.indiana.edu . If you feel that you can endorse our resolution, please attach your information to the form found at: http://music-ir.org/mirbib2/resolution Background: On 16 October 2001, at ISMIR 2001, Bloomington, IN, Drs. Don Byrd and J. Stephen Downie convened an informal session to discuss issues pertainingto the creation of standardized MIR test collections, retrieval tasks, and evaluation metrics. After vigourous debate, a general consensus was reached that the MIR research community must move forward on the creation of such collections, tasks, and metrics. At the behest of Dr. David Huron, the resolution found at http://music-ir.org/mirbib2/resolution was drawn up by Matthew Dovey for submission to the final plenary session of ISMIR 2001, 17 October 2001. The resolution was overwhelming endorsed by those present. It was further resolved that we encourage all those who have an interest in these matters to express there support for the resolution by allowing them to "sign" the resolution. This resolution and its appended signatures will be used to solicit from relevant funding bodies and rights holders the materials necessary to make the establishment of standardized MIR test collections, tasks, and evaluation metrics a reality. If you have any questions or comments, please contact J. Stephen Downie, jdownie@uiuc.edu http://music-ir.org is also open for your general surfing. Comments and suggestion *always* welcome. Thank you very much for your time and support. Cheers, J. Stephen Downie -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 351-5037 From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: November-December Issue of The Technology Source Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:38:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 574 (574) Below is a description of the November/December 2001 issue of The Technology Source, a free, refereed, e-journal at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=45 Note the change in our URL. UNC-Chapel Hill has transferred ownership of The Technology Source to the Michigan Virtual University. I have agreed to remain as editor-in-chief and MVU has agreed to continue publishing TS as a free service to the educational community. Michigan Virtual University is a remarkable institution as you can see from my interview with the president, David Spencer, in the September-October issue (see http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/default.asp?show=article&id=921 ). David sees TS as an integral tool in assisting MVU implement its mission. Also note that we are expanding our use of information technology tools to enhance the e-journal features of TS. As John Walber and Jonathan Finkelstein describe in their letter to the editor at http://ts.mivu.org:8000/default.asp?show=article&id=972 , the authors of all articles in this issue will use OfficeHoursLive (OHL) during November to chat with you about the topic of their articles. OHL is a powerful, easy-to-use, Web-based virtual classroom designed to enable instructors to speak and interact with students live online via a microphone connected to your computer (no long-distance charges). The office hour schedule is posted at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=45 Check the schedule, drop in, chat with the authors, and experience another tool that facilitates communication at a distance. Can't make it? We have added a button to our interactive options titled "webchat"; click on that button and you will be taken to the chat archive for that article. 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://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call and send me a note if you would like to contribute such an article. Many thanks. Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall Editor, The Technology Source UNC-Chapel Hill http://ts.mivu.org Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500 Editor Emeritus, On the Horizon Phone: 919 962-2517 http://www.camfordpublishing.com Fax: 919 962-1693 IN THIS ISSUE: In this issue's first case study, Colette Mazzucelli and Roger Boston illustrate their use of Internet technology in an international seminar on conflict prevention in the Balkans. Through a combination of innovative Web development, chat tools, and streaming audio-visuals, the organizers sought to engage seminar participants in an ambitious, cross-cultural study of the factors leading to ethno-political violence. As they discuss the goals of the course, the authors offer a timely model of virtual learning in a global context; as they illustrate the various components of their course design, they provide a range of resources that all promote a highly interactive, dialogue-driven pedagogy. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=949 Most educators agree that creating a technology-rich, student-centered learning environment means more than just making an existing syllabus available on the Internet--but questions remain regarding what "more" entails. In our second case study, Marina Milner-Bolotin and Marilla D. Svinicki offer a few suggestions: instructors can adapt their syllabuses to target specific student anxieties, incorporate discussion forums to encourage varied and extensive participation, and employ technological tools that personalize homework assignments to each student. Such advances not only resolve technological difficulties, but also address timeless pedagogical concerns. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=909 In this issue's third case study, Donna Wood describes how a simple simulation enabled her students (a group of preservice teachers) to develop their technological skills and to enhance their pedagogical repertoire. Simulating participation in the Oklahoma Governor's Task Force for Technology in Education, Wood's students used Web sources to develop a plan, a curriculum, and instructional materials for helping public school teachers to integrate technology into their work. The students also had a choice to produce a multimedia Web site that would subsequently be accessible to any public school teacher in the state of Oklahoma. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=910 With several years of experience teaching college-level German at UNC-Chapel Hill, Scott Windham knows that students learn best when they engage with foreign languages in realistic contexts. The availability of real-life materials in written and audio format on the Internet, Windham reports in our fourth case study, represents a true innovation in language instruction, and his own use of these resources gives a compelling illustration of this point. Having seen an enthusiastic response from his students, he also notes that student skills in at least two of the four critical areas of foreign language study--listening and reading--have improved. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=892 In our final case study, Maggie McVay Lynch reports on how she combated several persistent problems plaguing the distance learning courses at her university. Familiar with the high drop out rates (and low re-enrollment rates) for online courses, she set out to discover what she could do about them. Lynch created a course to prepare students for the distance-learning environment, requiring them to analyze differences between distance and traditional learning, reflect on their academic responsibilities in the new environment, and use technological tools. Students also identified their learning styles and psychological types in order to build plans for adaptation to the online environment. The results? The attrition rate of online students was reduced to an average of 15% and re-enrollment increased to 90%. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=901 Michelle A. Johnston and Nancy Cooley's commentary offers some clarity on why the shift toward virtual learning is both confusing and thrilling for many educators. As Johnston and Cooley point out, instructors must develop their own technological expertise and find new ways of teaching if technology is to become transparent and student learning is to become central. In response to demands from contemporary students, their parents, and their future employers, teachers must develop a pedagogy that fosters a technologically astute citizenry. Johnston and Cooley describe the sociological as well as technological shifts driving today's pedagogical transformations. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=869 In a commentary interview with James Morrison, Fathom President and CEO Ann Kirschner outlines the collaboration between Fathom and Columbia University. Through this collaboration, Fathom is currently building an international learning network of universities, libraries, museums, and other educational institutions. Such extensive partnerships, Kirschner observes, will not only revolutionize education by expanding accessibility to high-quality course content, but will also serve as a valuable tool for institutions seeking a broader market for their programs. For a provocative glimpse into the future of education, read on at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=896 How can technology training in higher education be made more cost-efficient as well as more time-efficient? Addressing this crucial question in our faculty and staff development feature, David P. Diaz proposes some key concepts for faculty and administrators: pedogogy-based training, an emphasis on context-specific applications, an ethic of collaboration, and a flexible combination of both virtual and face-to-face interaction. Such a fourfold strategy, Diaz notes, would save valuable resources by streamlining the process, thereby making technology integration a much more accessible goal for institutions. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=924 Mary Harrsch recommends an excellent new tool called Dragon Web Surveys. For a reasonable price, Dragon Web enables non-programmers to design full-featured Web-based surveys. Users can define a single response question with either a radio button or a drop-down list, a multiple response question with check boxes, a value response question for a numeric response, a text response question with space for a short or long text response, or a Likert scale question where respondents rate items on a numeric scale. The software also offers different security options and multiuser remote capability, and it outshines its predecessors. Still not sold? Read Harrsch's full report to find out how she took advantage of a free 30-day downloadable demo. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=919 In his review of our spotlight site, Stephen Downes introduces Technology Source readers to Harvard University's Research Matters. The site not only offers an impressive range of accessible research from Harvard faculty, but provides such information in a highly polished, easy-to-navigate format reminiscent of the finest commercial e-journals. In its fine balance of content and design, Research Matters provides a worthy standard for bridging the gap between the university and the general public. After a first browse, researchers and web designers alike will find themselves making further visits. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=964 From: Richard Bear Subject: A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curste Wyfe Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:43:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 575 (575) Readers of Humanist may wish to know that Renascence Editions has just published its 151st title, _A merry Ieste of a shrewde and curste Wyfe, lapped in Morelles Skin, for her good behauyour_, <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/jest.html>. From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.342 changes Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:42:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 576 (576) ....snip.... Even at the school I finally retired from, and to which I owe my work with computers, I was told that the VPAA did not consider me a candidate for Extra Merit because I was programming instead of making editions of medieval texts. (I kept on doing what I was doing and he eventually left.) From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP -- Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:02:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 577 (577) Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Call for Papers [please redistribute] Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2002 Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities May 26-8, 2002 U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/ > Open Call for Papers: Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2002 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (May 26-8, 2002; U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U). Topics addressed may include, but will not be limited to, the following: - humanities computing figured as discipline and/or inter-discipline (via exploration or exemplification) - computing and its relation to disciplinary work, and disciplinary boundaries, within the Arts and Humanities - society and the computer, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, - oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats - concerns related to two special joint sessions with ACCUTE (see below for details) Submit a paper proposal via this URL: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Proposals.asp (proposals can be accepted until December 15). For submission of panel proposals, please contact the 2002 Conference Chair, Ray Siemens, directly at siemensr@mala.bc.ca . Preliminary Conference Details: - 2 1/2 days of meetings, with an afternoon outing and banquet on May 27th. - A total of 10 sessions, consisting of 3 papers each. - A number of proposed joint sessions, including: - The Early Modern English Lexicon (Ian Lancashire, organiser; joint session with ACCUTE). - Theorizing Computer Games: Do We Need a New Theory? (Andrew Mactavish, organiser; joint session with ACCUTE). - Mind Technologies (Ray Siemens and David Moorman, organisers; joint session with SSHRC). Contacts and Links: - Details of the 2002 Congress (includes lodging and registration information): http://www.hssfc.ca/english/congress/congress.html - COCH/COSH Home Page: http://www2.arts.ubc.ca/fhis/winder/cochcosh/ - COCH/COSH Membership Form: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/C-C-2001membership.asp - Ray Siemens, 2002 Conference Chair: siemensr@mala.bc.ca Joint Sessions with ACCUTE * The Early Modern English Lexicon Can we significantly improve our understanding of English, 1450-1700, by using resources other than the monumental Oxford English Dictionary? Commercial databases like Literature Online and Early English Books Online, academic publications such as the Helsinki Corpus and Jurgen Schafer's Early Modern English Lexicography (1989), and freely searchable Web services including Renascence Editions and the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database invite researchers to annotate difficult words, phrases, and passages themselves. EME word-sleuthing has become possible for a much wider scholarly community. These new resources raise questions. - To what extent do EME speakers now appear to be making markedly different assumptions about language -- words -- than we find informing established authorities like the OED? - What was "English," the language that Sir Philip Sidney said it would be insulting to teach native speakers? - After being glossed from original language texts, do once familiar literary works and passages no longer make the same kind of sense? - What types of language materials from the EME period have been neglected, and what do we stand to learn from them? These include antiquarian treatises, anything in manuscript, and encyclopedic works such as herbals. - Is it possible to learn from the early lexical `drudges,' as Samuel Johnson characterized his predecessors, the early lexicographers? Proposals for presentations are invited that address these and other questions related to the EME lexicon. Submit by e-mail or snail mail a full paper or 500 word abstract plus a short biography and cv by December 15 to: Ian Lancashire New College Wetmore Hall 300 Huron Street University of Toronto Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 2Z3 ian.lancashire@sympatico.ca * Theorizing Computer Games: Do We Need a New Theory? Although late to the scene, humanities scholars have begun defining approaches to computer game scholarship, the most common being rooted in studies of narrative, cinema, and dramatic performance. As promising as these perspectives are, Espen Aarseth cautions against the oft-repeated mistake he finds in many recent approaches to digital media: " the race is on to conquer and colonize these new territories for our existing paradigms and theories, often in the form of "the theoretical perspectives of is clearly really a prediction/description of ." (Aarseth, 1999, 31 & 32) This joint session between COCH/COSH and ACCUTE will address the problem--if, in fact, there is a problem--with theorizing computer games from perspectives used to explain narrative, cinema, and dramatic performance. If theoretical perspectives for analyzing non-digitally interactive forms of art and culture potentially represent computer games as something they are not, then what are the new questions we must ask about computer games that require new paradigms and theories? What is there about computer games that make them so different from other forms of culture that they need their own theory? Can computer games be understood in terms of narrative, cinema, or dramatic performance? Or does their use of character, plot, time, space, interactivity, user-initiated sequencing, subject positioning, special effects, and new computer technologies require a new theory of computer games? Proposals for presentations are invited that address these and other questions related to the theorization of computer games. Submit by e-mail or snail mail a full paper or 500 word abstract plus a short bio and CV by December 15 to: Andrew Mactavish McMaster University School of the Arts 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario CANADA L8S 4M2 mactavis@mcmaster.ca From: John Merritt Unsworth Subject: Re: 15.346 meeting, workshop, conference Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:00:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 578 (578) Correction: [deleted quotation] Individual subscribers are welcome in the Consortium and at the meeting, but according to the TEI-C bylaws, only institutional members can vote. [deleted quotation] Apologies for the misstatement, John Unsworth From: Charles Ess Subject: preliminary report - internet research ethics Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:01:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 579 (579) Colleagues: I'm pleased to call to your attention the preliminary report of the ethics working committee of the association of internet researchers, as presented to the aoir 2.0 conference this past October in Minneapolis, MN. It can be found at aoir.org/reports/ethics.html As the report notes, this is a very preliminary first effort at circumscribing the ways in which research into online behaviors is both similar to and, in specific circumstances, distinct from traditional human subjects research. Accordingly, the traditional guidelines for human subjects research (articulated in various national and disciplinary codes - some of which are collected as an addendum to our report) are ethically relevant to online research - but only up to a point. Beyond the point of strong analogies between traditional human subjects research and some contexts of online research - there further appear to be distinctive new contexts in online research that represent strong _dis-analogies with traditional human subjects research, thus calling for novel ethical reflection on what rights (e.g., to privacy, anonymity, confidentiality, informed consent) subjects may be reasonably expected to enjoy, and thereby what researchers may and may not do in the course of their studies. There is general agreement - across a number of national borders (committee members represent cultures and traditions from around the world, as is required for a communications medium with a global reach) - regarding the basic values that should guide internet research, _and_ their application to specific cases - e.g., whether the communicative behavior of persons in chatrooms can be observed without consent. (The committee agrees that it can, given that peoples' behavior in public spaces, according to traditional guidelines, can be observed without consent - and given a strong analogy between a publicly-accessible chatroom and a public space in the embodied world.) Of course, there is also spirited disagreement as to the application of those values in other cases. We highlight one such case, as a way of illustrating that a) that distinctive details of a given research context can result in more than one ethical interpretation/application of the general guidelines, and b) that just as in our real-world efforts to ascertain generally binding values and apply them to specific cases (e.g., in law) - disagreement is common. This latter point is _not_ taken as an argument for ethical relativism. On the contrary, in keeping with ethics in other domains, there is consensus on a broad range of behaviors that are acceptable, as well as a broad range of behaviors that are not acceptable. Disagreement regarding the cases "in the grey" between those two ranges is to be expected and worked through. Another way of making this point: the application of ethical principles is _not_ to be taken as a mechanical - indeed, algorithmical! - process, in which general principles are somehow applied unproblematically to specific cases with specific rulings 'yea' or 'nay' somehow deductively cranked out. Rather, as ethicists from Aristotle through Simone de Beauvoir have noted, ambiguity, uncertainty, and disagreement are intrinsic to the process. This further means, however, that despite the intriguing ways in which online research presents both strong analogies and important dis-analogies with traditional human subjects research - precisely the dis-analogies, and the correlative requirement that we struggle to extend our ethical judgment into new areas reiterate other ancient philosophical insights. What is needed, Aristotle noted, is _phronesis_, a kind of seasoned and informed ethical judgment that, partly through the lessons of experience and attempting to apply theory to _praxis_, gradually develops into a largely reliable ethical sensibility that can indeed cope with new contexts and situations. Confucius would not disagree. As the report itself emphasizes, this document is but the first step in an on-going process. On behalf of the committee, I welcome any comments and feedback HUMANISTS may wish to provide. With hopes for peace, Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Digitalizing the human body by David Gugerli et. al. Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:00:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 580 (580) Dear Dr. William McCarty, This is an interesting research project on "Digitalizing the human body" in the Cultural and institutional contexts of computer based image processing in medical practice is in progress at History of Technology Institute at ETH Zuerich, thought might interest to Humanist scholars. The case of MRI in Switzerland! The project leaders are Professor David Gugerli, Dr. Barbara Orland, & Dr. Regula Burri. EXCERPT: -------- During the last quarter of this century, medical practice has undergone a profound technological change. The physicians technical means to visualize the structure, the functions, and the deficiencies of the human body have seen a development whose weight is only comparable to the emergence of the anatomic theater in early modern times and the introduction of x-ray techniques at the end of the 19th century. Computer based imaging technologies such as ultrasound, computer assisted tomography, positrone emission tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging have dramatically amplified the possibilities of medical diagnosis and intervention. Full text can be found at: <http://www.tg.ethz.ch/forschung/projektbeschreib/MRI/MRIAbstract.htm> Thanks! Best regards, Arun From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Cyborg Guidelines Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:00:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 581 (581) Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, Hi, another project on "Cyborg Guidelines" is in progress at History of Technology Institute, ETH Zuerich -thought might interest to humanist scholars. It is about Project Visions and R&D Strategies in Computer Engineering. The project leaders are Prof. David Gugerli and Dr. Carmen Baumeler. EXCERPT: --------- "Cybernetic organisms" are inhabiting our concepts of a future man-machine relationship ever since Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline published their "Cyborgs and Space" article in 1960. From a conceptual point of view, Clynes and Kline had a very clear approach: Instead of carrying a small, artificial environment in order to survive in an unfriendly natural environment (e.g. wearing a special space suit during extra vehicular activities), they rather proposed to change the homeostatic conditions and cybernetic controls of the organism itself: "If man in space, in addition to flying his vehicle, must continuously be checking on things and making adjustments merely in order to keep himself alive, he becomes a slave to the machine. The purpose of the Cyborg, as well as his own homeostatic systems, is to provide an organizational system in which such robot-like problems are taken care of automatically and unconsciously, leaving man free to explore, to create, to think, and to feel." (Clynes and Kline 1960, see also Driscoll 1963). In 1984, William Gibson published his influential novel Neuromancer where he created a similar vision of the future relationship between humans and technology (Gibson 1984). From Neuromancer we got the now ubiquitous term "cyberspace", which describes a new class of cybernetically controlled spaces. Complete details about the project can be found here: <http://www.tg.ethz.ch/forschung/projektbeschreib/Wearable%20Computing/CyborgGuidelines.htm> <http://www.wearable.ethz.ch/> Thank you! Sincerely Arun Tripathi From: Dirk Kottke Subject: Einladung zum 83. Kolloquium Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:57:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 582 (582) 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 83. 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. Jede(r) Interessierte ist willkommen. T H E M E N Der TITUS-Server: Grundlagen eines multilingualen Online-Retrieval-Systems Referent: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert Institut fr Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Universitt Frankfurt/Main Bild und Text als Informationsquellen: Erfassung und Analyse altgyptischer Daten Referent: Prof. Dr. Horst Beinlich Institut fr gyptologie, Universitt Wrzburg Zeit: Samstag, 17. November 2001, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Waechterstr. 76 (EG) gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 82. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot82.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 | Universitt Tbingen | Tel. 07071/29-70309 Zentrum fr Datenverarbeitung | FAX: 07071/29-5912 Wchterstrasse 76 | e-mail: kottke@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de D-72074 Tbingen | ==================================================================== From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2002: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:58:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 583 (583) Apologies for any duplication; please forward widely as appropriate. *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Museums and the Web 2002 April 17 -20, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Deadline: November 30, 2001. Thousands of cultural heritage institutions are now on-line, presenting programs, creating communities and delivering information using the world wide web. But museums, libraries, archives and others involved in creating digital heritage have much to learn about what makes web sites successful. To facilitate this exchange of information, Archives & Museum Informatics organizes an annual international conference devoted exclusively to Museums and the Web. Since the first Museums and the Web in 1997, the conference has grown steadily to become the largest gathering of cultural heritage technologists world-wide. You are invited to play a role at Museums and the Web 2002. Deliver a paper, demonstrate your site, host an on-line activity, orchestrate an event or present a workshop the program is made up from suggestions by professionals like you! Full details and on-line proposal submission are available at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ The MW2002 program addresses Web-related issues for museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions. Participants are selected by the Program Committee, based on the quality of their proposal and their previous work. The Deadline for Proposals is November 30, 2001. Watch for the Preliminary Program on-line in January, 2002. Accepted speakers must write full papers for the MW2002 Proceedings, available to all registrants at the conference, and published pre-conference on the Web. Others may write papers if they wish. All papers are due February 15, 2002. Conference Papers are on-line for all previous Museums and the Web conferences. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html for links. Printed proceedings (with an accompanying CD-ROM) are also available. Questions? Email mw2002@archimuse.com with any questions about Museums and the Web. If you would like to receive the Preliminary Program, please join our mailing list at http://www.archimuse.com/mailinglist.html See you in Boston! jennifer and David Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, MW2002 Program co-chairs. -- ________ J. Trant and D. Bearman mw2002@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web Boston, Massachusetts Archives & Museum Informatics April 17-20, 2002 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: International Symposium: NOKIA SINGAPORE ART 2001 Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:02:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 584 (584) Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Hi, an International Symposium on "International Art Practices" -thought might interest to Humanist Scholars, will be held on 7-9 December 2001, Singapore Art Musuem. In this symposium, famous cyber artists, cultural artists and historians, such as Irina Aristarkhova, Gunalan Nadarajan, Machiko Kusahara and others will be presenting their works. Nokia Singapore Art (NSA) is a biennial visual arts festival at displaying the latest contemporary art developments in Singapore.... Complete details are available (in PDF format) at: <http://www.nac.gov.sg/main_events_html/nokia%20arts%20flash/NSA_Symposium.pdf> Thank you! Spasiba! Dasvidaniya! Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi ============================================================================= Der Leib ist die Natur; die wir selbst sind. Wir duerfen uns deshalb fuer die Frage, was natur ist, nicht auf die Aussagen der Naturwissenschaft beschraenken, sondern muessen einbeziehen, was wir als Natur an uns selbst erfahren. [-Gernot Boehme, Beruehmte Darmstaedter Philosoph-] ============================================================================= From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: Western Canon Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:57:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 585 (585) I came across a reference to Sir John Lubbock's list of the 100 best books. But I have been unable to get a copy of this list of books. Does anyone have this list available or is able to point me in the direction where I can locate one. Thank you David Reed From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Assessment of Human Brain, Intelligent Machines, Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:02:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 586 (586) Computers and Global Inequalities -First Draft Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Could any of humanist scholars please provide any references to the below draft/notes? Comments are appreciated!! Thank you in advance. Assessment of Human Brain, Intelligent Machines, Computers and Global inequalities, etc. By Arun Kumar Tripathi, Research Scholar, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany I would like to begin this essay by thought-provoking ideas on intelligent machines, which may be somewhat ridiculous As the year 2001 starts rushing headlong towards us, we all are thinking about many changes. But how many of us are thinking along the radical lines of several recent books (e.g. Ray Kurzweils gospel of intelligent machines and the vision of Hans Moravec) all of which, all of which written by highly reputed authorities and scientists they argue that because of the relentless accelerating march of technology, desktop-computer power will, within just a few decades, far exceed that of the human brain, and shortly thereafter will even exceed the collective thinking power of all humanity. They further argue that such thinking entities will merge with nanotechnology and virtual reality, and the products that will emerge from this convergence will be intelligences of an inconceivably powerful short, leaving and sweeping (humanity) humans behind the dust. To some extent is true, but there is much exaggerations. The human brain remains unfathomably more complex than and electronic device yet developed, and likely to be developed for generations to come. What all this computing power does is to provide new and expanded capacities for the exercise of the human imagination. And, regarding computing power and human imagination further ideas Computers and networks allow us to store, manipulate, access, and use vast quantities of information. Such techniques as data warehousing for example, allow managers to explore information in previously impossible ways, searching for and examining relationships. Further, computers enable people to design new and better products (including products that allow even more power to design new and better products) through their capacity to calculate at lightening speed. Computer data management, storage, and communications have also improved the ability of business to make, manage, and market their products. It appears that great efficiencies are now being realized through these means. (Now if those benefits can only be expanded to encompass the less developed nations..) Even school children can now easily create presentations using graphics, sound, motion, and text, which both sparks their interest and enables them to organize their information and ideas in new ways. Hyperstudio and Powerpoint are among the products used for that purpose. Herewith I would like to add one more thought-provoking idea The brain is presumably some kind of information processor. Why cant the cerebral engineers measure how well the neurons are manipulating data in much the same way computer engineers benchmark the blazing speed of an Apple G3 ship against that of an Intel Pentium? In time, above motive can be achieved perhaps the brain is far too complex (an operating at too many levels) to permit that sort of analysis now. About all that can be done is to analyze in the light of output. Intelligent is demonstrated by action. As the late Dr. Laurence J. Peter said, The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure time. There is some developments, that have taken place that studying the precursors to the signals that control muscles. Human brain is a computer, an overdone analogy. I am not at all sure, that it is very helpful in reality. The human brain has existed for millions of years and has been undergoing evolution from its origins for billions of years. Computers have existed for only a few decades. Again, it is too complex to discuss here, that the various actions to be performed by a computer are all decided by the human brains, not by computer itself. Though, inarguable, I suppose in the sense that only a specified repertoire of actions of actions are available to a computer. (But how and when to take actions, and in what degree and combination is a more difficult matter) Computers can only follow instructions, they dont read mind. Feedback and remote sensing systems can indeed let a computer change its course of actions done all the time. To add more -- -- It finally dawned on me that what is so problematic about the comparison (of human brain and computers) is that the analogy is backwards. People refer as the brain as being like a computer. No. Computers are a human attempt to electromechanically reproduce a very limited subset of what the brain can (with the aid of such devices as paper and pencil!) do. In other words, computers are like (limited aspects of ) the brain. Very fast and reliable for some purposes (some very important and valuable ones!), but still only a pale shadow of the brain. In short we could say, Comparison between computers and brains is misguided except at the most basic hardware level. Computers are not intended to be anything like brains, and their design is fundamentally unrelated to anything that goes on in brains. This is true at every level from synpases to culture. One of the challenges, that the brain does not work at all like a computer, also provides us with an opportunity: the possibility of new modes of interaction that allow us to take advantage of the complementary talents of humans and machines. Human brain is a computer this is a hypothesis rather an objective fact. It is one way to look at the brain: one says we can think of it as a computer. I think it is a productive one, if understand properly; but many people disagree and emphasize the differences between brains and computers, and suggest that it is better to think of the brain differently, e.g. in terms of cybernetics or biology or dynamics. Now to the global inequalities: First of course, I recognize that there is an inequality of access to information and that it is largely drawn along economic lines. Second, I think we all must remember that this inequality has always existed there has always been such an inequality since the dawn of history. Some people have better access have the best economic means, that does not mean we should abandon efforts to make internet as accessible and affordable as possible, but I dont think the inequality is substantively different from that which has existed forever, therefore we have survived it in the past and can survive it now. May only real complaint about the frequent have/have-not arguments is that they seem to ignore that past history as if the internet situation is somehow unique and different from books (which once were reserved only for the church and the rich and noble), telephones, television and so on. And, pertaining to these ideas, communication technologies offer (1) a chance at reasonable cost to greatly improve access to information and (2) incentive for businesses to further increase equality of access, as doing so ultimately increases their own markets. This is a case of economic self interest (quickly, I think) toward enhanced opportunity worldwide. The cost of distributing information via the Internet is a fraction of the cost of distributing it by way of paper. The cost of promoting business via the Internet is likewise a fraction of the cost of previous methods. Although many costs of delivery remain, the overall cost of doing business should decline sharply for may kinds of business. In sum, I think the opportunities are excellent, even if now without the difficulties and challenges that result from worldwide competition. Best Regards Arun Kumar Tripathi ECP Ring Leader <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/arun.html> ============================================================================= Der Leib ist die Natur; die wir selbst sind. Wir duerfen uns deshalb fuer die Frage, was natur ist, nicht auf die Aussagen der Naturwissenschaft beschraenken, sondern muessen einbeziehen, was wir als Natur an uns selbst erfahren. [-Gernot Boehme, Beruehmte Darmstaedter Philosoph-] ============================================================================= From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Don Ihde and the Concept of Embodiment--a new approach Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:24:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 587 (587) for humanists Dear Dr. Willard McCarty, Don Ihde, the distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has authored twelve books to date, the most recent of which have been Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science (1998), and Postphenomenology (1993). His very latest book, "Bodies in Technology" is published by University of Minnesota Press. "Bodies of Technology" spells out the original exploration of the ways cyberspace affects the human experience. The book is useful to those research scholars who are exploring the role of bodies in the virtual reality. The book is the study of embodiment in cyberspace. An ideal book also related to human-computer interaction. In this book, Don Ihde explores the meaning of bodies in technology, that how the sense of our bodies and our orientation in the world is affected by various form of information technologies. The research of Don Ihde is important to the humanist scholars because it provokes a new approach to study how to use and integrate computers and technologies for the humanity. An important work by Don Ihde on "Was Heidegger prescient concerning Technoscience? Abstract of the Essay: ----------------------- In his very last written communication, a letter to the American Heidegger Conference two weeks before his death, Heidegger reaffirmed the importance of the question of the relationship between science and technology. This paper re-examines Heidegger's 'philosophy of science' with a reappraisal of what was innovative, and what remained archaic. Heidegger then is read against the background of the 'new' approaches to science in science studies, and against the background of the scientific revolutions which have occured since the mid-20th century. In the article "Embodied Systems: Introducing General-purpose Wearable Computers" Dr. Daniel Faellman presents the notion of computing named Embodied Systems. In this article, author suggests that this concept will move the computer devices from the desks to the users' bodies. The author addresses the notion of computing by the term "Embodied Systems", drawing on the concept of embodiment as seen and understood by phenomenologist philosopher Don Ihde. The author Dr. Faellman in the article, extensively discusses the favorite book of Don Ihde, "Technology and the Lifeworld, from Garden to Earth." [Highly Recommended Book] Complete essay (important and recommended) is at <http://daniel-pc.informatik.umu.se/resources/papers/Fallman_IRIS99.pdf> Comments and criticisms are appreciated! Thank you. With best regards, Arun Tripathi From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 588 (588) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 589 (589) [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder: LREC 2002 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:01:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 590 (590) [The following is a reminder for the Language Resources and Evaluation conference, for which see <http://www.lrec-conf.org/>. --WM] [deleted quotation] ************************** Reminder: LREC 2002 ************************** Organised by ELRA in co-operation with world wide associations and consortia Please visit the web site dedicated to the LREC conferences for further details about LREC 2002: lrec-conf.org Where: Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Spain) When: 27th May 2002 - 2nd June 2002 Important dates & deadlines: Submission of proposals for oral papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops: 20/11/2001 Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 10/12/2001 Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 02/02/2002 Final version for the proceedings: 02/04/2002 Pre-Conference workshops: 27 & 28/05/2002 Main Conference: 29, 30 & 31/05/2002 Post-Conference: 01 & 02/06/2002 Electronic submission of abstracts (in ASCII file format) should be sent to: lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it, attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC Chairman. Submission in hard copy (five copies) should be sent to: Antonio Zampolli LREC Chairman Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa San Cataldo Via G. Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa - ITALY From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'02 Call for Workshop Proposals Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:02:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 591 (591) [deleted quotation] ACL '02 Call for Workshop Proposals The ACL'02 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the ACL'02 40th Anniversary Meeting. We welcome proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. We also encourage proposals involving neighboring research areas such as speech technology, information retrieval, text and data mining, biological information extraction, computational psycholinguistics, etc. The workshops will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2002 and Friday, July 12, 2002 at the ACL '02 conference venue. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. The following URL provides general information on policies regarding attendance, publication, financing, and sponsorship: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/workshop-support-general-policy.html In addition, the following URL gives specific policies on sponsorship and financial support of Sig workshops: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/workshops-Sig-financial-policy.html Submission Details Proposals for workshops should contain: * A title and brief description (< 500 words) of the workshop topic. * A budget proposal. (ACL workshops are expected to be self-financing.) * A description of target audience and expected number of participants. * The intended length (half a day to two days) * A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted. Please submit proposals as soon as possible, preferably by electronic mail in plain ASCII text to the workshop chair: daelem@uia.ua.ac.be or by regular mail to: Walter Daelemans ACL'02 Workshop Chair CNTS Language Technology Group GER UIA, University of Antwerp Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Antwerpen Belgium (32) 38202766 (phone) (32) 38202762 (fax) Important Dates December 3, 2001 Submission deadline for workshop proposals December 10, 2001 Notification of acceptance workshop proposal July 11-12, 2002 Workshop Dates From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'02 Call for Tutorial Proposals Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:02:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 592 (592) [deleted quotation] ACL '02 Call for Tutorial Proposals The Program Committee of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ACL '02, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7th-12th, 2002 (see http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/acl02/index.shtml). The tutorials for ACL '02 will be held on July 7th, 2002. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three-hour tutorial slot (including a 30 minute break). However, in exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are possible as well. There will be space and time for at most four three-hour tutorials. TUTORIALS CHAIR Hwee Tou Ng, DSO National Laboratories, 20 Science Park Drive, Singapore 118230, Republic of Singapore, nhweetou@dso.org.sg SUBMISSION DETAILS Proposals for tutorials should contain: * A title and brief (less than 500 words) content description of the tutorial topic. * The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement of the speaker's(s') research interests and areas of expertise. * Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector, computer infrastructure, etc.) Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII (iso8859-1) text as soon as possible, but in any case no later than January 11th, 2002. Please email your proposals to nhweetou@dso.org.sg, with the subject line: "ACL '02 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL". PLEASE NOTE: PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY REGULAR MAIL OR FAX. PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by January 25th, 2002 and must then provide descriptions of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by March 29th, 2002. The description should be in three formats: a latex version that fits onto 1/2 page; an ASCII (iso8859-1) version that can be included with the email announcement; and an HTML version that can be included on the conference home page. Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the overhead transparencies to be used as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial by May 10th, 2002. FINANCIAL INFORMATION The current ACL policy is that tutorials are reimbursed at the following rate: US$500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15 per registrant in excess of 50. Note that this is per tutorial, not per presenter: multiple presenters will split the proceeds, the default assumption being an even split. The ACL does not usually cover any further expenses. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for proposal: 11th January, 2002 Notification of acceptance: 25th January, 2002 Tutorial descriptions due: 29th March, 2002 Tutorial course material due: 10th May, 2002 Tutorials date: 7th July, 2002 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: AT2AI-3 From Agent Theory to Agent Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:03:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 593 (593) Implementation [deleted quotation] *** Call For Papers *** Call For Papers *** Call For Papers *** AT2AI-3 Third International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~paolo/conf/at2ai3.html> held at the 16th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2002) April 2-5, 2002, Vienna, Austria, EU http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/> Paper submission deadline: November 16, 2001 INTRODUCTION: By the time the first symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" was held in April 1998, agent-based technology had already made a fast inroad from highly specialised workshops to mainstream textbooks. Rapid progress has continued to date, resulting in an ever expanding range of underpinning theories, architectural models, engineering methods, implementation frameworks, and tools. Even so, there remain many issues to be investigated and clarified concerning the relations between theoretical models of agents and multiagent systems on the one hand, and the deployment of implementations based on these models and architectures in real-world applications on the other, including perspectives on the supporting infrastructure and middleware. The main objective of this symposium is to foster the exchange of ideas and experience among researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and application-oriented issues of agent technology, covering both the micro and macro aspects of agent design and the transition from drawing boards and partly idealised models, over modeling tools and frameworks, to deployment, configuration and maintenance of implementations. Of particular relevance to the symposium is work that reports insights gathered and lessons learnt when applying specific agent theories or architectures to application problems, and that discusses methods, methodologies, and other tools, that can help system designers to successfully accomplish the mapping between available agent technology on the one hand, and application problems on the other. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: * Please consult the symposium web page for latest updates (http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/~paolo/conf/at2ai3.html>) * For information about paper formatting, registration, and accommodation, see the main EMCSR 2002 Web site (http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/>) From: Andrew Mactavish Subject: Tenure-Track Job, McMaster University - Multimedia and Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:52:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 594 (594) Digital Video Multimedia and Digital Video The School of the Arts at McMaster University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Multimedia and Digital Video. The School of the Arts is one of the fastest growing academic units in the Faculty of Humanities and provides an environment that encourages interdisciplinary activities. The School houses an innovative and highly successful BA Combined Honours in Multimedia. Current Multimedia faculty research initiatives include IRIS (Infrastructure for Research on Internet Streaming) and Text Technology: The Journal of Computer Text Processing. Applicants should have either an M.F.A. or a Ph.D. in Film Studies, Communications, Fine Art, Drama, English or any discipline in which the required skills and expertise have been obtained. 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 multimedia. 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 or compelling promise of research (practical and theoretical) in one or more of the following areas: Digital Video, Video Art, New Media, or Hypermedia. Digital video practitioners who engage with current theoretical paradigms are encouraged to apply. 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. 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 the Arts 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 the Arts, 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 $43,662. Commencement date for the appointment will be July 1, 2002. Applications received by December 31, 2001 will be assured of consideration. Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be considered first for this position. 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. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: PhD Studentships: Saarbruecken-Edinburgh Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:54:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 595 (595) [deleted quotation] Saarland University is pleased to announce the availability of three doctoral scholarships within the recently established European Post-Graduate College "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" Saarbruecken - Edinburgh starting in April 1st, 2002. Each scholarship will be funded for two years (extendable to three years). Doctoral degrees may be obtained in computational linguistics, phonetics, and informatics (computer science), from Saarland University. The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of Informatics) - two leading institutions in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science who are collaborating in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The cooperation includes * a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh * joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and Edinburgh * an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week forum attended by college members and lecturers from both centres) The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human language processing, particularly emphasising the following research areas: * inference and reasoning * knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology * data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and statistical language modelling) * dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models) * language understanding Lecturers in Saarbruecken are M. Pinkal, H. Uszkoreit (computational linguistics), W. Barry (phonetics), M. Crocker (psycholinguistics), M. Kohlhase, J. Siekmann, G. Smolka, W. Wahlster (informatics/AI). In Edinburgh, lecturers include M. Fourman, E. Klein, A. Lascarides, C. Mellish, J. Moore, J. Oberlander, M. Osborne, M. Pickering, M. Steedman, P. Taylor, B. Webber, and C. Williams. The scholarship provides up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional compensation includes family allowance (where applicable), travel funding, and an additional monthly allowance of approximately DM 1,410 for the stay in Edinburgh. Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the relevant areas, preferably at the Masters level (equivalent to German Diplom) and should not be more than 28 years of age. Female scientists and international students are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications should include: 1. a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible) 2. a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation, preferably in English) 3. copies of high school and university degree certificates 4. two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker) 5. an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted (computational linguistics, phonetics, or informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a brief outline of research interests to be pursued within the scholarship. Applications should be sent (hardcopy format strongly preferred) to the speaker of the college (see address below). Closing date for applications is Dec 14th, 2001. Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker) Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University P.O. Box 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbruecken Tel: +49 (0)681 302-6560 E-mail: egk-admin@coli.uni-sb.de Fax: +49 (0)681 302-6561 Internet: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Statewide offering of The AMICO Library via Nylink Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:16:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 596 (596) [deleted quotation] Statewide offering of The AMICO LibraryTM through Agreement with Nylink AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and Nylink have entered into a cooperative purchasing agreement to make The AMICO LibraryTM available to Nylink's membership at competitive rates. The AMICO Library will be available for subscription via two distributor options, H.W. Wilson (http://www.hwwilson.com) or VTLS (http://www.vtls.com). A preview trial period of The AMICO Library will be in effect Nov. 15th through Dec. 31st, 2001; then, subscriptions will begin Jan. 1st, 2002. Full Nylink members and cooperative purchasing participants should visit http://www.nylink.suny.edu/coop/coop.htm to learn more and sign up for the free trial. Nylink is a diverse membership organization of over 350 institutions in New York state and the surrounding region. The institutional diversity that will now come into contact with The AMICO Library furthers AMICO's goal of wide delivery matched to varied user needs. Jennifer Trant, AMICO's Executive Director, declared, "This is a landmark agreement for AMICO. Not only do we now have exposure to a wide-ranging mix of potential AMICO Library subscribers, we get to introduce two of our new distributors and secure a relationship with Nylink. Organizations like Nylink provide excellent opportunities for AMICO to broaden our reach beyond the higher educational level in which we have already made in-roads and gain recognition as a resource with applicability for K-12 schools and public libraries, as well." Mary-Alice Lynch, Executive Director of Nylink, adds, "Providing access to The AMICO Library via our cooperative purchasing agreement is a welcome addition to the current offerings that Nylink makes available. We feel that making strong, well-documented visual materials available to our members is important for curricular multiplicity and users' education in visual literacy." About Nylink Nylink, established in 1973 as The SUNY/OCLC Network, is a not-for-profit membership organization providing services to libraries throughout New York State and beyond. As one of 16 regional OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)-affiliated networks, Nylink provides user support and training for OCLC products and services to its member libraries. Additionally, Nylink provides training, support and consulting services for libraries on a broad range of technology-related issues, and facilitates group purchasing opportunities to help libraries obtain cost-effective alternatives to electronic information. All libraries and library-related organizations in the state of New York are eligible for Nylink membership.Nylink's goal continues to be to provide our members with the information, training and support they need. Approximately 350 institutions, representing more than 700 academic, special, government, law, medical, public, school and non-profit libraries, and library systems, are Nylink members. Depending on the needs of your library, and the services you choose, Nylink offers a range of membership categories. Nylink members are encouraged to advise both the Network and OCLC, and to have a voice in Network planning and decision making. Full members of Nylink have the opportunity to become involved with its governance, and to participate in Nylink Advisory Groups and Nylink Council. Nylink is administered through the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the State University of New York. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an independent non-profit corporation with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS. Founded in 1997 with 23 Members, the Consortium today is made up of over 30 major museums in the United States and Canada. It's an innovative collaboration not seen before in museums that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. AMICO Members make annual contributions of multimedia documentation of works in their museums' collections. This is regularly compiled and made available as The AMICO Library to universities, colleges, schools, and public libraries. The 2001-2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 78,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. More than simply an image database, works in The AMICO Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related multimedia. "Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources," states Ms. Trant. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to institutional subscribers including universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums, and now serves over 1.5 million users on four continents, including faculty, students, teachers, staff, and researchers. Educational institutions may subscribe to The AMICO Library by contacting one of its distributors. These include the Research Libraries Group (RLG), the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), H.W. Wilson, SCRAN, and VTLS. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at http://www.amico.org. Contact Information: AMICO Kelly Richmond Communications Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: kelly@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org Nylink Jen Stelling Products and Services Librarian Email: stellingj@nylink.suny.edu OR Tatiana Sahm Products and Services Librarian Email: sahmt@nylink.suny.edu Nylink Phone: 518-443-5444 or 1-800-342-3353 Web: http://www.nylink.suny.edu ------------------------- Kelly Richmond Communications Director Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA phone: +1 412 422 8533 fax: +1 412 422 8594 http://www.amico.org kelly@amico.org -------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: VTLS Inc. and AMICO Sign Distribution Agreement Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:17:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 597 (597) [deleted quotation] Greater Delivery Choices for The AMICO LibraryTM: VTLS Inc. and AMICO Sign Distribution Agreement AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and VTLS Inc. have signed a distribution agreement to deliver The AMICO LibraryTM. VTLS Inc., a leader in client-server integrated library automation solutions, is the latest in a series of providers, announced in recent months, making The AMICO Library available for a variety of user types, from small art institutes to large public library systems, K-12 schools to state universities, at reasonable rates with different functional and interface flexibility. The objective is to make The AMICO Library widely available and provide users with a choice of service providers so they may select one that particularly suits their unique needs. To begin distribution of their presentation of The AMICO Library VTLS has agreed to be a distributor option for the cooperative purchasing program newly available to Nylink members. Nylink is a not-for-profit membership organization providing services to libraries throughout New York State and beyond. Services include training, support and consulting services for libraries on a broad range of technology-related issues and facilitating group purchasing opportunities to help libraries obtain cost-effective access to electronic information. A preview trial period will be available to Nylink members from Nov. 15 to Dec. 31, 2001. As AMICO's Executive Director, Jennifer Trant, notes, "VTLS is a wonderful addition to our growing provider array. VTLS's existing alliances in libraries worldwide and their multi-lingual capabilities are of great interest to AMICO. We hope these connections will help build links to and added functionality for potential users of The AMICO Library in countries beyond those we currently serve, since this expanded access keeps our Members activated and engaged. As a proven expert in library automation with a keen focus on technology and future-driven solutions without sparing the ultimate user focus VTLS coordinates well with AMICO's own desire to promote technology to widen and deepen educational use of museum collections." "Our work to process and deliver The AMICO Library has been an exciting challenge. We feel that we have found a great way to allow users to examine and enjoy this visually rich collection," says Dr. Vinod Chachra, President of VTLS Inc. "The Virtua Hi-Resolution Image Navigator seems perfectly suited for displaying this unique collection." About VTLS VTLS Inc. (www.vtls.com) is an ISO 9001 registered company. With over 25 years of experience creating smarter libraries, museums, archives and corporations, VTLS Inc. is an international leader in integrated library automation, digital imaging services and RFID technology. VTLS Inc. solutions include Virtua ILS - Integrated Library Systems, Visual MIS - Multimedia and Imaging Solutions and Vista CPS - Companion Product Suite. VTLS is a corporate member of the American Library Association, a voting member of NISO, and a charter member and sponsor of CNI. A diverse customer base of more than 900 libraries located in 32 countries gives VTLS a global perspective of the industry and compels the company to abide by strict international standards. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is an independent non-profit corporation with 501 (c) 3 designation from the IRS. Founded in 1997 with 23 Members, the Consortium today is made up of over 30 major museums in the United States and Canada. It's an innovative collaboration not seen before in museums that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. AMICO Members make annual contributions of multimedia documentation of works in their museums' collections. This is regularly compiled and made available as The AMICO Library to universities, colleges, schools, and public libraries. The 2001-2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 78,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. More than simply an image database, works in The AMICO Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related multimedia. "Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources," states Ms. Trant. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to institutional subscribers including universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums, and now serves over 1.5 million users on four continents, including faculty, students, teachers, staff, and researchers. Educational institutions may subscribe to The AMICO Library by contacting one of its distributors. These include the Research Libraries Group (RLG), the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), H.W. Wilson, SCRAN, and now VTLS. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides a license to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at http://www.amico.org. Contact Information: AMICO Kelly Richmond Communications Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: kelly@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org VTLS Krisha Chachra Public Relations Officer VTLS Inc. Phone: +1 540 557 1200 Email: chachrak@vtls.com Web: http://www.vtls.com ------------------------- Kelly Richmond Communications Director Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA phone: +1 412 422 8533 fax: +1 412 422 8594 http://www.amico.org kelly@amico.org -------------------------- From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: Announcing: NEH eHumanities Lecture Series Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:16:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 598 (598) ***************************************** The National Endowment for the Humanities Presents eHumanities Lecture Series ***************************************** The NEH invites you to attend the next three installments of the eHumanities Lecture Series. The goal of this series is to bring leading scholars to Washington to discuss the relationship of digital technology and the humanities. Last year, we had a terrific turnout for our free lecture series held here at the Old Post Office in Washington, DC. See our web page for detailed information and to register: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html Please feel free to pass this to colleagues. LECTURES IN BRIEF: December 11 Noon "Farewell to the Information Age" GEOFFREY NUNBERG Principal Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University February 13 Noon "After the Internet" JAMES O'DONNELL Professor of Classical Studies Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing University of Pennsylvania February 27 Noon "The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form" WILL THOMAS Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Research Assistant Professor of History University of Virginia ED AYERS Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History University of Virginia **Note: If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please reply and let me know. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: COLING-2002 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:17:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 599 (599) [deleted quotation] COLING-2002: Call for Papers [2001/11/14] ================================================================ 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics August, 24 - September, 1, 2002 Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan ================================================================ Organized by: Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and Tsing Hua University Under the Auspices of: The International Committee on Computational Linguistics URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ================================================================ COLING is the most prominent conference in the field of Computational Linguistics. In its 40 plus years of existence, the biennial COLING has been a productive forum for scholars all over the world to exchange original research papers on a broad range of topics in computational linguistics. COLING is an international forum for discussion and presentation representing the current state of the art and determining standards of computational linguistics research. In 2002, Taiwan will host the 19th COLING conference. This will be the first time that COLING is held outside Europe, North America, or Japan. It will be a chance for participants to experience the energy behind Taiwan's vibrant growth in knowledge technology, as well as the natural beauty of Formosa and its rich cultural heritage. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: ACL-02 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:18:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 600 (600) [deleted quotation] ACL-02 Call For Papers 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 7 - 12 July, 2002 Philadelphia, PA, USA http://www.acl02.org General Conference Chair: Pierre Isabelle (XRCE Grenoble, France) Program Co-Chairs: Eugene Charniak (Brown University, USA) Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Canada) Local Organization Chair: Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Area Chairs: Discourse and Dialogue: Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, USC Generation and Multi-Modality: Stephan Busemann, German Research Center for AI Machine Translation and Multilinguality: Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corp. Lexicon and Semantics: Bonnie Dorr, University of Maryland Speech, Language Modeling and Statistical Methods: Steve Abney, AT&T Research Word Segmentation, Shallow Parsing, Chunking and Tagging: Jan Hajic, Charles University (Prague) Syntax, Grammars, Morphology and Phonology: Mark Steedman, Univ. of Edinburgh Parsing: John Carroll, University of Sussex NLP Applications: Ellen Riloff, University of Utah The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 40th Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the North American Chapter of the ACL. 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, question answering, summarization and information extraction; language-oriented machine learning; 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: Stefan Sinclair Subject: report from the Humanities Computing Curriculum conference Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:21:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 601 (601) Dear colleagues, Malaspina College-University in Nanaimo, on beautiful Vancouver Island, was the site, this past weekend, of our discipline's first major conference on Humanities Computing Curriculum. The importance of this conference to our teaching activities is obvious, which is why I thought I'd try to formulate a report -- reductionist and inevitably partial -- of the proceedings. Apologies in advance to fellow participants for omissions and deformations, particularly from the papers in parallel sessions that I missed; more information available at <http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/HCCurriculum/>. I must begin by congratulating the organisers and hosts on a particularly successful and enjoyable event. Ray Siemens deserves special praise for having struck an excellent balance between the professional and social components that make such a conference so fruitful. The attention to detail and the integration of local culture were especially appreciated. A Discipline in Transition Humanities Computing, since its birth over a half century ago (depending on how retroactively the label is applied to pioneering activities), has been in constant transition. Or, more accurately, it's a discipline that has never been able to satisfactorily define itself (to any substantial degree of consensus). In fact, this constant search for identity is perhaps one of the most important defining aspects of Humanities Computing. It may even be suggested that if ever we were able to conclusively define who we are and what we do, it would signal the beginning of our end, like a language that has stopped evolving and that is fated to die. Of course, very few if any disciplines aren't susceptible to the ebb and flow of fashionable ideas, approaches and methodologies, but very few if any disciplines have as much difficulty as Humanities Computing in defining the sphere of its activities. Still, there is a rich research tradition of Humanities Computing made available to us through journals like Computers and the Humanities and Literary and Linguistic Computing, various seminal books, and conferences like the annual ACH-ALLC joint meeting, The challenge is to sort through and organise what research we've done and are currently doing in order to establish a teaching curriculum to pass on to our students. In the terms suggested by Geoffrey Rockwell during this conference, we're no longing only relying on individuals (like ourselves) who cobble together a variety of perspectives and skills to do Humanities Computing (pre-disciplinarity), we're now in the business of reproducing ourselves. Reproduction is a huge responsibility, and this conference was about starting a dialogue on the opportunities and the dangers that await us in parenthood. Humanities Computing Curriculum Susan Hockey's opening plenary talk identified many of the essential questions that would be discussed throughout the conference, including the tension between the "doing it" that characterises the sciences and the "talking about it" that characterises the Humanities. When done well, Humanities Computing can benefit from both cultures in balancing theory and practice, curiosity and employability. Susan discussed some of the key benefits of a Humanities Computing education by adapting a very useful list of objectives for the Liberal Arts found at: <http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Arts/about/Deansmessage.htm>. Willard McCarty's plenary talk further explored the contribution of the Liberal Arts culture to Humanities Computing, as well as that of the Social Sciences (like history and sociology). We're essentially "problematisers", we question, we oppose, we create and represent knowledge and then we look for cracks in it (and indeed the interest lies in the cracks). John Unsworth's plenary talk explored knowledge representation in more depth, as this seems central to using computers in the humanities (and certainly to what is planned for the M.A. in Digital Media at the University of Virginia). Knowledge representation (by any other name...) allows us to define our materials, their potential and their limitations. The final plenary talk was given by Nancy Ide who sought to define the infamous question of "what is Humanities Computing?" Is it in the use or creation of data? Is it in the use or creation of algorithms? The clearer the answer, the less broadly the definition applies (far more people use data than do programming). Still, programming can be highly relevant, especially when concepts are taught and not just specific languages. Terry Butler drew an interesting parallel between the rigorous way natural languages were taught and learned years ago with methods that required patience and discipline, and the patience and discipline needed to learn programming languages, given their highly formalised and generally rigid nature. The value of such exercises goes beyond what is directly learned. Likewise, as argued by Thomas B. Horton and John Unsworth, developing software goes beyond the actual language into a whole realm of broader managerial competencies involving planning, design, testing, implementation and maintenance. The trick, as argued by Susan Schreibman (and others), is to ensure the commerce between technique and theory, or in the "theorizing of technology and the technologising of theory." Patrick Juola provided very convincing examples of the need to understand the mathematical and logical presuppositions behind programming, and the ability to evaluate the appropriateness and correctness of particular tools and techniques. Implementation of Humanities Computing curriculum Beyond the prospect of complete Humanities Computing programmes (such as M.A. at the University of Alberta presented by Sean Gouglas), there was much discussion about other models of teaching curriculum, be it by integration into existing courses, the formulation of separate modules or the creation of entire courses. Experiences by Michael Best, Murry McGillivray, Steven Lane, Stan Beeler, Deneka MacDonald, and many others, suggest that a variety of approaches are possible, depending on the circumstances of each institution and the will of individuals. Peter Liddell, William Winder, Daniel Gilfillan, Judith Musick and others considered sustainable approaches to the development of curriculum, whether centralised or decentralised, grassroots or top-down, individualised or community-based. In any case, as Dirk van Hulle and Edward Vanhoutte reminded us in discussing a planned M.A. in Humanities Computing at the University of Antwerp, a review of curriculum prompted by the need to teach our discipline is an excellent opportunity to reform or at least reconsider some of our outdated institutional and pedagogical practices. Such transformations prompted by Humanities Computing are very familiar to Andrew McTavish who has been involved in developing a successful B.A. in Multimedia at McMaster University. Andrew encouraged us to see some of the benefits of cooperation with industry -- despite our trepidations -- not only for the good of our students (employability), but in affecting the social change (or dialogue) that some see as the very vocation of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Wendy Robbins indefatigably reminded us of the _human_ aspect of Humanities Computing, and in particular of certain gender issues involved. Technology tends to be a "one size fits all" proposition, but we must remain sensitive to the fact that the one size works better for some individuals and groups than others. Outcomes An inaugural conference on Humanities Computing Curriculum couldn't possibly have arrived at a consensus about a single formula for how to teach our discipline. On the contrary, this conference was a success precisely because it was a forum to hear about differing perspectives and approaches. As Computing Humanists, we all share the desire to see our activities gain greater institutional recognition and support, but awareness of local circumstances is key to ongoing growth. The teaching of Humanities Computing is of course well underway, through existing or planned M.A. programmes (UAlberta, UVirginia, etc.), B.A. programmes (McMasterU, GlasgowU), and various individual courses or modules (see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/hcu/> for a recent list). The proposed _Companion to Humanities Computing_ to be edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth would be a valuable resource for teaching our discipline. I think we have much reason to be proud of how far we've come, but also humbled by the many challenges that lay ahead. Yours, Stfan --------------------------------------------------------------- Stfan Sinclair, University of Alberta Phone: (780) 492-6768, FAX: (780) 492-9106, Office: Arts 218-B Address: Arts 200, MLCS, UofA, Edmonton, AB (Canada) T6G 2E6 M.A. in Humanities Computing: http://huco.ualberta.ca/ From: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:18:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 602 (602) Information The November 15, 2001 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 1,415 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 *University of Saskatchewan Library *E-mail: marian.dworaczek@usask.ca *Phone: (306) 966-6016 *Fax: (306) 966-5919 *Home Page: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar at King's College London Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:59:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 603 (603) On 20 November Peter Shillingsburg (English, North Texas, U.S.) will give a talk in the Seminar on Humanities Computing entitled "Manuscript, Book, and Text: Understanding and a Tolerance for Noise". For more information please see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/01-02/>. All within reach of central London are most welcome to attend. 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: Stevan Harnad Subject: Re: HighWire Press's Free Online Archive Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:59:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 604 (604) [The following forwarded with thanks to the Electronic Journal Publishing List . --WM] [deleted quotation] articles [deleted quotation] Astrophysics [deleted quotation] hosted [deleted quotation] P.S. HighWire is not second only to the NASA archive. The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs (which describes itself as "Earth's largest free full-text index of scientific literature"), though it too may not be the largest, is, with 500,000+ free online articles in computer science, bigger than HighWire's free online collection. But no one should be crowing about being the biggest while the more (and perhaps much more) than at least 2 million articles that appear EVERY YEAR in the world's 20,000 refereed journals are still far from free online. http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/newarl/index.html All the totals mentioned are just cumulative totals across the years. The Physics Archive [http://arxiv.org], for example, has over 150,000 articles, but cumulated across 10 years! At that rate, even for this most advanced of all the self-archiving disciplines, the year 2011 will be the first in which ALL the articles published in physics that year will be accessible for free for all: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img001.htm http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img002.htm This is why institution-based self-archiving now needs to be vigorously supported and promoted to fast-forward us all to the optimal and inevitable for research and researchers. Harnad, S. (2001) The Self-Archiving Initiative. Nature 410: 1024-1025 http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/nature4.htm Nature WebDebates version: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html Fuller version: The Author/Institution Self-Archiving Initiative to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/selfarch.htm All interested parties are invited to join the international discussion on this (in 3 languages!) currently going on from Nov 15 - Nov 30 at: http://text-e.org/ Stevan Harnad 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 or http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html You may join the list at the amsci site. Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org From: Charles Ess Subject: Panel on Internet Research Ethics at CEPE Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:56:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 605 (605) Colleagues: I'm very pleased to call your attention to a panel on Internet Research Ethics, to take place as part of the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Inquiries (CEPE) conference, this coming December 14-16 at Lancaster University (see <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/default.htm>). The panel itself is scheduled for Sunday, December 16 @ 3:00-4:00 p.m. By bringing together European and U.S.-based researchers and ethicists, we hope to establish an ongoing interdisciplinary and international dialogue regarding the ethical issues that arise from online research on human subjects - and make progress towards developing values statements and guidelines that will help Institutional Review Boards and their equivalents resolve these issues in specific research proposals. The panel is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation; papers developed from the panel will appear in a special issue of the journal _Ethics and Information Technology_. I warmly invite any HUMANIST folk who may be able to attend CEPE to contribute to our discussion in December. Cheers and all best wishes, Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi From: Christine Ruotolo Subject: Call For Papers: New Frontiers in Early American Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:57:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 606 (606) Literature - Deadline 2/15/2002 (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Conference Announcement: New Frontiers in Early American Literature, August 8-10, 2002 The University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announces "New Frontiers in Early American Literature," a conference to be held August 8-10, 2002 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. The "New Frontiers in Early American Literature" Conference will bring together scholars exploring the Early American literary period in all its facets. Presentations on all authors and all genres are welcome. Interdisciplinary approaches are also encouraged. This conference is inspired by our work in creating the "Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction," an expansive on-line collection of American novels and short stories written between 1789 and 1875. The texts chosen for the project are drawn from the UVA Library's world-renowned collection in Early American materials and include works by well-known authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Brockden Brown, as well as lesser-known writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Rufus Dawes. Papers, poster sessions, and panel proposals from all areas of studies in Early American Literature will be considered, though possible topics include Exploring the Frontier, Popular and Domestic Fiction, the Literary Marketplace, Femininity and Masculinity, and Literature and the Civil War. We also welcome papers related to these proposed sessions: -Textual Editing -Creating Digital Archives -Using Digital Resources for Scholarship, Teaching, or Pleasure Reading We encourage submissions from various constituencies, including graduate students, academic computing experts, and faculty members. Proposals for digital or multi-media presentations are welcome. The Conference will take place in the central grounds of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. Participants and attendees will have the opportunity to attend a private tour of Jefferson's Monticello and a dinner in the University of Virginia's Rotunda. We will be awarding 4 travel stipends of up to $250 to eligible Graduate Students. Please note on your submission that you would like to be considered for one of these travel grants. One page abstracts are due February 15, 2002. Please e-mail to jennifer@virginia.edu or send to: Jennifer McCarthy Electronic Text Center Alderman Library University of Virginia PO Box 400148 Charlottesville, VA 22904 Please include your name, telephone number, e-mail address, and your institutional and departmental affiliation. If you require A/V equipment for your presentation, please include details in your proposal to facilitate room arrangements. For more information about the Electronic Text Center's Early American Fiction project, please visit http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf From: "JC Meister - Narratology Research Group, Uni Hamburg" Subject: selectronic bibliographies for the Romance languages? Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:58:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 607 (607) Electronic bibliographies for the Romance languages My colleagues and I would be grateful for any information on publicly accessible (i.e., WWW) electronic bibliographies for the Romance languages, in particular those focusing on Literary and Narrative Theory. Many thanks! Chris ***************************************** Jan Christoph Meister Forschergruppe Narratologie - Narratology Research Group Universitaet Hamburg EMail: jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de Tel: +49 - 40 - 42838 4994 My site: www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/JC.Meister NarrNet: www.narratology.net From: Willard McCarty Subject: Ends and Means 6.1 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:00:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 608 (608) Vol. 6.1 of the journal Ends and Means, published by the Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy, Technology and Society, is now available at <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cpts/cpts/article11.hti>. It contains the following articles: STEPHEN R.L. CLARK, From Biosphere To Technosphere MARTIN PETERSON, New Technologies And The Ethics Of Extreme Risks BRIAN T. PROSSER AND ANDREW WARD, Kierkegaard's "Mystery Of Unrighteousness" In The Information Age MICHAEL KELLY, Modern Science And Technology: A Review of the Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of The North American Heidegger Society The journal may be obtained in printed form (ever so much easier to read) from the CPTS, School of Philosophy and Cultural History, University of Aberdeen, Old Brewery, High Street, Aberdeen AB24 3UB, U.K. 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: "Ana Alice Baptista" Subject: CFP - Electronic Publishing - ElPub2002 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:31:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 609 (609) This message is cross-posted to several lists - We apologize for possible duplicate postings! CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 -09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 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, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. [material deleted] From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Call for Commentary: http://www.text-e.org/debats/ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:32:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 610 (610) Nov 15 - 30 is the Virtual Symposium is focussing on a paper by me. All interested commentators are invited to contribute (in any of three languages!) http://www.text-e.org/debats/ Skyreading and Skywriting for Researchers: A Post-Gutenberg Anomaly and How to Resolve it Stevan Harnad ABSTRACT: There will be a profound and fundamental dividing line in the PostGutenberg Galaxy, between non-give-away work (books, magazines, software, music) and give-away work (of which the most important representative is refereed scientific and scho larly research papers). It is the failure to make this distinction that causes so much confusion, and that is delaying the inevitable transition of the give-away work to what is the optimal solution for scholars and scientists: that the annual 2,000,000+ articles in all 20,000+ refereed journals across disciplines and languages and around the world should be freed on line through author/institution self-archiving: http://www.eprints.org. This paper tries to show how questions about copyright, peer review and other controversial issues can be clarified if the give-away/non-give-away distinction is made. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Press Release for the Symposium as a whole: Screens and networks: towards a new relationship with the written word (October 2001-March 2002) A virtual symposium on the Web, at www.text-e.org Organized by the Bibliothque publique d’information (BPI) - Centre Pompidou, the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) and EURO-EDU in association with GiantChair.com Sponsored by UNESCO New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) are transforming our world as radically as did the invention of the printing press. How will this affect the written word and its uses in society? There may be no immediate answers to these questions, but we can -and should- investigate the issues involved. In this context, the Bibliothque publique d’information (BPI), the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS and EHESS), the non-profit organization EURO-EDU and GiantChair, have decided to set up a virtual symposium in French, Italian and English. Launched on October 15th, 2001, it will focus on the impact of NITC on our relationship with information and the written word. This international symposium should contribute to enriching current debates about the emergence of hybrid tools of communication (e-books, Internet and e-mail) and the social changes that accompany them. The contributors’ papers will be published directly on the symposium’s host site, www.text-e.org and will be accessible from the BPI’s main site (www.bpi.fr). It will involve theorists and other professionals affected by changes in their professional and personal lives brought about by e-mail and the Internet, and it will examine the impact of these technologies on reading, journalism, scholarship, libraries, archives, literature and so on. The symposium will provide participants with a forum for the discussion of all points of view. Through this program, we aim at once to engage in a collective research project, to enact the new relationship to the written word and to stage a public event using Web-based communication. The result will be published in book as well as in electronic format. PROGRAM The focal point of the project is the establishment of a Web-based event, beginning on October 15th, 2001 and ending in March 2002. Ten contributors, including theorists and those involved in new information technologies, will be invited to submit a paper for discussion. A new paper will be published on the site every two weeks. Each paper will be discussed on-line for the two weeks following its publication by some forty participants, comprising the ten contributors and thirty guests. Discussions will be chaired by the organizers. These papers, together with the ensuing discussions, will be made available to the public. Those wishing to follow the symposium will be able to register, receive the papers by e-mail and participate in a forum. Initial perspectives on the event will be debated at the Paris book fair, the Salon du livre, in March 2002. TOPICS AND SCHEDULE 15-31 October 2001 1. Readers and Reading in the Age of Electronic Texts (Roger Chartier, EHESS, Paris) 1-14 November 2001 2. What the Internet tells us about the Real Nature of the Book (Roberto Casati, Institut Jean Nicod, C.N.R.S., Paris) 15-30 November 2001 3. Skyreading/writing in the Post-Gutenbergian Galaxy (Stevan Harnad, Behavioral and Brain Sciences) 1-14 December 2001 4. Digital Journalism: Virtual Journalism? (Bruno Patino, Le Monde Interactif) 15-31 December 2001 5. Personal and Professional Conversation (Theodore Zeldin, Oxford) 1-14 January 2002 6. Reading: The Digital Future (Jason Epstein, Random House) 15-31 January 2002 7. Babel and the Vintage Selection: Libraries in the Digital Age (Bibliothque publique dinformation, Centre Pompidou) 1-14 February 2002 8. Reading without Writing (Dan Sperber, Institut Jean Nicod, C.N.R.S., Paris) 15-28 February 2002 9. The New Architecture of Information (Stephana Broadbent and Francesco Cara, IconMedialab, Paris) 1-14 March 2002 10. Authors and Authority (Umberto Eco, University of Bologna) 15 March 2002 Conclusions THE ORGANIZERS THE BIBLIOTHEQUE PUBLIQUE DINFORMATION (BPI – FRENCH PUBLIC INFORMATION LIBRARY) The Bibliothque publique dinformation is a major French public reference library, providing the general public with open access to virtually all of its holdings, whatever the type of media. In addition to Internet access, the library offers on-site consultation of books, newspapers and magazines, documentary films, records, language-learning methods and software programs covering all fields of knowledge. Holdings are constantly updated, and librarians are available to help readers locate material. The library organizes training on the use of NICTs, especially the Internet, as well as talks, screenings and exhibitions. www.bpi.fr E-mail address: bpi-info@bpi.fr Isabelle BASTIAN-DUPLEIX Danielle CHATEL Grald GRUNBERG, Director Philippe GUILLERME THE BPI’S SERVICE ETUDES ET RECHERCHES (STUDIES AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT) The BPI’s studies and research department carries out and/or steers sociological studies on books, reading and cultural practises. Extending beyond the immediate context of the BPI, the department plays a dual role of carrying out assessments and research. At the request of the Direction du Livre et de la Lecture (DLL), it initiates and monitors studies, offers expert services outside the BPI and conducts its own internal research on subjects of interest to both the BPI and other public libraries. It also acts as a publisher and heads the ‘studies and research’ collection of the BPI’s publications. Agns CAMUS-VIGUE Christophe EVANS Franoise GAUDET THE INSTITUT JEAN NICOD The Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) brings together researchers working on the relationship between the cognitive and the social sciences. The main areas of study include philosophy, linguistics, cognitive anthropology and political science. While philosophy is the leading discipline, the group’s investigations go beyond pure theory, as the Institute also aims at reconciling conceptual thinking with an empirical approach. www.institutnicod.org Roberto CASATI Dan SPERBER EURO-EDU The recently created EURO-EDU (Association Europenne pour le Dveloppement de lEnseignement Suprieur et de la Recherche sur Internet – the European association for the development of higher education and research on the Internet), a non-profit organization, is devoted to studying the impact of NICTs on the development and transmission of knowledge. It aims at developing web tools, web workshops, discussion groups and research papers around the changes of educational systems and the diffusion of culture. www.euro-edu.com Gloria ORIGGI (Chair) Noga ARIKHA GIANTCHAIR, sponsor Screens, networks, the distribution of knowledge and the transformation of our relationship with the written word are all key issues for GiantChair, which specializes in helping publishing houses, libraries, universities and academic communities with the implementation of new methods of publishing and distribution. With a presence on both sides of the Atlantic, GiantChair is playing an active role in compiling a catalogue of digital publications from such publishers as the Paris-based Eyrolles, Arcade Publishing and Seven Stories Press in New York, and is already involved in the distribution of the first ebooks from these publishers. info@giantchair.com www.giantchair.com Chlo BENAROYA, partner. Pierre COHEN-TANUGI, Administrateur. Cory MCCLOUD, Prsident. Aalam WASSEF , partner. MODERATORS Noga ARIKHA Noga Arikha has recently completed a doctorate at the Warburg Institute, London. She is a historian of ideas with an interest in the philosophy of mind, the cognitive sciences and the history of life sciences. She is also concerned with the establishment of dialogues between disciplines, between the academic and the public spheres, and between the sciences and the humanities. Gloria ORIGGI Gloria Origgi is researcher in philosophy at the University of Bologna, where she teaches philosophy and cognitive science. In 2000 she founded the EURO-EDU Association for developing Internet-based research projects. She is author of essays in philosophy of mind and epistemology. She is also in the faculty of the Graduate School in Information and Communication Technologies Almaweb, Bologna Italy. http://gloriaoriggi.free.fr From: Willard McCarty Subject: language industries Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:32:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 611 (611) I find myself needing a short-list of major projects in fundamental and applied language research in universities and in the so-called "language industries". Examples here would be RDUES at Liverpool and Collins COBUILD . I would be very grateful for additional candidates in continental Europe, the U.K. and N America. 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: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:32:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 612 (612) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 37, Week of November 19, 2001 In this issue: Interview -- Complexity in the Interface Age Do you control technology or does it control you? Jeremy J. Shapiro talks about the power struggle in machine/human relationships and what it means today to be information-technology literate. Shapiro is a faculty member in the Human and Organization Development Program at The Fielding Institute. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_shapiro_2.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted 2001 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org. For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/> To unsubscribe from the ACM Ubiquity Notification Service: please send an email to LISTSERV@ACM.ORG with the following message: "SIGNOFF UBIQUITY" (no quotes). You may also unsubscribe online, at <https://gosling.acm.org/ubiquity/> . This method allows you to unsubscribe if the address you are subscribed with is a forwarding alias. An email confirming your removal will be sent to you by email. