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. Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in England (CUP, 2000) John W. Yolton. Realism and Appearances: An Essay in Ontology (CUP, 2000) Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation -ed. 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 televisio