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Lessig & Valenti on "Creativity, Commerce & Culture" Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:54:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 613 (613) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 21, 2001 CREATIVITY, COMMERCE & CULTURE: LESSIG VS. VALENTI Nov. 29: Annenberg School of Communications, Los Angeles WEBCAST: <http://ascweb.usc.edu/debate/>http://ascweb.usc.edu/debate/ [deleted quotation] CREATIVITY, COMMERCE & CULTURE: LESSIG VS. VALENTI In the new digital environment, what impact do intellectual property rights have on innovation and creativity? Do copyrights and patents hamper or enhance artistic life? How is our creative culture being shaped by changes in law and technology? You are invited to join a spirited exchange between Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Law professor and author of The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, on Thursday, November 29, 2001, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. WHEN: Thursday, November 29, 2001, 5:00 - 6:30 pm Reception immediately following debate. WHERE: Annenberg School for Communication University of Southern California 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281 RSVP: To reserve seating, call 213-740-5658 or email ascevent@usc.edu. This event is free and open to the public. WEBCAST: For those interested but not able to attend in person, the event will also feature a live webcast and bulletin board discussion. For more information visit <http://ascweb.usc.edu/debate/>http://ascweb.usc.edu/debate/. [material deleted] From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: C/C - ACCUTE CFP: Shakespeare and Information Technology Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:56:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 614 (614) This is a call for papers for a joint ACCUTE and COCH/COSH session at the 2002 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. This year the congress will be held at The University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnic University from May 25-28th 2002. Note: Selected papers from this session will be published in a special edition of College Literature. The deadline for conference paper proposals has been extended to December 15, 2001. Shakespeare and Information Technology This session will explore the ways in which Shakespeare connects with various forms of information technology. A number of scholarly pursuits, including book and print histories, performance and film studies, and multimedia/digitization projects are currently examining the ways in which Shakespeare's plays and poetry migrate across various media. How have these forms of media influenced or been influenced by the bard? What role has this technology played in the creation and maintenance of Shakespeare's place in our culture? The panel hopes to highlight the role that information technology has played in the transmission of Shakespeare's work and what that work has to offer our changing information landscape. Possible topics might include: Digitizing Shakespeare Shakespeare on the World Wide Web Renaissance printing practices Performing Shakespeare The Early Modern book trade Pop Goes the Bard - Shakespeare and Pop Culture Virtual Shakespeare Shakespeare and multimedia teaching practices Filmic Shakespeare Shakespearean portraiture As per ACCUTE and COCH/COSH guidelines: Proposals should be 300-500 words in length, and should clearly indicate the originality of scholarly significance of the proposed paper, the line of argument, the principle texts the paper will speak to, and the relation of the paper to existing scholarship on the topic. A list of works cited should also be included. Completed conference papers should fulfill these criteria, and should be no longer than 12 double-spaced pages. Please send three copies of papers and/or proposals, accompanied by three copies of a 100-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note along with an email or computer disk copy of same by December 15, 2001: Patrick Finn Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 3070 STN CSC Victoria, British Columbia CANADA V8W 3W1 Phone: 250.383.9051 Fax: 250.721.6498 pjfinn@uvic.ca From: joel@cs.fairfield.edu Subject: Applied language use? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:52:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 615 (615) Dear Willard, I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here's our URL in any case: <http://www.fairfield.edu/calendar/webfeatures/modlang.htm>. You might also take a look at www.calico.org and www.agoralang.com. Regards, Joel From: Robin Yeates Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: [Fwd: 15.378 projects in language research & Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:53:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 616 (616) the language industries?]]] A Covax project (http://www.covax.org) colleague in Madrid at Software AG has suggested the following, which I have not checked out: Ignacio Recio Sanchez wrote: [deleted quotation] [material deleted] -- Robin Yeates Associate Director LITC, South Bank University Postal address: 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (020) 7815 6924 Fax: +44 (020) 7815 7050 email: yeatesrb@sbu.ac.uk URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc From: Martin Gellerstam Subject: Re: En förfrågan Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:53:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 617 (617) Dear WM, There is a "Language Industries Atlas" http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/boek099.html You can also find a lot of these organisations in the Proceedings of the Second International COnference on Language Resources and Evaluation, in Athens 2000, (and in many other conference proceedings, I am sure). Best wishes Martin Gellerstam [deleted quotation][material deleted] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Gellerstam Tel.: 031-773 45 44 Föreståndare för Språkbanken Fax: 031-773 44 55 Göteborgs universitet E-post: gellerstam@svenska.gu.se Institutionen för svenska språket Box 200, 405 30 Göteborg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Stefan Sinclair Subject: Humanities Computing Graduate Students Conference Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:51:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 618 (618) Humanities Computing Graduate Students Conference University of Alberta - December 4th, 2001 Old Arts Building, 303 The M.A. in Humanities Computing programme at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce its first annual Graduate Students Conference in Humanities Computing. This year's conference will feature papers by students in the Humanities Computing programme at the UofA, but in future years, proposals will be solicited from Graduate Students elsewhere. Everyone is welcome to attend this event. To help us plan, please e-mail ss@huco.lang.arts.ualberta.ca if you happen to be in Edmonton and wish wish to join us. Schedule (2:50) Joseph Ferenbok "The CALL Paradigm Shift" (3:15) Cam Fraser "(Net)Wordcode" (3:40) Susan Hesemeier "The Hyperbole on Hypertext: Exploitation of Canonized Thinkers in the Promotion of Hypertext" (4:05) Mike MacLean "Narrative Strategies, or He Never Knows What He's Going to Say Next" (4:30) Coffee Break (4:45) Wioletta Polanski "Web Usability: A Designer's View" (5:10) Peter Ryan "How to Make an On-line Journal at the University of Alberta" (5:35) Jason Suriano: "The Origin and Meaning of Words in a Hypertext Environment" --------------------------------------------------------------- Stfan Sinclair, University of Alberta Phone: (780) 492-6768, FAX: (780) 492-9106, Office: Arts 218-B Address: Arts 200, MLCS, UofA, Edmonton, AB (Canada) T6G 2E6 M.A. in Humanities Computing: http://huco.ualberta.ca/ From: Janice McAlpine Subject: language research project Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:48:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 619 (619) Dear Professor McCarty, Professor Mel Wiebe of the Disraeli Project at Queen's University in Canada forwarded your request for info on language projects to me. At the Strathy Language Unit (http://post.queensu.ca/strathy) here at Queen's University we have been at work since 1984 developing a corpus of Canadian English, which we used to produce a guide to Canadian English usage (bibliographic info on the website) and which we are now using for research on ESL dictionaries. We this year became a international collecting partner with the Cobuild Bank of English, so our Canadian corpus will soon be available worldwide. Janice McAlpine Strathy Language Unit From: Martin Wynne Subject: Re: 15.378 projects in language research Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:48:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 620 (620) As well as the projects and links already mentioned, I would suggest: The TELRI project and its associated archive, TRACTOR: www.telri.de & www.tractor.de and the BNC: http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/ Best, Martin __ Martin Wynne martin.wynne@ota.ahds.ac.uk Linguistics Officer Oxford Text Archive Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford UK - OX3 0QA Tel: +44 1865 283299 Fax: +44 1865 273275 From: Robin Yeates Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: [Fwd: 15.378 projects in language research & Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:50:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 621 (621) the language industries?]]] A further suggestion: Walter Koch wrote: [deleted quotation] [material deleted] [deleted quotation] -- Robin Yeates Associate Director LITC, South Bank University Postal address: 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (020) 7815 6924 Fax: +44 (020) 7815 7050 email: yeatesrb@sbu.ac.uk URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc From: Willard McCarty Subject: language research and language industries Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:50:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 622 (622) The following were sent to me by my colleague Harold Short: (1) The Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/ (2) European Language Resources Association http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ (3) International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation http://www.lrec-conf.org/ (4) European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies http://www.elsnet.org/ (5) Advanced Computing in the Humanities project http://www.hd.uib.no/AcoHum/ (6) HLT Central: The gateway to speech and language technology opportunities http://www.hltcentral.org/ 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: Elisabeth Burr Subject: CLiP 2001 -Programme Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:54:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 623 (623) The programme of International Seminar CLiP 2001 "Philology and Information Technology" Gerhard-Mercator-Universitt Duisburg 06-09.12.2001 http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/CLiP2001/ is now online. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priv.-Doz'in Dr. Elisabeth Burr Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/ Organizer of CLiP 2001 http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/CLiP2001/ From: "Jason Rutter" Subject: 2nd CFP: Playing With the Future Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:56:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 624 (624) APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING ================================================= PLAYING WITH THE FUTURE: DEVELOPMENT AND DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTER GAMING APRIL 5-7, 2002 Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester Manchester, England Deadline for submissions: Friday, December 21, 2001. Computer games have now been taking up room in people's homes for over twenty-five years. The mid-seventies fad for the black and white block graphics of Pong has turned into an industry worth over $6 billion in the USA alone. The new generation of consoles along with the almost frenetic development in graphic and CPU technologies for PCs demonstrates a time of great technological innovation for gaming technology and this is reinforced by the growing importance of new methods of gaming-related retail such as web-based e-commerce and interactive digital television. Further, gamers are becoming increasingly organised and professionalised through growing consumer gaming exhibitions, national and international gaming competitions and arenas such as LAN parties and online gaming. At this rapidly moving point in the gaming industry the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) will be hosting a conference of computer gaming, gamers and the gaming industry on the 5th-7th April 2002 at The University of Manchester. [material deleted] Jason Rutter ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, The University of Manchester, Ground Floor, Devonshire House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QH PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz/cfp.htm FOR CONFERENCE UPDATES JOIN THE DIGIPLAY LIST AT http://www.topica.com/lists/digiplay/ Deadline for abstracts: Friday, December 21, 2001. Accepted authors notified: Friday January 21, 2002 From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:02:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 625 (625) [From a private message this relevant extract forwarded with thanks. --WM] Dear Willard, re your list of projects in linguistic research, perhaps you might include my project for Coptic language and literature: http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~cmcl/ ..... Cari saluti, Tito ..... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39+06.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39+60.4991-3945 00185 Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Beyond Access and Impact: The Ultimate Benefit of Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:16:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 626 (626) SkyReading/Writing [You are invited to post your comments to the Amsci Forum and/or to http://www.text-e.org/debat -- the multilingual, multinational virtual-symposium dedicated to investigating the impact of the Web on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge: "Screens and Networks: Towards a New Relationship With the Written Word"] Beyond Access and Impact: The Ultimate Benefit of SkyReading/Writing Stevan Harnad Human cognition is not an island unto itself. As a species, we are not Leibnizian Monads independently engaging in clear, Cartesian thinking. Our minds interact. That's surely why our species has language. And that interactivity probably constrains both what and how we think. Although Wittgenstein's argument that there could be no "private language" -- because language is based on rule-following and rules are shared social conventions -- is probably overstated and refutable, for present purposes it is valid enough: Language is the main medium of interaction of our species and it is fundamentally interactive, dialogical. It did not evolve to leave us lost in subjective, solipsistic thought. In terms of the time we spend doing it, conversing probably exceeds all other forms of human interaction, including feeding, fighting, playing, mating, and the "grooming" that some have argued it has evolved to replace (Dunbar 1993 http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/index.html). The origins of language have been the subject of much speculation (Harnad et al. 1976 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/08/63/index.html), but perhaps a few things can be said about it with some confidence: Language began hundreds of thousands of years ago, and whether it started as gesture and then moved to speech (Steklis and Harnad 1976 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/08/66/index.html), or went straight into speech, the kind of adaptation it was was undeniably an interactive one: Speech accordingly has a characteristic real-time dyadic tempo. There is certainly some variation in the rates at which people speak, the optimal speaking rates they understand, their attention spans, their memories, etc., but, to a close enough approximation, the timing parameters of a contemporary TV chat show are probably representative of our species since very near the advent of language. There are consequences of this: Speak too fast or too slow, and I won't be able to understand you. A subtler consequence (having to do with the memory and attention-span factor) is that if you speak for too long, I'll have trouble understanding too, and I'll only be able to respond to what you said near the beginning of your speech, or near the end, or to some selected portions that caught my attention in the middle. Chances are that the adaptive value of language in the original environment in which it evolved derived from relatively rapid exchanges of relatively short strings of information, again more like a conversation or a chat show amongst a few interlocutors than a long lecture by one orator to a throng -- that came too, but it came later. Although the adaptive scenarios people have proposed are without exception mere speculations, they are all variants on the idea that the utility of language must have been connected with its use in hunting, tribal defense, tool-making, and/or training others (especially the young) in these or other essential hominid survival skills. With the exception of pedagogy (which was probably a later development), it's hard to imagine these uses of language as consisting of long monologues: Relatively short interactive comment and response were probably the order of the day, performed at about the speeds we perform them today. But even if primal conversations were one-sided rather than interactive, a rate-limiting factor was how fast we could speak and understand, and how big a chunk we could remember long enough for it to have any useful effect (Miller 1956 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/07/30/index.html , Cowan 2001 http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/46/index.html). So it is likely that because of real-time constraints on articulatory rate, the speed of thought co-evolved with the speed of speech; their rates converged on roughly the same order of magnitude (though one hopes we thought a bit faster than we spoke) and were in phase. And that's still the way things stand now, biologically speaking, for, after the advent of language, the rest of the developments in the linguistic arena were technological (and cultural) rather than biological -- feats of "cognitive engineering," if you like: We invented the new medium of writing, so words, and the thoughts they conveyed, could then be transmitted beyond the reach of any individual human's voice, ears or memory. (The oral tradition had done this in part, but imperfectly, and only through the mediation of a vocal internuncio.) Then we invented the medium of printing, so words and thoughts could be transmitted beyond the reach of any individual human's pen or paper (Harnad 1991 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/80/index.html). Writing and print were not only ingenious ways of preserving and distributing thoughts, but they also freed us from many of the immediate constraints of memory and attention span, because written words could be read and re-read, allowing messages to be longer and more complex than anything one could hope to convey orally. They could also be written and rewritten, allowing messages to be more careful and disciplined than anything the rapid pace of spontaneous conversation could ever generate. But this lapidary property of the written word was purchased at a price: The interactivity of speech was gone, or at least it was slowed down to a pace that hardly seemed worthy of the word "interactive" at all -- considering the speed, commensurate with speech, of which human thought had already proved itself capable in the oral era: So literality did, in a sense, make us more like monads conducting monologues. To be sure, we were writing letters to one another, and replying, sometimes on the same day, but it was rather like what had formerly been a jig, danced together, turned instead into a sarabande, danced in lugubrious alternation -- or, to pick a more cognitive example, a long-distance chess game in which the players make only one or two moves a day, and spend the rest of the time waiting to learn their opponent's response: There was something profoundly out-of-phase about it, or rather about the thoughts behind it, which in real-time dialogue would have interdigitated instead of proceeding in fits and starts. The chess analogy is instructive, because, unlike a conversation, a chess game often involves long periods of motionless thought, and being rushed makes one play less well. Yet the game is interactive, and if it were to be played with limitless time between moves, it would no longer be the same game (and would perhaps no longer draw on the same cognitive capacities). Slow-motion tennis would be even more obviously a different game. These analogies are imperfect, but the point I do want to make is that in written dialogue as well as in slow-motion chess, apart from the extra time one is happy to take in order to reflect more, there is a great deal of dead time too, in which one's thoughts are idling, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Nor is the limitless reflection time an unmixed blessing in itself: Necessity is the mother of invention. What would become of the spontaneous wit of a brilliant salon conversationalist if each item of repartee could be put on limitless hold for pondering before transmission? Would dancing ability (in an age when dancing was still interactive) or tennis prowess be the same if each move and each shot could be preceded by hours of deliberation? Again, chess, being cognitive, is the most instructive case: In principle, given infinite time. every possible move could be tried in advance, and hence the optimal one could be picked. But trying every possibility is not usually the way cognition goes, and certainly not what we regard as "creative" cognition: The cognitive "moves" we regard as brilliant are not the ones that are a result of mechanically going through all the possibilities, but the ones that somehow find a pattern latent in all the dreary combinatorics, a pattern that swiftly and directly generates a solution to a problem that looked hard until the pattern was discovered (http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/27/index.html). The human mind occasionally discovers such patterns. It's impossible to quantify this -- to say how often this happens, or how improbable and consequential the patterns really are. Sometimes we discover things through long, noninteractive reflection, to be sure. But, given the evolutionary history and temporal parameters of language and thought, it is probably safe to say that it is in real-time cognitive interactions between minds that the resourcefulness of human cognition is most firmly engaged. This essay is by no means intended as a polemic for a return to an oral culture, however! The power gained from the discipline of slowing thought down to the pace of writing, and preserving it verbatim, answerable for its validity not merely to the persuasive force of one orator on one occasion, but the endless scrutiny of peers and posterity, was probably almost as revolutionary a technological and cultural advance for human thought as the advent of language itself had been. But let us not forget that in exchange for those virtues of the lapidary medium (writing) we sacrificed some of the virtues of the labile one (speaking), particularly the possibility of minds interacting at the speed of thought. Could one have the best of both worlds? Not in the medium of speech, which vanishes as it is uttered. Recording it is no help, because what one really needs is playback and editing capacity, for both one's own utterances and one's interlocutor's. And by whatever cognitive engineering means one might secure this -- whether the playback/editing is in the phonological medium or the graphemic one -- the need to do two things rather than one (i.e., not just to listen and speak to one's interlocutor, but to monitor and modify the record of what has been said by both parties) rules out what might might have seemed to be the ideal solution, namely, real-time interaction by writing. It's not just the slow speed of writing that is the problem; even if a speech-recognizer could generate error-free graphemes as fast as we could talk, and even if we could read these as fast as we can hear, this would still leave us back where we were with spontaneous conversation: We would merely have an instant transcript, but no more opportunity for reflection. It is in part for these reasons that -- except for quick, urgent messages -- most people find the real-time Unix "talk" facility so unsatisfying. It's not just the frustration of watching someone else's slow typing, and backspacing to correct typos, or the bottleneck of one's own typing, but that one feels that if this was just a chat, we could just as well have talked by phone, and if careful reading and serious reflection were called for, off-line email would have been better. So is email just a somewhat accelerated form of ordinary mail (which, as I said, even in the past sometimes had same-day turnaround)? And are we irretrievably severed by the written medium from the interactivity of the real-time dialogue for which our minds are biologically adapted? I think not. Although fast paperless mail was what email may originally have been intended for, it has turned out to have some unexpected consequences, opening up some revolutionary possibilities. First, let us not under-rate the speed factor. In principle, for a message of just about any length, it can reach my interlocutor the instant I complete it. Second, it can at the same instant be branched to multiple interlocutors (in principle, to everyone). These two factors, of speed and scale are without precedent, but they are still noninteractive ones, insofar as the speed of thought is concerned. Rhat is not all, however. Instantaneous and flexible text-capturing, quoting and commenting capabilities allow a form of highly focused and selective off-line interaction with the text that does engage the real-time speed of thought, and engages it interactively, yet in the lapidary medium, and with precisely the playback/editing facilities that were missing in real-time dialogue (verba volant, scripta manent). Recall the memory and attention-span constraint on the length of a particular utterance in oral dialogue: Run on too long, and your interlocutor will lose continuity, forget, and misinterpret. One is tempted to say (to a long-winded interlocutor): Why don't you just write me a letter? Long-winded conversations, if they do not turn into one-sided monologues (which are a fortiori noninteractive), are more likely to be divergent duo-monologues -- each interlocutor in turn launching off from some point in the primacy/recency memory curve for the preceding peroration that they have just endured impatiently, waiting their turn -- rather than convergent dialogues, which require each interlocutor to be relatively brief and to the point (so it can be ensured that it is the same point they are both addressing). Well, in the quote/comment capability that email has made possible, a long-winded passage can be given full attention (if it deserves it); it is preserved verbatim, free of memory constraints, to be re-read as often as one wishes; and, most important of all, it can be selectively edited down to the specific points one decides to address in replying, and the reply can then be focused on those passages, quoting them so as to provide the full requisite context. One's own reply, too, has the benefit of the playback and editing capability, and can be written and rewritten till one feels one has gotten it right. Moreover (and it is for this reason that I have dubbed this form of interaction "skywriting"; Harnad 1990 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/81/index.html), in engaging in this form of real-time cognitive interactivity with electronic text, one can also keep in mind that it is not only one's interlocutor who will see one's quotations and comments, but all the others to whom the message was branched: This is like the benefit of a trial by jury without the real-time pressure and stage fright of oral testimony; or like a public debate conducted in writing; or like a symposium and discussion likewise conducted in writing; but writing in a new key: at electronic speed and scale, and with the powerful playback/editing capability just described. Most important of all, a permanent, public record of the interaction is preserved in the form of a "Hypermail" Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/ I realise that these resources are quite familiar to all of you, but sometimes a thing has to be "made strange," as Schopenhauer termed it, and looked at as if for the first time, if one is to see its true properties and potential, particularly if it is something relatively new that has become a familiar commonplace too quickly, as email has done. The text-capturing quote/comment tools and conventions that have rapidly developed in the past decade were not the work of cognitive engineers, experimenting with and optimising emerging interactive resources. They were simply co-invented out of expediency by emailers. I'm not sure where the "> " convention for setting off quoted passages started, but it quickly becomes unworkable with multiple levels of quoted text, even when supplemented by preceding the ">" with each interlocutors initials (see http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/rynne.html ). It was probably born on Usenet and carried over to Unix mailers, or vice versa. It is certainly not a successful piece of cognitive engineering, yet it is an absolutely remarkable capability that deserves to be closely analysed and developed, because it is the means by which the best of both worlds -- labile speech and lapidary writing -- can be realised. But before closing, I would like .... [to describe] two anecdotes from my own experience that I suspect will resonate with experiences many of you have had too. The first anecdote concerns my own first exposure to "skywriting": In 1980, there had appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), the journal I edit, an extremely controversial critique of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the philosopher John Searle called the "Chinese Room Argument" (http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/84/index.html). Most people, including me, thought the Argument was wrong; after umpiring several years of critical commentary on it in BBS, I was writing my own critique of it in the mid '80s when it was drawn to my attention that on "news:comp.ai" -- the Usenet chat group devoted to discussions of AI -- a discussion of Searle's Argument had been going on for several years. I tuned in to see what had been said, and perhaps add my own critical voice to the throng, but quickly discovered two things: First, the critics were mostly not cognitive scientists but computer programmers and students. Second, all of their Counterarguments to Searle were wrong. Now I myself considered Searle's Argument to be wrong at that time, but before posting my own critique I wanted to dispel the clouds of invalid arguments that were in the air, so I took them on, one by one (though often they were just variants of the same wrong reasoning or assumptions or conclusions), and I consciously did so as if my contributions were formal commentaries in a learned journal (even if the postings I was commenting on had not been that scrupulous), except that I adopted the Usenet quote/comment convention. The results were quite remarkable. The archive of my own discussion quickly reached booklength. I spent countless hours on the Net every day, taking on all comers, patiently replying to different variants of the same bad arguments a different way each time, so it might not bore but inform the silent majority that I assumed were following all this. (I still have no idea how many were "tuning in"; although Usenet's Arbitron statistics estimate the total readership of each group, one does not know how many of them -- and who -- are following a particular discussion "thread.") And though my behavior no doubt had obsessive-compulsive features, I don't regret the time I spent at it at all: Necessity is indeed the Mother of Invention, and in the course of that Skywriting Tournament, defending Searle against invalid criticism, I came up with some positive ideas of my own, including a hypothesis about what the real problem underlying Searle's critique of AI was (the "Symbol Grounding Problem" -- its name was born as the subject of one of the threads of the Searle discussion, and it has since become one of my more important papers; Harnad 1990 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/06/15/index.html) as well as a potential solution to the problem (Harnad et al. 1991 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/79/index.html). It is unlikely that I would have come up with those ideas otherwise. The essential features were the real-time interactivity, the quote/comment capability, and the long series of determined interlocutors. It has since occurred to me that the exercise might have been even more fruitful if my adversaries had not just been students and programmers, but the best thinkers in the field -- and that eventually impelled me to start a refereed electronic journal (Psycoloquy http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ ) and to become a polemicist for the online self-archiving of the refereed research literature (http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm), but that is another story. What's relevant here is that even with that less than optimal demography, the interaction proved to be such a powerful idea-generator for me. Nor was there any doubt in my mind that the quote/comment feature was at the hear of it. Which brings me to my second anecdote, mercifully shorter than the first: It was around that time that I noticed that I -- a compulsive reprint/preprint collector since the 70's -- completely lost my taste for on-paper texts: If someone sent me a paper reprint, I would email them to ask if they didn't perchance have an on-line version. Why? Not because I find the current generation of VDU's any more appetising to look at than you do, but because of the quote/comment (Q/C) capability. I had become addicted to it as a way of interacting with text, irrespective of whether it came from a "live" posting or a "dead" text (even by a dead author!): Either way Q/C made it alive for me. The technique was the same. Read it on-screen, save a back-up full copy, then start selectively deleting the irrelevant or uncontroversial passages, leaving only the skeleton of what I wanted to address in my "reply". But who was this reply for? Well, in some case I could think of it as being for the author, but usually that was not enough for inspiration. So I set up some discussion groups involving multiple minds, all interested in the topic under discussion. (A population of Skyreaders is essential to the inspirational power of Skywriting.) And as with the symbol grounding discussion, often -- not always, but often enough -- the interaction would generate the germ of my next published article. And meanwhile Hypermail Archives (http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/) could serve as the permanent SkyDocument of record (see also Hayes et al. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.virtualmind.html Flach & Powers 1993 http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/docs/think/2-1/index.stm and http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?12.034 as well as Okerson & O'Donnell 1995 http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html ) to see how Skywriting can sometimes spawn terrestrial incarnations too. [... text deleted] In this essay I have suggested that the on-line text-capturing and quote/commenting and self-archiving capability that has emerged in the last two decades has created the possibility of combining the discipline and reflectiveness of writing with the speed and interactiveness of speech in a form of interactive cognition that is sui generis and without precedent in human discourse and inter-mentation. Whether with a live interlocutor or just an inert text, the interaction can now take place at the brain-friendly, on-line speed of thought, rather than at the lamentably slow, off-line turnaround time that paper communication had dictated. Hence, in the interests of developing a textual corpus on which to base this revolutionary new form of interaction, what better course of action can the scholarly/scientific community take than to make its all-important refereed research record freely accessible online to one and all, for open-ended cycles of skywriting and skyreading, forever? Updated and revised excerpts from: Harnad, S. (1995) Interactive Cognition: Exploring the Potential of Electronic Quote/Commenting. In: B. Gorayska & J.L. Mey (Eds.) Cognitive Technology: In Search of a Humane Interface. Elsevier. Pp. 397-414. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/99/index.html 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 or http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html You may join the list at the amsci site. Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org From: Willard McCarty Subject: Center for Computing in Art and Archaeology? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:15:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 627 (627) I would be grateful to know whatever happened to the Center for Computing in Art and Archaeology, a non-profit foundation established to develop software for Art History and related fields. Its former Web-site, http://carta.org/, seems to be someone else's now. 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: Museums and the Web Conference, 2002: Proposal Deadline Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:47:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 628 (628) Nov 30 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 27, 2001 Museums and the Web Conference, 2002 April 17 -20, 2002: Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ *** PROPOSAL DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2001 *** [deleted quotation] Museums and the Web 2002 April 17 -20, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ *** PROPOSAL DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2001 *** Now in its sixth year, Museums and the Web is the premier venue for review of Web-related issues in museums, archives, libraries, science centers, and other cultural institutions. The deadline for Museums and the Web 2002 proposals is fast approaching. Don't miss your chance to propose a paper, demonstration, on-line activity, or workshop for the conference and share your work with hundreds of colleagues from around the world. Submit your proposal on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/mw2002.proposal.form.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Glasgow Digitisation Summer School 2002 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:48:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 629 (629) [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford Seminar: Resourcing Sources V Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:48:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 630 (630) [deleted quotation] url is: http://squire.cta.dmu.ac.uk/~peterr/public/rsv/ Resourcing Sources V A Workshop for Historians and Computer Registration by e-mail to katharine.keats-rohan@mohist.ox.ac.uk. Data Workshop, Centre for Humanities Computing, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/). One day event December 13 2001, 10.00am-5.00pm, Lecture Room A, supported by the History Data Service at Essex University and Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University. Resourcing Sources V: Fifth in a series of workshops for researchers in all periods interested in developing computerized methodologies for handling source material, whether literary or artefact, or publishing complex datasets. Beginners and experts are equally welcome. Participants are invited to bring examples of their own material for use in the General Discussion sessions. The programme will include: Hamish James, 'Principles of Database design' Elizabeth Solopova, 'Electronic Beowulf as a tool for teaching and research' Peter Robinson, 'The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile' Humphrey Southall, 'The Great Britain Historical GIS Project' Richard Hitchman, "How long did pre-Greek onomastics survive in Crete?" Ina Hartmann, "Ancient Greek names in the 21st century: the device of a database for the analysis of Elean names" From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:49:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 631 (631) (Languages, Models and Systems): PDPTA'02 [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing (Languages, Models, Systems) http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/pdpta02/ a special session of PDPTA'2002 http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/ June 24 - 27, 2002 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 22, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 24-27, 2002: PDPTA'02 International Conference ====================================================================== SCOPE OF THE SESSION: Component-based software is likely to be the most promising approach to making distributed systems and Internet applications fit the requirements of the new information-based work organization. Component-based software encompasses many disciplines and application domains, such as groupware, distributed object-oriented software development, middleware, multimedia, CSCW, and distributed simulation. The focus of this session is on component-based in special coordination issues that arise in these systems. Models, languages, and applications for both architectural and behavioral aspects of systems are of special concern. The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on component-based computing and coordination in the diverse disciplines this field encompasses. The session serves as a forum to enable exchange of experience between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working on different aspects of coordination and component-based computing. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: M4M-2 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:53:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 632 (632) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION METHODS FOR MODALITIES 2 (M4M-2) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam November 29-30, 2001 www.science.uva.nl/~m4m THEME The workshop Methods for Modalities (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and reasoning methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, hybrid logics, feature logic, temporal logic, etc. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations aim to provide both the general background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments and applications, and submissions of system demonstrations. M4M-2 is the second installment of this bi-anual workshop series. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M. From: John Unsworth Subject: job opening Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:51:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 633 (633) FACULTY OPENING Associate Director Geospatial and Statistical Data Center University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library seeks an innovative and energetic individual to serve as Associate Director of the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center (Geostat). The Associate Director will have significant opportunities to develop and advance services supporting numeric, geospatial, and other electronic information needs at the University of Virginia. The University and the Library have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. ENVIRONMENT: The University of Virginia Library is a recognized leader in digital library services. The Library system consists of eleven libraries, with independent libraries for health sciences, law, and business. The Library serves 12,000 undergraduates, 6,000 graduate students and 1,600 teaching faculty, and is a Virginia Regional Library for the US Depository Program. The Library's homepage can be accessed at http://www.lib.virginia.edu. The Library has begun implementation of its plans for "Library of Tomorrow," a vision to create the model University research library for the future (see http://staff.lib.virginia.edu/LofT/). Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village and the historic Grounds provide an inspiring environment for teaching, learning, and research. The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center offers a dynamic team environment and opportunities to collaborate in the development of integrated digital library services and initiatives. Geostat is located in Alderman Library, and assists users in most major schools of the University, including Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Commerce, Education, and Engineering and Applied Science. Geostat staff serve the University's teaching and research needs by identifying, acquiring, and providing assistance in the use of machine-readable data sets for geographic and statistical analysis. Geostat's services are offered online and in a large public computing lab/classroom featuring two dozen PC workstations. The Center also houses a large map collection and serves as a resource for statistical information in print. The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center can be accessed on the web at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu. RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Reports to the Director of Geostat and will be primarily responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering services for numeric data collections, including reference services and collection development; Develops outreach activities to promote Geostat's services to users; Assists individuals and groups in the use of numeric resources and tools, including US and international data sources and ICPSR; Provides Library reference services as well as classroom and lab-based instruction for these resources; Serves as a resource for geographic information collections as necessary; Participates in teams consisting of other Library and University staff to further the delivery of numeric and spatial data resources for teaching and research; Oversees day-to-day management of the public service computing lab and classroom; Supervises Programmer/Consultant staff (2); Is professionally active, both within the Library and nationally. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree or higher in a relevant field, with experience using numeric data resources in a research or educational setting; Extensive knowledge of computer software for statistical analysis, e.g., SAS, STATA, or SPSS; Ability to advise faculty, staff and students in a wide range of disciplines regarding the use of electronic data resources for teaching and research; Excellent instructional abilities with strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; Creativity and evidence of ability to learn quickly; Strong user-centered service orientation; Commitment to diversity in the workplace and ability to serve a diverse user community; Commitment to professional growth and development; Supervisory experience desirable. SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salary competitive, depending on qualifications. General faculty status. The University of Virginia offers excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other optional retirement plans. Review of applications will begin on January 11, 2001 and will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, resume, and names, addresses (including e-mail), and phone numbers of three references to: Mr. Alan Napier, Director of Library Human Resources Alderman Library University of Virginia PO Box 400114 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4114 The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Research Associate Scientist in Spoken Dialogue Systems Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:52:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 634 (634) [deleted quotation] APPLICANTS: Please send CV to dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com addressed to David Horowitz, Chief Scientist In this position, you will assist in building up resources to establish a strong pan-European R&D group. You will help write components of grants and help define theoretical approaches towards conversational dialogue systems. The focus of the work is on Natural Language Parsing and Unified Language Modelling. The Research Component that you will endeavour in is Unified Language Modelling and Statistical Robust Parsing. This is a highly technical position in mathematics and computer science. The R&D department collaborates with Professor Yorick Wilks at the University of Sheffield and the position will afford the candidate mentorship from key researchers at Wilks' Natural Language Processing Group. Qualifications: Ph.D. in rigorous quantitative program such as Computer Science, Mathematical Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Physics or Electrical Engineering or Computational Linguistics. Skills: Hands-on software development experience in Java, Prolog and/or C++. Perl required. David Horowitz Chief Scientist Spoken Language Sciences and Engineering Vox Generation Ltd Voice: +44 (0)20 7592 8155 Fax: +44 (0)20 7582 8156 Email: dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com www.voxgeneration.com From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 15.389 ubi est, Center for Computing in Art and Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:46:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 635 (635) Archaeology? [deleted quotation] WIllard, I used the WayBack Machine at archive.org to trace carta.org to http://cat.nyu.edu/ which no longer mentions the center. in fact, if the WayBack can be trusted, the current carta.org folks have had the domain since 1999 or early 2000. ========================================================================== Paul Jones "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" 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: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 15.389 ubi est, Center for Computing in Art and Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:46:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 636 (636) Archaeology? At 06:22 AM 11/26/2001 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Do you mean http://www.csanet.org/ by any chance (the Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology)? John From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Digital Imaging Issue of MCN "Spectra" Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:50:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 637 (637) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community November 27, 2001 Museum Computer Network Announces Special Digital Imaging Issue of "Spectra" 2000 Summer/Fall Issue http://www.mcn.edu/spectra.htm [deleted quotation] I am pleased to announce that a Special Digital Imaging Issue of "Spectra" is now available from http://www.mcn.edu/spectra.htm. Please follow the link "2000 Summer/Fall Issue" for the free pdf download. Let leaders in the field give you an update on state of the art digital imaging in a museum or archival setting! As the guest editor of this issue, I'd especially like to point your attention to an article by photographer Ben Blackwell investigating the light exposure of sensitive objects during direct digital capture, and a piece by renowned photoshop expert Bruce Fraser discussing color management in archival image files. However, I think you'll find all of the contributions rewarding and well worth your attention. [material deleted] From: Ross Scaife Subject: [STOA] Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:53:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 638 (638) Patrick Rourke has been working up a detailed resource for those interested in using Unicode for polytonic Greek in web and word processing applications. His work is unfinished but already sufficiently informative that we're ready to announce its availability as part of the Stoa's best practices series. The address of "Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web" is http://www.stoa.org/unicode/ Please direct any comments, suggestions, or corrections to Patrick Rourke, ptrourke@mediaone.net best wishes, Ross Scaife, co-editor The Stoa Consortium www.stoa.org ------------------------------------------- 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@uky.edu. From: "Rafael Alvarado" Subject: Job at Princeton Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:18:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 639 (639) This is a full-time position: Java/JavaScript/ActionScript Programmer Requisition No. 01-0001980 Responsibilities Princeton University's Educational Technology Center's Java/JavaScript/ActionScript programmer is responsible for developing code and modules to be used by other members of the courseware development teams. This involves writing scripts using Macromedia ActionScript to be used in animated/interactive applications being developed in Macromedia Flash by ETC's instructional designers. It also involves building interfaces from Flash to ETC's multimedia database. The latter is an Oracle database which is currently accessed by a locally developed content management system written using Java and Java Server Pages. This programmer will be helping to expand this system and to interface it with the more interactive applications built in Flash. Requirements Position requires 2-3 years programming experience using Java and JavaScript. Some experience developing database driven applications and advanced web pages. Knowledge of programming tools like SQL, XML, Perl/DBI or JDBC/JSP. Background in standard procedural programming such as C or C++ Education Bachelor's degree Respond to: Kirk Alexander, Director ETC kirk@princeton.edu as well as to: You may e-mail your resume and cover letter as a Microsoft Word or text file attachment to: JOBS@PRINCETON.EDU , you must include the job title and requisition number in the subject line. You will receive an auto reply e-mail indicating that your resume was successfully received and you will be asked to complete a voluntary self identification form online. Providing this information is completely voluntary and declining to submit this online form will not adversely affect your candidacy. You will not receive a written confirmation from the Office of Human Resources. Please do not mail an additional copy of your resume for the same position if you have already sent it via e-mail. Princeton University Princeton, NJ USA From: John Unsworth Subject: TEI members' meeting Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:17:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 640 (640) Pisa (Italy), November 18th 2001 TEI HOLDS FIRST ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING AND ELECTION The first ever Annual Members' meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium took place on November 17, 2001, in Pisa, Italy. During the meeting, the Consortium also held its first elections. The meeting began with a keynote from former TEI-editor C.M. Sperberg McQueen on the subject "The TEI is dead: long live the TEI", and included a wide range of presentations from different parts of the international TEI community, on topics as diverse as the editing of medieval manuscripts and the construction of language corpora for minority languages, but the chief focus of the two day event was the technical and organizational work lying ahead for the Consortium. Technically speaking, the work already begun on creating a true XML version of the Guidelines is well advanced. Participants were given tangible expression of this in the shape of a draft printout of TEI P4, the next version of the Guidelines (which has full support for both XML and SGML); an updated edition of the Consortium's "XML Resources for Text Encoding" CD was also distributed. Organizationally speaking, the meeting also marked a major step forward. The Consortium held its first elections, completing a two-year process of restructuring the TEI as a non-profit membership organization with elected leadership. Peter Robinson (De Montfort University) and Harold Short (King's College, London) were elected to two-year terms on the Consortium's Board of Directors. Six candidates were also elected to two-year terms on the TEI Council, the committee that will oversee the technical work of the TEI: Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen), Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Merrilee Proffitt (Research Libraries Group), Laurent Romary (INRIA Laboratoire Loria), Perry Willett (Indiana University), and Christian Wittern (Kyoto University). In addition, four members of the TEI community were appointed by the Board of Directors to one-year terms on the TEI Council, with the option to stand for election next year: David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh), David Durand (Brown University and ingenta plc), Fotis Jannidis (University of Munich), and Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster University). Joining them on the Council will be two representatives from the Board of Directors, Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford University) and John Unsworth (University of Virginia). Unsworth will chair the Board and, at the Board's request, the Council. The existence of the new Technical Council makes it possible for the technical work of the TEI to proceed on a well-founded and responsive basis. At the meeting, a number of possible development priorities were identified: the first order of business will be to oversee a final review of the draft P4 Guidelines; this will be complemented by a process funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities which will develop and document tools and methods for moving TEI collections from SGML to XML. The Council will also have the responsibility for chartering and monitoring new TEI work groups to work towards the next edition of the Guidelines, in response to the needs of the TEI community as reflected in its membership. The first meeting of the Council is planned for January of 2002. TEI Board members will of course continue to recruit new members for the Consortium, and to promote, develop, and organize TEI training activities. In this context, new funding opportunities are being vigorously pursued on both sides of the Atlantic, with a view to expansion of the TEI community, in particular in the under-developed economies, and to the availability of new TEI tools and training materials. From: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:18:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 641 (641) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 38, Week of November 26, 2001 In this issue: Interview -- Complexity in the Interface Age Do you control technology or does it control you? Jeremy J. Shapiro talks about the power struggle in machine/human relationships and what it means today to be information-technology literate. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_shapiro_2.html View -- Optimizing Bandwidth An approach to high performance distributed Web brokering By Geoffrey Fox and Shrideep Pallickara http://www.acm.org/views/g_fox_1.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted 2001 by the ACM and the individual authors. From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP: Information Aesthetics: Paranoia or Paradigm? Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:48:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 642 (642) CFP: ** Information Aesthetics: Paranoia or Paradigm? ** A panel at _Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies_ Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2002 Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities May 26-8, 2002 U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/ Thomas Pynchon defined paranoia as "the realization that _everything is connected_, everything in the Creation..." For celebrants of chaos theory, massive quantities of data pose the joyous possibility of achieving a state of 'maximum information' or reveal the potentialities of 'pattern recognition' as an organizational structure. The new media arts, hypertext and the World Wide Web often toy with information overload and the exuberant wealth of database systems to unite information with an aesthetic dimension. Is there an aesthetics of information? If so, what forms does it take and how does it function? What are the implications for the art forms of the new media? Does it produce paranoia, nested networks, new modes of organization, or...? Your investigation might consider: - spatial and/or temporal navigation - hyperlinking - search engines, databases and/or archives - sequence, randomness, repetition, lists, series - narrative, anti-narrative, games - transparency, interactivity and/or control - speed, delay, friction - shape, colour, sound and/or noise - spacetime, depth, surface, interface - waves and particles - fractals, quantum computation, geometry - memory and/or forgetting - architecture, photography, cartography Submissions of a 500 word abstract and a short bio or weblink by e-mail by December 15 to: Carolyn Guertin cguertin@ualberta.ca Dept of English University of Alberta 3-5 Humanities Centre Edmonton AB T6G 2E5 From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP -- Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:49:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 643 (643) Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Call for Papers [please redistribute] Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2002 Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities May 26-8, 2002 U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U < http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/ > Open Call for Papers: Proposals for papers and sessions are invited to be considered for presentation at the 2002 meeting of COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (May 26-8, 2002; U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U). Topics addressed may include, but will not be limited to, the following: - humanities computing figured as discipline and/or inter-discipline (via exploration or exemplification) - computing and its relation to disciplinary work, and disciplinary boundaries, within the Arts and Humanities - society and the computer, from an Arts and Humanities perspective - humanities computing and pedagogy - computing in the visual, musical, and performance arts - scholarly electronic publishing and dissemination - computing in multi-lingual and non-English environments - ongoing humanities computing research involving materials in textual, - oral/aural, visual, multi-media, and other formats - concerns related to two special joint sessions with ACCUTE (see below for details) Submit a paper proposal via this URL: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Proposals.asp (proposals can be accepted until December 15). For submission of panel proposals, please contact the 2002 Conference Chair, Ray Siemens, directly at siemensr@mala.bc.ca . Preliminary Conference Details: - 2 1/2 days of meetings, with an afternoon outing and banquet on May 27th. - A total of 10 sessions, consisting of 3 papers each. - A number of proposed joint sessions, including: - The Early Modern English Lexicon (Ian Lancashire, organiser; joint session with ACCUTE). - Theorizing Computer Games: Do We Need a New Theory? (Andrew Mactavish, organiser; joint session with ACCUTE). - Mind Technologies (Ray Siemens and David Moorman, organisers; joint session with SSHRC). Contacts and Links: - Details of the 2002 Congress (includes lodging and registration information): http://www.hssfc.ca/english/congress/congress.html - COCH/COSH Home Page: http://www2.arts.ubc.ca/fhis/winder/cochcosh/ - COCH/COSH Membership Form: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/C-C-2001membership.asp - Ray Siemens, 2002 Conference Chair: siemensr@mala.bc.ca Joint Sessions with ACCUTE * The Early Modern English Lexicon Can we significantly improve our understanding of English, 1450-1700, by using resources other than the monumental Oxford English Dictionary? Commercial databases like Literature Online and Early English Books Online, academic publications such as the Helsinki Corpus and Jurgen Schafer's Early Modern English Lexicography (1989), and freely searchable Web services including Renascence Editions and the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database invite researchers to annotate difficult words, phrases, and passages themselves. EME word-sleuthing has become possible for a much wider scholarly community. These new resources raise questions. - To what extent do EME speakers now appear to be making markedly different assumptions about language -- words -- than we find informing established authorities like the OED? - What was "English," the language that Sir Philip Sidney said it would be insulting to teach native speakers? - After being glossed from original language texts, do once familiar literary works and passages no longer make the same kind of sense? - What types of language materials from the EME period have been neglected, and what do we stand to learn from them? These include antiquarian treatises, anything in manuscript, and encyclopedic works such as herbals. - Is it possible to learn from the early lexical `drudges,' as Samuel Johnson characterized his predecessors, the early lexicographers? Proposals for presentations are invited that address these and other questions related to the EME lexicon. Submit by e-mail or snail mail a full paper or 500 word abstract plus a short biography and cv by December 15 to: Ian Lancashire New College Wetmore Hall 300 Huron Street University of Toronto Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 2Z3 ian.lancashire@sympatico.ca * Theorizing Computer Games: Do We Need a New Theory? Although late to the scene, humanities scholars have begun defining approaches to computer game scholarship, the most common being rooted in studies of narrative, cinema, and dramatic performance. As promising as these perspectives are, Espen Aarseth cautions against the oft-repeated mistake he finds in many recent approaches to digital media: " the race is on to conquer and colonize these new territories for our existing paradigms and theories, often in the form of "the theoretical perspectives of is clearly really a prediction/description of ." (Aarseth, 1999, 31 & 32) This joint session between COCH/COSH and ACCUTE will address the problem--if, in fact, there is a problem--with theorizing computer games from perspectives used to explain narrative, cinema, and dramatic performance. If theoretical perspectives for analyzing non-digitally interactive forms of art and culture potentially represent computer games as something they are not, then what are the new questions we must ask about computer games that require new paradigms and theories? What is there about computer games that make them so different from other forms of culture that they need their own theory? Can computer games be understood in terms of narrative, cinema, or dramatic performance? Or does their use of character, plot, time, space, interactivity, user-initiated sequencing, subject positioning, special effects, and new computer technologies require a new theory of computer games? Proposals for presentations are invited that address these and other questions related to the theorization of computer games. Submit by e-mail or snail mail a full paper or 500 word abstract plus a short bio and CV by December 15 to: Andrew Mactavish McMaster University School of the Arts 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario CANADA L8S 4M2 mactavis@mcmaster.ca From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- November 2001 Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:36:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 644 (644) CIT INFOBITS November 2001 No. 41 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 and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ....................................................................... Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism Cycle of Improved Practice Website Virtual Experience vs. Conventional Teaching Cooperation Between Corporations And Academe in IT Education 2001 Campus Desktop Computing Survey Networking on the Network The Technology Source Moves to Michigan Virtual University Recommended Reading ....................................................................... [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: David Zeitlyn Subject: New CSAC Online Monograph Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:37:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 645 (645) I am pleased to announce that the latest CSAC monograph is now available online The full text is available in both PDF and HTML from http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/Mono19/ The reference is: Ritual Prestations and Social Obligations in Contemporary Japan CSAC Monographs Online 19 Ma `Angels Trias i Valls 2001 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: David Zeitlyn Subject: Online anthropology bibliography updated Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:41:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 646 (646) The CSAC collaborative online anthropology bibliography has now been updated. It now contains almost 25,000 references It can be accessed from our home page http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ or direct via http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib2/Makhzan 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: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 06:48:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 647 (647) CONTENT MANAGEMENT At JEP we do layout, editing, and fact checking, just like most publishers. However, we're behind the times if we don't do "Content Management." This issue is about content management, starting with an electronic book that's been around for ages in Internet years, through a book that you might publish tomorrow. So here is the December 2001 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/ Evolution of an Electronic Book: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html Charles W. Bailey, Jr. started The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography in 1992. In the ensuing nine years he has amassed citations for over 1,400 articles, books, and other publications. Managing that content has been a challenge; his article covers the development and use of SEPB over the years. The Indexing of Scholarly Journals: A Tipping Point for Publishing Reform? http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/willinsky.html by John Willinsky and Larry Wolfson Content management is more than just writing and publishing works electronically (or correcting errors as they arise). It involves making the work accessible. In their peer-reviewed article these authors propose a free on-line indexing service that would help guarantee that all content is easy to reach. Electronic First: The Upcoming Revolution in the Scholarly Communication System http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/sosteric.html by Mike Sosteric, Yuwei Shi, and Olivier Wenker think that it is easier to manage content -- not to mention more efficient -- if you create the electronic version first. Their article explains why (and how) to do that, based on their own experiences. Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/poe.html Marshall Poe wrote a monograph on the Duma Ranks, the Russian elite of the seventeenth century. He knew that no more than 200 people would read it, ever. So he published it himself, electronically. In this JEP article he tells how anyone can do that -- the ultimate content management. The More Things Change . . . http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/benson0702.html Philippa Benson reminds us that we need to remember paper when we're publishing electronically. Q.A.: Style Conscious http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/lieb0702.html Contributing editor Thom Lieb shows that an important part of content management is style management. He explains how and why a style guide helps electronic publications, and shows us how to establish one. Editor's Gloss: Content Management http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/glos0702.html We never before thought of what we do as Content Management, but ever alert to the latest buzzwords, we have changed our tune. Read about how JEP's Content Management works... Our Letters to the Editor are usually full of praise (which we love), but every once in a while we get a letter that makes us think, or points out an error or problem in one of our articles. Starting with new Letters to the Editor in this issue, we will be linking letters to the articles themselves. If you are not one of those who rereads JEP articles routinely, you might enjoy going directly to our Letters to the Editor and seeing what others think. You might even be inspired to send us a letter yourself. 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 You got this message because you signed up to receive notices of JEP issues. You will continue to receive messages three times a year with each new issue. If you do not want to receive further notices, please contact jep-info@umich.edu. And if your e-mail system returns an error message to this message, your name will be expunged from our list without further notice. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing, King's College London Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 06:44:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 648 (648) The following two talks are being given this month in the Seminar in Humanities Computing at King's College London: DECEMBER 7 (Friday, 1 p.m.) Amy Smith (Classics, Reading) The third millennium museum catalogue Room 17B Strand Campus DECEMBER 10 (Monday, 1 p.m.) Ray Siemens (English, Malaspina, BC, Canada) Electronic Publishing and its Academic Credibility Room 2C Strand Campus For details please see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/01-02/>. All within reach of these events 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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Drew McDermott on _Mind and Mechanism_ Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 06:42:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 649 (649) Dear Humanist scholars, Hi, I just wanted to inform you about the book "Mind and Mechanism" by Drew V. McDermott published by MIT, 2001 Adding more threads to the below --Drew McDermott works on artificial intelligence, but disavows any theory of ``intelligence.'' Instead, he believes that the field should focus on basic problems of getting agents to react appropriately to events in the world around them, regardless of whether we normally call such behavior intelligent. For more information, please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/026213392X/ In Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which separate the physical and mental realms. He then surveys what has been accomplished in artificial intelligence, clearly differentiating what we know how to build from what we can imagine building. McDermott then details a computational theory of consciousness--claiming that the mind can be modeled entirely in terms of computation--and deals with various possible objections. He also discusses cultural consequences of the theory, including its impact on religion and ethics. Drew V. McDermott is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. 6 x 9, 280 pp., 22 illus. cloth ISBN 0-262-13392-X A Bradford Book Best regards, Arun From: John Unsworth Subject: blake archive: UK mirror Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 06:43:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 650 (650) The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the Archive's first mirror site. Hosted at Oxford University in Oxford, England, the mirror is available at www.blakearchive.org.uk. The Archive averages 1,600+ visits per day, and many of these "visits" originate from British domains. Intended to improve access speed for our British and European users, the mirror can be accessed from our welcome and index pages as well as at the URL listed above. All Archive materials are available at both sites. The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU), a division of the Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), hosts this mirror. The Blake mirror is the second such partnership between the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and the HCU. The Archive joins a growing list of Web-based humanities research projects that target and reach a global audience. A second Blake mirror in the Pacific is also in the works. We would like to thank Conall O'Brien (Systems Administrator, Network Systems Management Service, OUCS), Kirk Hastings (Lead Programmer/Analyst, IATH), and Andrea Laue (Project Manager, William Blake Archive) for their efforts on this project. In addition, Lou Burnard (Manager, HCU) and John Unsworth (Director, IATH) should be recognized for their support. 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 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. At present the Archive contains 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated books, plus a fully SGML-encoded electronic edition of David. V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_. In the 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 spring we also plan to publish collection handlists for each of the Archive's contributing institutions. Future supplementary materials include a biography and glossary as well as improved, searchable versions of our bibliographies. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, technical editor The William Blake Archive From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:19:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 651 (651) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 4, 2001 ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork) European Consortium Formed to Further Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage & Scientific Material http://www.erpanet.org The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of Glasgow University has just announced a bold new digital preservation initiative: ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork). This consortial initiative has been launched by four partners to share information on key issues, best practice and skills development in the digital preservation of cultural and scientific materials as well as to stimulate new research and the incorporation of preservation lessons into new generations of software. 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: John Unsworth Subject: final call for comment, TEI Guidelines (P4) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:18:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 652 (652) To all users of the Text Encoding Initiative DTD and Guidelines: Early this spring, the TEI will publish a major revision of its DTD and Guidelines (P4), to provide equal support for both SGML and XML. Users of the current (SGML-only) version of the DTD and Guidelines (P3) are encouraged to review the draft state of P4 with particular attention to the chapters, features and functionality most important to them, and to forward any comments, objections, or suggestions no later than December 31st to the TEI Council at council@tei-c.org (you may also cc your comments directly to the editors, at editors@tei-c.org). The Council will meet on January 12th to determine what changes, if any, must be made to P4 before publication. The current draft state of the P4 DTD is available on the web at: http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD/ The current draft state of the Guidelines is available on the web at: http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/Status/ Thanks, John Unsworth, Chair TEI Council From: Willard McCarty Subject: hard necessities & methodological purpose Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:23:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 653 (653) Yesterday Humanist published an announcement from the Blake Archive of its first mirror site, at Oxford. Having the thing thus put before me, I explored it once again, this time going to the section on "Editorial Principles". Allow me to draw your attention to this page in particular, <http://www.blakearchive.org.uk/public/about/principles/>, esp to a statement of fact which concerns us all. The editors note that "[t]he historical Blake, a printmaker and painter by training who added poetry to his list of accomplishments, has been converted, editorially, into a poet whose visual art is acknowledged but moved off to the side where it becomes largely invisible, partly because of what one of Blake's first critics, the poet Swinburne, called "hard necessity"--the technological and economic obstructions that have prevented the reproduction of accurate images in printed editions. On the art-historical flank a productive scholarly tradition of cataloguing has been complementary to but largely disconnected from its editorial counterpart on the literary flank. Consequently, many students and even professional scholars know either the textual or visual side of Blake's work but not both, despite their interconnections at the source." Then the key matter for us: "Methodologically, the William Blake Archive is an attempt to restore historical balance through the syntheses made possible by the electronic medium." It seems to me that the possibility of working toward such a synthesis wherever visual and verbal are significantly interrelated in an original manifestation is worth considerable thought. What does it mean to restore a lost balance by translation into a new medium? How easily we formerly disregarded what we could not easily have. How obvious the problem seems now that we can have it. Whole domains of knowledge open up, e.g. for medievalists, manuscript studies. So, what are we now easily disregarding that we still cannot easily have? 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: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:19:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 654 (654) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 39, Week of December 3, 2001 In this issue: Interview -- A Conversation with Hebert R.J. Grosch Reflections on the early days of computing, the importance of standards, and The Old Man. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/h_grosch_1.html View -- Product Language in Electronic Media Design Communication follows function: How products communicate to users and why designers should care. By Steffen Klein http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/s_klein_1.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted 2001 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org. For the full issue of ACM Ubiquity: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/> From: "Patrick Finn" Subject: Conference and Collection 11/15/01; 5/25/02-5/28/02 Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:29:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 655 (655) This is a call for papers for a joint ACCUTE and COCH/COSH session at the 2002 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. This year the congress will be held at The University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnic University from May 25-28th 2002. Note: Selected papers from this session will be published in a special edition of College Literature. The deadline for conference paper proposals has been extended to December 15, 2001. Shakespeare and Information Technology This session will explore the ways in which Shakespeare connects with various forms of information technology. A number of scholarly pursuits, including book and print histories, performance and film studies, and multimedia/digitization projects are currently examining the ways in which Shakespeare's plays and poetry migrate across various media. How have these forms of media influenced or been influenced by the bard? What role has this technology played in the creation and maintenance of Shakespeare's place in our culture? The panel hopes to highlight the role that information technology has played in the transmission of Shakespeare's work and what that work has to offer our changing information landscape. Possible topics might include: * Digitizing Shakespeare * Shakespeare on the World Wide Web * Renaissance printing practices * Performing Shakespeare * The Early Modern book trade * Pop Goes the Bard - Shakespeare and Pop Culture * Virtual Shakespeare * Shakespeare and multimedia teaching practices * Filmic Shakespeare * Shakespearean portraiture As per ACCUTE and COCH/COSH guidelines: Proposals should be 300-500 words in length, and should clearly indicate the originality of scholarly significance of the proposed paper, the line of argument, the principle texts the paper will speak to, and the relation of the paper to existing scholarship on the topic. A list of works cited should also be included. Completed conference papers should fulfill these criteria, and should be no longer than 12 double-spaced pages. Please send three copies of papers and/or proposals, accompanied by three copies of a 100-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note along with an email or computer disk copy of same by December 15, 2001: Patrick Finn Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 3070 STN CSC Victoria, British Columbia CANADA V8W 3W1 Phone: 250.383.9051 Fax: 250.721.6498 pjfinn@uvic.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: the living dead on WWW Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:30:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 656 (656) From the Free Online Scholarship newsletter [deleted quotation] October 9. [deleted quotation] .... [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: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: SOL - Spanish Online Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:47:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 657 (657) SOL - Spanish Online On the basis of collaboration between higher institutions and universities, the Spanish Section of the Dep. of Romance Languages, University of Gteborg (Gothenburg, Sweden), is offering since 1998 the possibility to consult by the international computer network SOL - Spanish Online, two text corpora with 2.937.008 running words of present-day Spanish texts. The access to the COR92 corpus was later incorporated to the site. Concordancias e s p a o l a s en la Web En este sitio web puedes buscar concordancias y frecuencias de palabras grficas en los corpus espaoles ONE71 y PE77 (que conforman el SOL Spanish Online), y tambin en el corpus COR92. Information in English: http://spraakdata.gu.se/lb/konk/rom2/SOL.General.Info.html -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Gteborg University From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Short Course: Critical Issues in Arts and Technology for Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:37:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 658 (658) Arts Managers NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 9, 2002 Columbia University Announces: Critical Issues in Arts and Technology for Arts Managers AN EXTENDED DISCUSSION ON ART, ARTISTS AND TECHNOLOGY June 6-7 and 13-15, 2002: Teachers College, Columbia University http://www.tc.columbia.edu/artandtechnology/ From the web site: This newest course offering of the Program in Arts Administration, Critical Issues in Arts and Technology for Arts Managers will examine critical issues in the continuing use of technology in the arts for arts managers. It will combine relevant intellectual exploration of educational and artistic issues with a focus on practical concerns such as content, protection, function and delivery of technological methods and innovations in the arts with particular emphasis on their effect and demands on arts managers. The purpose of the course is to expand creative thinking for actual and aspiring practitioners in the arts. It will examine some of the conceptual thinking in the area, practical tools, form vs. function, communication and educational challenges, dilemmas and potential. Technology will include the Internet, audio delivery, interactive technology, email, and television. Scholars and artists in music, art, dance, literature and theatre will present current thinking about the transmission of existing art work, translation of an art work into an electronic form, creation of work as/with/for technology, display of such work, interaction, effect on audiences, on learners and on communities. Professional arts organizations and artists will demonstrate cutting edge work in music, art, dance, theatre and literature using technology which serves a variety of functions-education, outreach, creating new audiences, creating new art, gentrifying neighborhoods, plugging artists more directly into the labor force. These will be followed by participatory work in which the audience is given a series of thematic questions and issues, adds more issues of its own, and breaks into facilitated small group discussion. These discussions, and the rest of the course, will be documented and will promote the model of participatory online learning for which this is a prototype in arts administration. SPEAKERS Maxwell Anderson Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art Benjamin Barber Professor of Civil Society at the University of Maryland Steven Dietz Curator of New Media at the Walker Art Center Cheryl Faver (Co- Director) Founder, The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre Thomas J. Gulick Executive Director of Development and Marketing for the San Francisco Opera. Karin Olander Heck heads Coach's e-commerce channel, Coach.com. I. Fred Koenigsberg partner in the law firm of White & Case, LLP. Barbara London Curator Museum of Modern Art Zoe Melendez is Project Development Manager for Vulcan, Inc Theresa Perrone is a Senior Project Manager with Craver, Mathews, Smith & Co. Interactive, David R. White Executive Director and Producer Dance Theater Workshop Pinchas ZukermanViolinist; Artistic Director, Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program Studies: The Juilliard School. REGISTRATION COSTS For non-credit: Before May, 1. Module I - $450 Module II - $650 Modules I and II - $1000 After May, 1. Module I - $500 Module II - $700 Modules I and II - $1075 For credit: All modules available for 3 credits at $785 per credit ============================================================== 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: John Unsworth Subject: Fwd: TEI survey, last call Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:36:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 659 (659) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: book launch Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:16:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 660 (660) Palgrave and the Institute of English Studies warmly invite you to celebrate the publication of Radiant Textuality Literature After the World Wide Web By Jerome McGann On Monday 7th January from 5pm onwards, at The Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London Room 329 Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU The reception will be preceded by a presentation from the author and responses from Professor Warwick Gould, Dr. Willard McCarty, Dr. Kathryn Sutherland, Professor Susan Hockey, and Professor Drummond Bone. The book will be available at a special price for the occasion. RSVP to Sanphy Thomas s.thomas@palgrave.com Please note that places are limited ----- 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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 40, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:23:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 661 (661) Version 40 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,500 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. 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 links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat or Word files: (1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography), (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (related Web sites), and (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (frequently updated list of new resources). http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 125 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 390 KB and the Word file is over 430 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, Linking, 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 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal* Preprints Preservation Publishers* SGML and Related Standards An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html 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: "Minna Kanerva" Subject: Network for speech and language technologies Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:35:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 662 (662) [Forwarded from "Minna Kanerva" ] I would like to bring to your attention that STN has joined forces with ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies - a European Commission project) to build our directory of experts together. In this context, we are now also embracing all language technologies. (Please see http://www.elsnet.org/stn.html) I would therefore like to remind you about the standing invitation we have for your to join the following: - the subscribers of our free email-based magazine (the Expert) presenting articles, news, events, people, books etc. If you are interested in this eZine, please go to the following link to subscribe: http://www.qwimail.com/mailinglist/layout/telecom/default.asp?a=login Alternatively, you can provide me with you full name, country of residence and email and I will fill in a subscription for you, and/or - our Expert Directory - a global listing of speech and language technology professionals. Being a member (free of charge) gives you the opportunity to present yourself to the global community and to possibly also publish your own articles in our eZine or place them in our electronic Library. You are given a personalized homepage (including photo and CV if you wish) listing you as an expert in a specific field of speech and/or language technologies. So far, 600 professionals from all over the world have already joined this directory. To include yourself in the Expert Directory please go to: http://experts.speechtechnology.net/experts/add/ Or, you can e-mail me the following information (pls. indicate clearly that you wish to join the directory): Name: Job Title: Organization: Address: Postal Code: City: County/State: Country: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Specialism (within speech/language technology): IMPORTANT: When joining the Directory, please also indicate whether you or your organisation is a member of ELSNET, ISCA, ACL etc. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards & Seasonal Greetings, Minna Kanerva Community Manager STN - Network for Speech and Language Technologies VercomNet BV P.O. Box 917 6200 AX Maastricht The Netherlands http://www.speechtechnology.net minna.kanerva@vercomnet.com From: Lorna Hughes Subject: detecting plagiarism? Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:13:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 663 (663) Dear Humanists, We are doing a little research into way in which technical solutions are being used to detect plagiarism in universities. We have evaluated turnitin.com, and looked at a couple of commercial solutions and ways of detecting if a student has obtained a paper form an on-line source. I was wondering if anyone had experience with any so-called plagiarism detecting tools? has anyone used traditional text-analysis tools for this, and if so, was it helpful? And do you have any experiences, suggestions or anecdotes that would help us in this process? I know that this is a pretty sensitive topic, so feel free to e-mail me privately on this subject! best wishes, Lorna -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Lavagnino Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 2001 MLA Convention Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:12:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 664 (664) Some Humanist readers may be attending this year's Modern Language Association convention in New Orleans at the end of the month. 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/mla01/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. This year the number of relevant talks is down slightly as the academic market follows the stock market, but there are still many and diverse things going on. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conference/Call: Digital Resources for the Humanities Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:15:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 665 (665) Sept 8-11: Edinburgh NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 14, 2001 DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES: DRH 2002 Sept 8-11, 2002: University of Edinburgh Call For Papers: Deadline March 1, 2002 http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH 2002 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 selected papers from the conferences is published annually by the Office for Humanities Communication at King's College London. See http://www.drh.org.uk/. DRH 2002 DRH 2002 will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, Scotland UK, from 8th-11th September 2002. Conference information will be posted on the Web site at http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ 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 conference communities. Areas on which DRH conferences have concentrated have included the creation of digital resources, providing access to digital projects, the application of digital resources to teaching and research, and digital preservation. The Conference Programme Committee of DRH 2002 will particularly welcome proposals which relate to the following themes: - Provision and management of access - Digital libraries, archives and museums - Time-based media and multimedia studies in music and performing arts - Other social sciences where these overlap significantly with the humanities - Network technologies used to support international community programmes - The anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and computing media and its effect on the humanities - Information analysis, design and modelling in humanities research - Knowledge representation, including visualization and simulation Submitting Proposals The deadline for submitting proposals is 1st March, 2002; notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 19th April 2002. Proposals should be submitted using the Call for Papers link to the online Web form from the conference Web page at http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ or (if you are unable to use Web forms) by email to DRH2002@arts.gla.ac.uk. Your submission should be text only, with no word processor formatting or graphics (final submissions of accepted papers may include graphics). Please note that all participants in the conference, including speakers, are expected to pay their own travel, conference and accommodation costs. 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 types 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. It is essential that the proposal makes clear how the work to be presented relates to the relevant work in the field. All proposals should be submitted in English. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone and email details for all participants. Papers: We invite proposals for conference papers lasting no more than 25 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 500 and 750 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. All presenters who wish their paper to be considered for publication will be asked to submit a full version of their paper before the end of the conference. Organisation: The Programme Committee, which has responsibility for the academic programme of the conference, is chaired by Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk). The Programme Committee members are: Frances Abercromby, University of Edinburgh (Local Organizer) Lou Burnard, University of Oxford Marilyn Deegan, University of Oxford Mike Fraser, University of Oxford David Green, NINCH Lorna Hughes, New York University Derek Law, University of Strathclyde Andrew Prescott, University of Sheffield Richard Ovenden, University of Edinburgh Bruce Royan, SCRAN Brad Scott, Semantico Harold Short, King's College London Donald Spaeth, University of Glasgow Nigel Williamson, University of Sheffield Call for hosts for DRH 2004 The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH conference in 2004 Prospective applicants should refer to the conference Protocol and to other information on the DRH web site (http://www.drh.org.uk/). Colleagues wishing to host the conference should write in the first instance to the Chair of the Standing Committee: Dr Michael Fraser mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk. Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 -- ============================================================== 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: WORKSHOP: Digitization for Cultural Heritage Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:16:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 666 (666) Professionals 2002 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 14, 2001 Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals 2002 March 10-15, 2002: UNC, Chapel Hill http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/ Following the great success of the 1998 through 2001 Glasgow Digitisation Summer Schools, and the Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals 2000 and 2001 courses at Rice University, HATII, the University of Glasgow, the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Fondren Library at Rice University are pleased to announce the third offering of this course in North America, this year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 10-15, 2002. Cost information, course details and an online registration form can be found at http://www.ils.unc.edu/DCHP/. This one-week intensive course will consist of lectures, seminars, lab-based practicals (offering both guided instruction as well as an opportunity for individual practice) and visits to the UNC Library. The teaching team includes Drs. Seamus Ross and Ian Anderson from Glasgow, Helen Tibbo from UNC-CH, and Paul Conway from Duke University. Enrollment is limited, so register early. For course content questions, contact Dr. Helen Tibbo at (919) 962-8063 or tibbo@ils.unc.edu. For registration questions, contact David MacDonald at (919) 843-8337 or macdonald@ils.unc.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Grindstone Island Summer Seminars in Cultural Informatics Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:18:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 667 (667) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 14, 2001 SUMMER 2002 SEMINARS IN CULTURAL INFORMATICS Archives & Museum Informatics 2002 Grindstone Island Summer Seminars http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone [deleted quotation]SUMMER 2002 SEMINARS IN CULTURAL INFORMATICS Archives & Museum Informatics ( http://www.archimuse.com ) announces the program for the 2002 Grindstone Island Summer Seminars. Join leading experts in cultural heritage informatics for a one-of-a-kind learning experience. --> SEMINARS ------------- One or more internationally renowned instructors will present an extended workshop with hands-on learning opportunities.. The multi-day format and on-site networked multimedia lab mean participants can both learn theory and apply what they have learned in practice. (Note: some courses are offered in French or bilingually, in English and French). Full program details and instructor biographies can be found on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone or follow the links below to specific course descriptions. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Webcasts: ArtSci Symposium; NYU's ITP Graduate SHow Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:17:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 668 (668) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 14, 2001 ArtSci2001 Symposium - WEBCAST Dec 1-31, 2001: http://www.asci.org/ArtSci2001/index.html NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Graduate Show Dec 19-21: New York University Live Show on ITP TV: Dec 21, 5-7pm: http://itp.nyu.edu/itptv/ ArtSci2001 Symposium - WEBCAST November 2 - 4, 2000 New York City Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is pleased to announce that their recent international symposium on collaboration will be "webcast" from their website from: December 1 -31, 2001. KEYNOTE ADDRESS- This was by Joe Davis, artist in residence at M.I.T. with his long-time collaborator, Dana Boyd, lecturer and molecular geneticist at the Harvard Medical School, Boston. Length: 2 hrs. [in four parts] SATURDAY" & "SUNDAY - Click on each day for separate Program Schedules. Clicking on each image icon on the page will link you to Presentation Details: art-sci project descriptions, short bios of presenters, and their contact information. This will help you decide which presentations you are interested in viewing. Then click on each small video camera icon to "stream" that specific presentation. Mostly 20-minutes in length [some over] The images are kind of fuzzy [that depends on the specific speed of your Internet connection], but all the sound and ideas are clear. Thanks to the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation and the efforts of www.artstream.org, we are able to share the video documentation of this unique event. Please forward to your colleagues! THE ARTSCI INDEX - We hope that you will participate in the ArtSci INDEX [an online "match-making" tool for nurturing collaboration]. The feedback forms we've received so far are from a fascinating and diverse range of artists, technologists, and scientists. We'd like to see yours :) <http://proforma.real.com/real/player/player.html?src=011011realhome_2,011011rpchoice_h2&dc=12111301129>www.asci.org/artsci_index.html ASCI is a 13-year old, non-profit organization based in New York City that welcomes your membership and/or tax-deductible contributions to help sustain our small organization and its programs. We publish an excellent monthly info-resource for the field [a benefit of membership] called the ASCI e-BULLETIN. A sample copy is online. To learn more about ASCI, join or donate online via Paypal.com go to: <http://proforma.real.com/real/player/player.html?src=011011realhome_2,011011rpchoice_h2&dc=12111301129>http://www.asci.org/about/about.html or email Christoph Mayer at: info@asci.org ============================================================================ [deleted quotation] ITP at NYU presents the end of the semester graduate student showcase! An exhibition of innovative graduate student work with projects in physical computing, multimedia installations, sound and video design, and presentations of plausible futures for all of the above. General exhibitions Wednesday December 19 Thursday December 20 Friday December 21 6 - 9 PM Future scenarios presentation Thursday December 20 4 - 7 PM See the show live at http://itp.nyu.edu/itptv/ Friday December 21 5 - 7 PM Projects featured are from the following classes: Designing Experience Expressing with Technology Foundations of Generative Art Systems Future of the Infrastructure Interaction Design Interactive Computing in Public Places Introduction to 3D Physical Computing 2 Video Installation Please call 212.998.1880 or email with questions. This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is necessary. ITP, Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway at Waverly Place 4th Floor, South Elevators New York, NY 10003 http://www.itp.nyu.edu -- Midori L. Yasuda Admissions, Special Events, Alumni Interactive Telecommunications Program Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th Floor New York, NY 10003 phone: 212/998-1882 fax: 212/998-1898 www.itp.nyu.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Google Makes Available Usenet Discussion Forum (since 1979) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:17:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 669 (669) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 14, 2001 Google Makes Available Usenet Discussion Forum 700 million messages since 1979 http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en BBC Story on Google's Usenet Archive http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1709000/1709527.stm [deleted quotation]Message forwarded to the list by Steve Bailey. A fascinating development but I share Steve's sentiments - I would recommend looking at the Google site and how the usenet archive is promoted. I have been thinking about the future use and archiving of this list and others in the UK so it provided me with useful food for thought. Neil [deleted quotation]************************************************************************************* Neil Beagrie JISC Digital Preservation Focus Assistant Director Secretary, Digital Preservation Coalition JISC London Office, Tel/Fax/Voicemail :+44 (0)709 2048179 King's College London email: preservation@jisc.ac.uk Strand Bridge House url: www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/ 138 - 142, The Strand, email list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digital-preservation London WC2R 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: merry greetings Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:35:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 670 (670) Dear colleagues: As many here will know, each year on or about the Winter solstice I send out what for me are Christmas salutations and seize the occasion to reflect on Humanist, humanities computing and related things. At this time of year, despite all evidence to the contrary in this gloomy wet-bricked working-class Victorian suburb of London, I find myself imagining a snowy landscape -- which years in Ontario, Canada, often in fact gave me. I could put us all on a horse-drawn wagon, make us merry revelers in heavy coats, scarves, hats, mitts and boots headed to some brightly lit, fire-warmed, mulled-wine-smelling house. Which I very much hope you will be going to at some point during the holidays, or as near to a place of celebratory joy as you might want. But my melancholy soul won't leave well enough alone: up into these cozy imaginings bobbs a long-submerged bit of Eliot ("So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna / On the field of battle") to remind me that a question is begging to be asked - a question often enough asked of us wired scholars: just where are we going? Bad answers in the popular and, alas, academic presses grow like stubborn weeds, thorny with determinisms. Such as: that the future will be thus-and-such, positive or negative as suits the visionary. Or more deviously: that once upon a time (e.g. when the Web was in its infancy) we had the genius to see how things were going and so invested appropriately (e.g. in years of work on Web-based projects). Hurrah for us, and too bad for those who didn't see what we saw. This, however, is not even a wisdom in hindsight but an intellectually damaging hallucination, for the past never was like that, and the present can't be either for the sharp-eyed among us. Or so, powerfully, says the ethnographer Greg Dening in his curiously marvellous book, Readings/Writings (Melbourne, 1998): "The webs of significance of any event, place or person are fine-lined and faint. It takes a lot of looking to see them. And the answers to any question that we have of them are never obvious, because the questions we ask of them are not the questions the people of the past were asking of themselves.... The most unhistorical thing we can do is to imagine that the past is us in funny clothes. Our imagination has to allow us to experience what we share with the past and see difference at the same time.... When we empower the past by returning it to itself, we empower our imagination to see ourselves. Our certainties are our greatest enemy when we approach the past. Hindsight is always blinding. We know from our living experience that our present moments--this moment--has all the possibilities of the future still in it. None of us prescribes the reality we live in. None of us controls the consequences of our actions. None of us can predict with absolute certainty anybody else's reaction to the simplest gesture, the clearest sign, the most definite word. But we have to cope with these ambivalences, interpreting these never-ending possibilities. Hindsight, on the other hand, reduces all possibilities in the past to one. Hindsight leaches out not all our uncertainties, but all the past's uncertainties. Hindsight closes down our imagination. In hindsight we do not see the past as it actually was, only as it would have been if all of its uncertainties were taken away. Hindsight freezes the frame of every picture of the past. Hindsight removes all the processes of living. Makes the past our puppet." ("Empowering Imaginations", p. 208-11). As a number of people have said, the advent (Christmas imagery!) of computing has made the technology of the book sharply visible, and it has thrown into relief both how good this older technology is for some things, how poor in comparison for others. Hence at this historical juncture we are getting very busy refurbishing the intellectual forms by which we make and represent new knowledge of old things. At issue as we bump along toward whatever future, dragging into it what we can from the past, is what the past is that we may learn from it. What, for example, were the possibilities open to the maker of this or that intellectual form, what was he or she intending, how well did he or she succeeed in terms of that intention? We don't measure success, Dening points out, by how nearly the maker got to asking our questions, rather to asking his or her own, which were asked in the context of that which at the time went without saying. How, Peter Shillingsburg asked in a talk he gave in London recently, do we hear that which goes without saying? "Imagination is hearing the silence", Dening suggests, "because we have heard some of the sounds around it. Imagination is seeing the absent things because we have seen so much else. Imagination is an act of human solidarity, or rather, imagination is an act of solidarity in our humanness." (p. 209). Quite clearly the imagination of which Dening speaks is not just any sort of speculation or fantasizing. There's a particular discipline to it, which is to say training, hence the question of curriculum with which we in humanities computing are becoming increasingly preoccupied: a curriculum for developing the ability to imagine with our tools what we do not yet know (Jerry McGann, quoting Lisa Samuels) as well as what we once knew and what we have before us now to know. Work in various disciplines lies readily to hand to help us build such a curriculum -- and in so doing to discover and demonstrate how our practice belongs in and to the company it is keeping. The strongest intellectual argument on our side is not based on the benefits that applied computing brings e.g. to literary or historical studies, although these benefits are now without serious doubt. Rather I would think that the gold lies in how particular qualities of literary, historical and other disciplinary imaginations help us to articulate a more powerful humanities computing, which is in direct consequence better for all the disciplines. New fields need their independence so as not to be enslaved by others (I paraphrase William Blake); the question, I suppose, is how that independence is expressed institutionally. Thus the vital contribution of administrative imagination in securing intellectual independence while at the same time not isolating us from the academic commons. As the interrogative tone with which "humanities computing" was once clearly pronounced has become more and more difficult to hear, I've noticed a curious thing that speaks to the need for this independence: those scholars who claim humanities computing for themselves but whose perspective on it admits only instrumental effects on their areas of interest. One cause of such partiality, I suspect, is that for whatever reasons they are not, as Dening puts it, listening "for the global conversations that are the background white noise of all disciplinary talk" (p. 9). Is it that they hear only the parole of their disciplinary tribe and so cannot properly conceptualise the langue of which it is an expression? But I do not want to end my solstitial message with intellectual weed-control. Let us pursue that with vigour in the new year! Rather in this time of imagination, when so many of us live consciously for a brief time within old stories, allow me to wish you the best in the deepening silence of these silent nights, amidst the bustle to be reminded by Dening and others of how computing may be of as well as in the humanities, what these humanities are and why we need them. Allow me to wish you the courage to make it so. All the best, WM From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "The Semantic Web": Call for papers for special issue of Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:39:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 671 (671) "Information Research" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 20, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Semantic Web" Special Issue of "Information Research" http://informationr.net/ir/ [deleted quotation] Call for papers - "The Semantic Web" - a special issue of Information Research: an international electronic journal (http://informationr.net/ir/) Increasing the intelligibility of the Web is a compelling vision. Imagine how the utility of local data could be enhanced if they were Meaningfully linked to data posted by strangers far away. The Web could evolve into a comprehensive meaning system, a universal encyclopedia or "world brain," as prophesied by H.G. Wells. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is actively promoting the Semantic Web as an extension of the current Web, but one in which information will Be given well-defined meaning thus facilitating the cooperation between computers and people. The crucial first step is to increase the functionality of Web machines to "understand" the data that they merely display at present. This call is for papers that discuss the challenges of transforming the current Web into a meaning space. The scope of discussion extends from technical challenges, such as affixing meaning to an XML (Extensible Markup Language) source, to linguistic and cultural barriers, such as the development of semantic tags that will be widely accepted and validly used. Questions and proposals for papers should be sent to the editor of the special issue: Dr. Terrence A. Brooks The Information School University of Washington Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840 voice: 206 543-2646 fax: 206 616-3152 e-mail: tabrooks@u.washington.edu web: http://faculty.washington.edu/tabrooks/ Completed papers should be received by 31st May 2002, but questions about the suitability of proposed papers may be sent to the Issue Editor at any time. The style guide for Information Research is found at http://informationr.net/ir/author1.html A link to a template file can be found on that page. -- ============================================================== 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: John Unsworth Subject: Crystal Palace visualizations Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:36:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 672 (672) As part of Michael Levenson's "Monuments and Dust" project at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Chris Jessee and others have built a complete and fully detailed computer model of the Crystal Palace, based on original construction drawings. Most recently, Chris has produced new computer-generated animations and still images of the exterior and interior of the Crystal Palace. You can find all of IATH's Crystal Palace materials at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london/model/. The new animations, and notes on their production, are at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/london/model/animation.html. The interior animation is also on display as part of "World City, 1789-1914" the newest and largest permanent exhibition at the Museum of London. Both interior and exterior animations will be featured in an upcoming BBC program on the Crystal Palace, as well. John Unsworth, Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: December eSpectra and RLG DigiNews available Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:38:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 673 (673) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community December 17, 2001 December 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews now available http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ December 2001 Issue of eSpectra Available -the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/ * * * December 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews now available http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ [deleted quotation] The December 2001 issue includes: Volume 5, Number 6 Editor's Interview: Collaboration of RLG/OCLC With Digital Archiving Initiatives, an Interview with Robin Dale and Meg Bellinger Feature Article Emulation vs. Migration: Do Users Care?, by Margaret Hedstrom and Clifford Lampe Highlighted Web Site - eXtensible Name Service FAQ - Image Search Engines [material deleted] December 2001 Issue of eSpectra Available -the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/ The latest issue of this very useful compendium of news and information should not be missed. Below the announcement I include a few representative items. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] . [deleted quotation] * Digging Deep Digitally The field of archaeology will receive a big boost from 3D computer modeling techniques. Thanks to a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at Columbia University are building digital tools that will enable archaeologists to examine the details of sites without having to dig or damage structures. The new 3D modeling techniques will also allow archaeologists to take virtual tours of sites. The digital tools include a mobile robot equipped with a laser scanner for taking high-detail shots aboveground, and a radar sensor for taking shots deep underground. A 3D model of sites can be produced once the data is scanned into a computer. Initial tests already have been completed, but there are plans to test the digital tools at the Amheida site in the Dakhla Oasis, in the western desert of Egypt, and to put the computerized data of the site online. Read the Information Week article at: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011026S0008 and the New York Times article (requires site registration) at: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/circuits/08NEXT.html * Report Released on ABC Metadata Model Authors Carl Lagoze and Jane Hunter recently released a paper describing the latest version of the ABC metadata model, developed within the Harmony international digital library project to provide a common conceptual framework with which to ease interoperability among metadata vocabularies from different domains. http://research.nii.ac.jp/~oyama/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-26.pdf * Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonne The National Gallery of Art presents the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) online catalogue raisonne, a listing of prints produced at this Los Angeles studio from 1966 through 1996. http://www.nga.gov/gemini/ * High Speed History The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is the first independent museum to connect the high-speed research and education networks of Internet2."The connection to Internet2 will expand the museum's computing resources and therefore its research capabilities," Museum provost Michael Novaceck said in a statement. "The AMNH is uniquely poised both to generate scientific advances from this new technology and to communicate these advances to scientists, researchers, students and the public around the world."Novaceck said that fields such as comparative genomics, astrophysics, systematics, biodiversity sciences and geology would all benefit from the connection. Reported in Wired News, 12/3/2001 * Misguided Guidelines for Interpreting Fair Use In an article discussing the evolution of "fair use" guidelines that have evolved in the wake of the Copyright Act of 1976, author Kenneth Crews notes that none of the guidelines has ever had the force of law to back it up, and, in fact, most of the guidelines bear little relationship to the law of fair use. Read the Ohio State Law Journal article at: http://www.osu.edu/units/law/LawJournal/crews.htm * International Resources from the Library of Congress This site acts as a gateway to a number of Library of Congress (LOC) international resources. http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/ * The Canadian West From the National Archives of Canada, this Web exhibition includes over 200 pictures, maps, and documents on European exploration and settlement of Western Canada, from the 1600s to 1930. http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html * Cultural Materials from RLG - Trial Subscriptions Effective 1 November 2001, free one-month trial subscriptions to the new RLG Cultural Materials service are available. RLG Cultural Materials brings together rich digital collections from an international alliance of museums, libraries and archives, and provides a powerful, user-friendly new interface to support discovery and learning. http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/ Information about a free one-month trial: http://www.rlg.org/agreements/trialrcm.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: Michael Fraser Subject: CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities, Edinburgh, 8-11 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:28:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 674 (674) Sept 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH 2002 http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Deadline: 1 March 2002 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 selected papers from the conferences is published annually by the Office for Humanities Communication at King's College London. See http://www.drh.org.uk/. DRH 2002 DRH 2002 will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, Scotland UK, from 8th-11th September 2002. Conference information will be posted on the Web site at http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ [material deleted] From: "Mark Kornbluh, H-Net Executive Director" Subject: H-Net Technology Sessions at the AHA Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:51:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 675 (675) AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE JANUARY 3-6, 2002, San Francisco ------------- [material deleted] From: Rare Book School Subject: Computing Courses of interest at Virginia Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:32:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 676 (676) RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its 2002 Sessions, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special collections to be held at the University of Virginia. FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School, visit our Web site at: http://www.rarebookschool.org Subscribers to the Humanist list may find the following Rare Book School courses to be of particular interest: 25. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 11-15). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed at archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using examples selected from among their own institution's finding aids. Topics: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of SGML authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of existing finding aids to EAD. Instructor: Daniel Pitti. DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative. From: Sarah Farthing Subject: Advance Notice - Manuscript Studies Symposium Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:32:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 677 (677) ADVANCE NOTICE: The University of London Library, the Centre for Palaeography and the Institute of English Studies within the University of London are pleased to announce an International Symposium entitled: "The Future of Manuscript Studies in a Switched-On World" to be held at the Senate House, University of London on 18th March 2002. The symposium will be an international forum to discuss the role library collections and services, and information technology should play in promoting and supporting research and teaching in this field in the 21st century. The ULL will put forward its innovative vision for a virtual library service, an International Manuscript Studies Portal, seeking to secure the broadest academic feedback and support. This initiative builds on the success of the current project funded by the UK Research Support Libraries Programme entitled Palaeography - Developing the National Resource (http://www.palaeography.ac.uk), under completion by a library consortium of the University of London Library (lead site), and the Universities of Durham and Liverpool. We are pleased to have received much interest in both the Portal and the symposium, and are currently finalising the list of speakers and the conference programme. This event would be of particular interest to those involved in manuscript and book studies, palaeography, computing in the humanities, subject gateways and digital libraries. Registration details will be sent out in January 2002. Further information is available from Mura Ghosh, Palaeography Project Officer, University of London Library, by telephone at 00 44 (0) 207 862 8475 or by e-mail at mghosh@ull.ac.uk Sarah Farthing Library Development Officer University of London Library Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tel: 020 7862 8415 Fax: 020 7862 8480 email: sfarthing@ull.ac.uk From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.418 merry greetings on the Solstice Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:25:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 678 (678) Willard, This is of course a them of mine (and others)... You begin your solstice message with the image of conveying a group of merrymakers to a place of warm cheers (echoing the opeining tropes of many a Renaissance dialogue). You turn to a quotation about the dangers of hindsight which seem, despite the collecive "we" to embrace a single strand view of historial hermeneutics: [deleted quotation] Well, one person's perspective may be compensated, enhanced, corrected, negated, what have you, by an other person's perspective. There is a radical intersubjectivity at work in "our" interpretations of the past which of course is one of the grounds for the bounded possibilities of the future ... including the weeding of gardens. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: gerda Subject: Re: 15.418 merry greetings on the Solstice Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:27:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 679 (679) My religious persuasion being what it is (I'm an observant jew) - I've never been (will probably not be ) on your wagon (snowy landscape, hats, scarves mitts) on my way to the house with a bright lit fire smelling of mulled wine - but somehow, I get exactly this longing - atavistic longing, marks it as such - this time of the year - it's properly speaking, nostalgia, which is not for things you have lost (that's mourning), but for what you never had (Dominique La Capra hope I didn't misquote him) like paradise - that's where the wagon belongs just wanted to share, Gerda Elata -and a merry Christmas From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- December 2001 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:24:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 680 (680) CIT INFOBITS December 2001 No. 42 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 and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ....................................................................... Technology Can Both Limit and Expand Interaction with Students Resources for Multimedia Projects Guidelines for Multimedia Projects Updated Multimedia Resource Guide Internet Under Siege How to Keep E-Learners from E-scaping Self-Publishing a Scholarly Monograph Recommended Reading [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: administrivia -- except when you need it Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:47:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 681 (681) Dear colleagues: The managers of the service at Princeton University to whom we owe thanks for the distribution of Humanist have recently changed the mechanism from the "ListProc" to "ListServ" software. As a result I have had some new things to learn, and so the silence from Humanist for the last several days. A celebration or two did intervene as well, of course. Another result is that members of Humanist can now manage their own account details via a Web interface. This is, as far as I can tell, an enormous improvement over the e-mail command-line interface we had previously. The URL of the new interface is <http://new-lists.princeton.edu/>, from which one selects "Private lists", enters the name "Humanist" and then chooses an option. The first fruit of all this for Humanist I offer below -- a new welcome message for new members. [deleted quotation] Please let me know of any difficulties -- and forgive any additional delays and rough patches in the next few days. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Colin Mills" Subject: call for articles: Computers for indexing Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:34:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 682 (682) I am looking for articles for the Society of Indexers Genealogical Group newsletter. I have only enough material for just over one issue, so I am in sore need of articles to include. I should be grateful for any articles any of you can write. Please contact me at this address of at millsc64@aol.com. For those of you who are professional authors or indexers I have to mention that contributions to the newsletter are voluntary and unpaid. Regards, Colin Mills Convenor & Editor, SIGG Amersham PS Follow-up, sorry to those who have already seen this. PPS I also have some indexes to journals etc etc I need to have reviewed, is anyone interested? [deleted quotation] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: CFP: Online Teaching Conference Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:34:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 683 (683) FEB 1 Due Date [deleted quotation] your [deleted quotation] support [deleted quotation] Kimura [deleted quotation] From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.418 merry greetings on the Solstice Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:36:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 684 (684) On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I would like to express at least one opposing point of view at this time, and will send a copy of the Project Gutenberg Newsletter later on to add some data to support what I say here. 1. At least some of us visionaries "the past WAS like that" and we have continued unabated to produce 100 eBooks per month with no funding in 2001 at Project Gutenberg to increase our collection to 4,000+. 2. Project Gutenberg's efforts account for only 20-25% of the listings in the Internet Public Library, which makes it obvious that we are not the only ones continuing to promote Open Source/FreeTexts. 3. Our current goal is to reach eBook #5,000 on our 31st Anniversary, next 4th of July. Hopefully these facts will provide some materials for those who which to see through the "intellectually damaging hallucination" perpetrated, but hopefully not perpetuated, above. Thanks! So nice to hear from you, Michael ============================================= Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Benedictine University [Illinois Benedictine] Fellow of the Internet Archive, for year 2000 Project Gutenberg Etext Executive Coordinator No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC Permanent Internet Address!!! hart@pobox.com Internet User Number 100 [approximately] [TM] One of the several "Ask Dr Internet" Sponsors Break Down the Bars of Ignorance & Illiteracy On the Carnegie Libraries' 100th Anniversary! If I don't answer in two days, please resend. It usually means I did not get/see your note. For General Information on Project Gutenberg Please send us email at: dircompg@pobox.com From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: Re: 15.422 thoughts on merry greetings Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:37:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 685 (685) Francois and Gerda are both correct (as the Rabbi said to two contradictory members in a desire to make peace). And you know, he was correct. Well, let me put it this way. You know how jokes often contain at least a small part of the truth? Well, I think almost everybody's opinion and viewpoint contains at least part of the truth. In this case, I think it is time to be oriented toward the future more than we have been, toward Paradise more than we have been, and toward the end of uncontrolled anger. Osher From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 15.418 merry greetings on the Solstice Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:37:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 686 (686) Dear Willard, I read your most recent post on humanities computing curriculum/discipline as raising two separate questions: 1. What should be included in a course of study designed to further humanities computing (in the non-instrumental sense)? 2. How should a new "disciplinary tribe" be formed to lay claim to humanities computing within academic institutions? Is that a fair summary of your more graceful prose? Assuming that it is, I think the first question deserves our attention but not the second. Whether in a formal curriculum or a more general guide, I think discussion of fruitful areas for those aspiring to be computing humanists would be quite helpful. While it is easy to say that such a course of study should include a broad exposure to the humanities and computing technology, specifying the specific content is more difficult. Personally I would urge some fairly significant exposure to computer parsers, both from a theoretical as well as practical perspective. Others might prefer to focus on the mathematical foundations of computing theory, while still others would focus on "big questions" that confront humanities scholarship. The exact contours vary from scholar to scholar but the discussion of those contours would be useful. On the question of a new "disciplinary tribe," I fail to see the benefit of creating a tribe on the premise that it has the "true view" as opposed to the more parochial views of other tribes. [deleted quotation] Shouldn't we consider individuals and not some label that allows us to classify them without further thought? It is individuals who transcend the boundaries of a curriculum or discipline, whether they are computing humanists, classicists, biblical scholars, literary critics, historians, etc. Membership in a tribe that claims to transcend narrower views is not the same thing as actually transcending narrower views. And what of the researchers that (falsely in your view) claim to be computing humanists? I keep waiting to hear the consequence of those claims. If the entire business school faculty decided to call themselves widgets, wizards or even biblical scholars (since I am closely interested in biblical studies), of what moment is that to me? I once attended a public presentation of statistical analysis of text from the Hebrew Bible after which the presenter explained that one measure was significant because the manual said that was a significant score. I don't think anyone on this list would consider that person a computing humanist but I don't need the imprimatur of a discipline to make that judgment. Nor would the presence of one, say a Ph.D. in Humanities Computing, change my evaluation of that presentation. I reminded by your posts on this topic of the passage from Genesis 4:6-7 (NSRV) which reads: 4.6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry and why has your contenance fallen? 4.7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." If humanities computing does well, will it not be accepted? Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Relink: computer literacy resource Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:36:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 687 (687) Resources migrate.... [deleted quotation] regards to [deleted quotation] Now to be found by accessing the following URL: http://kathyschrock.net/ or http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ Enjoy. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: URGENT: posting to Humanist Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:16:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 688 (688) Dear Colleagues: I failed to mention (because I thought it not important) that the new address for posting to Humanist is humanist@princeton.edu -- no longer humanist@lists.princeton.edu. Good practice would suggest that postings to the latter address should go to the same destination as the former, but I have evidence to suggest that this may not be the case. If you have submitted something recently and have not seen it on Humanist, it has certainly gone astray, perhaps because lists.princeton.edu is no longer a reliable address. All apologies, as usual, for less than intelligent software, if software be at fault. And a happy new year to 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) Subject: new award announcement (fwd) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 20:29:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 689 (689) Lyman Award Created The Rockefeller Foundation has made a $500,000 grant to the National Humanities Center to create a prize in honor of Richard W. Lyman. In each of the next five years, the award will recognize an individual who has used information technology to break new ground in the humanities. Lyman is President Emeritus of Stanford University, where he served as Provost from 1968-1970 and President from 1970-1980. Before becoming Provost, he was Professor of History at Stanford. After retiring from Stanford, he served as President of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980-1988. He is the author of The First Labour Government, and editor, with Lewis W. Spitz, of Major Crises in Western Civilization. He coauthored, with Virginia A. Hodgkinson, The Future of the Nonprofit Sector. "As university president and as the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, Richard Lyman has demonstrated a deep concern for the humanities and a conviction that the liberal arts-and the nonprofit sector more generally-must adapt to and evolve with the world in which they live," said Alice Stone Ilchman, recently retired chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation's Board of Trustees. "By focusing on projects that combine scholarly significance with technological innovation, the award will honor Richard Lyman by bringing attention to humanists who have most successfully brought together the best of the scholarly tradition with the technological changes that are more than ever making scholarship and teaching a universal, democratic endeavor." The Center will present the award for the first time in April 2002. An advisory board will be formed composed of leaders from the academy and the information technology industry, and a selection committee of humanistic scholars who have used information technology to make major advances in scholarship and teaching will meet at the Center this winter to review nominations and make the inaugural award. James J. O'Donnell, a Trustee of the Center, Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania, will chair the selection committee. O'Donnell is the author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, which compares today's information technology explosion with earlier revolutionary periods in communications, such as the switch from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, and from copied manuscript to print. "The goal of the award," O'Donnell said, "is not to recognize dazzling technology or to crow about how even humanists can be technological. Rather it is to recognize outstanding scholarly or critical achievement that happens to have been facilitated by creative use of technology. In another age, Erasmus made his way as a scholar in large measure because he mastered and exploited the new technology of print as few others had the imagination to do. That's the kind of creativity that the selection committee will be looking for." Nominations for the award may be sent to lyman-award@listserv.nhc.rtp.nc.us From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Hubert Dreyfus: On the Internet Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:43:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 690 (690) Dear Humanist scholars, Hubert Dreyfus: On the Internet. London: Routledge, 2001, 107 pages. is Reviewed by Claus Elmholdt, Ph.D. Student, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus. The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus who published the groundbreaking critique on artificial intelligence, "What computers can't do " (1972), has always argued for fundamental differences between embodied humans and the disembodied machines. In his recent book, Dreyfus puts forward a critical comment on the Internet. Taking a phenomenological perspective he asks, what is the price that we pay when we leave our bodies behind and go on-line. Before continuing, a short update on the authorship may be helpful. As mentioned above, Dreyfus (1972) was one of the first to launch a critique of the artificial intelligence research program put forward by Alan Turing in the 1950's. The critique focuses upon the rationalistic neglect of the program to see embodiment and situatedness as fundamental aspects of intelligence. The program, later referred to as Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFIA i ), follows a platonic and Cartesian tradition of seeing abstract intellectual capacities as the most important aspects of human intelligence. An understanding that leads GOFAI researchers to programme computers with symbolic representations of rules and facts, hoping that it would eventually provide the machines with the capacity for intelligent action. Today the GOFIA research program is in decline and the main AI researchers have shifted to models of the mind of greater complexity. In his critique of the GOFAI research program, Dreyfus follows Nietzsche in arguing that the emotional and intuitive capacities of our embodied being in the world are fundamental for intelligent action. Based on the same arguments, Hubert Dreyfus, together with his brother Stuart Dreyfus (1991), formulated a skill acquisition model consisting of five modes of functioning from novice to intuitive expert ii . In later writings, Hubert Dreyfus has discussed the skill acquisition model in relation to apprenticeship, and argued that access to imitation of experts is important to acquire the highest mode of functioning - intuitive expertise (1999). In the book reviewed here, Dreyfus follows the same phenomenological line of discussion and points his arguments towards the Internet. The result is a short and thought-provoking book to read for any net enthusiast and/or scholar who have interest in the topics of learning, knowledge and identity in relation to the Internet. To read the full text of the review, please visit the webpage at: <http://www.psy.au.dk/phd/claus/Dreyfus%20on%20the%20Internet%20-%20book%20review.pdf> Thank you! Yours, sincerely Arun Kumar Tripathi 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Interpretation of digitalization of world technology in Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:45:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 691 (691) the views of Heidegger and Kierkegaard -A Call for If German philosopher Martin Heidegger and Danish 'wacko' philosopher Soren Kierkegaard would have been alive today, then they would have felt sorry to see the present condition of Information Superhighway and the fight between man and machine, and increase towards the postmodernity (false praises of modern high-tech) Regarding these issues, Martin Heidegger thought it led to superficially instead of deeper dwelling. Kierkegaard would have similar reactions, though he did newspaper columns to some extent. Heidegger is agreeing with Kierkegaard when he claims that we need to be more authentically ourselves, and too much distraction keeps us from facing our own mortality and the need to affirm our own deepest needs and projects. We end up accepting a general and levelled down identity that we get from public images and pressures, instead of creatively facing up to our own need to take up what has been given us (by God, for Kierkegaard, by our Age and Being, for Heidegger) in creative and resolute ways. Here, both are a bit too much in love with the idea of lonely hero, but Kierkegaard is more careful when he talks of the ways in which his "knight of faith" might be indistinguishable from his fellow bourgeois. In the end, I would like to quote Albert Borgmann from "Opaque and Articulate Design" (depicts Soren Kierkegaard) as "Cyberspace has no fixed boundaries or places. We revel or despair amidst everything and nothing." and Soren Aaby Kierkegaard as "Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced." Kierkegaard might well have denounced the Internet for the same reasons. I will spell out Kierkegaards likely objections by considering how the Net promotes Kierkegaards 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. People in the ethical sphere could use the Internet to make and keep track of commitments but would be brought to the despair of possibility 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. The Internet, however, which offers a risk-free simulated world, would tend to undermine rather than support any such ultimate concern. (As quoted by Hubert Dreyfus in "Kierkegaard on the Internet: Anonymity vrs. Commitment in the Present Age") In his essay, The Present Age, written in 1846, Kierkegaard warns that his age is characterized by a disinterested reflection and curiosity that levels all differences of status and value. In his terms, this detached reflection levels all qualitative distinctions. Everything is equal in that nothing matters enough that one would be willing to die for it. Nietzsche gave this modern condition a name; he called it nihilism. In Europe around l850 the new importance of the press accentuated an essential feature of language, viz. the dissemination of information and thereby introduced the first revolution in information technology (IT). Soren Kierkegaard responded with a devastating critique of the curiosity fostered by the media and condemned in advance what he saw as the uncommitted and dispersed spectator that would be produced by the new easy access to information. Commitment to information as a boundless source of enjoyment puts one in what Kierkegaard called the aesthetic sphere of existence. Such a life is typified by the net-surfer who is interested in everything with no distinction between the trivial and important, the quantitative and the qualitative. Your thoughts, ideas and repercussions are welcome! Thank you! Best wishes, Arun Tripathi 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: Social Tele-Embodiment: Understanding Presence Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:46:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 692 (692) Dear Humanist scholars, In the rush into cyberspace we leave our physical presence and our real-world environment behind. The internet, undoubtedly a remarkable modern communication tool, _still does not empower us to enter_ the office of the person at the other end of connection. We cannot look out their window, admire their furniture, talk to their office mates, tour their laboratory, or walk outside. We lack the equivalent of a body at the other end with which we can move around in, communicate through, and observe with. But two famous computer scientists, at University of California, Berkeley are trying to use tele-embodiment techniques by combining elements of the internet and tele-robotics, and it is possible to transparently immerse users into navigable real remote worlds filled with rich spatial sensorium and to make such systems accessible from any networked computer in the world, in essence Tele-Embodiment. At last, we will have to see, how much presence and embodiment can be delivered by Ubiquitous telepresence and tele-technology.(Reference: Ubiquitous Tele-embodiment: Applications and Implications, Eric Paulos and Johny Canny) "Cyberspace presents us with a dilemma. We are physical beings who experience the world through our bodies. The notion of a separation between abstract mind and physical body has been battered and eventually buried by western philosophers since Kant. In its place came new ideas, important among them phenomenology, articulation of perception and action as process involving mind, body, and world....But cyberspace has been built on Cartesian ideals of metaphysical separation between mind and body: When we enter cyberspace, even a 3D world, it is the "mind" that enters. It may be regaled with an exotic 3D form, but such a form is an avatar only for the mind. The body stays outside." (from Tele-Embodiment and Shattered Presence: Reconstructing the Body for Online Interaction, John Canny and Eric Paulos) When we enter cyberspace by leaving our body behind (as an avatar), as John Canny and Eric Paulos mentions in his article, "It is seen as a mere transducer, moving text or audio data in through keyboard or microphone, and catching data from monitor and speakers." After putting this argument in front of their readers, authors ask an interesting and important question as "If we build avatars that *look* realistic enough, shouldn't the virtual experience be equivalent, or possibly better than the real?" The biggest danger and most likely outcome at this time is that we will succeed (from a Cartesian standpoint), but the resulting experience will still be second-rate. The auhors intelligently argue that, "from an epistemological point of view, we may be convinced by the sight and sound of the virtual world, but we will not be satisfied by our interactions with it", and further authors put an interesting argument as, "the experience of being in the world is much more than merely observing it." By taking the above issues in context--here is an excellent article "Social Tele-Embodiment: Understanding Presence" written by Dr. Eric Paulos, Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA and Prof. John Canny, Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA appeared in Autonomous Robots 11 (1):87-95, July 2001 published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. According to the abstract: Humans live and interact within the real world but our current online world neglects this. This paper explores research into Personal Roving Presence (PRoP) devices that provide a physical mobile proxy, controllable over the Internet to provide tele-embodiment. Leveraging off of its physical presence in the remote space, PRoPs provide important human verbal and non-verbal communication cues. The ultimate goal is a computer mediated communication (CMC) tool for rich natural human interaction beyond currently available systems. This paper examines PRoP design choices, system architecture, social issues, and evaluations of several user studies. The main problem authors describe as..the view of "body-as-transducer ignores the role of the body in motor-intentional acts. Computer scientists in the article _Tele-Embodiment and Shattered Presence_ try to discuss the computer-mediated communication (CMC) from classical and phenomenological perspectives. John Canny and Eric Paulos are building simple, internet-controlled, untethered tele-robots to act as physical avatars for supporting CMC. These devices are called as Personal Roving Presence devices or PRoPs. These PRoPs are built to approach anthropomorphism of _function_. This includes they should support at least gaze, proxemics (body location), gesture, posture, and dialogue. They are "body-like" because human-interaction is an intensely body-centered activity. They exist not in a virtual world but in the physical world. So they interact directly with people (rather than another avatar) or groups of people. One important property of PRoPs is that --by operating in the real world, PRoPs expose the differences between natural human interaction and CMC. Current computer mediated communication tools such email, chat, and videoconferencing have increased our social tele-connectivity. They allow us to exchange text, images, sound, and video with anyone whose interests we share, professionally or socially, regardless of geographic location. But for many applications something important is still missing. Existing tools fail to provide us with an adequate interface into the real world in which we live, work, and play. The research of Dr. Eric Paulos describes one such approach towards solving this problem with simple, inexpensive, internet-controlled, untethered tele-robots or PRoPs (Personal Roving Presences). PRoPs strive to provide the sensation of tele-embodiment in a remote real space. The physical tele-robot provides several verbal and non-verbal communication cues including: audio, video, mobility, directed gaze, proxemics, and simple gesturing. PRoPs also enable their users to perform a wide gamut of human activities in the remote space, such as wander around, explore, converse with people, and hang out. For more information please visit <http://www.prop.org> Thank you! Yours, sincerely Arun Tripathi Dipl-Inform. M.S. Arun Kumar Tripathi Research Assistant E-mail: Phone +49 (6151) 16 - 4267 Fax +49 (6151) 16 - 3052 Office S1-13/07 TU Darmstadt - FB 20 FG Telekooperation Alexanderstrasse 6 D-64283 Darmstadt Germany ---- 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Osher Doctorow" Subject: A Call to Knowledge Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:49:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 693 (693) I have been exploring a curious interaction between humanism and science and computers called Indiscriminate Terrorism, and in the process learning much about generalizing fuzzy multivalued logics, mathematical probability-statistics, the concepts of existence and the universe, and many other things that may interest members of humanist. See abstracts of 67 of my papers (publications, papers presented, technical reports, and some of my better internet contributions), at http://www.logic.univie.ac.at, Institute for Logic of the University of Vienna (after accessing the site, select ABSTRACT SERVER, then BY AUTHOR, then my name in that exact order). I cannot guarantee that all or most of it fits into a humanist computer, but some of it should. The picture that is emerging is that of a struggle between knowledge-orientation and materialism-orientation, even among people who claim to be interested in spiritual matters. The difficulty is that not only is the road to hell paved with good intentions, but that it seems to be also paved with an orientation to only manipulate the material world rather than to seek knowledge. Theoretically, one could have both, but life is often like a game or perhaps a stage, in which one decides in favor of one side or the other, one principle or its negation. For much of the world, knowledge is only something to be used for materialistic ends, something to be manipulated in the way that some sociocultures manipulate women like cattle or worse. Religion then becomes a cover for materialism, and allies itself with those who look for the concrete rather than the abstract, who obsess with the specific rather than the general, who thrive on intradisciplinary and in-group rather than interdisciplinary and inter-group. It allies itself with those who choose one pole when there are many alternatives - those to whom competition means killing off the other side rather than nurturing multiple viewpoints indefinitely, valuing only the multitude and not the individual, valuing only the individual and not the multitude, valuing the past and not the future, and so on. It allies itself with all the injustices of the past, selectively chosen of course to avoid one's own responsibilities and questions such as why one could not have the initiative to improve one's lot if the other side did have the initiative to improve their lot. It allies itself with finger pointers who see nothing but incredible poverty in a part of the world and see incredible wealth in another part, and ignore the closest relatives and neighbors of the impoverished people whose wealth is never used to improve the situation of their closest relatives and neighbors. It allies itself with naive people to whom all minorities are automatically heroes because there are so few of them in their nation - regardless of whether the minorities are actually comparable to psychopathic stalkers who stab people in the back and cannot confront them face to face. Do take a look at the abstracts. You can always return to the computers when things get too numerous for human beings to track. Osher Doctorow From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Treasures of the BNF Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:47:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 694 (694) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community Treasures of the Bibliothque Nationale de France http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/usindex.htm http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/index.htm [deleted quotation] FYI France: Bibliothque Nationale de France online treasures, of the French and some other cultures //snip// There now are some truly remarkable things available online: among which the Bibliothque Numrique of the Bibliothque Nationale de France, at, http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/index.htm Currently the BNF's Bibliothque Numrique is showing no less than 23 fascinating exhibits / sites / nodes -- each with images, text, notes, bibliography, some with sound, all in the true French multi - faceted style, and all very useful for initiation of students as well as further exploration by scholars, into any of the fields concerned -- * Graphisme(s) -- the "graphic arts" http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/graphis/index.htm * L'art du livre arabe -- the Arabic language, the Moslem religion, the books of Islamic civilization http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/livrarab/index.htm * Contes de fes -- "fairytales"!, beautifully illustrated -- beating Saul Zaentz at his own "Lord of the Rings" game -- this "French release" came out first... http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/contes/index.htm * Brouillons d'crivains -- manuscripts!, their history and creation and circumstances and use -- imaged originals from Vale'ry, Hugo, Zola, Flaubert, Proust, Sartre, Perec, others http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/brouillons/index.htm * Mai^tres de la bande dessine europenne (also in English) -- comicbooks!(?)... remember that this is Europe and that, there, comicbooks are not all just "Superman" -- from the Middle Ages to Japanese Manga, heros and anti - heros, Tin-Tin and Obelix and much more http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/bd/index.htm * La BD avant La BD (also in English) -- "the prehistory of comic books"? -- stained glass, anything graphic which "tells a story", "le rcit en squence", "sound" too -- fascinating for fans of multimedia and "the return to orality" la Walter Ong and Milman Parry, and "transitions in media" / "ceci tuera cela"... http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/bdavbd/index.htm * Paris, les travaux et les jours -- daily life in The City of Light, in early - last - century (that would be the 20th, folks) photos, from the archives of L'Aurore - Le Figaro http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/paris/index.htm * Reza, photographe visionnaire -- the expatriate Iranian photographer - as - artist, online -- images, "from the Bosporus to the Great Wall of China, from the Phillipines to Central Asia" -- "a full look at humanity amid the turbulence which agitates the world" http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/reza/index.htm * Utopie, la que^te de la socit idale (also in English) -- to my American pragmatist's mind a frightening tour through the perennial tendency to be dissatisfied with reality -- Plato and Bosch and Thomas More and other devotees of "l'universel", "dreams, and nightmares" -- with stunning images http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/utopie/index.htm * Bresdin, Robinson graveur -- the "Chien - caillou" (from James Fenimore Cooper, _The Last of the Mohicans_), of the 19th century -- a beautiful presentation of this engraver's art online http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/bresdin/index.htm * Marcel Proust, L'criture et les Arts (also in English) -- currently some say "In Search of Lost Time"?!... some titles defy translation... and should not be translated... "Remembrance of Things Past" does a much better job, I myself think, if you're going to do it... -- anyway, here the BNF and the Muse d'Orsay combine their respective treasures and talents, on this topic http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/proust/index.htm * Boulle, architecte des Lumires -- those great, round, rather funny and space age - looking buildings shown in all the art and architectural history books -- Enlightenment rationality and the totalitarian tendencies of same run amok, in a stunning online presentation http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/boullee/index.htm * La Page -- the history and construction of the written and printed "page" -- a fascinating and visually stunning look at the mechanics of a medium -- a must - see for any fan of "the book as a thing", or of "graphics", or for any devotee of computer and Webpage "screen design" http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/pedagos/page/index.htm * magnum, Essais sur le monde -- stunning photography -- from Coca Cola cans, to young rock - throwers in the Gaza streets, to bloody footprints in the snow at Grozny, to wonderful red umbrellas -- "Magnum" is not _all_ fashionplate ladies in floppy hats... http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/essais/index.htm * Tous les Savoirs du Monde -- that magnificent exhibition mounted at the opening of the new BNF building at Tolbiac -- "...since the invention of writing, how have civilizations assembled knowledge, to conserve it, to share it, to transmit it?" -- from Sumerian tablets to "The Illustrated London News" and Queneau http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/savoirs/index.htm * Le Ciel et la Terre (also in English) -- cosmology, cosmography, and a truly wonderful online presentation of one of the greatest of BNF treasures, the 14th century Catalan Atlas http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/ciel/index.htm * Splendeurs persanes (also in English) -- Persia -- "The Five Poems of Nezm" -- illustration, and the written word, as a high art form http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/splendeurs/index.htm * Petits pomes photo-graphiques (also in English) -- "abstract photography" -- for one of those days, or long nights, when life online seems to have become a little too "linear"... http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/poemes/index.htm * Tal Coat -- "Pierre Tal Coat (1905-1985), painting, design, and engravings..." -- prompting the rhetorical question whether the Internet might become an at - least - initial medium of diffusion for the aspiring graphic artist, as it already has for the aspiring musician and writer? Cutting out Kahnweiler... http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/tal_coat/index.htm * Face a face (also in English) -- portraits! -- photographic, but also non- -- what it means to depict the human face http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/face/index.htm * Le Livre de Chasse de Gaston Phe'bus -- elegance / decadence in the illustration of the book -- in some things, when you reach the summit the only way is down -- for many this item is the apex, anyway, of the book illustrator's art -- perhaps the best way to enjoy it is to suspend all political judgments and just relax back into it, as - superbly - presented here online -- another of the greatest of BNF treasures http://www.bnf.fr/pages/expos/phebus/index.htm * Le roi Charles V et son Temps -- "1000 enluminures du Dpartement des Manuscrits" says a great deal, when speaking of the BNF -- a tour of this site offers perhaps the best way available to introduce anyone to, or remind anyone of, the French 14th century and the art of the manuscript -- the extraordinary 15th century Bruges Froissart (FR 2643), the Catalan Atlas, the "Petites Heures de Jean de Berry", the "Gaston Phbus", the "Brviaire de Martin d'Aragon", all in sumptuous detail http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/accueil.shtm * Naissance de la Culture Franc,aise -- where it all began -- the original exhibit, both online and as generously presented at the Library of Congress by the BNF, was reviewed here in the FYI France ejournal issue of January 15, 1996 -- the exhibit transported across the Atlantic and showed proudly to the Americans everything from the "Bible du comte Rorigon, Tours, vers 835" marked "Latin 3" in the BNF De'partement des Manuscrits, and the actual / reputed throne of the "bon roi Dagobert", to the manuscript of Zola's "J'Accuse!" scrawled in angry script -- French treasures, a one - stop introduction to the history of France, and one of the earliest examples of a major online Internet digital library exhibition http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf0001.htm --oOo-- A few details, and reactions, on and to the latest of these BNF exhibits to have been mounted: also a couple of suggestions of perhaps general application -- * Graphisme(s) This is a remarkable exhibition of and about the graphic arts, originally shown at the BNF Tolbiac from September 18 to November 25, 2001. Anyone wishing to see, or to show others, a one - stop introduction to what "graphics" are all about, need only click and watch and listen. From the online exhibit: "It must be noted that the term 'graphics', as used by professionals in the field, does not designate anything universally accepted, either in current usage or in the dictionary. Doubtless the multitude of formats which graphics supports, its 'presentation', explains this situation in part. To this must be added the small consideration which people normally accord to everyday objects. All this leads to a reticence to recognize, and therefore to appreciate, a visual art which is a part of our daily lives..." "How then to reflect upon an object of study which has received so little definition? The exhibition proposes to consider graphics as a vast territory ranged between 'pure' typography, on the one hand, and 'pure' image on the other. It groups graphic work into large collections corresponding to the principal functions of the art and the different usages to which we put it..." The methodology of the online version of this exhibit is a fascinating tour de force in the use of the online medium: Under five "functional" rubrics, ** Attract the attention ** Mount it ** Identify it ** Describe it ** For the screen the virtual exhibit scrolls through the series of graphic works, originally presented in the "real" exhibition, in a very interesting demonstration of one great advantage offered by the "virtual" over the "real": -- as anyone who ever has attended a crowded Paris exhibition can attest, the crowds and conviviality -- the noise -- and the accidents of layout and presentation of a large art show can distract. A tourist, particularly, risks being so overwhelmed by the strangeness and excitement of "being in Paris", and all those French accents and labels in French on things, and being in a giant new space such as the BNF Tolbiac or the Louvre or the Muse'e d'Orsay or wherever an exhibit is being presented, that s/he risks losing sight of and any chance at understanding a complex exhibit. And Paris exhibits _always_ are complex -- never just "the pictures", always the context and the story and the philosophy underneath and some sort of "presentation innovation" folded in as well -- nothing capable of being absorbed quickly, in a foreign crowd, while you are wondering if it really will be snowing outside by the time you exit and whether the kids will make it back to the hotel from wherever they are to meet you in time for dinner... -- online, instead, the relaxing linearity can be very reassuring. Not only are you in the comfort of your own office or home -- no crowds or French accent distractions swarming around -- but the mysteries of "le graphism" can be viewed in line, in an order much despised by many graphic artists but so needed by their customers and clients and the grand public. So in this particular BNF Tolbiac Bibliothe`que Nume'rique exhibit, you click on the little double arrow pointing to the right and it gently scrolls you through each of the five topics, showing simple captions explaining the functions of graphics -- for example, "Mass Communications -- the function of the poster is to attract attention. From the point of view of the reader, the reading is a forced one, a glance which has been snatched..." -- with fascinating illustrations along the way, on which of course you can "click", to halt the scrolling and "focus in" to obtain enlargements and detailed explanations -- better than craning your neck over the sea of fellow - tourist heads for a fleeting glimpse of a little distant thing which you know to be "the mona lisa", and about which you know little else and you have no time now to look into it because it may already be snowing outside and the kids surely will be late getting back to the hotel and for all you know they may be lost, somewhere in central Paris... No waiting, warm, inviting bistro nearby in the "virtual" version, of course -- although they're working on that. The one suggestion which I have to make of this particular online exhibit is merely technical and has two points, both of general application to any such online exhibit I think: a) In my IE 6.0 browser, when I clicked on an image to see its detail and then hit return, I was sent back to the beginning of the scroll rather than to the point in it which I just had left: this is disorienting, and defeats the purpose of the hypertext, which is to be able to jump "out" to pursue a link and then "back" so as not to lose the thread of an argument. I am sure that the Javascript can be tweaked easily in some way so as to return a viewer to the point from which s/he left, rather than to the beginning of the scrolling? b) Also, checking Netscape -- as I always do to see whether a problem really is just the result of Mr. Gates' so - much - feared paranoia and market domination tendencies -- I find that in my Communicator 4.51 I cannot even get the scrolling to work. So maybe Mr. Case is even more grasping than Mr. Gates, or perhaps the Activex / Java controversy is rearing its ugly head here and the at - least - equally - grasping Mr. McNealy is involved here too... Whatever, until these three guys, and the rest of them, give us a unified platform on which to view this stuff, the BNF web staff and the rest of us too all must remember to take a look through _all_ the browsers, AOL's (still?) non - Communicator one as well, and try to please all the viewers all the time, before they mount these things: maybe not possible, but best attempts appreciated and caveats, at least, required. --oOo- //snip// Jack Kessler, kessler@well.sf.ca.us * FYI France (sm)(tm) Online Service | Internet Training and Consulting |* email: kessler@well.sf.ca.us *| fax: 415 - 282 - 0464 / \* phone: 415 - 282 - 4850 (messages) *-----* postal: PO Box 460668 *// *\\ San Francisco, California ---------* USA 94146 //* \\* W3: http://www.fyifrance.com Joyeux Noe:l --oOo-- ****************************************************************** Sun Microsystems, Inc. has published the second edition of its popular "Digital Library Toolkit", a valuable resource for anyone planning a digital collection. 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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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: World Bank's New Development Gateway Includes Culture & Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:48:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 695 (695) Development Site NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 3, 2002 World Bank Creates Development Gateway Foundation Gateway Portal Includes Culture & Development Site http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130613/ [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: evaluating Web sites Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:47:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 696 (696) In response to Humanist 15.427, allow me to point interested persons to the summary I put together last Autumn on evaluating Web-sites, at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/year1/comms/evaluate.html>. As many will know there are now many pages devoted to the topic, some with useful exercises. I would be most grateful for pointers to additional exercises and indeed for comments on my own summary. It does seem to me that in the context of *humanities* computing, critical thought about online resources is of the greatest importance. Of course much of this applies to resources in earlier media. Thus we can draw on prior work and be immediately helpful to colleagues whose focus is on these earlier media. (In fact, as a number of people have pointed out, our raising of the question for electronic resources illuminates its relevance elsewhere.) What preoccupies me particularly, however, are the differences that the electronic medium makes. To take just one example, the ease with which lists are made in HTML suggests that they have a new prominence online, and the degree to which highly divergent, de-contextualised resources can be recontextualised hypertextually in such lists gives them the potential for rhetorically very interesting work. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: lachance@CHASS.UTORONTO.CA (Francois Lachance) Subject: measuring learning Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:47:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 697 (697) Willard, I think this little bit from a vendor might be of interest to subsribers concerned about the rhetoric surrounding the question of the links between training and education: An organization will license Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for their employees. The average employee will utilize approximately 20% of the capabilities of the software program (open a document, save, print, etc). Yet, an organization wanting to provide training, will most likely license training courseware to cover 100% of the software programs capabilities. http://www.bitlearning.com/corporate/profile.asp Accessed November 5, 2001 This is not necessarily a horrible scenario of wasted resources. We can distinguish between training and education. The learning opportunity of being exposed to more than the 20% of software features commonly utilized may be more valuable than acquiring the knowledge of which button to push. It seems that a scenario of habit formation subtends the granularity argument (waste to know what you don't use). And that the argument fails in a scenario of discovery where it becomes an asset to learn what can be used and where it is a waste not to play. Of course, BitLearning sells courses in three highly quantifiable subject areas: computer hardware, software and business management. One wonders what presures market forces will have on huminities disciplines and how these pressures will shape moves to quantify learning outcomes. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: IMLS FUNDING Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:07:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 698 (698) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 4, 2002 FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS IMLS Calls for National Leadership Grant Applications http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/110601-2.htm [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: The UK's Resource Discovery Network Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:08:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 699 (699) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 4, 2002 The UK's Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ [deleted quotation] + Gateway to the Invisible Web The Invisible Web is an enchanted realm for searchers, but only if you know how to access its abundant treasures. The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is an outstanding gateway to thousands of Invisible Web sites that's as close to a search engine for the hidden web as you're likely to find. The RDN is a web directory compiled by subject and information experts in colleges, universities and related organizations throughout the United Kingdom. These individuals identify, catalogue and describe high quality Internet resources relevant to teaching, learning and research. Like the U.S. based Librarian's Index to the Internet, the RDN is not a "pure" invisible web directory, but a considerable portion of its high quality content consists of material indexed poorly (if at all) by conventional search engines. The RDN is structured as a cooperative network consisting of a central organization and a number of independent service providers called hubs. Experienced searchers will recognize many of these hubs, which include: BIOME - Health and Life Sciences <http://biome.ac.uk/biome.html> EEVL - Engineering, Mathematics and Computing <http://www.eevl.ac.uk/> Humbul - Humanities <http://www.humbul.ac.uk/> PSIgate - Physical Sciences <http://www.humbul.ac.uk/> SOSIG - Social Sciences, Business and Law <http://www.sosig.ac.uk/> While these hubs can be used independently, browsing the RDN lets you easily access all of them under a unified interface. Even better, the site's search function provides cross-disciplinary querying of all RDN resources with a single search. The service currently links to more than 35,000 human selected resources organized into eleven topical categories. The RDN also offers a news service called "Behind the Headlines" that offers links to in-depth resources and information for a wide range of current events. It's an excellent way to get information not always provided by the mainstream media. For example, related to the current instability in Zimbabwe, there are links to both government controlled web sites and independent groups advocating democratic reform in the country. The RDN's "Virtual Training Suite" is another useful resource. This is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills. The tutorials take around an hour each to complete, and include quizzes and interactive exercises. The tutorials provide both an excellent way to sharpen research skills and to learn what's available online for specific subject areas. The RDN is also pushing the envelope when it comes to resource discovery, according to Simon Jennings, Manager of the Resource Discovery Network Centre. "In the medium term we will be developing an advanced search and a search engine based on harvesting one hop away from all the links in our 35,000 hand selected and described records," says Jennings. "The software will store (and we hope, in future, utilise) the linking relationships between all items in the database." In other words, the RDN is applying Google-like techniques to find additional web resources based on the "recommendations" made by links in its existing database of selected sites. This "focused crawler" approach to resource discovery is providing excellent results, when a bit of filtering is applied, says Jennings. The RDN is a first-rate gateway to some of the best resources available on the Web. And, given that it points the way into numerous regions of the Invisible Web, it's a tremendously valuable pathfinder for all of us. The Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ RDN "Behind the Headlines" http://www.rdn.ac.uk/news/headlines RDN "Virtual Training Suite" http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk The Librarians' Index to the Internet http://www.lii.org The Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Navigating the Invisible Web http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd1023-invisible-web.html A brief overview of the Invisible Web. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This newsletter is published by INT Media Group, Incorporated http://internet.com - The Internet & IT Network Copyright (c) 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated. 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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: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 15.431 evaluating Web-sites, measuring learning Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:06:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 700 (700) Willard, I missed the posting to which you refer but you might be interested to know that our Cataloguing Guidelines for Internet resources includes a short evaluation form which we use in training workshops and for cataloguers, if they wish, to take notes about a site prior to cataloguing it. Our cataloguing guidelines, which may also be of interest, contains an appendix of starting points for evaluating web site. Evaluation form at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/humbul-evaluation.pdf Cataloguing Guidelines (appendix 3) at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/catalogue.html#evaluating I like the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' "Collection Development Training for Arizona Public Libraries" Web site. The section on selecting library resources places the criteria for selecting Internet resources within the context of selection criteria for other resources (books, peridicals, audiovisual etc). There are not examples of criteria for the evaluation of books and articles (published or unpublished) but, as you note, many examples of criteria for Internet resources. Unless, of course, Research Assessment Exercise panels have checklists of criteria for measuring authority, bias, currency, audience, organisation, aesthetics etc. Best wishes, Michael --- Dr Michael Fraser Head of Humbul Humanities Hub Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 343 Fax: 01865 273 275 Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.humbul.ac.uk/ From: Steve Krause Subject: Re: 15.431 evaluating Web-sites, measuring learning Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:06:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 701 (701) Willard et al-- For your and the group's consideration, I'd like to submit the web site for a presentation I gave at the Computers and Writing Conference in Muncie, IN last June. The URL for it is http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~krause/cw2001 Since it was a conference presentation that hasn't evolved any further than that (yet), it is still somewhat drafty in form, but I think it's interesting in this context. What I did was I showed students in an upper-level undergrad and a grad class some web sites, most of which were "spoofs" or jokes but one of which was "real" or credible, and asked them to tell me why they thought a particular site was "real" or "fake." Of course, it's a problematic decision between "real" and "fake," but if you see the sites, I think you get the idea. I reached a couple very tentative conclusions. First, applying the traditional standards of clarity (like your very good site), it seemed to me that it was still possible to evaluate "fake" sites as "real" because they did a good job of "faking" credibility. Second, students (and most web readers, I would argue) didn't evaluate the credibility of web sites following these criteria. When asked why they evaluated a site the way they did, most of them talked about how the site "looked" credible-- that is, a lot of their judgement was based on a sort of simple aesthetic judgement of if it looks right, it must be right-- and they talked about "common sense" knowledge, what I think really amounts to previous knowledge. They knew enough *before* they looked at the GenoChoice site (for example) that it's impossible to clone a child over the Internet. And I guess a last conclusion (besides the idea that this would be interesting to study further) is that I think as teachers, we have to work harder at making students understand that they really REALLY can't judge a web site based on how it "looks." It's a pretty difficult process to make a professional-looking book or magazine-- that's not something that most of us could pull off in the basement. On the other hand, just about anyone with a few hours experience with photopshop and a few other pieces of software can make very credible, very "real" looking web sites. Anyway, if anyone sees this site and has any other comments, I'd be interested in hearing them. --Steve -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Steven D. Krause * Assistant Professor, English 614G Pray-Harrold Hall * Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 * 734-487-1363 * http://www.online.emich.edu/~skrause From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conferences, Symposia and Workshops Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:09:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 702 (702) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 4, 2002 Conferences, Symposia and Workshops For a full, frequently updated compilation see the NINCH Community Calendar http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/2002.html Below are some recently noted events: 1. March 7-8: National Conference on Preservation: Redefining Preservation, Shaping New Solutions, Forging New Partnerships. Ann Arbor, Michigan 2. March 8-10: Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. UC, Santa Barbara. 3. March 11-15: Rare Book School: Implementing the Encoded Archival Description. University of Virginia 2. March 18; The Future of Manuscript Studies in a Switched-On World. University of London 3. March 20-22: The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive. University of Edinburgh 4. December 5-8: Africa in the Information and Technology Age; African Studies Association Conference. Washington DC [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NEH eHumanities Lectures announced for February Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:10:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 703 (703) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 4, 2002 The National Endowment for the Humanities Announces "eHumanities" A Lecture Series on Digital Technology and the Humanities February 13: James O'Donnell, "After the Internet" February 27: Will Thomas and Ed Ayers, "The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form" http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html [deleted quotation] How does technology affect traditional humanities disciplines? Some scholars and educators argue 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. With the eHumanities lecture series, NEH is bringing leading scholars to Washington to discuss the relationship of digital technology and the humanities. All lectures will be held from 12 noon to 1:15 p.m. at NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania, Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506 in Room M-09. Attendance is free and open to the public, but advance registration is requested. February 13 After the Internet JAMES O'DONNELL The Internet bubble has burst. The Internet is boring. Even The Economist is reduced to devoting a special section to the wireless Internet in order to gain and hold its readers' attention. This is an opportunity for serious thought and action about the integration of information technology and information science in the humanistic organon. How are we different because we live in this wired world? How are we not different? What is reasonable to expect? James J. O'Donnell is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education. In 1990, he co-founded Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second on-line scholarly journal in the humanities ever created. In 1994, he taught an Internet-based seminar on the work of Augustine of Hippo that reached 500 students. He also serves as resident Faculty Master of Hill College House at Penn. He is a Trustee of the National Humanities Center, has served as a Director and will become President-Elect in 2002 of the American Philological Association, and served as a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America. February 27 The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form WILL THOMAS and ED AYERS The use of online resources has exploded in recent years. Students and scholars routinely turn to the web for primary documents, reference works, and the latest reviews. But we have not yet forged a new form of scholarly communication and argumentation for the digital environment. In this talk, Ayers and Thomas present a prototype of a journal article designed to take advantage of the possibilities of the web while addressing some of the limitations of that context. Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Research Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches the history of Virginia since 1865 and is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU, 1999). He also served as the co-author and assistant producer of The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War, an Emmy-nominated series on the history of Virginia for public television. Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at the University of Virginia. Ayers has written extensively on Southern history and race relations. His books include All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions and The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. He is the founder of the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia. Ayers has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright. Ayers received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, and his master's and doctorate 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: ITUA 2002; deadline extended Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 09:58:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 704 (704) Dear Humanists, Please note that the deadline of submission to ITUA 2002 has been extended. The new deadline is Feb. 15, 2002. Thanks a lot, Soraj +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on "Information Technology and Universities in Asia" (ITUA 2002) April 3-5, 2002 Building One, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand The Faculty Senate, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, in cooperation with the Asia CALL Association, is organizing an international conference on "Information Technology and Universities in Asia" from April 3 to 5, 2002, at the campus of the university. The conference will be a place where teachers, researchers, administrators and others who are interested in how best to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in realizing the missions of the university get together to share ideas, opinions and research findings. Of special interest are papers and presentations that explore the cultural aspects of using ICTs in universities, especially Asian cultures. However, though the focus of the conference is on the use of ICTs in Asian universities, participants from all corners of the world are very welcome to share their ideas and expertise. Paper proposals are called in three broad areas (these are meant only to be suggestive, and are not exclusive): 1. Distance Learning 2. ICTs in Classroom Teaching and/or Research 3. ICTs in University Administration Please send your abstracts (preferably by e-mail, max. 500 words) to: Soraj Hongladarom Faculty Senate Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Email: hsoraj@chula.ac.th Tel: +66-2-218-7024; Fax: +66-2-218-7036 Deadline of submission: February 15, 2002 Plans are being made with Chulalongkorn University Press to publish selected papers in a bound volume. Please include your abstracts in the body of the email and please do not send it as an attached file. Further information about the conference, including details about registration, can be found at: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/IT From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.430 rev of Dryfus, On the Internet Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:46:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 705 (705) Willard and Arun-Kumar, Is the Dreyfus question the correct question? [deleted quotation] 1) we do not leave our bodies 2) we do not "go" online Astral projection a la theosophy is an old predecessor of the discourses of out-of-body experience. One does not need to be intimate with the intricacies of Renaissance NeoPlatonism or the subtle ramifications of Baroque literature such as Calderon's _Life is a Dream_ on postmodern sensibilities to question the metaphor of disembodiment as the most apt characterization of computer-mediated communication. The interesting question of synchronization arises... the traces of a body working/playng in space (those wonderful emoticons and SHOUTs) represent the events. The body moves on. Events can be strung together to read a character: the traces of a body's habits. The questons of synchronization also challenges the travel metaphors. One uses the technology to communicate or to compute (i.e. to send or to analyse messages). The move from thinking of the human-machine interface as one involving a "user" to one involving a "voyager" displaces, I believe the importance of the role of cultural producer and contributes to the belief that, without verifiable reporting back on explorations, many cybernauts are tourist-consumers. However, if one considers that people do not "go on online" but use the networks, on is less likely to endorse the disembodiment thesis. 1) from our bodies we send signals and with our bodies we receive signals; there is no unmediated communication 2) networks can be characterized by synapses as much as by connections; the body itself is a network. Check the Humanist archive for Gale Moore's posting on human-centred design for a meditation on the human element in systems http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v09/0628.html Electronic technology is notoriously non-resilient or brittle -- it works or it doesn t. Human beings are a major source of resilience Check the Humanist archive again for a piece by Sean Cubbit submitted by Arun-Kumar Tripathi for a phenomenological account of sociality. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0448.html 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. I always been happily embodied, but not always in mind of my body :) -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "Wyland, Russell" Subject: NEH Summer Internships Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:48:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 706 (706) The National Endowment for the Humanities Announces Internships for Summer 2002. NEH invites applications for internships to be held in Washington D.C. during summer 2002. College students who will be entering their junior or senior year in fall 2002 are eligible to apply. NEH interns receive stipends of $4,000 for 10 weeks of work. Applicants must be U.S. citizens; foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for at least 3 years; or territorial residents of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Endowment anticipates awarding up to twelve internships to students interested in deepening their understanding of human history, language and culture and of the nature and reasons for public investment in the humanities. The application deadline is Friday, 8 February 2002. Applications are being accepted online at <http://www.neh.gov/>http://www.neh.gov. Questions should be directed to Russell Wyland in the Division of Research at rwyland@neh.gov. **please distribute this message to potential applicants** --- Russell M. Wyland Program Officer, NEH Division of Research Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8391 (telephone); 202-606-8204 (fax) rwyland@neh.gov From: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:48:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 707 (707) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 42, Week of January 7, 2002 In this issue: View -- Freedom to Think and Speak Under Microsoft's Digital Rights Management operating system, ability use information freely will be policed at the most intricate level. By Seth Johnson http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/s_johnson_2.html Review -- On the Internet: Thinking in Action Life and learning on the Net through the eyes of a philosopher Review by Arun Kumar Tripathi http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/a_tripathi_2.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity welcomes the submissions of articles from everyone interested in the future of information technology. Everything published in Ubiquity is copyrighted 2001 by the ACM and the individual authors. To submit feedback about ACM Ubiquity, contact ubiquity@acm.org. Technical problems: ubiquity@hq.acm.org. From: Professor D.A. Trotter Subject: [FRANCOFIL] French/computing post Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:47:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 708 (708) To: FRANCOFIL@liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:35 AM The Arts and Humanities Research Board has recently announced a major award of 108,894 over two years under its Resource Enhancement Scheme for Phase 1 of the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub project. The twin overall aims of this project are: * to open up for on-line access significant resources that will advance research into the languages and society of medieval Britain and support university courses across a wide areas of medieval studies; * to develop, evaluate, deploy and propagate XML-based technologies that will be of service in many areas of Humanities computing worlwide. More specifically, the award is to fund a Web server and document managment system dedicated solely to the project, technical consultancy for resource development and electronic publication on that platform, and the appointment of a Technical Support Officer to perform corpus digitisation, in particular the application of TEI-conformant XML markup, to enable maximum on-line accessibility of the digital resources. Details of the post of Technical Support Officer may be found at: <http://and.lexilog.net:8090/job.html>http://and.lexilog.net:8090/job.html. From: "Malcolm Hayward" Subject: CFP: 2002 MLA, Computer Studies in Language and Literature Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:41:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 709 (709) The MLA's Discussion Group for Computer Studies in Language and Literature has issued its Call for Papers for the December 2002 Conference in New York. The session is titled "Mining Digital Resources: Sites, Tools, Results." We seek papers describing exemplary projects and studies that use computer resources. Of special interest are papers that include evaluations of resources. What works well? Are there new uses for old tools? Are there new tools that should be essential for the "scholar's workstation." Proposals for papers (electronic format only) should be sent by March 1 to Malcolm Hayward, mhayward@iup.edu. According to MLA requirements, "All session participants must be members in good standing by 1 April 2002 to be listed in the Program issue of PMLA." From: "J. Trant" Subject: MW2002: Preliminary Program On-Line Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:42:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 710 (710) --- apologies for any duplication -- please forward widely --- The MW2002 Preliminary Program Is Now Available! Museums and the Web 2002 April 17-20, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ The preliminary program for Museums and the Web 2002, to be held April 17-20, 2002 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA is now on-line. Now in its sixth year, Museums and the Web examines the current state of the Web for museums, culture and heritage world-wide. Museum professionals and digital library researchers will present their ideas and latest findings. Papers, selected by an international Program Committee from hundreds of submitted proposals, will explore theory and practice for museums on-line at both beginning and advanced levels. MW2002 has something for all members of the cultural heritage community. * Pre-conference workshops sharpen your skills. * Program sessions explore current issues and research. * Crit Rooms enable 'real time' review of web sites. * The Usability Lab features live user-testing of actual sites. * Demonstrations allow up close examination. * The Exhibit Hall profiles new technology and services to help you build and manage your web site. Full details about the Museums and the Web 2002 conference, on-line registration, abstracts of all papers, and biographies of the presenters are on-line at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Join us at the largest international gathering about cultural heritage on-line. We hope to see you in Boston! David, Flavia and jennifer -- ________ MW2002 Co-Chairs: David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics Flavia Sparacino, MIT Media Lab Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics Museums and the Web Boston, Massachusetts Archives & Museum Informatics April 17-20, 2002 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: AIMSA02 secretariat Subject: Call for Papers: AIMSA'02 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:43:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 711 (711) Please circulate. Apologies if you have received multiple copies. The Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications AIMSA 2002 Varna, Bulgaria, 4-6th September, 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.aimsa02.org The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. AIMSA 2002 is sponsored by ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. [material deleted] From: JS Subject: [COLING-02] Call for Papers (2002/01/09) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:44:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 712 (712) ================================================================ COLING-2002: Call for Papers [2002/01/09] ================================================================ 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics August, 24 - September, 1, 2002 Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan ================================================================ Organized by: Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and Tsing Hua University Under the Auspices of: The International Committee on Computational Linguistics URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ================================================================ COLING is the most prominent conference in the field of Computational Linguistics. In its 40 plus years of existence, the biennial COLING has been a productive forum for scholars all over the world to exchange original research papers on a broad range of topics in computational linguistics. COLING is an international forum for discussion and presentation representing the current state of the art and determining standards of computational linguistics research. [material deleted] From: JS Subject: [COLING-02] Workshops: Call for Workshop Proposals Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:45:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 713 (713) ======================================================================== * Important Reminder: Workshop Proposals Due: 2002/01/15 ======================================================================== COLING 2002 Final Call for Workshop Proposals August 31 -- September 1, 2002 ======================================================================== The COLING Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at COLING2002. COLING2002 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, August 24th - September 1st, 2002 with workshops being held August 31st and September 1st, 2002. COLING 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., shallow parsing), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to multilingual cross-language retrieval), 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 Computational Linguistics community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications, in particular with respect to multimodal communication, the semantic web, speech technology, information retrieval, text and data mining, biological information extraction, computational psycholinguistics, etc. [material deleted] For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/. From: Jan Van Looy Subject: Call for papers: medium studies Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:10:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 714 (714) Image & Narrative (www.imageandnarrative.be) is preparing an issue on __medium studies__. I believe the call for papers may be interesting for the members of Humanist Discussion Group. For more information: www.imageandnarrative.be The call for papers itself: http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/narrative/mediumtheory.htm Call for papers: Image & Narrative 6, Medium Theory Medium theory takes as its object of study the form of media rather than what they convey or how such information is received. Its focus is both more narrow and more general than that of media theory. It is more narrow because the concern is not primarily with the messages that media convey. It is more general because media are conceptualised in a much broader way than is usually the case in media theory. In medium theory, media are not simply newspapers, the internet, digital camera's and so forth. Rather, they are the symbolic environment of any communicative act. Joshua Meyrowitz characterizes medium theory as follows: "A handful of scholars - mostly from fields other than communications, sociology and psychology - have tried to call attention to the potential influences of communication technologies in addition to and apart from the content they convey. I use the singular 'medium theory' to describe this research tradition in order to differentiate it from most other 'media theory'. Medium theory focuses on the particular characteristics of each individual medium or of each particular type of media. Broadly speaking, medium theorists ask: what are the relatively fixed features of each means of communicating and how do these features make the medium physically, psychologically and socially different from other media and from face-to-face interaction? Medium theory examines such variables as the senses that are required to attend to the medium, whether the communication is bi-directional or uni-directional, how quickly messages can be disseminated, whether learning to encode and decode in the medium is difficult or simple, how many people can attend to the same message at the same moment, and so forth. Medium theorists argue that such variables influence the medium's use and its social, political, and psychological impact." We invite contributions dealing with one of the following topics: Work and insights from different authors in the field of medium theory (Joshua Meyrowitz, Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Walter Ong, etc.). How do different authors conceptualise 'medium'? For example, media as 'extension of the senses' (McLuhan), technical media (Kittler), the difference between 'medium' and 'form' (Heider), communication media or symbolically generalised media (Luhmann). Which criteria can be used to distinguish different media? The history and evolution of media of communication. Can one distinguish different phases in the evolution of media (the difference between oral and literate cultures; the rise of modern print culture; the emergence of technological media in the nineteenth century; new media)? Is it appropriate to speak of 'media revolutions' ? What is 'new' about new media? The influence of the medium concept in different disciplines such as literary theory, communication sciences and sociology. Does medium theory involve a re-articulation of disciplinary boundaries? The conceptualisation of communication in medium theory. Do communication media simply serve to transmit information and symbolic content or do they take a more active role and involve the creation of new forms of communication, interaction, etc.? What is the relation between medium and content? Send contributions in MSWord or RTF format to Michael.Boyden@arts.kuleuven.ac.be. Texts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 300 words and a maximum of 10 keywords. Jan Van Looy Instituut voor Culturele Studies http://www.culturelestudies.be http://www.maerlant.be Faculteit Letteren K.U.Leuven Blijde Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven tel: 32 (0)16 32 50 75 fax: 32 (0)16 32 50 68 From: Nesi Subject: WEDELMUSIC2002:Intern. Conf. on Web Delivering of Music, Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:12:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 715 (715) Darmstadt, Germany WEDELMUSIC-2002 2nd International Conference on Web Delivering of Music WEDELMUSIC2002, Darmstadt, Germany, 9-11 December 2002 http://www.wedelmusic.org/wedelmusic2002 http://WWW.wedelmusic.org WEDELMUSIC2002@igd.fraunhofer.de WEDELMUSIC@dsi.unifi.it Sponsored by: Fraunhofer Institute, University of Florence, IRCAM With the support of: IEEE CS TC on Computer Generated Music -------- The popularity of Internet and multimedia has increased the need for rapid diffusion of culture in new formats. Since its beginnings, music has never shied away from incorporating the latest technological advances to maximise expressive power. Its pioneering role in the use of Internet technology to broadcast audio and music files continues to break new boundaries. Current state of the art still distributes music either on paper or on CD or similar media. However, the possibility to distribute music in several other formats, such as symbolic, audio (in its several available formats) and as images of music scores opens several new avenues for research. At the same time, Internet technologies are having a strong impact on system architectures and business processes, while new regulations are changing the distribution mechanisms of music in important ways. WEDELMUSIC-2002 aims to deal with these major topics in music-related fields, in order to address new ways to distribute music to larger audiences. The impact of these developments on cultural heritage will be considered, together with their availability to people with limited access to classical archives or libraries. In particular, proposals and solutions benefiting visually-impaired people are encouraged, to let everybody access this large and hidden cultural heritage. Tools for impaired people will contribute to broadening music playing and enjoyment. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: University of Georgia Humanities Computing Position Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:07:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 716 (716) The Department of English at the University of Georgia is happy to announce that its search, placed on hold last October, has been reauthorized, so it now seeks again to hire an assistant professor, tenure-track, in the area of Humanities Computing. Ph.D. required by time of appointment, August 2002. Four course load; salary competitive. Demonstrated accomplishment in and commitments to research and teaching in humanities computing / digital studies and to the application of digital technology to humanities research are required. In particular, candidates must have knowledge of and ability to teach mark-up languages and scripting. Send letter of application and cv including pertinent URLs by February 1 to N. Hilton, Head, Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602; attn.: Humanities Computing Search (email with attachments in .rtf is acceptable: nhilton@english.uga.edu). We encourage applications from women and minorities. The University of Georgia is an AA/EEO institution. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: January/February Issue of The Technology Source Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:09:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 717 (717) Below is a description of the January/February 2002 issue of The Technology Source, a free, refereed, e-journal at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=85 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 using information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for manuscripts at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call and send me a note if you would like to contribute such an article. BTW, please note my new signature bloc and phone/fax number. I am now professor emeritus, having retired from UNC-Chapel Hill this past December. Many thanks. Jim -- James L. Morrison morrison@unc.edu Editor-in-Chief Phone/fax: 919 493-1834 The Technology Source http://ts.mivu.org Home Page: http://horizon.unc.edu IN THIS ISSUE: In this issue's assessment article, Carmel McNaught details Australia's RMIT University's efforts to ensure the quality of its online courses. Of particular value is McNaught's description of both RMIT's policy and its means of helping faculty members meet policy objectives. This institution's efforts to clarify the mission and methods of online education deserve attention. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=940 In her case study, Virginia Michelich details ways in which the process of streaming media has been used to supplement instruction in both traditional and online biology courses and offers evidence suggesting that these efforts have increased student learning. Of particular value is Michelich's success on two fronts: content development and technological integration; this study is likely to stimulate fruitful discussion on each of these issues. Hyperlinks give Technology Source readers a glimpse of Michelich's practices. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=941 Greg Kearsley provides a case study of the Masters of Engineering in Professional Practice program offered by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Taught almost completely online, this carefully constructed, two-year program serves mostly adult professionals. Paying particular attention to development issues, Kearsley provides a wealth of detail on such elements of the program as admissions, curriculum, students, faculty, staff, institutional support, program delivery, program management, and evaluation. In short, this article enumerates the many issues to which successful online education programs must attend and explains how MEPP has succeeded in those areas. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=935 Sharon Anderson and Val Middleton describe online course development as an acculturation experience in their case study. By applying psychological theories to personal experience, they provide an interesting perspective on this crucial element of online education. In addition to the insights it offers those involved in faculty development, this article encourages instructors to attend to the myriad ways in which course design can facilitate successful online learning. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=917 In her commentary, Cheryl Boychuck assesses the current state of international student enrollment and provides guidance for enhancing online recruitment. By adopting more efficient means of filtering, distributing, and tracking student inquiries, counselors will be able to spend more time and resources on close communication with candidates. Such a streamlined use of Web-based resources, Boychuck observes, will be necessary to address the challenges of this increasingly competitive field. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=944 Robert Sommer provides a personal commentary on his adoption of PowerPoint as an instructional resource within the traditional classroom. While noting the convenience and the technical possibilities of electronic slide presentations, he addresses the copyright issues and pedagogical concerns that arose as he incorporated new visual aids in his lectures. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=956 James Morrison interviews Cardean University's president Geoff Cox for our virtual university section. Cox describes the mission and structure of Cardean as well as its relationship to its parent company UNext and partner universities. According to Cox, Internet-based distance learning is a niche that companies such as Cardean are better able to fill than traditional educational institutions. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=894 In their faculty and staff Development contribution, Randy Stamm and Bernadette Howlett discuss one way in which the Instructional Technology Resource Center at Idaho State University integrates instructional design with WebCT, the university-supported course management system. Working from successful systems approach models, the ITRC has developed its own model, the WebCT Ordinal Web Delivery Organizational Companion, to assist faculty members with the myriad aspects of Web-based instructional design. The WOWDOC makes a complex process more easily accessible to faculty members who lack the time to explore the nuances of instructional design, while, at the same time, facilitating the development of the appropriate instructional strategies for the Web-based delivery tools of WebCT. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=937 For our spotlight site feature, Stephen Downes offers an introduction to the eLearning Forum Web site. Devoted to exploring the professional and commercial potential of e-learning, this non-profit corporation offers free membership to the public. As it documents their monthly meetings--which address such topics as the global expansion in e-learning, investment trends, pedagogical strategies, and technological innovations--their Web site fosters a virtual community for the discussion of best practices. In doing so, it also serves as a helpful bridge between industry specialists and a wider audience of e-learning administrators and advocates. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=980 In keeping with our mission to enhance professional communication on the role of technology in education, Technology Source editor James Morrison invites you to participate in virtual conferences with the featured authors of this issue. In his invitation, Morrison outlines the purpose and procedures for this option, which will allow you to provide questions, suggestions, and opinions in a lively, real-time dialogue with our contributors. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=986 -- You are currently subscribed to the Technology Source mailing list as willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=mailing. From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI: New issue announcement Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:11:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 718 (718) Journal of Digital Information announces A SPECIAL ISSUE on Metadata: Selected papers from the Dublin Core 2001 Conference (Volume 2, issue 2, January 2002) Special issue Editor: Traugott Koch, Lund University, Sweden From the special issue editorial "This issue evolved in cooperation with the organizers and the program committee of DC-2001, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications held in Tokyo, Japan. Common interests were identified and activities coordinated in an early phase, leading to a large degree of shared peer review for the conference presentations and the JoDI issue. Additional review and revision cycles resulted in the selection of eight among more than 50 total submissions to the conference track. Compared with the versions of the papers published in the conference proceedings, the authors of the selected papers had additional opportunity to revise and adapt papers to the specifications of JoDI reviewers and to the interests of the JoDI audience. "Conferences and journals have related, but separate and complementary goals. One of the objectives of the DC-2001 conference was to attract reports on pilot projects and the early experiences of practitioners, and bring these practitioners together. The conference papers included many good papers presenting efforts to construct domain-specific metadata profiles or exploring various practical dimensions of metadata applications. The contributions in this special issue focus instead on metadata models, querying of metadata, an architecture for a specific application area, and a first empirical study of experiences with metadata creation." http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/editorial/ The issue includes the following papers: C. Anutariya, V. Wuwongse, K. Akama and E. Nantajeewarawat, RDF Declarative Description (RDD): A Language for Metadata http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Anutariya/ A. Apps and R. MacIntyre, zetoc: a Dublin Core Based Current Awareness Service http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Apps/ T. Baker, M. Dekkers, R. Heery, M. Patel and G. Salokhe, What Terms Does Your Metadata Use? Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Baker/ C. Dyreson, M. Bohlen and C. Jensen, MetaXPath http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Dyreson/ J. Greenberg, M. Pattuelli, B. Parsia and W. Robertson, Author-generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: A Baseline Study in an Organization http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Greenberg/ J. Kunze, A Metadata Kernel for Electronic Permanence http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Kunze/ C. Lagoze and J. Hunter, The ABC Ontology and Model http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Lagoze/ D. Wen, T. Sakaguchi, S. Sugimoto and K. Tabata, Multilingual Access to Dublin Core Metadata of ULIS Library http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Wen/ The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only via the Web. JoDI is currently free to users thanks to support from the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Bandwidth and Humanists Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:08:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 719 (719) Willard, I understand from an article which appeared December 2, 2001, in the UK publication, Independent.co.uk that Internet Service Providers are complaining about British Telecom and positioning themselves as champions of access. One paragraph resonnates with the architectural situtation in Canada where providers bundle high speed access packages in such as fashion that people have a faster connectiont for downloading than uploading information: a set-up with the consumer of culture in mind. It seems that British ISPs are seeking to tap into the multitasking business-oriented crowd. I quote Stephen Pritchard: It's worth recalling the benefits of broadband over unlimited access on a dial-up modem. With ADSL or a high-speed cable modem, your internet connection is always on. It runs around 10 times faster than a 56K modem. You can make phone calls (or send faxes) while you use it. Those who try it love it. The problem is the price and the hassle Two questions for subscribers to Humanist: how does the deployment of network access and the expectations associated with network usuage affect computing humanists? How do computing humanists affect the political and social debates surrounding the construction, ownership and access to information infrastructures? Are we approaching the time when access to the information infrastructure is a key component to a unviversal right such as access to public education? (Yes, I have UNESCO declarations in mind). -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: mind/body? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:12:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 720 (720) In light of Francois Lachance's message in Humanist 15.439 I am wondering if anyone has written in the philosophy of mind about computing and the mind/body problem. Geoffrey Nunberg's essay, "Farewell to the Information Age", in The Future of the Book (California, 1996), provides a good historical basis for an attack on the easy assumption of disembodied communication. He does not, however, mention the mind/body problem, which I would think is the most prominent philosophical heading under which one would consider the question he goes after. It seems to me that we could all benefit from a disciplined philosophical approach to the problem of digital data and, as Nunberg says, to the "impression of information" that it gives. How is (and is not) such data like the Pythagorean soul? Is it philosophically rigorous to think that the *same* data takes form now as e-mail, now as a printed message, now as the contents of an archive? Where do we go wrong in arguing that these data are modulated by the media in which they appear but do not essentially change? If I am right that the problem of digital data is an instance of the much older mind/body problem, then of course there is no straightforward and final answer, rather an ongoing conversation that we need to be fit to join. The address of the best fitness centre please. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Nagib Callaos Subject: SCI 2002 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:37:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 721 (721) CALL FOR PAPERS THE 6th WORLD MULTI CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS , CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS SCI 2002 July 14 - 18, 2002 Orlando , Florida, USA Sheraton World http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/ Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir Program Committee Chair: William Lesso General Chair: Nagib Callaos Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez MAJOR THEMES * Information Systems Development * Information Systems Management * Management Information Systems * Virtual Engineering * Mobile/Wireless Computing * Communication Systems and Networks * Emergent Computation * Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing * Computing Techniques * Human Information Systems * Education and Information Systems * Control Systems * Economic and Financial Systems * SCI in Biology and Medicine * SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality * Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI * Natural Resources * Human Resources * Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies * SCI in Art [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: St Louis, March 23, 2002 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:38:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 722 (722) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 11, 2002 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY NINCH, in association with the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America, presents SAINT LOUIS COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING "The Changing Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today" Saturday March 23, 2002 Hyatt Regency Union Station, St Louis 9:30am-12:30pm http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings02/stlouis.html * * * Free of Charge * * * This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation * * * The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) announces the first in its 2002 series of NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS. The meeting will be part of the first joint conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America and the Visual Resources Association. The subject of this first 2002 meeting is "The Changing Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today." The meeting is free-of-charge and open to the public. It will be held 9:30am-12:30pm on Saturday March 23 in the conference hotel: the Hyatt Regency in the refurbished Union Station, St Louis. Designed by Theodore Link, and once the second busiest train station in the nation, this 1884 building is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Town Meeting will focus on the history and meaning of the "information commons," a free public resource, and how it intersects with licensing, one of the prevailing mechanisms for distributing digital resources today. [material deleted] From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:36:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 723 (723) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ We are pleased to announce the new resources available in our catalogue of language resources: ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal Parallel Corpus A short description of these two new resources is given below. Please visit the online catalogue to get further details: http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set: The corpus contains Al-Hayat newspaper articles with value added for Language Engineering and Information Retrieval applications development purposes. Data has been organised in 7 subject specific databases according to the Al-Hayat subject tags. Mark-up, numbers, special characters and punctuation have been removed. The size of the total file is 268 MB. The dataset contains 18,639,264 distinct tokens in 42,591 articles, organised in 7 domains. ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal Parallel Corpus: GeFRePac was produced in the framework of the LRsP&P project. It contains 30 million words : 15 million for the German language, 15 million for the French language. It covers natural general language as used in public socio-political discourse and it has a focus on multilingual administration and commercial and legal documentation. It was created for the purpose of developing, enhancing and improving translation aids. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 E-mail mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr ===================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Essay on Electronic Peer-Reviewed Work Generates Debate Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:40:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 724 (724) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 11, 2002 ESSAY ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING GENERATES DEBATE "Op. Cit," Policy Perspectives http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/pubs http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/cat.pl#V10N3 [deleted quotation] 4. ESSAY ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING GENERATES DEBATE According to an essay recently published by the Knight Higher Education Collaborative universities and colleges should establish policies declaring peer-reviewed work in electronic form suitable for consideration in promotion and tenure decisions. The publication, based on the Roundtable on Scholarly Communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences jointly convened in March 2001 by the Association of Research Libraries, the National Humanities Alliance, and the Knight Collaborative with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities also advocates that active and continuing partnerships are needed to help ensure viability as markets and technology recast the dynamics of scholarly publishing. According to the essay, "developing venues of electronic publication in conjunction with existing modes of print publication offers a means of expanding the size of the audience that the humanities and social sciences might address." But as the essay recognizes, scholars may be reluctant to adopt electronic publishing if it jeopardizes their chances for promotion and tenure. Scholars need assurances that scholarly work addressed to a broader audience and peer-reviewed scholarship published in electronic form will be considered legitimate forms of scholarly activity. University policies can help accelerate the cultural shifts needed to make this happen states the report. "This round table focusing on the humanities and social sciences grew out of a series of conversations that have taken place in conferences, roundtables, and National Humanities Alliance committee discussions over the past several years," notes Duane Webster, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries. "We hope the essay will encourage active discussion in the broader community and the development of innovative partnerships in electronic publishing." Individual copies of the December 2001 issue of Policy Perspectives can be obtained from the Institute for Research on Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania, 4200 Pine Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4090; phone (215) 898-4585. The issue is available on the Web at . -- ============================================================== 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Public Domain Suits Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:41:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 725 (725) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 11, 2002 ELDRED v. ASHCROFT CASE UPDATES Additional Suit: Golan v. Ashcroft <http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/> http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cert/library-amicus.pdf http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/ There is increasing pressure for the Supreme Court to consider the suit against the government on the unconstitutionality of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act that extended copyright protection by 20 years. A recent amicus brief by four library associations, the Digital Future Coalition and the Society of American Archivists joins four other amicus briefs by copyright law professors, constitutional law professors, the Eagle Forum and Cato Institute and the Internet Archive. In case the Supreme Court decides against hearing this case, plaintiffs have filed another suit Golan v. Ashcroft. Professors Larry Lessig and Edward Lee of Stanford and Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Charles Nesson of Harvard are representing the plaintiffs, along with the Denver law firm of Wheeler Trigg & Kennedy. Lawrence Golan is a conductor and University of Denver music professor. He and other plaintiffs, claim that the copyright law prevents them from performing works by notable foreign composers by making the royalty fees for performing the music cost-prohibitive. Furthermore, they argue that the law violates the limitations imposed on copyrights by the copyright clause of the U.S. Constitution, namely that copyrights be limited in duration and that they "promote the Progress of Science and useful arts." David Green =========== [material deleted] From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: "After the Internet" eHumanities Lecture Feb. 13 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:10:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 726 (726) ***************************************** The National Endowment for the Humanities Presents eHumanities Lecture Series ***************************************** The NEH invites you to attend the next installment of the eHumanities Lecture Series. The goal of this series is to bring leading scholars to Washington to discuss the relationship of digital technology and the humanities. Last year, we had a terrific turnout for our free lecture series held here at the Old Post Office in Washington, DC. Next Lecture: February 13, "After the Internet." JAMES O'DONNELL from UPENN. See our web page for detailed information and to register: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html Please feel free to pass this to colleagues. ---------------------- February 13 Lecture Title: "After the Internet" JAMES O'DONNELL The Internet bubble has burst. The Internet is boring. Even The Economist is reduced to devoting a special section to the wireless Internet in order to gain and hold its readers' attention. This is an opportunity for serious thought and action about the integration of information technology and information science in the humanistic organon. How are we different because we live in this wired world? How are we not different? What is reasonable to expect? James J. O'Donnell is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education. In 1990, he co-founded Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second on-line scholarly journal in the humanities ever created. In 1994, he taught an Internet-based seminar on the work of Augustine of Hippo that reached 500 students. He also serves as resident Faculty Master of Hill College House at Penn. He is a Trustee of the National Humanities Center, has served as a Director and will become President-Elect in 2002 of the American Philological Association, and served as a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America. From: "James L. Morrison" Subject: The Technology Source Author Forums Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:11:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 727 (727) This week we will initiate our Technology Source Author Forums for the January/February issue in conjunction with HorizonLive, an e-learning platform that allows participants anywhere in the world to provide questions, suggestions, and opinions in a lively, real-time dialogue with our contributors. Our first forum is Tuesday, 10:00 am EST, with Geoff Cox, President of UNext's Cardean University, where the discussion will focus on the role and mission that for-profit virtual universities are playing in the changing landscape of higher education. On Wednesday we feature Professor Robert Sommer on problems, issues, and rewards of using PowerPoint in the classroom. On Thursday we talk with Stephen Downes, our spotlight site editor, about the current spotlight site (eLearning Forum) and the criteria he uses to select outstanding sites for educators interested in using technology to enhance education. The complete schedule is available at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats Sign up now to reserve your free "seat" and obtain instructions as to how you can use this technology. If you cannot attend these sessions, but would like to have our authors respond to particular questions, please send your questions/comments to me. You can see/hear the archive of any session by clicking on the "webchat" button in the Interact! menu of the relevant article shortly after the live session. I hope that you can join us. Jim -- James L. Morrison Editor-in-Chief The Technology Source Phone/Fax: 919.493.1834 Home Page: http://horizon.unc.edu -- You are currently subscribed to the Technology Source mailing list as willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk. If you wish to remove yourself from this mailing list, please visit http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=mailing. From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Copyright Management in Higher Ed Seminar Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:12:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 728 (728) [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is hosting a seminar titled: Copyright Management in Higher Education: Access, Control and Use April 4th - 5th 2002. http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ The digital age has greatly increased concerns about ownership, access, and control of copyrighted information. As substantial users and creators of copyrighted information, colleges and universities must develop mechanisms that effectively manage information on the networked campus. Protective technologies are being developed that hold the promise of perfect control and the peril of substantially limited access to information. Comprehensive intellectual property policies are needed to provide clear guidelines for ownership and proper use of information. Moreover, stakeholders in higher education should understand the substantial changes being made in federal information policy that will affect colleges and universities in the twenty-first century. The Keynote speaker will be Laura "Lolly" Gasaway, Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Intellectual Property Scholar, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College. Additional confirmed presenters and panelist include: - Dan L. Burk, Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics; Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; and Associate Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences. - Kim Kelley, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College - Todd Kelley, Associate Provost and Librarian of the College, St. Mary's College of Maryland - Arnold P. Lutzker, Partner, Lutzker & Lutzker LLP - Carol Risher, Senior Vice President-Business Development Savantech, Inc. - Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison - John C. Vaughn, Executive Vice President, Association of American Universities - Fred (Rick) W. Weingarten, Director of the Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association - Dr. Larry Wilt, Director of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Please register early since space is limited. Early registration ends March 21, 2002. For additional information visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ or call 301-985-7777. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Scheffler's rival metaphors Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:13:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 729 (729) Willard, Some time ago, I promised, if no other subscribers had time or inclination, to take up Israel Scheffler's "rival metaphors" with which he concludes his 1985 presentation "Computers at School?" (collected in _In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions_, 1991). I thought I would follow through on the promise before the commencement of the year of the horse soon to be upon us. I ask your forbearance for a post with longish bits of quotation. Scheffler is reacting against what he considers to be a computer-model based on the notion of "information". He summarizes and characterizes the notion of information thus: A prevalent public image of the computer is, surely, that of an information processor. Information comes in discrete bits, each expressing a factual datum. Data may be entered and stored in the computer's memory, retrieved from memory, and processed in simple or complex ways according to various programs, which instruct the computer exactly what functions to perform. These functions are in the nature of algorithms, specifying determinately how the data are to be transformed. The human operator determines that the solution to his problem might be computed by program from input data, punches in his instructions to the machine to instituted the relevant program, and eventually sees the solution displayed on the screen before him. As well as the traces of gender-coding, one finds here the vocabulary associated with main frames and terminals (e.g. "operators" and "punching"). What I want to emphasize here is that some 20 years ago, not withstanding the incursion of images personal computers, such as the Apple McIntosh, upon the popular imagination. the debate about computers in the classroom invoked a dichotomy which depicted the human as flexible and the machine as being set in its configurations. I want to suggest that there is now a set of players on the human side of the machine-human interaction that can be figured as possessing an expertise lying between the "operator" of the maching and the "programmer". As well more people think beyond and around the image of a single machine. The network is a key element in the representation of computers in popular culture. I turn now to Scheffler's three rival metaphors: insight, equipping, rule model. The insight model "speaks not of information but of insight and perception, vision and illumination, intuition of nuance and pattern, grasp of overtone and undertone. [This sounds very much like Seymour Papert's work with children learning to programm with Logo -- Sherry Turkle's reporting on this in _The Second Self_ appeared in 1984.] The equipping model is contrasted with the information model in that it concerns "the forming or strengthening of abilities, the know-how commanded by a person, rather than the know-that, the capability to deal with the tasks and challenges of practice in the various domains of daily life." Finally, the rule metaphor "focuses on norms rather than capacities, on the pronenesses, likelihoods, tendencies, and dispositions of a person rather than what he _can_ do." I wonder, if we put Scheffler's typology beside Turkle's musings about gendered-styles of human group interaction as reflected in human-computer interactions, if we cannot arrive at a model where the user and the programmer both are like the humanist who percieves (with or without the benefit of insight or the promise of arriving at a valuable insight), who applies knowledge (in the true ignorance of the tester of the hypothetical) and who judges self, result and apparatus (by the ever changing measures of rules negotiated in communication (computer-mediated and otherwise) with other judges, perceivers and applicators). It would then perhaps appear or be deemed to appear that the "information" model is incomplete without consideration of its articulation in a cybernetic (or general) system that takes as its fundamental premise the fungibility of data and program, instruction and state. Thanks for the air time, Francois -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: empirical and imperial Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:16:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 730 (730) Two ironies, or two stories that perhaps share an irony. (1) Years ago an old friend, a scholar of Mongolian and Chinese, told me that he had received notice of publication of the first index ever to be made to an old Chinese encyclopedia. (I am sorry to have forgotten the name of the reference work.) Excited by the prospect at first, he was intending on purchasing this index -- he used the encyclopedia quite frequently and, as anyone who knows a bit about the language will understand immediately, always spent quite a bit of time looking around in the book for whatever it was that he wanted. In the end, however, he decided not to buy the index. He reflected that nearly every time he took up the book, he found in the process of looking for whatever thing it was something else unexpected and far more interesting than the original object of enquiry. Having the index would be just too tempting for the busy scholar. (2) Greg Dening, in "The Randy and Imperial Eye" (Readings/Writings, Melbourne, 1998), quotes the historian David Miller's account of a contemporary's amazement at walking into the estate office of Joseph Banks in late Hannoverian London: "'There is a catalogue of names and subjects in every drawer so that whether the enquiry concerned a man or drainage, or an enclosure, or a farm or a wood, the request was scarce named before a mass of information was before me. Such an apartment and such an apparatus must be of incomparable use in the management of every great estate or indeed in any circumstance.'" Then Dening goes on to note: "It is the retrievability to purpose that makes knowledge empirical -- and imperial.... At the end of the twentieth century, when the hardest of the sciences and the softest of the humanities are preoccupied with copyrights, patents and economic rationalism, we might have a better understanding of how visions of science are subject to empires of many sorts" (pp. 82f). The above suggests a number of things, and I think the moral is not hard to find. One thing it suggests to me is part of what continues to bother me about "big humanities" research: paying the piper. There's of course the (mis)use of research results for purposes to which the original researchers would never have agreed, but there's also the effective shaping of research directions by the trail of money that we feel ourselves forced by circumstances to follow. I don't wish to suggest that we can be pure. Of course we cannot. But, being humanists, are we not obliged to ask questions? And, getting back to the first story, are we also not obliged to compare what the machined efficiences do against what unassisted human ways lead to? 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: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: Special edition of LLC - Young Scholars in Humanities Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:21:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 731 (731) Computing. Please circulate widely Apologies for cross-posting A thematic issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing <http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/litlin/> is planned which aims to bring together a variety of papers reflecting the research of young scholars in the wide field of Humanities Computing. The editors of this volume (Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte) are looking for candidates who will have a chance to report on their research in this most established journal in the discipline. Preference will be given to those at the start of their academic career, such as PhD or advanced master degree students. Participants should supply a brief outline of their academic history, current academic affiliation, date of birth, and abstracts of 500 words detailing the research being undertaken and outlining the subject of their paper. Each proposal will be subject to peer review, with the ten best being selected for publication in this volume of LLC. Authors chosen for publication will be then required to submit a 4-5,000 word paper regarding their research. Each author will have the opportunity to be mentored by a senior scholar in the discipline to aid in the completion of their paper. Proposals should be sent no later than March 1st 2002 to the editors at . Applicants will be contacted regarding their proposal in early June 2002. Successful applicants will be required to submit their papers by November 2002. Publication is planned for the Spring 2003. This is an excellent opportunity for young scholars in the field of Humanities Computing to be published in a widely read, esteemed journal. Although this call is primarily for young scholars in Humanities Computing, all proposals will be considered as long as they are not from those who hold a full time academic post. People who have began their academic careers late, and have not yet had the opportunity to establish themselves in their discipline are encouraged to submit a paper. The editors are striving for as wide a coverage of Humanities Computing as possible and encourage senior academics to circulate this call for papers. -- ============= Edward Vanhoutte Co-ordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49 evanhoutte@kantl.be / evanhout@uia.ua.ac.be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://ger-www.uia.ac.be/webger/ger/people/vanhoutte/default.htm From: Ana Maria Subject: Electronic Publishing - 2nd CFP Elpub2002 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:22:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 732 (732) CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 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, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. [material deleted] From: Magali Duclaux Subject: LREC 2002 Workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:23:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 733 (733) Evaluation ***First announcement and Call for Papers*** ********************************************************* Arabic Language Resources (LR) and Evaluation: Status and Prospects A Post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2002 Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain) 1st June 2002 ********************************************************** More details at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Taking place on 1st June, after the main conference (29-30-31 MAY 2002), this post-conference workshop should add value to the issues addressed during the conference. It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic written 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 LR, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing. We expect to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of resources, tools, standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc. By bringing together players in the Arabic NLP field, we target the definition of a first broadly supported Roadmap for Arabic LR, i.e. a broadly supported view on the longer, medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This would help the community to identify new opportunities and possible synergies. [material deleted] From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 15.453 metaphors of education and research Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:25:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 734 (734) Willard, your story of the encyclopedia shows much of the way I feel about the matter: the 4th edition of the American Heritage Unabridged Dictionary is on line and available for free through Bartleby. It's a good reference work with two invaluable (well, to a historical philologist, anyway) appendices on Indo-European word roots and on Semitic word roots. I so sue the on-line once in a while, but I ws very happy buying my own copy of the book, for much the same reasons ars your friend. I don't use a dictionary just to find out one thing about one word -- some of the most useful things I know about language come from paging through the book looking for the word I want, and I can never put a good dictionary down without browsing both in the vicinity and by flipping pages at random. Apparently the folks who programmed the AHD don't get it. I can look up a word and get the info --even the I-E material. But that's all. I also own the Middle English Dictionary, and similarly, while I can look up a word on-line in t he MED, I'd much rather pick up my own copy of the relevant fascicle, for the same reasons. The one advantage the on-line MED has is the ability to search for all instances of a given word, not only in main entries, but anywhere in the work. That's wonderful. But I see no reason to clear off the two feet of shelf space the print MED takes, and I would lose a lot of randomly accessed information if I did that. In fact, search capabilities are the ONLY reason I can imagine for having any book in electronic form..... From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: IFLA & IPA Copyright Principles & Draft Statement on the Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:33:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 735 (735) Archiving and Preserving of Digital Information. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 17, 2002 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) & International Publishers' Association (IPA) Establish Joint Steering Group Librarians and Publishers Work to a Common Agenda <http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/pr310801.htm> Publishers and Librarians Promote Common Principles on Copyright in the Electronic Environment <http://www.ifla.org/V/press/ifla-ipa.htm> Here are some principles hammered out between IFLA and the IPA on copyright. The announcement below also refers to other joint statements between these international bodies of librarians and publishers, including a draft statement on the Archiving and Preserving of Digital Information. David Green =========== * While the fundamental principles underlying copyright protection in the print environment remain the same in the electronic environment (in this sense, "digital is not different"), the Group recognises that the advent of new technologies has fundamentally changed methods of publication and dissemination as well as rights management (in this sense, "digital is different"). * Bridging the digital divide is best achieved by government programmes increasing funding for the provision of books and other publications in libraries as well as for connecting end-users to the Internet, especially in developing countries and disadvantaged groups in developed nations. * Exceptions and limitations to copyright in the public interest remain necessary in the electronic environment, in order to maintain an equitable balance between the rights of creators and distributors and the needs of users but the nature and extent of exceptions and limitations must be assessed by applying the three step test. * Libraries are key players in ensuring long-term preservation archiving of electronic information, through appropriate arrangements with publishers. However, the conditions of access and other technical and policy issues require further discussion among stake holders. IPA and IFLA will promote the above principles to their respective memberships (see www.ipa.-uie.org and www.ifla.org ) [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION" INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION JOINT STATEMENT ON THE ARCHIVING AND PRESERVING OF DIGITAL INFORMATION BACKGROUND Preserving digital information is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for both libraries and publishers, as the amount of digital information is growing quickly and preservation policies and techniques for this format of material have received little or no priority. While many electronic publications are produced in both print and digital formats, although not always at the same time or in identical versions, more and more material is produced as "born digital", that is, it has no print equivalent. It is estimated that much of this type of material has already been lost, as some producers have deleted their electronic publications without ensuring that a long-term archiving process was implemented. The need is pressing. While the costs of long-term archiving are high, the cost of doing nothing would be disastrous. Libraries have traditionally taken care of the publications they have acquired, and have saved the physical artifact because they wished to safeguard the information contained in the artifact. With digital information the safeguarding of the content becomes a shared responsibility between the producer and the collector of the information. While both publishers and libraries are committed to maintaining digital files, efforts to date are inconsistent, fragmented and underfunded. PRINCIPLES AND RECOMMENDATIONS Both IFLA and IPA wish to work together to obtain some practical and long-term results in the area of digital preservation. They therefore advocate the following principles and recommendations: 1. An increasing amount of information published only in electronic form has enduring cultural and documentary significance and is just as important as information published in more traditional forms. 2. The long-term availability of this information is required and action must be taken now to make this possible. 3. Both organizations will work to make long-term archiving and preservation a key agenda item internationally. 4. Both organizations will encourage the development of industry standards, systems, and research for digital archiving and preservation, including identifying funding opportunities to support such work. 5. While publishers generally can ensure the short-term archiving of their publications so long as these publications are economically viable, libraries are best-placed to take responsibility for long-term archiving through appropriate arrangements with publishers. 6. Since national libraries have the mandate to acquire and preserve the published heritage in their respective countries, and most are experimenting with the acquisition of digital publications, these libraries, with other leading libraries and organizations, should take the lead responsibility for long-term archiving of digital publications; 7. 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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: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA: WLR Validation Centres Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:31:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 736 (736) ******************************* ELRA Technical Centers ******************************* Our apologies if you receive multiple copies *** CALL FOR CREATING A NETWORK OF TECHNICAL CENTERS FOR WRITTEN LANGUAGE RESOURCES VALIDATION *** 1. Preamble Describing, assuring and improving the quality of language resources are important tasks. The assurance of such quality is an important factor in ELRA's success. In the start up phase of ELRA it was foreseen that a Network of Technical Centers should be established to handle quality control. To date a technical center for the validation of spoken language resources has been established. ELRA now intends to initiate the establishment of a network of technical centers for the validation of written language resources, the Validation Centers for Written Language Resources or VC_WLR. Written resources include lexicons as well as text corpora, possibly enriched with all kinds of annotations (POS-tags, syntactic structures, etc.). The procedure to establish the VC_WLR is identical to the one adopted in establishing the technical centers for spoken language resources, viz. they are to be established via an open call. Those European institutions willing to act as a VC_WLR for ELRA should send an offer to ELRA. The contents of this offer are described below. In particular, the offer must contain a proposal on how to address the problem of the detailed and thorough knowledge of a wide variety of languages required by the validation of multilingual resources. ELRA's Board will decide which institutions will be selected. The selection of each candidate institution will be based on its ability to fulfill the tasks described in Section2. The organizational and financial aspects are described in Section 3. 2.Work packages (WP) of the VC_WLR 2.1 Extending the Methodology for Describing the Quality and Content of Existing WLR In the catalogue of ELRA many WLR are offered whose quality and content is not yet described in a satisfactory way. Some projects have resulted in linguistic resources distributed by ELRA that are comparable across languages in accordance with a commonly agreed content and format specification (e.g. PAROLE). However, almost no written data distributed by ELRA have been subject to validation by an external party and in accordance with a commonly agreed validation scheme (except for a limited number of PAROLE lexicons, and recently in the context of the ENABLER project). Though some research into the validation of linguistic resources has taken place and recommendations and guidelines have been formulated (e.g. Nancy Underwood et al., June 1998; Lou Burnard for text corpora), these have to be reviewed and where necessary adapted and extended to develop a concrete and workable methodology for the ELRA validation of written linguistic resources. The knowledge and expertise gained in the successful approach to validation taken in the SpeechDat family of spoken resources and by the existing ELRA validation center for spoken resources could be taken into consideration here, and its methods and approaches translated into an approach adapted for written language resources while maintaining the key elements that determined the success of the approach to speech. The first task of the VC_WLR is to establish and/or extend the methodology for quality and content description so far developed. The related document should focus on the quality and content of the WLR offered in the ELRA catalogue. A standard form should be developed for describing the content and quality of a WLR, starting from the form currently in use and taking into account the work carried out within TEI, OLAC, etc. The WLR in the ELRA catalog will have to be described according to this standard. This description will be used as a basis for providing any (potential) user with a quick overview in the ELRA catalogue relating to the quality and content of each WLR offered. Output of WP2.1: - Document describing methodology concerning quality and content - Content and quality description of all ELRA WLR 2.2 Improving the Quality of Existing WLR Existing WLR may have errors that could be removed with reasonable effort. The task of the VC_WLR is to establish a procedure to remove these errors. Especially a procedure has to be established which handles the errors reported by users of WLR (bug reporting procedure). Further, the existing WLR can be improved by better documentation, by reformatting according to established standards and by content changes. A similar procedure for spoken language resources has been proposed and is currently being implemented and experimented with, hence it is sensible to investigate to what extent the procedure proposed for SLR can be adopted for the improvement of WLR and what modifications and or extensions are necessary or desirable. The quality of the existing WLR should be gradually improved in accordance with a priority scheme that has to be worked out in close cooperation with ELRA's validation committee. The scheme has to be approved by the ELRA board. Output of WP 2.2: - Report describing the procedure to be used to improve existing WLR - Improve existing WLR according to a priority scheme 2.3 Quality Standards for WLR The VC_WLR have to play a leading role in establishing quality standards for WLR. for this task the VC_WLR have to cooperate with organizations involved in the production of WLR such as the consortia of the PAROLE and SIMPLE projects, and with ELRA's distribution agency (currently ELDA). Additionally, the extent to which existing recommendations, guidelines and proposed standards from groups such as the EAGLES and ISLE projects can be incorporated should be considered throughout. Output of WP 2.3: - Report describing the procedure for building up relationships with significant WLR producers and standards groups - Following on from the report, the establishment of those relationships 2.4 Validation of New WLR Owners of WLR regularly offer their WLR to ELRA for distribution. ELRA has the distribution carried out by its distribution agency (currently ELDA). Each time a WLR is offered for distribution, the task of the VC_WLR is to establish in cooperation with the owner of the WLR a manual containing: - The specification of the content of the WLR, - The validation criteria for checking the quality of the WLR, - The procedure to validate the WLR. Based on this manual the VC_WLR have to validate any new WLR offered for distribution. Output of WP 2.4: - Report on the validation procedure as specified in a specific contract between ELDA and the center(s) 2.5 Reporting Twice a year the VC_WLR must report work undertaken to date to the board of ELRA via the head of the validation committee. Output of WP 2.5: - Status reports 3. Organizational and Financial Issues 3.1 Relation between ELRA and VC_WLR Concerning the tasks 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5 as described above the relation between ELRA and the institution(s) that are appointed as VC_WLR will be regulated by a contract between ELRA and those institutions. The contract has to be renewed after every fiscal year of ELRA by the Board of ELRA. Three months before the end of each fiscal year of ELRA the Board of ELRA will decide on the financial support to be given to the VC_WLR for the next fiscal year to perform the tasks 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5. Annually, a letter of intent will describe a budget for the year for the VC_WLR. The initial amount made available will be approximately 15K EUR. The ELRA validation committee will act as a steering committee for all activities related to validation of written resources. All actions proposed by the validation committee and agreed upon between the validation committee and the appointed VC_WLR will have to be approved by the ELRA Board. 3.2 Relation between ELDA and the VC_WLR Separate contracts will be made with ELDA concerning task 2.4 on a case-by-case basis. 4. Format and Procedure for Offer To apply to be a VC_WLR, send your offer by e-mail (as ASCII or RTF files, approx. 2000 words) to the CEO of ELRA (Khalid Choukri, choukri@elda.fr) and to the head of the ELRA validation committee (Harald Hoege, harald.hoege@mchp.siemens.de). The e-mail should contain: 1. Name of the proposing institute 2. The name of the person at the institute who will be the head of the VC_WLR. 3. A statement outlining the suitability of the institute to act as a VC_WLR. 4. A proposal on how the institute plans to provide for the required detailed and thorough knowledge of a wide variety of languages. 5. A list of personnel who will work on the tasks to be undertaken by the VC_WLR. 6. A possible start date 7.3 Sketch of the work for the work packages described that can be carried out within the fiscal year 2002 (1.1.02 31.12.02) for a budget of inferior or equal to 15KEUR. For each work package a rough estimate for the costs should be given. Proposals are due by Friday March 1, 2002. ***************************** ELRA/ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris France Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 Email: choukri@elda.fr ****************************** From: Dirk Kottke Subject: Einladung zum 84. Kolloquium Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:27:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 737 (737) 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 84. Kolloquium ber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universitt Tbingen Diese Kolloquien sollen einerseits dem Erfahrungs- und Meinungs- austausch dienen, andererseits einfhrende Information darber geben, welche Hilfestellung die EDV dem Geistes- wissenschaftler bieten kann. Jede(r) Interessierte ist willkommen. T H E M E N Die Kapitulariensammlung des Benedictus Levita. Einhundert Jahre Editionsgeschichte und ihr vorhersehbarer Abschluss mit TUSTEP Referent: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gerhard Schmitz Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Mnchen Das Luther-Register. Vom Zettelkasten zum elektronischen Satz Referenten: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kpf, Dr. Reinhold Rieger Institut fr Sptmittelalter und Reformation, Universitt Tbingen Zeit: Samstag, 2. Februar 2002, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Wchterstrae 76 (EG) gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 83. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot83.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 | Universitt Tbingen | Tel. 07071/29-70309 Zentrum fr Datenverarbeitung | FAX: 07071/29-5912 Wchterstrae 76 | e-mail: kottke@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de D-72074 Tbingen | ==================================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conferences: ISMIR; Museums & Web; MLA: "Mining Digital Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:30:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 738 (738) Resources" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 17, 2002 ISMIR 2002 - 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval October 13-17, 2002: Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, Panels and Exhibits http://ismir2002.ircam.fr/ Museums and the Web 2002 April 17-20, 2002: Boston ** Early Registration Deadline: Friday Jan 18 ** http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Modern Language Association: New York City, December 2002 Call for Papers: "Mining Digital Resources: Sites, Tools, Results." [material deleted; for the last see a previous number of Humanist] From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.456 rationale of e-text Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:28:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 739 (739) Willard and readers: At 01:30 AM 1/16/02, Norm Hinton wrote: [deleted quotation] Or they do get it, and are withholding that particular functionality from the electronic product in order to maintain the distinctive value, desirability and salability of the paper resource. :-> Maybe I'm giving them too much credit; but on the other hand I can imagine several ways -- albeit scholar-intensive to produce -- to design electronic interfaces that work, if not to emulate the tactile pleasures of browsing the bound volume, at least the fun and potential serendipity of it. Even some ways that would give you broader range for exploration than the serial alphabetic presentation of the book. This is not to take issue with the basic point Norm makes -- I too love dipping into my AHD, as I do digging in the paper OED, and don't foresee any other medium giving me the same thing -- but just to say it's slippery. ... [deleted quotation] This may be a bit extreme. We are still at the point where we are, for the most part, imitating what we do with print in our electronic efforts -- read, peruse, look up. The capabilities of electronic interfaces to do new things, or make lighter work of old things, are still largely unexplored (the HyperActiveText of the web, with all its strengths and weaknesses, would be the exception that proves this rule). The early days of print are possibly a useful analogy. Only when print stopped trying to imitate manuscript, and started taking advantage of what print could do that manuscripts could not (for example, leveraging mass production to provide standard referencing schemes to commonly-cited authors like Plato and Aristotle), did the technology's true capabilities and significance begin to emerge. But noticing the virtue of a feature that expresses, particularly strongly, the strengths of the codex form, should not blind us to the possibilities of electronic media when doing their own thing -- some of which, paper-based media do relatively poorly, if at all. As an example, I submit for your attention an *early* prototype of a study resource I've been working on. It's at http://www.piez.org/wendell/Amsel/Amsel.html and has been tested in IE5 and NN 6 (it relies on W3C DOM-compliant scripting, available only in late browsers). Apologies also for the awful translation: a friendly native speaker has promised to help me with the German; this is very preliminary. (But you don't need to know German to understand what I'm doing here.) But of course, such a creature may not be a "book". 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: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.456 rationale of e-text Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:28:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 740 (740) Norman, The only reason? [deleted quotation] What about the ease of communicating with students and colleagues (nice to be able to copy and paste rather than rekey a citation)? What about the ability to access the data through voice-synthesis or reformatting presentation for big fonts? What about being able to compute for example run a simple count (which of course depends upon search capabilities)? BTW, I've had fun doing a search on Google for "hinton only humanist" which for me is the equivalent of a book browse :) -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Mark Horney Subject: Searching by inspection Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:32:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 741 (741) This distinction between "browsing" around, what I would call "searching by inspection" and the "keyword" searching available in computer systems is important to keep in mind when designing media. The technology of printed books allows for and perhaps facilitates inspection. Keyword searching is rather more difficult, with nothing more than the index and the table of contents to assist readers. Computer systems, especially those that allow full boolean searching are great at the keyword seaching but often terrible at inspection, especially if it's web pages you're searching and you have a slow internet connection. Hypertext designers must remember keyword searching is fine IF YOU KNOW WHAT KEYWORDS TO LOOK FOR. For the rest of us, they must also design features that faciliate browsing. It is my hypothesis that electonic books will become the most useful in situations where one is "studying" a book, as opposed to "reading" a book. I think the activities one engages in during study can be substantially assisted by functions that can be built into an electronic edition, functions that are often difficult to manage in paper editions. For just reading however, I agree, I don't yet think there's much value added in the electronic form. Mark Horney Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center for Advanced 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: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 15.446 bandwidth? mind/body? Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:25:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 742 (742) Dear Willard et al. At the risk of self-promotion, let me offer a modest response to your comments about the importance of discussing the mind-body issue vis-a-vis humanities computing. As I point out in a forthcoming article (Cultures in Collision: Philosophical Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication, _Metaphilosophy_ 33 (1/2)) There is a burgeoning literature on embodiment (especially based in phenomenology and hermeneutics - perhaps most significantly, Merleau-Ponty) vis-a-vis the largely Cartesian mind/body dualism underlying much of the 1980s and 1990s postmodern enthusiasm for various forms of liberation in cyberspace - ranging from Donna Haraway's famous Cyborg Manifesto to John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration - and found, more originally, in Gibson's _Neuromancer_'s interesting contempt for "meatspace." I'm working on a more complete bibilography, but I can happily mention here: ...a specifically philosophical discussion of the nature of the self as illuminated by interaction with computers is at work in the earliest stages of Artificial Intelligence, and the debates, for example, between more Cartesian views that emphasize the radical split between body and reason/mind as the intelligence to be replicated by the computer, and nondualistic views represented in the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart (see Bardini, 2000) and Winograd and Flores (1987). Bardini, T. (2000). Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Winograd, T. & Flores, F. (1987). Understanding Computers and Cognition: a New Foundation for Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. and: [contra] the "ectopian" hopes of Hans Moravec (1988) [i.e., of downloading consciousness as a purely disembodied Cartesian mind into a computer] ... is increasingly supplanted by epistemologies and senses of self marked by the inextricable connection between body and mind. So, for example, Katherine Hayles characterizes the "post-human" in terms of a specific epistemological agenda: "reflexive epistemology replaces objectivismembodiment replaces a body seen as a support system for the mind; and a dynamic partnership between humans and intelligent machines replaces the liberal humanist subjects manifest destiny to dominate and control nature" (Hayles, 1999, 288). Hayles thus shifts from an objectivist epistemology (resting on a dualistic separation between subject-object, and thus between subjective vs. objective modes of knowledge, coupled with the insistence that only "objective" modes of knowledge are of value), to an epistemology which (echoing Kant) stresses the inextricable interaction between subject and object in shaping our knowledge of the world. In the same way, Hayles further focuses precisely on the meanings of embodiment in what many now see as a post-Cartesian understanding of mind-and-body in cyberspace. Hayles, K. (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Along these directions I would also recommend: Hillis (1999) critiques Virtual Reality as resting on postmodern/Cartesian dualisms, one resulting precisely in the sort of schizophrenia that Kaltenborn discusses (see especially Hillis, ch. 6, "Identity, Embodiment, and Place VR as Postmodern Technology). Hillis, Ken. (1999). Digital Sensations: Space, Identity and Embodiment in Virtual Reality. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press. Kaltenborn, Olaf. (2001). Der groe Karneval: Im Cyberspace ist das ganze Jahr Fasching [The Great Carnival: the Whole Year is Mardi Gras in Cyberspace]. Journal Phnomenologie 15: <http://www.journal-phaenomenologie.ac.at/texte/jph15sp3.html>. Alison Adam has written on embodiment vs. the mind/body split as embedded in technology, including an essay online: <http://www.vifu.de/os/alisonadams.html> I'm especially fond of: Becker, Barbara. (2000). Cyborg, Agents and Transhumanists. Leonardo 33, (5): 361-365. ______. (2001). Sinn und Sinnlichkeit: Anmerkungen zur Eigendynamik und Fremdheit des eigenen Leibes [Sense and Sensibility: Remarks on the Distinctive Dynamics and Strangeness of Ones Own Body]. In Mentalitt und Medialitt , edited by L. Jger. Munich: Fink Verlag. As well: Bolter, Jay David. (2001). Identity. In Unspun, edited by T. Swiss, pp. 17-29. New York: New York University Press. Available online: <http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/unspun/samplechap.html>. Brown, J.S. & P. Duguid. (2000). The Social Life of Information. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Dertouzos, M. (2001). The unfinished revolution: Human-centered computers and what they can do for us. New York: HarperCollins. Finally, the work of philosophers of technology Don Ihde - most especially, so far as I can tell second-hand, his _Bodies in Technology_ - and Hubert Dreyfus, _On the Internet_ - include attention to embodiment as ways of grounding their critiques of some of the more extravagant claims made for electronic culture in the 1990s. I hope this is useful. In turn, I would ask HUMANISTS who may have some bibliographic suggestions to share to send them my way, if they also care to share. So, dear Willard: feel like you just invented a field? Cheers, Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: 10E14 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:26:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 743 (743) Willard, I have been fond of pointing to Judith Schlanger's call in _Invention intellectuelle_ to the recognize the importance and productive nature of the activity of popularization. It is that discursive retransmission through various combinations and permutations of concepts, ideas and expressions that eventually sets the ground for the incremental emergence of novelty. It was with great pleasure that I read recently an article that both popularized information theory and gave some excellent examples of the kind of combinatory art that the massification of bits implies. Jean-Claude Chirollet in "Art et theorie de l'information dans l'oeuvre d'Abraham MOLES (1920-1992)" published in the Octover 2001 issue of _Archee_ gives a wonderful synposis of the literary machine that is Raymond Queneau's _Cent Mille Milliards de Poemes_ . Taking up a 1962 manifesto by Moles, Chirollet suggests that, in a mannerist turn, art has now become intrigued by the nature of possibility and that criticism should follow suit. The aesthetic object is a field of permanent permutations. The ludic is privileged. Information theory as presented by Chriollet appears to have been centred on messages and has assumed stable receivers. Entropy affects messages: "tout message, y compre le message artistique, possede une tendence naturelle a evoluer, par usure et degradation de l'information qu'il enferme, ver la banalite d'un bruit informe." Since I had chosen to print out this text, and suspecting that Chirollet's example of Queneau assumed a reader that had already mastered the machine's instructions (i.e. one that did not need to learn how to produce the subsitutions or even the natural language of the text), I quickly turned over the page and sketched out a quadrant with the vertical axis representing the reciever and the horizontal, the aesthetic object, and applied the devolution towards entropy to both: - - - + + - + + (-, -) both receiver and object are stable (entropy poor) (-, +) the object degrades and the receiver stays stable (+, -) the receiver's organization falters or is not yet mature (-, -) maximum information for both object and receiver I then wondered if a general systems approach where the user is considered as part of the machine could not produce a quadrant where aesthetic response could be modelled in a program/data relation. What resulted was a typology for the various ways one can interact with a computing machine or rather how one could describe how a user shifts from one type of interaction to another: (-,-) neither program nor data change (-, +) same program, different data (+, -) change program, same data (+, +) change program, change data Authoring in multimedia, where one does change programs and data often, would be an example of a situation of potentially great fluidity in the consciousness of the reciever and in the shape of the aesthetic object. Text encoding of a corpus could fall under the head of "same program, different data". "Same data, different program" could be exemplified by comparative stylistics. Interactions where neither the program nor the data change are games. There are different ways to map such a typology to the activities of computing humanists. This particular mapping raises a question where the concerns of Tito Orlandi and Andrew Mctavish might intersect: games as a route to formalism? The URL to Archee is http://archee.qc.ca -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/teams.htm the networks teem with teams From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA Press Release Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:18:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 744 (744) ************************************************************************** Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, January, 21st 2002 ************************************************************************** New Activity Launched at ELRA, European Language Resources Association and ELDA, Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency *** ELRA & ELDA to devote more resources to the evaluation of Human Language Technologies (HLT). *** If at the very beginning the main activity of ELRA & ELDA in the framework of the evaluation task was to supply the language resources appropriate for testing and evaluation, both are now getting involved in the evaluation process itself, the evaluation of products, systems, and applications developed for HLT. The evaluation has become a major activity in the field of HLT. This activity is highly critical, as its main objectives are to check the quality of the developed applications and systems, and ensure that these are ready for the market. To evaluate a specific techno- logy means measuring the progress achieved, comparing different approaches to a given problem, and choosing the best solution, assuming that its advantages and disadvantages have been analy- sed. The evaluation also involves the assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of system usability and user satisfaction. ELDA actively participates in evaluation projects, at French (e.g. Amaryllis), European (e.g. CLEF, Cross-Language Evaluation Forum), and world (e.g. Aurora) levels. The main objective of the Amaryllis project is to evaluate information retrieval systems with French text documents (corpora and questions and answers), and to provide a common methodology for the evaluation of such search tools. The corpora designed for these purposes are avai- lable in the ELDA catalogue, at http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html The main task of the CLEF project consists of providing an infrastructure for the evaluation of information retrieval systems that operate on Euro- pean languages, in multilingual, monolingual, and cross-language contexts. Test-suites of reusable data will also be developed for benchmarking purposes. In the framework of CLEF, ELDA is in charge of conducting the user needs survey, identifying the data and negotiating their distribution rights with the owners, and participating in the production of an exit plan that will set some evaluation procedures and recommendations regarding the evaluation of multilingual and cross-lingual systems. As for the Aurora project, it aims at establishing a worldwide standard for the feature extraction software in a DSR (Distributed Speech Recognition) system (evaluation of algorithms for front-end feature extraction in back- ground noise on one hand; on the other hand, the evaluation and comparison of the performance of speech recognition algorithms' robustness. The databases which have been created in the framework of Aurora are distributed by ELDA. Indeed, several resources developed in the framework of these evaluation projects are already available in our catalogue, which may be consulted at the following address: http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html In the near future, as we are getting more and more involved in the evaluation activity, ELRA & ELDA will add in its catalogue further resources and tools related to evaluation, and a new team, whose task will include the organi- sation of evaluation campaigns and every other aspects of the evaluation activity, will join the agency. Contact: Khalid Choukri Email: choukri@elda.fr ELRA & ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris (France) Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 *** About ELRA & ELDA *** The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT). The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA's operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, evaluates and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of HLT. ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications and has participated in many French, European and international projects, such as Prisme, Amaryllis, C-Oral-Rom, Network-DC, ISLE, Speecon, SpeechDat-Car, LRsP&P, etc. To find out more about ELRA and ELDA, please visit our web site: http://www.elda.fr ************************************************************************************* From: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" Subject: Re: 15.460 rationale of e-text Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:20:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 745 (745) Wendell Piez wrote: [deleted quotation] serial [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] I couldn't agree more. For a few years now I have been working on a project designed to create a Multi-Access Dictionary, one which will lay open for the learner/user _all_ the normally hidden or implicit information in a machine-readable dictionary. Current EFL electronic dictionaries are still rather restricted in terms of search types which they allow: whole-text, part-of-speech filtering, slang/colloquial flags, one or two more access methods. This is a tiny proportion of what is (easily) technically possible and pedagogically/lexicographically desirable. For a short presentation of my MAD project consult: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow/mad.htm WS ======================= prof. Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak School of English Adam Mickiewicz University al. Niepodleglosci 4 61-874 Poznan tel. (48-61) 8293506 fax. (48-61) 8523103 e-mail: sobkow@grand.ath.cx e-mail: sobkow@amu.edu.pl e-mail: swlodek@ifa.amu.edu.pl office web page: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/sobkowiak.html personal web page: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow ========================================== From: Magali Duclaux Subject: New Position at ELDA Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:19:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 746 (746) ELDA is pleased to announce that a new position is available in Paris. You will find below a description in English and in French. ********************************************************** English Version: Evaluation project manager (junior or senior) position at ELDA, Paris, France In the framework of its evaluation activities, ELDA is currently looking for an evaluation project manager (junior or senior). Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the CEO, the project manager will be involved in the evaluation of Human Language Technologies at ELDA. He or she will be in particular in charge of the evaluation of information retrieval systems. This yields excellent opportunities for highly creative, and motivated candidates who wish to participate actively in building the European Union HLT field. Profile: - Advanced degree in computer science, computational linguistics, library and information science, knowledge management or similar fields; - Good knowledge of the evaluation programs in Europe and the US; - Good knowledge of the various evaluation protocols (e.g. TREC, MUC, HUB); - Experience in project management; - Ability to work independently and in a team; - Proficiency in both French and English languages. The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human Language Technologies. The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA's operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, evaluates and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of HLT. To find out more about ELRA and ELDA, please visit our web site: http://www.elda.fr The position is based in Paris and is open now. The candidate should have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country. Salary: commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should E-mail, Fax, or post a cover letter addressing the points listed above, together with a Curriculum Vitae, to: Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA / ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33 ; Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail : choukri@elda.fr Version franaise : Poste pourvoir: charg dtudes en valuation ELDA, Paris, France Dans le cadre de ses activits en valuation de systmes en ingnierie linguistique, ELDA offre un poste de charg dtudes en valuation. Missions : Sous la supervision du directeur gnral, le charg dtudes en valuation aura la responsabilit de la gestion de projets relatifs lvaluation de systmes en ingnierie linguistique, notamment lvaluation de systmes de recherche et dextraction de linformation. Profil : - Formation de niveau Bac+5 en ingnierie linguistique, sciences de l'information, ou en gestion lectronique de documents; - Bonne connaissance des programmes et des protocoles dvaluation en Europe et aux Etats Unis (ex. TREC, MUC); - Exprience en gestion de projets (capacit organisationnelle, bonne mthodologie); - Capacit travailler seul et en quipe; - Bilingue anglais/franais. Cre en 1995, lAgence pour lEvaluation et la Distribution de Ressources Linguistiques (ELDA) est lorganisme oprationnel dELRA (Association Europenne de Ressources Linguistiques) et a pour mission la collecte, la commercialisation, la distribution et lvaluation de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que la diffusion de renseignements dordre gnral lis au domaine de lingnierie linguistique. Pour en savoir plus sur ELDA, visitez http://www.elda.fr Ce poste est pourvoir immdiatement et est bas Paris. Le candidat doit appartenir un des pays membre de lUnion europenne ou y tre rsident. Rmunration selon qualifications et expriences. Les candidatures doivent tre adresses : Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA / ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33 ; Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30 Ml : choukri@elda.fr From: "B. 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[material deleted] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Radio and the language pundits Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:21:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 750 (750) Willard, Some subscribers to Humanist may already enjoy tuning in to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program As It Happens. If so they may concur that the shows related to the following URL http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/asithappens/apostrophe/index.html were entertaining and educational. The CBC aired a series of letters between the members of the American Apostrophe Association, and the lawyer for the Albertsons grocery store chain. Unfortunately the site only reproduces scans of the correspondance and not the recordings of their being read aloud on air. Nevertheless, silent reading does allow one to savour some of the rhetorical finesse that remind one why Viriginia Woolf was so fond of the letters of Walpole. Enjoy. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/teams.htm From: Charles Ess Subject: minds and bodies Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:50:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 751 (751) [The following exchange between Charles Ess and me I thought should be circulated to members of Humanist, and happily Charles agrees. More on this subject would be most welcome. --WM] [deleted quotation] .... [deleted quotation] I'm not sure I'd say that the mind/problem is central to _everything_ we do - or if it is, it would be so in an equivocal way. That is: what is wonderful about the Bardini text on Engelbart is that it makes clear that the devices and general interface that you and I and most computer users take for granted - i.e., the mouse, the GUI, even the keyboard - emerge from Engelbart's commitment to a kind of symbiosis and co-evolution between human and machine. Specifically: his interest in the kinesthetic aspects of human knowing - that began, in some measure, with his work as a radar technician in WWII - represented a _non-Cartesian_ epistemology, i.e., the "mind-and-body" notion that Barbara Becker so nicely labels with the German neologism "BodySubject" (_LeibSubjekt_). This approach was clearly and consciously in conflict with the then prevailing approach, especially in AI, that basically took off from the Cartesian view - i.e., a mind as divorced from body. Hence all the attention to mind as a mechanism that could be - ostensibly, though now we are considerably more modest on this point - reproduced in a computational machine whose interface with the larger world ran from nonexistent (no sensory inputs) to user-hostile: minimal read-outs and user inputs. The thought was apparently that once an AI was so constituted, it would take off down its own, putatively superior evolutionary road, leaving us puny humans deservedly in the dust. FWIW: while I enjoy tinkering with operating systems such as DOS, UNIX, Linux, etc., that bypass the less demanding GUI-based elements to let the user "speak" somewhat more directly to the machine - Engelbart's more democratic notion of making computing machines accessible to the many is admittedly closer to my own sense of the better possible uses of these devices. That is: somewhat as Pirsig wrote convincingly in his famous _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, _contra_ the romantics who believe we are more genuine and more genuinely in touch with "nature" when we strip away our technologies - at least up to a point, it seems to me that these technologies indeed help us expand (sometimes dramatically) our sense of connection with a larger world. At least insofar as they are designed along "Engelbartian" lines - i.e., precisely so as to minimize the sense of "interface" between user and machine by devoting as much computational resources as possible to help the machine "fit" the natural/cultural human ways of knowing and acting in the world as embodied beings and kinesthetic knowers. The more "user-friendly" the interface, the more of us will be able to enjoy and take advantage of this symbiotic evolution. In this latter direction, then, rather than assume a mind-body split/problem - we seem to assume the identity of human beings as "mind-and-body" - one capable of closely interacting with at least well-designed machines, and in ways that might mutually enhance the development of each. (Addendum: this raises an interesting counterpoint to Albert Borgmann's important analysis of "focal activities" in his 1984 volume on _Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life_. Such focal activities (gardening, cooking and eating together, etc.) are offered as something of an antidote to the ways in which technological devices offer increasing convenience - but at the cost of greater internal complexity that quickly defeats the ability of users to understand, much less manipulate or repair the device, thus making us ever more dependent on technologies and their supporting infrastructures. What Pirsig suggests - and Borgmann later exemplifies with his discussion of the Altair 8800 computer as device so basic that the user's required understanding of binary, logic switches, and programming allowed for an experience he characterizes in terms of coherence, intimacy, transparency, and comprehensibility [_Holding on to Reality_, 165) - is that we can also experience something of the sense of skill mastery and engagement with others and our environment _through_ technologies, not always _against_ technologies. Similarly, our engagement as "minds-and-bodies" with well-designed machines in what Engelbart characterizes as symbiotic co-evolution would perhaps stand as an example of a "technologically-mediated" focal activity?) In light of this, I guess I would say that the mind-body problem perhaps lurks behinds all we do with the delightful little beasties - but as we pursue this second direction, it seems to presume that there _is_ no (significant) mind-body problem: rather, we seek to address both mind-and-body by taking up considerable amounts of computing resources to help the machine interface with an embodied knower - ultimately, through all of our senses. (Hence the excitement with multi-media?) Thanks for providing me the occasion to tap out something I've mulling over but haven't really worked up yet. Your thoughts and comments would be most welcome! [deleted quotation] which the [deleted quotation] copious [deleted quotation] From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.467 minds and bodies Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:32:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 752 (752) Willard, Thanks for sending Charles's enormously stimulating post. Just on one point: At 03:52 AM 1/23/02, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Of course, this fitting goes both ways; it is not just the machine that is fitted to us, but we who become fitted to the machine. Every user of a Palm Pilot who has learned their "Graffiti" letter-shapes knows about this, as do the rest of us if we haven't forgotten ... Palm cracked the handheld market open when it realized that it was far easier for them to ask human users to reprogram her- or himself to write according to a set of specified constraints, than it was to engineer even tolerably robust handwriting-recognition software on a small platform -- and that the relation of benefits to costs, even given this cost (which admittedly is hidden to most technophiles), was such that users would go for this. Accordingly, every new user of a Palm Pilot goes through a period where they are, in effect, helping to configure the user interface by learning to write Graffiti. But we have all done this. I can touch-type without thinking, as I'm sure can most readers of this post. Hopefully, I *am* thinking -- but hopefully not about the typing. In taking command of any technology, any craft or skill, we have to go through a period of looking *at* the technology, until it becomes familiar enough that we can forget, internalize, start looking through it. This process is, I submit, part of any learning. The problem of user interface design is not, therefore, an either/or problem -- is the machine fit to the user, yes or no -- except at the extremes. Between, there's a wide fuzzy grey band, wherein one can find, in fact, most user interfaces, which only work sort of. The work of coming to mastery is not done when we become aware of the working of the machine and the uses to which it is put, but only when we so take that working for granted that we forget it, just as we know how to walk or speak without thinking about it. A good technology is one that you can learn and then quickly forget you have learned it. (Let's hope, while that happens, that you do so out of choice, wary of whatever new dependencies it introduces.) A bad one is one you have to keep learning. Yes, then the machine becomes transparent; and we can, yes, if we are not taken with whatever distortions and delusions it may then flash like banner ads on the screens of our awareness, look through it to see the world in a new way. This suggests that "body" is the part we know well enough to have forgotten it, "mind" is the part that we don't yet know, but are struggling with -- "consciousness" is only related to knowing in a complex way: it is not knowing but rather what happens when (as) we stand face to face with our not-yet-knowing. Mind-and-body, exactly. 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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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: U.S. POET LAUREATE LAUNCHES PROJECT TO ENCOURAGE POETRY Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:18:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 755 (755) IN HIGH SCHOOLS The following might serve to provoke discussion, once again, of how poets and others use the online medium for publishing poetry. Even moderately well-known poets, I understand, have trouble getting their stuff into circulation otherwise -- opportunities are not thick on the ground, slim volumes are notoriously expensive and the distribution of poetry magazines quite limited. Serving poetry online goes back several years, as I hope my colleague John Lavagnino will tell us. Also notable in this regard is Poems on the Underground, now celebrating its 15th anniversary <http://www.poetrysoc.com/education/under.htm> -- thus almost exactly contemporary with Humanist. There's something more -- allow me to take a run at it with a question. Is there not a discontinuous, interruptive quality of momentariness that poems, especially the brief, non-narrative kind, share with the electronic medium? But not only this medium, of course. The genius of Poems on the Underground is at least in part its use of "stolen" moments. Yours, WM [deleted quotation] From: Charles Ess Subject: minds and bodies Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:50:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 756 (756) [The following exchange between Charles Ess and me I thought should be circulated to members of Humanist, and happily Charles agrees. More on this subject would be most welcome. --WM] [deleted quotation] discussion [deleted quotation] you [deleted quotation] in [deleted quotation] prevaling [deleted quotation] conducting [deleted quotation] their [deleted quotation] .... [deleted quotation] I'm not sure I'd say that the mind/problem is central to _everything_ we do - or if it is, it would be so in an equivocal way. That is: what is wonderful about the Bardini text on Engelbart is that it makes clear that the devices and general interface that you and I and most computer users take for granted - i.e., the mouse, the GUI, even the keyboard - emerge from Engelbart's commitment to a kind of symbiosis and co-evolution between human and machine. Specifically: his interest in the kinesthetic aspects of human knowing - that began, in some measure, with his work as a radar technician in WWII - represented a _non-Cartesian_ epistemology, i.e., the "mind-and-body" notion that Barbara Becker so nicely labels with the German neologism "BodySubject" (_LeibSubjekt_). This approach was clearly and consciously in conflict with the then prevailing approach, especially in AI, that basically took off from the Cartesian view - i.e., a mind as divorced from body. Hence all the attention to mind as a mechanism that could be - ostensibly, though now we are considerably more modest on this point - reproduced in a computational machine whose interface with the larger world ran from nonexistent (no sensory inputs) to user-hostile: minimal read-outs and user inputs. The thought was apparently that once an AI was so constituted, it would take off down its own, putatively superior evolutionary road, leaving us puny humans deservedly in the dust. FWIW: while I enjoy tinkering with operating systems such as DOS, UNIX, Linux, etc., that bypass the less demanding GUI-based elements to let the user "speak" somewhat more directly to the machine - Engelbart's more democratic notion of making computing machines accessible to the many is admittedly closer to my own sense of the better possible uses of these devices. That is: somewhat as Pirsig wrote convincingly in his famous _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, _contra_ the romantics who believe we are more genuine and more genuinely in touch with "nature" when we strip away our technologies - at least up to a point, it seems to me that these technologies indeed help us expand (sometimes dramatically) our sense of connection with a larger world. At least insofar as they are designed along "Engelbartian" lines - i.e., precisely so as to minimize the sense of "interface" between user and machine by devoting as much computational resources as possible to help the machine "fit" the natural/cultural human ways of knowing and acting in the world as embodied beings and kinesthetic knowers. The more "user-friendly" the interface, the more of us will be able to enjoy and take advantage of this symbiotic evolution. In this latter direction, then, rather than assume a mind-body split/problem - we seem to assume the identity of human beings as "mind-and-body" - one capable of closely interacting with at least well-designed machines, and in ways that might mutually enhance the development of each. (Addendum: this raises an interesting counterpoint to Albert Borgmann's important analysis of "focal activities" in his 1984 volume on _Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life_. Such focal activities (gardening, cooking and eating together, etc.) are offered as something of an antidote to the ways in which technological devices offer increasing convenience - but at the cost of greater internal complexity that quickly defeats the ability of users to understand, much less manipulate or repair the device, thus making us ever more dependent on technologies and their supporting infrastructures. What Pirsig suggests - and Borgmann later exemplifies with his discussion of the Altair 8800 computer as device so basic that the user's required understanding of binary, logic switches, and programming allowed for an experience he characterizes in terms of coherence, intimacy, transparency, and comprehensibility [_Holding on to Reality_, 165) - is that we can also experience something of the sense of skill mastery and engagement with others and our environment _through_ technologies, not always _against_ technologies. Similarly, our engagement as "minds-and-bodies" with well-designed machines in what Engelbart characterizes as symbiotic co-evolution would perhaps stand as an example of a "technologically-mediated" focal activity?) In light of this, I guess I would say that the mind-body problem perhaps lurks behinds all we do with the delightful little beasties - but as we pursue this second direction, it seems to presume that there _is_ no (significant) mind-body problem: rather, we seek to address both mind-and-body by taking up considerable amounts of computing resources to help the machine interface with an embodied knower - ultimately, through all of our senses. (Hence the excitement with multi-media?) Thanks for providing me the occasion to tap out something I've mulling over but haven't really worked up yet. Your thoughts and comments would be most welcome! [deleted quotation] which the [deleted quotation] I [deleted quotation] copious [deleted quotation] a [deleted quotation] your [deleted quotation] is [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: artificial minds and bodies Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:18:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 757 (757) The latest issue of the Times Literary Supplement (25 January, no. 5156), contains an interesting review of Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets (Harvard), on the artificial bodies of human simulacra, including robots, androids and cyborgs. If anyone here has read this book, I for one would appreciate comments on it. The reviewer, Edward Sidelsky argues that, "Idolatry -- and indeed all forms of spiritualism -- mistakes spirit for a kind of thing, an object that can be grasped and manipulated. The spirit is seen as something existing alongside the body, as a 'subtle' or 'astral' body. This leads to the superstition that it can somehow be separated from the body, or transferred without loss to another body (an idol, mannikin, robot or computer).... The ban on idolatry in Judaism, Christianity and Islam springs from a fundamental religious insight: the spirit is not static and thing-like, and so cannot be housed in any thing." He goes on to comment that the apparent revival of religious interest in recent sci-fi films -- where artificial bodies, thanks to computer technology, become instruments of redemption -- is really a revival of idolatrous paganism. 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Con amicizia Raul Mordenti From: catac@dijkstra.murdoch.edu.au Subject: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:01:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 760 (760) Conference CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02) 12-15 July 2002 University of Montral, Quebec, Canada http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ Conference theme: The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology The powers of the Nets can be construed in many ways - political, economic, and social. Power can also be construed in terms of Foucault's "positive power" and Bourdieu's notion of "cultural capital" - decentered forms of power that encourage "voluntary" submission, such as English as a _lingua franca_ on the Net. Similarly, Hofstede's category of "power distance" points to the role of status in encouraging technology diffusion, as low-status persons seek to emulate high-status persons. Through these diverse forms of power, the language(s) and media of the Net may reshape the cultural assumptions of its globally-distributed users - thus raising the dangers of "computer-mediated colonisation" ("Disneyfication" - a la Cees Hamelink). 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 (ICT). "Cultural attitudes" here includes cultural values and communicative preferences that may be embedded in both the content and form of ICT - thus threatening to make ICT less the agent of a promised democratic global village and more an agent of cultural homogenisation and imperialism. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/). For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98, see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. The second conference in the series was held in Perth in 2000 (http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/). Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Papers should articulate the connections between specific cultural values as well as current and/or possible future communicative practices involving information and communication technologies. We seek papers which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems. Topics of particular interested include but are not limited to: - Impact of information and communication technologies on local and indigenous languages and cultures. - Politics of the electronic global village in democratising or preserving hierarchy. - Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialised and industrialising countries. - Role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate communicative behaviours. - Ethical issues related to information and communication technologies, and the impact on culture and communication behaviours. - Issues of social justice raised by the dual problems of "the digital divide" and "computer-mediated colonisation," including theoretical and practical ways of overcoming these problems. SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. There will be the opportunity for selected papers to appear in special issues of journals and a book. Papers in previous conferences have appeared in special issues of a number of journals (Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, AI and Society Journal, Javnost- The Public, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and New Media and Society) and a book, "Culture, Technology, Communication: towards an Intercultural Global Village", edited by Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks, SUNY Press, New York, 2001. Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac@it.murdoch.edu.au as an attachment (Word, HTML, PDF). Guidelines for submission, including templates, are on the web site. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Important Dates Full papers: 15 March 2002 Short papers: 29 March 2002 Notification of acceptance: 5 April 2002 Final formatted papers: 26 April 2002 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Susan Herring (Associate Professor of Information Science, Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University): "The language of the Internet: English dominance or heteroglossia" COMMITTEE CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, ejcrec@lib.drury.edu Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac@it.murdoch.edu.au CONFERENCE VICE-CHAIR Lorna Heaton, University of Montreal, Canada, lheaton@videotron.ca PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Open University, UK Tom Addison, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Phil Agre, University of California San Diego, USA Poline Bala, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Steve Benson, Edith Cowan University, Australia Gunilla Bradley, Mid Sweden University/Ume University, Sweden Hans-Jrgen Bucher, Universitt Trier, Germany Michael Dahan, Israel Dineh Davis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Gretchen Ferris Schl, College of William and Mary, USA John Gammack, Murdoch University, Australia Satinder Gill, Centre for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Finland and Stanford University, USA Sara Gwynn, University of the West of England, UK Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech, USA Lawrie Hunter, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago, USA Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University, USA Leslie Regan Shade, University of Ottawa, Canada Gill Sellar, Edith Cowan University, Australia David Silver, University of Washington, USA Malin Sveningsson, Linkping University, Sweden Peter Sy, University of the Philippines, Philippines Wal Taylor, University of Central Queensland, Australia Richard Thomas, University of Western Australia, Australia Leslie Tkach, University of Tsukuba, Japan Arun-Kumar Tripathi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Alexander Voiskounsky, Moscow University, Russia Andrew Turk, Murdoch University, Australia Yvonne Waern, Linkping University, Sweden Ann Willis, Edith Cowan University, Australia From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP--Preliminary CFP Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:02:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 761 (761) 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002) Preliminary Call for Papers SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2002. The conference will be held at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA on July 6-7, immediately preceding the anniversary 40th meeting of the ACL (ACL 2002). 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 - general NLP-related machine learning techniques:=20 theory, methods and algorithms (incl. text mining, smoothing, etc.) As a follow-up to last year's focus on analyzing the current "Successes and Challenges" in the corpus-based methods, we encourage submissions=20 on the theme=20 "The Next Big Thing in Data-driven NLP" We solicit papers that describe attempts to substantially and radically deviate from current practice of simple adaptations of existing and usually well-studied methods. All directions of a venture to a territory previously unknown (or once abandoned for one reason or another) to NLP are welcome, such as but not limited to - using Really Large Corpora (cf. last year's Brill's talk); - using previously neglected methods, including those from non-NLP=20 fields, such as biology, nuclear physics, or finance, with promising=20 results and/or reasonable potential for the future; - employing known methods in a radically different way or on problems they were not tried upon previously, with truly significant improvement; - combining intuition-based and data-based methods (finally!) with=20 substantially improved results on known problems. We stress though that such papers, however radical their content might be, stick to the usual practice of documenting the results using standard experimental and evaluation practice. That does not exclude that authors provide extended final section in their submissions, discussing perhaps even slightly speculatively what the future might look like. Submissions: Submissions should take the form of full papers (3200 words or less, excluding references) describing original, unpublished work. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information on the title page. More info will be coming soon; see also last year EMNLP's website at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html Important Dates: Submission deadline: April 4, 2002=20 Acceptance notification: May 8, 2002=20 Camera-ready copy due: June 6, 2002=20 Conference: July 6-7, 2002=20 Conference Organizers: - Jan Hajic (chair), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (hajic@ufal.mff.cuni.cz)=20 - Yuji Matsumoto (co-chair), Nara Institute of Science and Technology (matsu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp) Conference URL http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/emnlp02 From: Willard McCarty Subject: tools Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:21:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 762 (762) Jeff McCullers, in Humanist 15.474, speaks about the tactile experience of using tools such as the keyboard and wood-chisels. I began to think my way toward the problem embodied knowledge in computing when some years ago I had to deal with a now somewhat quaint sounding sneer, that the computer was "just a tool". My years spent as a teacher of calligraphy and occasionally paid lettering artist had prepared me well to spot this sneer for the child of ignorance that it is. My calligraphy teacher, Lloyd Reynolds, used a number of figurative expressions in his stubborn attempts to get us to open our minds to what was happening when we used our edged pens. What worked for me was thinking that my nerve-endings were growing through the pen to its edge, which is where the mind of the calligrapher has to be. The eye is of some help for seeing where the writing is headed on the page, but it is no good in instructing the hand what to do, as the eye only sees what's already happened, and then of course it's too late. For the pen as for the wood-chisel: the mind has to be at the cutting edge. One metaphor to hand, as it were, is prosthesis, "That part of surgery which consists in supplying deficiencies, as by artificial limbs or teeth, or by other means... An artificial replacement for a part of the body" (OED). As many here will know, this has become a very popular way of thinking about the computer. It has the advantage of being a metaphor of embodiment -- the prosthetic device is good in proportion to the intimacy of interconnection with the human user. What bothers me about this metaphor, however, is the notion that the prosthesis specifically *replaces* what has been lost -- the arm, the leg. Now one can, of course, argue somewhat in the manner of Plato in the Symposium, that we've lost an original wholeness that the metaphorically prosthetic device is, as it were, supplying an artificial replacement for. I wonder if the edenic story isn't so deep in us culturally that any stronger, better body cannot escape being an approximation of our prelapsarian one. The problem with this line of thinking for us is that it is teleological, anti-experimental. There's nothing essentially new in it. Humanities computing, it seems to me, is kin to the experimental sciences in that we discover or make new knowledge (though perhaps never new wisdom). It is kin to the arts & crafts in that we do this through fine skill with tools. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Mike Wesch Subject: Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:06:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 763 (763) This is to announce the digital publication of Edmund Carpenters Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! http://faculty.virginia.edu/phantom Based on his work as a communications consultant in Papua New Guinea from 1969-1971, Carpenter examines the phantom-like effects of media, arguing that media covertly shape the ways we perceive and experience the world. The book became a minor classic when first published in 1972 and is now considered by many to be among the foundational works in the growing fields of Media Ecology and Visual Anthropology. The full text of Carpenters classic along with supplementary maps and photos is now on-line. This digital publication will grow to be much more than just an electronic version of the book. In the spirit of Carpenters work which always seeks to maximize the potentials of the medium, this site will be a multi-media and multi-sided presentation - videos, pictures, maps, and commentaries will appear right along side the text. We are now seeking submissions commenting on Carpenters work. These commentaries may be about the work in general or more focused on any one of the 80 entries in the book. If interested, please contact: Michael Wesch wesch@virginia.edu Department of Anthropology University of Virginia Suggestions for submissions: Write a short literature review covering the material in the entry. Bring the reader up-to-date on the latest research. Submit your own short anecdote related to the entry or the general subject of the book. Write a review of the book. We are especially seeking comments on the relevance of the book in todays media world. Critique the conclusions of the entry or the book as a whole. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. You may submit in any format. Pictures and videos are also welcome. All submissions will be translated into HTML for publication. Subjects covered in the book include: Media (books, radio, TV), Anthropology of the Senses, Literacy, Education, Advertising, Art, Self, Personhood, Individualism, Modernization Geographical locations covered in the book include: Indonesia: Bau, Sulawesi; Kapit, Borneo; Sarawak, Borneo Papua New Guinea: Port Moresby, Goroka, Chimbu, Amboin, Wewak, Kandangai, Sio, Biami, Nomad, Igibia, Madang, Angoram, Telefomin, Mendengo Canada: Melville Peninsula, Southampton Island, Rocky Brook, Aivilik, Inuit http://faculty.virginia.edu/phantom From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Invitation to subscribe: DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:09:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 764 (764) To meet the developing application of copyright laws in the online environment, The Center for Intellectual Property is proud to announce the new listserv DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/listserv.html DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT is a discussion group that provides a forum for the analysis of topics such as copyright law and policy, technologies, and federal information law and policies that impact higher education, particularly digital distance education. In addition to ongoing discussions of critical and theoretical issues, the list will contain: postings on upcoming conferences calls for papers legislative news announcements and many other matters which should be of interest This listserv aims to be a space for educators, policy makers, librarians, lawyers and all who have a vested interest in digital copyright and other intellectual property matters of importance to the higher education community. The list encourages all levels of discourse, as well as relevant political, historical, cultural and philosophical approaches to the problem of applying copyright to the digital arena. To subscribe to DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT list, send a message to: listproc@listserv.umuc.edu Be sure to leave the subject line blank. For a hypothetical person named Sally Smith, the body of the message would read: subscribe digital-copyright Sally Smith To send a message to the list, the address is: digital-copyright@listserv.umuc.edu We look forward to hearing from you! From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Encoding sounds, images, words Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:03:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 765 (765) Willard, In looking back over some notebook entries, I came across a paragraph I had copied out from Susan Hockey's contribution to _The Literary Text in the Digital Age_. For some reason, I failed to note the date of publication. There must be (at least in the occidental division of the disciplines) something timeless in what I interpret to be a call to bridge the divide between iconoclastic upholders of the primacy of the word and those more devoted to the sound or the image. Allow me to quote Susan Hockey's prose for you to form your own interpretations: So far this essay has concentrated on handling textual data, but the electronic edition is going to contain digital images, sound, video, and so forth. The technology for dealing with these and our understanding of how they might best be used in an electronic environment are far behind our knowledge of handling text. Digital images, sound, and video are of course much more recent, but we can learn a lot from the history of working with texts. The preceding section of her essay gives an indication what we may learn from that history. She has described the TEI tag sets and their applications. I wonder if there exists a preliminary listing of projects or pilot studies at a proof of concept stage which are critical editions of multimedia works or critical editions that incorporate multimedia elements. I ask because I wonder if such a listing is organized along a typology that can be gleaned from Susan's four possible applications of different tag sets: * transcription including nonlinguistic phenomena such as hands, damage, etc. [one can think of the drama tag set applied to the description of the staging of animation and the diegetic dimension of a film] * linking, segmentation, alignment (hypertext and cross-reference) [one can think of the storyboard and the shooting script as "reverse-engineered" in some cases from the finished multimedia product] * analytic and interpretative information [I know that a project at Universite Laval headed by Martine Cardin has devoted a considerable amount of resources to the question of searching and accessing an anthropological archive of audio files through a keyed taxonomy of concepts] * header [Susan is quite eloquent on the encoding of metadata (more of which in a subsequent post)] As I present this here, the direction is from the encoding of a given multimedia work into a markup language. We may also work in the other direction. Just how is a research team able to figure in their production of an electronic edition the representations of a verbal artefact which may take on multimedia form through such applications as voice synthesis. Or how can a statistical view of a verbal artefacts elements be graphed and feedback into questions of what is being counted and over what segmentation of the artefact. In other words, how is the stage being set so that the interaction between text encoding traditionally centred on verbal artefacts and multimedia authoring (traditionally outside the ken of markup) will include some understanding of markup as the recording of sets of performances, some greater understanding of the status of semiotic objects be they verbal, graphic, or auditory? It sometimes hurts one's head to think of objects as abstractable to a field of events, wrapped in a temporality that is not only that of their genesis but also of their use. But to think this way becomes easier if there are words, images and sequences of sounds that embody such fields of events in objects. In the times before the advent of digital technologies, how is it that literary criticism, art history and musicology bespoke each other, heard each other, imagined each other? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: tools Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:21:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 766 (766) Jeff McCullers, in Humanist 15.474, speaks about the tactile experience of using tools such as the keyboard and wood-chisels. I began to think my way toward the problem embodied knowledge in computing when some years ago I had to deal with a now somewhat quaint sounding sneer, that the computer was "just a tool". My years spent as a teacher of calligraphy and occasionally paid lettering artist had prepared me well to spot this sneer for the child of ignorance that it is. My calligraphy teacher, Lloyd Reynolds, used a number of figurative expressions in his stubborn attempts to get us to open our minds to what was happening when we used our edged pens. What worked for me was thinking that my nerve-endings were growing through the pen to its edge, which is where the mind of the calligrapher has to be. The eye is of some help for seeing where the writing is headed on the page, but it is no good in instructing the hand what to do, as the eye only sees what's already happened, and then of course it's too late. For the pen as for the wood-chisel: the mind has to be at the cutting edge. One metaphor to hand, as it were, is prosthesis, "That part of surgery which consists in supplying deficiencies, as by artificial limbs or teeth, or by other means... An artificial replacement for a part of the body" (OED). As many here will know, this has become a very popular way of thinking about the computer. It has the advantage of being a metaphor of embodiment -- the prosthetic device is good in proportion to the intimacy of interconnection with the human user. What bothers me about this metaphor, however, is the notion that the prosthesis specifically *replaces* what has been lost -- the arm, the leg. Now one can, of course, argue somewhat in the manner of Plato in the Symposium, that we've lost an original wholeness that the metaphorically prosthetic device is, as it were, supplying an artificial replacement for. I wonder if the edenic story isn't so deep in us culturally that any stronger, better body cannot escape being an approximation of our prelapsarian one. The problem with this line of thinking for us is that it is teleological, anti-experimental. There's nothing essentially new in it. Humanities computing, it seems to me, is kin to the experimental sciences in that we discover or make new knowledge (though perhaps never new wisdom). It is kin to the arts & crafts in that we do this through fine skill with tools. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 15.477 tools Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:16:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 767 (767) Willard, Is it possible to make an argument for humanities computing without ad hominem comments about our peers (in the sense of other academics, not necessarily computing humanists)? Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Fine. I happen to agree with you but does this advance the cause of humanities computing? Sniping at people who think a computer is "just a tool" does not seem to me to be an effective means of changing those opinions. In some cases, a computer is just a tool. Preparing concordances is one example where I would consider a computer "just a tool." In other cases, such as SOMs (self-organizing maps) which can lead to "discovery" of patterns otherwise lost in the noise of data, along with the theoretical work to properly apply it is not. Or consider the ongoing research I am doing with Matthew Brook O'Donnell on concurrent markup. We use the computer as "just a tool" for parts of the processing but the underlying theory, querying and display are topics that require more than simple tool use. [deleted quotation] Why do I need a metaphor to describe humanities computing? Why isn't our work like that of Cain in Genesis 4:7 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? " If we do good work as computing humanists, will we not be recognized? And if we don't do good work, doesn't the converse also hold? Despite how we view ourselves or what snide remarks we may make about others? If humanities computing has something important to offer (and I think it does) to the humanities in general, that proof should be in our results, not in endless self-analysis of computing humanists versus the unwashed and ignorant world. Comforting rhetoric, but ultimately an unproductive enterprise. PS: I won't be online again until tomorrow (traveling) but I look forward to reading any responses. Patrick Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: Special Workshop on Music IR Evaluation Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:12:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 768 (768) Dear colleagues: INTRODUCTION The participants of the informal session on MIR Testbed/Evaluation Issues at ISMIR 2001 [http://ismir2001.indiana.edu] decided to explore the possiblity of holding a special "meeting" devoted to the creation of standardized MIR test collections, retrieval tasks, and evaluation metrics under the rubric of the 2002 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries [http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl] (JCDL '02 14-18 July, 2002 in Portland, Oregon, USA). Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), who is JCDL '02 Program Chair, suggested that our special "MIR Evaluation" meeting would be best served if structured as a "Workshop" of some substantial length (say, a day or half-day). Other options included a "Panel" or a "Tutorial." The "Workshop" structure seems the best way to proceed. PRELIMINARY PLAN We hope to engage the participation of all interested in Music IR research and evaluation. We plan on asking all interested parties to submit formal "white-papers" outlining their individual perspectives on what needs to be done to create *meaningful* MIR test collections, retrieval tasks, and evaluation metrics. We would like to hear from musicologists, music theorists, audio-retrieval experts, symbolic-retrieval experts, librarians, lawyers, industry and business representatives; in short, from all the key groups in MIR research. The compilation of the these perspectives and the discussion that follows at the Workshop will form the bed-rock upon which a solid foundation of future research can be built. EXPRESSION OF INTEREST As the first step toward making the "Workshop on MIR Testbed/Evaluation Issues" a reality (title subject to change, of course), we need to come up with a list of potential participants for submission with our workshop proposal. The proposal has a deadline of 11 February, 2002. We have created a "sign up" form to gather the names of potential participants. The form can be found at: http://music-ir.org/mirbib2/eval_workshop Signing the form does not obligate your attendance but does gives us a framework for planning. In the "comments" section of the form, we would appreciate *brief* note outlining the perspective(s) that you would bring to the discussion (e.g., audio-retrieval, HCI, music theory, business, etc.) The original Resolution of Need from which this workshop proposal sprang can be found at: http://music-ir.org/mirbib2/resolution Cheers, J. Stephen Downie -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 351-5037 From: "J. Trant" Subject: Grindstone Seminar: Making Playful Interfaces for Serious Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:13:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 769 (769) Content Archives & Museum Informatics announces the first event in the 8 week Grindstone Island 2002 Summer Seminar Series. For full details of our summer program see http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/learn.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Making Playful Interfaces for Serious Content: June 8-14, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------- with Slavko Milekic, M.D., PhD, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science & Digital Design, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA -Summary- In this five-day workshop we will play with the design and building of non-traditional interface solutions, ranging from voice and gesture interaction to controlling the application with your mind! Using the current research findings from the areas of cognitive science, interface design and social psychology you will learn how to prototype and evaluate alternative interaction mechanisms with your content. Special emphasis will be made on alternative interactions with Web-based content. No previous programming experience required. A creative and open mind is a prerequisite. The goal of this workshop is two-fold: a) to expose you to the current research findings in the area of cognitive science, interface design and social psychology relevant for the design of interactive media, and b) to demonstrate a series of non-traditional interface solutions, ranging from voice and gesture interaction to controlling the application with your mind; The workshop will be conducted in eight three-hour sessions, roughly half of which will be devoted to hands-on demonstrations. Previous scripting/programming experience is not a necessary prerequisite for this workshop. By the end of the workshop you will be acquainted with the wide spectrum of alternative interaction possibilities and will be able to design and evaluate non-traditional interfaces for various applications. Special emphasis will be made on designing interaction with Web-based content. The topics that will be covered in individual sessions are listed below. Although theoretical and hands-on sessions will be presented in alternating fashion, they are listed sequentially for clarity. [material deleted] From: "James Gifford" Subject: CFP - Grad Students Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:15:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 770 (770) My apologies for any cross-posting. ----------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - GRADUATE STUDENTS || Humanities Computing in Teaching & Research || || Professional Skills Conferencing and Publishing || http://www.cas.ucf.edu/durrell/omg12.htm A pre-registration series of panels, directed to graduate students and the university community, will open the conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society on June 20th, 2002. The conference will take place in Canada's capital city, at the University of Ottawa. These pre-registration panels are intended to recognize and include the unique interests, experiences and contributions of the graduate student community. Also, because these panels are pre-registration, participation is open to the community and is not restricted to conference participants. We solicit papers for two pre-conference panels. Papers from graduate students or new scholars (5 years after completion of doctorate) will be considered. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length, or 10 to 12 double-spaced typed pages. Please note any Audio-Visual equipment requirements in your proposal. (1) Humanities Computing in Teaching and Research: Papers are invited on the subjects of new developments in Humanities computing, the computer as an educational tool, the electronic text and research computing. Archiving, concordances, online developments and electronic publishing are all topics of interest. This general panel will precede more specific computing panels related to the conference topic, which are planned to take place during the conference proper. (2) Professional Skills Conferencing and Publishing: Experiential or traditional papers are welcome for this panel. Rather than a professionalization 'how-to' scenario, this panel is intended to discuss and give voice to the unique position, experiences, problems and contributions of the new or young scholar. Papers may address any aspect of the professional or developmental aspects of being a graduate student or new scholar, as well as conference participation, teaching, pedagogy, publishing and the development of professional skills. Papers from new or young scholars are particularly welcome for this panel. Since panels on computing, teaching and research in regard to Durrell's works are planned for the conference proper, papers for this call need not address the conference's authorial theme directly. Papers should be more general in both focus and intended audience. [material deleted] For more information about the conference in general, please see: http://www.cas.ucf.edu/durrell/omg12.htm From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Save The Date: World Intellectual Property Day Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:17:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 771 (771) Conference: Beyond DMCA NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 29, 2002 U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Announce: "Beyond the DMCA: A Copyright Conference" April 25-26, 2001: Washington, D.C [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Digital Preservation Resources Listed on PADI Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:18:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 772 (772) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 30, 2002 New Resources Added to National Library of Australia's PADI website Preserving Access to Digital Information http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ [deleted quotation] Dear PADIFORUM-L Subscribers, Welcome to 2002! Following is a selection of some of the resources and events recently added to the PADI website ( http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ ). We are always looking for new resources and welcome your contributions. If you know of other resources you consider relevant to PADI, please inform us by sending us an email at padi@nla.gov.au. Alternatively, you might consider registering as a PADI indexer to enable you to add the resource to the database yourself ( http://www.nla.gov.au/padiupdate/ ). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under the new topic LEGAL DEPOSIT: "Legal Deposit : Preserving Canada's Published Heritage" <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/6/25/s25-200-e.html> "Legal Deposit In Denmark : The New Law and Electronic Products" <http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/articles/dupont11.htm> "Legal Deposit from the Internet in Denmark : Experiences with the Law from 1997 and the Need for Adjustments" (in Word format) <http://www.deflink.dk/docalle/696_bnh-19062001-uk.doc> "Arrangement for depositing electronic publications at the Deposit of Netherlands Publications in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek" (in PDF format) <http://www.kb.nl/kb/dnp/overeenkomst-nuv-kb-en.pdf> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under the topic ARCHIVING: "Preserving Scholarly E-Journals" provides an overview of questions raised by the Mellon Foundation / CLIR initiative for the long-term preservation of scholarly electronic journals <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/flecker/09flecker.html> "Implementing a Reliable Digital Object Archive" describes the implementation of a prototype digital repository, the Stanford Archival Vault. <http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2000-28> "The CEDARS Project Report: April 1998 - March 2001" <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/OurPublications/cedarsrepmar01exec.html> "AOLA : Austrian On-Line Archive" <http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/> "Archiving the Web: The PANDORA Archive at the National Library of Australia" <http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2001/cathro3.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under the topic DIGITAL PRESERVATION STRATEGIES: "Long Term Preservation Study" describes joint study undertaken by th Koninklijke Bibliotheek of The Netherlands and IBM. <http://www.kb.nl/kb/ict/dea/ltp/ltp-en.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under the topic PRESERVATION METADATA: "Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: Part I: A Recommendation for Content Information" (in PDF format) <http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/contentinformation.pdf> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS: "Persistent Identification Systems : Report on a Consultancy Conducted by Diana Dack for the National Library of Australia" . <http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/persistence/PIcontents.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some selected POLICIES, STRATEGIES or GUIDELINES: "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources" (Draft, in PDF format) <http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf> "Resolution on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage - adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO at the 31st session" (in PDF format) <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001239/123975e.pdf> "A Digital Preservation Policy for the National Library of Australia" <http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/digpres.html> "Setting up a Deposit System for Electronic Publications, the NEDLIB Guidelines" (in PDF format) <http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/results/NEDLIBguidelines.pdf> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected upcoming EVENTS: "New Developments in Standards for Digital Preservation". National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C., USA. January 31, 2002. <http://www.cimi.org/ci/ci_0102_forum_reg.html> "The Second International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries (NDDL 2002), (in conjuction with the Fourth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2002)". Ciudad Real, Spain. April 2-3, 2002. <http://www.iceis.org/workshops/nddl/nddl-cfp.htm> "DLM-Forum 2002 : Access and preservation of electronic information : best practices and solutions". (in PDF format) Palacia de Congresos de Cataluna, Barcelona, Spain. May 7-8, 2002 <http://europa.eu.int/historical_archives/dlm_forum/doc/forum2002announcementrev2.pdf> "Multimedia Archive Preservation - A Practical Workshop". London, UK. May 22-24, 2002. <http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/calendar.html#presto> "Digital Library - IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium, 2002" Beijing, China. July 9-11, 2002. <http://www.nlc.gov.cn/dloc/index_en.htm> "ECDL 2002: 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries" Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy. September 16-18, 2002 <http://www.ecdl2002.org/> "La Perennisation et la Valorisation des Donnees Scientifiques et Techniques / Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data" Centre National d'Etudes Spatial (CNES), Toulouse, France. November 5-7, 2002 <http://www.mediatec-dif.com/pvdst/pvdstfr.htm> (in French) <http://www.mediatec-dif.com/pvdst/pvdstgb.html> (in English) -- ============================================================== 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: disciplinarity and the future of the academy Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:18:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 773 (773) Anyone interested in how humanities computing fits into the academy, or for other reasons in the disciplines and their interrelations, will likely want to read ACLS Occasional Paper 49, Louis Menand's "The Marketplace of Ideas", published online at <http://www.acls.org/op49.htm>. As those Humanists who have been here awhile have likely heard me say before, the ACLS series consistently publishes among the most intellectually stimulating and rewarding essays I know of. A mainstay is the Charles Homer Haskins lecture, "A Life of Learning", given each year by a senior American scholar. The 2001 lecture is by Helen Vendler <http://www.acls.org/op50.htm> -- a wonderful piece that I recommend to you, though it has nothing to do with computing. Let me quote from the Introduction to Menand's paper (found only in the printed version): "In this provocative paper, Louis Menand seeks to address what are the 'philosophical roots' of the humanities disciplines and how--or if--those disciplines now connect to those historic roots. The complex interplay of disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and what Menand calls 'postdisciplinarity' is certainly one of the most striking features of humanistic scholarship today.... Departments and schools must accommodate dramatic intellectual change, but those changes increasingly are incubated in centers, programs, and diverse sites that do not easily fit disciplinary models. Professor Menand sees in these trends the promise of an intellectually and socially healthy future, but he also notes the many snares on the road to realisation of that hope." 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CAA: "Do Artists have Rights?'; Final Call: Electronic Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:57:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 774 (774) Theses and Dissertations NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community January 30, 2002 The College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property presents "Beyond Copyright: Do Artists Have Rights?" A panel discussion on the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) At the 90th Annual Conference of the College Art Association Thurs, February 21, 2002, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m: Philadelphia http://www.studiolo.org/CIP/VARA/CIP-VARA.htm * * * * The Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations May 30-June 1, 2002: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah http://etd2002.byu.edu DEADLINE FOR PAPERS & PROPOSALS: February 15 * * * * [deleted quotation] ========================================================================== [deleted quotation] The Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations May 30, 31, and June 1, 2002 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Theme: "Pioneering on the Electronic Frontier: e-theses and Intellectual Solidarity" Final Call for Papers/Presentations Presentations may include panel discussions, exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, etc., in addition to formal papers. 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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: Stefan Sinclair Subject: TAPoR (Text-Analysis Portal for Research) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:56:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 775 (775) Dear Colleagues, Many of us involved with Humanities Computing in Canada are celebrating today as we received news that the "Text Analysis Portal for Research" (TAPoR) project has received substantial funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) <http://www.innovation.ca/>. The total budget for the project is $6,784,740 (a portion of which comes from CFI). This is obviously a significant vote of confidence for our activities in Humanities Computing. Geoffrey Rockwell headed the application team with much help from colleagues across Canada. The following is a brief description adapted from the application: TAPoR will build a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across Canada by establishing six regional centers to form one national text analysis research portal. This portal will be a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. The local centers will include text research laboratories with best-of-breed software and full-text servers that are coordinated into a vertical portal for the study of electronic texts. Each center will be integrated into its local research culture and, thus, some variation will exist from center to center. The institutions (regional centres) involved are the University of Victoria, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, McMaster University, Universit de Montral, and the University of New Brunswick. 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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: "Al Magary" Subject: Re: 15.481 tools Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:47:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 777 (777) I found it convenient that Patrick Durusau littered his reply to the list moderator's musings with for I read each tag as a header for a snippy comment rather than a marker for an excision from the original post. The Moderator, for example, reached for a metaphor for computer-as-tool: "One metaphor to hand, as it were, is prosthesis..." To which the Commentator snipped or snapped, "Why do I need a metaphor to describe humanities computing? Why isn't our work like that of Cain in Genesis 4:7 'If you do well, will you not be accepted?'" I snip in response, why do I need biblical guidance any more than a metaphorical guide to further thought? The Moderator was not engraving his metaphor on a tablet and handing it down from on high. I'd guess it was ad hoc whimsy, a little flash in cyberspace. If the Commentator wants to quote Genesis, that can be done without displacing someone else's momentary figure of speech, which gave shape to the next paragraphs. The Commentator's scissor-like sniping appears to have been set in motion by the Moderator's setup for his metaphor: "...some years ago I had to deal with a now somewhat quaint sounding sneer, that the computer was 'just a tool'..." Which the Commentator seems to believe is the Moderator's own ad hominem attack on "our peers (in the sense of other academics, not necessarily computing humanists)." I'm a computing humanist of a sort (historical researcher) but not an academic peer, but just the same can do without the Commentator's supersensitivity to unintended insult in an anecdote about computing that probably dates back to 1985 or so. His ad hominem reaction was not just gratuitous but jarring in this thoughtful forum. Snappishly, Al Magary (lurker) From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Re: 15.481 tools Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:48:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 778 (778) My vote for mascot would be the snipe! Hard to find, of course, but that also might be appropriate! MD Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mdharris mdharris@acm.org mdharris@cs.utexas.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: argument, tools, metaphors -- and a mascot Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:54:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 779 (779) How my remarks in Humanist 15.477 about the 'quaint sounding sneer, that the computer was "just a tool"' could have been interpreted as ad hominem escapes me. As I understand the rhetorical term, an "ad hominem" remark or argument is directed, as a literal translation would suggest, at an individual. (Like a spear thrown, it may not reach him or her, but the intention is definitely to injure the person.) In other words, the attack is personal. We all agree, I hope, always to go after the sins we perceive rather than the sinners. But I would think that an important part of getting the development of our field right is to argue over particular ideas as they arise, change and resurface -- which will sometimes mean attacking ones we think are dead wrong. The conversation's the thing, isn't it? -- the moving, changing dialogue in which we are always challenging what we think we know, asking how we know it, even exaggerating something so that others are provoked to look at it. Indeed, this means knowingly taking the risk of being wrong so that the conversation may proceed. In a sense the main function of my editorial persona is to take such risks so that certain ideas and opinions may be tested, but this should not be especially notable in an intellectual environment where everyone understands that being right is not the point, rather getting it right. Which is and always will be sometime in the future. Patrick Durusau raises another important point by arguing that we'll be known by our ability to do good work -- by which I think he means get good scholarly results -- despite our view of ourselves or others. One function of Humanist is certainly to exchange news, information and techniques toward better results (which are never obtained on Humanist itself), but since the beginning another has been to reflect on the activity of humanities computing and what we think about it -- to make ourselves smarter about our professional/intellectual selves. With respect to this second function, we're observers and commenters on what is said and done in the application of computing to the humanities; we stand in relation to good (and bad) scholarly results obtained with the computer as the philosopher to the products of humankind as a whole. I'm not claiming we do our job especially well -- too few of us are granted the time for such self-reflective thinking -- but over time, the necessary critical thinking happens, in dribbs and drabbs, communally, in exchanges such as this one. All I'm saying here is, perhaps, that we should recognise what in fact is taking place. I think the point to be made about tools is that they mediate the knowledge we make or have through them. I'd argue then that the terms "tool" and "medium" are two tightly interrelated if not inseparable aspects of what we do when we're using computers in our work. (I recently came up with the formulation that the tool is an effecting medium, a medium is an affecting tool.) As Wendell Piez suggested some days ago, when we internalise tool-use the mediation becomes very difficult to see, but we need to remain aware of it -- esp those of us whose professional lives are chiefly in humanities computing. I suppose that, for example, if I search the web for "amoxicillin AND food" because I need information my pharmicist did not think to supply, I am using my computer consciously only to answer an urgent question, utterly unconcerned or even aware of such mediation. But it is another thing entirely to say that the machine thus instantiated is having no effect on when and how I ask questions. We are students of this mediation. There are, I suppose, two points about metaphors. One is that the metaphor of prosthesis, for example, is in the literature quite a popular way of talking about computers. This metaphor leads the mind in certain directions and brings with it a certain amount of intellectual baggage. Is it not important that we look at the metaphor for its adequacy, question whether these assumptions are ones we want to make? The second point is that metaphorical or more generally figurative language is language fully realised -- i.e. powerful, unavoidable, and yes, potentially misleading. If the computer is worth our attention, then the struggle to develop adequate imaginative language for it is imperative, I would think. Comments? Yours, WM PS We have in fact had a mascot since 1989. It may be discovered, and the history of it subsequently unearthed, by starting at the Humanist homepage. Thoroughness and persistence are rewarded. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- January 2002 Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:56:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 780 (780) CIT INFOBITS January 2002 No. 43 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 and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... 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To subscribe to ShelfLife, send message to David Green =========== [material deleted] From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Robert_Bat=F9=B9ek?= Subject: TSD 2002 - First Announcement and Call for Papers Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:05:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 782 (782) ********************************************************* TSD 2002 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002 The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. [material deleted] All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Dana Komarkova TSD 2002 Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanick 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic telephone: +420 5 41 512 359 fax: +420 5 41 212 568 e-mail: tsd2002@fi.muni.cz The official TSD 2002 homepage is: <http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/>http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Call for Papers: SCI 2002 (fwd) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:07:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 783 (783) Professor Nagib Callaos has asked me to pass this along: [deleted quotation] [material deleted] Details can be found at the Conference web page: http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/. Answers to specific questions can also be requested by e-mail. From: Ana Maria Subject: CFP Elpub2002 - LAST REMINDER Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:06:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 784 (784) CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 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, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. [material deleted] From: icsmif@serg.ing.unisannio.it Subject: Icsm 2002 Call for Papers: deadlines changed Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:08:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 785 (785) Dear Colleague I would like to remind you the that IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2002, and associated workshops: SCAM, WSE, and WESS will be held next October 2002 in Montreal, Canada. Outstanding Keynotes such as Jon Pincus, Microsoft, Industrial and experience papers, reseach papers, tutorials, tool expositions, dissertation forum, workshops, panels, and other exciting activities have been planned. We hope that this "Call For Papers" will be useful for your work. Please forward the following to anybody who you think may be interested. Our apologies if you received multiple copy of this. Please notice that the conference deadlines changed: Research Papers deadline: March 18, 2002 mailto:icsm2002.full@unisannio.it Fast Track Papers deadline: May 1, 2002 mailto:icsm2002.short@unisannio.it Dissertation Forum deadline: May 1, 2002 mailto:icsm2002.thesis@unisannio.it Industrial Applications deadline: May 1, 2002 mailto:icsm2002.industry@unisannio.it Tutorials deadline: March 18, 2002 mailto:icsm2002.tutorial@unisannio.it [material deleted] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 15.485 tools Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:11:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 786 (786) Willard, Let me see if I can illustrate the "ad hominem" nature of your prior post and offer what I think is an alternative. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 787 (787) [deleted quotation] In the post that prompted my response you said: [deleted quotation] Forgive me if I think people are overly sensitive but I would interpret that remark as a comment on the knowledge (or lack thereof) of the person making the remark challeged. I don't disagree that such ideas should be challenged, but consider the following imaginary exchange: Humanist: "I don't see any value in either using or learning markup languages. It does not have any application to biblical criticism." C-Humanist: "Well, ignoring the past 20 years of development in markup languages and software I can see how you would feel that way." versus: C-Humanist: "What sort of things do you do with texts in biblical criticism? (Proceeds to demonstrate collation of manuscript witnesses, making explicit implied ideas about text structure and flow of dialogue, comparison of varying analysis of a text, etc.) It seems to me that the latter reply, while not as emotionally satisfying as the first, stands a better chance of making a convert or at least being a principled reply to the voiced objection. It may well be the case that I was the one being overly sensitive but I have grown weary of the sound of heavy stones being rolled to the cries of "Why do you compute?" and "Why do you not compute?" For my part I would rather focus on what you characterize as "good scholarly results" and let those results speak for our efforts. There may well be deans, chairs and other in our various environments who cling to opinions that have no relationship to the reality of modern scholarship. But the dispelling of those opinions requires successes such as J.J. O'Donnell's online Augustine course (I checked, that was in 1994!) and similar efforts. We may never change some of those opinions and at best can hope to neutralize them with demonstrated successes in the missions of our respective institutions. [deleted quotation] I do not mean to imply that such critical thinking should not occur, but consider how many Humanist subscribers has offered courses like Augustine since 1994. We would have more grist for the critical thinking mill if there were more activities of that sort. [deleted quotation] And knowledge without tools is unmediated? I think computers (and markup languages in particular) help us explore the mediation (and assumptions) already in place when we approach humanities topics. Mediation by the use of computers is a worthy topic to explore but I am not sure it can be pursued in the abstract. Perhaps so, or at least I am willing to listen to examples of such explorations. [deleted quotation] I acknowlege the power of metaphors but do not think that we can ever consciously direct our language practices to a given end. We exist within languages practices and cannot step outside them. At Willard's urging we may become aware of the gaps, rough spots or places that don't seem to fit just right, but even that is quite a feat. Patrick [deleted quotation] -- Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: "McCullers, Jeff" Subject: RE: 15.485 tools (Just For Fun) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:12:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 788 (788) Dear Willard, You noted that "we have in fact had a mascot since 1989. It may be discovered, and the history of it subsequently unearthed, by starting at the Humanist homepage. Thoroughness and persistence are rewarded." Is this the sort of thing you and Rahtz had in mind or have I once again gone too far? It turns out that Photoshop is also a fine tool. <> If I haven't been clear about it yet, I must tell you that Humanist is an extraordinary accomplishment. I'm quite honored to have made your aquaintance. So when does someone teach me the secret handshake? Kind regards, Jeff _________________________________________ J. F. "JEFF" MCCULLERS Program Administrator Department of Grants and Program Development School District of Lee County 2055 Central Avenue Fort Myers, Florida USA 33901-3988 Telephone 941.337.8242 Suncom 759.8242 Facsimile 941.337.8594 Department Website: <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/ Grant Notices: <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/notices.htm>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/notices.htm Educational Research Updates: <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/research.htm>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/research.htm News for Educational Leaders: <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/news.htm>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/news.htm From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: mascots Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:12:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 789 (789) Mary Dee, Your suggesting for the water-edge-spirit totem of snipe (I do believe that snipes are shore birds) fits in nicely with Willard's allusion to "quack.html". Willared writes in his post-scriptum: [deleted quotation]The URL to the Humanist home page is http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/ where one would find (using a text-only browser) the following bit of of what appears to be non-conformant markup:
Humanist Discussion Group
[Aside: interesting in that water birds, snipes or mallards are boundary travellers that the markup here displaces the "center" tag off-center after a declaration regarding the border attribute (just over interpreting as usual)] If one continues and retrieves a copy of the quack.html file ... one finds a USEMAP with the following annotation: Sebastian Rahtz (May 1987 -- 30 March 1989) fecit with a link to a plea http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v02/0179.html which suggests that in some universe of discourse "mallards" are connected to "Martians" and the "Oxford Concordance Program" and some suggestion as to all this connectedness is found in the fourteenth item linked by way of the quack.html usemap: a bit of natural history ripe for the drawing of moral tales worthy of a Pliny. The the terminal date (30 March 1989) in the date range following the name of the faber (Sebastian Rahtz) is marked up to serve as a link to http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v02/0312.html where our illustrous moderator describes Humanist as "this arena of useful exchanges, vigorous discussion, and intellectual combat cum lovemaking" I guess that in love and war a little magic is a useful thing. Mascot from the French "mascotte" from the Provencal "mascot" diminutive of "masco" a sorcerer, literally, a mask Now then the question: computer (person and tool) as mask? There is a technical meaning of mask in computing. It is a term found in the proximity of domains and proxies. Here I retreat and entreat subscribers to while a pleasant moment away in the contemplation of mallards and masks and long-legged snipes. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Angela Mattiacci Subject: Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:10:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 790 (790) OTTAWA, January 31, 2002 The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI), a pan-Canadian research project, will benefit from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's latest round of funding. Industry minister Allan Rock released a list of 280 Canadian projects that will receive CFI grants yesterday. To receive funding, applicants had to demonstrate the excellence and innovative nature of their projects and how they will benefit Canada. "Our recent success in the Innovation competitions coupled with our 100 per cent success rate in the New Opportunities program clearly establishes the University of Ottawa as one of Canada's leading research-intensive universities," noted rector Gilles Patry. The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure will receive $5.2M. With the matching funds from each province and thanks to the contributions of our partners, a total of $13.4M will be invested in this project. The project leader of the CCRI is Chad Gaffield, Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies and Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. Headquarters for the CCRI will be located at the University of Ottawa with partners in the following universities: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Universit Laval, Universit de Qubec Trois-Rivires, York University, University of Toronto, and University of Victoria. Canada Century Research Infrastructure One of the largest social science projects ever funded by CFI, the Canada Century Research Infrastructure will create a series of databases from census records covering a century of Canadian life. The databases will allow researchers to examine social structures and how they have changed in detail that until now was simply not available. The CCRI will spark bold and creative new approaches to the study of Canada in universities across the country and around the world. For more information, please contact the Institute of Canadian Studies at canada@uottawa.ca or phone (613) 562-5111 From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:10:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 791 (791) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ We are pleased to announce some new resources available in our catalogue of language resources: S0119 Spanish SpeechDat Database for the Mobile Telephone Network W0032 Modern French Corpus including Anaphors Tagging W0033 CRATER 2 A short description of these three new resources is given below. Please visit the online catalogue to get further details: http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html S0119 Spanish SpeechDat Database for the Mobile Telephone Network *********************************************************************************** The Spanish SpeechDat database for the mobile telephone network comprises 1066 Spanish speakers (526 males, 540 females) calling from GSM telephones and recorded over the fixed PSTN using and ISDN-BRI interface. The database was produced by Applied Technologies in Language and Speech S.L. (Spain). The MDB-1000 database is partitioned into 6 CDs in ISO 9660 format. This database follows the specifications given in the framework of the SpeechDat(II) project. Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. Each speaker uttered the following items: 2 isolated digits. 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits. 4 connected digits: 1 sheet number (6 digits), 1 telephone number (9-11 digits), 1 credit card number (14-16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits). 3 dates: 1 spontaneous date (e.g. birthday), 1 prompted date (word style), 1 relative and general date expression. 1 word spotting phrase using an application word (embedded). 6 application words. 3 spelled words: 1 spontaneous name (own forename), 1 city name, 1 real / artificial word for coverage. 1 currency money amount. 1 natural number. 6 directory assistance names: 1 surname (set of 500), 1 city of birth / growing up, 1 most frequent cities (set of 500), 1 most frequent company / agency (set of 500), 1 forename surname (set of 150), 1 spontaneous forename. 2 questions including fuzzy yes / no: 1 predominantly Yes question, 1 predominantly No question. 9 phonetically rich sentences. 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase (word style). 4 phonetically rich words. Call environment. The following age distribution has been obtained: 5 speaker are below 16 years old, 543 speakers are between 16 and 30, 307 speakers are between 31 and 45, 202 speakers are between 46 and 60, 9 speakers are over 60. A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included. W0032 Modern French Corpus including Anaphors Tagging ******************************************************************** The corpus that includes the tagging of the anaphors was created by the CRISTAL-GRESEC (Stendhal-Grenoble 3 University, France) team and XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) in the framework of the call launched by the DGLF-LF (national institution for the French language and the languages spoken in France), for the creation of modern French corpora). Over 1 million words have been annotated. The corpora have been selected so that they represent a wide sampling of the French language (scientific and human science articles, extracts from newspapers and magazines, legal texts, etc.) and according to the points of interest of the teams working on the project. The processed corpora supplied by ELRA are listed below: - Two books edited by the CNRS: La protection des oeuvres scientifiques en droit d'auteur franais, Xavier Strubel. Paris, CNRS Editions, 1997 (77 591 words) and Cinquante ans de traction la SNCF. Enjeux politiques, conomiques et rponses techniques, Clive Lamming. Paris, CNRS Editions, 1997 (124 990 words). - 204 articles extracted from CNRS Info, a magazine which contains short popular scientific articles from the CNRS laboratories (201 280 words). - 14 articles dealing with Herms Human Sciences (111 886 words). - 136 articles extracted from "Le Monde", dealing with economics (roughly 180 760 words). - 13 booklets of the Official Journal of the European Communities (roughly 337 000 words). Below the tagged anaphoric elements: - Person pronouns: 3rd person pronoun, anaphoric. - Possessive determiners: 3rd person possessive determiner. - Demonstrative pronouns: anaphoric pronouns (celui, celle, ceux, celles-ci, celles-l) - Indefinite pronouns: Aucun(e), chacun(e), certain(e)s, l'un(e), les un(e)s, tout(es), etc, when they are anaphoric. - "Proverbs": "le" + "faire". - Anaphoric and cataphoric adverbs: Dessus, dedans, dessous , when they have an anaphoric function. - Ellipsis of head nouns: Nominal adjectives or quantifiers determiners ellipsis. - Textual headers like "ce dernier": Ce dernier, le premier , etc. The annotation scheme was defined in XML format. The texts were divided into sections, paragraphs (

) and sentences (). The sentence segmentation was carried out with NLP tools developed by XRCE, the annotation part was done manually by two qualified linguists. A large subset of anaphoric phrases was automatically pre-annotated. The antecedents and the tagging of the anaphoric relations were manually processed, but editing tools (emacs, macros from Author/Editor software) were used to make it easier. 5% of the corpora were evaluated to check the annotation reliability. W0033 CRATER 2 ********************** The CRATER corpus was built upon the foundations of an earlier project, ET10/63, which was funded in the final phase of the Eurotra programme. The Corpus Resources and Terminology Extraction project (MLAP-93 20) extended the bilingual annotated English-French International Telecommunications Union corpus produced within ET10/63 to include Spanish. The CRATER 2 corpus was produced by the Department of Linguistics & Modern English Language, Lancaster University (United Kingdom) with funding from ELRA. The ELRA funding in turn was provided by the European Commission project LRsP&P (Language Resources Production & Packaging - LE4-8335). This project has enhanced the CRATER corpus, available under the reference ELRA-W0003 in the ELRA catalogue. CRATER 2 has significantly expanded the French/English component of the parallel corpus by increasing the size of the English/French corpus from 1,000,000 words per language to approximately 1,500,000 tokens per language. CRATER 2 is sold with CRATER in a single package. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 E-mail mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr ===================================== From: "J. Trant" Subject: Grindstone Seminar: Connecting with K-12 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:42:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 792 (792) Archives & Museum Informatics announces the second event in the 8 week Grindstone Island 2002 Summer Seminar Series. For full details of our summer program see http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/learn.html ------------------------------------------------------- Connecting with the K-12 Teaching and Learning Community June 15-21, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------- with Scott Sayre, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Kris Wetterlund, Educational Consultant, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Overview --------- This workshop will help museum educators define their institution's current connections to K-12 teachers and students, and use those connections to develop a strategy for on-line museum resources that serve the needs of their own institutions and the K-12 teaching audience. Through individual and group process participants will work with a number of activities and case studies from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. At the conclusion of the workshop participants will have developed a draft of formal education plans for on-line tools and resources which can be applied in their own museums. [material deleted] __________ Grindstone Island Summer Seminars grindstone@archimuse.com offered by Archives & Museum Informatics phone: +1 412 422 8530 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D fax: +1 412 422 8594 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone In-depth learning opportunities for cultural informatics professionals. __________ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: WORKSHOP: New Approaches to Teaching with Digital Content Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:43:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 793 (793) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 5, 2002 Teaching with Digital Content: Collaborations with Cultural Institutions March 1, 2002: 9am-4pm: Chicago Public Library http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc/CPL.htm [deleted quotation] Teaching with Digital Content: Collaborations with Cultural Institutions March 1, 2002, 9:00a.m. - 4:00p.m. Chicago Public Library Teaching with digital primary source documents brings new challenges to teachers, librarians, museum curators and educators. Using digitized primary source materials involves fundamental shifts in the service and teaching methods of curators, librarians, and teachers, regardless of their audiences. New programs need to be developed to integrate digital primary source materials into K-12 curriculum and assignments, as well as into the educational programs of museums and libraries. We invite you to a workshop at the Chicago Public Library on new approaches to teaching with digital content. The workshop, funded through an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, will feature individual presentations from scholars, educators, librarians and museum personnel, as well as a panel question and answer session. Speakers include: * Prof. Brenda Trofanenko - College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; * Patricia L. Miller - Executive Director of the Illinois Heritage Association; * Nuala Bennett - Interim Coordinator, Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative, University of Illinois Library; * Debbie Hohulin - Dr. Howard Elementary School, Champaign; * Paul Hohulin - Centennial High School, Champaign; * Prof. Beth Sandore - Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, University of Illinois; * Prof. Evangeline Pianfetti - College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Prof. Paula Kaufman - University Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Target Audience: museum curators, librarians, school librarians, school media specialists, museum educators, librarians involved in special collections work and digitization projects, K-12 educators. This event is open to the public. Admission is free, but seating is limited so we invite registration by email or phone at the address below. For further information, contact: Nuala A. Bennett, Interim Coordinator Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign E-mail: nabennet@uiuc.edu Tel.: 217-333-9048 Fax.: 217-244-7764 http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc/CPL.htm -- ============================================================== 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: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Human Language Technology Conference (HLT-2002) Call for Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:44:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 794 (794) Attendance FIRST CALL FOR ATTENDANCE HLT 2002, Human Language Technology Conference March 24-27, 2002 Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California http://hlt2002.org Human language technology (HLT) incorporates a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards two closely related goals: to enable computers to interact with humans using natural language capabilities, and to serve as useful adjuncts to humans in language understanding by providing services such as automatic translation, information retrieval and information extraction. The HLT 2002 Conference, following the great success of HLT 2001, is a forum for researchers to present high-quality, very recent, cutting-edge work, to exchange ideas and to explore emerging new research directions. The Conference and Program Chairs have now received over 170 submissions from researchers in computer science, speech science, engineering, etc., who are exploring innovative methods for improving human language technology. HLT 2002 will also include a special focus on Language Processing of Biological Data, which includes both Information Extraction of Biological Data and Language Modeling of Biological Data. This special focus, sponsored by NSF, will comprise back-to-back tutorial sessions at the opening of the conference and a paper session within the larger conference setting. Further information is available at the Conference web site, http://hlt2002.org. The Conference will span four days, running from early Sunday afternoon through noon Wednesday. It will include peer-reviewed research presentations, posters, demonstrations, panel sessions and time for discussion. [material deleted] From: Ronaldo Menezes Subject: FINAL CFP: Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:45:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 795 (795) (Languages, Models, Systems) CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing (Languages, Models, Systems) http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/pdpta02/ a special session of PDPTA'2002 http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/ June 24 - 27, 2002 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 22, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 24-27, 2002: PDPTA'02 International Conference ====================================================================== SCOPE OF THE SESSION: Component-based software is likely to be the most promising approach to making distributed systems and Internet applications fit the requirements of the new information-based work organization. Component-based software encompasses many disciplines and application domains, such as groupware, distributed object-oriented software development, middleware, multimedia, CSCW, and distributed simulation. The focus of this session is on component-based in special coordination issues that arise in these systems. Models, languages, and applications for both architectural and behavioral aspects of systems are of special concern. The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on component-based computing and coordination in the diverse disciplines this field encompasses. The session serves as a forum to enable exchange of experience between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working on different aspects of coordination and component-based computing. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Digital Copyright List; New OAIS List Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:47:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 796 (796) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community New discussion list for Implementers of Open Archival Information (OAIS) Reference Model http://www.rlg.org/longterm/oais.html http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ The University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property announces the DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT Listserv http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/listserv.html Of great importance for all those interested in using this conceptual model of common terms and concepts for developing long term standardized preservation plans for digital resources, the OAIS now has its own implementers listserv. Also listed here is a digital copyright listserv being started out of the University of Maryland. David Green =========== [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Frick's new online catalog web interface: FRESCO Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:47:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 797 (797) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 5, 2002 New Web Interface for FRESCO (Frick Research Catalog Online) <http://fresco.frick.org> [deleted quotation] The Frick Art Reference Library is pleased to announce a new web interface for FRESCO (Frick Research Catalog Online): <http://fresco.frick.org> Bookmark the URL for convenience, or connect through links on the Frick Art Reference Library website: <http://www.frick.org/html/libf.htm> FRESCO, contains over 60,000 records for books, exhibition catalogs, journals, microforms, CD-ROMs, videos, electronic resources, archival materials, and artist files. This number represents all material cataloged, in process, and on order from 1986 to the present. Conversion of records prior to 1986 is currently underway. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: February "First Monday" + "What Cultural Sector Can Learn Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:48:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 798 (798) from Enron." NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 5, 2002 February 2002 issue of First Monday (volume 7, number 2) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/ "What the Cultural Sector Can Learn from Enron" by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/reilly/ Another challenging issue of First Monday is available. Although several of the articles will have interest for this community, I think one of the most valuable is Bernard Reilly's adaptation of a talk he gave at the Digital Library Federation on the need to focus on our work with intangible assets, especially how we manage and preserve digital resources and what we might learn from other sectors. David Green =========== [material deleted] From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:51:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 799 (799) ******************************************************** The ELRA Web site has been completely redesigned, its content has been updated and re-organised. ELRA is pleased to announce the availability of its new Web site at the following address : http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ ******************************************************** It contains information about ELRA (its mission, its organisation, its history, the membership, etc.), as well as general information about language resources (definition, the use of LRs, the applications, etc.). The various services that are offered by the association around language resources are also presented in 7 categories: - Identification of LR - Production of LR - Validation of LR - Catalogue of LR - Distribution of your LR - Evaluation of HLT - Market Studies Special parts are dedicated to the ELRA members (password protected) and to the LREC conference. And a lot more available on http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ ********************************************************* From: Sean Lawrence Subject: Latest issue of Early Modern Literary Studies Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:45:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 800 (800) Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the launch of both its January issue and of a new Special Issue on Constructions of the Early Modern Subject. Both are available at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html and the tables of contents appear below. EMLS 7.3 (January, 2002) "Wise Handling and Faire Governance": Spenser's Female Educators. Sarah Plant, Macquarie University. The Politics of Persuasion: Measure for Measure and Cinthio's Hecatommithi. "as if it had nothing belonged to her": the lives of Catherine Burton (1668-1714) as a Discourse on Method in Early Modern Life-writing. Nicky Hallett, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Influence of Spenser's Faerie Queene on Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Frank Ardolino, University of Hawaii. Hamlet as the Christmas Prince: Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, Revels and Misrule. Steve Roth. There is also the usual complement of reviews and theatre reviews. Constructions of the Early Modern Subject: Introduction. Paul Dyck, Canadian Mennonite University and Mathew Martin, Brock University. Critical Subjects. Douglas Bruster, University of Texas at Austin. Impostors, Monsters, and Spies: What Rogue Literature Can Tell us about Early Modern Subjectivity. Linda Woodbridge, Pennsylvania State University. Public / Private Subjectivity in the Early Modern Period: The Self Colonizing and Colonizing the Self. Jonathan Hart, University of Alberta. Dr Lisa Hopkins Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Teaching and research pages: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm From: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:46:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 801 (801) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 46, Week of February 4, 2002 In this issue: Excerpt -- Shaping Web Usability: Interaction Design in Context Optimizing the user experience should be the ultimate aim of the Web usability designer. By Albert N. Badre http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book/a_badre_1.html [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Position Available: Director, ARTSEDGE, The Kennedy Center Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:49:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 802 (802) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 5, 2002 Director, ARTSEDGE Dept of Education, The Kennedy Center http://www.kennedy-center.org/jobs/ACF3F.doc.html Application Deadline: Feb 15, 2002 Apply Online: https://www.kennedy-center.org/jobs/apply_form.cfm Duties: To administer the development and maintenance of innovative online programming and services for the ARTSEDGE network, the preeminent site for arts education on the Internet. The incumbent will be responsible for the development and implementing plans and strategies for: collaborations and new initiatives; securing programming rights; and financial and other resources for ARTSEDGE. Education/Experience/Skills: The incumbent should possess a graduate level degree (preferably a doctorate or its equivalent) in education, arts education or arts administration and a minimum of 10 years of senior level managerial responsibility in non-profit arts or arts education institutions or organizations. The incumbent should also have a minimum of 5 years teaching experience within the K-12 setting. The incumbent should also have a minimum of 3 years experience in the development and dissemination of arts and/or related cultural program content that includes a working knowledge of technology based information systems and related interactive applications (including Internet based facilities). The incumbent must also have a working knowledge of 1 ) telecommunications and technology-based instructional models, as well as 2) electronic applications and strategies for marketing products and services as well as 3) collaborations between private and public service providers and funders in support of arts and education programs. Salary: $60,000 - 70,000 commensurate with experience Closing Date: February 15, 2002 To Apply: Please send cover letter indicating job title:16/ ARTSEDGE Direct, current resume and at least 3 names and phone numbers of professional references no later than 5:30pm on 2/15/2002 to The Kennedy Center, Human Resources, Washington DC 20566-0001. Fax ?02/416-8630. EOE. -- ============================================================== NINCH-Announce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). 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[deleted quotation] <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/notices.htm>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept /gpd/notices.htm [deleted quotation] <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/research.htm>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dep t/gpd/research.htm [deleted quotation] <http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gpd/news.htm>http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dept/gp d/news.htm [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 806 (806) [deleted quotation] the [deleted quotation] homepage. [deleted quotation] From: John Unsworth Subject: TEI call for participation Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 07:28:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 807 (807) Call for Participation: Migrating TEI Resources to XML The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Division of Preservation and Access to conduct a two-year project to provide XML support in TEI. The first phase of this project has been the production of P4, the XML-compliant revision of the TEI Guidelines that will be published this spring. The second phase will explore the issues involved in migrating large bodies of existing TEI resources from SGML to XML. To do this, the TEI will convene a workgroup in which selected experts and editors (8 people, total) will work closely with representatives from projects with significant TEI SGML holdings (another 10 people) to diagnose and document the problems, methods, and tools necessary to design and effect a migration from SGML to XML, in TEI. The workgroup will be funded (travel and expenses) for a one start-up meeting with editors and experts only; one mid-term meeting with project representatives; one final meeting with editors and experts; participation by a technical writer for four months; participation by TEI editors and the TEI executive director for two months; two one-day meetings for 8 people; and one two-day meeting for 18 people. The TEI Council will appoint the workgroup, and its chair, not later than March 15th, 2002, but it would like to invite members of the SGML, XML, and TEI communities to volunteer as participants in this project. If you wish to volunteer, please contact tei@tei-c.org by Friday, February 28th, and identify yourself as a TEI expert, a data migration expert, or a representative of a project with significant TEI SGML holdings, and provide the Council with a brief account of your qualifications. John Unsworth Chair, TEI Council & TEI Consortium From: gcrane@tufts.edu Subject: RA in Classics at Perseus Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 07:27:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 808 (808) RESEARCH ASSISTANT, PERSEUS PROJECT- Classics Tracking Code M01-551 Job Description Position re-opened 2/4/02. 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. Required Skills 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. Band: Specialist/Management Zone: 1 Job Location Medford, MA Position Type Full-Time/Regular Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity Employer You can view and apply for this job at: <http://www.openhire.com/onlinejobs/jobs/submit.cfm?fuseaction=dspjob&jobid=12850&company_id=15498&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=934761>http://www.openhire.com/onlinejobs/jobs/submit.cfm?fuseaction=dspjob&jobid=12850&company_id=15498&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=934761 From: "Johannes Strobel" Subject: planning a workshop on 'Educational Technology for Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 07:28:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 809 (809) Humanities' Hello everybody, I am planning a workshop on 'Educational Technology for Humanities and Social Sciences'. Now I am collecting information about whom not to forget to invite. I know the field of Educational Technology, but not so much the field 'Humanities and Learning Technologies'. If anybody can provide information about people, currently running projects, or wants to join the organization of this workshop, just write an e-mail. Following is a short description, what I had in mind with the workship in distinction to other topics: Technology and Learning are getting closer. There are a lot of attempts to use the Internet as content-delivery medium and to facilitate communication. This reflects only one facette of learning and technology. In the paradigm-shift to constructivism, learning is seen as an active process of making meaning out of the world. New methods and tools help students to manipulate, simulate and represent their ideas in a complex way. These tools try to foster higher-order thinking and systemic thinking. Most of these mind-technologies are used in the Science Education. The goal of the workshop is to aquaint attendees with the 'state of the art' on 'Learning with Technology in Humanities and Social Science' and bring experts in both areas (humanities/social science and Learning technologies) together. best wishes Johannes Strobel -- Johannes Strobel PhD student Learning Technologies University of Missouri-Columbia, USA jse09@mizzou.edu Phone: 1 573 884 2737 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Digital preservation Workshop: Wasgington, DC: April Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 07:29:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 810 (810) 24-25, 2002 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 8, 2002 Council on Library Information Resources Announces International Workshop on Digital Preservation April 24-25, 2002: Washington, DC http://www.clir.org/registration [deleted quotation]CLIR HOSTS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION APRIL 24-25, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. USA The Council on Library and Information Resources will hold a workshop entitled "The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective" on April 24-25, 2002. The workshop will focus on international developments in digital preservation and identify the emerging challenges. The program agenda follows. There is no charge for the workshop, but attendees are asked to cover their travel and hotel costs. Registration will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The registration deadline is March 15. For your convenience, CLIR is now offering online registration at http://www.clir.org/registration. The workshop is the first in a series of international symposiums that are supported by a grant from Documentation Abstracts, Inc. (DAI). The institutes will address key issues in information science relating to digital libraries, economics of information, or resources for scholarship. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Colloquium on visualisation 8 March 2002 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 07:58:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 811 (811) PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT "Visualisation in the humanities" A Colloquium in the Seminar in Humanities Computing, King's College London, 8 March 2002 Speakers: MICHAEL BARLOW, Linguistics, Rice (Texas, USA), on the visualisation of text for linguistic and literary analysis. See <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/>. RICHARD BEACHAM, Theatre Studies (Warwick, UK), on the application of virtual reality techniques in the visualisation and exploration of ancient theatres. See <http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/richard_beacham.htm>. MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM, English (Maryland, US), on the theory and practice of new media. See <http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/>. PETER ROBINSON, Director, Centre for Technology and the Arts (De Montfort, UK), on visualisation in textual editions. See <http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/HSS/Departments/English/Staff/Peter%20Robinson/> and <http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/research.html>. This one-day colloquium brings together scholars who are creating new kinds of visual representations in disciplines across the humanities. Their work goes well beyond the now commonplace use of digital imaging for literal depictions; their more ambitious objective is explanatory power. By drawing on our abilities to comprehend and analyze visual phenomena, their methods give us new ways to understand our cultural artifacts, including those that are not primarily visual. Some principal themes include the importance of highlighting certain features or phenomena and filtering out others; the ability to deal with amounts of information not otherwise manageable; to create dynamic and interactive visualizations that aid experimentation with our objects of study. Visualization involves a combination of the algorithmic and the intuitive; it requires underlying computation but then results in a product that our minds can engage with closely. Further details, including titles, abstracts and a schedule of the day's events, will be available shortly. A modest fee will be charged for attendance. John Lavagnino Willard McCarty 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Rob Watt Subject: Concordance 3.0 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:04:05 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 812 (812) I am pleased to announce the release of Version 3.0 of Concordance. Concordance gives you better insight into electronic texts. For Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP, Concordance is a text analysis program which makes word lists and concordances from electronic text. First released in 1999, Concordance now has registered users in 41 countries and is the leading software of its kind. 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, lexicography, 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. What's new in Version 3.0 - some highlights: ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Five new ways of selecting words: Phrases Proximity search Samples Regular Expression search References -Make Indexes Book-like indexing -More control over words Treat upper and lower case separately Show duplicate words separately Analyse characters instead of words -New ways of sorting Sort headwords by order of occurrence Sort word endings using a string sort Sort contexts by string before and string after headword -Improved language support Including East Asian languages on Windows 2000/XP -Improved display and control -New file conversion tool: Filter a File -User-definable HTML entity translation -Speed improvements For a fuller description of new features, see http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/version30.htm Concordance - main features and abilities ----------------------------------------------------- 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. A Lemmatiser lets you group together any words you choose. Make concordances straight from any Windows program which can put text on the Clipboard. Make concordances from multiple input files. Stop Lists let you specify words to be omitted from your concordance. 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. Concordance is fully copyrighted. 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: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Re: 15.492 creatures that gyre and gimble Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 07:56:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 813 (813) Over on MEDTEXTL, someone has invented TAN for `tangential matter; keep your finger on the delete button'. This is a TAN. Speaking of the snipe, snipe-hunting and the like, our expression "left holding the bag" comes from the noble custom of taking city lads out in the country, giving them a bag to hold, and telling them that you will chase the snipe down the path, etc., and that they must wait to catch it in the bag. One then goes home to bed. Anyway, one can describe the snipe to the victim in any manner suitable. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Search Engine's Display of Copyright Photos Is Infringement Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:08:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 814 (814) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 11, 2002 Court Rules Search Engine's Display of Copyright Photos Is Infringement (Arriba Soft vs. L.Kelly) http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174326.html http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44953,00.html [deleted quotation] Court Rules Search Engine's Display of Copyright Photos Is Infringement (Arriba Soft vs. L.Kelly) An Internet search engine violated a professional photographer's copyright by displaying full-sized images of his work through "inline linking," a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that small, low-quality thumbnail images were covered by the "fair use" provision of the Copyright Act, but reversed a lower court opinion that found the display of larger high-quality images also was protected. http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44953,00.html --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: david@ninch.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-1279361O@listserver.americaneagle.com From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: OpenURL Standardization Moving Forward Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:09:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 815 (815) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 11, 2002 National Information Standards Organization Reports OpenURL Standardization Moving Forward http://library.caltech.edu/openurl Background Material: "Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework" Herbert Van de Sompel, Oren Beit-Arie, D-Lib Magazine (March 2001) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/vandesompel/03vandesompel.html News here from NISO about progress in establishing the Open URL Standard, which is designed to enable, initially, the transfer of bibliographic material across multiple sources. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Bethesda, Md., USA - (February 11, 2002) NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, reports that Committee AX, the NISO standards committee that is preparing the OpenURL Standard, met on January 24th and 25th at the CNRI headquarters in Reston, Virginia and continues to make significant progress. Eric Van de Velde, the committee chair, summing up progress to date said that existing applications of OpenURL technology only scratch the surface of what else is feasible. Currently, we apply OpenURL technology to bibliographic citations. In the near future, we may apply it to many other types of information: subject headings, legal documents, biological (genome sequences), etc. Currently, we encode OpenURL in an HTTP GET or POST format. In the near future, we may encode OpenURL links in XML. Currently, we think of OpenURL links being provided by specific information providers. In the near future, third parties may provide OpenURL links for any information resource. With these and other opportunities yet to be explored, it is obvious that OpenURL is a technology in its infancy, and we should think of the emerging OpenURL standard as the beginning of a long-term evolutionary process. To insure that progress made so far will continue to have value, the committee adopted the OpenURL draft originally submitted to NISO as Version 0.1 of the standard. This document is available as part of the official record on the committee's web site. For complete details and background information, please refer to the OpenURL web site at http://library.caltech.edu/openurl. About NISO: NISO is the only U.S. group accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop and promote technical standards for use in information delivery services providing voluntary standards for libraries, publishers and related information technology organizations. All NISO standards are developed by consensus under the guidance of experts and practitioners in the field to meet the needs of both the information user and the producer. For information about NISO's current standardization interests and membership possibilities, please visit the NISO website at http://www.niso.org. For additional information contact NISO Headquarters at (301) 654-2512. Email: nisohq@niso.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: VISUALIZATION EVENTS: Seminar (London) Portal Demo (UCLA) Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 816 (816) Location: UCLA Visualization Portal 5628 Math Sciences Addition, UCLA campus Time: 3:30 pm Registration 4:00 pm Demonstration and Q & A 5:00 pm Reception and light refreshments 6:00 pm Optional Dinner-on-your-own (suggested restaurants in Westwood Village will be provided) Cost: ASIS Members $6.00 Non-Members $8.00 Students $3.00 RSVP BY: Friday, February 22, 2002. Please register early - space is limited to 45 attendees. Directions to the UCLA Visualization Portal can be found at: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/portal/location.htm#directions Closest parking structure is Lot 9. A one-day UCLA parking pass is $6.00. Register online at: http://www.lacasis.org ========================================================================= [See Humanist 15, No. 497] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Machines, Archives and the Hidden Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:07:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 817 (817) Willard, Gene Bridwell in _Open Letter_ Fall 1998 describes a gift to Simon Fraser University. It may be of interest to subscribers to Humanist to note that poet bpNicol's Apple IIe computer with manuals and disks has been acquired by Simon Fraser's Special Collections and Rare Books. I am curious about analogous gifts to other institutions. I am also interest on how researchers would exploit reference material found on the disks (floppy or hard drive) of such a resource. How does one cite such sources? As well how do archivists ensure access to the material and secure (against inadvertant erasure and or misplacement of electronic files)? Has there been a panel discussion or a paper published which considers the ethical aspects of retrieving deleted files from the hard drive of such a resources? Curious -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 15.501 a poisoned e-chalice? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:05:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 818 (818) Francois' question raises yet another vexed question for e-archivists to solve! But seriously, folks: digital preservation archivists are working on ways to handle both archaic formats and the complex intellectual property issues that cling to electronic resources; but the short answer is that most archives would not accept custody of the hardware and if they did would not engage to keep it running, so the question of residual bits on hard drives seldom comes up. But certainly those hard drives can be real palimpsests, which digital forensics specializes in analyzing, as is happening as we speak with certain Enron and Arthur Anderson equipment. Pat Galloway Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Texas-Austin From: Jennifer McCarthy [mailto:jem5z@virginia.edu] Subject: UPDATE: New Frontiers in Early American Literature Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:03:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 819 (819) Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:47 PM To: cfp@english.upenn.edu 8/8/02-8/10/02) Please note the extended deadline. New Frontiers in Early American Literature, August 8-10, 2002 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/conference/ The University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announces "New Frontiers in Early American Literature," a conference to be held August 8-10, 2002 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. The "New Frontiers in Early American Literature" Conference will bring together scholars exploring the Early American literary period in all its facets. Presentations on all authors and all genres are welcome. Interdisciplinary approaches are also encouraged. This conference is inspired by our work in creating the "Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction," an expansive on-line collection of American novels and short stories written between 1789 and 1875. The texts chosen for the project are drawn from the UVA Library's world-renowned collection in Early American materials and include works by well-known authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Brockden Brown, as well as lesser-known writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Rufus Dawes. Papers, poster sessions, and panel proposals from all areas of studies in Early American Literature will be considered, though possible topics include Exploring the Frontier, Popular and Domestic Fiction, the Literary Marketplace, Femininity and Masculinity, and Literature and the Civil War. We also welcome papers related to these proposed sessions: -Textual Editing -Creating Digital Archives -Using Digital Resources for Scholarship, Teaching, or Pleasure Reading [material deleted] From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)" Subject: Symposium in Santiago de Cuba, 2003 Date: ________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 820 (820) Signature: ___________ From: "danna c. bell-russel" Subject: Job Openings at the Library of Congress Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:58:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 821 (821) Library of Congress, ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER: 020021 -- Digital Conversion Specialist, Public Service Collections, GS-9 to 12 (Promotion potential). The posting is open 2/12 to 2/27, and is open to all. See http://www.loc.gov/hr/employment/ for more full description and application procedures (apply online or in paper.) NOTE: This is a federal permanent position posting. You must apply with a "federal"-style resume or OF-612. See http://www.opm.gov for details and examples. Please do not write to me for information regarding this position annoucement. Please direct questions to the Library's Human Resources department. The phone number for the Human Resources Division is 202-707-5260. From: "Malcolm Hayward" Subject: Call for Papers: MLA Discussion Group Computer Studies of Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:36:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 822 (822) Language and Lit The MLA's Discussion Group for Computer Studies in Language and Literature has issued its Call for Papers for the December 2002 Conference in New York. The session is titled "Mining Digital Resources: Sites, Tools, Results." We seek papers describing exemplary projects and studies that use computer resources. Of special interest are papers that include evaluations of resources. What works well? Are there new uses for old tools? Are there new tools that should be essential for the "scholar's workstation." Proposals for papers (electronic format only) should be sent by March 1 to Malcolm Hayward, mhayward@iup.edu. According to MLA requirements, "All session participants must be members in good standing by 1 April 2002 to be listed in the Program issue of PMLA." 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: MA in humanities computing Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:29:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 823 (823) MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities King's College London <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ma/> The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, is delighted to announce its new MA programme in humanities computing. The programme is scheduled to begin in the Autumn of this year (2002). International students are welcomed. The Programme is designed for students intending to go on to a PhD in a humanities discipline as well as those engaged in or planning to begin careers in museums, libraries, business and the public services. "At the core of the Programme", our prospectus notes, "is the meeting between the formal rigour of computational methods and the imaginative diversity of cultural expression. The Programme emphasizes in theory and practice the consistency and explicitness that the computer requires while highlighting through case-studies the kinds of knowledge which inevitably escape these rigorous demands. By creating structured models out of the irregular and disparate data of the humanities, the student learns to judge when the application of computing may lead to useful or interesting results and also to learn how the analytical and practical processes can throw new light on the object of study. By combining the divergent perspectives of computing and the humanities, the student encounters in a concrete way the question of how we know what we know. This question is developed throughout as an essential tool for better critical thinking." 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:06:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 824 (824) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 2, Number 47, Week of February 11, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- Computer Science Meets Economics Yale's Joan Feigenbaum talks about the possibilities for interdisciplinary research, the new field of algorithmic mechanism design, and her radical views on security. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_feigenbaum_1.html From: "Olga Francois" Subject: Copyright Management Seminar Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:03:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 825 (825) INVITATION TO ATTEND [Please excuse the duplication of this notice.] The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is hosting a seminar titled: Copyright Management in Higher Education: Access, Control and Use April 4th - 5th 2002. http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ The digital age has greatly increased concerns about ownership, access, and control of copyrighted information. As substantial users and creators of copyrighted information, colleges and universities must develop mechanisms that effectively manage information on the networked campus. Protective technologies are being developed that hold the promise of perfect control and the peril of substantially limited access to information. Comprehensive intellectual property policies are needed to provide clear guidelines for ownership and proper use of information. Moreover, stakeholders in higher education should understand the substantial changes being made in federal information policy that will affect colleges and universities in the twenty-first century. The Keynote speaker will be Laura "Lolly" Gasaway, Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Intellectual Property Scholar, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College. Additional confirmed presenters and panelist include: - Dan L. Burk, Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics; Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; and Associate Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences. - Kim Kelley, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College - Todd Kelley, Associate Provost and Librarian of the College, St. Mary's College of Maryland - Arnold P. Lutzker, Partner, Lutzker & Lutzker LLP - Carol Risher, Senior Vice President-Business Development Savantech, Inc. - Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison - John C. Vaughn, Executive Vice President, Association of American Universities - Fred (Rick) W. Weingarten, Director of the Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association - Dr. Larry Wilt, Director of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Please register early since space is limited. Early registration ends March 21, 2002. For additional information visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ or call 301-985-7777. From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Call for Bids to Host Human Language Technology 2003 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:35:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 826 (826) Call for Bidds to Host Human Language Technology 2003: 3rd Meeting of the NAACL The Human Language Technology -North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Advisory Board hereby invite proposals to host Human Language Technology 2003: 3rd Meeting of the NAACL. The proposal submission process is incremental. First, draft proposals are sought from prospective bidders. Based on the evaluation of the draft proposals, promising bidders will be subsequently asked to provide additional information as needed. Bids must specify a Local Arrangements Chair, who will be responsible for the usual 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 HLT-NAACL Advisory Board and NAACL to develop the budget and registration materials. Bids for Local Arrangements Chair can include suggestions for General Chair, which mustt be someone other than the Local Arrangements Chair but could be at the same institution. However, the HLT-NAACL Advisory Board will be responsible for selecting the General Chair. The General Chair will be responsible for overseeing operations of the conference, including working with the HLT-NAACL Advisory Board and 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 witth the HTL-NAACL Advisory 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 HLT-NAACL Advisory Board will be responsible for selecting the Program Committee Co-Chairs, who will oversee the processes of soliciting, receiving, and reviewingg 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 Wednesday, March 20, 2002. They will be evaluated by the HLT-NAACL Advisory Board during HLT-2002 March 24-27. Promising bidders will be contacted shortly afterwards and will be asked to provide further information due to the Advisory Board on Monday, April 22. The final bid will be chosen by the HLT-NAACL Advisory BBoard by Monday May 6, 2002. The 1st and 2nd meetings of NAACL were highly successful, with approximately 500 attendees at NAACL-01. By merging with the HLT conference, we hope to attract new attendees from areas such as the speech and information retrieval communities. The conference might, therefore, draw over 600 people, depending on the venue. The HLT/NAACL Advisory Board is a new group still being organized and we apologize for the tight time frame. We thank proposers in advance for theirr efforts. Draft proposals should include information on: * Location (accessibility; conference venue, e.g., hotel or university; accommodations, e.g., hotels, motels, student dorms). Note that bids must be for locations in North America. * Local CL Community * Proposed Dates * Meeting Space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings) * A/V Equipment * Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions * Local Arrangements Team (chair/co-chair, commmittee, volunteer labor, registration handling) * General Chair (optional) * Sponsorships * Budget Estimates * Opportunities for Co-location with Other Meetings (if any) Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria (unordered): * Experience of local arrangement team. * Local CL community support. * Any local government and industry support * Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site. * Appropriateness of proposed dates. * Adequacy of conference aand 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. * Geographical balance with regard to the previous conferences in Pittsburgh and Seattle, USA, but still limited to North America. The HLT-NAACL Advisory Board seeks proposals for holding the meeting during the first half of 2003.The HLT-NAACL Advvisory Board will look especially favorably on proposals for the spring. Please send draft proposals electronically to Lynette Hirschman, the NAACL Executive Board member responsible for the Call for Bids: Lynette Hirschman MITRE MS K320 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730 781-271-7789; fax: 781-271-2780 lynette@mitre.org Important Dates: March 20, 2002 Draft proposals due March 27, 2002 HLT-NAACL Advisory Board evaluates proposals and contacts promising bidders April 22, 2002 Promiising bidders provide any requested information May 6, 2002 Bid selected From: "Malcolm Hayward" Subject: Call for Papers: MLA Discussion Group Computer Studies of Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:18:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 827 (827) Language and Lit. The MLA's Discussion Group for Computer Studies in Language and Literature has issued its Call for Papers for the December 2002 Conference in New York. The session is titled "Mining Digital Resources: Sites, Tools, Results." We seek papers describing exemplary projects and studies that use computer resources. Of special interest are papers that include evaluations of resources. What works well? Are there new uses for old tools? Are there new tools that should be essential for the "scholar's workstation." Proposals for papers (electronic format only) should be sent by March 1 to Malcolm Hayward, mhayward@iup.edu. According to MLA requirements, "All session participants must be members in good standing by 1 April 2002 to be listed in the Program issue of PMLA." From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Advance Praise for Lessig's "Creative Commons" Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:36:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 828 (828) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 14, 2002 Advance Praise for Lessig's "Creative Commons" http://www.creativecommons.org/ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL Below is the opening of a substantial article by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Hal Plotkin on Lawrence Lessig's plans for the "Creative Commons," which should be formally announced in the next few weeks. The complete article may be read at the www.sfgate.com URL above. 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Budapest Open Access Initiative: Endorsed by ARL Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:37:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 829 (829) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 14, 2002 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Endorses Budapest Open Access Initiative <http://www.arl.org/scomm/boai.html> <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/> In an interesting coincidental posting with the advance notice of the "Creative Commons," designed to offer free licenses outlining acceptable use of material in a newly-defined middle ground between full copyright control and the unprotected public domain, see this endorsement of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) agreement designed to make donated research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. ARL is one of 354 individuals and 33 organizations to have so far signed on to the initiative. The BOAI web site, encouraging further signatories, states that "For an individual, signing indicates a commitment to open access for one's own research (by self-archiving what one publishes in toll-based journals and/or by publishing in open-access-journals). For an institution, signing means a commitment to open access by supporting institutional self-archiving and/or open-access-journals." David Green =========== [material deleted] From: Malvina Nissim Subject: ESSLLI 2002 Student Session Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:31:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 830 (830) ESSLLI-2002 STUDENT SESSION ** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ** August 5-16 2002, Trento, Italy Deadline: February 25th, 2002 www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~malvi/esslli02 We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2002) organised by the Centre for scientific and technological research (ITC-irst) in Trento and by the University of Trento, under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI-2002 will be held in Trento from August 5-16 2002. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2002 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This seventh 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. All the accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2002 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. [material deleted] From: metrics2002@UNISANNIO.IT Subject: METRICS 2002 - June 4-7, Ottawa, Canada Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:31:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 831 (831) METRICS 2002: 8th International Symposium on Software Metrics ** Hotel and conference on-line registration now available** Focus: Software quality and productivity Objective: The METRICS conference aims at providing participants with a thorough and complete insight into the state practice and research with respect to software measurement, process improvement, and quality engineering. Academic papers as well as industry presentations and tutorials will provide relevant information to participants of diverse background and interest. We emphasize both industry and academic participation, thus offering a forum for interaction between research and practice. Industry participants: IBM, Nortel Networks, Alcatel, TCS-Tata Consultancy Services, InfoSys, Lockheed Martin, Philips, Ericsson, Motorola, Xerox, ... Dates: June 4-7, 2002. (Tutorials on June 4) Location: Ottawa, Canada Information and on-line registration: http://www.software-metrics.org/ Our apologies if you received multiple copy of this. If you would like to be removed from our list please send an email to metrics2002@unisannio.it with REMOVE in the subject. From: Willard McCarty Subject: dialogue vs declaration &c. Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:01:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 832 (832) Dear colleagues: Recently one of our members wrote to me with the following complaint: [deleted quotation] After some exchanges, he wrote back to admit that, [deleted quotation] and then in a subsequent note, [deleted quotation] Allow me to respond briefly to three points he raises. (1) The decline in nitty-gritty exchanges. I am not sure this is so, but if it is, I regret any such decline too and have certainly done nothing to discourage the discussion of practical matters. What I do know to regret is that a number of computing humanists whose contributions would be exceedingly valuable have simply become too busy in their daily lives to participate in discussion. Perhaps another factor in the decline (if it is so) is that good projects take a long time to complete and are technically quite repetitive once the methods have been designed and worked out. I know I stopped talking about my project years ago because (a) I had nothing new to say, and (b) was too busy actually doing it. (2) My role in all this. The single most valuable lesson I have learned while editing Humanist is to allow it to go its own way. What happens here is what vocal members want to happen, or at least what their contributions make happen. Vox populi vox dei. I mostly stir the pot. (3) The fear of flying. I confess that I am sometimes dismayed by the reluctance of individuals to speak up. Certainly we've been treated to postings that might have benefitted us more by being kept back, but up to a point I view these as the price we pay for an open forum. I've come to realise that this openness is rather a complex matter. The point I'd like to make about it now is that the central purpose of Humanist in my view is to keep the conversation about our field going at as high a level as we can manage. It isn't to arrive at the truth about this or that, but to keep discovering whatever truths we can through dialogue. This means, I think, that postings are valuable in proportion to the risk they take while pushing the boundaries of what we know. So being brilliantly wrong is perhaps best of all, but since that's very hard to achieve, let us agree that being usefully wrong is what we'll actually try for. Yours, WM From: "Fay Sudweeks" Subject: CFP: CATaC'02 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:30:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 833 (833) CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02) 12-15 July 2002 University of Montral, Quebec, Canada http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ Conference theme: The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology The powers of the Nets can be construed in many ways - political, economic, and social. Power can also be construed in terms of Foucault's "positive power" and Bourdieu's notion of "cultural capital" - decentered forms of power that encourage "voluntary" submission, such as English as a _lingua franca_ on the Net. Similarly, Hofstede's category of "power distance" points to the role of status in encouraging technology diffusion, as low-status persons seek to emulate high-status persons. Through these diverse forms of power, the language(s) and media of the Net may reshape the cultural assumptions of its globally-distributed users - thus raising the dangers of "computer-mediated colonisation" ("Disneyfication" - a la Cees Hamelink). 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 (ICT). "Cultural attitudes" here includes cultural values and communicative preferences that may be embedded in both the content and form of ICT - thus threatening to make ICT less the agent of a promised democratic global village and more an agent of cultural homogenisation and imperialism. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/). For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98, see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. The second conference in the series was held in Perth in 2000 (http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/). [material deleted] From: Han Baltussen Subject: Philosophy, Science and Exegesis Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:33:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 834 (834) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT "Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries" An International Conference in Honour of R.R.K. Sorabji FBA, CBE Senate House, Malet Street, London June 27-29 2002 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/frames/Research (SEE under Ancient Commentators Project) Sponsored by (to date): The Mind Association, British Academy Conference Grants, Henry Brown Trust, Institute of Classical Studies, The Wellcome Trust (History of Medicine Programme), King's College Philosophy Department, King's College Theology Department, the Ancient Commentators Project, School of Advanced Studies (Philosophy Programme). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ** THE EVENT ** On June 27-29, 2002, London will host the first of what we hope will be a series of conferences on Philosophical Commentaries: Ancient and Medieval. The Conference is a further development of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project (KCL Philosophy/ Gen. Editor R. Sorabji). We now are extending the Project to include English translations of Arabic and Latin commentaries, moving into the Medieval period. This Conference will have three important objectives: 1. capitalising on the work of the commentary tradition done so far, and 2. expanding the brief of the Project into later periods of history. 3. In addition, we hope to create an exciting interdisciplinary gathering with specialists who work in classics, philosophy, medieval studies, Arabic studies, literature, and the history of science and medicine. We hope that this unprecedented gathering of specialists (30 invited speakers) in the study of commentaries will lead to a deeper appreciation of a genre which has often been ignored or misunderstood. From the late ancient period, through the classical era of Arabic thought, until the scholastic period in medieval Europe, the commentary was the dominant vehicle for the development and transmission of ideas in philosophy, science, and even theology. The result is an enormous corpus of late ancient and medieval commentaries, most often on Aristotle but also on Plato, Galen, and other authoritative Greek figures. On the whole we hope to represent the full range of topics from the beginnings of exegesis until the medieval and Renaissance reception of the genre. [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Colloquium on visualisation 8 March Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:29:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 835 (835) Seminar in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London VISUALIZATION IN THE HUMANITIES Friday, 8 March 2002, 9 am to 5.30 pm King's College London Council Room, Main Building, Strand Campus <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/01-02/seminar_visualisation.html> Peter Robinson, "As we may read: Presenting texts in many versions" Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Humanistic Visualization: (In)visible Ideologies and Algorithmic Images" Michael Barlow, "Visualizing Texts" Richard Beacham, with Hugh Denard, "Mind the Gap. The Psychology of VR Depictions or, 'I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls'" This is a public event. Individuals wishing to attend the colloquium should register by contacting Ms Helen Skundric via e-mail at cch@kcl.ac.uk. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Bobley, Brett" Subject: NEH Lecture w/Will Thomas & Ed Ayers Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:30:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 836 (836) ***************************************** The National Endowment for the Humanities Presents eHumanities Lecture Series ***************************************** Please register for the next NEH eHumanities lecture here in Washington, DC. It will feature Will Thomas and Ed Ayers from the University of Virginia. These lectures bring together leading scholars from the world of technology and the humanities. Our last lecture on February 13, featuring Jim O'Donnell from the University of Pennsylvania, was a huge success and we had a packed house! So register soon. DATE: Wednesday, February 27 TIME: 12 Noon - 1:15pm LOCATION: NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, RM M-09 TITLE: The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form SPEAKERS: WILL THOMAS and ED AYERS Registration is free, just see: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html DESCRIPTION: The use of online resources has exploded in recent years. Students and scholars routinely turn to the web for primary documents, reference works, and the latest reviews. But we have not yet forged a new form of scholarly communication and argumentation for the digital environment. In this talk, Ayers and Thomas present a prototype of a journal article designed to take advantage of the possibilities of the web while addressing some of the limitations of that context. BIO: Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Research Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches the history of Virginia since 1865 and is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU, 1999). He also served as the co-author and assistant producer of The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War, an Emmy-nominated series on the history of Virginia for public television. BIO: Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at the University of Virginia. Ayers has written extensively on Southern history and race relations. His books include All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions and The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. He is the founder of the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia. Ayers has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright. Ayers received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, and his master's and doctorate from Yale University. From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.492 creatures that gyre and gimble Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:32:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 837 (837) Willard, the Red, Mary Dee's explanation of the snipe game was most fascinating. [deleted quotation] that we [deleted quotation] And for some reason, I scrolled on to find a snypo! (a typo of the snipe-variety) in a message that I had sent. [deleted quotation] Willared -- linguistic interference of "mallard" euphony? Leads me to ask : are there researchers working on the epistolary genre who have done stylistic analysis of the possible links between sub-vocalisation and the graphic presentation of "errors"? in other words is there a corpus of letters about marked up in such a fashion that one would be able to compute the frequency of occurence for auditory ghosts in written communications. Supplemental question: how many touch typists compose by dictation? -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "Andrea K. Laue" Subject: William Blake Archive Update Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:32:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 838 (838) 18 February 2002 The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of Blake's first group of twenty-one water colors illustrating the Book of Job. These were created on commission for Blake's major patron, Thomas Butts, as a series of nineteen water colors c. 1805-06; two further designs were added to the group at a later date, probably c. 1821-27. While Blake had drawn and engraved some important designs based on Job in earlier years, the Butts set of water colors is his first attempt to create a pictorial narrative of the whole story, from what Blake believed to be Job's misapprehensions about God, through Job's torments at the hands of Satan, to the restoration of Job's physical and spiritual wellbeing. The later set of Job water colors that Blake executed for John Linnell and the famous engraved series were both based on this earlier, Butts group. The release of Blake's Job water colors is particularly significant because it marks our first publication of Blake's "Non-Illuminated Works." This new "wing" of the Archive will gradually be populated with Blake engravings, paintings, drawings, manuscripts, and typographic editions. In the near future, we will add such important works as the Job engravings and water color illustrations to the poetry of John Milton, Thomas Gray, and Edward Young. In the interest of publishing the greatest number of high-quality images in the shortest span of time, we are introducing to the Archive a new "Preview mode." Like the current presentation of Blake's illuminated books in the Archive, works in Preview will be in full and accurate color, with enlargements, and with searchable transcriptions of any texts, including even the briefest of inscriptions. The only functions that will not be available in Preview are image search and Inote. Thus, works in Preview will not offer descriptions of visual motifs, nor will those visual motifs be searchable. The advantage of this slightly reduced mode of display is that we will be able to add works to the Archive more expeditiously. All works in Preview will bear a clear indication that they are indeed in "Preview," both in all relevant tables of contents and on the basic Object View page. As we add many works in Preview, we will gradually shift them toward fully functional displays that will make image search and Inote available. The Job water colors announced here are currently available in Preview mode. At present the Archive contains, in addition to the Job water colors in Preview, 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated books, plus a fully SGML-encoded electronic edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_. In the near future we expect to release more drawings and prints in Preview; a much-anticipated electronic edition of _Jerusalem_ copy E, fully encoded for image search and Inote; and a collection of handlists for each of the Archive's contributing institutions as well as improved, searchable versions of our bibliographies. Future supplementary materials include a biography and glossary. 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 grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 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. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, technical editor The William Blake Archive From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: AMICO University Host - an RFP Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:01:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 839 (839) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 20, 2002 ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) SEEKS UNIVERSITY HOST RFP DEADLINE March 29, 2002 http://www.amico.org Below is a particularly interesting opportunity for a university to host one of the most significant licensing consortia in the nonprofit cultural arena. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] PLEASE DISTRIBUTE The Art Museum Image Consortium Request for Proposals for a University Host Deadlines: Expressions of interest: February 28, 2002 (optional) Responses: March 29, 2002 Queries: Jennifer Trant, Executive Director, AMICO The Opportunity The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), an independent, non-profit membership organization of museums dedicated to enabling educational use of museum multimedia, is seeking a synergetic relationship with a university. At a minimum, AMICO seeks to move its offices and staff, and become a tenant within a university in North America. Ideally, we seek a mutually beneficial environment in which to advance research on digital cultural heritage in the context of our production schedule and requirements. The Organization AMICO was formed in 1997 by 23 institutions with collections of art, dedicated to enabling educational access to museum multimedia. In the past four years, AMICO has grown to over 35 members and established itself as a self-sufficient, subscription-income-funded, organization. The AMICO Library is delivered by a variety of established information service providers. Currently over 160 universities, schools, research institutions, museums and art galleries on four continents subscribe to The AMICO Library. A Request for Proposals Universities with a strong tradition in Humanities Computing or Digital Library development and interested in exploring a hosting relationship with AMICO should consult the full Request for Proposals, available from http://www.amico.org Further Information Questions can be directed to Jennifer Trant, Executive Director, AMICO -- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________ -- ============================================================== 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Case Against Copyright Term Extension Moves Closer to Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:59:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 840 (840) Supreme Court NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 19, 2002 Case Against Copyright Term Extension Moves Closer to Supreme Court http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/national/19WIRE-SCOTUS.html [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Museums, Archives & Libraries Encouraged to Apply for Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:00:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 841 (841) Assistance for Internet High Performance Connections NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 19, 2002 Museums, Archives, Learned Societies & Libraries Encouraged to Apply for Assistance for Internet High Performance Connections http://www.interact.nsf.gov/cise/descriptions.nsf/pd/hpnc?openDocument The NSF's High Performance Networked Computing program assists institutions to establish high performance Internet connections (at or above 45mbits per second). Although a proposal must include an application that involves cutting edge scientific research, non-science institutions are actively encouraged to consider applying for this assistance. David Green [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NEH eHumanities lecture: Next Generation of Digital Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:00:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 842 (842) Scholarship NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 19, 2002 NEH eHumanities lecture: Will Thomas and Ed Ayers The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form Wed Feb 27, 12 noon: Washginton, DC http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html A reminder for those working in Washington, DC, of what promises to be a particularly stimulating lecture on the future of humanities scholarship made possible through networked technology. David Green =========== ***************************************** The National Endowment for the Humanities Presents eHumanities Lecture Series ***************************************** Please register for the next NEH eHumanities lecture here in Washington, DC. It will feature Will Thomas and Ed Ayers from the University of Virginia. These lectures bring together leading scholars from the world of technology and the humanities. Our last lecture on February 13, featuring Jim O'Donnell from the University of Pennsylvania, was a huge success and we had a packed house! So register soon. DATE: Wednesday, February 27 TIME: 12 Noon - 1:15pm LOCATION: NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, RM M-09 TITLE: The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form SPEAKERS: WILL THOMAS and ED AYERS Registration is free, just see: http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html DESCRIPTION: The use of online resources has exploded in recent years. Students and scholars routinely turn to the web for primary documents, reference works, and the latest reviews. But we have not yet forged a new form of scholarly communication and argumentation for the digital environment. In this talk, Ayers and Thomas present a prototype of a journal article designed to take advantage of the possibilities of the web while addressing some of the limitations of that context. BIO: Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Research Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches the history of Virginia since 1865 and is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (LSU, 1999). He also served as the co-author and assistant producer of The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War, an Emmy-nominated series on the history of Virginia for public television. BIO: Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at the University of Virginia. Ayers has written extensively on Southern history and race relations. His books include All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions and The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. He is the founder of the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia. Ayers has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright. Ayers received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, and his master's and doctorate 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Aikin, Jane" Subject: Fellowships announcement Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:57:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 843 (843) [deleted quotation] From: Methods for Modalities Subject: Second Call for Papers for HyLo@LICS Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:58:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 844 (844) HyLo@LICS 4th WORKSHOP ON HYBRID LOGICS LICS 2002 Affiliated Workshop [deleted quotation] Copenhagen, Denmark SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS THEME: Hybrid logic is a branch of modal logic in which it is possible to directly refer to worlds/times/states or whatever the elements of the (Kripke) model are meant to represent. Although they date back to the late 1960s, and have been sporadically investigated ever since, it is only in the 1990s that work on them really got into its stride. It is easy to justify interest in hybrid logic on applied grounds, with the usefulness of the additional expressive power. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to build up a series of assertions about what happens at a particular instant, and standard modal formalisms do not allow this. What is less obvious is that the route hybrid logic takes to overcome this problem (the basic mechanism being to add nominals --- atomic symbols true at a unique point --- together with extra modalities to exploit them) often actually improves the behavior of the underlying modal formalism. For example, it becomes far simpler to formulate modal tableau and resolution in hybrid logic, and completeness and interpolation results can be proved of a generality that is simply not available in modal logic. That is, hybridization --- adding nominals and related apparatus --- seems a fairly reliable way of curing many known weaknesses in modal logic. For more general background on hybrid logic, and many of the key papers, see the Hybrid Logics homepage: http://www.hylo.net HyLo@LICS is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people, including those interested in description logic, feature logic, applied modal logics, temporal logic, and labelled deduction. Moreover, if you have an interest in the work of the late Arthur Prior, note that this workshop is devoted to exploring ideas he first introduced 30 years ago --- it will be an ideal opportunity to see how his ideas have been developed in the intervening period. In this workshop we hope to bring together researchers from all the different fields just mentioned (and hopefully some others) in an attempt to explore what they all have (and do not have) in common. If you're unsure whether your work is of relevance to the workshop, please check out the Hybrid Logics homepage. And do not hesitate to contact the workshop organisers for more information. We'd be delighted to tell you more. Contact details are give below. INVITED TALKS We are very pleased to announce that Professors Moshe Vardi and Melvin Fitting have accepted to be invited speakers at HyLo@LICS. Program and titles of the talks will be released in following announcement, but we are already looking forward to hear about their perspective on Hybrid Logics. SUBMISSIONS: We invite the contribution of research papers to the workshop. Please send electronically an extended abstract of up to 10 A4 size pages, in PostScript format to: carlos@science.uva.nl BEFORE the 26st of APRIL, 2002. Please note that all workshop contributors are required by the LICS organizers to register for FLoC 2002. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Submissions: April 26th, 2002 Notification of Acceptance: May 24th, 2002 Deadline for Final Versions: June 25th, 2002 CONTACT DETAILS: Please visit http://www.hylo.net for further information. Send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers: Carlos Areces e-mail: carlos@science.uva.nl http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos Patrick Blackburn e-mail: patrick@aplog.org http://www.loria.fr/~blackbur Maarten Marx e-mail: marx@science.uva.nl http://www.illc.uva.nl/~marx Ulrike Sattler e-mail: sattler@cs.rwth-aachen.de http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ti/uli-en.html -- M4M: Methods for Modalities www.science.uva.nl/~m4m From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Copyright Seminars: Lansing, MI (Feb 20); Adelphi, MD Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:59:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 845 (845) (April 4-5) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 14, 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology (Michigan Chapter): "Digital Libraries and Copyright" Feb 20, 2002 (6pm-8:30pm): Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI http://www.asis.org/Chapters/michap/events.html Free of Charge Copyright Management in Higher Education: Access, Control and Use April 4-5, 2002: Adelphi, MD: University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ $275 ($225 before March 21) [deleted quotation]AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MICHIGAN CHAPTER (MI-ASIST) PRESENTS: "Digital Libraries and Copyright" http://www.asis.org/Chapters/michap/events.html Guest Speakers: * Wendy Lougee, Associate Director, University Library for Digital Library Services; University of Michigan. * Susan M. Kornfield, Chair, Intellectual Property Practice Group; Bodman, Longley & Dahling LLP. Discussion Facilitator: Professor Barry Neavill, Wayne State University When: February 20, 2002 (Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Where: Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI (directions: http://www.libraryofmichigan.org/welcome/maps/directions.html parking: http://www.libraryofmichigan.org/welcome/maps/parking.html ) Wendy Lougee will provide a short overview of the landscape factors shaping digital libraries, including how the organizations have adapted as they evolved, and she will provide some examples from the University of Michigan to illustrate the challenges and new opportunities in designing digital collections. Susan Kornfield will cover some basic principles about copyright law and contrast those principles with rules and policies adopted by some libraries under the guise of "complying" with copyright law. PROGRAM SCHEDULE: 6:00/6:30 - Light Dinner and Conversation 6:30/6:40 - Welcome Note and Introduction of Speakers 6:40/7:20 - "An Evolving Library: Lessons from the Field" by Wendy Lougee 7:20/8:00 - "Common Misconceptions About Copyright: Implications For Library Policymaking" by Susan Kornfield 8:00/8:30 - Questions, Open Discussion and Closing Remarks REGISTRATION (please respond by 2/18): Contact Allison Kopczynski, p: (734) 302-4747 f: (734) 302-4996 akopczynski@cyber-state.org / P.O. Box 134001, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001 Light dinner and program: Members--$5 / Students--free / Guests (non-members)--$8 Meeting and program only -- free to all PLEASE RESPOND BY 2/18 More Info at: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/michap/events.html or http://www.asis.org/Chapters/michap/feb2002michap.pdf ========================================================================= Copyright Management in Higher Education: Access, Control and Use April 4-5, 2002: Adelphi, MD: University of Maryland University College http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ $275 ($225 before March 21) The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College is hosting a seminar titled: Copyright Management in Higher Education: Access, Control and Use April 4th - 5th 2002. http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ The digital age has greatly increased concerns about ownership, access, and control of copyrighted information. As substantial users and creators of copyrighted information, colleges and universities must develop mechanisms that effectively manage information on the networked campus. Protective technologies are being developed that hold the promise of perfect control and the peril of substantially limited access to information. Comprehensive intellectual property policies are needed to provide clear guidelines for ownership and proper use of information. Moreover, stakeholders in higher education should understand the substantial changes being made in federal information policy that will affect colleges and universities in the twenty-first century. The Keynote speaker will be Laura "Lolly" Gasaway, Director, Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Intellectual Property Scholar, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College. Additional confirmed presenters and panelist include: - Dan L. Burk, Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics; Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; and Associate Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences. - Kim Kelley, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College - Todd Kelley, Associate Provost and Librarian of the College, St. Mary's College of Maryland - Arnold P. Lutzker, Partner, Lutzker & Lutzker LLP - Carol Risher, Senior Vice President-Business Development Savantech, Inc. - Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison - John C. Vaughn, Executive Vice President, Association of American Universities - Fred (Rick) W. Weingarten, Director of the Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association - Dr. Larry Wilt, Director of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Please register early since space is limited. Early registration ends March 21, 2002. For additional information visit our web site at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ or call 301-985-7777. -- ============================================================== 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: Jennifer McCarthy [mailto:jem5z@virginia.edu] Subject: UPDATE: New Frontiers in Early American Literature Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:03:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 846 (846) Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:47 PM To: cfp@english.upenn.edu 8/8/02-8/10/02) Please note the extended deadline. New Frontiers in Early American Literature, August 8-10, 2002 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/conference/ The University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announces "New Frontiers in Early American Literature," a conference to be held August 8-10, 2002 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. The "New Frontiers in Early American Literature" Conference will bring together scholars exploring the Early American literary period in all its facets. Presentations on all authors and all genres are welcome. Interdisciplinary approaches are also encouraged. This conference is inspired by our work in creating the "Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction," an expansive on-line collection of American novels and short stories written between 1789 and 1875. The texts chosen for the project are drawn from the UVA Library's world-renowned collection in Early American materials and include works by well-known authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Brockden Brown, as well as lesser-known writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Rufus Dawes. Papers, poster sessions, and panel proposals from all areas of studies in Early American Literature will be considered, though possible topics include Exploring the Frontier, Popular and Domestic Fiction, the Literary Marketplace, Femininity and Masculinity, and Literature and the Civil War. We also welcome papers related to these proposed sessions: -Textual Editing -Creating Digital Archives -Using Digital Resources for Scholarship, Teaching, or Pleasure Reading [material deleted] From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)" Subject: Symposium in Santiago de Cuba, 2003 Date: ________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 847 (847) Signature: ___________ From: Michael Fraser Subject: CFP: Digital Resources for the Humanities 2002 (deadline Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:33:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 848 (848) extended) CALL FOR PAPERS: DRH 2002 [deleted quotation] 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 selected papers from the conferences is published annually by the Office for Humanities Communication at King's College London. See http://www.drh.org.uk/. DRH 2002 DRH 2002 will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, Scotland UK, from 8th-11th September 2002. Conference information will be posted on the Web site at http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ 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 conference communities. Areas on which DRH conferences have concentrated have included the creation of digital resources, providing access to digital projects, the application of digital resources to teaching and research, and digital preservation. The Conference Programme Committee of DRH 2002 will particularly welcome proposals which relate to the following themes: - Provision and management of access - Digital libraries, archives and museums - Time-based media and multimedia studies in music and performing arts - Other social sciences where these overlap significantly with the humanities - Network technologies used to support international community programmes - The anticipated convergence between televisual, communication and computing media and its effect on the humanities - Information analysis, design and modelling in humanities research - Knowledge representation, including visualization and simulation Submitting Proposals The deadline for submitting proposals is 15th March, 2002; notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 19th April 2002. Proposals should be submitted using the Call for Papers link to the online Web form from the conference Web page at http://www.drh2002.lib.ed.ac.uk/ or (if you are unable to use Web forms) by email to DRH2002@arts.gla.ac.uk. Your submission should be text only, with no word processor formatting or graphics (final submissions of accepted papers may include graphics). Please note that all participants in the conference, including speakers, are expected to pay their own travel, conference and accommodation costs. 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 types 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. It is essential that the proposal makes clear how the work to be presented relates to the relevant work in the field. All proposals should be submitted in English. All proposals should include full name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone and email details for all participants. Papers: We invite proposals for conference papers lasting no more than 25 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 500 and 750 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. All presenters who wish their paper to be considered for publication will be asked to submit a full version of their paper before the end of the conference. Organisation: The Programme Committee, which has responsibility for the academic programme of the conference, is chaired by Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk). The Programme Committee members are: Frances Abercromby, University of Edinburgh (Local Organizer) Lou Burnard, University of Oxford Marilyn Deegan, University of Oxford Mike Fraser , University of Oxford David Green, NINCH Lorna Hughes, New York University Derek Law , University of Strathclyde Andrew Prescott , University of Sheffield Richard Ovenden, University of Edinburgh Bruce Royan, SCRAN Brad Scott, Semantico Harold Short, King's College London Donald Spaeth, University of Glasgow Nigel Williamson , University of Sheffield From: Magali Duclaux Subject: LREC 2002 Regsitration Deadline Extension Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:34:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 849 (849) ************************************************************************ LREC 2002 EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENSION ************************************************************************ LREC 2002 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 27/05 - 02/06 Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain ************************************************************************ The early registration deadline has been postponed to March, 29th. For further details, please visit the LREC Web site: www.lrec-conf.org ************************************************************************ From: Ronaldo Menezes Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Coordination and Component-Oriented Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:35:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 850 (850) Computing (Languages, Models, Systems) CALL FOR PAPERS Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing (Languages, Models, Systems) http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/pdpta02/ a special session of PDPTA'2002 June 24 - 27, 2002 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: DEADLINE EXTENDED March 3, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 24-27, 2002: PDPTA'02 International Conference ====================================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NINCH POSITION AVAILABLE: Administrative Assistant Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:35:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 851 (851) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 22, 2002 NINCH POSITION AVAILABLE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Part-time, up to 20 hours per week Application Deadline: Friday, March 1 JOB DESCRIPTION NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE (NINCH) ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Part-time, up to 20 hours per week Application Deadline: Friday, March 1 The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) seeks an experienced professional to provide overall administrative support to the Executive Director. Incumbent will manage finances and benefits of small but growing nonprofit organization. In addition, incumbent will plan travel and meetings and provide member services for the organization, including an e-newsletter and web site. For more information on the organization, please see <http://www.ninch.org> PURPOSE Provides staff support to the Executive Director. 1) Manages finances and benefits for small but growing nonprofit organization. 2) Provides member services and supports development efforts. 3) Schedules travel for Director and arranges meetings and other events. 4) Maintains e-mail lists and web site. NATURE AND SCOPE A. Organizational Relationships Reports to the Executive Director and has regular communication with working group members and consultants. B. Supervisory Responsibilities None C. Duties Financial * Basic bookkeeping, including accounts payable and receivable, deposits, and travel and expense reimbursements; * Administer payroll and benefits for small staff; * Create periodic financial reports and end-of-year expense reports; and * Work with accountant, auditors, and payroll service on regular basis. Member Services * Maintain extensive membership database in FilemakerPro; * Maintain electronic listservs and e-newsletter; * Maintain web site; and * Maintain and reproduce printed publicity and publications. Travel and Meetings * Research and arrange travel for Executive Director and consultants; * Schedule meetings (both in office and off site); and * Work with hotel and/or catering staff to arrange catering and accommodations for 2-3 large meetings/workshops per year. D. Working Relationship and Skill Requirements This position requires a Bachelor's Degree and 1-3 years administrative experience in a nonprofit organization. Requires strong organizational and excellent written and verbal communication skills, professional demeanor, and ability to work well under pressure of deadlines. Office-based experience using Quickbooks or MYOB AccountEdge, Excel, Filemaker Pro, MSWord, and Dreamweaver (or similar) is strongly preferred. Familiarity with the Macintosh platform is preferred. Ability to work with a wide range of consultants from computer science, library, museum, and academic communities. Must be a self-starter. Background or interest in some aspect of humanities computing, information science, or museum studies a plus. E. Authority/Independence Ability to work independently on routine assignments is critical in this position. F. Salary and Benefits Negotiable depending on experience. TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION Send a resume and cover letter with the names and phone numbers of three references by Friday, March 1, to: NINCH 21 Dupont Circle, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 Attention: Part-time Position Applications via e-mail are encouraged. Please send materials to: david@ninch.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: LLC Young Scholars - deadline extension Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:36:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 852 (852) Humanities Computing - extension of deadline Please circulate widely Apologies for cross-posting I'm happy to inform the community that the deadline for abstracts of papers to be included in the special LLC issue on Young Scholars in Humanities Computing has been extended till March 22nd. A thematic issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing <http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/litlin/> is planned which aims to bring together a variety of papers reflecting the research of young scholars in the wide field of Humanities Computing. The editors of this volume (Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte) are looking for candidates who will have a chance to report on their research in this most established journal in the discipline. Preference will be given to those at the start of their academic career, such as PhD or advanced master degree students. Participants should supply a brief outline of their academic history, current academic affiliation, date of birth, and abstracts of 500 words detailing the research being undertaken and outlining the subject of their paper. Each proposal will be subject to peer review, with the ten best being selected for publication in this volume of LLC. Authors chosen for publication will be then required to submit a 4-5,000 word paper regarding their research. Each author will have the opportunity to be mentored by a senior scholar in the discipline to aid in the completion of their paper. Proposals should be sent no later than March 22nd 2002 to the editors at . Applicants will be contacted regarding their proposal in early June 2002. Successful applicants will be required to submit their papers by November 2002. Publication is planned for the Spring 2003. This is an excellent opportunity for young scholars in the field of Humanities Computing to be published in a widely read, esteemed journal. Although this call is primarily for young scholars in Humanities Computing, all proposals will be considered as long as they are not from those who hold a full time academic post. People who have began their academic careers late, and have not yet had the opportunity to establish themselves in their discipline are encouraged to submit a paper. The editors are striving for as wide a coverage of Humanities Computing as possible and encourage senior academics to circulate this call for papers. -- ============= Edward Vanhoutte Co-ordinator Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Reviews Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent / Belgium tel: +32 9 265 93 51 / fax: +32 9 265 93 49 evanhoutte@kantl.be / evanhout@uia.ua.ac.be http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/ From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web: Regular Registration Ends Friday Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:49:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 853 (853) Museums and the Web 2002 April 17-20, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Don't forget that regular registration for Museums and the Web 2002 closes March 1, 2002! MW2002 will be the place to review the state of the web in arts, culture, and heritage. The program is packed with opportunities to see best practices and new directions in museums, libraries, archives, government and the arts. Speakers from around the world will summarize their activities in sessions and panels. Pre-conference workshops provide in-depth study of methods and issues in design, development, evaluation and maintenance of heritage Web sites. Throughout MW2002, a variety of session formats including the Crit Rooms, a Usability Lab, Mini-Workshops, and Demonstrations offer diverse modes of presentation. An Exhibit Hall features the latest in commercial technology and services. A variety of evening social events ensure plenty of opportunity to build your personal network. Register on-line to take advantage of special registration rates at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/register/ Plan to join us in Boston, for the sixth annual Museums and the Web conference, described by an attendee at MW2001 as "one of the best conferences in the digital library area". MW2002 Co-Chairs: David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics Flavia Sparacino, MIT Media Lab Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics ________ Museums and the Web Boston, Massachusetts Archives & Museum Informatics April 17-20, 2002 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: "Jason Rutter" Subject: Computer Games Conference: Manchester, UK Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:48:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 854 (854) PLAYING WITH THE FUTURE: DEVELOPMENT AND DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTER GAMING April 5-7, 2002 ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester Manchester, England www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz A draft programme and abstracts for papers to be presented at this international conference on computer gaming are now available online as well as facilities for booking a place at the event. The conference will feature approximately sixty papers on various aspects of computer and video gaming from the educational potential of computer gaming to the computer games and violence debate; from investigations of games markets to developing cheat-proofing protocols; from teenagers in Taiwan to senior citizen gamers in the USA. The event has already attracted delegates from around the world including Brunei, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, United Arab Emirates and USA. It has drawn the interest not just of academics but also industry and governmental organisations such as ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association), BECTa (British Education Communication and Technology Agency), and IGDA (International Game Developers Association). Gamers are represented at the event by key figures from the Cyberathletes' Professional League and the organiser of some of the UK's biggest gaming events. Playing with the Future is now only six weeks away and available places at the event are already limited so those interested in attending are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Further information on the conference can be found at www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz Jase -- Dr Jason Rutter (Research Fellow) ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Ground Floor, Devonshire House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QH PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 http://www.jasonrutter.org.uk From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS - Reminders Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:51:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 855 (855) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 26, 2002 REDEFINING PRESERVATION, SHAPING NEW SOLUTIONS, FORGING NEW PARTNERSHIPS Association of Research Libraries & the University of Michigan Library March 7-8, 2002: Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.lib.umich.edu/conferences/preservation/ Registration Deadline: Feb 28, 2002 UK's Digital Preservation Coalition Presents: Web-Archiving Forum Monday March 25, 2002: London http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/webforum.html Museums and the Web 2002 April 17-20, 2002: Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Registration Deadline: March 1, 2002 The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents "Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections" May 30-31, 2002: Lexington, MA <http://www.nedcc.org/>www.nedcc.org Here are reminders of previously posted conferences and workshops: some registration deadlines occur this week. David Green [material deleted] From: Subject: SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 Call For Papers Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:50:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 856 (856) 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- November 18 - 22, 2002, Orchid Country Club, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef Organized by: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sponsored by: Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees In Co-Operation with: IEEE Neural Network Society International Neural Network Society European Neural Network Society SPIE Supported by: Lee Foundation Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS, SPONSORSHIPS, AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SEAL'02, ICONIP'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Orchid Country Club, Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only feature the most up-to-date research results in evolutionary computation, neural information processing, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to two of the major attractions in Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island. Many well- known researchers will present keynote speeches, panel discussions, invited lectures, and tutorials. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NFAIS Licensing & Digital Content Symposium March 15 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:52:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 857 (857) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 26, 2002 LICENSING & DIGITAL CONTENT: A Symposium Organized by the National Federation for Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) with assistance from The H.W. Wilson Foundation Friday, March 15, 2002: Philadelphia, PA http://www.nfais.org/ Registration: $235 An important seminar is approaching on the laws and terms governing licensing of digital content. The seminar highlights licensing concerns and the contract terms and conditions important for different constituencies. Topics and speakers include the following: - "Intellectual Property and Licensing Laws:" * Joel Wolfson, Partner, Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley LLP - "State of the Law:" * Ray Nimmer, Leonard Childs Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center - "Perspectives from the Corporate User" * William R. Denny, Esq, Partner, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE - "An Aggregator's View:" * Brian Sweet, Information Consultant - "The Library Perspective:" * Speaker TBA - "Perspectives from the Educational Community:" * Rodney Petersen, Director, IT Policy and Planning, University of Maryland - "A Database Provider View:" * Steven Emmert, Director of Government and Industry Affairs, Reed Elsevier Inc. David Green [material deleted] From: John Unsworth Subject: job opening at IATH Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:50:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 858 (858) The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology is currently recruiting an XML/SGML publishing specialist, full-time, competitive salary and benefits. A successful candidate would need to have strong skills in markup languages and related standards and technologies such as XSL, Unicode, etc.. Experience with Dynaweb would be a plus, but is not required. Willingness to act as a backup systems administrator is necessary, but previous experience in systems administration is less important than expertise in markup and publishing technologies. Candidates need not be in Virginia, and some support is available for moving expenses. If you are interested, please contact University of Virginia Human Resources' friendly and responsive recruiting staff, at UVAjobs@virginia.edu or by phone at 434-924-4444. Please inform them of your interest in Job Vacancy Announcement #18744. You may also respond to me, by email, at jmu2m@virginia.edu. John Unsworth, Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 41, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:33:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 859 (859) Version 41 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,550 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf Word 2000: 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 links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat or Word files: (1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography), (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (related Web sites), and (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (frequently updated list of new resources). http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 125 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 340 KB and the Word file is over 500 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, Linking, 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 Digital Rights Management* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing* Images Legal* Preprints Preservation* Publishers SGML and Related Standards An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html 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: "Dr. Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Query for HUMANIST on source of quotation Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:36:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 860 (860) Colleagues: I am trying to identify the source of the following quotation, which I recall only approximately. Science today is the study of the very large, the very small, the very fast and the very slow. Were I to hazard a guess, I would attribute the quote to Sir James Jeans. However, perusal of his books, such as I have in my library (together with other books likely to contain this quote), as well as searches of quotation databases and a GOOGLE search of the Web have turned up nothing. I may well be misattributing the quote to Jeans. Can you help? _______________________________________________________________ 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: JISC/NSF DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND THE CLASSROOM: Revised Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:35:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 861 (861) Deadlines NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community February 28, 2002 JISC/NSF DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND THE CLASSROOM: TESTBEDS FOR TRANSFORMING TEACHING AND LEARNING http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02085 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/index.html Proposal Deadline: May 26, 2002 This joint US-UK funding opportunity is offered by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). It will fund four projects at around $2,100,000 each over three years that involve at least one US and one UK institution and develop and implement "integrative and innovative ... educational environments, based on the use of information and communications technologies across a number of disciplines." An earlier deadline has been extended. David Green [material deleted] From: Magali Duclaux Subject: LDC-ELDA: Joint Distribution of LR Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:36:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 862 (862) Cooperation Between ELDA and LDC - Distribution of Language Resources Networking Data Centers, "Net-DC", (MLIS-5017), aims to improve the infrastructure for language resources, by designing and implementing new modes of cooperation between the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and the European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA). In the framework of this cooperation, LDC and ELDA are happy to announce the following joint distribution of language resources. Translanguage English Database (TED) ELRA reference: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html LDC reference: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html The Translanguage English Database (TED) is a corpus of recordings made of oral presentations at Eurospeech'93 in Berlin. The corpus name derives from the high percentage of oral presentations given in English by non-native speakers of English. Two hundred twenty-four (224) oral presentations at the conference were successfully recorded, providing a total of about 75 hours of speech material. These recordings provide a large number of presenters, speaking multiple variants of English, over a relatively large amount of time (15 minutes for each presentation + 5 minutes of discussion), on a specific topic. This release of TED (6 CDROMs) includes 188 speeches, without the ensuing discussion periods. This database was produced with the support of ELSNET. Associated text materials consist of ASCII versions of over 400 proceedings papers and oral preparations that were supplied by the authors, as well as, 250 speaker questionnaires. Translanguage English Database (TED) Transcripts ELRA reference: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0120.html LDC reference: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002T03.html The Translanguage English Database (TED) Transcripts corpus contains transcriptions of thirty-nine of the 188 speeches of the TED Corpus (ELRA ref.: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html; LDC ref.: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html) made at Eurospeech'93 in Berlin. The thirty-nine transcripts in this publication are in Universal Transcription Format (UTF) and were prepared by the LDC. All utf files in the transcript publication were validated against an included utf.dtd. Tables containing speaker demographic information and a cross-reference of file names from the TED audio corpus are included. For further information, please contact ELRA/ELDA or LDC at: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli@elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium 3615 Market Street, Suite 200 PA 19104-2608 Philadelphia, USA Tel: (215) 898-0464 Fax: (215) 573-2175 Email: ldc@ldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: ALLC/ACH 2002: Registration now open Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:30:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 863 (863) ALLC/ACH 2002 University of Tuebingen 24-28 July 2002 <http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002> The 2002 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Compters and the Humanities takes place from July 24-28 at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. The Annual Joint Conference of the ALLC and ACH is the most widely attented international event in the field. It is the major showcase for projects combining humanities research with cutting-edge technology, providing a wide forum for paper presentations, panel discussions, project reports and software demonstrations. The theme for the 2002 conference is "New Directions in Humanities Computing". It will feature plenary addresses by two leading scholars: Hans-Walter Gabler of the University of Munich, and Roy Wisbey, Professor emeritus of King's College London and co-founder of ALLC. Tbingen University has a long-standing tradition of interdisciplinary work, which includes combining humanities and technology: in 1623, Wilhelm Schickard, Professor of Oriental Languages and later of Astronomy, invented the first calculating machine. In 1966, Tbingen was the first German university to create an extra academic post for humanities computing at its computing centre. Tbingen is a quaint medieval town located in an attractive countryside. Two full day and two half day excursions give the opportunity for participants to get in contact with each other while exploring highlights of south-western Germany's cultural heritage and enjoying its picturesque countryside. Registration is now open. A list of accepted papers and a provisional summary timetable are available at the conference website; a list of poster sessions and the full program will be announced soon. You can register online on our website at: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Pier Baldini Subject: Job opening Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:28:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 864 (864) I would appreciate your posting the following Job Opening announcement in the Humanist List. It was just aproved. Thank you very much. Job Description: Assistant Professor in Information Literacy The Department seeks an assistant professor who will do the following: * teach model courses integrating technology and information literacy skills in a language-related field; * assist language and literature faculty and graduate students in designing and implementing technological components in language, literature, or culture curses; * make connections in research between information literacy and broader cultural concepts. In addition to disciplinary expertise, the successful candidates will have expertise in information literacy and information technology. They will contribute to the implementation of a college-wide curricular initiative dedicated to achieving information technology and information literacy for all undergraduate college students. Faculty recruited for this initiative will provide leadership for individual departments to restructure degree programs and existing courses, as well as develop new courses to help achieve the goals and competencies of this initiative. The Department of Languages and Literatures consists of 66 faculty, 120 graduate students, and 400 majors. Required: Ph.D. in one of the following: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Comparative Literature, Linguistics, or related fields. Native or near-native proficiency in English and one of the above-mentioned languages; strong background in the humanities, demonstrated experience in designing and implementing technological components in language, culture, or literature classes; evidence of strong research commitment integrating information literacy with broader humanities questions. Preferred: demonstrated ability to work in non-alphabetic script; experience working with people of diverse language and cultural backgrounds. A complete application must include the following: a letter of application stating qualifications, experience, and research plans and teaching interests; a complete curriculum vitae: graduate school transcripts, three letters of reference, and samples of research and writing. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2002 or every two weeks thereafter until position filled. Position starting date is August 15, 2002. Send to: Pier R. Baldini, Chair, Information Literacy Search Committee, Department of Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University, Box 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202. All applications acknowledged. Arizona State University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. ************************************************ Prof. Pier Raimondo Baldini Department of Languages & Literatures Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Phone: 480) 965-7783 PBaldini@ASU.edu <http://www.asu.edu/florenceitaly/>http://www.asu.edu/florenceitaly/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: terms for conferencing Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:51:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 865 (865) Dear colleagues: As you know (and possibly grumble about into your morning coffee) Humanist passes along numerous announcements of conferences, colloquia and symposia, not to mention town meetings, or just plain meetings, seminars and the like. Occasionally we hear about a convention. Indeed, I myself am responsible occasionally for organising events of this kind, and of course I also actually attend some, especially the ALLC/ACH. So I have been wondering, do these terms denote different kinds of events, or do we simply vary our words as a matter of style or to carry a particular emotional payload? The OED says the following: COLLOQUIUM. 3. A meeting or assembly for discussion; a conference, council. spec. an academic conference or seminar. CONFERENCE. 6. A formal meeting for consultation or discussion; e.g. between the representatives of different sovereign states, the two Houses of Parliament or of Congress, the representatives of societies, parties, etc. CONVENTION. 4. An assembly or gathering of persons for some common object; esp. a formal assembly met for deliberation or legislation on important matters, ecclesiastical, political, or social. SEMINAR. 1b. A conference of specialists; also, more generally, a course of instruction for managers, etc. orig. U.S. SYMPOSIUM. 2. transf. a. A meeting or conference for discussion of some subject; hence, a collection of opinions delivered, or a series of articles contributed, by a number of persons on some special topic. If I were to hazard a guess from anecdotal evidence, I'd say that the terms are chosen on the basis of size or intimacy, "convention" denoting the largest of gatherings, as in the MLA Convention of more than 10,000 souls, and "seminar" the smallest, with "conference" in the middle but larger than a "colloquium" or "symposium". As the learned will know, the term "symposium" also carries the sense of "1. a. A drinking-party; a convivial meeting for drinking, conversation, and intellectual entertainment: properly among the ancient Greeks, hence generally", and "seminar" is both a synonym for "seminary" as well as "a select group of advanced students associated for special study and original research under the guidance of a professor. Also transf., a class that meets for systematic study under the direction of a teacher." Under this last sense we at King's College London refer to our "Seminar in Humanities Computing". But still I am left wondering about the terms we use. Is there a (to me) hidden consistency that I am overlooking? 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Carl Vogel Subject: scholarships in Ireland (April 5 deadline) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:19:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 866 (866) Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Post-Graduate Scholarships Applicants must be nationals of a member country of the European Union. They should already be, or will be during the academic year 2002/2003, registered in a recognised third-level institution as full-time post-graduate research students pursuing degrees by major thesis. Those who are undertaking taught programmes, or degrees where a thesis is a minor part of the programme, are not eligible. Scholarships are valued at up to 12,700 euro per annum. They will be awarded initially for one year, but subject to terms and conditions, renewable for up to two additional years. Fees will also be covered for the period of the Scholarship. The closing date for the receipt of applications is Friday 5 April 2002. 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JoDI is currently free to users thanks to support from the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:32:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 869 (869) Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 5, Week of March 18, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- S.S. Iyengar on the Paradigm Shift in Computing New tools and computational methods lead to collaborative, interdisciplinary solutions. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/s_iyengar_1.html 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Yorick Wilks Subject: White Rose Studentship Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:54:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 870 (870) The Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, UK, are offering a "White Rose" 3-year PhD studentship, beginning October 2002 on a project entitled "Characterising the impact of machine translation on information extraction in an integrated knowledge management environment". Candidates should have expertise in the formal description of English grammar, holding a good Honours or Masters degree in, for example, modern languages, linguistics or computer science. They should have good reading knowledge of one language among Fr, De, Es, It, Ja, Pt, Ru and Zh, and feel comfortable with high-level computer tools for corpus annotation. The project will be jointly supervised by Prof. Tony Hartley, Centre for Translation Studies, Leeds, and Prof. Yorick Wilks, Department of Computer Science, Sheffield. The post will be based in Leeds but involve regular visits to Sheffield, approximately 1 hour distant. The studentship provides tuition fees, an annual maintenance grant of 8,000 and a contribution towards research expenses. For further details, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/white-rose.htm Closing date: 19 April 2002 Enquiries to yorick@dcs.shef.ac. From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:56:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 871 (871) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ We are pleased to announce that the AURORA SpeechDat-Car databases are now available at a lower price for academic organisations: 1/ AURORA/CD0003-01 AURORA project database - Subset of SpeechDat- Car - Finnish Databse 2/ AURORA/CD0003-02 AURORA Project Database - Subset of SpeechDat- Car - Spanish database 3/ AURORA/CD0003-03 AURORA Project Database - Subset of SpeechDat- Car - German database 4/ AURORA/CD0003-04 AURORA Project Database - Subset of SpeechDat- Car - Danish database Price per language: For research use by academic organisations: 200 EURO For research use by commercial organisations: 1000 EURO ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 E-mail mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr ===================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: Computerworld honours Theatron Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:58:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 872 (872) University of Warwick nominated for Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Award <http://www.cwheroes.org> [The following announcement is quoted verbatim from the Computerworld site. It does not name the principal investigator responsible for Theatron and related work -- Professor Richard Beacham (Theatre Studies, Warwick). See <http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/Theatre_S/html/staff_beacham_biog.php> for more about him and his projects. --WM] [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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: A letter for Humanist Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:53:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 873 (873) Dear colleagues, I would like to call your attention to three recent and in my opinion important publications in the field of Humanties Computing (or *Humanities Computer Science*, as rightly proposed by ACO*HUM in 1999): 1) Jos Antonio Milln, *Internet y el Espaol*, Madrid: Fundacin Retevision, 2001. 2) Raul Mordenti, *Informatica e critica dei testi*, Roma: Bulzoni, 2001. 3) Rolando Minuti, *Internet et le mtier dhistorien*, Paris: PUF, 2002. As you can see, all three publications come from the Romance linguistic community, namely French, Italian, Spanish. But linguistic roots, as I will try to explain later, are not the only features they have in common. *Internet y el Espaol*, among other things, is a political manifesto on the policies of language on the Internet, and a humanistic-concerned perspective on the role (and power) of language industries in the shaping of the future communications tools: mobile phones and multi-editing platforms, but also translation software, search engines, etc. Millan [www.jamillan.com] points out the importance for Spanish, but also for other languages of building language instruments at the local level. This can be done both at institutional and educational levels, for example by creating new and specific university curricula, but also by stimulating goverments to protect national languages from indiscriminate exploitation. According to Millan, there is a risk in ignoring the linguistic hegemony of a handful of multinational industries: that we will have to pay foreign companies for using our language. Not highly improbable, I would say, if we look at the current policies of Microsoft. *Informatica e critica dei testi* (Computers and Textual Criticism) collects some of the best essays I ever read on the theory and practice of electronic philology. Raul Mordenti [University of Rome II], a Boccaccio expert, is a member of the historical literary computing group founded in the 80s by Tito Orlandi at the University of Rome La Sapienza. This group has been reflecting on the problems of digital edition and text encoding since 1980 (see the volume edited in 1987 by another member of the team, the late Giuseppe Gigliozzi, and published in the same series: *Studi di codifica e trattamento automatico di testi*, Roma: Bulzoni). If you read a little Italian, youll be delighted by the clear, elegant prose of Mordenti. Although not equally known (he published only in Italian), Raul stands among other pioneers of digital textual criticism in reading his essays, I cant help thinking of Peter Robinsons philological rigour and Jerome McGanns innovative (and someone might also say heretical) critical approach. The third book on my list, *Internet et le mtier dhistorien* (*Internet and the job of the Historian*), shares many of the good points already mentioned: clarity of style and rigour of thought above all. This volume appears in the new important series of the Presses Universitaires de France, Ecritures lectroniques. Modestly presented as an introduction to the Internet for the historian, Minutis work is much more than that: it is a profound, documented analysis on the impact of new technologies on the intellectual work, and it is a reflection on the scholarly author in the era of digital archives and dynamic electronic sources. Minuti discusses the uses of the Internet for scholarly publishing, and the problems of evaluation and academic recognition involved an area to which he brings his experience with the newly forged Florence University Press. Rolando Minuti is Professor of Modern History at the University of Florence, and with other colleagues has implemented in 1998 one of the first postgraduate programme on History and Computing, a pilot educational project fairly unique in Italy and abroad. The University of Florence is about to launch the new Italian potsgraduate programme in *Informatica per le discipline umanistiche*. But what does it mean exactly? Well, thanks to the recent university reform in Italy we now have a complete two-years course in Humanities Computer Science recognized at national level. This means that any university in the country dont forget we have a State-led educational system, and everything must be decided and negotiated at national level can implement this course, and if necessary adjust the core curriculum to local requirements and demands. And this is not all. Underway, the small but pugnacious HC Italian community is struggling for the *official* recognition of the Informatica Umanistica as a national subject that can be taught also at graduate level. This would imply a major revolution in the HC scenario: as far as I know, it would be the first time and not just in Europe that a Full Professor of Humanities Computing can be appointed by a university! No more dictatorship of other disciplines; no more academic Cinderellas: HC as a real *academic subject*! SOME PERSONAL NOTES This piece of good news allows me to introduce some ideas regarding the European HC curriculum, ideas and also concerns I have been discussing with many friends (especially during past sessions of CLiP or within the CHIME project [for more info on this initiative see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CHIME-group/]). It is not very often that we read on Humanist about books published in languages other than English. I have found this situation sometimes frustrating, sometimes irritating, but more often just very sad (and this is not the first time I am writing about it), as I think that linguistic and cultural diversity are a key factor to the successful development of Humanities Computing. But publications are not the only problem. An incredible amount of work, both practical and theoretical (of which the above mentioned publications are one of the less evident results) has been done in Continental Europe in the last ten years. I can easily point here to papers presented at CLiP 2001 [http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/CLiP2001/], for example the excellent contribution of Manfred Thaller. But it is hard to find any trace of this debate in some conferences officially dedicated to the subject. I dont know why this is happening. Lack of linguistic competence? cultural shock? Who knows. A clear example is the recent meeting of Alberta (Nov 2001). Only six (6) out of thirty-five (35) papers were presented by scholars coming from Europe, and of these six people, only two or three were coming from non-English speaking countries. Not enough, in my opinion, to give such a universal title to the conference: Humanities Computing Curriculum Conference. Whatever the organizers intentions were (and I am sure they all had very good intentions), the HC curruculum in North America and the UK would have been perhaps more realistic. Of course I am not trying here to accuse the meeting of Alberta of HC Imperialism, and far be it from me to critique Humanist I have too much respect and esteem for all the members of this list and its moderator. However, Id like to urge all members of the international HC community to pay more attention to people, events and publications coming from places different from UK, North America and other English-speaking countries. Possibly, it is time to create something like a Southern branch of the ACH, or may be we need a whole new association for professionals and researchers coming from other areas of Europe. I dont have any solution ready in my mind, and I would like to discuss this with you. But I know many colleagues share similar concerns when I say that non-English Humanities Computing research and scholarship have been not consistently and fairly represented in official publications and events. Sincerely, Domenico Fiormonte Professore a contratto Universit di Roma II / Universit di Roma La Sapienza 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI: New issue announcement Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:18:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 874 (874) A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION (Volume 2, issue 3, March 2002) Included in this issue, two award-winning papers from the Hypertext' 01 conference. SIGWEB Douglas Engelbart Best Paper S. R. El-Beltagy, W. Hall, D. De Roure and L. Carr Linking in Context http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i03/REl-Beltagy/ SIGWEB Ted Nelson Newcomer Award A. Miles Hypertext Structure as the Event of Connection http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i03/Miles/ R. 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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:18:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 875 (875) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 5, Week of March 18, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- S.S. Iyengar on the Paradigm Shift in Computing New tools and computational methods lead to collaborative, interdisciplinary solutions. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/s_iyengar_1.html From: ubiquity Subject: New Issue Alert! Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:53:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 876 (876) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 6, Week of March 25, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- Ramping up the Internet Noted Protocol designer Krishan Sabnani talks about next-generation networks. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/k_sabnani_1.html Review -- Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction Review by Austin Henderson An in-depth look at why some products can be used with ease, and others leave you frustrated. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/a_henderson_1.html 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Eve Trager Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:56:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 877 (877) Models This issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing features authors who have broken out of the box, are coloring outside the lines, and see beyond the horizon, By changing their mental models of electronic publishing, they have found possibilities that can invigorate your world view. So here is the April 2021 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/ Change the Metaphor: The Archive as an Ecosystem http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/martin.html Julia Martin and David Coleman take the position that there is no single answer to the archiving problem, that archiving practices must evolve as surely as any living organism. An Economic Model for Web Enhancements to a Print Journal http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/joseph.html Heather Joseph helped a scholarly society re-think its publishing model. As a result, the society's publishing program went from cash strapped to thriving -- even while making the journal free online. Revolutions and Images and the Development of Knowledge: Implications for Research Libraries and Publishers of Scholarly Communications http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/lukesh.html Susan S. Lukesh says the potential for three-dimensional and four-dimensional images on line should inspire electronic publishers and libraries to think differently about what they provide. An Experimental Study: The Relationship Between Multimedia Features and Information Retrieval http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/raney.html Arthur A. Raney, Jeremy R. Jackson, Debbie B. Edwards, Karrie L. Schaffler, Jean Blutenthal Arrington, and Melissa R. Price subjected volunteers to Web sites with and without animation and multimedia features to see whether flashy graphics helps users. The Medium Vanishes? The Resurrection of the Mass Audience in the New Media Economy http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/downes.html Daniel M. Downes explores the effects of thinking of the Internet as a broadcasting medium versus a shopping mall versus an interactive medium. Q.A.: Looking Forward, Looking Back http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/lieb0703.html Contributing editor Thom Lieb reflects how styles have changed since his first JEP column five years ago. Editor's Gloss: Models http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/glos0703.html Creating herons from paper requires that you be able to see the possibilities of herons in paper. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep You got this message because you signed up to receive notices of JEP issues. You will continue to receive messages three times a year with each new issue. If you do not want to receive further notices, please contact jep-info@umich.edu. And if your e-mail system returns an error message to this message, your name will be expunged from our list without further notice. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Domenico Fiormonte" Subject: Adaptive Hypermedia conference Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:51:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 878 (878) Art, Art Criticism, Computing Science, and Adaptive Hypermedia http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/aacah Malaga, 28/5/2002 in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Based Systems 29/5/2002 - 31/5/2002 Malaga, Spain http://sirius.lcc.uma.es/AH2002/ So far, adaptive hypermedia have been used mainly to develop online educational systems, despite the potentially wider spectrum of uses to which they could be applied. Some recent research has explored the potential advantages of delivering cultural information by means of adaptive methodologies, which can positively influence the way cultural heritage information is approached, accessed, and absorbed. Much less attention has been devoted to producing artistic creations by means of AH. When used for art, AH should be considered as the canvas whose characteristics can influence the final artistic result in a peculiar way. The goal of this workshop is to investigate how artistic constructs and AH can be integrated. [material deleted] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte http://www.digitalvariants.org http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/curr_eng.htm From: Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre Subject: Extreme Papers Due April 3, 2002 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:55:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 879 (879) Submissions for Extreme Markup Languages 2002 are due on April 3, 2002. 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Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2002: April 17-20 in Boston, MA, USA Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:57:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 880 (880) Museums and the Web 2002 April 17-20, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Join us at the largest conference ever exploring culture and heritage on-line! Now in its sixth year, Museums and the Web examines the current state of the Web for museums, culture and heritage world-wide. Over 100 museum professionals and digital library researchers will present their ideas and latest findings in papers, demonstrations, performances and panels, 14 workshops and full day "Crit Room" & "Usability Lab" sessions Full details about the Museums and the Web 2002 conference, on-line registration, abstracts of all papers, and biographies of the presenters are on-line at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ The Park Plaza Hotel has agreed to extend its special MW2002 rate until April 9, 2002. Take advantage of this and the record low airfare rates and join us in Boston. David, Flavia and jennifer -- __________ J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __________ From: "Robert Batusek" Subject: TSD 2002 - DEADLINE EXTENDED !!! Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 11:58:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 881 (881) Extended deadlines: Submission of papers: === April 5, 2002 === Notification of acceptance May 7, 2002 Dear Colleague, submissions to the TSD 2002 conference (<http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/>http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/) are still coming. At the same time, we have received many requests to extend the deadline to allow submitting other papers that are just being finished. Please, make use of this opportunity and submit a paper to this important event in the area of natural language processing! TSD 2002 Organizing Committee ********************************************************* TSD 2002 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2002) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-12 September 2002 <http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/>http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2002/ The conference is organised by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2002 conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora; automatic morphology; word sense disambiguation; lexical semantics and semantic networks; parsing and part-of-speech tagging; machine translation; multi-lingual issues; information retrieval; text/topic summarization; knowledge representation and reasoning; speech modeling; speech coding; speech segmentation; speech prosody; automatic speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; speaker identification and verification; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody and emotions in dialogues; user modeling; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; markup languages related to speech and dialogue (VoiceXML, SSML, ...). Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. 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CPE is the only national software distributor committed to providing the lowest prices EXCLUSIVELY to the Education community with the best customer service. All prices and availability are subject to change without notice. ___________________ We hope you find this message valuable. If you do not wish to receive special offers and updates from edu-software.com, please REPLY to this message, and enter the word 'REMOVE' in the subject line. E-MAIL MARKETING: NO WASTED PAPER - SAVES TREES - GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT! DELETE WITH ONE SIMPLE KEYSTROKE! ___________________ THANK YOU! MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA! From: Willard McCarty Subject: continuing consequences of Babel Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:50:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 883 (883) In Humanist 15.558 Domenico Fiormonte rightly laments our monolingualism: [deleted quotation] Checking with friends in various disciplines I find the same situation -- people read, sometimes talk and write in the languages they know. Some of these, German and French in particular, tend more often to be an native English speaker's second tongue, and English tends to be the preferred second tongue for most everyone else. English increasingly predominates; it is the one language now that in our parts of the world and in the communities in which we circulate allows the greatest number of people to communicate with each other. (Remember, it was once French -- were there such complaints then, directed at native French speakers? -- before that, Latin, which had the advantage of being no one's native tongue, and so giving no one of the educated a particular advantage.) In any case, what Domenico sees is both no surprise and the cause of many difficulties for us -- especially the isolation from important work, as he notes. In my mind the question is, what do we do about it? All well and good to say we should take a year or two to learn one or two additional languages (which we should), but few of us will, and meanwhile the problem continues. Involving other languages in our conferences is impractical for other reasons. What do we do about this serious 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Pablo Usabiaga" Subject: LIQUID Project Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:06:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 884 (884) LIQUID (Language Independent Querying for Information Discovery), is a RTD project which main objective is the development of a cost-effective strategy to provide cross-language access to multilingual text databases. The domain of the text database used in this project is gastroenterology, and the selected languages are English, Spanish, German and French; however, the results achieved by this project may be expanded, in the future, into other languages and fields of knowledge. The project's goal is to implement a querying system which, in response to a query introduced by a user in his own language, will retrieve documents in the various languages that are addressed in the text database. In order to do so, the query is automatically translated from the user's languange into the rest of languages through a semantic network which is linked to indexed terms which occure in the texts. The development of this semantic network is also one of the tasks covered by LIQUID. This project, funded by the INFSO DG of the European Commission, as part of Key Action III "Multimedia Contents and Tools" of the IST Programme, began in January 2001 and will end in December 2002. The partners participating in LIQUID are: SchlumbergerSema (Spain), Language and Computing (Belgium), Koordinierungszentrum fr Klinische Studien - Heinrich-Heine Universitt Dsseldorf (Germany), IMIM - Institut Municipal d'Investigaci Mdica (Spain), Clinical Information Science Unit - University of Leeds (United Kingdom), OESI - Instituto Cervantes (Spain), Center for Health Care Quality and European Union Center - University of Missouri-Columbia (USA). More information about LIQUID is available from the European Commission Human Language Technologies website (<http://www.HLTcentral.org/Projects/LIQUID>http://www.HLTcentral.org/Projects/LIQUID), from the LIQUID website (<http://liquid.sema.es>http://liquid.sema.es) and from the OESI-Instituto Cervantes website (<http://oesi.cervantes.es/liquid>http://oesi.cervantes.es/liquid). Additional information about LIQUID and Human Language Technologies may also be requested by e-mail to liquid@cervantes.es. From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)" Subject: Master Lectures Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:04:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 885 (885) VIII SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE COMUNICACIN SOCIAL CENTRO DE LINGSTICA APLICADA SANTIAGO DE CUBA 20-24 DE ENERO DEL 2003 En este evento se ofrecern tres Conferencias Magistrales, las cuales se impartirn por los siguientes prestigiosos especialistas: - Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, Investigadora, Instituto de Lingstica Computacional Pisa, Italia - Prof. Dr. Yorick Wilks, Investigador, Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacin Universidad de Sheffield, Sheffield, Reino Unido - Prof. Dr. Robert Berwick, Instituto Tecnolgico de Massachusetts, Estados Unidos ***** EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 20-24, 2003 During the Symposium three master lectures will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, Professor and Researcher, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Pisa, Italy - Prof. Dr. Yorick Wilks, Professor and Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK - Prof. Dr. Robert Berwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Comit Organizador Organizing Committee 8SICS 8ISSC From: Nyiri Kristof Subject: Conference on communications Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:05:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 886 (886) Dunabogdny, April 2, 2002. Dear Colleague: This is to announce the conference NEW PERSPECTIVES ON 21ST-CENTURY COMMUNICATIONS May I burden you with the request to further distribute the present announcement. And of course I would be extremely pleased if you yourself, too, would consider attending the event. The conference, organized by the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary), will be held on May 24-25, 2002, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, V. ker. Roosevelt tr 9). Speakers include Wolfgang Coy, Robin Dunbar, Nicola Green, Herbert Hrachovec, Carsten Sorensen, Barbara Tversky. Here follows the program of the conference. For details (abstracts, etc.) see the http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/2002_konf webpage, where also a REGISTRATION FORM is to be found. Participating in the conference involves no registration fees. *** --- deleted material --- The website http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu offers rich, continuously updated material on the topic of the mobile information society. Kristf Nyri =================================== Kristof [J.C.] Nyiri Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Professor of Philosophy, Etvs Lornd University, Budapest Director, Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Address (private): H-2023 Dunabogdany, POB 8 Tel. and fax (Institute): +36 1 3120 243 Tel. and fax (home): +36 26 390 468 Tel. mobile: +36 30 3500 421 E-mail: nyiri@phil-inst.hu Personal homepage: http://www.uniworld.hu/nyiri Institute for Philosophical Research website: http://www.phil-inst.hu Institute for Philosophical Research Open University website: http://openuniversity.phil-inst.hu UNIWORLD Virtual University website: http://www.uniworld.hu "Communications in the 21st Century" project website: http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- Harold Short Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities Asst Director (Focused Services), Information Services & Systems King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2739 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: Re: 15.560 monolingualism Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:08:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 887 (887) Willard, You ask [deleted quotation] I suggest 1) Translation be rewarded. 2) Multilingual abstracts become common and best practice (subset of rewarding translation) If the money and resources are there, it will happen. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: "Totosy, Steven" Subject: Re: 15.560 monolingualism Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:09:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 888 (888) with regard to the issue of monolingualism, the recent article by Eric DICKENS in CLCWeb 4.1 (2002) may be of interest: "Literary Translation in Britain and Selective Xenophobia" at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb02-1/dickens02.html>. Abstract: In his article "Literary Translation in Britain and Selective Xenophobia," Eric Dickens discusses the fact that fewer translations of works of contemporary prose, poetry, and essays appear in Great Britain than perhaps anywhere else in Europe. Dickens attributes this shortfall to various factors, including poor language teaching and an indifference to foreign languages in general, but also to a degree of smugness with regard to literature written in English being "the best in the world." In his study Dickens covers such areas as the availability of literary translations in bookshops, the attitudes of publishers, and the effect of prizes on the selection of authors translated. He also attempts to demonstrate that postcolonial studies has remained an exclusively English-language enterprise, rather than becoming a methodology for global liberation. with my best regards, steven totosy, editor, CLCWeb at http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ From: Anne Mahoney Subject: The Stoa's first born-digital book Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:07:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 889 (889) The Stoa Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of "Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane," edited by Cathy Calloway, University of Missouri at Columbia, with assistance from Pamela A. Draper, Clemson University. The 20 essays in this collection range widely over Greek and Roman literature, history, and archaeology. This book has been published only in electronic form. SGML markup, using the TEI DTD (http://www.tei-c.org), allows the essays to take advantage of the Stoa's document management system and integrated reading environment, originally developed by the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu -- more information about the software at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/rydberg-cox/). Structured texts at the Stoa can already use services from Perseus, in particular the Greek and Latin language tools. Over the next several months, additional kinds of interconnections will become available, and "Ancient Journeys" will automatically be able to use them. "Ancient Journeys" is at http://www.stoa.org/lane/. The Stoa welcomes proposals for scholarly projects. We can provide guidance on structured markup, meta-data, and other relevant standards and techniques. All Stoa publications are peer reviewed, and all Stoa publications are freely available to all readers. See http://www.stoa.org for further information. --Anne Mahoney Ross Scaife Co-Editors, Stoa Consortium ------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 3.7 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 07:08:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 890 (890) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 7, Week of April 1, 2002 In this issue: Views -- UCITA: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing Proposed legislation to Protect vendors has potentially high costs for software users. By M.E. Kabay http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_8.html Attendre le suitcase... What would happen if we had smart entities running over stupid networks rather than the other way around? We would coordinate by substituting communication for planning, that's what. By Espen Andersen http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_andersen_2.html From: edilog@ed.ac.uk Subject: EDILOG 2002, 2nd CFP (Submission deadline: May 10) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:00:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 891 (891) First Call for Papers EDILOG 2002 SIXTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE Edinburgh University Sept 4th-6th 2002 http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/ Edilog 2002 will be the sixth in a series of workshops that aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models and turn-taking - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - reference in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - interpretation of questions and answers - nonlinguistic interaction in communication - natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - multimodal dialogue systems - dialogue management in practical implementations - categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - designing and evaluating dialogue systems [material deleted] From: "nicole.adamides" Subject: Call for Papers - Translating and the Computer 24 Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:04:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 892 (892) 24th Annual Conference: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 21-22 November 2002 CBI, London Organised by Aslib/IMI and supported by EAMT, IAMT, ITI and BCS This conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. Once again, this year the conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. It will address the needs of the following conference attendees: - industry - public administration - agencies - freelancers - development This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on theoretical issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. TOPICS The range of topics includes (but is not limited to) - use of MT systems - machine-aided translation and translation aids - controlled languages and their use in MT - speech translation - terminology - localisation - multilingual document management/workflow - case studies of technology-based solutions - the Internet and translation aids/services - the value of free versus charging services/sites on the Internet SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are required to submit an abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the paper they would like to present, together with an outline of the structure of the paper and short BIOGRAPHY. Abstracts should be sent by post or email before 20th June 2002 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser Aslib, The Association for Information Management Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB Tel: +44(0) 20 7903 0000 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011 Email: nicole.adamides@tinyworld.co.uk WWW: <http://www.aslib.com/>www.aslib.com The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely: Daniel Grasmick, SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton; Chris Pyne, Lionbridge Technologies Deutschland and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations. The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 1 August 2002. The full length versions of the accepted papers (authors will be provided with detailed camera-ready copy guidelines) will be included in the conference proceedings and must be submitted by 10th October 2002. From: Deena Larsen Subject: Please join the ELO Symposium this Sat Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:08:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 893 (893) The Electronic Literature Organization's Symposium is April 4-6 in LA. <http://www.eliterature.org/state/index.shtml> If you can't make it in person, please join us online Saturday the 6th from 12-1 PT (20:00 hours GMT) What we'll discuss: The electronic writing and art communities are intertwined to the point where no one can tell where one ends and one leaves off. This meeting will be one in a series of meetings proposed at other conferences including Incubation in July 2002 and Hypertext02 in June 2002. This is a chance to meet fellow creators of electronic art/music/literature and explore: How can we use the online environment to further collaborations between artists and writers? How do the online environment and other new media tools modify the relationship between writing, language, imagery, culture, and ethnicity? How has online communication and coordination changed art and writing? How are lines between art and literature blurring? What new ways are we using to communicate with art and writing? How to join us 1) open your browser 2) go to http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000 3) click on the LOG IN button on the left hand side 4) type in your name at the prompt 5) once in the MOO, type "@go eliterature" to get to the electronic literature chat room. That's it! The chat archive would be edited for readibility and posted on the ELO <http://www.eliterature.org> and trAce sites <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/ >, as part of our ongoing ELO/trAce chat programs. From: Stefan Sinclair Subject: monolingualism Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 06:58:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 894 (894) Dear Colleagues, [Re: monolingualism] [deleted quotation] Among other strategies, those of us interested in promoting quality content on the Web in languages other than English, continue to do so. In this vein, I invite those of you who read French to visit the excellent "Astrolabe" site that is part of the "Recherche littraire et informatique" project led my Michel Lemaire at l'Universit d'Ottawa. The "Encyclopdie" contains (usually rather short encyclopedic type) articles by researchers such as tienne Brunet (Hyberbase), Michel Bernard (Banque de Donnes d'Histoire Littraire) and Christian Vandendorpe (hypertext). http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe/index.html The Astrolabe site is always interested in reviewing submissions of scholarly articles in French on topics related to computing in literary studies. This may be an excellent opportunity for strong graduate students to publish a peer-reviewed article in French. Yours, Stfan P.S. Hopefully the (iso-8859-1 encoded) accents in this message don't get hopelessly deformed, thereby adding weight to complaints of monolingualism. ______________________________________________________________ Stfan Sinclair, University of Alberta Phone: (780) 492-6768, FAX: (780) 492-9106, Office: Arts 218-B Address: Arts 200, MLCS, UofA, Edmonton, AB (Canada) T6G 2E6 M.A. in Humanities Computing: http://huco.ualberta.ca/ From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 15.563 monolingualism Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:06:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 895 (895) [deleted quotation] as he [deleted quotation] problem [deleted quotation] impractical for [deleted quotation] My experience is somewhat different from yours in that I don't believe that the average person can learn another language or two in a "year or two." At least not proficiently. I have never run into a person who can read, write and speak well in a language (not his native one) who learn that language in school. I studied Spanish for 5 years and German for three years and it wasn't until I spent two years in South America having to communicate in Spanish (in order to eat), that I was able to cross the threshold in speaking ability. And I still don't do it very well. As for German it is hopeless to do anthing more than read for me. But of course I was learning these additional languages after 12. The secret to learning language is to do so when you are young and learning them along with your own in total immersion. One of my brothers took his whole family to Mexico for six months so that he could learn and improve his Spanish. His children all came back speaking Spanish well while he didn't. David Reed From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:01:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 896 (896) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ We are pleased to announce two new resources available in our catalogue of language resources: S0121 Turkish Speech Database S0122 German SpeechDat-Car Database A short description of these two new resources is given below. Please visit the online catalogue to get further details: http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html S0121 Turkish Continuous and Isolated Word Speech Database The Turkish speech database contains 14 hours of read speech (1618 words) from 43 Turkish speakers (adults over 18; 22 males, 21 females). S0122 German SpeechDat-Car Database The German SpeechDat-Car database comprises 338 German speakers (159 females, 179 males) recorded over the mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered over 120 read and spontaneous items. ************************************************************* The Erlanger Bahnansage - ERBA - database, reference S0013, is now available for commercial use: Price for members: 6263.29 Euro (Reminder - price for research use: 511.29 Euro) Price for non-members: 6774.58 Euro (Rminder - price for research use: 1022.58 Euro) ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 E-mail mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr ===================================== From: "J. Trant - Executive Director" Subject: New AMICO Distributor: Cartography Associates Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:01:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 897 (897) Art Museum Image Consortium www.amico.org Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia AMICO Press Release March 25, 2002 Greater Delivery Choices for The AMICO Library (TM): David Rumsey and AMICO Sign Distribution Agreement Rumsey chooses Luna's Insight software as distribution environment AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA - The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and Cartography Associates, owned by David Rumsey, have signed a distribution agreement to deliver The AMICO Library (TM) for higher education and scholarly use. Cartography Associates, a provider of online digital images of rare 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic history materials, is the latest in a series of distributors, announced in recent months, making The AMICO Library available at reasonable rates with different functional and interface flexibility. Our objective is to make The AMICO Library widely available for a variety of user types, from small art institutes to large public library systems, K-12 schools to state universities, and to provide users with a choice of service providers so they may select one that particularly suits their unique needs. For its presentation of The AMICO Library, Cartography Associates has chosen Luna Imaging's Insight software as the delivery platform. The collection will be available for the Fall 2002 term to educators and scholars within institutions, as well as for individual unaffiliated scholars, for an annual subscription rate. Luna Imaging will provide hosting and customer services for Cartography Associates. As AMICO's Executive Director, Jennifer Trant, notes, "Cartography Associates is a wonderful addition to our growing group of distributors. David Rumsey's existing experience with online image distribution and his alliance with Luna Imaging are of great interest to AMICO. We hope these connections will help build links to and added functionality for a much broader range of scholarly users of The AMICO Library in communities beyond those we currently serve. David Rumsey's vision coordinates well with AMICO's desire to widen and deepen educational use of museum collections through network technologies." The addition of The AMICO Library as the second collection of Cartography Associates supports the vision of David Rumsey to provide a broad range of cultural materials to both educators and scholars and the ability to integrate cultural materials from several disciplines in ways never before achieved for scholarly exploration at the highest level of quality possible using the Internet. "I am pleased to be able to bring this important collection from major museums together with powerful software that I believe in," Rumsey says. "I want to make the availability of The AMICO Library as affordable and as accessible to as many people as possible. My relationship with Luna Imaging will allow us to serve customers by offering an exciting array of software tools for accessing and viewing this outstanding collection of art images." About David Rumsey and Cartography Associates Cartography Associates provides presentation of historical maps and other culturally significant materials for research and education using the Internet. Cartography Associates was founded by map collector David Rumsey in 1996 to provide online distribution of digital images from his private collection of rare 18th and 19th century North and South American maps. The David Rumsey Map Collection, one of the largest private map collections in the United States, numbers over 150,000 maps and includes rare atlases, charts, globes, wall maps and related items. The online collection, currently numbering over 6,500 maps, is a growing cross section of the physical collection and is highly regarded by researchers and the public alike, as evidenced by the thousands of Web site visitors each day to www.davidrumsey.com. Rumsey's site has been featured in Wired Magazine, USA Today, and TechTV and has received numerous Web awards, including Yahoo Pick of the Week, and Best of the Net from About.com For more information regarding the availability of The AMICO Library from Cartography Associates, contact Jennifer Zabriskie at 310 274 8787, ext. 121. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of multimedia documentation of works in their collections. The 2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 100,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations; new works are added annually. More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org. Contact Information Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: info@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org AMICO Members Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Asia Society Gallery Center for Creative Photography Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute The Cleveland Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College Denver Art Museum The Detroit Institute of Arts Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library George Eastman House J. Paul Getty Museum The Library of Congress Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Muse d'art contemporain de Montral Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Canada National Museums of Scotland The Newark Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Terra Museum of American Art Victoria & Albert Museum Walker Art Center The Walters Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art -- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________ From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: P2P or peer squared Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:07:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 898 (898) Willard, As subscribers to Humanist know, computer-mediated communication appears in many guises: ftp archives, publishing on the WWW, discussion lists and newsgroups, MOOs and synchronous encounters, software distribution on disk. I wonder how academic publications and events are advertised. Has there been an evolution from the days of when Archie was used to search for repositories of files accessible by ftp? Has the sense of targeting audiences shifted --- one thinks of the almost ubiquitous apology for cross-posting and the frequent extension of calls for papers, proposals and presentations? My question is prompted by this little bit from an introduction from a recent publication ( a programmers reference work ) : P2P You can enroll in our peer-to-peer discussion forums at [...] where we provide you with a forum where you can put your questions to the author, reviewers and fellow industry professionals. [...] You can choose to join the mailing lists or you can receive them as a weekly digest. If you dont have the time or facility to receive the mailing list, then you can search our online archives. Youll find the ability to search on specific subject areas or keywords. As these lists are moderated, you can be confident of finding good, accurate information quickly. Mails can be edited or moved by the moderator into the correct place, making this a most efficient resource. Junk and spam mail are deleted, and your own-email address is protected by the unique [...] system from web-bots that can automatically collect newsgroup mailing list addresses. I am struck by the interesting conjunction of the invitation to ask questions with the promise of well-organised information : both poised on the judicious intervention of a human moderator aided by ingenious software. I post this to re-iterate the now familiar theme of an academy without walls, an academy that understands that the records of a gathering can reach those not gathered in that instant. And in so reiterating the commonplace of the documentary trail, I issue a plea that, as the new century advances, more and more academically-trained professionals whether academics by vocation or avocation consider access to the records of events as well as access to events themselves. There is a risk in doing so. And perhaps a greater risk in avoiding the consideration. -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: interview with Allen Renear Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:05:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 899 (899) Humanists will be interested in the resurfacing of an interview with Allen Renear, past president of the ACH and now Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It had been published in Fox News Online but was removed some time ago -- as old news? In any case, it's available at <http://www.stg.brown.edu/pub/local/foxinterview.htm> and still makes interesting reading. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: M.Stolz-Hladky@unibas.ch Subject: Parzival-Project Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:05:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 900 (900) Dear list, the Parzival Project, based at the University of Basle (Switzerland), now has its own homepage: http://www.germa.unibas.ch/Mediaevistik/Parzival/Projekt/ Our project team is planning a critical electronic edition of parts of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival', a German poem composed between 1200 and 1210. The edition includes transcriptions and digital images of all manuscripts. We are also concentration on stemmatological analysis using philological and phylogenetic methods (borrowed from natural sciences). Best wishes Michael Stolz University of Basle ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: igor.urz.unibas.ch From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Illinois OAI Protocol Metadata Harvesting Project: Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:07:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 901 (901) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 4, 2002 Illinois OAI Protocol Metadata Harvesting Project: Repository available for searching http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/search [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 2002: Papers on-line Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 07:09:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 902 (902) Apologies for any duplication -- please forward as appropriate Museums and the Web 2002 April 17-20, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ * MW2002 PAPERS: now on-line * * http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/speakers/index.html * Papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2002 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any highlighted title in an Abstract to find the full paper text. A printed volume of selected papers is also available; see http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/new.html for details. [material deleted] From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News: New European Forum for Language Technology Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:48:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 903 (903) ELRA is pleased to announce: ****************************************************** LangTech 2002 New European Forum for Language Technology ******************************************************* LangTech 2002 will take place on 26th and 27th September 2002, at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Berlin. Along with speeches from leading players in the field of HLT, some technologies developed in the field of speech and language processing will also be presented by solution providers and developers. An exhibition will be organised at LangTech 2002. It will be a milestone during this event. Applications, products, services and research prototypes will be presented on this occasion. If you are interested in exhibiting at LangTech 2002, please contact us, at exhibition@lang-tech.org. Further details about LangTech 2002 are available at the following address: http://www.lang-tech.org ********************************************************* ELRA / ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris - France Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 ********************************************************* From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: USPTO/Copyright Office: "Copyright Conference" April 25-26 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:49:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 904 (904) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 8, 2002 US Patent & Trademark Office & The Copyright Office Announce: The Copyright Conference April 25-26, 2002 http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/copyrightconference/ Registration Opens Today; Deadline: Friday April 19 Attendance Limited to 175 people each day; no on-site registration From the Web Site: "The rapid globalization of trade and the growth of the Internet have opened up a whole new world of economic opportunities-and a whole new world of challenges-for intellectual property owners. In the post-WIPO Copyright Treaty ratification environment, governments, businesses and creators are taking steps to protect copyrighted works so as to best take advantage of new technologies. The Copyright Conference will create an opportunity for Jim Rogan, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and other high-ranking government intellectual property officials, to discuss current domestic and international issues vital to the development of e-commerce with members of the business and intellectual property communities." LOCATION: The Academy for Educational Development Conference Center 1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW 8th Floor Washington, DC 20009-5721 PANELS: Panel Topics include: * Perspectives on the Implementation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty * Perspectives on International Enforcement * End User Issues * Audiovisual Issues * Views on Copyright Term: Eldred v. Ashcroft * Broadcasting and Webcasting Issues * Folklore Issues -- ============================================================== 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: "danna c. bell-russel" Subject: Slavery and the Courts collection on American Memory Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:46:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 905 (905) Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 is the latest addition to the more than one hundred online collections that are a part of the American Memory Historical Collections presented by the Library of Congress. This new collection features about one hundred pamphlets and books documenting the difficult experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. Drawn from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, these materials include an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, and other works of historical importance concerning slaves in free jurisdictions, fugitive slaves, slave revolts, the African slave trade, and abolitionists in the North and South. Highlights of the collection include the cases of Somerset v. Stewart, 1772, which laid the groundwork for the abolition of slavery in England, and Dred Scott, 1857, which helped precipitate the Civil War, as well as the memoirs of Daniel Drayton, who helped slaves escape to freedom. Other materials document the work of John Quincy Adams and William Lloyd Garrison to abolish slavery and the trial of John Brown. The collection contains courtroom transcripts, important speeches from trials, lawyers' trial arguments, and Supreme Court decisions. A special presentation shows a manuscript slave code of 1860 from the District of Columbia. The collection can be found at the following url: < http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ > Please direct any questions to <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html> From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: eScholarship Repository announced by California Digital Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:02:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 906 (906) Library NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 8, 2002 eScholarship Repository announced by California Digital Library http://repositories.cdlib.org/ A model new service has just been announced by the California Digital Library: a repository for storing and distributing digital academic working papers together with services and tools for both authors and readers which, for example, can issue alerts when new work is produced and allows tracking of changes over time. David Green =========== ************* PRESS RELEASE ********************* California Digital Library University of California, Office of the President 300 Lakeside Drive, 6th Floor Oakland, CA 94612 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John Ober (510) 987-0425 John.Ober@ucop.edu April 3, 2002 Oakland, CA CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY OPENS ONLINE REPOSITORY FOR WORKING PAPERS The California Digital Library today announced the launch of a web site and associated digital services to store and distribute academic research results and working papers. The eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/) includes a set of author and reader services for the rapid dissemination of scholarship authored or sponsored by faculty from the University of California. Its initial focus will be on working papers from the humanities and social sciences. Built under a co-development partnership with the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), the tools behind the eScholarship Repository improve the speed and efficiency of sharing the results of scholarly efforts. For participating scholars, departments, and research institutes, publishing working papers is greatly streamlined. The submission, processing, and dissemination of papers is managed through a simple web interface, the bepress EdiKit system. Likewise, readers can, at no charge, discover and view relevant research by topic, author, or sponsoring research department with the sites straightforward organization and search tools. The system also allows users to sign up for a service alerting them to new content in their specific areas of interest. Following focus groups and planning meetings in late 2001 with UC social science scholars and research staff, the repository opens with early-adopter social science research units at UC Berkeley and UCLA. The Berkeley Olin Program in Law and Economics, Institute of Industrial Relations, Institute of Business and Economic Research, Institute of Transportation Studies, and others are moving existing working paper series to the repository as well as using it to publish new scholarship. The eScholarship Repository will also be the first stop for papers in the University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS) peer-reviewed ePublications Program, an eScholarship initiative launched last year (http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ias.html). "What's not to like?" asked Martin Wachs, Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Professor of Civil Engineering and City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. "I welcome any technology that improves people's access to our research. By placing ITS researchers' papers in this new digital repository, we will be able to reach a larger audience." The repository represents an important component of the CDL's eScholarship program, whose mission is to facilitate and support scholar-led innovations in scholarly communication. A clear advantage of CDL's sponsorship of the repository is its commitment to making the working papers available over time. "Of course, libraries have long been in the business of preserving materials and providing ongoing access to them, so it makes sense that UC's digital library would respond to these goals for digital scholarship as well," said Catherine Candee, Director of Scholarly Communication Initiatives for the CDL. "Scholars responded enthusiastically to our support of innovations in the early dissemination of their work, but the safekeeping and ongoing availability of that work, through inevitable software and hardware changes, is of paramount concern to them and us as well," she added. Associated with the authors' concern for permanence of the digital versions of their papers is a reader's need for reliable tracking of the evolution of a work. The eScholarship Repository accommodates that need by maintaining links and citations for previous or later versions of any material posted. CDL expects the collection to grow quickly in size and diversity, with the addition of content from other social science and humanities institutes and scholars. The eScholarship program is working with UC libraries and a 10-campus scholarly communication advisory body to schedule this phased expansion. Although the content of the repository is expected to grow to tens of thousands of articles, eScholarship builds from a vision of researchers who are able to search across many openly available repositories, leading to single-point access to a global network of research results. By adopting a technology for sharing repository contents, known as the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesting protocol, the eScholarship repository joins a set of like-minded initiatives to bring the vision a step closer. According to Candee, the eScholarship Repository could not come at a better time for social sciences. There are few well-organized alternatives with non-profit backing and goals of low or no-cost access to social science scholarship. In contrast to commercial ventures, that may charge both for authors to deposit materials into a collection and for readers to search and use a collection, the eScholarship model extends university support of scholarship to include its dissemination to the broader community at no cost. "I am thrilled that an institution as large and influential as the University of California is providing a viable option for social scientists and humanities scholars to share their work," said Marc Mayerson, Assistant Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA. "What better role could the CDL play than to help us help ourselves in creating faster, broader, permanent means of building upon each others work, or to manage the output from the Universitys investment in scholars and scholarship?" # # # Editors: Additional information about the California Digital Library may be found at the CDL web site, http://www.cdlib.org . Additional information about the eScholarship program may be found at http://www.escholarship.cdlib.org/. For additional information about the CDL please contact John Ober, CDL director for education & strategic innovation, (510) 987-0425; or John.Ober@ucop.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: Re: 15.567 monolingualism Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:47:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 907 (907) Dear all, On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] No, the accents did not get hopelessly deformed - the accented letters are simply missing. Not only in the copy I see with my mailer, but also in the copy in the Humanist Archives accessible over the net, leaving there for future textual studies or linguistic evaluation of this potential "corpus of correspondence on computers in the humanities" such interesting words like littraire, universit, encyclopdie, tienne. (I admit that death is sometimes better than life-long torture...) I show up again, because about 5 weeks ago I reported to the moderator of this list a similar behaviour of the software used by Humanist towards German umlauts. Must we, to avoid monolinguism, recommend Latin as a second language (Latin does have neither umlauts nor accents)? Best 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: AMICO Launches On-Line Reproduction Request Form Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:50:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 908 (908) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 8, 2002 AMICO Launches On-Line Reproduction Request Form http://www.amico.org The Art Museum Image Consortium recently announced a potentially very valuable service to AMICO subscribers and non-subscribers alike: an on-line reproduction request form for seeking reproductions of works in AMICO members collections. With information requested about the user and the use as well as about the item requested, the form could rapidly speed requests and enable better service for different user and use profiles. The request form functions off the thumbnail request catalog: http://search.amico.org/amico/apw/search/. 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: accented characters Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:39:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 909 (909) Members of this group should know that the problem kindly pointed out by Wilhelm Ott and Stefan Sinclair (whose name this problem now prevents me from transmitting in its true form) is now, once again, under investigation. From what I have been able to determine none of the email-processing software (at Princeton, Virginia and King's College London, including my own client) is responsible and neither is Listserv (at Princeton). Apparently the fault is in the revised version of the digesting scripts, written a couple of years ago for us by a kind programmer who happened to be passing through London and whom I persuaded to spend a day or so devising her ingenious scheme and implementing it. I say "apparently" because the fault has not yet been found in these scripts, only nowhere else. I should also explain that the problem has been with us for a long time. If memory serves (which it often doesn't) previous attempts to fix the problem were met with a kind but firm "go away" from various people on various systems now no longer involved. Meanwhile, it seems, communications software has improved in ways I only observe but do not understand, so that more generous encodings of a wider range of characters pass through unharmed. No doubt if I understood these better and had more time or an actual budget with which to improve Humanist the problem now vexing us would have been taken care of silently, long ago. But, yes, it is easier just to use English (or Latin, as Wilhelm Ott noted) for those of us to whom it comes naturally, and yes linguistic laziness is a problem for those of us afflicted by severe monolingualism -- which perhaps can be cured, but (as David Reed noted) the treatment is long and doesn't always work for people of an advanced age (i.e. past puberty). This has, please note, always been a seat-of-the-pants operation. All the effort put into it (by the folks at Princeton, Virginia, King's College London and elsewhere) has been and continues to be volunteered. The rewards have been (at least for me) beyond the imagination of any Midas, but we're still broke and still have to put our hand out every time something goes wrong. This is not at all to say or suggest that the problem of vanishing characters should not have been diligently pursued long before this, just that among life's clamourings the multilingual voices have not been loud enough. Now, it seems, they are, and that's a good thing. Humanist is all about speaking up. Many thanks for your patience while very kind people I have never met toil away at IATH in Virginia. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: what computing has to do with life Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:04:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 910 (910) In his brilliant exposition of epistemology, Problems of Knowledge: a critical introduction to epistemology (Oxford, 2001), Michael Williams notes that the idea of "knowledge" is normative -- it is not, he argues, "just about what we *do* believe but what (in some sense) we *must*, *ought*, or are *entitled* to believe; not just in fact how we conduct our inquiries but how we *should* or *may* conduct them.... This normative dimension distinguishes philosophical theories of knowledge from straightforwardly factual inquiries and explains why demarcational (and related methodological) issues are so significant. [The "demarcational" issues are about the scope and limits of human knowledge on the one hand, and on the other about whether knowledge is given or experienced.] Because epistemological distinctions are invidious, ideas about epistemological demarcation always involve putting some claims or methods above others: mathematics above empirical science, empirical science above metaphysics or religion, logic above rhetoric, and so on. Demarcational projects use epistemological criteria to sort areas of discourse into factual and non-factual, truth-seeking and merely expressive, and, at the extreme, meaningful and meaningless. Such projects amount to proposals for a map of culture: a guide to what forms of discourse are 'serious' and what are not. Disputes about demarcation -- including disputes about whether demarcational projects should be countenanced at all -- are disputes about the shape of our culture and so, in the end, of our lives." (pp. 11-12) As a friend used to say to me in the library, read it tonight. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 3.8 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:39:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 911 (911) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 8, Week of April 8, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- It's All About the Database Phil Bernstein on the unheralded potential of meta-data management http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/p_bernstein_1.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: David Yeandle Subject: Stellenbibliographie zum "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:45:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 912 (912) Subscribers interested in the critical electronic edition of parts of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' may also be interested to know that a first instalment of an electronic line-by-line database of secondary literature for the whole poem will be published later this year by Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tbingen (http://www.niemeyer.de/): David N. Yeandle: Stellenbibliographie zum "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach fr die Jahrgnge 1984-1996, ISBN 3-484-97009-X, 536 ): "Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbachs 'Parzival' for the Years 1984-1996". The computerized line-by-line bibliographical database, which is a novel concept in literary bibliography, allows the user to obtain a speedy and thorough picture of the scholarly literature for the period 1984-1996 for individual lines of text of 'Parzival', the details being sorted for each line according to topics and dates. It is also possible to search for themes, authors, works, and much more, and then pursue the line-by-line details in the secondary literature. Thus it is effectively an electronic commentary without full text, but with extensive contents descriptors. Work is currently in hand to extend the scope of the database both forwards and backwards in time. David Yeandle King's College London (david.yeandle@kcl.ac.uk) From: David Yeandle Subject: Stellenbibliographie zum "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:45:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 913 (913) Subscribers interested in the critical electronic edition of parts of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' may also be interested to know that a first instalment of an electronic line-by-line database of secondary literature for the whole poem will be published later this year by Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen (http://www.niemeyer.de/): David N. Yeandle: Stellenbibliographie zum "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach fuer die Jahrgaenge 1984-1996, ISBN 3-484-97009-X, 536 ): "Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbachs 'Parzival' for the Years 1984-1996". The computerized line-by-line bibliographical database, which is a novel concept in literary bibliography, allows the user to obtain a speedy and thorough picture of the scholarly literature for the period 1984-1996 for individual lines of text of 'Parzival', the details being sorted for each line according to topics and dates. It is also possible to search for themes, authors, works, and much more, and then pursue the line-by-line details in the secondary literature. Thus it is effectively an electronic commentary without full text, but with extensive contents descriptors. Work is currently in hand to extend the scope of the database both forwards and backwards in time. David Yeandle King's College London (david.yeandle@kcl.ac.uk) [In this corrected version, made after the coffee has had its improving effects, allow me to point out the methodological importance for humanities computing of what Dr Yeandle has done: used the metamorphic capabilities of our medium to transform one genre (the bibliography) into another (the commentary), or at least to bridge the two. This is why his Stellenbibliographie is a favourite example of mine. It also serves to make the point that what to a computer scientist may be viewed as trivial is to a computing humanist quite significant. --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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: JoDI Announcements Subject: JoDI: a survey and two 'calls for papers' Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:43:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 914 (914) This special JoDI notice invites your participation in three ways: - A user survey - A call for papers for a special issue on Digital Libraries in East Asia - A call for papers for a special issue on Hypertext Criticism: Writing about Hypertext USER SURVEY JoDI remains free to users due to the efforts and commitment of its editors and to sponsorship from the British Computer Society (BCS) and Oxford University Press (OUP). That this approach is popular with users is evident from the growing number of registrations to receive our alerts, and from the usage statistics for papers published in JoDI, and, looking ahead, perhaps in the two 'calls' below. JoDI may be popular, but is it optimal for you, our readers? At the request of the BCS, we want you to tell us about how you use JoDI. Below is a letter from Cliff McKnight, JoDI Editor-in-Chief, inviting you to participate in this survey. Dear Reader, I am writing to you, as a reader of JoDI, to ask you to take part in a short survey. We would like your views on the journal's content and presentation and any ways we can improve the information it provides. Please spare a few minutes to give us this useful feedback. We would like to hear from all JoDI readers, both from those who use the journal regularly and those who use it only occasionally. If you answer the questionnaire by Friday 26th April, you will be entered into a prize draw, giving you the chance of winning 100. So please go to http://www.bcs.org/jodisurvey to open the questionnaire, and answer it online. Thank you for your help - we look forward to hearing from you. Cliff McKnight, JoDI Editor-in-Chief, C.Mcknight@lboro.ac.uk A CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES IN EAST ASIA Guest Editor: Brian Bruya Submission deadline: 1 May, 2002 This issue will look at some of the largest and most advanced digital libraries projects in East Asia. These projects each bring to the digital world a portion of the vast pre-Modern Chinese language corpus, such as oracle-bone carvings dating from as early as the 2nd Millennium BC, and Zen texts from as late as the 18th Century. From the call at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/dl-asia.html A CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE ON HYPERTEXT CRITICISM: WRITING ABOUT HYPERTEXT Special issue editors: Jill Walker and Susana Tosca Submission deadline: 31 May, 2002 Discussion and criticism of specific works of art is vital to the health of any art form. Criticism of hypertext literature and electronic literature is in many ways less well developed than both the works themselves and the more general theoretical discussions around hypertext in general. We wish to encourage a broad and inclusive discussion of hypertext criticism, and encourage contributors with experience as authors of electronic literature, as critics and as observers of the field. This issue will be a hypertext linked by the editors. Instead of requesting full length papers, we are soliciting short texts that will become the nodes of the hypertext. 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JoDI is currently free to users thanks to support from the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NEH Preservation and Access Guidelines on the NEH Web Site Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:44:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 915 (915) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 11, 2002 New NEH Preservation and Access Guidelines July 1, 2002 Deadline http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/preservation.html Recent Awards List at: http://www.neh.gov/news/recentawards.html [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Mellon Foundation Funds Scholarly Communication Institute Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:28:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 916 (916) NEWS RELEASE http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/2002_mellsci.html For Immediate Release: April 11, 2002 Contact: Deanna Marcum 202-939-4750 or Richard Lucier 603-646-2236 Mellon Foundation Funds Scholarly Communication Institute WASHINGTON, D.C. The Council on Library and Information Resources will join with Dartmouth College Library to develop a Scholarly Communication Institute with a new grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Digital technology is changing the traditional process of scholarly communication the process by which scholarly information is created, distributed, stored, and preserved. Scholars, libraries, and commercial and nonprofit organizations have undertaken numerous experiments to explore the potential of digital technology for creating richer materials or better access for teaching and research, or for helping libraries alleviate space or resource constraints. We know little about whether many of these experiments can become sustainable, and we know less about how systemic change will occur over time. The Scholarly Communication Institute will bring together pioneers and innovators in scholarly communication for a one-week residential experience that will allow them to discuss, plan, and organize institutional and discipline-based strategies for advancing innovation in scholarly communication. The institute will foster this cadre of leaders as mentors to the next generation of individuals who will work at the forefront of the transformation of scholarly communication in a digital environment. At least three annual institutes will be held, all on the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first is scheduled for the summer of 2003. "We are grateful to the Mellon Foundation for supporting the development of this institute, which will provide a rare gift of time for leaders in the field to join their peers in deep thinking and discussion about visions and strategies for the future," said CLIR President Deanna Marcum. "We are very pleased to be cooperating with Dartmouth on this project." "We have learned a great deal from the experiments to date. We look forward to giving those who have led these experiments a chance to consider what must be done next for the academy to benefit fully from the tremendous potential of digital libraries," said Dartmouth Librarian Richard Lucier. The institute will be limited to 20 individuals annually from the scholarly, library, publishing, and technology communities. Individuals must be nominated by their institutions or by peers from other institutions who recognize their work. The nominator must submit evidence of the pioneering qualities of the work accomplished by the nominees. Detailed application information will appear on CLIR's Web site in July. The Council on Library and Information Resources is an independent, nonprofit organization that works to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good. In partnership with other organizations, CLIR helps create services that expand the concept of "library" and supports the providers and preservers of information. Chartered in 1769, Dartmouth College is a private, liberal arts institution in Hanover, New Hampshire. It is an undergraduate residential college that also offers numerous graduate and professional programs. Dartmouth has long been a leader in the application of digital technology to scholarship and learning. From: Willard McCarty Subject: most significant events Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:30:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 917 (917) I would be grateful for your nomination of the 5 (or 4 or 6 or...) most significant events in humanities computing since Roberto Busa's work began in the late 1940s. Please supply dates with your nominations and some notes on why you think your nominated events are worthy. Any kind -- institutional initiatives, publications, system designs, whatever -- qualify. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Deena Larsen Subject: online events for hypertext literature Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:11:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 918 (918) I'd like to announce three great online events for hypertext literature: 1) April 14 - June The Computers and Writing conference is an online extravaganza of talks and presentations for the next six weeks. The full schedule is at <http://www.eaze.net/~dene/cw2002_schedule.html> The conference will be in Nouspace MOO. Registration is free at <http://www.eaze.net/~dene/cw2002_registration.html > On the opening Gala night, Sunday April 14th, Jan Rune Holmevik will set off virtual Fireworks at 6 pm Central Time and Fred Kemp will talk about distance education. Other exciting keynote speakers include: Kate Hayles, Espen Aarseth, and Johndan Johnson-Eilola. Writers like Marjorie Luesebrink, Diana Slattery, Jennifer Ley and Nick Montfort and educators and more will speak and show works. 2) April 21 The ELO Symposium showcased 52 of today's hits in electronic literature in the Symposium Gallery as well as three live series of readings. Come meet the artists, mingle with the crowd and toast to the genius of the age at April's trAce/ELO chat. We'll touch on influences and trends, and explore the works themselves. You can see online works at http://www.eliterature.org/state/creative.shtml and join the Lingua MOO chat April 21 at 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 9 pm London, and 6 am Sydney at http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000. 3) May 21 The trAcELO chat in May explores just what electronic new media writing is all about. What ARE we talking about anyway? What makes this writing different from any other writing? What makes this art different? What are we doing that you just can't do on paper? Guest speaker: Jill Walker. Join in the Lingua MOO chat May 19 at 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 9 pm London, and 6 am Sydney at http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000. Thanks Deena From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: announcing: crossing [digital] boundaries, buffalo April Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 08:11:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 919 (919) 19-20 Announcing _Crossing [Digital] Boundaries_, a Humanities Computing Colloquium to be held on April 19 and 20 at the campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Co-sponsored by West Virginia University's Center for Literary Computing and SUNY Buffalo's Humanities Computing Center, the event brings together digital poets, new media artists, and humanities computing scholars. The goal is to present work and open discussion addressing the current state of digital media poetics. Participants include Simon Biggs, Fakeshop, Alex Galloway, Jim Rosenberg, and others. The colloquium is free and open to to all so make the trip to Buffalo. (You can also join in for a live cuseeme performance/collaboration on the night of April 20; contact charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu for details.) For more information about the colloquium, see <http://epc.buffalo.edu/dmp/events/hcc02.html>http://epc.buffalo.edu/dmp/events/hcc02.html. From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Forum: Beyond the Web Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:07:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 920 (920) Beyond the Web: The Arts and Humanities in the Twenty-First Century An international forum sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) *** Free and open to all. *** Keynote by Irvin Kershner, Director of _The Empire Strikes Back_: "The Arts and Humanities: The Rebel Alliance Strikes Back" Speakers: Julia Flanders (Brown U.) Nancy Kaplan (U. of Baltimore) John Lavagnino (King's College, London) Stuart Moulthrop (U. of Baltimore) Allen Renear (U. of Illinois) John Unsworth (U. of Virginia) Moderated by Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. of Maryland) Thursday, April 25, 2:00-4:00 pm Room 6137, McKeldin Library University of Maryland, College Park Further information or directions: www.mith.umd.edu mith@umail.umd.edu 301-405-8927 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum_____________________________ _______________________http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Workshop on Transcription of Medieval MSS at Berkeley Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:08:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 921 (921) April 26 The Digital Scriptorium Project has prepared a revised version of the Document Type Definition (DTD) for the encoded transcription of medieval manuscripts using XML, documentation of that DTD, and a set of software tools to facilitate their use. These materials are available to anyone, at UC Berkeley or elsewhere, at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/transcription.html The original DTD was prepared by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, former U.S. editor of the Text Encoding Initiative. An XML version was prepared by David Seaman (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia). This in turn was revised by Sharon Goetz (UC Berkeley). We are deeply indebted to all three for their work. The Bancroft Library, U. of California, Berkeley, will sponsor a one-day hands-on workshop (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.) on Friday, April 26. The workshop will be led by Sharon Goetz and Charles Faulhaber and will cover all aspects of the use of the transcription guidelines and the software: downloading and installation, overview of text encoding principles for the preparation of machine-readable texts, and step-by-step instruction in the encoding and transcription of medieval manuscripts using the software. Participants may use manuscripts available on the Digital Scriptorium website or provide their own. There is no fee, but we can accomodate only 17 participants. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Charles Faulhaber (cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu). If there is sufficient interest, we will schedule a second workshop for the summer. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu From: "Miran Hladnik" Subject: International symposium on the Slovene novel Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:17:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 922 (922) Symposium Obdobja 21 Methods and Genres The Slovene Novel Ljubljana, 5-7 December 2002 http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/center-slo/simpozij-21-eng.html You are cordially invited to the international symposium on the Slovene novel that will take place in Ljubljana December 5-7 this year. There is at least one topic in the invitation that could be of interest to some Humanist members, namely the relation between the novel and other media (digitalization, screen realization, etc.). There will be no registration fee for participants. Members of Humanist may be interested to note that some of the Slovene novels have been translated into other languages and are suitable for being analysed also by those who don't speak Slovene (e. g. the succesful Vladimir Bartol's historical novel Alamut, 1938, dealing with the suicide soldiers in the 11th century Iran, is available in French and German translations). From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Digital Preservation: 2nd OCLC Institute Videoconference: Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:21:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 923 (923) April 19 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 16, 2002 OCLC Institute "Steering by Standards" videoteleconference: "The OAIS Imperative: Enduring Record or Digital Dust?" Friday, April 19, 12-2:30pm EST $350 Site License Registration: http://oclc.org/institute/events/sbs.htm. [deleted quotation] Digital Preservation: 2nd OCLC Institute Videoconference this Friday Do you recall the glorious color images sent back by Voyager? Or photos of the first humans on the moon? Where is that information now? Will future generations be able to access it? Conceived by NASA, the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) standard offers a framework for protecting our digital heritage. What does OAIS mean to information professionals? How should we apply it to our storage, preservation, and access projects? Please join us this Friday, April 19, noon-2:30 EST, for the OCLC Institute's second "Steering by Standards" videoteleconference. Our speakers on the topic of "The OAIS Imperative: Enduring Record or Digital Dust?"-- Don Sawyer of NASA, Bruce Ambacher of NARA, and MacKenzie Smith of MIT--will welcome your comments and questions via e-mail, fax, or toll-free phone. For registration information, please see http://oclc.org/institute/events/sbs.htm. If you have questions, please contact Amy Lytle, OCLC Institute, at amy_lytle@oclc.org or call 800-848-5878 x 5212 -- ============================================================== 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: George Angelos Papadopoulos Subject: ACM SAC'03 -- Call for Tracks -- Deadline Extended Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:22:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 924 (924) 2003 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC'03) Melbourne, Florida, USA, 9-12 March, 2003 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2003 *** Call for Track Proposals *** *** Deadline Extended to 25th of April *** For the past seventeen years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available on the web through ACM's Digital Library. SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and self-managed tracks. Over the past years it has hosted tracks on a variety of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, BioInformatics, Computers in Education, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Internet Technologies, Software Engineering, etc. SAC'02, which was held in Madrid, Spain, consisted of 21 tracks which hosted 194 accepted papers out of 457 submissions. [material deleted] From: Jing-Shin Chang Subject: JCLCLP Special Issue-- Word Formation and Chinese Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:24:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 925 (925) Language Processing URL: http://www.research.att.com/~rws/special_issue.html. =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing "Word Formation and Chinese Language Processing" Guest Editor: Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs -- Research =========================================================================== Contributions are invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Processing on the topic of word formation and Chinese Language processing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Word formation in models of Chinese word segmentation and named entity extraction. Areas of interest include automatic detection of: - morphologically productive constructions such as compounds - abbreviations (suoxie) - personal names - proper names of individuals, companies - foreign words in transliteration. - morphologically-based variation among human segmenters and its relevance for Chinese segmentation standards. - Computational or statistical work that lends insights on linguistic questions, such as morphological productivity or the formation of abbreviations. - Computational perspectives on the historical development of morphological complexity in Chinese. The tentative plan is to publish this special issue as volume 8, issue 2, August 2003. =========================================================================== Instructions for Submission Papers should follow the style guidelines for the Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Processing. Papers should be sent to the guest editor, by the submission date listed below. The submission should be either: - Electronically to rws@research.att.com. The " should be: JCLCP Special Issue Submission The following formats are acceptable: - Postscript - Adobe PDF If you cannot produce an electronic version in either of these formats, or if the editor informs you of a problem with your electronic submission, then please follow the instructions for hardcopy submission. - Or, Three hardcopies to: Richard Sproat, Room B-207 AT&T Labs -- Research 180 Park Avenue, Room B207, P.O.Box 971 Florham Park, NJ 07932-0000 USA =========================================================================== Important Dates Submission of Papers: November 30, 2002 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2003 Final Version Due: April 1, 2003 Special Issue Date: August, 2003 =========================================================================== From: Willard McCarty Subject: Winograd and Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:16:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 926 (926) This is to recommend to your attention one of the more important books in our common field: Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1987. In brief the authors bring together the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and the neurobiology of Humberto Maturana in a sustained critical analysis of the rationalist approach to the design of computing systems. However improbable such a book might seem, Winograd (Computer Science, Stanford <http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/>) and Flores (Business Design Associates <http://www.bda.com/associates/bio_fflores.html>) have done essential work in bridging to our own subject two fields that, it seems, we cannot afford to ignore. The result is quite powerful tools in aid of a computing that (as I like to say) is OF as well as IN the humanities. The book is particularly useful because it faces the future, i.e. what we do in the present to build something more like what we desire than we have now. From the last paragraph: [deleted quotation] Thus the soaring gesture of last words in a good book. It is not that I lack bones to pick with the authors or that you won't find these or other bones. Rather, the book provides powerful stimulation indeed to gnaw on the fundamentals of what we're about in humanities computing. (Vegetarians will, I hope, forgive the imagery; I am thinking of Paul Evan Peters' cheery declaration that "we are on the threshold of what can be productively thought of as human-kind's meso-electronic period".) Near the end of the book the authors refer to developments in programming languages that bear on the question raised here before, about what computational scholarly "primitives" might be like and how we might get them. They cite the article by Winograd, "Beyond Programming Languages", in Communications of the ACM, 22.7 (July 1979): 391-401, which discusses what I think is called "functional programming" but in language I can actually follow. I would be very grateful for pointers to other work in this area that a layman has a chance of understanding. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Jean G Anderson" Subject: INTERACTIVE WEB PROGRAMMER job ad Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:20:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 927 (927) UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW GUIDE/STELLA INTERACTIVE WEB PROGRAMMER ALC 2 20,470 - 26,491 per annum REF 109/02AG This is a shared post between GUIDE (Glasgow University Initiative in Distance Education) and the STELLA Project, (Software for Teaching English Language & Literature and its Assessment). JOB PURPOSE The successful applicant will be based in GUIDE and will support the development of GUIDE's distance education programme at all levels and across the curriculum. The post holder will play a key role in creating innovative e-learning materials. Initially s/he will work with STELLA to convert stand- alone computer-assisted learning modules to interactive e- learning applications. Applicants should have skills in Java, interactive website creation and multimedia file creation. Experience of the following would be an advantage: web server management, markup languages (including SGML, XML), Perl/CGI scripting, online databases and educational media. An understanding of the issues related to distance education, networked learning and accessibility is desirable. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and be prepared to work closely with academic staff on a variety of projects in different disciplines. For details and application procedure see: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/humanresources/recruit/26apr_1 09.htm From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 15.583 most significant events in humanities computing? Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:24:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 928 (928) I nominate Todd Bender's vision of an edition consisting of all the versions linked by hypertext links--which seems to have morphed into the "New Philology"! Pat Galloway UT-Austin From: "J. Trant - Executive Director" Subject: AMICO Announces New Members Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:23:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 929 (929) Art Museum Image Consortium www.amico.org Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia AMICO Press Release For Immediate Release: April 14, 2002 The Art Museum Image Consortium Welcomes New Members The Louisiana State Museum, The Newark Museum, the Terra Museum of American Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum join AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) welcomes four new members to our growing collaboration. The Newark Museum, the Louisiana State Museum, Terra Museum of American Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum join thirty--two other museums in an unprecedented collaboration to enable educational use of museum multimedia. Together AMICO's Members are building The AMICO Library, an on-line multi-media resource documenting works of art in their collections. "AMICO draws its strength from the diversity of its Members" says Elizabeth Broun, Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and AMICO's Chair. "This exceptional group of new members will further develop The AMICO Library and enhance our collaboration." Mark Jones, the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum remarked, "The V&A is committed to making its collections available and useful to as many people as possible. We are glad to collaborate with our partners in AMICO in creating common access to the wonderful objects that these museums contain." James F. Sefcik, Assistant Secretary, Office of State Museums, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, and Director, Louisiana State Museum, concurred "the opportunity to share the resources of the group with others is remarkable. I look forward to the time - and it gets closer every day - when students worldwide will be able to share the collective wealth of the Louisiana State Museum and our sister institutions for their own work and information. AMICO Members are working together to ensure that teachers and students, researchers and museum professionals world-wide can easily access and use museum multimedia documentation. The 2002 release of The AMICO Library will document approximately 100,000 works of art from our Members collections. This exceptional compilation is a valuable resource in teaching across the Arts and Humanities curriculum. Subscribing institutions around the world are making creative use of previously inaccessible or difficult to find images, text documentation, multimedia and sound files, including those from selected Antenna Audio tours. Membership in AMICO is open to institutions with a collection of art, willing to contribute to The AMICO Library. Please contact Jennifer Trant, AMICO's Executive Director at jtrant@amico.org for further information. About AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art. Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of multimedia documentation of works in their collections. The 2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 100,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations; new works are added annually. More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org. Contact Information Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: info@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org AMICO Members Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Asia Society Gallery Center for Creative Photography Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute The Cleveland Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College Denver Art Museum The Detroit Institute of Arts Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library George Eastman House J. Paul Getty Museum The Library of Congress Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Muse d'art contemporain de Montral Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Canada National Museums of Scotland The Newark Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Terra Museum of American Art Victoria & Albert Museum Walker Art Center The Walters Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art -- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 3.9 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:47:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 930 (930) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 9, Week of April 15, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- Quantum Leaps in Computing John P. Hayes on the next killer app, entangled states, and the end of Moore's Law. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_hayes_1.html From: "pedro benito somalo" Subject: the complete works of the medieval Spanish poet Gonzalo Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:54:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 931 (931) de Berceo (1195-1264). Tal vez les pueda interesar la siguiente pgina: <http://www.geocities.com/urunuela1/berceo/berceo1.htm>http://www.geocities.com/urunuela1/berceo/berceo1.htm Contiene: Obras completas de Gonzalo de Berceo; se incluye, adems,vocabulario completo,estudio crtico,fuentes, documentacin,glosas GB,paisajes bercianos,NotaBene,etc. Si deciden enlazar con nuestra pgina envennos un e-mail para tener constacia de ello. Muchas gracias. Un saludo muy cordial. Pedro Benito Somalo <http://www.vallenajerilla.com/>http://www.vallenajerilla.com PD. Paseo por Madrid a travs de fotografas ( interesante !) <http://www.geocities.com/madrid_fotos/inicio.htm>http://www.geocities.com/madrid_fotos/inicio.htm (del mismo autor,fotografas originales e inditas) ---------- nase con MSN Hotmail al servicio de correo electrnico ms grande del mundo. Haga clic aqu From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 42, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:58:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 932 (932) Version 42 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,550 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography), (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (over 230 related Web sites), and (3) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (list of new resources that is updated on weekdays). http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm The Acrobat file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 130 pages long. The Acrobat file is over 340 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, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Technical Reports and E-Prints* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* Digital Libraries Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal* Preservation Publishers SGML and Related Standards* Technical Reports and E-Prints* An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html 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: John Unsworth Subject: manuscript transcription tools Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:59:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 933 (933) The Manuscript Transcription Database (MTD), a tool for managing distributed transcription projects, is available for download from The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mss/ (a demo is also available at this URL). The interface uses php, and so assumes that you have access to a web server (for example, Apache) with the php module compiled in. It also expects that Mysql, a free database package, is already installed and running on the server. The download includes the php interface, database tables, directory structure, and detailed instructions on configuration and use. We welcome feedback, at mtd@www.iath.virginia.edu. Background of this project: The Manuscript Transcription Database (MTD) was originally built by Category4 Design in Charlottesville, VA, for Benjamin Ray's Salem Witch Trials Project (http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html ) at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). The MTD was subsequently adapted and generalized for Kenneth Price and Ed Folsom's The Walt Whitman Archive ( http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/), another IATH research project. Both of these projects rely on skilled transcribers to read and transcribe handwritten manuscripts into an electronic format. The editors and transcribers involved in these projects are literally all over the world (from Finland to Nebraska), and they need to assign and view tasks, upload and download documents, coordinate workflow, and collect finished work. MTD was built in response to that need. It uses a central database and a set of editor and transcriber GUIs to organize and track documents and assignments. Editors can assign pages or documents to particular transcribers and see the current status of individual assignments, groups of documents, and the entire project. Transcribers can see their current assignments, upload assignments, download finished work, and check their work against other transcriptions. IATH has made MTD publicly available for download and installation. From: Ray Siemens Subject: Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:48:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 934 (934) Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies COCH/COSH 2002 Meeting at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities May 26-8, 2002 U Toronto / Ryerson Polytechnic U, Canada Programme available at: http://web.mala.bc.ca/siemensr/C-C/2002/Program.htm Keynote and Plenary Addresses by: Michael Best (U Victoria) Patricia Clements (U Alberta) and Susan Brown (U Guelph) Jean-Claude Gudon (U Montral) Ian Lancashire (U Toronto) Clifford Lynch (CNI) Willard McCarty (Kings College London) Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U) John Taylor (NRC, Institute for Information Technology) Full List of Speakers: William Barker (Memorial U) Michael Best (U Victoria) Sally-Beth MacLean (U Toronto) John Bonnett (NRC) Susan Brown (U Guelph) Alan Burk (U New Brunswick) James Campbell (U Central Florida) Martine Cardin (U Laval) James Chartrand (McMaster U) Charlie Clarke (U Waterloo; ISAGN) Patricia Clements (U Alberta) Stephen Davies (Malaspina U-C) Patrick Finn (U Victoria) Paul Fortier (U Manitoba) Alan Galey (U Victoria) Rob Good (ISAGN) Jean-Claude Gudon (U Montral) Carolyn Guertin (U Alberta) Vivien Hannon (Dalhousie U) Richard J. Shroyer (U Western Ontario) Patrick Juola (Duquesne ) Bill Kennedy (Rhizomedia) Andreas Kitzmann (U Karlstad) Ian Lancashire (U Toronto) Greg Lessard (Queen's U) Tracy Light (U Waterloo) Jorge Luiz Antonio (Pontifical Catholic U of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Clifford Lynch (CNI) Oriel MacLennan (Dalhousie U) Andrew Mactavish (McMaster U) Bill Marsh (Factory School / U California, San Diego) France Martineau (U Ottawa) Willard McCarty (Kings College London) Karen McCloskey (U Toronto) Murray McGillivray (U Calgary) Talan Memmott (independent: BeeHive) Orion Montoya (U Chicago) Aime Morrison (U Alberta) Elsa Nystrom (Kennesaw State U) Mark Olsen (U Chicago) Roda P. Roberts (U Ottawa) Katherine Parrish (OISE) Jill Porter (U Waterloo) Daniel Poulin (U Montreal) Rita Raley (U California, Santa Barbara) Dina Ripsman Eylon (U Toronto) Jennifer Roberts-Smith (U Toronto) Shannon Robinson (U Toronto) Geoffrey Rockwell (McMaster U) Susy Santos (U Manitoba) Sharon Scinicariello (Case Western U) Ray Siemens (Malaspina U-C) Stfan Sinclair (U Alberta) Alan Somerset (U Western Ontario) Alan Sondheim (Florida International U) Marshall Soules (Malaspina U-C) Will Straw (McGill U) Johannes Strobel (U Missouri-Columbia) John Taylor (NRC, Institute for Information Technology) Elaine Toms (U Toronto) Marlene van Ballegooie (U Toronto) Barrett Watten (Wayne State U) Darren Wershler-Henry (York U) Paul Werstine (U Western Ontario) Bill Winder (U British Columbia) From: "Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada)" Subject: Symposium in Santiago de Cuba, 2003 Date: ________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 935 (935) Signature: ___________ From: Jenny Newman Subject: Summer Seminars 2002 at OUCS Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:01:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 936 (936) ************************************ Summer Seminars at Oxford University ************************************ 15 -19 July 9:30am - 5:00pm The Learning Technologies Group (LTG), Humbul Humanities Hub, Oxford Text Archive (OTA) and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) are jointly running a week-long series of seminars on the use of technology in online teaching, learning and research. Each seminar lasts a full day, and includes a practical, hands-on element as well as formal presentations. All teaching will be carried out by members of the participating services and will take place at Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. Seminar titles: Putting your Database on the Web Using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in Manuscript Studies The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Framework and How to Use It Support Your Students! Building Good Course Websites Publishing Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Documents Tools and Techniques for Online Learning and Teaching Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Digitisation Workshop Creating and Using Digital Video Online Resource Discovery and Use - Humbul Humanities Hub Developing Linguistic Corpora The cost of each seminar is: 65 standard booking 35 student booking Discounts are available for those attending the full week. Further details are available from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/courses/summer/ and the booking form is available at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/courses/summer/booking.html (Please note that it is not recommended to book for the seminars using Netscape 6.2. Booking form works best with IE or Netscape 4.7) If you have any queries about the OUCS 2002 Summer Seminars, email: jenny.newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk or contact her at: Summer Seminars 2002 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: +44 (0)1865 273221 Fax: +44 (0)1865 273275 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Univ of Maryland Forum: Beyond the Web: The Arts and Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:02:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 937 (937) Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: April 25 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 17, 2002 Beyond the Web: The Arts and Humanities in the Twenty-First Century Thursday, April 25, 2:00-4:00 pm University of Maryland, College Park http://www.mith.umd.edu [deleted quotation] Beyond the Web: The Arts and Humanities in the Twenty-First Century An international forum sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) *** Free and open to all. *** Keynote by Irvin Kershner, Director of _The Empire Strikes Back_: "The Arts and Humanities: The Rebel Alliance Strikes Back" Speakers: Julia Flanders (Brown U.) Nancy Kaplan (U. of Baltimore) John Lavagnino (King's College, London) Stuart Moulthrop (U. of Baltimore) Allen Renear (U. of Illinois) John Unsworth (U. of Virginia) Moderated by Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. of Maryland) Thursday, April 25, 2:00-4:00 pm Room 6137, McKeldin Library University of Maryland, College Park Further information or directions: www.mith.umd.edu mith@umail.umd.edu 301-405-8927 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum__http://www.glue.umd.edu/~mgk/ From: "David B. Rice" Subject: Lyman Invitation Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:52:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 938 (938) Lyman Award ceremony Monday, 6 May 2002 6:30 to 7:15 pm Time Life Building 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York City Some months ago the members of the Humanist listserve were asked to submit nominations for the Richard W. Lyman Award, created to recognize the innovative use of information technology in outstanding scholarship and teaching. The first presentation of the Lyman Award will be Monday, May 6, at the Time&Life Building in New York. With this message, the National Humanities Center, which has created the award through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation, extends an invitation to attend to each member of the listserve. The following link will take you to an electronic invitation. Information about the award and the National Humanities Center is copied below. Because of security concerns at the Time&Life Building, the Center must have the name, address, and professional affiliation of everyone planning to attend. To respond or seek additional information, please contact Susan Adesman at 919-549-0661 or sadesman@unity.ncsu.edu. http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/lymanaward/lymanaward.htm Richard W. Lyman Award The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes scholars who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology. In recent years, scholars in the classics, English & American literature, history, and other humanistic disciplines have increasingly used computers and the World Wide Web to make available facsimiles of rare manuscripts; to archive, index, and annotate literary, artistic, and scholarly materials; to link text, visual images, and sound in new ways; and to create a new social structure that will bring scholars and students together to break down boundaries among learning, teaching, and research. The National Humanities Center presents the Lyman Award to individuals who break new ground by exploiting information technology toward these ends. The award honors Richard W. Lyman, who was president of Stanford University from 1970-80 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980-88, and is made possible through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. Prize Amount: $25,000 Presentation of First Award: May 6, 8th floor auditorium, Time Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 6:30 to 7:15 p.m., with reception to follow. Selection Committee for the First Award: James J. O'Donnell (Chair), Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania; Peter Bardaglio, Interim Vice President and Academic Dean, and Professor of History, Goucher College; Consuelo W. Dutschke, Curator, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University; Morris Eaves, Professor of English, University of Rochester; Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing, School of Humanities, King's College London; Stephen Murray, Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Director of the Media Center for Art History, Columbia University; Pauline Yu, Dean of Humanities, University of California at Los Angeles. Advisory Board: Robert Hollander (Chair), Professor in European Literature, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University; James J. O'Donnell, ex officio; David K. Allison, Chairman, Information Technology & Society, Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Steven Davis, President and CEO, Corbis.com; Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges; David Finn, Co-Founder, Ruder Finn; Joel L. Fleishman, Senior Advisor, The Atlantic Philanthropies; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of Afro-American Studies, Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University; Ann Goodnight, National Humanities Center Trustee and Founder, Cary Academy; James Kinsella, Former Chairman, Worldonline, Former President and CEO, MSNBC.com; George Kozmetsky Chairman, IC Institute, University of Texas at Austin; Robert K. McNeal Founder, Digital Strategies, Former Vice President and COO, Entertainment Drive; John Oates, Professor, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University; Donald J. Waters, Program Officer, Scholarly Communications, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center (www.nhc.rtp.nc.us) is the nation's only private, independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978, more than 800 scholars from across the United States and around the world have researched and written 800 books during fellowships at the Center's Research Triangle Park facility. The Center also sponsors award-winning programs through which leading scholars work with high school and college teachers to improve teaching in the nation's schools and colleges, and holds conferences, seminars, and other public programs to raise and explore basic issues affecting human beings and their societies. Location: The Archie K. Davis Building, Research Triangle Park, N.C. Annual Budget: Approximately $4.7 million Sources of Support: Individuals, foundations, and corporations; Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the National Endowment for the Humanities; income from the Center's endowment Number of Scholars in Residence, 2001-02: 39 (35 scholars from 29 U.S. institutions and 4 scholars from four other nations) Number of Scholars in Residence, Cumulative: 849 (711 from 180 institutions in 41 states and the District of Columbia, and 138 scholars from 99 institutions in 33 nations) Academic Fields Represented, Cumulative: 44 Books Resulting from Fellowships: 800, including about 60 prize-winning titles Programs for Teachers: Annual summer seminars for high school teachers and for liberal arts college faculty; TeacherServe, an online curriculum enrichment service (http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/tserve.htm); training and online "toolkits" to help teachers develop in-school seminars with the guidance of university faculty From: "Charles Baldwin" Subject: Richard Grusin speaks at WVU April 24th Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:57:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 939 (939) Richard Grusin will speak at West Virginia University on April 24, 2002, 6 pm in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair. The event is sponsored by WVU's Center for Literary Computing. Richard Grusin is Professor and Chair of English at Wayne State University, and formerly chair of the Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A leading scholar on the cultural transformations brought about by new media, Grusin is best known as co-author (with Jay David Bolter) of _Remediation_, the new standard for media theory. He also the author of a book on hermeneutic theory in nineteenth century America. _Remediation_ is currently taught in undergraduate and graudate course at WVU and elsewhere. Grusin's talk on April 24th, entitled "Science, Technology, and Cyberculture: Reflections on an Emerging Discipline," considers broad interdisciplinary changes including changes to literary studies brought about by the emergence of cyberculture. Also: Professor Grusin will be available from 2-330 pm on the same day (4/24), in the WVU English Department Library (346 Stansbury) to talk informally with graduate and undergraduate students. Sandy Baldwin, Ph.D. West Virginia University Assistant Professor of English Coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing 359 Stansbury Hall Morgantown, WV 26506 304-293-3107x452 Fax: 304-293-5380 <http://www.clc.wvu.edu>www.clc.wvu.edu www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin <http://www.atlantapoetsgroup.net/sandybaldwin.html>http://www.atlantapoetsgroup.net/sandybaldwin.html From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News 1/3 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:52:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 940 (940) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ A new resource is available in our catalogue of Language Resources: ELRA-W0015 Text Corpus "Le Monde" / Year 2001 The texts for the year 2001 have been added to the collection. From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News 2/3 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:53:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 941 (941) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ ELRA offers a new service in order to further enhance the quality of the databases in its catalogue: **************************** The Bug Report Service **************************** Imperfections observed in a database distributed by ELRA and its distribution agency ELDA can be reported. This service is hosted by SPEX, which is ELRA's validation centre for speech databases. For the time being, this service is restricted to speech databases only, but the idea is that it will be extended to other types of language resources in the future. You will find a link in ELRA's web pages for Spoken Language Resources to this bug report service (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/), in the section "Services around LRs". You may win an attractive prize if you use the new service! What is the idea? No speech database is perfect. This is the observation of all people who use them. The actual users are the best test persons to discover and report any remaining imperfections in a database. ELRA, being the intermediate between data providers and data users, considers quality maintenance of the databases in its catalogue as one of its key objectives. Therefore, ELRA is very keen in knowing and correcting any imperfections in the databases that it distributes. By offering a service where users can report bugs that they found in ELRA's databases, all can benefit. ELRA can offer databases with still better quality; users can obtain better results with the database. How does it work? Anybody who finds bugs in one of ELRA's speech databases is kindly invited and stimulated to go to the bug report. The errors detected should be reported as precisely as possible. Reported errors enter the following protocol: 1. Acknowledgement of receipt of the bug report (by SPEX); 2. Reported errors are verified (by SPEX); 3. The 'verified error list' for the database is updated (by SPEX); 4. The updated formal error lists are distributed to ELRA members (by ELDA); 5. After compilation of a substantial amount of errors, a patch file is created and distributed (by ELDA). What does it bring? This joint effort of users, producers and ELRA will make the quality of speech databases better. The people who report some errors should be rewarded for that. Two prizes (PDA's in the range of 600 - 800 Euros) will be given once a year. One goes to the best contributor, i.e. the person who reports the most, serious, true bugs in a clear manner. The other goes to one of the other contributors by means of a random draw. So, this is your chance to get rid of your bugs and get hold of a surprise! From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News 3/3 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:54:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 942 (942) ************************************************************ ELRA - European Language Resources Association ************************************************************ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mediterranean Language Technology Centre, MLTC, launched by ELRA & ELDA in Rabat, Morocco ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA & ELDA to promote Human Language Technologies (HLT) for the Mediterranean Languages thanks to the MLTC centre. The project of the creation of an organisation similar to the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was initiated by ELRA & ELDA, to promote HLT in the Mediterranean countries and encourage research and development in this area. The Mediterranean Language Technology Centre (MLTC) centre was officially launched at the end of year 2001. It is located in Rabat, Morocco, where a partner team has been set up. Since its creation, MLTC has been working closely with ELRA & ELDA to handle every aspect related to the resources and processing of the Mediterranean languages, in the framework of some European and international projects. The centre will also be responsible for a number of other activities and tasks outsourced by ELRA & ELDA. Thanks to the MLTC centre and our involvement in the various sectors covered by HLT, we expect to foster research and development in HLT for all the Mediterranean languages. Contact: Khalid Choukri Email: choukri@elda.fr ELRA & ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris (France) Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 *** About ELRA & ELDA *** The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT). The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is ELRA's operational body. ELDA identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of HLT. ELDA also participates in some evaluation projects and campaigns, has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications and has participated in many French, European and international projects. To find out more about ELRA and ELDA, please visit our web site: www.elda.fr From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: Re: The most significant events in humanities computing? Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:55:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 943 (943) [deleted quotation] notes on [deleted quotation] There are three events I will give prominence: 1. the World Wide Web and HTML (1992 ?), a new way to handle non-technical information 2. the first ALLC/ACH joint conference in Toronto 1989, and 3. Humanist discussion list, both contributed to the awareness of new possibilities. There are other events, too, of course, but I think theese are the most significant to all the humanities society. /Jan-Gunnar -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice Gteborgs universitet tel: +46 (0)31 773 4553 fax: +46 (0)31 773 4455 URL: http://www.hum.gu.se/hfds/ From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: History Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:03:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 944 (944) Dear Willard, Regarding your question about significant events - a few years ago a talented English undergraduate built a system for a multimedia class that created timelines on demand out of events in computing in the humanities. The site is: http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~history/ While the database is neither accurate nor complete it does have a number of events in it and produces interactive timelines. I would be happy to update the database if people send me corrections. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell -- From: Jean-Cedric Chappelier Subject: Natural Language Processing and Man-Machine Dialogue - Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:00:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 945 (945) Lausanne (Switzerland) - EPFL Post-Doctoral Position in Natural Language Processing and Man-Machine Dialogue at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of EPFL (Switzerland) --------------------------------------------------------------- The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) carries out research projects in several domains of Language Processing and Man-Machine Dialogue (probabilistic parsing, content sensitive document management, information retrieval, text mining) and is involved in several European projects and industrial collaborations. (URL: http://liawww.epfl.ch/Research/research.html#NaturalLanguageProcessing) The LIA is currently looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Computer Science to contribute to its research and development activities in the domain of Man-Machine Dialogue. The foreseen research activity will take place in the framework of the European Project INSPIRE (briefly described bellow), for which the selected candidate would be partly responsible. Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent) or expect to complete one before the start date. Good knowledge of C/C++ is required. Background in Man-Machine Dialogue and Natural Language Processing is desirable. The position is available immediately and runs for 1 year (with possible continuation). It will be held at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). The appointment will be in the order of 70'000 CHF a year (~ $42'000, ~ 48'000 euros) depending on the qualification and experience of the applicant. Interested persons should submit a resume to (e-mail preferred): Martin RAJMAN Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology IN Ecublens CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland fax: +41 21 693.52.25 e-mail: Martin.Rajman@epfl.ch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Description of the work for EPFL in the INSPIRE Project ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INSPIRE European Project (IST-2001 research Programme) Title: INfotainment management with SPeech Interaction via Remote-microphones and tElephone interfaces Full Project Abstract: The proposed project aims at the development of a multilingual interactive, natural speech dialogue-based assistant for wireless command and control of home appliances. Emphasis is given on infotainment equipment and services, due to their high complexity, which makes advanced dialogue techniques necessary. To this end, leading-edge technologies available to the partners of the consortium, i.e. continuous speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker identification, etc., will be integrated into a prototype, which will be extensively tested and optimized. The user of the proposed system will be able to initiate natural spoken dialogues and ask for information about the current status of any appliance and/or control it, requesting assistance on its use, etc. Furthermore, he/she will be able, to use the connection with the public network, to access telecommunication voice services etc. EPFL is involved in the "Dialogue Interaction" Work Package (WP): In this WP, the dialogue component will be set up. Multilingual Wizard of Oz (WoZ) experiments will be conducted to determine the dialogue flow for each language that will be incorporated in the system. A dialogue simulation tool will be developed and additional user modelling functionalities will be incorporated to the dialogue component. The dialogue and language models derived from the WoZ experiments will be used as bootstrap models for the dialogue system. Subsequently, when the system is set up, utterances spoken by users will be recorded and transcribed in order to improve the current dialogue and language models. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jean-Cdric Chappelier | WWW: http://liawww.epfl.ch/~chaps EPFL, I&C - IIF - LIA, | Tel: +41 21 693.66.83 or .78 INR (Ecublens), CH-1015 Lausanne | Fax: +41 21 693.52.25 From: hepu@spock.bf.rmit.edu.au Subject: ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 Call for Papers Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:39:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 946 (946) 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02) 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- November 18 - 22, 2002, Orchid Country Club, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef *** Submission Deadline: April 30, 2002 *** Organized by: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sponsored by: Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees Singapore Neuroscience Association In Co-Operation with: IEEE Neural Network Society International Neural Network Society European Neural Network Society SPIE Supported by: Lee Foundation US AOARD, AROFE Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS, SPONSORSHIPS, AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ICONIP'02, SEAL'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Orchid Country Club, Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only feature the most up-to-date research results in natural and arti- ficial neural systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to two of the major attractions in Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island. Many well- known researchers will present keynote speeches, panel discussions, invited lectures, and tutorials. [material deleted] From: "J Patrick Wagner" Subject: Asynchronous Learning Networks Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:41:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 947 (947) The Eighth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) November 8, 9 & 10, 2002 Orlando, Florida Greetings, We invite you to submit a proposal to give a presentation, demonstration, or lead a roundtable discussion at this year's Sloan-C Conference. Last year's conference attracted over 350 people to more than 90 sessions as well as exhibits, pre-conference workshops, and a variety of other special events. This year's theme, The Power of Online Learning: The Faculty Experience, reflects the maturing of the online component of higher and post education. The proposal submission Website is <http://www.sloan-c.org>http://www.sloan-c.org. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2002. Notification of acceptance is July 15, 2002. The 8th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN), The Power of Online Learning: The Faculty Experience which will be held on November 8-10, 2002 in Orlando, Florida. The conference is being hosted by the University of Central Florida in cooperation with the Sloan Center for Online Education (SCOLE) at Olin and Babson Colleges, American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) and The Pennsylvania State University. The Rosen Centre Hotel, one of Orlando's premier conference centers, is this year's conference site. The Rosen Centre is just 15 minutes from the Orlando International Airport, and convenient to many Orlando-area attractions. For additional information about the 8th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, or to register for the conference, please visit: <http://www.sloan-c.org>http://www.sloan-c.org . If you have any questions about the program, feel free to contact: Gary Miller, Program Chair The Pennsylvania State University Phone: (814) 863-3248, Fax: (814) 865-3290 Gem7@psu.edu Patrick Wagner Assistant Vice President, Division of Continuing Education University of Central Florida (407) 207-4920, Fax: (407) 207-4930 jwagner@mail.ucf.edu [Various large jpg images deleted for obvious reasons. --WM] From: Museums and the Web 2002 Subject: Announcing the Best of the Web 2002 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:41:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 948 (948) Once again at Museums and the Web 2002, a panel of museum professionals recognized excellence in heritage web site design with the Best of the Web Awards. A panel of judges reviewed sites from around the world tha were nominated by the community. (See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/best/ for lists of the judges and of the sites nominated.) And the Winners are ... Best Overall Site -- 2002 * The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame * * http://www.ballgame.org * Best On-line Exhibition or Activity Site * Jasenovac: Holocaust Era in Croatia 1941-1945 * * http://www.ushmm.org/jasenovac * Best E-Services Solution * Art Trails * * http://amol.org.au/art_trails * Best Educational Use * OLogy * * http://www.ology.amnh.org * Best Innovative or Experimental Application * Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht * * http://www.nhmmaastricht.nl * Best Museum Professional's Site * Australian Museums and Galleries OnLine (AMOL) * * http://amol.org.au * Best Research Site, Museum Search Engine or On-line Database * Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History * http://paleo.amnh.org * Congratulations to the teams who worked on these winning sites. Judges comments on the winners can be found linked to the category pages at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/best/ MW2002 Papers On-Line If you were unable to make it to the Museums and the Web Conference, conference papers are available on-line, linked from their abstracts and from the overall speakers list. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/speakers.html. Best wishes, jennifer, David and Flavia -- ________ MW2002 Co-Chairs: David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics Flavia Sparacino, MIT Media Lab Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics Museums and the Web Boston, Massachusetts Archives & Museum Informatics April 17-20, 2002 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw2002/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 3.10 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:42:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 949 (949) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 10, Week of April 22, 2002 In this issue: Views -- The Privacy Paradox By Jennifer Carlisle A national biometric database in place of our current flawed identification systems could prevent the loss of liberty and autonomy. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/j_carlisle_1.html XML, Web Services and the Changing Face of Distributed Computing By Frank P. Coyle A new kind of network offers a world of possibilities for moving data and building application architectures centered around common Internet protocols. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/f_coyle_1.html From: Sherrin Roberts Subject: Re: 15.591 conference, symposium, summer seminars, forum Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:40:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 950 (950) Dr. McCarty, I have been lurking on your list for a couple of years now and generally enjoy the posts very much. My question is a little different from what you usually get, so forgive me if it is inappropriate. I was recently accepted to the European Graduate School (www.egs.com) PhD program. I'm very excited about it, but as an American I don't know very much about the European system. As a professor-not-in-the-US, based on a cursory look at the website, would you say this will be a marketable degree should I look for a teaching position in the UK or Europe upon completion? If you or any of your colleagues have any comments or opinions, I would appreciate it. As I said, I'm very excited about the program, and I'm not really trying to decide whether to attend or not--I'm more interested in the perceived value of the degree outside the US. Thanks in advance for your time, Sherrin Rieder From: Willard McCarty Subject: pencil and paper Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:47:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 951 (951) [deleted quotation] The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edn., comp. Eric S Raymond (MIT Press, 1999), s.v. Explaining jokes is invidious, but perhaps untangling their implications is excusable? There are two interesting ones in the above: (1) that a new technology puts older ones into sharp relief, illuminating their mechanisms, as the computer has done for the printed book; (2) that historiographically seeing a former technology as a crude attempt to be a current one is dead wrong (hence the joke). I am reminded of the fellow who converted all (or so he claimed) allusions and references in Eliot's Wasteland to hypertext links. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Rich Rosy to Lead netLibrary Division of OCLC Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:44:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 952 (952) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 22, 2002 Rich Rosy to Lead netLibrary Division of OCLC http://www.oclc.org/ [deleted quotation] Of posssible interest to liblicense-l readers. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bob Murphy+1-614-761-5136 bob_murphy@oclc.org Marge Gammon +1-303-381-8799 mgammon@netlibrary.com RiCH ROSY TO LEAD netLibrary DIVISION OF OCLC DUBLIN, Ohio, April 19, 2002-Rich Rosy has been chosen to lead the netLibrary Division of OCLC. Mr. Rosy succeeds Rob Kaufman, who is leaving to pursue other interests. Jay Jordan, President and CEO, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, announced Mr. Rosy's appointment as OCLC corporate Vice President today. Based in Boulder, Colorado, netLibrary is a leading provider of e-books. OCLC purchased the assets of netLibrary and created the netLibrary division of OCLC in January 2002. Mr. Rosy will manage netLibrary at its offices in Boulder and will report to Mr. Jordan. "Rob Kaufman has made enormous contributions to netLibrary and the development of e-books," said Mr. Jordan. "We are grateful to him for guiding netLibrary through a challenging period. We wish him well in his future endeavors." Mr. Kaufman joined netLibrary in February 1999 and was President and CEO of netLibrary from March 2000 through its subsequent acquisition by OCLC in January 2002. "Rich Rosy has worked hard to strengthen netLibrary's relationships with libraries, publishers, OCLC-affiliated regional networks and other distributors," said Mr. Jordan. "He is well suited to lead netLibrary as it enters an important new stage of its development." "I'm excited about this opportunity and look forward to helping take netLibrary to the next level," said Mr. Rosy. "We have been through a lot and are looking forward to our next stage of development." Mr. Rosy most recently was Executive Vice President, Sales and Publishing. Before joining netLibrary in 1999, he was President of the Consumer Division of Centrobe, Inc., an EDS company. In the new organizational structure, Herb Hilderley, Senior Vice President, MetaText Division, will report to Mr. Jordan. MetaText creates, hosts and manages web-based digital textbooks for publishers. About OCLC Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit organization that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 41,000 libraries in 82 countries and territories. OCLC was founded in 1967 to improve access to the world's information and reduce information costs, and conducts ongoing research to develop technologies to support that mission. Together, libraries and OCLC have built WorldCat, the world's largest database of bibliographic information. Forest Press, a division of OCLC since 1988, publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system. More information about OCLC and OCLC regional service providers is available at <http://www.oclc.org/>. About netLibrary Founded in 1998, netLibrary is the leading provider of eBooks for the institutional library market. netLibrary develops, hosts, maintains and preserves eBook collections for academic, corporate, public, and school libraries. 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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: Robert.Knapp@directory.reed.edu (Robert Knapp) Subject: Seeking Advice for an Online Edition Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:43:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 953 (953) This summer, funded by a grant promoting undergraduate research, I'm going to work with a student to mount a partially annotated on line edition of Jones's 1594 translation of Lipsius's Sixe Bookes of Politics. This will be no doubt be good training for both of us, and for me a useful prelude to getting back to a larger scholarly project; it should also have some modest utility for students--especially undergraduate students--of the English Renaissance. But as a novice at electronic editing, I could use advice from fellow Humanists. Of course I've looked at some of the most widely cited sources: the TEI Guidelines and the MLA guidelines, as well as those that Michael Best has developed for the Internet Shakespeare, and I've been consulting Charles Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. At present, I intend to develop a scheme for gradual tagging, with full realization modeled on Ian Lancashire's RET series. But I'm concerned about several issues: 1) after initial data entry (using a standard word processor) and proofreading, what's the best software for SGML/XML tagging (using a Mac platform)? Adobe Framemaker + SGML looks promising; others recommend Dreamweaver. Advice eagerly solicited. 2) Lancashire's SGML guidelines predate the development of XML, and the associated modification of SGML declarations. Does anyone have experience modifying such older SGML guidelines in order to make sure that the work we produce is in TEI-conformant XML? 3) I'm planning to devise a gradual tagging process that will allow moving in some systematic way toward appropriately fine detail: can anyone advise whether Lancashire's RET guidelines tend toward unncessarily fine detail? 4) what issues should I be concerned about that I'm probably ignorant of? Any advice or hyperlinks that come to mind would be much appreciated. Robert Knapp Reed College From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:44:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 954 (954) ********************************************** Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2002 ********************************************** The LREC 2002 conference will take place from 27th May to 2nd June 2002, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. ELRA is pleased to announce that the final programme of the LREC 2002 conference is now available on the web: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html ******************************************* ELRA/ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris (France) ******************************************* From: Magali Duclaux Subject: ELRA News Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:25:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 955 (955) ******************************************************************************************** PROGRAM and CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Towards a Roadmap for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation ******************************************************************************************** An ELSNET workshop at LREC 2002 Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain Sunday, June 2 2002 (14:30 - 20:00) Aim of the workshop: ----------------------------- The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together key players in the field of resources and evaluation in order to make a first step towards the creation of a broadly supported Roadmap for Language Resources, i.e. a broadly supported view on the longer, medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This activity should be seen in the context of ELSNET's other roadmapping activities (see http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap.html), which aim at developing a technological roadmap for the whole field of Human Language Technologies. The purpose of such roadmaps is to give the R&D community an instrument to identify opportunities for concertation of their activities and better exploitation of possible synergies between players all over the world. Scope of this workshop: ---------------------------------- As there is no standard model for roadmaps for resources and evaluation available, we will narrow the scope of this roadmapping workshop to a specific sub-area: Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation. This will make our discussions more focused and concrete, and it will also allow us to exploit the fact that this workshop will take place the day after the workshop dedicated to Multimodal Resources and Evaluation of Multimodal Systems (MREMS) in general. Provisional program: ----------------------------- Start End Action Title & Actor(s) 14:30 14:45 Opening Introduction to this workshop (Steven Krauwer) 14:45 15:15 Talk Summary of the MREMS Workshop (Mark Maybury) 15:15 15:40 Talk Challenges and Important Aspects in Planning and Performing Evaluation Studies for Multimodal Dialogue Systems (Susanne Hllerer) 15:40 16:05 Talk XML and multimodal corpus design: experiences with multi-layered stand-off annotations in the GeM corpus (John Bateman, Judy Delin, Renate Herschel) 16:05 16:30 Talk Towards a roadmap for Human Language Technologies: Dutch-Flemish experience (Diana Binnenpoorte, Catia Cucchiarini, Elisabeth D'Halleweyn, Janienke Sturm and Folkert de Vriend) 16:30 17:00 Break 17:00 17:30 Talk Introduction to the plenary exercises (Steven Krauwer) 17:30 18:30 Exercise Identifying priorities (All) 18:30 19:30 Exercise Putting them on a timeline (All) 19:30 20:00 Discussion Where to go from here (All & Steven Krauwer) 20:00 Closing Recommended reading (preferably before the workshop): * ELSNET's First Roadmap Report (http://utrecht.elsnet.org/roadmap/docs/rm-bernsen-v2.pdf), edited by Ole Bernsen * ELSNET's Second Roadmap Report (http://utrecht.elsnet.org/roadmap/docs/rm-eisele-v2.pdf), edited by Dorothee and Andreas Eisele) Registration: ------------------ The registration fee for the workshop is 90 EURO for conference participants and 140 EURO for others. The fee includes two coffee breaks and the proceedings of the workshop. URLs: * Workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-lrec2002.html * Conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org Core Programme Committee: ------------------------------------------ * Steven Krauwer (ELSNET / Utrecht University) * Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI Saarbruecken) * Antonio Zampolli (Univ of Pisa) * Joseph Mariani (LIMSI, Paris) * Ulrich Heid (IMS Stuttgart) * Khalid Choukri (ELDA Paris) * Mark Maybury (MITRE) Contact point: -------------------- Steven Krauwer, ELSNET coordinator, UiL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL phone: +31 30 253 6050, fax: +31 30 253 6000, email: s.krauwer@elsnet.org ************************************************************** Magali Duclaux-Jeanmaire ELRA & ELDA, Marketing & Communication 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris (France) Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/ or http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ LREC news: http://www.lrec-conf.org/ *************************************************************** From: Stephen Ramsay Subject: Re: 15.603 pencil and paper Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:21:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 956 (956) On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:52:13AM +0100, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] Willard is right on both points, of course. But point (1) seems to me to be a particularly engaging line of inquiry. Not long ago, I was struck by the fact that while I knew exactly how modern register-machine architectures worked, I was still a bit unclear on how they get the lead to fit so tightly into the shaft. As it turns out, the modern wood-case pencil is an absolute marvel of practical engineering, and the story of its development, an amazing tale of innovation, politics, genius, and greed. I would highly recommend Henry Petroski's *The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance* to anyone interested in the history of technology and engineering. Steve -- Stephen Ramsay Senior Programmer Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Alderman Library, University of Virginia phone: (434) 924-6011 email: sjr3a@virginia.edu web: http://busa.village.virginia.edu/ PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11 From: Aime Morrison Subject: RE: 15.603 pencil and paper Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:22:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 957 (957) hello; i'm sad to report i will now analyse all the funny out of that joke. it's sort of what i do. there is a counter-joke to the hacker deriding of pencil-and-paper offered in raymond's dictionary (aka 'the jargon file'--find it online at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/); it's a longer piece that describes 'the book' as if it were a remarkably resilient (drop it in the tub! it will still work!), reliable (never any down time!), sophisticated (optical reader! non-sequential access! full indexing!) computer. i see the book joke as the book-lovers' revenge on a culture that seems to prize digital over analog means of communication. the upshot: books are better than computers. describing the book in computing terms only shows, in this case, what poor computers digital machines are in comparison to printed texts. the hacker version of this joke, of course, uses the same device of defining an analog technology in the lingo of computing--but to different purpose and effect. with a little effort, it could have been demonstrated that the paper-pencil tech was superior to writing to disk in the same way that the book is superior to the computer (off the top of my head: if you snap a pencil in half, and sharpen, you get two pencils--try that with a floppy disk.) instead, the description uses an inflated 'features' description--being very technical in the description of pencil and paper shows how 'unsophisticated' such tools are. i don't know what such jokes have to say about the tendency of a new medium to throw an earlier one into sharp relief (although i know what mcluhan has to say about that ...). but i think that both the book and pencil jokes do serve to maintain a distinction between print technologies and digital ones--this *because* rather than in spite of describing print techs as computer techs. the comic effect stems from the 'ridiculousness' of the rewriting, which reinforces the difference between the two kinds of technologies. i'm glad i could offer a counter example (i'll send it to you later, because [and i've always wanted to say this] that joke is on my *other computer*)--i think it's important to see that either the book or the computer can be the butt of this kind of joke, and that what's really interesting is the continued separation of the two cultures (as neil postman sees them--'technology versus everybody else'). now that i think of it, both jokes sound suspiciously hackeresque in tone; however, i tend to see the book joke on the doors of academics who are counter-computer--it speaks to them more than the pencil joke, obviously. so, authorship notwithstanding (and it is not the hacker way to quibble about such things ...), i think each joke causes a particular group to rally around their pet technology *in opposition to the other technology*. new point: recalling mcluhan's point that new media take as their content the entirety of the previous dominant medium, i think it's 'natural' that we seek to understand the computer in the terms offered by books--that being the case, it becomes humourous to try to 'reunderstand' the book in the terms offered by the computer. it also reminds us that the more 'invisible' process of understanding a computer like it's a book is a metaphorization we might do well to critically examine every now and again. i could go on at great length on this topic, such jokes comprising a sadly-excised-from-dissertation-but-reconfigured-as-future-project chapter of my research, but i'll stop. i'll try to find that book joke (remove other computer from closet, etc ...) so glad to be able to be useful ... aime ps-where can i find that copy of _the wasteland_? :-) . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aime Morrison "It is our national joy PhD Program, Dept. of English to mistake for the first University of Alberta rate, the fecund rate." ahm@ualberta.ca -- Dorothy Parker, on literary productivity From: Aime Morrison Subject: RE: 15.603 pencil and paper Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:22:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 958 (958) and another thing ... the jargon file on 'pencil and paper' continues from where willard left off: "...These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts. " this would seem to support my initial idea that these jokes are about human kinds of belonging as much as they are about technologies. or maybe hackers have a thing about pencil-and-paper generally. true story: i was show-and-telling a 1978 opus called _the home computer handbook_ (john brockman, edwin schlossberg, lyn horton) which has a cover photograph showing mom-dad-girl-boy around a trash-80. mom is actually in the background making cookies and smiling, while dad-and-daughter grin at the monochrome display of columnar information. a hacker of my acquaintance (hello terry butler) took one look at this picture and said: "oh sure. of course the man is writing down everything he sees on screen on a piece of paper." coincidence? i think we've identified a real hacker-test here! aime . ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aime Morrison "It is our national joy PhD Program, Dept. of English to mistake for the first University of Alberta rate, the fecund rate." ahm@ualberta.ca -- Dorothy Parker, on literary productivity From: "Patrick Rourke" Subject: Pencil and paper Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:23:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 959 (959) Well, I guess my first comment is a question: what does it say about us that we all (myself included, I should note), in a "discourse community" dedicated to the advancement of the use of electronic technologies in the humanities, and many of use dedicated to the advancement of electronic academic publishing, nevertheless found WM's citation of the print form more authoritative than the citation to the constantly evolving and rather more accessible version at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/pencil-and-paper.html (i.e., the Jargon File), even given the context of the entry (which ends "Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts")? It seems even those of us on the cutting edge in the humanities have not yet escaped our preconceptions of the newer technology. I suspect that something about the concreteness of print (particularly its relative lack of volatility) continues to lend it weight in our minds over the virtual. [deleted quotation]The interesting thing there is of course that Eliot chose to note some of his allusions and leave others unnoted. Certainly hypertexting the endotes of *The Waste Land* is an interesting and useful exercise in learning how to adapt electronic publishing to the needs of differring texts, and I'm not sure that Eliot would necessarily have disapproved. But the unnoted ones? At this point the editor becomes a commentator. Certainly a commentary on *The Waste Land* is useful to the student, but the value of the hypertext commentary will lie in the hyperlinked content, not in the links themselves. Patrick Rourke ptrourke@methymna.com From: haskell springer Subject: Re: 15.603 pencil and paper Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:23:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 960 (960) Forgive my possible naivete, but if that fellow was creating links (rather than paper footnotes) for T.S. Eliot's numerous obscure allusions, taking care to make them more illuminating, contextualizing, than academic footnotes usually are--even if he did so with Eliot's endnotes themselves--why isn't that a useful application of newer technology rather than a humorous misconception? Hakell Springer From: "John Humphrey" Subject: RE: 15.598 perceived value of a European Graduate School PhD? Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:26:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 961 (961) I think that there is a mistake in the post from Sherrin Rieder. The link should be: http://www.egs.edu/ John Fredrick Humphrey, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy Xavier University of Louisiana Department of Philosophy P. O. Box 43 A. 1 Drexel Drive New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Email: jhumphre@xula.edu Web site: http://webusers.xula.edu/jhumphre/ From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: Faculty job at the Electronic Text Center, University of Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:25:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 962 (962) Virginia FACULTY OPENING Associate Director, Electronic Text Center University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library seeks a creative, energetic leader to help direct and develop the Electronic Text Center <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/>, an internationally-known library service for humanities computing. Environment: The University Library system consists of eleven libraries, with independent libraries for health sciences, law, and business. The libraries serve 12,000 undergraduates, 6,000 graduate students and 1,000 teaching faculty. The Library's homepage can be accessed at <http://www.lib.virginia.edu>. Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village and the historic Grounds provide an inspiring background for teaching, learning, and research. Responsibilities: Reporting to the Director of the Electronic Text Center, the Associate Director provides leadership for Etext Center grants and major initiatives, including large-scale text database aggregation, ebook conversion, and Print on Demand. Coordinates major Center activities including faculty projects, and staff training in XML and XSL. Facilitates the development and use of appropriate standards for building and acquiring digital text and related image collections. Qualifications: Master's degree in library/information science or a related field. Demonstrated involvement in humanities computing. Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of digital library concepts. Understanding of, and commitment to, library technologies for long-term data creation, especially XML and the Text Encoding Initiative. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills. Strong customer service orientation and evidence of teaching/training skills desired. Commitment to professional growth and development. Commitment to diversity. Salary and Benefits: Salary competitive, depending on qualifications. General faculty status. The University of Virginia offers excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other optional retirement plans. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications received by May 14 will receive priority review. Send letter of application explaining how your experience addresses the needs cited above, a resume, and names, addresses (including e-mail), and phone numbers of three references to: Mr. Alan R. Napier (arn3c@virginia.edu), Director of Library Human Resources and Planning, Alderman Library, PO Box 400114, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4114. The University and the Libraries have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Minorities are encouraged to apply. From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.602 seeking advice for an online edn Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:18:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 963 (963) Dear Robert, I can't speak to every aspect of what you are trying to do, but... At 01:51 AM 4/25/2002, you wrote: [deleted quotation] This is somewhat tough. The SGML market has been fairly moribund since XML came on the scene (even though SGML is still used in plenty of places, such as publishing houses, where the up-front investment has already been made, since it does work very well once it's set up), and for various reasons, cultural and otherwise, XML support has been much slower to emerge on the Mac than on the PC. But: FrameMaker + SGML is good at what it does, but may not be altogether well suited for your tasks. It's not really an SGML editor but a "structured editor" that can import and export SGML; as such, it's a beast to set up, and in itself does not support much functionality outside its forte, DTP. I would avoid Dreamweaver, as something whose XML support is an afterthought. It is really a web site development platform, not at all the same thing as an XML editor. (I'd like to be proven wrong on this.) Other alternatives: I have colleagues who use SoftQuad XMetaL running on Virtual PC. This is an unfortunate reality for Macs for the time being, but if you can run VirtualPC, XMetaL is quite well suited to the task of scholarly encoding. (It's actually a descendant of SGML editing software originally developed for the Mac.) I'm told this is actually quite workable if your system is strong enough to support the extra overhead (*sigh*) of running a poorly-engineered OS on top of a well-engineered one. At the low end, there is e-macs (and the TEI community has enough e-macs afficionados to make this quite a good alternative if you can hack the learning curve), as well as BBEdit with some XML support that folks have added to it. Also I'm told a little editor called ELF is worth looking at. I hope other HUMANIST readers who favor Macs will weigh in on this. OS X may provide yet more possibilities. [deleted quotation] I'm not exactly sure here what you mean by "SGML declarations". If you are referring to an XML-conformant TEI DTD, that work has been done. If you are referring to that component of an SGML system known as the SGML Declaration, which dictates delimiters and various operating constraints for the system: SGML declarations that assure conformance to XML are not hard to come by (I can send you one if you need) but not all SGML systems actually support it: this will depend on your software. (More support for this kind of thing is also available on TEI-L: see below.) As for your larger question, keep in mind that by nature (and definition), XML is not locked into any particular application or working environment: you will have a whole toolkit available to you, including standalone XML parsers and transformation technologies (especially XSLT) which you can use for well-formedness checking and various kinds of validation. In fact, I'd recommend getting familiar with installing and running Java applications (you do *not* need to become a Java programmer, but only know how to configure and run things), as there is a wealth of XML software in Java that you can use on a Mac. [deleted quotation] I can't answer this, being unfamiliar with the substance of the RET guidelines, except to say that in principle, a "layered" approach to tagging is not only feasible, it's a very good idea. Do the tagging in multiple passes; this way you can spin off products and research results that improve incrementally. You don't have to forego useful results until the whole thing is done. [deleted quotation] Um, Unicode. :-> I'd recommend subscribing to TEI-L, the support network for TEI users, if you haven't already.... see http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/tei-l.html. Good luck! Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 15.602 seeking advice for an online edn Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:19:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 964 (964) Robert, If you are embarking on a textual editing project in electronic form, it would be in your interest to do the markup in XML, because of the lower cost of editing and publishing software, as compared with SGML. Ian's RET guidelines are SGML; he may be listening, and might promise to produce an XML version of RET, but TEI's latest revision is XML-compliant (available online at http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/DTD/), and if you want to begin with something simple, I recommend TEI-Lite, described at http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/index.html and documented at http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/DTD/. I'm not experienced with XML editors for the Mac platform, but a good site to learn more about them is http://xmacl.com/. John Unsworth (declaration of partisanship: Chair, TEI Consortium) From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: 15.602 seeking advice for an online edn Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:20:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 965 (965) There is a page on the TEI website which collects links to a range of online tutorials about preparation of TEI-encoded materials. Some of them are aimed at beginners while others are the reference manuals of specific encoding projects. Hopefully, there is something for everyone! http://www.tei-c.org/Tutorials/ For me to recommend particular ones on the list seems invidious, but I'll do it anyway: probably the most directly relevant for your purpose is the set of detailed transcription guides prepared by the Brown Women Writers Project, while amongst several introductory guides aimed at the complete beginner, the introduction by Martin Mueller has much to recommend it. For xml-editing on a MAC, the choice continues to be a bit limited, as does my direct experience. I am told that things are better than they were, e.g. there are several java-based editors to investigate, such as Morphon. Also, under Mac OS/X you could presumably use the TEI's XML-customization of emacs. For links to these and other TEI-aware software, see http://www.tei-c.org/Software/ Conversion from SGML to XML is not such a big deal, assuming you are starting from real SGML and have the right tools for the job. The TEI is currently organizing a small workgroup to produce recommendations, samples, and possibly even software to assist in the process: watch this space for further announcements on the topic. Needless to say, I would much appreciate links to other relevant material for the website which is in a constant state of ferment: mail these to web@tei-c.org good luck with your project! Lou Burnard On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: jonker@cs.vu.nl (CM Jonker) Subject: Agent Course: Component-Based Design of Intelligent Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:33:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 966 (966) Multi-Agent Systems Last call for Participation: There are still some places available for the course: Component-Based Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems ========================================================= 5-day course that consists of both lectures and practical work Time: May 29 - June 4, 2002 Place: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam In this course, the basic concepts and characteristics of agent systems will be addressed, and a systematic component-based design methodology for agent systems will be presented. Course material and instructions are in English. If you would like to participate in this course, please send in a registration form before April 27th, 2002. DETAILED COURSE CONTENTS ======================== Can be found at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~wai/demas Aim of the course ================= In this course, participants learn to construct transparent, structured conceptual designs of component-based multi-agent systems, to specify conceptual and detailed designs, and to transform specifications into implementations. In addition, participants learn to use graphical tools designed to support modelling, specification, implementation and testing of component-based agent systems. [material deleted] From: ssgrr2002s@rti7020.etf.bg.ac.yu Subject: Call for papers for the SSGRR 2002s Conference in Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:35:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 967 (967) L`Aquila near Rome, Italy (Jul 29 - Aug 4 2002.) Dear Humanist, I have been appointed to serve as the General Chair of the Summer 2002 edition of the SSGRR series of international conferences, and I would like to extend a special invitation to you. The SSGRR-2002S (Summer) conference on "Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine" takes place in SSGRR (Scuola Superiore G. Reiss Romoli), the delux congress and educational center of the Telecom Italia Group of companies. This is in L'Aquila near Rome, Italy, from July 29 (Monday) at 5pm (start of the Grand Opening) till August 4 (Sunday) at 10am (departure of busses to the Rome airport Fiumicino and the railway station Tiburtina). Most of the past participants beleive that this was one of the most interesting, most useful, and definitely THE most hospitable conference they ever attended. The SSGRR-2002S will be open by Jerome Friedman from MIT (laureate of the NOBEL PRIZE) and Travor Gruen-Kennedy of Citrix (listed by some sources, together with Bill Gates, as one of the world's TOP-25 contributors to the development of the Internet). For details, see the WWW site of the conference (www.ssgrr.it/en/ssgrr2002s/index.htm). Among other things, this WWW site also includes the full-blown version of the invitation letter-contract, with all relevant details (www.ssgrr.it/en/ssgrr2002s/invitation.htm). The soft deadline for you to decide if you are coming is May 25, 2002 (in the worst case you should respond before May 31st). By that date the place for you is unconditionally reserved. After that date, you will be accepted to the conference only if the existing 240 places are not filled. Before May 25, 2002, please send only the following: (a) TITLE, (b) AUTHORS, (c) AFFILIATION, (d) ABSTRACT, and (e) STATEMENT THAT YOU WILL COME 100% (answers like "maybe" will be treated as NO answer from you). The full paper is due on June 10, 2002. [material deleted] From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 15.602 seeking advice for an online edn Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:37:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 968 (968) Robert, [deleted quotation] The issue of SGML/XML tagging tends to come up fairly often and as the responses so far indicate there are a variety of solutions. One that has not been mentioned so far is the OpenOffice software, see, http://www.openoffice.org, which saves documents in a native XML format. I am at a bible encoding conference in Rome at the moment and there has been some discussion about use of this software and construction of an export filter that would allow bible translators to use this software as a basic word processing program (with styles) and then transform the document into some other XML encoding (as opposed to the native one of the software). Note this is just discussion so far and I have no practical experience to offer for such a solution at this point. It is something that I will be actively pursuing over the next several months and I would be interested in sharing experiences on this list or elsewhere about such a solution. (Wendell: [deleted quotation] really! ;-) I don't consider Emacs to be at the "low end" but in the interest of religious harmony on the list will refrain from nominating my candidates for the "low end" of SGML/XML editing tools. ;-) FYI, Wendell is correct about the high learning curve for Emacs, although I think it is worthwhile.) Best of luck with your project! Patrick Patrick Durusau Director of Research and Development Society of Biblical Literature pdurusau@emory.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: purpose of the edition? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:37:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 969 (969) To Robert Knapp's question about an online edition Humanist 15.605 provides good advice about the markup language. I wonder, however, what the edition is supposed to do? Who is the audience for this, what kinds of questions might its users have? What kinds of entities are to be marked up? Is there a role for images? Is discursive commentary to be attached? Say more, please. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Al Magary" Subject: Re: 15.603 pencil and paper Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:35:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 970 (970) [deleted quotation] Etc. No one has yet mentioned in this hacker's jest the arrogance of new technologists toward the old creaky stuff. Interestingly, this definition satirizes the new technology without restoring the value of the old. And--infinite mirrors here--in this discussion we are congratulating ourselves for recognizing the value of the old even while exploiting the new. (But--tsk--in plaintext, not HTML. Where is something to scribble with when you need it?) Al Magary From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Mats_Dahlstr=F6m=22?= Subject: Ang: 15.608 pencil and paper Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:36:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 971 (971) Haskell Springer wrote: "Forgive my possible naivete, but if that fellow was creating links (rather than paper footnotes) for T.S. Eliot's numerous obscure allusions, taking care to make them more illuminating, contextualizing, than academic footnotes usually are--even if he did so with Eliot's endnotes themselves--why isn't that a useful application of newer technology rather than a humorous misconception?" Because the explicit hypertextual links are embedded in the very same level as the edited text. Hypertextual links might be used to express intertextual - or other, such as navigational, structural etc - relations, but there are also other means to accomplish this. Intertextuality is phenomenologically speaking one thing (implicit allusions operating at the level of the signified), hypertextuality another (explicit links operating on the level of signifiers). Intertextuality (references, allusions, citations, implications, paraphrase, notes and what have you) exhibits a far more varied and sophisticated territory than does the so far rather crude hyper link. Using digital hypertext to embody intertextual relations (such as allusions etc) entails the danger of turning the fertile question marks of the edited work into sterile exclamation marks, thus "flattening" the work. Further: adjacent to this is the well-known discussion as to how to signal the presence of the editor in the edited, digital text by way of visual rhetorics and (typo)graphic markers. Different types of intertextual connections might e.g. be signalled using different techniques such as small javabased popup windows versus new browser windows or moving within the same window; or using varying colours for anchors having varying types of destinations etc (I believe The Internet Shakespeare Editions i.a. uses such features) (haven't we had this discussion before?) . It is a delicate question to what degree the editor is might be justified in making his / her presence in the (if I may use the term) "copy-text" - whether we're talking print editions or electronic ones. Intertextually alluding to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, I'd say the editor has to know his/her roles, and play them tactfully. Yours / Mats D Mats Dahlstrm, PhD student and lecturer Swedish School of Library and Information Studies Univ. College of Bors / Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden mad@adm.hb.se ; +46 33 16 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/personal/mad/ The history of structuralism is one from Saussure to not saussure. (Malcolm Bradbury) From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: ALLC/ACH 2002 registration Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:52:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 972 (972) The local organizers of ALLC / ACH 2002, the Joint International Confrence of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Compters and the Humanites, remind you that the early registration period ends on April 30th: early registration not only makes preparation for the conference easier, but helps you to save money: registrations after April 30 incur an extra fee of 50,-- EUR. ------- A limited number of bursaries for scholars from Eastern European countries who wish to attend the conference will be made available by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In this context 'scholar' means anyone holding a paid academic post in an institution of higher education. The bursary will cover 65 EUR per day for board and lodging in Tuebingen during the conference (Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th July), part of the registration fees, and - for travel from many Eastern European countries - an allowance to assist with travel costs. For details, see the conference webpage at http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/allcach2002 under "Registration" It is not necessary to present a paper or poster at the conference in order to apply for this bursary. Applications should be made NO LATER THAN TUESDAY 30TH APRIL by e-mail to the local organizer, allcach2002@uni-tuebingen.de , and should include: - the name and affiliation of the applicant; - his/her main field of research; - for participants who are not presenting a paper or poster, a very short statement on their main reason for wishing to attend the conference or the contribution they hope to make to the discussions. Best, 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: Willard McCarty Subject: problems Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:53:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 973 (973) Dear colleagues: Two problems to report. (1) Non-appearing messages. The URGENT message immediately preceding this one, about ALLC/ACH pre-registration, was sent to Humanist on the date given in the header, 10 April. Unfortunately I did not see it, and only the vigilance of the conference organizer can be credited with its posting today. I cannot account for the non-appearance of this message; I can only suspect that its arrival was obscured in the very large number of junk e-mails I receive every day through all three accounts I regularly use. I have no solution to the problem of lost messages other than your cooperation. PLEASE watch for the publication of any messages you send, and alert me if they do not appear within a day or two. (2) The English-or-Latin-only problem Investigation of the cause for this problem is currently stalled, but I will be making another attempt to push it along shortly. Please be patient. Lignum et lapides docebunt te! 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Robert.Knapp@directory.reed.edu (Robert Knapp) Subject: Re: 15.610 advice for an online edition, and a query Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:19:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 974 (974) Thanks to all respondents, on and off list, for extremely helpful and candid advice. To Willard's query, I'd say that the target audience is two fold, in this order: undergraduates, scholars who read English more rapidly than Latin. The tentative ordering of goals runs something like this: to produce a searchable text, annotated with enough explanation to make it useful to the undergraduate target audience, and with some discursive commentary (mostly confined to an introduction). Some of this annotation will involve adding notes locating and explaining the marginal references (mostly citations of authority) that the sixteenth century translator provides. If our institution acts on my request to subscribe to ProQuest's EEBO, it would be good to link the edition to the digitized page images in that collection (which of course would mean that only persons at institutions subscribing to EEBO could follow such links). Most of the questions I would imagine such an edition capable of answering will be those that a good print edition could answer: what does this word, this reference mean; who is this translator, and who were his patrons; what is the conceptual history of this notion; how should one interpret such and such a passage; what is the historical interest of the work as a whole; where can one find additional discussion of this text and this author. It's possible, I suppose, that questions of early modern English usage might be posed to the text, but it's short and not unusual, and it has no special literary or rhetorical interest. In addition to two sorts of notes (the translator's marginal notes, and others that I add) I intend to tag major structural features: colophon and title page, book and chapter division, page (and signature), paragraph, line number. The RET guidelines may lead me to tag additional features, but right now these seem enough. Robert Knapp From: Willard McCarty Subject: imaging in editions? Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:08:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 975 (975) Robert Knapp's query leads me to another: in electronic editions these days, what role is imaging tending to play, and how are images integrated into the overall design? My question is in part provoked by a remark Jerry McGann makes at the end of Chapter 2 in Radiant Textuality: that the actual implementations of the theoretical designs in our current online archives are anything but decentred. He says that "a major part of our future work with these new electronic environments will be to search for ways to implement, at the interface level, the full dynamic -- and decentering -- capabilities of these new tools" (p. 74). How are images being used toward this end? 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "Aguera, Helen" Subject: NEH's Division of Preservation and Access: Next Deadline Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:20:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 976 (976) [deleted quotation] From: Carolyn Kotlas Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- April 2002 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:16:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 977 (977) CIT INFOBITS April 2002 No. 46 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 and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. ...................................................................... What Makes a Successful Online Educator? Faculty Copyright Ownership Policies Do Online Course Drop-Out Rates Matter? EDUCAUSE Review Announces New E-Content Column Scientific Inquiry in Education 2001 U.S. Education Statistics Learning Technology Standards and SCORM Recommended Reading [material deleted] INFOBITS is also available online on the World Wide Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/ (HTML format) and at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). From: "Al Magary" Subject: Re: 15.614 advice for an online edition, plus another query Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 06:59:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 978 (978) I've been working recently with facsimiles online at Penn--a great, growing collection--and EEBO. One of the great problems of linking text--plain to highly coded--to images is simple: numbering of images is inevitably consecutive. For one's own purposes, you have to keep track of things in a double manner--eg, "p230/rp254," meaning p.230 using the book's page numbering, running page or image 254 in the facsimile. Simple problem, no easy solution. EEBO doesn't make it easy to find even a page whose number you know, even if the book has an adequate (but facsimile, too) table of contents and/or index. You have to guess at the image number--easy if you know how many pages of frontmatter there are and the images are single-page, very difficult if the image is double-page, which is common in making facsimiles of small books. Penn is somewhat more helpful in this, but has the advantage of doing much of the work perhaps decades after the first EEBO microfilm images were made. In general, all online publishers of facsimiles, though deserving of our thanks for making rare, inaccessible, fragile, and/or invaluable material available relatively instantly right at our desks, could usefully add some reader's aids in HTML: table of contents and index hyperlinked to the images. But maybe that's work for us users. I certainly suggest it to Robert Knapp for his project. Al Magary From: Willard McCarty Subject: in the spirit of multilinguality Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:18:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 979 (979) In Humanist 15.590 I recommended the book, Winograd, Terry and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, (220 pp.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986. Paperback issued by Addison-Wesley, 1987. The following are noted on his homepage (ironically, accents not surviving Humanist, but then note his approach to Japanese, which none here have yet protested the like of): French: L'intelligence Artificielle en Question, Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 1989. German: Erkenntnis Maschinen Verstehen, Berlin: Rotbuch Verlag, 1989 Italian: Calcolatori e Conoscenza: Un Nuovo Approccio ala Progettazione delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1987. Japanese: (Understanding Computers and Cognition), Tokyo: Sangyo-Tosho, 1989. Spanish: Hacia la Comprension de la Informatica y la Cognicion: Ordenadores y concomiento: fundamentos para el diseno del siglo XXI, Editorial Hispano Europea, 1989. Now there are many more of us with no good excuse not to read this excellent book. Yours helpfully, 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "Creating IP Policy" Report on NINCH Copyright Town Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:20:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 980 (980) Meeting Available NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 29, 2002 Report Now Available on NINCH Copyright Town Meeting Creating IP Policy in the University * Laura Gasaway & Georgia Harper Advise on First Steps in Changing & Creating Copyright Policy * http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html How does institutional copyright policy help or hinder the fertile and responsible production of online scholarly and cultural communication? Does it promote and clarify the university's values? If faculty or students are frustrated by a policy that doesn't recognize their new online production, what re-course can they take? How does any one faculty member or student take the first steps in changing copyright policy at a university? These were a few of the key questions behind a full-day NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, including a 3-hour practical workshop in analyzing and creating copyright policy, that took place at the University of Oregon in Eugene last November. A report on the meeting and workshop is now available on the NINCH web site at: http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html. The meeting encompassed a talk by Oregon's own JQ Johnson (Academic Education Coordinator at the University Library), who placed the specific discussion of courseware ownership within the context of higher-education intellectual property policy in general. Laura Gasaway (Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) advised participants on key elements to success in creating policy, based on her involvement in putting together the new UNC copyright policy (Professor Gasaway is author of the recently published, "Drafting a Faculty Copyright Ownership Policy," The Technology Source, (March/April 2002) <http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=982>. The eminently practical Georgia Harper (manager of the intellectual property section of University of Texas System's Office of General Counsel and author of the popular online "Copyright Crash Course,") took the town meeting participants through the key steps of analyzing existing policy, in order to "Get the Ball Rolling." Gerald Barnett, Director of Software & Copyright Ventures at the University of Washington, gave a refreshing view of copyright management from the perspective of the Technology Transfer office. Though different from other IP regimes, copyright should be seen more often in the context of other types of intellectual property, he said. Frustrated by the forensic nature of much IP policy, Barnett saw the justification of IP policy when it acts as a mechanism for managing relationships that enhance productivity: "How do you rally the resources to make things happen?" The afternoon workshop brought the participants into an enthusiastic analysis of the IP policies of six universities and the drafting of elements they considered key in 8 scenarios presented by the meeting's managers. Under the auspices of its Town Meetings Working Group, NINCH is working closely with a local committee is preparing a similar meeting for the 2002 annual conference of the Museum Computer Network, on the creation of copyright policy in museums. The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings are made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. 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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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 15.614 advice for an online edition, plus another query Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:19:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 981 (981) [deleted quotation] Of course there's no essential link between images and "decentralization." The Blake Archive (www.blakearchive.org), which we like to call "image-based" (because images are at the functional center of both the interface and the project's editorial method) is _very_ hierachical. That hierarchy is a function of the DynaWeb software we currently use to deliver the Archive online, but also of Blake's own publishing technologies (multiple impressions printed from a master plate, multiple copies of a single "book"). The real question is, "Decentralization, to what end?" I think the place we'll begin seeing this is not in documentary settings such as the Blake Archive, but rather in the realm of visualization. See, for example, www.textarc.org, which debuted a week or two ago. There decentering the text has heuristic value. There is also much relevant work in the digital arts community; the Artbase at rhizome.org is a good place to start, and I've long believed that computing humanists have much to learn from the kinds of explorations gathered there. Matt From: Nancy Ide Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: NLPXML 2002 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:19:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 982 (982) ***NLPXML-2002*** 2nd Workshop on NLP and XML Taipei, September 1, 2002 <http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/>http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/ Final Call for Papers *** Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2002 *** The 2nd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2002) will be held at COLING-2002 in Taipei on September 1, 2002. This workshop follows on from the 1st NLP and XML Workshop at NLPRS-2001 in Tokyo. The goal of the workshop is two-fold: (1) to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of XML use in natural language processing (including resource and software development, applications, tools, etc.); and (2) to clarify the "big picture" for natural language applications and resources vis a vis the XML framework and development of the Semantic Web. As such, the workshop is intended not only for those already using XML, but also for members of the NLP community who seek a fuller understanding of the motivations and implications of XML and related standards for the field. Workshop Topics Topics to be addressed include: - Position statements concerning the implications of XML, RDF, and the Semantic Web for NLP resources and applications, together with examples; - XML use for linguistic annotation, including overall data architecture, implications for editorial practices, linkage mechanisms and issues for NLP data, etc. - Definition of data models and data categories for NLP using XML, RDF, etc. - XML standards for NLP; - XML-based generation (text, web pages, dialogue responses, etc.); - Use of XML mechanisms (schemas, XSL, XSLT, links, etc.) in specific applications/resources; - XML aware NLP tools. The program committee welcomes the submission of original, unpublished papers on any of the workshop topics and related issues. Submissions ----------- Papers must not exceed 8 pages, including references. The title page should include the title, authors' names, affiliations and email addresses, and a short abstract of no more than 10 lines. Please use the COLING-2002 style sheets available from <http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/>http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/. All papers should be submitted in electronic form as PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word files. Please convert PostScript or MS Word files to PDF if at all possible. Send your papers by email to graham.wilcock@helsinki.fi. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2002 Camera-ready copies due: July 1, 2002 Date of workshop: September 1, 2002. Program Committee ----------------- Nancy Ide (co-chair), Vassar College, USA Laurent Romary (co-chair), Loria/CNRS, France Graham Wilcock (co-chair), University of Helsinki, Finland Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany Tomaz Erjavec, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia John Garafolo, NIST, USA Jan Hajic, Prague University, Czech Republic Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan Naoyuki Nomura, Justsystem/Hosei University, Japan Henry Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Naohiko Uramoto, IBM, Japan Kuansan Wang, Microsoft, USA From: ubiquity Subject: Ubiquity 3/11 Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:46:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 983 (983) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM Volume 3, Number 11, Week of April 29, 2002 In this issue: Interview -- Where The Algorithm Meets the Electronics Prabhakar Raghavan on building a secure foundation for information retrieval http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/p_raghavan_1.html Review -- The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist Reviewed by James F. Doyle When the going gets tough, the tough go portfolio http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/j_doyle_5.html From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: OAIster Project Reports on Online Resource Use Survey Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:49:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 984 (984) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 30, 2002 OAIster Project Reports on Online Resource Use http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/surveyreport.html OAIster is a proposed information retrieval service of the University of Michigan library for information about publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. It is being built using a suite of Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-based metadata harvesting services developed by the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to enable the discovery and retrieval of scholarly works, hidden on the Web (in databases, finding aids, and XML documents) beyond the reach of search engines. For more on the UIUC metadata harvester, see http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.htm. As part of the preliminary work of its project, OAIster recently conducted a survey to reveal what digital resources people are interested in and how they were used. The survey was completed by 591 people - nearly half of whom were librarians, library staff, or information professionals. A summary of these results is now available. Some key discoveries were that over 80% were most interested in online journals and reference materials when they went online to look for information but that these were the digital resources they were most unable to find online. For a good introduction to metadata harvesting, see Clifford Lynch, "Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative," ARL Bimonthly Report 217 (August 2001): http://www.arl.org/newsltr/217/mhp.html Stay tuned for more information on this promising project. 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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Ray Siemens Subject: Summer Humanities Computing Courses at Malaspina U-C Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:46:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 985 (985) (Nanaimo, BC) [please redistribute; please excuse x-posting] Malaspina's Centre for Continuing Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are offering two exciting Summer Institutes! Tell your students, colleagues and friends... New Media Literacy June 10 - 28, 2002 Marshall Soules, instuctor In a course that balances theory and practice, participants will explore how new media / multimedia communicate in unique ways. Topics include: an overview of new media and an introduction to relevant media theory; hypertext markup language for the creation of web pages and websites; the creation and critique of the digital image; PowerPoint presentations; designing for digital sound; streaming video; multimedia presentation skills. The design and realization of a multimedia website, cd-rom, or installation will form a core component of the course. For more information on the instructor, dates and program outline please go to http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/lc/NewMedia.htm Humanities Computing In Text Oriented Studies June 10 - 28, 2002 Ray Siemens, Stefan Sinclair, instuctors This course explores the intersection of computing technology and those Humanities disciplines that have their origins in textual materials, with an emphasis on way in which modes of inquiry dominant in text-centred studies are assisted by the computer. Topics will include the implications of using computers for humanistic research, digitization of texts, text encoding, computer-assisted text-analysis, and electronic dissemination and publishing. No prior knowledge of these topics is required, though a basic competence with computers is assumed. The course is a balance of theory and practice, with approximately half the time spent "hands-on" in a computer lab. For more information on the instructor, dates and program outline please go to http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/lc/HUMAN310.htm From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) Subject: decentring Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:47:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 986 (986) Willard, I like some others have not yet traversed the circumference of McGann's _Radiant Textuality_ to enter into the radius of its argument. At present I've no remote access to an electronic edition of McGann's treatise. And neither do I have at hand a copy of the print to peruse and check if the term "implementation" is his or yours: [deleted quotation] I raise the question of terminology because an "implementation" is techno-centred. It driven by the framing of the technology. An "application" has perhaps more user-centred connotations. Many applications can run on the same implementation of an operating system. Many an online teacher can relate annecdotes where content housed on different servers can be displayed in a WWW browser and a group can exchange messages in one application in one window and either cycle through material in another window or have several other windows open. The fun part is orienting a group when some have set the windows in a cascade, others have tiled them, some have split the screen space in a top-bottom orientation and others have used east-west orientations... No need to wait for the next implementation to enjoy decentring ... we had it with Unix shells. Why is it that the word/image debate brings on critical amnesia? Anyone familiar with the history of the book will understand features that are connected with the framework and anyone who has cropped a photograph or mounted a print behind a matte will be sensitive to the question of framing images. I am beginning to suspect that a certain "naughty" tone to the word/image discourse stems from a certain tropism in matters of worship invoked to warn against the dangers of idolatry or to entice one to its pleasures, as if the WORD could not be a fetish. A true decentring will acknowledge that life worlds are shifted with regards to universal time: what one group of us needs to do in the future some of us have already accomplished in the past. Fromthecentre of thesideline as ever -- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality From: Willard McCarty Subject: more questions on imaging Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:48:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 987 (987) Two interrelated questions following from Matt Kirschenbaum's reply to mine in Humanist 15.620: (1) How are images, photographic or simply graphic, being used in electronic resources as visual or visualized means for organizing and/or providing access to other material? Can we begin to see some principles emerging from what has or even can be done? Let me give two examples. (a) George Sandys' translation and commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished Mythologized and Represented in Figures (1632 &c.). At the head of every book of the poem in Sandys' work is an engraving that depicts the stories in that book. (See the digital archive of these images at http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/sandys1640/sandys1640.html; may the maker of this archive be praised.) It would be a trivial matter to image-map each of these images such that clicking on the graphical depiction of a story would take the user to that part of the text where the story is told. The result would in effect model what the designer had in mind -- which in turn models what the poet wrote. Furthermore one could argue -- allow me to be quick about it, as the real argument would be quite complex -- that the technology of engraving did not allow this early 17C designer to do a job we could now do, namely to produce a single image of all the poem's action; having done that, we could then image-map the entire thing and get even closer in our modelling to how an attentive and memorious reader might have the poem in mind. (b) The homepage of the Third Stream Computing programme at Oberlin College (Flash plugin version 5) at http://www-ts.cs.oberlin.edu/new/splash.html. There are many such things these days, of course. Do we have a theory about how they work? Is there anything interesting here? (The programme itself is *very* interesting, of course, but this is not meant as a plug for it :-). (2) The above, in addition to ideas that have been floating around in my head about how to make e.g. digital ms. editions better, raise the question of how in broader or just different terms imaging might be used in analytically powerful ways -- and what these other ways show us in theoretical terms. An image can of course be a powerful stimulus to the mind. But (to borrow a term from Ian Hacking) how can we use computing to *intervene* through imaging into the material we 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Ray Siemens Subject: Film/slide/microfilm scanners? Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:49:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 988 (988) Dear Humanists, My small research group has received ca. $10,000 US to purchase a film/slide/microfilm scanner, which should ideally produce publication quality results in monochrome or colour. We've got a few leads, but would welcome advice as to what the best purchase might be. While there are some products specially made for the task (i.e. the Canon MS 400), their output resolution is not up to spec, and operate only in monochrome. I'd appreciate any suggestions -- on or off the list -- and will be happy to post a summary in short while. Thanks in advance, Ray -------------- R.G. Siemens English, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5. Office: 335/120. Phone: (250) 753-3245, x2046. Fax: (250) 740-6459. siemensr@mala.bc.ca http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ArtSTOR Job Opportunity: Director of Metadata and Cataloging Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:48:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 989 (989) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community April 30, 2002 ArtSTOR Job Opportunity: Director of Metadata and Cataloging <http://www.mellon.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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "Lloyd Gerson" Subject: Re: Editing program Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 06:35:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 990 (990) Dear Colleagues, I am looking for indexing software that is compatible with MS Office XP but more powerful than the MSWord program. I have used NotaBene with good results but I no longer use this program. The index is for a monograph in the humanities. Thank you for any assistance. Lloyd P. Gerson lloyd.gerson@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy University of Toronto 81 St. Mary St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4 Canada Tel: 416 926-1300 x3374 Fax: 416 926-2070 From: "Marko Popic" Subject: COPYRIGHT Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:12:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 991 (991) Dear colleagues I am preparing a seminar about copyright on literature. However, I have troubles finding appropriate articles. Does anyone know a case when such rights were violated? Please, help me. I will be grateful for any information you can provide. Petra Areh From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 15.610 advice for an online edition, and a query Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:12:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 992 (992) Robert, Willard and all, I (belatedly) hasten to qualify-- At 02:41 AM 4/27/2002, Patrick wrote (about SGML/XML software): [deleted quotation] Oops, of course what I meant by "low end" was low end of cost, perhaps of fancy user-comforting GUI displays (though syntax coloring is a good thing), not of functionality. For functionality, in principle Emacs is second to none (particularly if you like hacking LISP), in practice is pretty darned good (especially if you've trained your fingers in obscure control codes). AFAIK Emacs is the only SGML/XML editor that has a copy of ELIZA in it. Like Patrick, I didn't feel the truly low end was worth discussing. 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We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models and turn-taking - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - reference in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - interpretation of questions and answers - nonlinguistic interaction in communication - natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - multimodal dialogue systems - dialogue management in practical implementations - categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - designing and evaluating dialogue systems [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Metadata Conference: call for papers Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:08:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 994 (994) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 2, 2002 DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities Supporting Diversity and Convergence Florence, 13-17 October 2002 Call for Papers, Deadline: 15th June 2002 http://www.bncf.net/dc2002 http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/papers Please note this important international meeting on the Dublin Core and Metadata Applications this Fall in Florence. The importance of metadata in resource discovery of cultural heritage materials is a notable component of the conference and we trust there will be a good response to the call for papers from the heritage community. David Green [deleted quotation] DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities Supporting Diversity and Convergence Florence, 13-17 October 2002 2rd International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications Combined Conference, Tutorials, and Workshop http://www.bncf.net/dc2002 * Dates and times Sunday evening, October 13 - Thursday, October 17 2002 * Venue Convitto della Calza - Oltrarno Meeting Center Piazza della Calza 6, 50125 Florence, Italy * CALL FOR PAPERS The DCMI 2002 Programme Committee invites papers in the following categories: * E-Government * Search engines and metadata * Educational metadata: improving communication * Knowledge management * Use of DC metadata for commerce and intranets * Semantic web: roles of standard cataloguing, indexing, metadata and ontologies * Metadata interoperability: tools and protocols * Cultural heritage metadata The size and scope of the World Wide Web often make information discovery difficult. Metadata is an important tool in addressing the problem of resource discovery on the Web. The convergence of resource description standards and development of enabling infrastructure promises to improve the discovery and management of information across and within disciplines. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative has been active in the development of Web resource discovery standards since 1995 when a core set of elements was agreed upon in a workshop held in by Dublin, Ohio, U.S.A. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "Steering by Standards" OCLC Videoconference: "Paper Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:09:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 995 (995) Past, Digital Future: Managing Metadata Standards in NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 2, 2002 OCLC Institute "Steering by Standards" Videoconference "Paper Past, Digital Future: Managing Metadata Standards in Transition," May 29, 2002, 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT Register as a Downlink Site ($350) <http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/sbs.htm> [deleted quotation] The OCLC Institute announces the third videoconference in its "Steering by Standards" series: "Paper Past, Digital Future: Managing Metadata Standards in Transition," May 29, 2002, 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT. Why do we need to augment or replace our "tried and true" cataloging standards? Can multiple standards coexist in a single catalog? Join your colleagues, both local and across North America, to discuss the proliferation of information standards competing for our attention in today's blended world of paper-based and digital information. Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress, will be joined by Liz Bishoff, Colorado Digitization Project, and Sam Dempsey, Informata.com/Baker & Taylor, to discuss the need for and best ways to integrate standards such as Dublin Core, EAD, TEI, and ONIX into existing catalogs. Presentations, panel discussion and the opportunity for questions and comments from the participants will ensure a lively and informative broadcast. Register your site as a satellite-downlink location by clicking on <http://www.oclc.org/institute/events/sbs.htm>. Cost for this event is $350.00 per site. Contact Amy Lytle for details on purchasing tapes of the entire series. For questions or comments, contact Amy Lytle, OCLC Institute at lytlea@oclc.org or via phone at 800-848-8578 x 5212. -- ============================================================== 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Scholars Portal Project Launched by ARL Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:11:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 996 (996) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 2, 2002 ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES LAUNCH SCHOLARS PORTAL PROJECT Seven Research Libraries collaborate with Fretwell-Downing, Inc <http://www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/> [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2002 For further information please contact: Judith Matz Communications Officer, ARL Mary E. Jackson Senior Program Officer for Access Services, ARL Matthew Goldner Executive Vice President, Fretwell-Downing Inc. SEVEN ARL LIBRARIES LAUNCH SCHOLARS PORTAL PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH FRETWELL-DOWNING INC. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the launch of the Scholars Portal Project, a collaboration between several ARL member libraries and Fretwell-Downing Inc. (FD). The initial libraries participating in the project are the University of Southern California, University of California - San Diego, Dartmouth College, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Utah. Plans call for expanding the number of participating libraries over the course of the three-year project. The goal of the Scholars Portal Project is to provide software tools for an academic community to have a single point of access on the Web to find high-quality information resources and, to the greatest extent possible, to deliver the information and related services directly to the user's desktop. [material deleted] From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: EXHIBIT: Kent State at Baruch College, May 6, 1970 Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:11:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 997 (997) Kent State at Baruch College, May 6, 1970 New Online Exhibit at Newman Library, Baruch College, CUNY <http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2002/kentstate> In the aftermath of the Kent State shootings, Baruch College like many campuses across the country, held a commemorative service. This took place on Wednesday, May 6, 1970. The service was recorded and excerpts were included in the college yearbook of the following year. In addition to this service, other activities took place over the course of several days and photographs and written accounts were made of some of these. This material offers a valuable insight into the contemporary reaction of ordinary students and faculty, in this case at Baruch, to the shootings at Kent State. In commemoration of the tragic events which took place at Kent State on May 4 1970 and the reaction of profound shock and disquiet that this event produced on campuses both here at Baruch and elsewhere, the William and Anita Newman Library together with the Baruch College Archives makes this exhibit available. Exhibit URL: <http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2002/kentstate> Leo Robert Klein Library Web Coordinator ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Leo Robert Klein Library Web Coordinator home :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://leoklein.com office :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu radio station ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://patachon.com/radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Paul Evan Peters Scholarship Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:06:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 998 (998) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community May 2, 2002 Coalition for Networked Information Announces Paul Evan Peters Memorial Fellowship Application Deadline: May 15, 2002 http://www.cni.org/pepfellowship/ [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: ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.632 violation of copyright? Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 08:56:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 999 (999) [deleted quotation] Don't forget that the US Supreme Court is deciding whether the new copyright laws are violating the rights the public domain in Eldred v. Ashcroft. . .in a surprise decision to hear the case. In the 89 years from 1909 to 1998, US copyright was extended from an average of just over 15 years to just over 95 years, thus allowing only about a single decade of copyrights to expire, which may be legally too close to unlimited copyright, when the US Consitution only allows "for limited times." * That copyright law was truly intended to be balanced "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8). Thanks! So nice to hear from you! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg "*Ask Dr. Internet*" Executive Coordinator "*Internet User ~#100*" From: "Marko Popic" Subject: COPYRIGHT Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:12:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1000 (1000) Dear colleagues I am preparing a seminar about copyright on literature. However, I have troubles finding appropriate articles. Does anyone know a case when such rights were violated? Please, help me. I will be grateful for any information you can provide. Petra Areh From: Willard McCarty Subject: Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling & THIS IS NOT SPAM Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 09:00:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1001 (1001) Dear Colleagues: I very much hope this bank holiday (AND FA CUP) weekend that I am the only one among us whom certain Nigerian scam artists, porno floggers and "This is not spam, but if you would rather not be on our mailing list, just click on the link below" -- which turns out of course not to work -- senders, all of whom, of course, use varying e-mail addresses and names. But I suppose not. I recall Allen Renear wisely remarking, in response to one of those "too much junk" complaints about the Internet, that its signal-to-noise ratio was actually much better than print but could only get worse. He was right, it has. The following example is sociologically interesting, especially given the fact that people are actually fooled; for its history see <http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm>. There's a serious problem here, potentially. Humanist has already begun to suffer from floods of such stuff, which are making the task of finding relevant messages difficult, especially as software gets cleverer at constructing plausible subject lines. Ah, yet another variation on the theme of infoglut, which for Humanist began shortly after it was founded, in 1987, and has been a useful stimulus to improvements ever since. Reflecting on Vannevar Bush's justification for the Memex -- too many scientific publications for a person to get through and organize, as I recall -- we should perhaps be upbeat about this problem, BUT AT THE MOMENT IT IS TRULY ANNOYING! Yours most calmly, WM [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: OCR for handwriting? Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 08:59:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1002 (1002) Dear colleagues: See the following query about OCR for handwritten documents. A brief look around the Web turns up, for example, a report from the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, "OCR: handwriting", <http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch2node6.html>, which makes one hopeful. It would appear that it's time to revisit the question and collect experiences with existing products, if any. As we all know, upbeat technical papers are better than pessimistic ones, but for the likes of us product names and URLs, backed by solid recommendations, are to be preferred. Are there any of the latter to be found? In the following note particularly what kind of handwriting is to be processed. It seems the fellow didn't have OCR in mind at the time, though he did indeed have an interesting (and shall we say expanded?) mind. Please circulate this note wherever you think it might get a learned response. Yours, WM [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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: "C. Perry Willett" Subject: Re: 15.635 OCR for handwriting? Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 06:43:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1003 (1003) Things may not be as hopeful as they appear. If you follow the link up to the cover page of the report that Willard notes, you'll see that it's from 1996. In fact, research on OCR has dropped off a good deal since then. If you look at the Information Science Research Institute at Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas <http://www.isri.unlv.edu> or the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition at Univ of Buffalo <http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu> you'll note that their publications have tailed off in recent years. The Institute at UNLV used to produce an annual report on OCR accuracy, but hasn't done one since 1996. I don't think OCR for either printed or handwritten texts has advanced much in the past few years. Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University pwillett@indiana.edu On Sat, 4 May 2002, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty ) wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Al Magary" Subject: Re: 15.635 OCR for handwriting? Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 06:44:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1004 (1004) [deleted quotation] Huxley. [deleted quotation] about [deleted quotation] A Google search for material about Apple's Newton would probably turn up quite a bit about the problems of handwriting recognition, and maybe some solutions that evaded Apple. Al Magary From: Willard McCarty Subject: handwriting recognition Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 07:10:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1005 (1005) Two points, neither of which will be comforting to the questioner, I'm afraid. (1) Hand-transcription, i.e. typing from the mss., has much to recommend it in comparison to OCR. For mss. of course no off-shore company would be able to deliver the well-known favourable rates of accuracy at lost cost for printed material -- which is, I understand, why so many projects elect to have their printed material digitized in that way. But hand-transcription is one way of becoming very familiar with the material, and with sufficient preparation can be done simultaneously with some amount of encoding. Any comments on this? (2) As a friend commented to me, the brilliance of the handwriting-recognition scheme used by the Palm and similar devices, in contrast to the Newton's, is that it assigns to the human user what he or she is good at by nature -- learning an arbitrary (but intelligently designed) set of gestures -- and to the machine what it is, at this stage of development, as much as such a thing can handle. I use the "Graffiti" system almost daily on my Palm, while making the trip into Central London by tube, for taking notes on the books I must devour for my research. I can write quite rapidly and accurately that way -- the Palm filters out the irregularities that were all too visible in the handwritten notes I used to take on 3x5 cards, allows me to write much more in each note and delivers the lot to my larger machines already in electronic form, so no labourious transcription -- which means that I actually do use the notes, rather than assign them to a graveyard-archive of curious artefacts which rapidly become unintelligible because each note was perforce so brief. Things like the Palm are becoming rapidly more powerful, of course. (As Bill Wulf once calculated, a musical greeting card chip has approximately the same amount of computing power as the ENIAC did; what a hand the Palm would once have required!) But for us I think it's rather important to see in the very clever combination of human intelligence with machine power a paradigm that won't change. The apparent goal of at least some work in CS is to get the human out of the picture. Which, I think, is one thing that Winograd and Flores, in Understanding Computers and Cognition, are strongly arguing against. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Bill Schipper Subject: Re: 15.634 Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling & THIS Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 06:47:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1006 (1006) IS NOT SPAM I get about half a dozen of these a month, mostly from "Nigerian businessmen", occasionally from other African countries. About a year ago, my wife (a freelance writer) did some research on Internet scams and in the course of her research interviewed a fraud specialist with the RCMP. The scam appears to be run in part from Nigeria, and has burnt some people in spectacular ways. The RCMP has been conducting an investigatoin for some time now, and people who receive such "offers" are invited to send copies with full headers to the RCMP Fraud Division, at info@phonebusters.com. Little has changed from the days of Chaucer's Pardoner, it would seem: radix malorum est cupiditas. Bill [Editorial PS: for those not fortunate enough to live or have lived in Canada, the "RCMP" is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or "Mounties". --WM] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1007 (1007) [deleted quotation] <<http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch2node6.html>http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch2node6.html>, [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1008 (1008) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1009 (1009) [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: division by culture Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:55:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1010 (1010) The following mutatis mutandis applies, I think, to more than the two countries named: "England and France have been divided by more than the Channel: there have been radically different cultural traditions regarding the relations between theory and practice in the humanities; on the significance of philosophy, logic and linguistics; and more recently on the application of expert systems tools and ideas. Translating the literature and interpretations of one research community to the other involves far more than merely linguistic skills. The frontiers of understanding are located differently...." -- Richard Ennals, "Interpretation and codebreaking", in Interpretation in the Humanities: Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, ed. Richard Ennals and Jean-Claude Gardin, Library and Information Research Report 71 (British Library Board, 1990): 62. The differences can be great indeed -- so great that, as a colleague remarked to me recently, one may question making the effort at all. Let us say, for example, that the work of an obviously intelligent and very learned scholar from another cultural tradition seems utterly wrongheaded -- not opaque, not just strange or unfamiliar, but seriously, perhaps even dangerously WRONG in its goals and methods. And, to make the situation more interesting, let us say that this scholar's work is widely respected and clearly mainstream within his or her own tradition. What happens then? Are there similar problems in comparative literature, for example? This would seem a core problem in ethnography. 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/, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com From: Peter Burton Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposals-are the addresses real? Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:52:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1011 (1011) [deleted quotation] businessmen", [deleted quotation] of her [deleted quotation] ways. The [deleted quotation] RCMP [deleted quotation] Dear Willard, As a trick of the scam mischief makers seems to be to get us to indicate that our own email addresses are being used by our sending an email to any of the addresses they offer, can you confirm that Bill Schipper and RCMP Fraud Division really are the addresses they are represented as being? Regards, Peter Burton [Allow me to reassure everyone that Bill Schipper is as he represents himself to be, an academic at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. As for the Mounties, see <http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams/nigerian.htm>. I could not find their e-mail address, however. --WM] From: Michael Hart Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposals Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:53:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1012 (1012) Do the Mounties want these from other countries, or just from Canada? Michael From: "Nancy Weitz" Subject: Re: 15.637 Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling & THIS Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:53:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1013 (1013) IS NOT SPAM How's this for a paranoia inducer? I get weekly messages offering me mail order doctorates and green cards for working in the U.S. I'm surprised the penis extensions haven't found me yet... (Dr) Nancy Weitz (ex-pat but still have a U.S. passport) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi Subject: U.S. Secret Service is interested Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:54:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 15 Num. 1014 (1014) Dear Prof. Willard McCarty, Regarding: 15.634 Urgent Business Proposal, hello darling & THIS IS NOT SPAM (I just read your message on humanists) Wrt to above: This is a Secret Service office specifically detailed to investigate this particular scam, also known as the 4-1-9 scam. For more information see <http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml> Thank you! Sincerely yours, Arun Tripathi